I have been lately on the East Coast. One cannot help being amused to find that gardening is so like life, each one has his own difficulties. I was suggesting to my friend to plant her Violets in leaf-mould, when she said: 'Why, we have not a single leaf. The few there are on the dwarf trees blow away into space.' Oh ! what a fight the poor plants have with the salt-laden winds! But some things thrive and flourish by the sea as they do nowhere else. I think the sunk Dutch gardens, before described, will be found most useful by the seaside.