It is generally necessary, before planting a suburban garden, to decide whether it will be better to plant trees or flowers; or, in other words, whether the garden shall be shady or showy, as it is very difficult to manage to combine the two. In general, a shady suburban garden is thought most agreeable, as green leaves and shade form a delightful contrast to the hot dusty road; and an appearance of gaiety in flowers can be obtained by placing a few calceolarias, verbenas, petunias, and pelargoniums (which have been grown in pots, and brought into flower in a green-house), here and there as taste may dictate. These plants may be procured in full flower during the months of May and June, in London and its neighbourhood, at about 4s. for a dozen plants, and, during the remainder of the summer, for about 3s. a dozen. The same kinds of plants, without pots, may be had at a still cheaper rate, and are very useful for bedding out; that is, for planting in the open air.

The deciduous trees, not having ornamental flowers, that will thrive in a suburban garden, are:

The walnut.

The black walnut.

The fig.

The weeping ash.

The tree willow.

The weeping willow.

The elm.

The wych elm.

The weeping elm.

The oriental plane.

Various kinds of poplars.

To these may be added, Ailantus glands-lose, and Sophora japonica, with the weeping variety of the latter.

The flowering trees are:

The horse chestnut

The robinia, or false acades.

The labourman, and its varieties.

The hawthorn, and some of the varieties.

The double-blommed peads.

The almond, and, in some places, Magneo'lis grandiflora.

The hardy climbing shrubs are:

The Wistaria, or Glycine sineris; the com-mon jasmine; the Virginian creeper; Clematis montana, with tome other kinds of clematis; Periplca grae'ca; the common passion-flower; Menispermum canadense; Aristolbchia sipho.

The evergreens are not numeroas, as they will not bear the smoke so well as trees which lose their leaves in winter. All the American pines and firs become stunted and shabby in a town garden. The Scotch pine does not attain half its ureal size, and its foliage looks black and withered. The spruce fir and the cedar of Lebanon lose their lower branches, and a great portion of their leaves. The principal evergreens that will bear the smoke are: The yew.

The red cedar.

Alaternus.

The arbor vitae.

The box, and

The holly; of which last there are numerous varieties. The Deodar cedar, Pinus Larico, and Finns exceisa, will also grow in town gardens. The pyracantha, or evergreen thorn, is an excellent plant to train against a wall, from the great profusion of its white blossoms, and its red berries, which hang on all the winter. Ivy, the common, the giant, the palmate, the golden-leaved, and the saver-leaved, are all valuable.

The beet deciduous shrubs are:

The lilae.

The garden syringa.

The Althaea frutex.

The red-blossomed currant (Ribes sangui-neum).

The sumach (Rhus Cotinus, and typhina).

Cydonia, or Pyrus japonica.

Pavia macrostachya.

The mezereon, pink, dark-red, and white-flowered.

Snowy mespilus (Amelanchier canadensis).

Rosesofvarioos kinds; observing that the hybrid China and Bourbon roses will bear the smoke better than the common cabbage, or Provence, or than the yellow roses. The cluster, the tea-scented of various kinds (particularly Roes ruga),and the perpetual roses (especially Lee's perpetual, or the Rose du Roi), will grow as well in London as in the country. Of the moss-roses, the crested-moss is the best

The best evergreen shrubs are:

The laurel; the privet; the Portugal laurel; and sometimes the laurustinus; the arbutus; the broom; the double-blossomed furze, and the alaternus.

Herbaceous plants.

The following list comprises most of the common perennials which will bear the smoke:

Scilla sibirica, and other kinds. Hyacinths of various kinds. Christmas rose (Helleborus niger).

Dwarf Plants

Alyesum saxatile (yellow flowers), A'rabis montana, white, and some other kinds. Aubrietia, purple. Hepattea, pink, blue, and white. Campanula pumila, white and blue. C. garganica, and some other kinds.

Tall Plants

Aconitum (monk's-hood and wolf's-blue) of various kinds. A. autumnala is a new species, which flowers in autumn.

Aqnilegia (columbine) of various kinds.

Adonis vernalis (yellow).

Agrostemma coronaria (the ross campion).

Antirrhinum majus tricolor (variegated

Biennials.

Hollyhocks.

Canterbury balls (Campanula Medium).

Campanula pyramidalis. Sweet William, various kinds.

Annuals

Most of the common kinds require more space, more free air, and more sunshine than are to be found generally in town gardens. The Californian annuals, however, and some other kinds, may he sown in autumn to flower in early spring. The following is a list of annuals, principally from California and South America, which may he treated in this manner:

Nemophila insignia, blue.

N. atomaria, white.

N. diseoidalis, blackish with a white margin.

N. maculata, white with purple spots.

Eschscholtzia Califoniica, yellow.

E. crocea, orange.

E. compacts, yellow.

Clarkia pulchella, lilac

C. p. flore alba, white.

C. Elegaaa, red.

Galia tricolor, lilac, blackish, and white

G. bicolor, lilac and white.

Collinsia bicolor, lilac and white.

Leptosiphon, several species, blue and white and pink.

Calliopsis tinctoria, and varieties.

Malope trifida.

Viscaria oculata.

Sweet peas, convolvuluses of different kinds, and the common nasturtium (Tropae'olum majus) are hardy annual climbing plants.

Clmbing half-hardy annuals.

Tropae'olum peregrimum (Canary-bird flower).

Coboe's scandens

Lophospermum arandens, and varieties.

Maurandya Barelsyana. Rhodochiton volabile.

To these may he added, Thunbergia alata, Ipomce'a rubro-cstrulea, and several other showy plants, which require a hot-bed to raise them, but which will grow and flower freely in the open air during the summer. Eccremo-carpus acaber may be raised from seed, and will flower the first year, hut if protected from frost, it will live several years.