September may be one of the most delightful months in the garden, or one of the dullest. Of course, a good deal depends on the weather, but not all. An "Indian" summer loses half its pleasure if provision has not been made for having abundance of late flowering plants. Tea and Hybrid Tea Roses should be abundant, and Gladioli should be still strong.

Dahlias. - September is the Dahlia month. If Dahlia enthusiasts do not get their fill now their chance is gone, and this is said without forgetting the fact that Dahlias are often very valuable in October. We gave our plants a few soakings of liquid manure to help them in the hard work that we expected them to do during the next few weeks.

Chrysanthemums. - As some of the summer flowers were getting a little dingy, we took them from the beds and planted Chrysanthemums from a reserve bed in their places. [This is a direction in which Chrysanthemums have a pull over Dahlias. You can shift the former, like Asters, when they are actually in bud, so long as you chop well round them with a spade, and see that the soil is moist. If the mould is dry, and falls away from the roots, the Chrysanthemums may die. Be not afraid to cut the flowers for fear of spoiling the beds. Get what flowers you want for the house, and let the beds look after themselves.]

The Borders. - We had so arranged our Michaelmas Daisies in the borders that when early blooming plants were cut down (and many may be cut right to the ground as soon as the flowering is over, with advantage to their future), the border still seemed well furnished with bloom. They were in groups here and there, three plants of each variety in most cases. No border can be bare in late summer and autumn if a carefully chosen selection of Michaelmas Daisies is grown, but beauty of flower is not everything. See that you get early, midseason, and late bloomers, in order to ensure a display for several weeks.

The Conservatory. - It had to come, and it came, together with an extra range of frames. [Conservatories and frames go together. You get a conservatory, and try to grow every imaginable plant in it. Then you find that it was not meant to grow plants at all, but to conserve them. A conservatory is a show house. Not one out of fifty is a really good growing house. Frames are feeders for the conservatory. And the frames should be heated if they are to feed the conservatory in winter and spring as well as in summer. If they are not you require a greenhouse as well.] With the new glass to furnish we had to turn our attention to a fresh class of plant. We potted Freesias - surely the sweetest bulb that blows, and as easy to grow as a Daffodil. Likewise we potted early White Roman Hyacinths, Gladiolus The Bride, and Paper White Narcissi. We got bulbs of the Tenby and Henry Irving Daffodils, and put them close together in boxes, from which they were to be transplanted to pots when advancing into bloom. We bought and potted Arum Lilies. We sowed seed of the Butterfly Flower (Schizanthus) for spring. We got, too, some Salvias, the scarlet Heeri and the brilliant splendens, for winter bloom. Some small, neat, imported plants of Azaleas, well set with flower buds, cost us comparatively little. Another beautiful plant of which we got young specimens for potting was Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, the most charming of all winter flowering plants.

The Vegetable Garden. - Many crops were maturing. Peas in the passing were pulled up, disengaged from their sticks (subsequently chopped up for fuel), and conveyed to the rubbish heap for burning. We sowed Turnip and Spinach on the ground thus cleared. [Turnips often give endless trouble in summer, but grow as gaily as you please in the cooler weather of autumn.]

Beetroot and Carrots were ready for lifting, and after removal of the tops were piled in sand. The last of the Onions were ripened off. All the earlier Potatoes were lifted, allowed to dry for a few hours, and then taken under cover, except those for seed, which were left to green. Thus was gathered in the harvest of the garden, but with an eye on the future we planted out Lettuces, Endive, and Spring Onions.

The Fruit Garden. - A gentle raising of the fruit, so as to bring a little pressure to bear on the stalk, showed that some of the Apples and Pears were ready to gather, and such as parted from the tree we took, in anticipation of early frosts. The young Strawberry plants which we had got from the July runners were sturdy little customers, so we planted them out in a piece of rich ground, mouths watering at the thought of the wonderful crops our second year was going to bring.