22 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 18

THE MILD AUTUMN.

[To TEE ED/TOR 07 Tux "SPECTLTOR."1 Stn,—Noticing yesterday that there were for the time of year an unusual number of plants flowering in my garden, I took a count. Counting only the one species where, as in the case of dahlias, chrysanthemums, pentstemons, rock cistus, &c., there are many garden varieties, I found the number of species actually flowering to be a hundred and thirty. My garden is high up on some of the poorest of Surrey