In the Garden Most of us like to grow a
certain number of wild flowers in our gardens ; and these should include the so-called foetid iris, to be found in mass on the dunes of north Devon among many other places. It is 3 rival eLen to the spindle for the winter vase, and has much the same device for exposing its orange seeds. If you desire for house decoration fresh leaves as well as seeds and flowers, the ribes, or wild currant, claimed to be the most responsive of twigs by the writer of an instructive little book Bringing the Garden Indoors, published by the monthly magazine My Garden. A plea is also put in for the dead heads of the kexes and the red stems of dogwood. Leaves, in general, are more responsive to warmth than flowers, as all who pluck chestnut boughs well know. However, the best of all winter bouquets this Christmas will be a mixture of the naked-flowered jasmine and the Algerian iris. How admirably the mauve and yellow consort together !
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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