Then, instead of encouraging the ruthless slaughter of primroses, scores and hundreds of plants of which are torn up and then sold in a smoky atmosphere to which they never adapt themselves, these small shopkeepers might offer plants of the many beautiful varieties of poppies, from the grand _Orientalis_ onwards, chrysanthemums, stocks, wall-flowers, Canterbury bells, salvias, oenotheras, snapdragons, perennial lobelias, iris, and other plants which are known to be very patient under a long course of soot.

Most of the hardy Californian annuals bear town life well.
Perhaps because they have only to bear it for a year.

_Convolvulus major_--the Morning Glory, as our American cousins so prettily call it--flourishes on a smutty wall as generously as the Virginian creeper.
_North borders are safest in winter._ They are free from the dangerous alternation of sunshine and frost.

Put things of doubtful hardihood under a north wall, with plenty of sandy soil or ashes over their roots, some cinders on that, and perhaps a little light protection, like bracken, in front of them, and their chances will not be bad.
Apropos to tender things, if your Little Garden is in a cold part of the British Isles, and has ungenial conditions of soil and aspect, don't try to keep tender things out of doors in winter; but, if it is in the south or west of the British Isles, I should be tempted to very wide experiments with lots of plants not commonly reckoned "hardy." Where laurels flower freely you will probably be successful eight years out of ten.

Most fuchsias, and tender things which _die down_, may be kept.
_Very little will keep Jack Frost out, if he has not yet been in_, either in the garden or the house.