298 THE GARDENER. [July 



The great thing is to attend in person, and examine everything care- 

 fully. After all, it is a question of whether you really know the phy- 

 siognomy of the plants you wish to buy. 



Mr John Dominy, whose name is " familiar as household words" to 

 all gardeners, and especially to cultivators of Orchidaceous plants, 

 having definitely retired from the management of the Chelsea nursery 

 of Messrs Veitch, some of his friends have selected the time as the one 

 best fitted to offer him some little memento of a well-spent and ac- 

 tive life. This is as it should be. Mr Dominy's work has benefited 

 all gardeners. He was the first hybridiser of Orchids and Nepenthes^ 

 and if it be true that a " man's best work is his best monument," it will 

 be especially true of the man who has given us Cattleya exoniensis 

 and Calanthe Veitchii, which are in their way two of the finest of all 

 known Orchids. What Sir Trevor Lawrence and others desire to do 

 now, however, is to offer Mr Dominy some little present as a token of 

 esteem — an acknowledgment that his life's work has been a worthy 

 one in his own — our own — profession. Those who wish to contribute 

 are invited to send their contribution, of not more than £5 nor less 

 than 10s. 6d., to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford Lodge, Dorking ; 

 or to the London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall Mall, S.W. F. W. B. 



HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF WALL - BORDERS IN 

 KIT CHEN-GARDENS. 



NO. VII. 



Successional Crops. — Although I have previously written at consider- 

 able length under the heading of " Useful Successional Crops," I may 

 perhaps be allowed to briefly recapitulate my experience, adding any 

 fresh hints that may occur to me. With me, the object in view is not 

 only to secure as many crops from the borders as possible, but also 

 to crop them evenly and neatly. Peas are the only tall -growing 

 vegetables grown, and these are either sown at one end of a long 

 border, or, as at present, completely fill one border. As soon as these 

 have ceased bearing, they will be cleared off, and the ground at once 

 filled with early and second early Broccoli — such as Snow's Winter 

 White, and the more dwarf-growing Osborn's Winter White. The 

 ground will not be dug for the Broccoli, both because they will make 

 sturdier, and therefore hardier, growth on solid ground, and also for 

 the simple reason of its being almost an impossibility to get the 

 ground in good working order after being much trampled when occu- 

 pied by the Peas. At the same time, seeing that early Peas invariably 

 leave the soil in a dry impoverished state, I find it advisable to cut 

 out drills for the Broccoli, lengthways of the border (the Peas were- 

 across) with a heavy half -mattock hoe. These, if liquid manure is 



