IRISH GARDENING. 



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Summer^flowering Plants for 

 Small Beds. 



Pi.ANTsi of dwarf habit, free -flowering, and en- 

 during are the best for the above. Probably there 

 is no class of plants so useful for this purpose as 

 Tufted Pansies, and as there is such a variety of 

 colour in the flowers, a very beavitiful disi^lay will 

 he furnished with these alone. Seagull and Pen- 

 caitland in white, Bullion and Kingcup in yellow, 

 Mrs. Norris Eyle and Mauve Queen in pale blue. 

 Crimson Bedder and Councillor Waters in dark 

 blue, and William Xiel in rose are a few examj^les 

 of good sorts. Plant each bed with one variety, 

 and when doing so, leave an occasional space for 

 a dot plant to comjjlete the arrangement. Nice, 

 symmetrical little plants of Fuchsia gracilis, 

 F. g. variegata, Grevillea robusta, and Euca- 

 lyptus cordata are useful for the purpose. Pansies 

 may be iilanted in the autumin if thought desir- 

 able, but I prefer leaving them in nursery quarters 

 till the spring, planting at any tinie now when the 

 ground is workable, and mulching lightly with a 

 little cocoa fibre or spent mushroom manure. 



A couple of beds of Fuchsias will be acceptable. 

 Alice Hoffmann (carmine sepals and white corolla) 

 and Display (red sejials and reddish pink corolla) 

 are two useful sorts. They are just what one 

 wants for small beds, as although of dwarf, com- 

 ]>act habit, they are not at all stiff or formal. 



One does not get m.uch in the way of a pure 

 l)ink shade in dwarf plants, or, as with some of 

 the dwarf Petunias, the bright shade is not long 

 retained, and one of the most beautiful pink 

 flowers (tuberous Begonia Major Hope) is not 

 easily procurable, and still too expensive for 

 ordinary individuals. It is for this reason that 

 one welcomes a new vai*jety in the fibx'ous section 

 called Prima Donna that was ai decided success 

 last year. It is of a lovely shade of pink and 

 very free. Two good and enduring annuals for 

 liods imder consideration will be found in Linum 

 uiandiflorum (scarlet) and Linaria reticulata 

 maroon). Both these, if it is thought desirable, 

 J nay be relieved with sm.all clumps of the annual 

 (lypsophila. In yellow shades, besides the dwarf 

 .Marigolds, one can, by careful selection, get a 

 )eally first-rate strain of very dwarf Nastvirtiums, 

 which, if ])1 anted in rather poor soil, will make 

 very little growth, yet flower profvisely. Prim- 

 rose and deep orange shades are the m.ost effective. 

 An old-fashioned plant that makes a pretty bed 

 if kept in dwarf form is Ouphea platycentron, not 

 showy, but what one mny call restful. Certainly 

 part of the flower is bright enough, but it is tiny, 

 ;md the black and white expanded limb takes off 

 the effect of the scarlet. If a dot plant is re- 

 i|uirod with the Cu])hea, there is nothing better 

 for the pur]:)ose than a nice little sjjecimen of 

 Eucalyptus cordata. 



Besides the Cuphea and the Linum above - 

 juentioned. a dwarf scai'let flower that might 

 1 rove useful is TropaMilum Ball of Fire, a varietj- 

 that flowers very freely but nuikes little growth', 

 and that of a trailing habit. T.ie brilliant scarlet 

 flowers stand well above the dark foliage. — 

 E. B. S., in Gardenhig lllusiratcil. 



Irish Show Fixtures for 19 15* 



July 21st — The Terenure and Districts' 



Horticultural Society. Hon. 

 Sec, Ed. Carroll, 1 Eostrevor 

 Terrace, Rathgar, Co. Dublin. 



August 5th — Co. Clare Horticultural Society's 

 Summer Show, Ennis, Hon; 

 Sec, Rev. R. Scott, The 

 Manse, Ennis. 



,, 10th — Co. Galway Horticultural 



Show, Ballinasloe. Hon. 

 Sec, Miss O'Shaughnessy, 

 Birch Grove, Ballinasloe. 



11th — Kingstown Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Hon. Sec, R. Mac- 

 donald, Esq., M.A. 



24th— R. H.S.I. Autuum Show, Lord 

 Iveagh's Grounds, Dublin. 



September 2nd- 



-Kilkenny Horticultural Society, 

 St. James's Park, Kilkenny. 

 Hon. Sec, Miss. F. E. Butler, 

 Lavistown Ho\ise, Kilkeuiay. 



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