IRISH GARDENING. 



the middle of June, turn the plants out of their 

 pots, and plant them in single crowns, about a 

 foot apart, in rows two and a half feet apart 

 in a warm border that has been previously well 

 dug and heavily manured. A top-dressing of 

 well-decayed farmyard manure a couple of 

 inches thick will help to keep them in a moist 

 condition. Should the weather be hot and dry 

 they will require to be well watered from time 

 to time during the summer. Beyond this they 

 require little else until the beginning of October, 

 by which time the plants will have grown very 

 strong and sturdy ; they should then be lifted 

 and potted up in a good rich mixture of fresh 

 loam and old manure. Pots eight to ten inches 

 in diameter are very suitable sizes, putting as 

 many plants as 

 possible in each 

 p o t ; they can 

 then stand in a 

 sheltered position 

 out of doors until 

 the beginning of 

 November, but 

 should there be 

 any appearance 

 of frost, the 

 plants must be 

 brought u n d e r 

 glass at once, as 

 even two or three 

 degrees of frost 

 injures the foli- 

 age. If stood in 

 a bright, airy 

 house, they will 

 continue grow- 

 ing, unless the 

 weather is very 

 cold, in which 

 case a little heat 

 should be turned 

 on. From the 

 1st December Photo by] Kaxifraga 



a nice growing 



atmosphere should be maintained, and as growth 

 increases the syringe may be used freely. 

 Should greenfly make its appearance, fumigate 

 at once, as these pests are not admissible in a 

 house where Lilies are grown. 



In some places in Africa, where these Lilies 

 grow wild, they are known as Pig Lilies, and it 

 is an insult to offer one to a lady. They are at 

 home in marshy ground, caused by the over- 

 flowing of the rivers in the rainy season, but 

 in the dry season, when the water recedes and 

 the sun is burning hot, they become baked in the 

 mud, when pigs root them up and feed on them 

 greedily. 



It is not uncommon for Arum Lilies to be 

 dried off in these countries, being put out of 

 doors in their pots, and allowed to remain 



without water during the summer. I have even 

 seen the pots taken away, when they were 

 required for other plants, leaving the balls of 

 earth and roots exposed to the burning heat of 

 the sun and drying winds, the result being poor 

 growth and a few sickly flowers. — T. Y. 



The Red- flowered Kabschia 



Saxifrages. 



By M. HoRxrBROOK, E,M., Knapton, Abbeyleix. 



So many important additions have been made 

 to the red-flowering Saxifrages of this section 

 that it has become worth while to group them 



together in a new 

 sub-section, and 

 they are now re- 

 cognised as the 

 E n g 1 e r i a sub- 

 section of the 

 Kabschia Saxi- 

 frages — an im- 

 posing name no 

 doubt, and one 

 which requires a 

 lot of "' living 

 up " to. How- 

 ever, the En- 

 glerias are such 

 august people, 

 and wear the pur- 

 ple with such 

 grace, that they 

 are worthy not 

 only of an im- 

 posing name, but 

 of the choicest 

 situations in our 

 rock gardens. 

 They are mostly 

 plants of great 

 interest, quite 

 distinct both in 

 foliage and flower from the other sections, and, 

 as far as I know them, perfectly easy to grow in 

 Ireland if their requirements be satisfied. The 

 best known is S. Grisebachii ; it forms attractive 

 rosettes — round in small plants and somewhat 

 elongated in older — of most beautiful blue-grey 

 leaves, and then, very early in the new year, 

 up come the curious crimson flower stems with 

 their red bracts, which are typical of the sub- 

 section ; no doubt the actual flowers are dis- 

 appointingly small — one always expects from 

 the early appearance of the flower stem that 

 they will be larger ; but the whole effect of the 

 spike is so charming, I always imagine it to be 

 a spike of pink Lily-of-the-Valley— that when 

 one once gets used to it one forgets the size of 

 the flowers and only remembers their charm. 



Strirxryi. 



[/?. .1 Malby. 



