IRISH GARDENING. 



Current Notes. 



Now is the time to planl the new Paeony-flow ered 

 Dahlias. They have worthily become the most 

 popular of all forms of the Dahlia owing to the 

 charmingly informal character of the flowers, the 

 artistic and really wonderful colours, and the 

 adaptabilit y of t he blooms bol b for garden decora- 

 tion and for <ut t ing with greal long stems. They 

 are most robust growers, flaunting their abundant 

 flowers in a sumptuous mariner well above the 

 foliage. Representative blooms of the latest 

 varieties were staged a* the principal shows 

 last autumn. Messrs. Watson & Sons, Clontarf 

 Nurseries, Dublin, staged them well in tin- most 

 beautiful new blended shades. They displayed 

 the flowers in vases as cut, in the most natural 

 way, thereby proving their value for decorative 

 purposes as cut (lowers. 



\ large stock of sturdy young plants of Paeony- 

 flowered Cactus and all other Dahlias is now 

 ready at Clontarf, and a descriptive catalogue 



ran iir had from .Messrs. Watson. 



In the Clontarf Nurseries at present there is a 

 uice show of Alpines in bloom. Many fanciers 

 avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing 

 these and making selections, .Messrs. Watson 

 being tic- only firm about Dublin who go in lor 

 plants for the rock garden. The nurseries are 

 very conveniently situated, only 1 5 minutes' 

 tram journey from Nelson's Pillar, the entrance 

 being situated beside the tram line. It will 'he 

 remembered that Messrs. Watson won the award 

 of a Silver Medal for their stand of Alpines at the 

 recenl Spring Show of the Royal Horticultural 

 Sociel v. 



Perpetual Flowering 

 Carnations. 



Plant now in the open border for a continuous 

 display of bloom our hardy Perpetual Carnations 

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Beet. 



It is generally conceded thai beetroot is the 



cultivated form of the maritime species. Beta 

 maiit inia. I... or a variety of Beta vulgaris, l>.. as 



well as probably t lie species itself, under which 



Linnaeus groups the red, yellow, and pale green 

 sorts, lie considers the white or pale beel Beta 

 Cicla, I-. The wild slender-rooted plant grows 

 alone' the coasts of the .Mediterranean to Persia 

 and Babylon, as well as in West India. It i- also 

 wild round the coasts of England and Ireland. 

 and from Denmark southwards. 



The ancient Greet name was Teutlon, "and the 

 I. ; at. in Beta. Pliny says the Greeks distinguished 

 two sorts, the black and white, referring to the 

 dark and pale foliage, as they did not ea1 t he root . 

 ■" Beet is mostly eaten with lentils and beans, 

 it is prepared also in the same way as cabbage, 

 with mustard more particularly." lie adds that 

 " when wine in the vat lias been deteriorated h\ 

 assuming a flavour like that of cabbage, its 

 original flavour is restored, it is said, by plunging 

 licet leaves into it." 



In the Middle Ages beet is often mentioned 



under the natne> Beta, Bleta, Sicla. Atriplex 

 agrestis and A. domestica ; in French, Axache 



lilatic. The juice of the black beel was used on. 

 t he t einple.s for headache. 



Dodoens (1559) figures the white and black 

 beets, adding a third figure, "another kind of 

 black heet." for the sake of the root, which is 

 "thick and large, like the rape, the taste being 

 between that of the turnip and parsnip. It is 

 eaten with vinegar, pepper, oil and salt." 



That the heet root was still little known in L578 

 appears from Dodoens' " History of Plants." for 

 he thus writes : " There he two sorts of Beetes, 



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