IRISH GARDENING 



'67 



Recommended by Mr. (i. N. Smitl'. Daisy TTill. 

 Newry.^CJood bedding Roses : — Caroline Tes- 

 tout, La Tosca, Mme. Edouard Herriot, General 

 MacArthur, ]Mme. Abel Chatenay. Rayon d'Or. 

 For cutting : — Comtesse du Cayla, Lady Hilling- 

 don, Mrs. H. Stevens, Gruss an Teplitz, Mdlle. 

 iMarie van TToutte, Zephirin Droiihin. Ramblers — 

 Alberic Barbier, Blush Rambler, Excelsa, 

 American Pillar, Dorothy Perkins. Una. I have 

 not included Crimson Rambler in this section 

 for the reason that it is so subject to mildew. 

 If it was not. T wovdd make it No. 1. But there 

 is no Rose that will do what the old Pellenberg 

 will — thrive for years in ground that is never 

 manured and bloom freely from June to Xma«. 

 For a bla/.e of colour, for distant effect, as a 

 hedge or mass, there is nothing to touch it. 



Recommended by Samuel McGredy »t Son, 

 Portadown. — For bedding: — Mrs. Charles '••]. 

 Pearson, Mrs. Herbert Stevens, Lady Pirrie, Old 

 Gold, Lieutenant Chaure, General ]\racArth\ir. 

 For cutting : — Mrs. Herbert Stevens, Mrs. Alfred 

 Tate, Mad. E. Heriot, Richmond, Mad. A. 

 Chatenay, Isobel (new single). Ramblers : — 

 Alberic JBarbier, American PUlar, Dorothy Den- 

 nison. Dorothy Perkins. Excelsa, Tausendschon. 



Recommended by A. Dickson <fe Sons, Ltd.. 

 Newtownards. — Six good Rambler Roses : — 

 Dorothy Perkins, Dorothy Dennison, Excelsa. 

 Hiawatha, American Pillar, White Dorothy. 

 Six good bedding Roses (dwarf varieties) : — 

 Orleans Rose (poly, pom), Rodhatte (poly. pom). 

 Liberty (H.T.), Madame Ravary (H.T.), Mrs. 

 Aaron Ward (H.T.). Queen Mary' (H.T.). Six 

 good bedding Roses (medium height) : — Red 

 Letter Day, Donald MacDonald, Mrs. Weymss 

 Quin. Lady Ashtown. General MacArthur, 

 Caroline Testout. Six good Roses for cutting : — 

 Lady llillingdon. .Madame Abel Chatenay, Clrace 

 Molyiieux, Harry K'iik. Richmond. Lady Greenall. 



The Arboretum. 



Autumn tints are by no means conspicuous this 

 season, at least up to the middle of October, and 

 it looks as if the leaves of all deciduovis trees and 

 shrubs would be shed before any colour appears. 

 A week of rough wind and more or less heavy 

 rain lasting for the greater part of the week 

 ending on the 14th did a great deal of damage, 

 although no large specimens were blown dovvn. 

 Cartloads of small branches and leaves were 

 stripped from trees and bushes, but we were 

 (hankful to get off so lightly. The trees which 

 suffered most were willows, poplars, and par- 

 ticularly robinias, whose brittle branches snapped 

 off lik(; match wood. From this one would infer 

 that robinias ain- not suita))le for exj)Osed positions 

 altliough tlicv aic adniirahl)- sui(c(l for hot soils, 

 and nuikc chigant street and pai-k trees. 



There are numerous attractive fruits now 

 noticeable about tlie grounds, particularly the 

 (iotoncasters, C. llenryana, C. Applanata, and 

 (3. Franchetii are very bright, while some of the 

 older evergreen sorts are also beautiful, as C. 

 rotundifolia and C. buxifolia, «S:c. 



The Barberries, too, help to make autumn 

 interesting with their blue, pink, and almost 

 white berries, while the bright scarlet berries of 

 tile common B, vulgaris and some of its varieties 

 are not surpassed, or indeed equalled, by any 

 recent introduction. 



Lonicera llenryi — now becoming fairly well 

 known — is always noticeable at this time with 

 its clusters of purple-blue fruits. As nicntioncd 



before m these pages, it seems to flourish best in 

 a shady situation. As a wall shrub it is verv 

 pretty, and the fact that it flourishes on a shady 

 wall makes it doubly valuable, as it is often a 

 problem what to put there to give variety. As 

 the planting season is now with us it niay be 

 useful to gi\c a slici't list of shrubs which have 

 been found siiital)lr for a shady wall :— Clematis 

 Arniandi. 'I'l iciispjdaria lanceolata. Azara micro- 

 phylla. \itis ll(in>ana. Muonymus japonicus and 

 E. radicaiis. \itis (|uin<|uefolia, many varieties of 

 Cydonia, japonica. \iburnum odorotissimum, 

 Lardizabala biternata, various species of Jas- 

 nunum, including J. nudiflorum. which flowers 

 all winter in mild weather ; Celastrus of various 

 species, and, of course. Ivies, as mentioned in 

 previous articles. Many of these, of course, 

 flourish in sunny positions, but the fact that they 

 will endure the shade of an east or north wall 

 makes it possible to render such walls interesting, 

 and leaves sunnier walls for plants which will 

 not endure shade. 



Those who desire to raise quantities of trees 

 and shrubs must look out for seeds as soon as 

 the fruits are seen to be ripe. Barberries. Coton- 

 easters and other fruits having the hard seeds 

 surrounded by a fleshy covering may be collected 

 and mixed with an equal bulk of sand or fine soil 

 and left in a heap for some time till the fleshy 

 portion has decayed away. If only a small 

 quantity has to be dealt with, it is sufficient to 

 briskly rub the sand and fruits together between 

 the hands, thus separating out the seeds, when the 

 whole may be sown together in pots, boxes or 

 open beds, germination taking place in spring. 

 Holly and Thorn are dealt with in the same 

 manner, except that as they are known to take 

 longer to germinate they may be left in a heap 

 for six months or more, and thus take up less 

 room than if occupying beds. The heaps should 

 be turned occasionally. Should the space be 

 available there is no objection to sowing all when 

 collected. Early in the year some allusion was 

 niade to the value of half-decayed leaves for 

 digging into nursery quarters, and also to the 

 more fully decayed, leaf-mould. A sufficient 

 quantity of clean leaves should now be collected 

 to provide for the future. Where there is much 

 grass beneath trees it should be cut before the 

 bulk of the leaves come down, otherwise it is 

 difficult to collect them clean". Oak and beech 

 leaves make the best mould for pots and boxes, 

 while those of maple, lime, sycamore, chestnut, 

 &c., are good enough for digging into the ground. 



During open weather now the planting and 

 transplanting of deciduous trees and shrubs mav 

 proceed apace. It is easy, of course, to recom'- 

 mend what should be done, but as a matter of 

 fact many will have to do " as things will do with 

 them," for in these days, of shortage of labour, 

 increased cost of material and other distractions 

 we do well to keep going and make the best show 

 we can. B. 



Jasmine. 



'Twas midnight — through the lattice, wreath'd 



With woodbine, many a perfume breath'd 



From plants that wake when others sleeji. 



From timid Jasmine buds, that keep 



Their odour to themselves all day. 



But, wlien the sunlight dies away. 



Let the delicious secret out 



To every breeze that roams about. 



— TItonxis Moore. 



