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IRISH GARDENING. 



guents, one feels his delight in the technicalities. 

 Here is part of the picture of Timon"s Villa : — 



" Two Cupids squirt before : a lake behind 

 Improves the keenness of the northern wnid. 

 His gardens next your admiration call ; 

 On every side you look, behold the wall ! 

 No pleasing intricacies intervene. 

 No artful wildness to perplex the scene; 

 Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother. 

 And half the platform just reflects the other. 

 The suffering eye inverted Nature sees. 

 Trees cut to statues, statues thick as treef. ; 

 With here a fountain never to be play'd. 

 And there a sunnner-house that knows no sluide; 

 Here Aniphitrite sails through myrtle bowers. 

 There gladiators fight or die in flowers; 

 Unwater'd see the drooping seahorse mourn. 

 And swallows roost in Nilus' dusty urn. " 



Iris sind-pers. 



Of the many Irises suitable for the rock-garden. 

 Iris sind-pers is one of the best, coming into flower 

 early in March and remaining o\it for about a 

 month. This diarming little hybrid originated 

 from crossing two Juno Irises, the tall Iris sind- 

 jarensis with the stemless Iris persica. The foliage 

 is intermediate between the- parents, while the 

 Howers. which are four inches across and six inches 

 high, are of a fuller colour than in the female 

 plant, but without the patch at the apex of the 

 falls that is so conspicuous in Iris persica. 



It is exceedingly floriferous, forming a mass of 

 ])ale blue, relieved by a golden yellow line down 

 the falls, also by purple dots, the standard, as in 

 all Juno Irises, being small and reflexed. 



It delights in a sunny spot in well-drained soil, 

 and here in tlie Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, it 

 goes on year after vear, and increases satisfactorily. 



F. G Preston. 



Wisley Trials, 1919. 



The following awards have been made to Turnips, 

 First Early Potatoes, and Autumn Raspberries by 

 tlie Counc'il of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 aftei- trial as Wisley : — 



TURNIPS. 



Award of Merit.— ^o. 12. Extra Early Purple 

 Top. sent by Messrs. Barr; 9. Tiittle Marvel, sent 

 by Messrs. Barr*; 44, Red Globe, and 51. Early 

 Hnowball. both sent by Messrs. Sutton; 53. Early 

 Wliite Model, sent by Messrs. Barr; 69, Greento]). 

 Sixweeks. sent by Messrs. Sutton; 70, Maiu'bcsici- 

 Market, sent by Messrs. Barr*; 71. Manchester 

 Market, sent by Messrs. Dickson & Robinson; 72. 

 Marble Green Top, sent by Messrs Barr.* (Nos. 69 

 to 72 are regarded as similar to one another.) 



Ilujhly Commended. — 5, Early White Milan, 

 sent by Messrs. Sutton; 16, Red Milan, sent by 

 Messrs. Webb; 22 aiul 2:>. Matchless, sent by 

 Messrs. Barr* and Sutton; 27, White Gem, sent 

 by Messrs. Sutton; 31, Jersey Navet or Half-long 

 White Vertus, sent by Messrs. Barr; 42, Early 

 White Strajj-leaved, sent by Messrs. Sutton; 4.'!, 

 Strap-leaf, White Stone, sent by Messrs. R. Veitch 

 (Nos. 42 and 4.') are regarded as similar to one 

 aiujther); 57, Model White Stone, sent by Messrs. 

 Watkins & Simpson; 76 and 77, Green Top Stone, 

 sent by Messrs. Barr and R. Veitch. 



* This sender has not yet catalogued this variety. 



FIRST EARLY POTATOES. 



Western Hero, sent by 



Award of Merit 

 Messrs. R. Veitch. 



IliijhJy Commended. — i6. Eclipse, sent by Mr. 

 W. G. Holmes; 21, Midlothian Early, sent by 

 Messrs. R. Veitch; 1, Sharp's Victor, sent by Mr. 

 W. G. Holmes; 114, Witch Hill Seedling, sent by 

 Messrs. Cross; 56, Sharpe's Express, sent by 

 Messrs. Dobbie. 



Commended. — 99. Early Champion, sent by Mr. 

 Findlay; 109. Epicure, sent by Messrs. Barr; 117, 

 Resistant Snowdrop, sent by Messrs. Cross. 



AUTUMN RASPBERRIES. 



.{irard of Merit. — 9, Surprise d'Autonme, sent by 

 Mr. Cousens. 



The Royal Horticultural Society will carry out a 

 trial of Roses to asc'ertaiu their resistance to rose 

 mildew in their Gardens during 1920. Three plants 

 of each variety for trial should be addressed to the 

 Director, R. II. S. Gardens. Wisley. Ripley, Surrey 

 (Goods : L. & S. W. Ry.. Horsley), to reach him by 

 November 30, 1919. Entry forms may be obtained 

 on application to the Director. 



The Royal Horticultural Society will carry out a 

 trial of Perennial Asters (Michaehuas Daisies) in 

 their Gardens at Wisley during 1920. Three plants 

 of each variety for trial should be sent to the 

 Director, R. H. S. Gardens, Wisley. Ripley, 

 Surrey (Goods : L. & S. W. Ry.. Horsley), to reaeli 

 him by Noveml)er 30, 1919. Entry forms may be 

 obtained on application to the Director. 



The Royal Horticultural Society are desirous of 

 making a thorough trial of Currants of all kinds in 

 their Gardens at Wisley, both to try their relative 

 value as fruit bushes and to assist in securing a 

 standard of nomenclature for them. They would 

 be obliged if growers would send three plants of 

 each variety, addressed to the Director, R. H. S. 

 Gardens, Wisley. Ripley, Surrey (Goods: L. & S. 

 W. Ry.), to reach him by November 30. 1919. Entry 

 forms may be obtained from the Director. 



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