IN MY LADY'S GARDEN 



R. caucasicum album is in pure white ; R. arboreum wellsi- 

 anum is in brilliant carmine crimson, and Mme. Wagner is 

 bright pink with a white eye. These plants are best grown 

 in tubs, with a compost of peat, loam, and leaf mould in 

 equal quantities. For a cool greenhouse or porch roses are 

 amongst the best of climbers ; and their growths should be 

 trained horizontally on wires about 15 inches below the 

 glass roof, something in the way of a vine, so that the sap is 

 evenly distributed, with the result of blossoms at every axil 

 of last year's growths, which become well ripened in the 

 autumn. 



Biennials of many kinds should be sown in the garden in 

 May, planting out the seedlings in a nursery bed in July, 

 and potting up those not needed for the garden in October, 

 for use in the cool greenhouse, where they will bloom early 

 and well. Amongst these are the splendid dwarf wallflowers 

 in crimson, apricot, deep red, and other shades ; these should 

 stand in the open air (their pots being sunk in ashes) until 

 January, when they may be brought into the greenhouse, 

 and, if placed near the glass, will blossom quickly. 



Tall white and spotted foxgloves (Digitalis alba and D. 

 maculata) are very elegant, flowering in May ; and cam- 

 panulas in variety (especially the chimney bellflower C. 

 pyramidalis) are most effective if treated in the same way. 

 Tufts of turquoise forget-me-nots (such as Myosotis Vic- 

 toria, M. Perfection, or M. Royal Blue) can be potted up 

 from the garden just as they show colour for use in the 

 cool greenhouse, and, if kept thoroughly moist, will feel no 

 check ; these come in very usefully as an edging to a group 

 of rhododendrons. 



One of the great advantages of a glasshouse without fire 

 heat is that the tropical blights, which are so troublesome 

 with warmth, do not flourish in a cool place ; and there are 

 various flowering shrubs which are apt to be infested with 

 scale, mealy-bug, thrips, &c., in the hothouse, which can be 

 grown far better with no heat. Oleanders are a case in point ; 

 every insect which infests plants will worry this unfortunate 

 shrub in a warm place, but if grown in the open air during 



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