August, 1908 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



167 



oness Rothschild, Mrs. Sharman, Craw- 

 ford ; white — Frau Karl Druschki, Mar- 

 jaret Dickson, Mrs. G. Bruant. 



TEAS 



Maman Cochet, pink and white ; Marie 

 /■an Houtte, yellow ; The Bride, white ; 

 jknna Oliver and Edith Clifford. 



HYBRID TEAS 



This is the finest class of rose grown, 



Hit a little more tender than the hybrid 



perpetuals. The following varieties can 



grown successfully in this locality : 



Bessie Brown, creamy white ; Mde. Caro- 

 line Testout, salmon pink ; Mildred 

 Grant, white ; Lady Battersea and La 

 France, white and pink ; Killarney, suf- 

 fused pink ; and Lady Ashton. 



POLYANTHA CI-IMBING ROSES , 



Crimson Rambler, bright crimson ; 

 White Rambler; Dorothy Perkins, shell 

 pink ; Lady, deep rose. 



POLYANTHA DWARF 



Baby Rambler, Mignonette, Perlee, 

 The Pet or Red Pet. 



Sedunv Spectabile 



Wm. Hunt, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph 



HIS showy species of the "Live- 



for-Ever" family of plants is not 



seen as often in the hardy flower 



jrder as its attractive beauty and use- 



'Tulness warrants. Coming into flower 



of a weaker growth and less floriferous 

 than the specimen shown in the cut. 

 This fact and, as it is well known that 

 most of the "Live for Ever" or "Stone 

 Crop" family of plants are suitable for 



SeJam Spectabile Roieam — An Excellent Plant for the Hardy Flower Border 



as it does usually in September when 

 there are so few of the occupants of the 

 perennial border in flower — except the 

 yellow autumn flowers"~the beautiful 

 lavender pink flowers of the variety 

 shown in the cut are most conspicuous 

 and pleasing. 



The variety shown is known as Sedum 

 spectabile roseum, and was planted in 

 the college borders three years ago, hav- 

 ing stayed there each winter without any 

 protection save the ordinary covering of 

 snow. Contrary to general supposition 

 that it flourishes best in rather stiff soil, 

 this specimen is planted on a piece of 

 high, light .soil in the border, the sub- 

 soil being well drained by a quantity of 

 old mortar rubble. 



Another plant that I have planted on 



lower, moister ground does not flower 



early as well as the one noted, being 



rockeries and dry positions, leads me to 

 think that a moist situation or a stiff 

 soil should not be recommended for this 

 plant. 



It is herbaceous in character, dying 

 down to the ground in winter, hence 

 could be easily protected if desired. Its 

 honey-scented flowers are very attractive 

 to bees and butterflies and other winged 

 insects, as will be seen by the cut. The 

 plant grows to about two feet in height. 



Alv Amateur's Water Garden 



T. W. Armilage, Toronto. 



The illustration on page 168 shows an 

 amateur's first attempt at a water gar- 

 den. In constructing the pond which is 

 about fifteen feet long by eight feet 

 broad, the earth was shelved out to a 

 depth in the centre of about a foot, and 

 three half barrels sunk in a line in the 



middle so that the tops would come just 

 to the bottom of this basin, and the sur- 

 face of the basin was cemented to the 

 level of the lawn. The barrels were half 

 filled with very rich soil and were then 

 ready for planting. 



In each of the end barrels we put a 

 water-lily, Nymphcsa Gladstoniana in 

 one, and Nymphcea Marliacea var. rosea 

 in the other. In the centre barrel we 

 planted rushes and a giant arrowhead 

 (Stgittaria sp.) and then partly filled the 

 basin with water. This done, we placed 

 a water hyacinth and a water poppy or. 

 the surface and, as the lilies grew, in- 

 creased the supply of water until the 

 basin was full. The water is supplied by 

 means of the garden hose. No drainage 

 IS required, the sun causing considerable 

 evaporation. The water garden thrives 

 without any other attention and is a 

 source of unending interest to ourselves 

 and our friends. 



Potash as a Fertilizer 



F. T. Shutt, M.A., Chemist, Dominion Experimental 

 Farms. 



Wood ashes, long the only form of 

 mmeral fertilizer used in this country 

 and certainly a form of potash that can- 

 not be excelled, are fast disappearing 

 from the market. Wherever obtainable 

 in the unleached condition, at reasonable 

 prices, the market gardener and orchard- 

 ist should never hesitate to purchase 

 them. Of good quality they will con- 

 tain between five to six per cent, of pot- 

 ash and two to three per cent, of phos- 

 phoric acid. They also possess from 

 twenty to thirty per cent, of lime, a very 

 useful amendment on many soils. For 

 vegetables and small fruits from one half 

 to one ton per acre may be used. 



Sulphate of potash, muriate of potash 

 and kainit are all used in the compound- 

 ing of fertilizers. The two first contain 

 in the neighborhood of fifty per cent, of 

 potash, the latter, kainit, about twelve 

 and one half per cent, of potash. Sul- 

 phate of potash is more desirable than 

 the other two named for certain classes 

 of crops — e.g., potatoes and tobacco — 

 but for the majority of garden crops 

 there is no objection to the muriate or 

 kainit. The one source of these pot- 

 ash compounds are the mines at Stass- 

 furth, Germany. Of the sulphate and 

 muriate, the usual dressing per acre is 

 from 100 to 150 pounds; of kainit, from 

 400 to 600 pounds. 



This, and what has been published in 

 the last two issues of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist, is a very hasty and im- 

 perfect account of these fertilizer in- 

 gredients, but to go further into details, 

 interesting as they are, is now impossi- 

 ble, for we must say something of the 

 requirements of the various market gar- 

 den crops. This question will be dis- 

 cussed in the September issue. 



