72 GARDENING DIFFICULTIES SOLVED 



Hyacinth, H. Shoesmith, J. H. Jackson, J. B. Riding, Kathleen 

 Bryant, Lord of Manor, Manxman, Mrs. Grinstead, Mrs. Castleton, 

 Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. McMillan, Primrose, Pilot, Pearl, Pink Pearl, 

 Pink Perfection, Purple Jackson, Rev. A. Hall, Red Rover, Star, 

 T. Parkin, T. G. Baker, Victorian, Wm. Marshall, White Swan. 

 /. B., Aintree. 



A. Your list is a fairly comprehensive one, and includes prac- 

 tically all the older sorts worth growing. In weeding out the inferior 

 sorts, we should recommend omitting the following : Alpha, Beacon, 

 Dainty, Red Rover, Fairy, Coronation, Manxman, Pearl, Pink 

 Perfection, Daisy, Britannia, and Pink Pearl, and in place of these 

 add Snowdon, white ; Rev. Jamieson, pink ; Saxonia, crimson ; 

 Brigadier, bright crimson ; Monarch, bronzy red ; Harold Peerman, 

 yellow ; Mercury, yellow striped crimson ; C. E. Wilkins, salmon, 

 pink ; Flame, scarlet ; Ivernia, fawn ; Helium, yellow and orange ; 

 and Nelly Riding, crimson tipped white. This would bring your 

 collection right up to date. We might, however, point out that for 

 garden decoration only some of the sorts discarded are very useful 

 but we take it exhibiting is your chief aim. 



Failure with Tufted Pansies 



Q. I should be glad of a few hints as to the cultivation of these, 

 I seem to have little success with them. They appear to be 

 attacked by some disease. B. S. K., Lincoln. 



A. In October or November the plants may be lifted and 

 divided. In dividing, each portion should have a few young growths 

 and some roots ; place them in rows 6 inches apart and 3 inches from 

 plant to plant in any convenient ground of a friable soil. Dust 

 lightly with air slaked lime and soot to keep down slugs and other 

 predatory pests. The plants can be lifted carefully in early spring, 

 say February or as soon as the weather permits afterwards, and 

 placed in the flowering quarters. This procedure gives opportunities 

 for manuring and preparing the ground for their reception . Those 

 plants that have turned quite yellow in the leaf and appear to 

 be dead at the roots, should be cleared away and burned, removing 

 as much of the rootstem as possible. It is evident that they are 

 infested by the Viola mould. The fungus is tided over winter 

 by resting spores in the rootstems of the diseased and dead plants, 

 hence the need for their removal. They should not occupy the same 

 ground again for a year at least. The ground where the collapsed 

 plants have been should be given a dressing of basic slag, 1 Ib. per 



