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Gardening for Amateurs 



'o : Baiters, ll'ol-vtrhampton. 



Paeony-flowered Dahlia, Sunset, red 



ind yellow shades. 



Decorative Garden Dahlias. Kaiserin centre ; 



flowering, 3 feet high, 

 one of the very best gar- 

 den Dahlias ; Glare of the 

 Garden, scarlet; Orange 

 Glare, orange-scarlet. Giant- 

 flowered Decorative, having 

 enormous double flowers : 

 Souvenir de Gustave Douzon. 

 reddish-scarlet; Jeanne 

 Channet, lilac-pink, shading 

 to white ; Mile. H. Charmet, 

 pure white. New Star 

 Dahlias are dwarf, very free- 

 flowering, and the blooms last 

 longer than most Dahlias 

 when cut. The best sorts 

 are : Jupiter, white and 

 yellow, edged with crimson ; 

 Mercury, white, scarlet band ; 

 Neptune, white, edged pur- 

 ple-crimson ; Orion, white, 

 splashed and edged yellow, 

 crimson streaks. Tom Thumb 

 Dahlias have single flowers ; 

 the plants grow 1 foot to 

 18 inches high, are compact 

 in growth and free flowering. 

 forming delightful subjects 

 for a bed on the lawn or 

 for grouping in the border. 

 Distinct sorts are Bantam, 

 scarlet; Canary , yellow ; 

 Hermione, white; Miss 

 Grace, light orange ; Tom 

 Tit, orange -scarlet, yellow 

 Venus, crimson, shaded maroon, 



Augusta Victoria, pure white, is very free purple edge. 



Flowers on Greenhouse Wall. In the 



greenhouse it is often impossible to hide 

 some bare part of the wall in the ordinary 

 way. but quite an effective display can be 

 obtained by forming wall-pockets, in which 

 plants will root and flourish. With a chisel 

 and hammer make holes in the walls about 

 18 inches apart and hammer into these plugs 

 of dry wood. Now get some pieces of cork, 

 such as is sold for decorating window boxes 

 and the like ; nail these to the wooden plugs 

 loosely, or else tack, pieces of wood first to the 

 inside of the cork, and this will keep them 



from being hammered close up to the wall 

 When they are in position pack some moss 

 or fibre tightly in the bottom of the pocket, 

 then fill up with a compost of about equal 

 parts of leaf-mould, peat and loam. Many 

 plants can be established in such a compost, 

 and will continue to flourish for a long time. 

 Notable in the list might be mentioned 

 Begonia Rex, Saxifraga sannentosa or Mother 

 of Thousands, variegated Creeping Jenny, 

 Maidenhair and other ferns, including Pteris 

 tremula, together with the drooping Bell- 

 flower, Campanula isophylla. 



