February 10, 1912.] 



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managed, a display of bloom the whole year 



round: a display always interesting and 



at times unique in its beauty. 



Let 



THE 



Note, first of all there are no pots of 

 bare soil or even of pushing heads. All the 

 occupants, consist either of plants in bloom 

 me now justify my praise of the and coming into bloom or of plants with 

 Alpine house, but I must premise that one pleasing foliage. Consequently, the whole 

 condition is necessary for its realization, bank, even now. looks cheerful and grow- 

 that is, an ample accommodation in the ing. The following plants are in bloom : 

 way of frames for the plants not yet in Christmas Roses, which, of course, have 

 bloom or foliage, for the whole point of been flowering since December, and which, 

 the Alpine house is that it should, so far with me, are invariably ruined out-of-doors 



sff v 1 /ffl f Y uie ^ ! P ine nouse is tnat it sliould, so tar wan me, are invariably ruined out-ot-doors 



Vi)clt U C ItCrS VilylXrOn itlC aS P ossible > contain only blooming plants by black spots caused by slugs. Some pots 



and plants decorative in foliage. 



of Iris Danfordiae give a bright bit of 



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No. 1,311 —SATUBDAY, February 10, 1912. I am writing especially in the interest yellow. Many of the bulbous Irises, 



■ of those with moderate or even small-sized after blooming in the pots and being 



gardens; those with large gardens can planted out in summer, increase nicely and 

 simply double or quadruple the quantities do well— my soil is a sandy loam— but so 

 of plants grown. far Danfordiae dies oui. Here is the first 

 The house then need not be more than, flower of I. histrioides, which always, in its 

 say, 20 feet long by 10 feet broad, span- earl Y days, looks as if it would be a fort- 

 roofed, with staging on each side. The night after I. reticulata, but manages to 

 staging should be on tressels, a double set bloom a fortnight sooner. Histrioides and 

 being provided, one of ordinary height reticulata increase rapidly out-of-doors in 

 and one low, so that the full value of the this garden. Here are pots of Snow- 

 house for the whole year round may be drops; they go on many years without 

 obtained. If, however, it is not of im- repotting. Galanthus Elwesii is capital in 

 portance to get the use of the house after P ots - He re are pots of Cyclamen Coum 



.Alpine house, the 



American notes 



Antirrhinum 



Apple-packing, demon- 

 strations in 



Apples, colour in 



Books, notices of — 



A Botanical Expedition 



to Newfoundland and 



Southern Labrador... 



The Orchid Review ... 



The Orchid World ... 



-Canvas as a substitute 

 for glass 



Channel Islands, the ... 



Cinerarias from seed ... 



Uectricity and plant 

 culture 



Oenetics, Professor Bate- 

 son on the subject of 



Habenaria conopsea 

 alba 



India, notes from— 

 Gardening in the 

 Indian Empire 



International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition 



Ireland, notes from — 

 Apple growing in 

 Ireland 



Lambert, Mr. John, pre- 

 sentation to 



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Land under cultivation, 

 the area of, in Great 

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Liverpool Horticultural 

 Association 



Market fruit garden, the 



National Institute of 



Horticulture 



Obituary— 



Galvin, Thomas 



Inglefield, G. A. 



Robson, J. M 



Plants, the exportation of 

 Plants, the protection of, 



in cold frames 



Potato-growing in 



"Western Australia ... 

 Saussurea gossypiphora 



and S. leucoma 



Societies — 

 Bury Horticultural ... 

 National Chrysanthe- 

 mum 



Royal Horticultural ... 

 (Scientific Committee) 

 Sandy Horticultural ... 



Sweet Pea disease 



Sweet Peas for the gar- 

 den 



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the Alpines proper go out, say in June, 



the colour is not first-rate, but the flowers 



then slightly better conditions for the Al- are bri S ht 4 and dainty, 

 pines may be obtained with permanent 

 staging. My own house is 20 feet long, 

 and though I have not frames enough to 



Here 



are some 



pots of Adonis amurensis, a good and 

 early bloomer. Htre are some Lenten 

 Roses. These are generally in bloom 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



<?up to be presented by the Yokohama Nursery 



Ltd., at the International Exhibition 



India, view in the Sajjan Niwas Gardens in ... 

 Inglefield, Mr. G. A., portrait of the late 



Odontoglossum "Merlin" 



Saussurea gossypiphora in its Chinese habitat... 

 Saussurea leucoma (Supplementary Illustration) 

 Zygopetalum Mackayi Charlesworthii 



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keep both sides of this house in the best b ^ Christmas. On a hard, frosty morn- 

 condition of display, it has compensating ^ w } ien ^t has got into the house, 

 advantages, as the quieter side holds the J™* *?^£?? head ^ b J lt s oon ^hold 

 plants advancing into bloom, and especi- 

 ally is useful to keep safe from slugs those 



plants, such as the bulbous Irises or . . tl 



Adonis, whose tender and succulent heads e J a ™ ine carefully the farming flowers 



would be surely taken off as they pu.h ? C / ocus I*Perati,. with their delicate 



through the soil if left in the frames ; at black-purple feathering on a buff ground 



any rate, in this garden that frequently °utside and gay purple inside. I have a 



patch or two out-of-doors ; they are just 



them up again as the house thaws, 

 and are not a bit the worse. Erica 

 carnea alba is in bloom, and one can 



THE ALPINE HOUSE. 



rp HERE is seldom much pleasure to be only obtained by constant forethought. 



found in the outside garden in 



Success in any branch of gardening is as advanced in bloom as those inside, but 



snow, rain and sparrows have more or less 

 ruined them. Here is a bright spot in 



How often have visitors to my garden 



January. Perhaps the snow is lying said, 



a 



Oh, why have I not got those beau- Eranthis cilicica, which seems to do better 



in melting patches and the sun is shining tiful flowers . 



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And I have had to sug- each y ear in ifc s pot. Generally by this 



so fitfully that it is 



to see that 



the 



easy 

 he is barely awakened for the years 

 work lying before him. Crocuses and 

 Xarcissi may push adventurous heads 



gest, as politely as possible that it was time some Hepaticas are in bloom, but for 

 because they had not taken the trouble to some unknown reason they are late this 

 think beforehand, to provide in October year. 



for the beauty of May, or because they had 



If such a pleasant picture can be 



£*a*Srfk£rf the ground b„ on ™*>», Preparation of their Rose-beds realiged by the middle of January , t mMt 



is rather sorry for their temerity, think- untl1 a feW m - 0nths be *°™ the ?™ e th ? y leave to the imagination of my readers 

 ing of what they 



have to go through 

 before they can bloom. Mild weather may 

 have pushed the Rose shoots on, but one 

 knows too well they will be blackened be- 

 fore long. 



little span-roofed house, the cheer 



look of which is in marked contrast with 



the outside gloom. It is the Alpine house, 



dm . a mV 



wanted their blooms: all this applies to the t he conception of the increasing beauties 



Alpine house, and no 



success 



will be Q f eac h advancing month until April and 



achieved without constant thought, but to j£ ay bring the culmination. To enumerate 



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So one turns with relief into 



ful 



the real lover of a garden that is only an 

 enhancement of the pleasure. 



the plants grown would be too like a 

 catalogue. Among many others, the fol- 



given me so much pleasure in the past and 

 has such possibilities of pleasure in it for 

 all who care to take up a most satisfying 

 branch of gardening— one, too, involving 

 & minimum of expenditure— that I 



Broadly, this is the way I work my Al- lowing have proved very satisfactory: 



pine house: Alpines from the end of 0rdinary Crocuses (for these, fresh bulbs 



December to June, then Carnations, then should be obtained each year, but they 



Chrysanthemums ; but if there is plenty of cogt nexfc to not hing), Narcissus cycla 



mineus and minimus, and, of course, all 

 Narcissi, but cyclamineus will go on im- 



it is because this little house has other glasg? the c amations and Chrysan 



themums may be left out. 



It is of the 



Alpines only that I wish to write. And at proving ' in t h e same pot for years. All 

 once I must admit that the term " Alpine 

 ia not quite accurate : although Alpine 



tempted to write this article, for I think 

 the subject has not received the attention 



# al f plants form a large proportion of the plants 



yet the full beauty of the house 



grown, m 



would not be obtained unless other plants 



it deserves. Many cannot afford expen- suitable for pot culture and hardy enough 

 sive heated structures, with their endless 



the Saxifrages— though the mossy section 

 is the least suitable. All the Scillas. 

 Chionodoxa sardensis is very useful. 

 Scilla messeniaca is good for this work. 

 Iberis Little Gem comes early. Various 



bills for repairs and repainting, but the 

 Alpine house needs no heat but that which 

 the sun will supply, and paint lasts twice 

 as long as in a hothouse, while, as I shall 



to stand 



an unheated house were also utilised. 



Tulip species, such as Kaufmanniana, 

 Ostrowskiana, prsestans., linifolia, &c. 



presently show, this house can give, if well January. 



Now let us look into the house and see Anemones, such as Pulsatilla, magel lanica 

 what there is generally to be found there and especially A. blanda. All the large, 

 at that cheerless time, the middle of hardy Primrose family, including Auri- 

 culas. Fully to describe all the Primulas 



