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THE GAHDESEHS CHUOMCLE 



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No. 1,314.— SATURDAY, March '. 1912. 



April and May provided rather more we( 

 than usual, while the t m irature was 



below the a\ rage, but thank no doubt 

 to the prevailing moisture, Lilies wen all 

 growing apace ; indeed, perhaps ■ trifle too 



but e? I ablished at 



Iv 



USUI 



bet in ate to a dej e, 

 last and t] Ting as j 



rube* »ns near b 



Towards the end of th< month L. man 

 timum, con\ I by the sun into showing us 



CO 



Almond, date of flower- 

 irtf of the 



Apbyllanthet Monspel 

 iensii 



Bif bud, spraying for .. 

 Books, notices of - 



Kew « iuild Journal ... 



The Natural His ton 



of Clay 



The Scottish Botani- 

 cal Review 



Coldest spot on earth... 

 Daffodil show, R.H.8. . 



PCocharia gram) i flora .. 



Fanning. u«xt b ><>k.s on 



Florists' flowers - 



Perpetual - flowering 



Carnations 



Foreign correspondence 



Nannorhops Kitchie- 

 ana 



Poreatry — 



OoFernment Advisory 

 Committee ... 



Gardeners' Royal Be- 

 nevolent Institution .. 



Genetics, Prof. Bateson 

 on 



Hyacinth, a proliferous 

 International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition 



Ireland, note* from ... 

 Kew notes 



Larkspurs and Antir- 

 rhinums 

 L.C.C Parka, the 

 I-eaf curl 



I^eptospermum bulla- 



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in 



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141 

 140 



139 

 141 

 140 



turn 



scopar 



NTENTS. 



I lies and sunshine ... 

 Limestone, the value of 

 Obituary - 



i.araway, W. A. 



Muir. Thomas 



- in, Thomas 

 Orchid note* and glean- 



inga 

 Orphan Fund, Royal 



Gardeners' 



Plants, new or note- 

 worthy— 

 Cupressus formosen- 



^ I 3 * • m 



Plants, the phosphate 



nu tri lion of ... 



Potatot, select varieties 



133 | of ... 



Rain water nitrogen la 

 Scotland, notes from . . 

 8 • leties — 



Horticultural Club ... 



National Dahlia 



134 Royal Horticultural 



(Scientific Committee) 



140 Boottiall Horticultural 

 Silanum jasminoides, 



139 hardineaaof ... 

 142 Spraying, compulsory... 

 Sulphur for use with cop- 

 199 per- con tain tug spray 



141 fluids 



142 Sweet Peaa, lecture oa 

 Tomato-leaf rust 



141 Trees, effects of the 

 HO summer of 1911 on ... 

 139 Week's work, the 136, 



Wheat and Oat crops ... 

 Hi! Yucca glorioaa 



ft, and one I | in to w r what would something np.re than usual of its natural 



nappen at that critical tune in May when 



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 145 

 145 



13ft 



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spring gives ;>lat to summer, and in ( Id L Ke w 



wet Ma< ns the dread, i fungus, Bo<rytit, ben iitifuP beyond OOnu* 



w 



steals over the gard 



epidemic. 



like 



\rritahl 



re. and sw« t to 



But in the niek of time came the sun. and 



BOOn put thiiu Hghte ; the fatal disease, 



which the gardener should make up In 



mind to fight just as systema! ally as civi 

 lised nations fight th > plague. a\e no ign 

 140 of its existence, and then at the end of 



Parry 



nee 



some to manage hut en>\ enough wl 



raised at h >m<* from 



ling all through th 



jell 



bet ii 



in 



(mm d heat and tl w ei mg 



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199 

 143 



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u i> hegan such a time as it is to,, much 



t<» hop* gardeners will see again for inan\ 



years. 



L. Hansomi, the yellow martauon of 



tl.v 



unareus 



ly it iel 

 20 or »( 



pet 



• ur 



'»> 



season 



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 143 

 140 



138 

 187 



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ruhellum, ondentl\ relishing a little patch 



th breeze, half tipsy poll n covered bi s 



humming drowsilj round them and I 



tumbling from bloom to bloom, was d l 

 long rem inhered, and so, by the way, 

 later (.ii, was tl bumper hai est of seed 

 which in due season found its way to the 

 frames, and * n ■ bearing abundant • u 



niony. in the shape of thousands of seed 

 lings, t, the wond« iful summ< i of 1911 



Of subterram in clav into which, more $UO t . ^ ,th th ? ,ast d *** of Jul >- 1- Hum- 



boldtn and its more southerly form. 1 



ma iificum, generally the last of the (all 

 fornians to flower, were blazing awav in a 



roots 



and 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Applianoas for sterilising soil _ .* 



Brasso-Cattlcya WYllesleyas ... _ ... _ 



Cnsp, Sir Frank, portrait of 



Capraasus formoaensis on Mount M rrison 



Cupreasoa pisifera, C. formosensis, and C. obtusa 

 details of 



Kucuarisgrandiflora ][[ 



" Irish M m to be preaantsd at the International by 



the KH.8. of Inland 



Llewelyn, Sir John T. D., portrait of 



zaeca glorioaa, * specimen plant of (Supplementary 



Illustrat i) * 



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135 

 144 

 118 



133 

 141 



139 



144 



Lilies, including the many cups of the ele 

 gans family, L monadelphum as beautiful 

 as it i- variable, and the really charming 

 « Golden Gleain. now that L. Parkmannii 



is out of cultivation, probably the only 

 strict 1\ modern hybrid Lily of which one 



can sa\ anvthinu i-naourairinffl 



warm 



HI 



corner, IsloomMrianum, 



relative, id. if the truth be to 



another 



Id, a poor 

 one, doing its beM . but hardlj r< . long to 



the knees of the typical plant. 



In ordinary seasons there is usually 



perceptible interval between the midsum 

 mer I -ill- and those that bloom in autumn, 



-^^ ^mjm- — ■ — — - ■— "^ -^^ its \ a a 



Th origin of this im resting little plant but 1911 played odd pranks in the garden! 



does not s< in to be gen. rails known, and and the early day* of August saw many 



come d>>ubta may plants in bloom that do not usually flower 



to 



wn 



a 



LILIES AND SUNSHINE. 



IKING it all round, 1911 was a won- 



occae 



o w n 



testaceum, I give the his- 



one morning to find L. Leichtlmn. with all 

 the memories this plant brings of the 

 modest man who did so much for irani. 



MAW it all round, 1911 was a won- tory of the plant as told nie by Mr. Rich n,ou<il ,nan ^no aid so much for gardens 

 derfulyear for Lilies, and but for the raond, from whose nursery in the Unit.d ,n ^' m ?al ancl Lilies in particular, pen 



ceaseless deluge of November and States this Lily is distnbut 



had 



airo 



i m se 



of 



complain of ; indeed, for once in a while, Huftelen took upon 



nearly everything in the way of weather hybridising Lilies, and, taking L. tenui- 



mg its purple-dotted, citi n lowers long 



b'fore the usual time, and I admg low 



its delicate stem to smile on L. med< loides 

 the Wheel Lily her tiny nei hbour fr« i 



was for the best; a trifle too dry on folium for the female parent, i rk \ the 1!*^' \ !° ?. ubl 



the whole, some may say, in parts of the pollen of L. Martagon album on to it. 

 country ; but then, no one ought to bother 



ami L. Bate- 



mannisB as well, with the disapi oting 



background 



• He tried this until he though, it was a Z.. ' ' ,, , . ' J L ,1 l T , 



about Lilies or, rather, the tuore fastidious failure, hut one .nomin, he notieed a hght- Z^, '. \ '.'ide'.'.K t^gtfZ^ 



section of them, who is not in a position coloured flower among a batch of his seed- their own; not far away Kramer's Lilv 



to give them water when Nature fails him ; ling L. tenuifohum crosses ; this plant waa L. japonicum, was giving us a taste of her 



and the individual who. from choice or set bj itself and given a chance : and from quality, perfectly hapi deep leaf mould 



force of circumstance, sits still while the it has sprun •**••■ 



Lilies in his garden are wilting in the sun With July. 



and 





dainty 



overlying a rather heavy but well drained 

 loam. 



L. japonicum colchesterense. wonderful 



restrict his operations to the European the West, gloi in the unique ex peri- in it- prolific product ion of offset and the 



species, such L. monadelphum. L. can- 

 didum, L. testatum, L. pomponiurn. L. 

 martagon, and L. chalcedonicum , which 



•iimnier. 



im 



Lilies of California, Japan, and China, to 

 most of which, indeed, prolonged drought 

 means death. 



proaching a Califor- diffident L. Brownii, a common wildling of 



Western China, were m« anwhile running a 

 neck and neck r and bur mg into 



quickly follow d by he Panther Lily, and flower just before that wonderful modem 

 its endless vari ies, easy . grow and bnl k jJ >*> now in commerce as myriophyllurm 





all their spotted finery of orange, 

 and scarlet, some of th m such as 



opened its long vinous-tinted buds to the 



be 



es. 



The mild winter of 1910-11 ended in such Johnsonii, and especially lioezlii, si in- 



true 



to 



gardeners 



wet fashion, that bournes and springs 

 whose very existence had almost been for- 

 gotten came to life again, the earth seemed 

 charged with moisture, and there could not 

 have been a better preparation for the 

 months and months of drought that fol- 

 lowed, and which, fatal as it was to so the quaint little L. Bolanderi, still rare, _ _. o ^ m 



many gardens, would have been more and as yet none too easy to manage : L. derful bloomer and an equally wonderful 

 generally destructive but for the unusual columbianum, from the foothills of the seeder, one can hardlv say too much for 



^^ a? * * 



" L. myriophyllum, and the recollection of 



rpi - i -, t - , , . plants— and souls — the Ahb6 Delavav, but 



Then, in bewildenngly quick succession, if fa hig wanderings in the East thi mis . 



the small-flower^ L. pan-urn from the sionary father had never found anvthi 



shores of Lake Tahoe, and its exquisite else> his narae wou]d go down as the dis . 



variety luteum, surely one of the most deli- coverer of what is possibly the most satis- 

 factory of all modern Lilies ; seemingly 

 easy to manage and not fastidious, a won- 



existenc 



ground 



hingt 



