

April 13, 1912. J 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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No. 1,320— -SATURDAY* April 13, 1912. 



CONTENTS, 



Barr Memorial Fund, 



the 241 



Birds and fruit buds ... 246 

 Books, notices of — 

 A Book about Roses... 240 

 The Botanical Maga- 

 zine 241 



"The Complete Gar- 

 dener 243 



Publications received 243 



Canada, the population 

 of 243 



Carnation Mrs. A. F. 

 Dutton 244 



Conifers at Dropmore, 

 damage to 245 



Coorg, note on the vege- 

 tation of 243 



Daphne indica 245 



Elms, British 234 



Florists' flowers — 



Chrysanthemum 



Golden King ... 231 

 The Tulip 234 



Forest areas in Canada 241 



International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition ... 242 



Ireland, Government 

 Bale of trees in ... 246 



Lambourne, Mr. John, 



appointment of ... 241 



Law note 249 



L.C.C. parks depart- 

 ment, changes in the 241 

 Magnolia salicifolia ... 245 

 Manchester, horticul- 



_ ture in 246 



Mushroom culture in 



France 241 



Orchid notes and glean- 

 ings— 



Lselio - Cattleya 

 MacBeaniana ... 237 



Orchids at Glebelands, 

 South Woodford ... 237 

 Parks, London, school 



classes in the 241 



Park Superintendents, 



American Association 



o f 242 



£nlox, the herbaceous 233 

 Pollination of hardy 

 fruits, observations 

 and experiments on 

 th e t 245 



Pond-weed, to destroy 

 Poplar, the, in Italy ... 

 Primula Forrestii 



Primula rosea 



Railway grievances ... 

 Rainfall in a North 



Wales garden 



Rehmannia 

 Rhododendron Yodo- 



gawa 



Rosary, the — 



Caroline Teatout and 



its sports 



Rose Mme. Hector 



Leuilliot 



Saxifraga kewensis 



School gardens 



Scotland, notes from ... 

 Silver-leaf disease 

 Societies — 



Hailstorm Insurance 

 Corporation 



North of Scotland 

 Hort. and Arbori- 

 cultural 



Nursery and Seed 

 Trade Association .. 



Royal Caledonian 

 Horticultural 



Royal Horticultural... 



(Scientific Committee) 



Royal Hort, of Ireland 



Royal Meteorological 



Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural 



Scottish Hort. 



Women's Agric. and 

 Hort. Union 

 Soil, treatment 



of barren 



Strawberries, pot 

 Superphosphates, the 



world's consumption 



of 



Tomato industry in 



Ontario, the 



Week's work, the— 



Flower garden, the ... 



Fruits under glass ... 



Hardy fruit garden ... 



Kitchen garden, the... 



Orchid houses, the .. 



Plants under glass ... 



Public parks and gar- 

 dens 



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 240 



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 £38 

 239 

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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Carnation Mrs. A. F. Dutton 



Cups to be presented at the International Exhibition 

 uiploma of Honour of the International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition 



Elm, Plot's ... 



Lselio-Cattleya MacBeaniana "..! *.'.! '." \" 



Primula Forrestii growing wild in China (Supple- 



mentary Illustration) 

 8 jxifraga kewensis 



^Imuscampestrisvaiietyviminalis 



Ulmus Plotii 



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raised from a cutting, albeit there are 

 some varieties more prone than the 

 majority to snread hv mpans nf stnlrmifur- 



balls were frequently planted in the same 

 condition, and proved incapable of suc- 

 ceeding well. Nowadays the nurseryman 



ous shoots, which are thus enabled to plants the young Phloxes in nursery beds, 



provide useful material for planting 

 for an almost indefinite period. Etna, 



Q 



and Mrs. E. Jenkins 



are notable instances of this. 



thereby saving himself the cost of pots, 



and also the labour of frequent waterings. 



Presently the purchaser gets a 'much 



There larger and a far more satisfactory plant. 



are others, however, and in the newer This system of supplying plants from the 



Phloxes I fear they are in the majority, open ground is, to my mind, a great gain, 



that seem incapable ©f producing stolons, 



the ground stools becoming old and 



woody at an early age. Such varieties 



and if it diminishes the planting season 

 by a few weeks in spring or summer, it 

 insures the work being done in the proper 



as these must be increased by cuttings. season. Where pot plants of Phloxes are 

 Of this latter type there is no more grown for conservatory decoration there 



conspicuous an example than Coquelicot, 



is no method of propagation to equal 



though it were an easy matter to name that of the spring cutting, and 

 many similar ones. 



young 

 vigorous examples cultivated generously 

 after the manner of Chrysanthemums, 



In the production of stoloniferous shoots 



the character of the soil plays a part, usually produce fine panicles of flower late 



since the varieties that produce them in September, or even in October. Two 



freely in light soils do so tardily, if at all, or three decades ago, these border 



241 in soils of a heavy or clayey nature. Con- Phloxes were frequently employed as pot 



versely, those varieties that produce plants, while, to-day, despite their 



stoloniferous shoots shyly, or not at all, high decorative excellence they appear to 



when planted in light soils, are shortlived be forgotten. That the method referred 



or impossible of cultivation when planted 



to is worth reviving no one with personal 



in heavy soils. Hence the cultivator knowledge of the subject will deny. 



should consider the Phlox in conjunction 

 247 with the soil. Speaking generally, 



and from a somewhat diversified ex- 

 247 perience, I consider soils of a medium or 



even a light nature far superior to those 



containing much clay, for though the 



The modern raiser has given us flowers 



of greatly increased size, in conjunction 

 with brilliant or pure colouring. 



colour as evidenced in the 



shad 



New 



es 



of 



varieties Iris, Violet, and Le Mahdi, have 

 provided the group with increased 

 former become very dry in hot seasons, it diversity of colour and a wider sphere of 

 is possible to afford water advantageously. usefulness. The modern varieties exhibit 

 On the contrary, most clay soils con- greater substance in the petals. Dwarf- 



tract to such an extent as to render 



ness, too, has been added in some varie- 



watering a futile operation. Few nursery- ties, though I question if in a plant to 



which we look for some of the finest flower 

 pictures of the flower garden this may 



the late Robert Parker, of Tooting, yet be accounted a gain in the truest sense. 



the soil of the nursery was generally very The greatest loss, a loss both to garden 



men of past decades have grown or 

 exhibited herbaceous Phloxes to equal 



242 light and sandy, the subsoil being com- 

 posed of sand and gravel to a great 



and greenhouse, is, in my opinion, the 

 ignoring by the modern raiser of these 

 depth. The Phlox beds were, however, plants of the latest flowering varieties of 

 quite near to large water tanks, and the the race, like Virgo Maria which blossoms 



239 week in dry weather. 



each 

 too. 



Phloxes are great surface-rooters, hence 



a mulch in conjunction with the waterings and the flowers smaller. But the quality 



long after the majority are past. The 

 trusses of these late flowering varieties 

 *e denser, more pyramidally inclined, 



will be found of much benefit. 



of lateness is worthy of wedlock with the 





Adverting to the methods of propaga- finest strains in the hope that the union 



tion I have often wondered, seeing the may span the gulf and extend the season 



fine results obtained, why so little use is of flowering as it has done in other classes 



made of autumn cuttings. of plants, though none more notably per- 



This method saves a great deal of time, haps than the Narcissus. Then, to some 



the autumn-struck cuttings making plants extent, we have lost the well-shouldered, 



fit for distribution early in the following paniculate trusses of earlier days, and 



BITING of the herbaceous Phloxes year. Moreover, such cuttings root well some varieties in particular, which, pro- 



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 235 



THE HERBACEOUS PHLOX 



in the Gardeners' Chronicle of 



m a 



shady frame in the open, hence ducing sublateral spikelets so freely, were 



December 9, 1911, the late James should possess a special value for those alike valuable in the garden or in the cut 



Douglas referred incidentally to the fine amateurs who have not space in artifici- state, have fallen out of cultivation. In 



displays Messrs. Fraser, of Lea Bridge, ally-heated structures for such things. the past, many a housewife has welcomed 



^ade at the exhibitions half a century The plants, too, are raised from material these well-foliaged bits of flower beauty 



was made of the fact usually discarded. A slight shortening late in the year, and would do so again if 

 these famous nurserymen objected of the flowering stems, after flowering, only they were forthcoming. In these 

 to the clumsy method of division as being all that is required to promote the directions there is still room for improve- 

 not likely to give the best results," an requisite growth. The " ~ 



a go. Mention 

 that « 



spring cuttings 

 raised under glass by the nurseryman 



ment, remembering that the herbaceous 

 Phlox being above all things a garden 



rejection which I believe has been shared wkk- *— e«~» -- ° - 



oy all nurserymen who have excelled in have a value of their own. Formerly it subject it should be made to play its part 



* . e . cultivation of these plants. The was the practice to pot up all the plants, to the fullest extent and for the longest 



divided plant can never be equal to one and these being sent out in the hard, solid possible season. E. II. Jenkins. 



