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THE GARDENERS’ 
THE HERBACEOUS BORDER. 
NEW FORMS OF R 
ath Sruart, Chirnside, N.B., has been highly 
cessful in making some crosses with Globe 
e By Kart T. europæ me 
us, he has s 
large size, fully double, and some of them remarkable 
n 
for their deep tint of brilliant orange. As a 
originato se Dr. Stuart appears to 
be as markedly successful with the Mountain Globe- 
T. europæus re ene d 
-i 4 85 ing the richness of tint found in 
the v. which represent Dr. Stuart's last adven- 
ture in new piane a box of blooms of voih 
he sent me a few He speaks of them 
aay that the description is a correct one. 
they find their way ne v 
warmly welcomed by lovers of hardy plants, R. D. 
TROLLIUS. 
This i is a most useful genus for . mixed border 
early i in May, when hardy border flowers are scarce. 
To grow them well the soil — pr rich and moist, 
pod the situation sheltered from hot sun. Those 
o advise a northern aspect i. se plants do not 
3 that — — on and evening sun in 
summer are the t burning. The beat aspect is 
east, As for ee 1 pay little attention to nur- 
sery ne nearly all the Trollius in cultivation are 
either uropæus or T. asiaticus, or intermediate 
forms, The brightest orange I ever saw in Trollius 
came to me as a seedling from Mr, W. Thompson, g 
he 
seedling when three or four years old, are 
ver are again after division. Large 
plants cut into three or — — never do well 
again, If it is desired to vant individual 
j pieces aam not be 
ake a show for at least two years, I 
find the seed does best if sown as soon as ripe, Seed 
sown in July, 1895, should flower well in May, 1897, 
if the seedlings are properly encouraged. C. Wolley 
Dod, Edge Hall, Malpas, 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA, 
CORONILLA GLAUCA, 
Tus old-fashioned but usefal and showy decora- 
tive greenhouse indo 
and is an almost ut 
tings, a couple of inches long, taken with a little of the 
old wood attached, and inserted in small pots, which 
have been well crocked and filled with light mould, 
will soon form roots if placed under a bell-glass 
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a warm house. They should then be potted singly 
into nb-poti using the same kind of mould 
frame, water, water, keep — sae shade * the heat 
of the day, until the roots active, oy the plants 
should be gradually red to su and air, 
nsh 
Pinch the shoots to make them ar and shift 
into larger pots as required, 
EPIS GRACILIS 
The present is a good time to ana old plants of 
this useful decorative grass, potting p the e 
in small 60. size pots for autumn 4 
Cut the old grass down nearly to the soil ate 1 
he roots before potting, using a compost con- 
sisting of about four parts sandy loam and one of 
sweet leaf- Place the pots on sifted ashes in a 
shallow frame, keep close, shade during the hottest 
P of the day,and damp the plants well overhead 
at closing time, say at from 3.30 to 4 o'clock, The 
plants should never be allowed to get dry, 
RICHARDIA (CALLA) ATHIOPICA. 
Cakes . plant to plant. 
five-parts fibry loam and one of horse droppings. 
Make the soil fairly firm about the roots, and give 
a surface-dressing of short dung to the depth of two 
or three inches stake should be placed to each 
of the plants, and the foliage loosely secured thereto, 
Afterwards water the ground to settle the soil about 
the roots, and the plants should be kept well supplied 
with water at the roots during dry weather until 
they are potted up at the end of August or early in 
E-FLOWERED CYCLAMENS, 
eat demand that there is for white 
white Cyclamens. What is perhaps more striking than 
the plants remain in flower. Commenci ing in Novem- 
ri 23 age in one year. 
d grow 
na 
Like other puana which have soft succulent leaves, 
insect-peats must be sedulously destroyed by 
frequent 8 with — „ M, 
THE WEREK'S W ORK. 
HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 
By W. Pore, Gardener, Highclere Castle, Newbury. 
M LLO CHERRIES.—These should have the 
fruits thinned betimes, although if left to them- 
selves the trees c 
but this is weakening to 
avoided, R 
behind the brancher, reservin als for laying 
in thinly between the old wood and to take the 
lace hoots e carrying f this season ; 
e others where spurs are desirable at the 
econd or third leaf, Fruiting spurs or shoots may 
te — at the second leaf. 
APRICOTS: THINNING FRUIT, NAILING - IN 
8HOOTS, ETC.—Ap 
n little risk of 
n by wind, being careful 
* the swelling of the 
ened. Sh and laid-in pa the middle of the 
tree or for next year’s fruiting — generally be suf - 
ficiently recured or 4 mepe in 4 the space allotted 
for them by small twigs | ss them, and the 
ends pushed vader te baer oot — branches. 
phos holes twisted or broken 
OUTDOOR GR NES. on walls, &c., 
will need dbedding, — tap — the best 
bunches being secured to the wall. One such lateral 
is generally sufficient to leave at a joint, rie it 
at the first leaf beyond the bunch, Stron 
near 
the — se young sh may 
when 6 feet in 8 A — syringing aflorded 
asion: on warm afternoons is of great benefit 
i If e 8 make its 
ust the affected leaves with flowers - of- 
STRAWBERRIES : „ day FRUIT, ETC.— 
es are this season very promising, the 
blossom being andes bak 1 strong, and the thin- 
CHRONICLE 
‘(May 25,1 
ning of the trusses may be ertaken ag 
good set is obtained. "Tt ia ja ua 
ade. Cut 
increase, 
RASPBERRIES: THINNING suckers, — 
aspberry-canes to about five on asti 
the strongest. If it be desired to form new 
tions another 1 preserve the best of ry 
suckers. Take o 
ce EWLY-GRAFTED FRUIT TRE 
ns are seen to be growing freely, 
oo carefully, and loosen the tying 
off all growths issuing from ** 
the scions to sticks to prevent their bg E 
by the wind 
ORCHID HOUSES. 
e w. H. ee, Orchid Grower, Burford, Dorking, 
L E ASPERATA (LOWII) is now pt 
its — spiken, sopr with the young 
and should be kept alm rated with 
into growth, and should be fas 
of Apple-wood, the ends of whic 
always moist. hem well overhe 
times every day until the flower-spikes appear. 
REMOVAL OF PLANTS FROM THEIN 
HOUSE —The following Orchids which ba 
red in the intermediate-house may 
phoranthus Dayanus, 
Schlimi, M. y oe a sod and those 
4 Wall poe 
— oy se end of 
be 11 require more 
of the same . 
bat if subjected to a high tempe 
m ol 
neh í lovely fe 
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Orchid, and the autamn- flowering 
