Juse S. 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
719 
he can give when 4 is free from his ordinary a 
usands such up and down the 
country, and they — & great impetus to gardening. 
ome of these amateur gardeners 
t 
m sell their surplus stock, an 
they advertise — n th 
evo erance of 
In doing this — come perilously near to being 
traders [they — traders. ED]; and the latter 
make complain this — on the part 
those who class A sth as bond 
n some par 
Society, whose definition of an 
been ad 
Chrysanthemum 
years, but — of circumstances ue compelled 
them to resor pations, They each have 
a little sdk bin and thas by our rales they 
cannot be cottagers.” While a gardener, one of the 
eners with a 
fo ng u com wi 
fair amount of success; the as d man to 
an exhibitor wh ew eo well that he 1 
carried all fi him at w, Is 
thought that their N and skill should 
wh 
still place them the 
are gardeners, ay ot among amateurs, 
Here I join issue, I think the two indi- 
ggj mentioned can tas in ast claim 
to classed 
were ee gardeners, 
hood, but they no get their li 
way. There is no doabt bat that mach of t 
success as cultivators dent upon the fact 
that their employers furnished them with proper 
HYBRID POPPIES,—(O 1 p. 638, I observa mention 
of a ee Poppy, raised by M. V 
a perennial and 
t A and 
olien-parent P. orientale (eyn, P. bractestum It 
came originally in the of Mr 
nos Maidetone, where the same 
peat ont te dari 
years, I sina beter — gonad 
sent by him; all are uniform, but a — 
arren, They are perennial, bu 5 anes with dim. 
calty, I sent a specimen to * where it le now 
flowering in the 8 the end of the ber- 
baceous garden la F. orientale, Thie year! 
have now in flower a new race of annual 
Poppies raised 
pollen-parent is evidently P. H vokeri, which — 
resembie in stature and leaf, bat they vary much. 
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he classes for amateurs who employs naid assist- 
This precludes an amateur from publicly 23 
plante, 3 for sale; bat peta good 
classed as 
coon ii rade gr sai ee 
* been gardeners tor some 
Fio. 109.—rtan or TOWN GARDEN, (see F. 718 
8 ny growing plante successfully, and 
were e to give considerable attention to 
them ; sae at they were always among their 
a professional 
pai 7 fall — * exhibit as 
amateurs, 
8 ROSES — The pretty little Rasa 
figared at p. 633 ths Gardeners’ Chronicle 1 
ght seed of from Mr. T I „ ander 
the name of Row polyantha hybrida nana; it was 
The conditions under which they grow have 
green „it is 
They have little merit as ornamental plants, all the 
or imbric 
for P. caucasicam, or any kindred eerie though I 
self collected the plant of wens omc P; 
from a 
Serer adage 
have generally 
PLANTING VIOLAS — A 
signing baal A- D” in an article 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle of Jane 1, writes 
— Let those masses 
