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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[ОксЕмвкв 14, 1895, 
botanists, and a specimen kindly forwarded from 
Fota by Mr. Osborne as P. Devoniana, is cle 
not distinguishable from Montezamse, г. Osborne 
describes the tree very beautiful, bát with а 
tendency to spread instead of keeping а straight 
trunk, 
THE BULB GARDEN. 
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TIGER LILIES, 
URING the early autumn months the varieties of 
the Tiger Lily, L. tigrinum, afford a rich and dis 
en au 
va in a series of beds, sho 
some beds of these kinds, cannot do better than see 
to their planting without any further delay. The 
type, as indeed the several varieties of the group, are 
good dept ere very h and retentive 
soils are the beat way will be to remove 
original soi or 9 inches in depth, and return 
hes potting soil, peat-screenings, half-decayed leaves, 
ad-sweepings, in its place. And 
if the garden generally be low or wet, keep the sur- 
face of the beds a little above the usual level, 
When the soil is ready, the bulbs may be planted 
at about 5 inches or 6 inches deep; and if sand is 
plentiful, a good шшк may be added about the 
bulbs рол soil pre in the way suggested, 
; but if any 
[eg be thoroughly decomposed, and either 
dug in deeply below the bulbs, or used as a mulch on 
the surface after planting. L. tigrinum (type), L. t. 
splendens (a most handsome kind), and L. tigrinum 
flore-pleno, are all worthy, and among the cheapest 
of Lilies for the garden, J. 
SrARAXIS AND Jx1a, 
the above си bulbous plants 
grown i for all who 
I am surprised 
plants 
in capital style, he got together a ^ be mes 
the gracefal panicles or clusters of flow gin 
colour from brilliant crimson to all vun of а-а 
, Tose, cream, &c., which presented a beautiful 
кз, апа the 
for a bed of Ixias or or Sparaxis should facethe south, 
— subsoil should be dry, or be provided with drain- 
erials, such as brick-bats, laid all over the 
me ione of the bed; the soil should consist of rich 
Е not less than 1 foot. The bee may 
planted in rows or clumps, from 2 t inches 
po = may lace, may 
remain in the frame, As the plants advance in 
growth, air must be freely admitted, or the the gro 
will be weakly and poor; and liquid-manure may be 
used after the flower-spikes have made their appear- 
ance, In the month of May or later, when the leaves 
die down, turn them out of the soil, clean the bulbs 
апа place them in boxes or drawers until wanted the 
next October, Edw, Bennett, Lyne, Chertsey, 
SraNisH Iris, 
All Irises are beautiful, some of them being sur- 
Nina lovely, and fully jastifying their generic 
na 
Iris. сы аге во 
are, too, adm y adapted for catting purposes, 
The flowers are * pari icularly bright and gay 
colour, are pen n long stalks, and, while * 
well, ** а long time in water. 
in blo om—about t he end of May or beginning Т 
” plan 
and when grown in a a ‘rather rich bod, well suivi 
with old, rotted cow-dung, it is astonishing the 
a of bloom they will produce, Considering 
e low price at which Spanish Irie, either in 
наа varieties ог іп mixture, are offered іп the 
bulb catalogues, I am surprised they are not more 
planted in the flower-beds or in flower-borders, As 
bloom is avoided. The present is a good time to 
plant them. I like to see them in a bed by them- 
selves, planted tose учня for they do not take up 
uch room ; е algo seen fine effects where 
a ee of Sllene e compacta was put over 
aud as they all bloomed at the same time, the effect 
was very beautiful, 4. Н, 
FLOWERS, 
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THE HOLLYHOCK, 
Е been much interested reading the remarks 
on the "Hollyhock by “К, D., 
that the 
FLORISTS. 
has not been conspicuous, I can manage to get rid 
of the Carnation disease, and to keep it away by 
isolating the Carnations, and placing every new one 
I obtain into quarantine ; and if the disease is there, 
it soon shows itself, and the divided portions are then 
loped. This is 
treatment will not do for the Hollyhock, Every leaf 
may be cut off, still the disease will show itself 
whenever the first leaves appear, I tried to grow 
Hollyhocks in my new place in Surrey, and sowed 
seed, keeping away every plant from the place but 
the seedlings. They grew amazingly on the new 
ground, and I was in expectation of a fine bloom ; 
ut almost before the flower-buds were formed, the 
isease appeared, I tried the plan of removing the 
leaves affected, but 16 was of no avail; the attack 
came in 1894, and was the most virulent I ever knew, 
а т 
How did the plants get the disease? This was а 
ee for.some time, until I sive out that somé 
plants of common varieties were growing at the 
le station badly disini: the plants were at 
still the minute spores of t isease 
diseased Hollyhocks are allowed to exist at railway 
stations, it will be hopeless to attempt the culture 
of this atately plant in any garden whence pas- 
sengers are passing to and fro; for I believe that 
the minute carried on the clothes of any 
one going near diseased plants. I am not sure what 
I can do iet for the plants were so bad that I 
destroyed Ihave а smaller lot of seed- 
linge, and & — named sorts, to flower next year, but 
I despair of success. A good strain of seed is aure to 
give good varieties, as about 50 per cent, of seedling 
Hollyhocks are as good arents; and if good 
varieties are not produced, one knows well enough 
who to blame, 
s to the culture of the Hollyhock, that is simple 
enough, for even in cottage gardens the most stately 
plants are produced with little trouble; nevertheless, 
the plant is & gross feeder, and the good results 
obtained їп cottage gardens are doubtless owing to 
liberal supplies of pig-manure, It seems the hoan 
is influenced to a considerable extent by the se 
The wet season of 1894 Was favourable to the develop- 
ment of the disease, 
dry was unfavourable, the „авд having a chance to 
do better if they e well watered at the roots, and 
the leaves — im * shanties J, Douglas, 
BERLIN. 
ENGLISH VERSUS GERMAN CYCLAMENS, 
To “F, М. S" I have to reply that English 
varieties are cultivated by Mr, Schwarzburg Le in 
the same way as the German ones. AsIremarked 
in my firat letter, it may be РЕ that the treat- 
ment is different in Eagland and in Germany, It 
agland. ct is, that German varieties grown 
together with English ones, and in the same way, 
To-day I have a second proof 
Eaglish varieties was given by the Berlin Horticul- 
tural Society to another Cyclamen specialist, Mr, 
Tubbenthal, at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, who 
tested them. They were exhibited at the meeting of 
at 
warzburg has reported 
0 c 
upon the trials; "bu in order that thi is may be 
to select a 3 to test his report and the 
plants. The nage bee be pene in the Garten- 
ted th 
6 the 
English 8 Mio vere mu А surpassed the 
erman ones about fifteen or twenty years ago; but 
since that time the German ones have progressed so 
far, after they introduced English Cyclamen blood 
into their cultivation, that they surpass the Englisb, 
as is now shown by the plants exhibited. 16 was 
remarked during the discussion that several of the 
varieties which were brought to Germany f fifteen er 
twenty y years ago 
blood, were quite the same as were cultivated this 
year from English seeds. Another remark 2o interest 
is, that German € who grow arieties 
give no new names to these sorts, but аиа and 
improve them yearly dy selecting the very best speci- 
days the meeti ing of the London Royal Horticultural 
Society is held, it 
to the meeting some of our best German varieties, as 
also plants of English T grown here ther 
n the society could see 
for itself whether the English varieties are beat here, 
and whether the German ones surpass English ones 
ive country. Оп ii other hand, 
est to German specialista if 
plants. I beg 
clamen are who take an interest 
to me some of iier beat- 
rema 
that Mr. Schwarzburg is not a seed-merchant ; that 
he raises сп!у as many seeds as he needs for his own 
cultivation, so that he cannot give seeds to those who 
have asked for them, but that Mr. Tubbenthal is 
willing to supply seeds, as he also grows the plants for 
seeds. 
