2) 
omnim 1; mel. 
houses and frames in which the summer 
bedding plants were nursed, were devoted 
her - 
to Tomatos is ger any need 
for economies of this kind. No doubt when 
the flower beds are remade it will be pos- 
sible to improve on the old plan, but there 
should be provision for dis 
as i re-war times. e proposal t 
in fr o 
dic er; six feet would not 
The Dutch Gar den certainly does re- 
I 
quire attention. It has ceased to be 
" Dutch," owi 4 pepe and gener- 
ally worthless Pire oft pees of 
shrubs and small tr which occupy the 
beds. In our жы кин ‘this garden А Жу 
һе d to wha ended to be. 
suc er ee 
ca 
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99 
plann ning and restoring of gardens, Mice raised a hybrid between a Dipladenia and an 
advise, not only with — to thi Allamanda and called it Dipladenia Harrisii 
“Wild P. t ad Severa the name would have stood, and we should 
oe alterations con ттеу The all have been satisfied that plant was a 
fice of Works „would alla public fears 
by consulting him. 
the 
pens rmi ne of the best qualities pe m" 
era. Possibly боа, аа е 
cross m Brit sh G on 
Rai he nited тете іп 1918.— 
Under the Defence м. ‘the 
Coloured Plate.—When чойо соса were Realm Act was an 
as interesting to gardeners as New Zealand Оет to publish observations or records of the 
Veronicas and Chinese Pind es now, weather in the United Kingdon 1918, conse 
Dipladenias were among the élite. Difficult to quently mz interesting d: regarding rainfall 
manage thougl hey were, ambitious gardeners and sunshine were, perforce, excluded from the 
grew  Dipladen and xhibited them as pages of The Gardeners’ Chronicle. Now tha 
balloon-trained specimens among their col- prohibition in this connection has been removed 
lectio Í six, or re or twenty-four stove we give the following € veather records 
ants in flower. There very lew gardens sent by readers. ‘he t аш rainfall in Stracan 
in which D. кой тайны D. amabilis and House ans, Kildare, was 53.50 inches; there 
vbrida, all, be it noted, hybrids of artificial were 199 days, and "the greatest fall in 
origin| are known, much less m to-day 24 hours— x. ali inc Ended on September 15. 
One s ecies which was greatly favoured wa At Eglinton Castle Gardens, Ay eigenes з, there 
D. Harrisii, “most appropriately named in were 190 wet days, an otal rainfall of 
honour of Lord V bep the late able Govern pos p es, the greatest fall in one i being 
of Trinidad," as Sir ушн Hooker state 1.4 h, on January 19. The record at Green- 
when descr = the plant he Botanical ЫШ Чой. Warminster, was 140 wet days, а 
Magazine g P (t. 4825), Мо. Veitch having total fall of 37.52 inches, and the greatest fall, 
introduced from Trinidad and flowered it 1.48, on September 29; on January 
=. 1.24 іпећ 
Ето. 37.—HAMPION COURT, MIDDLESEX, SHOWING THE LONG HERBACEOUS BORDER AND 
Rosmarinus, Cotoneaster, Daphne, Euony- 
mus, Skimmia, тысы us and others.. Бас 
bed shoul nly catty “hits Tat 
shrub, kept fairy uniform in height 
me » Paeonies and Daffodils could be 
otted planted am. the shrubs. The 
Tass paths should be widened cs - 
tion and not alte pier to which vex 
publie have a rj ight to obje 
c ith reg d to the re Susa cer 
айыы, what is called the Widen 
ic 
mp ide of this 
atew iade 
Wc ту of Has чы зану ee ane uld be m 
: wonder ze Mr. т Н. Mawson, 
who] has had such great experience in the 
for the first time in Euro rope 
this plant 
a native 
in September, 
s 
All 
much іп common. „Our plate was йен» 
Мт. NA from a plant at K 
grows mpantly апі flowers 
summe E in a tropical house, 
hanging from pillars and wires, 
some rich green leaves, some of 
more long, prone a good foil to the dus wers. 
hie lan handsome,  íragran full, 
glossy dew E he tube tinged extern ally with 
red, and streaked ара. blo lotched inside w ith 
th 
four inches across. hee ‘bos Veitch had 
DECORATIVE BEDS. 
(Photograph by E. J. Wallis. 
War Memorial.—At 
inhabitants of Markinch, 
3h question 
mem was announced by Кон Dixo xon 
who omit. that it was "his intention to 
present a public park to the burgh. 
ar 
recent meeting 
Fifeshire e cons idee 
