n THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
m often attracts the eyes of a judge. Apart from Charalambos was at first inclined to pity men 
iy this, however, the old Ly chnis chalcedonica w ho ym toil in this absurd fashion when they 
m is wort y of being cultivated in any border of ould get all that was necessary to eat without 
i hardy flowers, orin if the soil is rich and it, езрес1 as h 1, when we never knew 
me the situ ation sunny " I moment we might have to leave it all 
bx IN ut when our t s came up and looked ver 
ri ALYSSUM SINUATUM. green and tempting, he be дй {о recall ‘half 
" Тнк late Мг. W. E, Gumbleton, a most acute forgotten memories of gar rdens in his own nome 
П and incisive critic of cong cae W d SIS obably land. Omne day I went round to his quarters, 
[n have designate the above plant, which were in an old Turkish chapel and found 
and, failing tha dew, ression, him ie his coat off, digging a trench in the 
would certainly "enn alled on raveyard. Не had already unearthed tne 
these being the two most contemptuous terms in 
his critical voca ulary. may, tl е 
appear needless to say anything of such a flcwer Е 
at the pres i time, when we are enjoying a 
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wander ^, еер and -allow 
Jury 19, 1919.] 
month of Ju 7 Ye are some who ould 
aen 
108 k fai rly 
Arnott 
e foot high. 
yellow tone, and, in a nas 
X ae alihough poor individually. S. 
TWO NEW CARNATIONS. 
he occasion of the British Carnation 
К «рш held at Westminster on 
May 13 last, the 
vy ps 
мє 0 and у 
rich, glowing c colour. 
LETTERS FROM SOLDIER GARDENERS. 
CHARALAMBOS' GARDE 
ÜHARALAMBOS was 
With w «uma I 
a Greek wartime Sie 
E, made amie a ae bas Кыр t we 
Б colle eagues, his job b io the 
atives of t а іп der pe = t pre- 
the 
* Tommies ” fond enterin P witnout 
dine and ег authority. : 
yw from Athens, was very well educated, 
eh; the most supreme contempt for t 
Dus Tic ways of the natives of Macedonia 
E g the winter we stu ed together and in a 
сы could converse fairly w In eac 
its de anguage. When the 1 blizzard took 
b. MA ure an e ridiculous looking long 
contem Л. t ack and began to stan 
б р Y Оп tne house roofs, fter th 
world over, b 
окей to st v 
set to work wits stay th there те indefinitely and I 
about nine or i he = о cu ти 
п of gro a ame 
I otes. One or other of us used to work 
t pells off dut: nd. w edid i 
moroughly, “trenched two aoei dawn á 
lad 1 fick, In пісе, military-loo fot 
Sprouting T. with J daws, whi lled u the 
And we > and laid them in long neat lines, 
with ere constantly on the alert to threaten 
Went 
e shepherd boys who 
ue aged charges to 
n to the unfenceg plo 
ARLET, 
ATIONS. 
ISOBEL 
Fic. 16.—NEW FI ARN 
LOWER F da ER, 
crumbling bones of iwo Turks—they bury very 
shallowly in those parts--and I wondered ‘lather 
be D got hold à ome tale of treasure buried 
35 folks а 
еп, nh m 
Ap I began w waider whether his oleh wasn * 
deal ahead of The trench, 
**Summer, plenty hot, ver 
water, I,” he explained. 
le and his comrade had really more time om 
Ns nands than we had, and in the course of 
eek the — к: 
jl: 
the 
“orig ш: the cma eac ch 
d Th 
h down the с 
side о із was divided into four beds теге 
was certainly no excuse for pese on the beds 
at any time. They had not bothered about. 
GLOWING 
COLOUR, 
TOP FLOWER, SCARLET DRAGON ; 
FELTON; COLOUR, PURE WHITE. 
trenching bear ground, but had imported plenty 
of rotten manure and are pin their faith 
on inicie. When it came to planting, I was, 
to put it mildly, flabbergast It w: ly 
possible to find any trace o a 8, 
eas, Lettuces, Cucumbers, dwarf Bea 3 
ub and Cauliflowers were a i 
together and right in the middle of all, when one 
woul. tho t it impossi squeeze 
anything further up Маш which in а few 
hich 
weeks shoots up to mmense height in that. 
country, was sown aphanta all over the beds.. 
