SEPTEMBER 20, 1919. ] 
‘Gardeners’ Chronicle 
No. 1708.—SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1919. 
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Board of Agriculture, 
3 Welsh office of the ... 
Books Enos of :— Poplar leaves 
The ‘Kitchen Garden 151 Potato, sporting i in 
E шатаў memoranda = lie ymen as sits 
se Epis o a 1° 
151| eA чке 
|Plants, new or noteworthy 
154 Aconitum Hemsleyanum 150 
157 
T 
3 Sowing | woe К 
Fa rops d penden nee Day ib 
E ‘the ee 160 e the Ёа м 157 
h 115 small holdi 154 
с. „9 
5; 
е and District 
. 159 
ltural Éduca- 
cee a 158 
Cc 
i tes 4% 
gleanings :— E 
Cattleys Picturata we 149 
E stock! the doubling of the а 
4 gero virgo.. 149| Sugar Beet, British 
_ Orchid pe Warn- Grown 15 
ham Cou 150|3weet Peas, trial of 
gar in 1920 
<æ 154 
S. 151|Week’s wore ihe 152, 153 
USTRATIONS 
Aconitum Bossier ai vee 150 
А слее uloide. 152 
Portraits ssrs H. R, Таан; E J. "Нора, 
E of M 
|. Courtney eic and the b ГА Puge- -kóberts 155 
151 
Rose Iuucpendeuce Dry 
ROSE HEDGES. 
e sc? a Rose garden or 
eed any kind of a garden, 
F would do well to consider the 
propriety of Ghendwihe one or mor 
hedges of Roses. hedges lend 
great variety of treatment 
to the varieties selected an 
e they inten to fulfil, 
y fr low dividing lines 
or 2 feet high to tall fences 
eet to 8 feet T 
К у site may be or a Rose 
1 ра л Ж not actually “under tall 
_ trees. et -— open lies the better 
- for Ss of the des. but it i > very 
impor КА а it should never be n 
aimlessly or the plants dumped vim just 
or the sake of making a hedge and 
latter is intended v us 
1 he may be employed a scree 
. to shut out some unsightly per 
_ Ог to form a background for some parti 
cular | of plants, o 
. arrangement, or to fence in some pa 
the garden, as the Rose garden, or divide 
опе part of the garden fro — r 
again, with the dwarf fences, produce 
Some rather formal digo t, but. d = 
the position chose en should 
. definite and the varieties selected to ake 
the hedge be chosen accord with x 
The matter of soil е7 also ди be given 
P e tte: 
. Some consideration. While some Roses, 
. Such as many rambling or E 
es, the rugosas and the Scotch 
Medium if even 
: эб мч Ине qe 
{Sults are to be е y 
tag 
inks), Hiawatha, Excelsa, an 
т. ris Gardenia, E. d 
THE GARDENERS’ 
old (yellows), Sander's White, or W - 
Dorosins Pere Ist of the ramblers, the bes 
urp Rambler 
for the ose are Blus E Tea 
Rambler, Ug American Pillar. 
These, or Is them, will make a good 
hedge from 4 to 8 or 9 9 ft. к high, во that 
they may be ed s either 
dividing hedges at E 
on hurdles 
of Ше. ie dos MS the height 
t6 train the plan m 
ise, UN ooden sheep hurdles are even 
better, provided a rot-proof standard is 
inse pos between each to which the sagen 
are tied. A good standard may 
from an Er piece of gas pipe Рен 
into а 4-in. drain pipe to give it a solid 
foundation. 
Of the rie oses I have named, Coronation, 
though nct a specially ed fovet 
looks very bright in arden 
Evangeline >= т г included i if posible 
on account А} deliciou 
rts to is еп. p Pres 
TE paben] Homeri "Roses are 
sired, the following may be employed 
trained against hurdles as above 
scribed :—Alister Stella Gray, Mm 
Alfre : „е Lima Schmidt- Michel, 
А. ontier, Reine Olga de Wur- 
temburg or Papillon. For Roses of this 
kind it is best to aim at агыт from 5 to 
T6 i n height. For rather lowe 
hedge, Moonlight, iphirine bu 
or Trier may be e 
All sc Mense Ros uire care- 
е es req 
ful паа рө peer d annually, if 
ü good арс s to be p ced. 
lf.at узе red to a a Rose h 
without ni? ет support, resort 
be had to es of a different character. 
i ose hed; or 
m. 
E a with T rg 
oe y, single flowers, and a ay equally r 
and much longer in bloom is Stan- 
etual,with чо lush. "doni 
‘which are ted. 
eg Pere 
ШЫ for its Swe 
plants may 6 
apart, and, if РПУ ord 2 x 
These 
ill soon e a thick fence 
are by no means particular 
For low, thick hedge, the „о 
Roses are very useful. he 
obtained in various colours ja M nr 
yellow and pink, and will do well in the 
poorest of soi 
Last, but perhaps most 
impor rtant, 
te should 
can be obtain mene: 
but I do mot like it so di as the ordinary 
form uniess the circumstances make 
dwarf hedge essential. 
Taller again are the Penzance Bria 
The foliage is quite акыш, se they 
have the advantage of much bette эы 
larger flowers. е зза 
Briars may, with a little trouble, фе 
grown without support, but the plants 
u ily mana; if p 
They readily lend themselves to consider- 
CHRONICLE. 
149 
able differences i In treatment a 
iam to 4 ft. or : 
nd ша; 
The ` 
zance enzance, are not so 
strong in growth as the pink and crimson 
forms. 
When the hedge is used as a boundary 
for the Rose garden, it is very important 
to see that 44 is not pl too n the 
beds and borde a Roses, par- 
ticularly if strong-growi varleties are 
planted, and this is particularly objec 
tionable if the hedge is on the south or 
outh-west of the 2s Not only 
do these strong-growing varieties extend 
their roots in ric 1 
rden varieties. Nevertheless, it is a 
rather common fault to plant it too near. 
The plants perhaps look small when they 
e frequently 
by amateurs than toten ӨЙ, node 
is that of allowing e shoots to become too 
ense and sometim A much 
more graceful pae 
es. 
е distance apart at which the plants 
o be ged must ao Сее with 
the height of the proposed he In the 
case of hu peek, if 
the height i is to be kep ue 5 ft. each 
plant, when well catablished, at pu 
cover a couple of hurdles, “sped may be 
placed mear the junction Ж» у two o 
on the асам. aK p dge 
bras Lt, 
ended to attain a greater ru the 
individual plants may be p n at on 
ird of that distance. te Rose. 
ORCHID NOTES ANI AND GLEANINGS. 
ATTLEYA PICTURAT 
A escence T a Cattleya 
езет with С. ermedia, but ыз ds 
arci a а natural hybrid be tween that spec: 
and С. guttata, is sent by J. Ido, 
mib 
and ls pale 
sparsely анса sme ТАП, 
ots inher ited rom C. guttata, the 
hae of the lip being blush-white and the front 
oa purple 
e plant was десей by Reichenbach іл 
G wey Chron. x ael 5 om a рее 
raised by Mes Jas. Weite nein SH aater 
natural hybrids and Hone sed 
the same crcss appeared, 
causi 
and ng errors 
caine i. 
м 
Gat 
pe 
hron. 
named from | an оне есітеп 
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A FLOW ER of this new cross а C. Harri- 
soniana Stanley’s variety, and С. 
encom allie is sent by Mr. John Cowan, 
Messrs. Hassall ho Co., Southgate 
i E attention to the fin 
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