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A Horticultural Show in August — The old Chelsea Physio Garden 

 — Towns out of season — Flat-hunting in London — Overcrowd- 

 ing flats — Marble better than tiles — Curtains and blinds — A 

 long note on girls and young women. 



August 9th. — For the first time in my life, I went to 

 a Horticultural Society Show at the Drill Hall, West- 

 minster, in August. The interest centered chiefly in 

 the new hardy Water Lilies which everyone with small 

 ponds or lakes ought to try and cultivate, I think. 

 There were a few new Lilies that I had never seen 

 before ; but what particularly attracted my attention 

 was an exceedingly good strain of my favorite Campan- 

 ula pyramidalis, exhibited by the Syon House gar- 

 dener, and flowered under glass. He afterwards gave 

 me an interesting account of how he cultivates them, 

 which I quote : 



'I am glad you liked the Campanulas, but I am 

 sorry they were not quite as good as some I have 

 shown in previous years, as we forced some of the 

 plants, and they do not like much heat. There is no 

 special way of cultivating the plants. Those you saw 

 were sown early in April, '97, in pans in a coldframe, 

 and pricked off end of May into boxes, potted up six 

 weeks later into forty -eight pots, singly. Up to this 

 they had been grown in a coldframe, but from July 

 till October they were stood outside on ashes, but well 

 watered. In winter we place rough boards round these, 

 or stand in coldframes. Too much moisture is worse 



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