9epteinbep, 1913 



THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



153 



pUintinji-, of course, is intended for 

 cut llowers. 



Kour inches (4 in.) is shallow 

 cnou<^h to plant in any soil for the 

 bi'ill) to take strong- root and per- 

 mit of'sullicient space for the 

 new bulb or bulbs to forni on to^) 

 ^ of the one ])lantetl. Ry plantin<r 

 this depth and even a little deeper 

 in especially light soil, the spike 

 from the old corni to the top of 

 the ground is a help toward sup- 

 porting the mass ot llowersi which 

 .irc sure to follow proper cultiva- 

 tion and as a general; rule no 

 stakes are required except under 

 extreme conditions, such as con- 

 tinued high winds sonnetimes ac- 

 companied by driv^ing rains. 



K' — Propagation. — 



P The multiplicati'on of the same 

 variety is accomplished in two 

 ways, first, by division, the old 

 bulb producing from two to as 

 liigh as ten new bloom.ing bulbs. 

 Second, by offsets or c^rmcls which 

 are formed among the roots be- 

 tween the old bulb planted and the 

 ~ new bulb or bulbs, which form on 

 • top. A large percentage of these 

 ■ connels require two years' plant- 

 ing in order to secure blooming- 

 bulbs, and the first year may be 

 sowed in rows one inch. (i in.) 

 deep about twelve inches (12 

 in.) apart. New varieties are se- 

 cured only from seed, and there is 



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no argument which wo>ild convince 

 the modern grower that tliancc 

 seedlings (by bees, butterllies and 

 other insects) are as good as 

 those pro<luced by hand hyl)ri(liza- 

 tion, especially when hybridi/.ed by 

 one whose experience and know- 

 ledge of the habits and constitu- 

 tion of the parent plants as well 

 as the proper methods to secure 

 colour results, has taug-ht him 

 when and how to make such 

 crosses. Sports now and then, ap- 

 pear in my fields, but so far, I 

 have been unable to establish and 

 reproduce them. 



— Decorative Value io£ the — 

 Gladiol|Us. — 



With its new forms and coloring- 

 there is no decoration for which 

 it is not eminently adapted and 

 the absence of perfume as well as 

 the odour from decomposition, 

 which takes place with many 

 other llowers, place it in the lead 

 for table decoration. Beautiful and 

 artistic designs can be made with 

 tlie individual llowers while the 

 spikes can be arranged with green 

 foliage in sprays, and other forms 

 lasting^ moich better than iroses, 

 carnations, in fact, any other 

 Jlower, which by reason of such 

 use must remain some time with- 

 out water. 



♦ • 



English Names for Plants. 



A recent writer on the suibject of 

 flower names, deplores, says The 

 Gardener, the growing habit . of 

 calling old- favourites by their bo- 

 tanical eqi'.iivalents, and expresses 

 a hope that " the day will come 

 when we shall free ourselves from 

 the tyranny of hideous names." 

 The qj vestion arises, how are we to 

 gain such freedom ? It is certain- 

 ly true that we may nowadays 

 hear an old cottage dame proudly 

 declare, as she points to her fine 

 Snapdragons, We calls 'em Aunt 

 Trynums now." And as we look 

 into the kindly wrinkled face -we 

 think — sadly enough, perhaps — 

 that surely '"the old order chang- 

 eth." Nevertheless, the problem 

 of garden names, simple and, suit- 

 able for our garden plants, is not 

 readily solved. There is little fear 

 that the hallowed names of Mary- 

 gold and Honesty, Forget-me-not, 

 and Heart' s-ease. Columbine, and 

 the rest which are woven, into the 

 warp and woof of our current Eng- 

 lish tongue and literature, will 

 ever die out in good earnest. 



But what of the multitudes of 

 new plants, unknown to our fore- 



fathers, with which we are en- 

 riched to-day. There is scarcely 

 a garden, howe>cr small, which 

 does not contain some llowering 

 shrub or herbaceous perennial for 

 which no ICnglish name can be 

 found, which is not as yet recog- 

 nised, in fact, as a naturalised 

 British subject. Many attempts 

 have been made during the last 

 thirty years to coin new ICnglish 

 names to lit some of these desir- 

 able aliens whom we wish to wel- 

 come and to domicile, but it has 

 been more or less so far a failure. 

 There is no real objection to such 

 modern names as E'oairj Flower or 

 Plantain Lily, but they have not 

 taken root in our e^ery-day speech 

 as freely as in our gardens ; and, 

 when we have to characterise the 

 different kinds of Plantain Lily, 

 we have no choice but to fall back 

 upon a scientiiic nomenclature. 



Possibly we might have taken 

 more pains to enquire alter the 

 local names of imported pfants, so 

 that both root and name might 

 have been translated together. 

 Local names are generally signifij 

 cant and sometimes pleasing. \'et 

 other-landers have not jalways been 

 entirely happy in their choice of 

 flower names. Take, for example, 

 the Rose des Alpes. Have we never, 

 in former days, met, tourists in the 

 S-wiss mountains with hands full 

 of the little Rhododendron so' 

 named, while they sought in vain 

 for the alpme Rose which thev ex- 

 pected to find. Of course, we are 

 all too clever now to make such 

 a mistake, but it may serve as an 

 instance of the uselessness of a 

 vernacular name which applies to 

 two totally distinct plants. , In our 

 own language it is still a moot 

 point whether the old name of 

 Gilly-flower belonged formerly to 

 Stock or Carnation. The weight 

 of evidence rests probably with 

 the, latter, yet that the ,name was 

 indiscriminately used may be fair- 



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