THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



January 4, 1908. 



THE EUCOMISES. undulatifolia is no, to be despised, as it's 



The great natural order of the Liliacea? m argins. ^ " '^^A M^oth^-r. ^ ^-n'l Iv :^»iarylh\lt 



i broadly grouped ® ne more point about tin- ctieoim.ses may 



iura , w« are struck with ^^dZ- 0 tlu" 'o' Vine 'II' u truT 



t surprise at the differences which exist V, , nlVVt u'le <.t "iall t! V or V!l, V,, suV 



a great number or varieties oe useu. A v;ithill tlu> ordoi . There are feu, who. „„.,. w | 1( ,„ tll ,. v an , , n |,| (1()m . Bees do Qol 



better practice is to sow sufficient succes- looking nt the spike8 0 f the eucomises, appear to be attracted by it in the least, 



Si °ov a ed Cr onL Tal^ mP roweI-s give V the would ima S ine these to be classed Wlth the T ' 1<>S ° mc ™ i&ea are ^^mmena dh" 



Fongest suppTy of pods, fnd the pods should Liliace*, for, assuredly, they are far re- ^""ov ™ l^Zl^Z°q^oL 



nnt onlv become unfit for the table but as we look more closely at them, we realise ^^^.fl „i L.KIi.l,^ ..... ,1 



1 than they, and we s 



0 \^S^ n d j t r i :icet„f 8 S " t pp. y of ructure the afflo.v wMc 



= SS^/ra?^^ SEEDING OF ROOT CROPS. 



siucessional sowings of the following tall mainly to advance the claims of the genus , unfavourable to 

 n,,r1 B vi* William the First Gradus to a sttll greater recognition at the hands past , u. U u 5 

 liiJL?™^ P^stige MaTn of the grower of flower? who cares for other many garden crops, has not on the whole 

 Crop, The Gladstone, and Autocrat. The things besides gay colouring and great been especially so to vegetables, a fact that 

 .■allies, crops of William the First and masses of bloom with little individual char- has of late been amply demonstrated in 

 (iradu.N were sown under glass, and sub- acter. . . the excellent produce staged at exhibitions, 

 ...quentlv planted out. Owing to the cold I can hardly imagine that there is anyone Qn the other it ig seldom that 

 nature of our soil and our low situation with sufficient temerity to venture to urge h wasto <>f niato rial from seeding, or 

 we .sow a hardv variety, viz., William the t lie < hums ot t he eucom ,s to the suffrages . ■ generallv termed, -bolting;' 

 First for the first crop, though it may not of the gardener because of its colour, for occurred J hag b * en th , < . ast . r | lls v ,,„, 

 always he necessary to use i, in the dining- the blooms are not even pure white, and , and normally grown crops su>- 

 T. Coomber. tlie fascination of the plant lies rather in fefed bufc but th *J rahed earlj> m 

 The Hendre Gardens. 1 s s1 "-" 11 1 !" heat, and planted out in May, with the 

 " 1 , b, " 0, V s :." , -''''r ' ■ object in view of having fine produce from 



■cau.se of their tendency 

 is is often ascribed 



'however, can scarcely 



ng principally 



rs. as parsley, 

 ed out in due co 



