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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
f May i:, 1888. 
5^, GJ, 7 and 8-inch pots ; in double pots—viz., 7-iuch plunged in 
additional material; in 8-inch pots ; in the top spit of a fine clay pasture ; 
in ordinary soil ; in a fine clay pasture, top spit decayed, and one-third 
cow manure added ; with and without liquid manure made of horse 
dung, and a small quantity of soot weak twice per week, with plain 
weak guano water. Two hundred two-year-old plants were tried with 
a like result. They have good heat, G0° to 70°, and abundant moisture, 
three to four times a day, are near the glass, quite close to it, in a 
special Strawberry house. 
The runners are not taken from barren plants, but from fruiting 
plants, sometimes raised in 5-inch and sometimes 6-inch pots ; they have 
plenty of sun and air (3-feet alleys), and are repotted. Kunners are 
taken sometimes from two-year-old plantations, and at other times from 
four-year-old plantations. We cannot discover the cause of the failure. i 
well as to many other’s that possess sufficient merit to insure them a 
permanent place in gardens. When trained to the roof of a greenhouse 
or conservatory, and bearing its long pendulous dense racemes of bril¬ 
liant blue flowers, the beauty of this charming Leguminous plant can 
be fully appreciated, especially if it be associated with climbers bearing 
lighter or distinctly coloured flowers, as the contrast shows it to better 
ailvantage. If planted in a border the soil must be specially prepared, 
a compost of peat, light turfy loam, and sand being suitable, providing 
good drainage, whether it be grown in a pot or border, as, like many of 
its relatives, it cannot endure stagnant moisture about the roots. Some 
care, too, is needed to keep the pl.ant free from insects, particularly 
Fig. 52.—IIAUDEXBEFvGIA CdMI’TONIANA. 
Can any of your readers suggest a probable cause and remedy ? Seven 
ne.xt years ago we had magnificent crops, but the same man failed the 
two succeeding years, and all trials by others since are failures.—T. J. 
[We sh.all be glad if our Strawlxjrry-forcing readers will state their 
views on this casein compliance with the desire of our correspondent.] 
HARDENBERGIA COMPTONIANA. 
For many years this plant was generally known as Kennedj’a 
Comptoniana ; in some gardens or nurseries it still bears the same 
designation ; occasionally, too, it may be seen under the generic title 
Glycine, but that given above is the one now adopted by most botanists, 
and is gradually supplanting the others. It matters little, however, in 
a horticultural point of view what name a plant bears. “ A Rose by any 
other name would smell as sweet ’’ is a truism which applies to this as 
mealy bug, which has a great liking for it. Little pruning is requisite, 
excei)t to remove the old bare or weakly shoots. 
The flowers, though small, are borne in such dense racemes that their 
size individually is scarcely noticeable. The petals, keel, and standard 
ai’e bright rich blue, the last-mentioned portion of the flower having a 
ring of white at the base, which renders by contrast the blue colour even 
more intense. The racemes vary from 4 to 6 or 8 inches long, but they 
do not often reach the largest size, except in old established plants, and 
young specimens are sometimes rather shy in flowering. 
Hardenbergia Comptoniana is a native of Australia, and was intro¬ 
duced to this country early in the present century. The woodcut 
(fig. 52) represents a spray from an established plant, and well shows 
the chief characters both of flowers and foliage. 
