September 7, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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tiful arrangement of its small but broadly-rounded 
florets. The five last named were shown by Messrs. 
Keynes, Williams, & Co., Salisbury, and all received 
Awards of Merit. 
New Gladioli. 
Duchess of Fife. —Judging from the vigour of the 
stems and the number of flowers, this is evidently a 
strong-growing variety. Nine fully-opened flowers 
and sixteen buds were all borne on one stem of a 
specimen exhibited at the meeting of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society on the 27th ult. The flowers were of 
large size, of a beautiful pink colour striped with 
carmine and rose, and suffused with pale yellow on the 
two lower segments of the inner series. 
Vulso. —The flowers in this case are also large, and 
of a deep salmon hue tinted with a deeper shade of red, 
with white midribs to the segments, and suffused with 
rose and while on two of the lower ones. Twelve 
flowers were expanded, and there were about eight 
more still to open on the same spike. Both were 
shown by Messrs. Ivelway & Son, and each received an 
Award of Merit. 
of magnificent blooms, such as once seen can hardly be for¬ 
gotten. Many growers keep their plants too long before 
renewing the stock with young ones, but Mr. Jennings is 
not one of them. He pins his faith to a renewal every 
year, and is abundantly rewarded for so doing in the 
even character of the stock, the greater strength and 
robustness of the plants, and their more bountiful 
supply of first-quality blooms. The plants are layered 
early in July, by plunging the pots in a mixture of 
loam, peat and sand in a cold frame and layering 
directly into it. The lights are kept off during fine 
weather, but put on immediately wet comes, as this is 
specially inimical to the free rooting of this particular 
variety. The compost in which they are grown in pots 
is made up of two-thirds of sound, yellow loam, and 
the other third of peat and sand with a dash of soot. 
The first potting into 60’s takes place in August, and 
the final into 32’s, 24’s and 16’s, according to the 
strength of the plants. They are left in the cold, airy 
pits all the wiuter, the lights being put on in the 
autumn, and are not removed into the flowering house 
until April. In this way they are kept in robust 
health, and a superbly even batch of plants is the result. 
twisted and tied into all sorts of ugly, fantastical, and 
unnatural shapes so as to restrain their vigour and 
keep them within available limits. These trees are all 
very well in large gardens, where they can be placed 
sufficiently far away from dwelling houses, and be 
allowed to assume their natural forms, which are 
always the most pleasing to an educated eye and refined 
taste. 
Dwarf Subjects for Small Areas. 
These may vary from 3 ft. to 6 ft. in height, according 
to the distance at which they are planted from windows. 
In very confined areas, few subjects are more suitable 
than Euonymus japonicus and its golden variegated 
variety. The form with the narrow white margin is 
hardly worth cultivating ; but the broad-leaved E. j. 
latifolius albus and E. j. latifolius aureus are very 
choice, though somewhat tender. The same may be 
said of Veronica Andersoni, V. Traversii, V. parviflora, 
and V. ligustrifolia ; but all of those above mentioned 
are exceedingly beautiful, and far more interesting and 
refined in appearance than the Cherry Laurels and 
Privets that are planted everywhere ad 'nauseam. 
Group of Carnation Souvenir de la Malmaison at Ascott. 
THE ROTHSCHILD CARNATION. 
“What is the Rothschild Carnation that has been so 
often mentioned during the past London season in the 
society papers This question has frequently been 
put to ourselves, as well as to numbers of London 
florists, without ever having received a very definite 
answer, because the whole of the members of the 
Rothschild family are notoriously fond of all Carnations, 
and any one variety may be dubbed a “ Rothschild ” 
by reporters of society junketings, from inability to 
recognise the particularly favoured sort. Be that, 
however, as it may, if there is one variety grown more 
largely than another by the very able body of men who 
have charge of the gardening establishments of the 
respective members of the family, it is the Souvenir de 
la Malmaison—a glorious flower in the hands of those 
who can satisfactorily manage it, but not always done 
well by the majority of gardeners. 
At Ascott, the seat of Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, 
“ the Malmaison ” is superbly grown by Mr. Jennings, 
and there, at all events, it is the “Rothschild Carna¬ 
tion ”—the most favoured of all. A span-roofed house, 
50 ft. long, is devoted to it when in flower, and 
during the months of May and June contains a wealth 
SHRUBS AND TREES POR 
VILLA GARDENS. 
By the use of various deciduous trees and shrubs with 
ornamental foliage a fine effect can be produced even 
where the space is limited. Very bad taste, however, 
often prevails, or rather the want of knowledge con¬ 
cerning the habit and size to which various trees will 
grow, as for instance when Araucarias, Sequoias, 
Limes, Planes and Sycamores are planted in front 
gardens, as may be seen but too frequently where there 
is only a few square yards at disposal, and that, too, 
right in front of the windows. In a few years the 
owners must cut them down or sit in comparative dark¬ 
ness indoors ; or perhaps the trees belong to a landlord 
who will not grant the tenant permission to cut them 
down when they are not only obstructing the light, 
rendering the houses dark, but injuring the health of 
the inmates by hindering a free passage of air, and so 
rendering the atmosphere close and stifling. Another 
fact frequently to be noticed is the planting of Limes, 
Poplars, Elms, and similar tall trees, and when they 
reach what is considered the limit necessary to screen 
the house and garden from the public highway so as to 
secure privacy, then the trees are beheaded, lopped, 
Should a dwarf subject other than Box be required for 
edging purposes, Euonymus radicans variegatus would 
be found exceedingly useful, ornamental, and amenable 
to close pruning or clipping. 
Amongst deciduous shrubs, Rhus typhinus and R. 
glabra laciniata, with long, feathery-looking, pinnated 
leaves, are undoubtedly handsome, but far too little 
used. The leaflets of the last mentioned are deeply 
divided a second time into long narrow segments. 
The leaves of R. typhinus under suitable conditions 
attain a height of 18 ins. to 30 ins., when their 
plumose appearance and sub-tropical effect are certainly 
wonderful for our capricious climate. The best leaves 
are, moreover, produced on plants that are hard pruned 
back annually in the winter time. This has the effect 
of keeping it as a dwarf bush that can be accommodated 
in gardens of limited extent. Under ordinary circum¬ 
stances it would soon form a bush of 6 ft. or 8 ft. high, 
or in the case of old and tolerably well-grown specimens 
it forms a small tree of some considerable height. 
Notwithstanding this, it can be grown as described in 
villa gardens, and be much appreciated. 
A large number of Japan Maples—chiefly varieties 
of Acer palmatum—are very handsome, dwarf, and 
