September 4, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Questions add ansroeRS 
*,*■Will our friends who send us newspapers be so good 
as to mark the paragraphs or articles they wish us to see. 
We shall be greatly obliged by their so doing. 
[ Correspondents, please note that we cannot undertake to 
name florists' flowers such as Carnations, Pelargoniums, 
Chrysanthemums, Roses, nor such as are mere garden 
varieties, differing only in the colour of the flower. 
Florists' flowers, as a rule, can only be named by those who 
grow collections of them.] 
Trenching Herbaceous Border.— G. Songster-, It 
would be advisable to wait till the plants have 
finished flowering, so that the stems might be cut 
down before you commence lifting them. Many of 
them have already reached that condition. Another 
and very important point to observe is to wait till 
the autumn rains have moistened the ground, because 
the plants will then lift with good balls of soil, 
After that you may commence when you like, say 
towards the end of September and during October. 
That would be the best time, as the plants would get 
more or less established before winter. We should 
not advise you to lift the whole of the plants at once, 
A better plan would be to lift a portion at one end, 
trench and manure the ground, and re-plant directly. 
Then you may lift another portion, and soon till you 
complete the whole. 
Propagating Rosa rugosa.— A. Walters'. The 
species and its varieties may, of course, be propa¬ 
gated by budding in the usual way. You can more 
rapidly get up a stock by collecting the large heps, 
rubbing out the seeds and sowing them at once in a 
cold frame in soil, or you may sow them in boxes in 
cold frames. Then, if you cared to, you could put 
the boxes in heat in spring, thereby securing more 
rapid germination. 
Yine leaves changing colour —IF. J., G. : We 
have examined the leaves you sent us, and think 
there is no cause whatever for alarm. We are of 
opinion that the leaves on the main stems of the 
young Vines have fulfilled their functions and are 
changing colour previous to falling. There is cer¬ 
tainly no fungus in or upon them ; and if anything is 
materially wrong with them, it is the roots, and we 
can hardly imagine that to be the case with Vines 
planted last May. The treatment you are giving 
them now is perfectly correct; but we are of opinion 
that during the growing period you kept the vinery 
rather close, with the object of encouraging and 
hastening rapid growth. The result of that has pro¬ 
duced the small green warts to be seen all over the 
under surface. The warts are not altogether the 
cause of the leaves falling, but the close atmosphere 
has made them rather thin in tissue, though other¬ 
wise well developed. The abundance of air you have 
lately been giving them, and the cooler atmosphere 
outside is causing them to ripen or mature early.' 
They seemed to us to belong chiefly to the variety 
Gros Colman, which often becomes coloured in this 
way before other kinds. Another year you should 
let the atmosphere of the house get dry once in 
every twenty-four hours, say about mid-day, to 
harden the tissues. 
Everlasting Peas.—J. W. : The best way to in¬ 
crease this plant is by seeds. It is the only practical 
method to pursue, for the plant divides very badly 
owing to tbe great depth to which the roots pene¬ 
trate, and the difficulty of separating crowns with 
good fibrous roots attached. Sow the seeds as soon 
as they are ripe, in boxes which may be placed in a 
cold frame. The seedlings seldom flower the first 
year, at least when sown in the open ground, but 
they will the second year. 
Drying Everlastings.— H. M.: The process is 
very simple indeed. Select a dry day for gathering 
the flowers ; cut them with long stalks, and remove 
most or all of the leaves, particularly of such things 
as Helichrysums. All the different kinds should be 
gathered when in their most ornamental state, that 
is, neither too young, nor too expanded by old age. 
Tie them in bunches of moderate size, and hang 
them up in some shed or other convenient place 
where the sun cannot shine directly upon them, 
and where rain cannot wet them. They should 
be hung up so that the heads hang straight 
down. In this position the stems will not 
not get bent and twisted while the drying process is 
taking place. They may remain here till perfectly 
dry. Grasses may be treated in the same way, but 
we are afraid most or all of them are too old by this 
time to keep. When they lose their green colour 
they are practically useless for drying, and would 
gradually crumble to pieces. They should be cut 
when in flower or soon after. 
Names of Fruits.— D. E. : Apples : i, a worthless 
seedling not better than a Crab ; 2, Red Astrachan. 
Names of Plants. —A iveekly reader-. 1, Browallia 
speciosa major; ?, Tradescantia virginica alba; 
3, Tradescantia virginica ; 4, Herniaria glabra.— 
E. R. : 1, Heracleum Sphondylium ; 2, Centaurea 
nigra; 3, Senecio Jacobaea; 4, Chaerophyllum 
sylvestre.— G. C. : EscalloDia macrantha, a native of 
Chiloe.— J. S. : Ornithogalum longebracteatum.— 
F. Brewer: The stove flower is Schubertia grandi- 
flora ; the hardy shrub is Rhus Cotinus.— R. G. : 1, 
Cornus alba; 2, Coronilla Emerus; 3, Jasminum 
revolutum ; 4, Spiraea Douglasii ; 5, Hibiscus 
syriacus; 6, Aristolochia sipho; 7, Spiraea salici- 
folia — W. S. : 1, Impatiens fulva ; 2, Aster diffusus, 
not a native — R. T. : 1, Pelargonium Radula; 2, P. 
tomentosum ,3, P. denticulatum ; 4, Oxalis floribunda. 
— W. F. : 1, Pteris scaberula; 2, Nephrodium 
decompositum glabellum ; 3, Asplenium flaccidum ; 
4, Asplenium Filix-foemina var. ; 5, Onoclea sensi- 
bilis. 
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Veitch & Son.—R. D. — Uriah Heep.—M. F.—J. R. 
Johns.—W. — Anxious. — O. A.—F. N. O.—Chas. 
Osmond.—Geo. W. 
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