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THE GARDENING WORLD 
March 12, 1898. 
Sun and shelter are of great moment, but with these 
advantages when there is an absence of good soil and 
drainage, fine quality is also absent.— M. TCanon, 
N. B." 
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DWARF FRENCH BEAN SUTTON’S 
PERFECTION. 
This new French Bean may be described as a second 
early, since it follows in the wake of Sutton’s 
Forcing. It produces enormous crops of long 
succulent pods, as may be seen by reference to the 
accompanying photograph of a plant grown in the 
open garden. The pods are of great length, and so 
plump in their development that a transverse section 
is nearly round. It is essentially a French Bean for 
the table, both on account of its marvellous cropping 
powers and continuous bearing character. The gar¬ 
rose, yellow and green of the crisped and crested 
leaves that the plants may be and have been 
employed with excellent results for the filling of 
beds in the flower garden where winter effects were 
desired. For garnishing purposes the leaves are 
everything that could be desired, and a few plants 
may well be included within the kitchen garden 
bounds to furnish material for this purpose,if for no 
other. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Aunt Kate’s Gardening Book. Published by 
the proprietors of "The People's Journal,” 
Dundee. Price id. 
Aunt Kate's Gardening Book is the sixth of a series 
of handbooks issued from the office of The People's 
Dwarf French Bean Sutton’s Perfection. 
dener can help it in this respect by removing the 
pods as soon as they become fit for use. A good 
watering before nightfall in dry weather would also 
stimulate them to fresh growth. The flavour leaves 
nothing to be desired. We are indebted Messrs. 
Sutton & Sons, Reading, for the illustration. 
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ORNAMENTAL KALES. 
All the Borecoles or Kales can boast of a distinctly 
handsome appearance when growing, and some of 
the densely curled Scotch varieties more especially. 
In the section of variegated or garnishing Kales, 
however, we get the highest development of the 
purely decorative. This may be gained to some 
extent at the expense of culinary merit, but it is 
not often that the plants are subjected to this ordeal, 
for they are much too pretty to cook. So very 
showy indeed are the different shades of purple, 
Journal for the benefit of its numerous readers all 
over Britain who may possess a garden. The hand¬ 
book is in pamphlet form, running to forty closely 
printed pages, and containing a great amount of 
information on the subject considering the amount 
of space at command and the lowness of the price, 
putting it within the compass of the poorest cottager. 
A large portion of tte book is taken up with a 
monthly calendar, each of some length, and dealing 
with the fruit garden, the cultivation of flowers, the 
greenhouse, the vegetable garden and window plants. 
Besides the mere hints as to what should be done 
during any particular part of the month, there are 
details as to how it should be done, including cul¬ 
tural operations, and the varieties or sorts of 
vegetables, etc., most likely to give satisfaction. 
The calendar is followed by cultural directions 
concerning the Chrysanthemum, and other short 
chapters on uncommon vegetables, Melon culture, 
the herbaceous border, budding and grafting, native 
Ferns, exhibiting at flower shows, and kindred 
matters concerning which amateurs are always 
desiring information. Short notes describe how the 
cultivator can best deal with a few of the more 
common insect enemies that may infest his favourites. 
Altogether a great amount of reliable information 
has been gathered together in small compass by 
a writer who is himself a professional gardener, and 
his work has been well edited by one who also has a 
good experience in gardening. We met with a few, 
though unimportant errors in orthography, particu¬ 
larly in the case of botanical names. The book 
should meet with as much favour as its predecessors 
of the series. 
A French Book on Chrysanthemums. 
Les Chrysanthemes a Grandes Fleurs. Choix des 
Meilleures Varietes et Nouveautes Francaists et 
Etrangeres du Nord, Bailleul (Nord), France. 
Prix o 6oc. (6d.) 
The book runs to 120 pages, and devotes the most of 
of its space, as the sub-title shows, to a descriptive 
list of a selection of the best varieties in commerce, 
to French and foreign novelties. The older varieties 
are mostly well known in this country, indeed, many 
of them have been raised here, or in America. 
M. Anatole Cordonnier gives a list of his own novel¬ 
ties, followed by lists of new varieties of Chrysan¬ 
themums raised by M. Bonnefous, M. de Reydellet, 
M. Heraud, M. Lacroix, Louis de Lautar de Laber- 
nose, M. Nonin, ivl. Molin, M. Delaux, M. Calvat, 
and others whose names are mostly well known in 
this country by the varieties which have been named 
after the raiser^ or members of their families. 
Novelties from New Zealand, Australia, and other 
countries are also recorded. The descriptions are 
all in French, so that only those with a little know¬ 
ledge of the language will be able to grasp what the 
flowers are like. We note that many of them have 
received First-class Certificates or Diplomas of 
Merit from different societies scattered throughout 
France. The names are mostly reasonably short, 
though a few will occasion trouble to the label 
writer to get them fully expressed upon the labels, as 
for instance, Souvenir du l’Exposition du Havre, 
President Maxime de la Rocheterie, and Societe de 
Chrysanthemistes du Nord. There are various 
articles on the popularisation of the Chrysanthemum, 
the period for taking cuttings, soils, liquid and other 
manures. 
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EARLY SPRING FLOWERS AT 
TOTTENHAM. 
As in other places, the spring flowers have, at 
Tottenham, made their appearance in force un¬ 
usually early in the season, as a recent visit to Mr. 
T. S. Ware's establishment convinced us. The 
hardy plants grown at this famous nursery are 
thoroughly representative of what Nature in her 
best moods, aided by scientific horticulture, has been 
able to effect, but it is not until we begin to take 
stock, as it were, that we really appreciate the 
numbers of pretty and useful plants that are avail¬ 
able for the decoration of our gardens and rockeries 
thus early in spring. 
Some of these floral gems are, alas, too tender to 
brave the storms of February and the boisterous 
days and chilly nights of the beginning of March 
without protection of some kind, and thus we found 
that a goodly number of the plants that were in 
flower were either in frames or in sheltered corners 
where further protection may be speedily given if 
necessary. And it has been necessary, for no further 
gone than the 25th ult. the thermometer registered 
i2° of frost. The result of this -was apparent to us 
in a fine clump of Saxifraga crassifolia, which had 
had all the expanding flowers completely killed by 
the frost. Other things have, of course, suffered 
proportionately. 
One of the most striking features in the plants 
growing in the frames was a nice little batch of the 
handsome Adonis amurensis, the bright yellow 
flowers and deeply divided leaves of which made a 
vastly pretty picture. As an early-floweriDg subject 
for the rockery this Adonis is worthy of all considera¬ 
tion. Here, too, we saw a few flowers of the pretty 
Anemone ranunculoides, which, however, has not 
done so well this year as it did last. 
Hardy terrestrial Orchids are made a speciality of 
