September 24, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
67 
The house should be fitted with racks or shelves 
built to hold a siDgle layer of fruit each. In periods 
of very severe frost, all that -is necessary, if the 
house is not fitted with pipes, is to put in a heating 
lamp for a little while, which will do all that is 
required, seeing that high temperatures must be 
avoided if the fruit is to keep well. 
Genista fragrans .—Inquirer : The proper name of 
this plant is Cytisus racemosus, but it is more often 
called Genista in gardens. Gardeners are very con¬ 
servative, and once they become used to a name it is 
a long time before they can be induced to change it, 
even although it may be both incorrect and mis¬ 
leading. 
White Yerbena.—In a batch of Verbenas which 
I raised from seed sown last spring, there is a very 
fine white variety. How can I best save this ? Will 
it be the best plan to lift the whole plant as it is and 
try to keep it through the winter ?— C. 
If you can get any cuttings from it now we should 
advise you to take them, dibble them into sandy soil, 
CINERARIAS. 
These are largely grown in the majority of estab¬ 
lishments, and the modus operandi followed by various 
growers differs in some respects very considerably. 
I do not think modern methods are at all times 
better than those of the old school. This applies 
with some force to the methods of raising a stock 
from seed annually. The modern plan entails a 
much greater amount of work and worry to 
those practising it tban the simpler plans pursued by 
our forefathers. I have lately met with several cases 
in which the difference was brought out most 
strongly. The old plan followed by many was, 
when the plants was getting past their best, to select 
a few of the very best, and place them outside on a 
bed of ashes, or light leafy soil, and to keep the lat¬ 
ter moist by watering it with a fine rose can during 
dry weather. The seeds would be shed on this 
material and soon vegetate, giving thus almost no 
trouble in the initial stages of the plant's life; but a 
supply of hardy, stocky plants was secured which 
were immeasurably superior to the flabby, drawn 
things which involve for a time the most solicitous 
hollow surrounded by trees there is always more or 
less breeze, and thus the Bamboos are ever alive 
with motion, their arching stems and fluttering 
leaves giving a sensation of refreshing coolness upon 
a hot summer's day. 
WORTH PARK. 
Sussex has many fine estates in which horticulture 
of a very high order is practised, and Worth Park, 
the seat of Mrs. Montefiore and her genial son, Sir 
Francis Montefiore, is one of the finest of these. 
Mrs. Montefiore has expended vast sums of money 
upon the rebuilding of the old mansion which was 
destroyed by fire some fifteen years ago, and the im¬ 
provement of the farm and gardens; indeed, she has 
spared no expense, and the result is that the mansion 
is to-day a very veritable palace set in extensive, 
charmingly laid-out grounds. The visitor finds that 
the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway’s 
station at Three Bridges is only a few minutes walk 
from one of the lodge gates, and after traversing a 
long and sinuous drive he comes at last to the man¬ 
sion aforesaid and its gardens. The latter are in the 
Phyllostachys Henonis. 
and put them in a gentle heat, when they will not be 
long in rooting, particularly if you take the extra 
precaution of covering them with a hand-glass. The 
cuttings may be allowed to stay in these first pots all 
the winter, and the best place to keep them in will 
be on a shelf near the glass in a warm greenhouse. 
You may also lift the old plant presently—before it 
is cut down with frost. By taking more cuttings 
from it in the spring you ought to be able to work 
up a nice little stock oi the variety by next summer. 
Fuchsias.— Tyro : The plants are gradually matur¬ 
ing their growth, and will not bear any more flowers 
this season. You will do well to stand them outside 
in a sunny place, and give them a little clear water 
now and again, but no manure. 
Altering a Greenhouse .—Charles E. : It would 
certainly be an advantage if the lights of your 
greenhouse could be lifted up instead of slid down 
when air was given, but you would find the alteration 
an expensive operation and we think it would be 
scarcely worth the trouble. Your best plan will be 
to consult a practical man who is on the spot and 
get an estimate from him as to cost. 
care. Here, where the seed dropped, it vegetated, and 
grew into plants which were, and are still in some 
few places, potted at once into 43's, as this plan in¬ 
volves a minimum of labour. By far the larger 
number in the profession are really over-worked. 
The return to primitive measures will often afford 
some little relief to their overtaxed powers.— W.B.G. 
PHYLLOSTACHYS HENONIS. 
There is no more graceful, hardy Bamboo than 
Phyllostachys Henonis. The stems grow to a length 
of from 8 ft. to 12 ft., but owing to the drooping 
character of the branches the height is often con¬ 
siderably less than this. The photograph from 
which the accompanying illustration was prepared 
was taken in the Bamboo Garden at Kew. Bam¬ 
boos, however, are difficult things to photograph 
with any degree of “ sharpness " for the thin texture 
of the foliage causes it to wave and flutter with the 
slightest breeze. This, of course, is a chief point of 
attraction as the plants are growing in the open 
ground, but it means perplexity and often failure to 
the photographer who attempts to obtain an impres¬ 
sion of them upon a photographic plate. At Kew 
owing to the position of the garden in a dell or 
capable charge of Mr. Allen, who keeps them all as 
smart and trim as grounds and gardens can be kept; 
in fact, in this respect Worth Park is quite a show 
place. 
The mansion itself is built of red brick, the 
aggressiveness of which is well toned down by heavy 
and numerous facings and supports of stone, and 
closely approaches the old French Chateau style of 
architecture, with its huge and characteristic win¬ 
dows opening onto the ground-level. No attempt is 
made to adorn the walls with creepers, for which 
there is little room and almost as little need. The 
longest front of the house faces due west, and here 
we find verdant lawns, not too much cut up with 
flower beds, with not a few fine specimens of timber 
Oak, which on this soil develops an unusual amount 
of head. Immediately on the right may be noticed 
a very fine and quaintly formed specimen of Abies 
Pinsapo, with its branches sweeping the ground. 
Amongst other Conifers Araucaria imbricata is 
apparently the favourite, but it does not appear to be 
greatly enamoured of the soil. 
On the south front a conspicuous feature is a long, 
tile-roofed corridor with plate glass front which 
curves round from the drawing room windows for a 
