November 4, 1899. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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iog winter, and greenery such as we want. Your 
local nurseryman may supply you. 
Lilium rubellum.— Saynor: We are glad to have 
notes of such successful treatment of what has been 
regarded as a most difficult Lily to cultivate. It 
came from the north of Japan, so that it is hardy 
enough. The soil it prefers is a dry, rather sterile 
one, with a cool bottom. It does well as a pot Lily. 
Horse Faddish.— L. M. 0 .: Good, stiff land is 
best when deeply worked and in a good position, that 
is, not banished to any odd corner or out-of-the way 
place, as the Horse Raddish so frequently is. Nice 
succulent roots, clean and straight, are surely better 
than ragged and coarse samples. Plant the roots 
about i ft. in the rows, the latter beiDg i§ ft. apart. 
Straight and even pieces of from 4 in. to 6 in. long 
should be used, making holes for their reception by 
use of a dibbler. 
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EUCHARIS GRANDIFLORA. 
This, the most popular and most widely grown 
species of Eucharis, was introduced to cultivation in 
t 854 by M. Triana, and put into commerce by M. 
Jean Linden under the name of E. amazonica, by 
which it is best known to gardeners. It had previ¬ 
ously been described, however, by PlanchoD, under 
the name E. grandiflora (which must therefore be 
regarded as the proper appellation) in the Flore des 
Senes, t. 957. The species is a native of the Andes 
of New Grenada, in South America, a statement we 
make in view of the remarks given below, and which 
might be otherwise misleading to those who may not 
have looked up its native country, or history. 
The accompanying illustration was prepared from 
a photograph of a fine healthy batch of bulbs which 
flowered about the middle of July last, with Mr. 
Thomas Wilson, gardener to the Earl of Strathmore, 
Glamis Castle, Forfar. In September, 1897, Mr. 
Wilson received twenty-nine bulbs from a friend in 
India, and potted up each bulb separately. They, 
with the offsets since developed, now completely fill 
8-in. pots. Both the bulbs and leaves are of excel¬ 
lent strength and vigour, with no trace of the bulb- 
mite which has ruined so many bulbs in this country. 
In the course of less than two years the original 
twenty-nine bulbs increased so as to produce 130 
spikes of bloom, each carrying, on an average, six 
flowers, so that we estimate that there were 780 
blooms on this batch of Eucharis when the photo¬ 
graph was taken. This addition to the cut flower 
basket at that season was very acceptable, and much 
appreciated by the gardener’s employers. The com¬ 
post used for potting consisted of sandy loam, mixed 
with road scrapings to make it more solid, and a 
little peat to make it more durable, the loam being 
rather light in character. 
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WILD FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN. 
The following lecture was delivered by Mr. George 
Bunyard, V.M.H., at a recent meeting of the Horti¬ 
cultural Club :— 
The subject which I am allowed to introduce to¬ 
night was suggested by an incident which occurred 
last summer. A foreign visitor to my nurseries in 
the leafy and floriferous month of June remarked 
frequently, when specially beautiful objects were 
brought to his notice, “Yes, pretty; but weeds, 
mere weeds.” 
Well, “ weed ” is, after all, but another name for a 
plant which is out of place in garden and farm crops, 
however beautiful it may appear in its own element, 
and it then struck the floricultural part of my con¬ 
science whether we as gardeners had not neglected 
many beautiful British subjects in our eagerness for 
exotics for enriching our gardens, which " foreigners” 
were, of course, weeds in their native lands. Then 
a vision of many lovely combinations in Dame 
Nature’s landscape gardening rose before me; for 
instance, next my farm is a Chestnut wood, on sandy 
soil, where the background was the tender young 
foliage of the Spanish Chestnut, while the foreground 
was a mass of the wild Hyacinth—the Bluebell of 
one’s childhood—which for some three weeks kept 
up its lovely and enchanting display, and as it faded 
a graceful crop of Campion (Lychnis diurna) suc¬ 
ceeded it, and formed an equally charming effect. 
In another case, for some half mile ahead, while 
travelling,in Wilts , I saw a mass of rosy-purple 
peeping out between the dark green foliage and nut- 
brown boles of a Scotch fir grove. Here, to my 
surprise, the ground was covered with Epilobium 
angustifolium, and my driver said it was thus glori¬ 
fied every season. These are but two examples of 
many hundreds, as before a body of horticultural 
experts I need hardly mention the Buttercup fields 
and the Primrose and Anemone woods. 
I shall rather call to mind some wild British 
plants that seem to me deserving of garden culture, 
if not in the herbaceous border, yet as masses in the 
wild garden and woodland walks where often masses 
of introduced exotics seem to mock the natural 
sylvan beauty. It has been noticed that masses of 
the same colour frequently follow each other, yellow 
being the prevailing late spring colour, while blue is 
the first in the series and yellow returns again in 
autumn. One reason for the neglect of wild flowers 
is doubtless the difficulty of collecting the plants at 
the right season for transplanting, when many are 
lost among the surrounding herbage and grasses; 
but probably the best method would be to collect 
their seeds and sow them in nursery beds for trans¬ 
planting afterwards. One knows from experience 
that very few plants collected on holidays ever come 
to perfection. 
It may be as well to start with spring flowers, 
among which the blue Hyacinth before named holds 
a conspicuous place and may well be massed in the 
front portions of shrubberies or underneath decidu¬ 
ous shrubs, as they will there be at home and not in 
any way interfere with garden flowers. The 
Primrose can be naturalised in any moist position 
and should not be shocked by contact with the 
coloured garden kinds, as its simplicity and its 
modest beauty need only its own foliage as a relief; 
we must not omit Violets and the later Dog Violets, 
while the Germander Speedwell (the cat's-eye of the 
children) is a weed with striking blue flowers, and 
patches on the rockery will not be out of place. The 
yellow nettle (Lamium Galeobdolon) is one of our 
first spring flowers. I have noted in a park entrance 
large masses of the Bugle (Ajuga) produce a pleasing 
effect, and I have noted a white form and one of a 
pinkish shade. While on the subject of woodland 
drives and grassy-edged roads leading to mansions, 
I may mention that much of the beauty of the 
natural flora is destroyed by two close mowing, and 
would suggest that a twelve feet bordering is enough 
to be mown, and beyond that, if cut over or cleared 
once a year the natural flowers would flourish in the 
grass and lend a charm to the scenery, and in a 
small way reproduce an alpine meadow. Here 
Cowslips, Cuckoo flowers (Cardamine), the Centaury, 
Bugle, and Prunella, with the Primrose and yellow 
Toadflax, are seen to advantage with patches of wild 
heather and Foxgloves, 
In summer the wild Orchises give us both striking 
Eucharis grandiflora at Glamis Castle. 
