THE GARDENING WORLD 
535 
April 20 , 1901 . 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 20 th, 1901. 
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NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, April 22 nd.—Chesterfield Spring Show. 
Tuesday, April 23 rd.—Royal horticultural Society’s Com¬ 
mittees. 
Wednesday, April 24 th.—R.H.S. Examination in Horticulture; 
Chesterfield and District Chrysanthemum Society’s 
Spring Show. 
Thursoay, April 25 th.—Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural 
Society’s Exhibition. 
he Gardener’s Assistant.*— Compared 
with the first and second editions of 
this standard work, the third edition will 
be notable for the great number of its illus¬ 
trations, if the present status is maintained 
throughout the remaining three divisional 
volumes yet to appear. With the present 
volume the work is half completed, while 
the remainder will be published in more 
rapid succession. The third volume under 
notice deals with plants of all classes grown 
under glass for ornamental purposes ; also 
shrubs and herbaceous plants for forcing ; 
retarding plants; spring, summer, carpet, 
subtropical and winter bedding, to each of 
which a chapter is devoted respectively. It 
finishes up with a chapter on floral decora¬ 
tions. All of these subjects are dealt with 
by specialists, who have given great atten¬ 
tion to the same for many years. 
The long chapter on popular garden 
plants commenced in the previous volume 
is continued in this, and is the work of 
several writers according to the subject in 
hand. Popular plants, to which this 
special treatment is given applies to such 
as Cannas, Carnations, Chrysanthemums, 
Clematis, Clivia, Coleus, Crocus, Cycla¬ 
men, and Dahlia, &c., which have been so 
improved, and the varieties, both as to 
form, colour and habit, so multiplied that 
they could not receive justice if merely 
given in chapters of plants that have 
scarcely, if at all advanced, beyond the 
Wild originals. Chrysanthemum indicum 
is given as the wild type from which the 
immense array of giants has been 
developed. An illustration of it alongside 
of a small bloom of Madame Carnot, fur¬ 
nishes a hint that if such gigantic blooms 
can be developed from so miniature a wild¬ 
ing, the possibilities of the floral world are 
yet far beyond the comprehension of the 
human mind. Many of our British wild 
flowers, often regarded as little more than 
wayside weeds, might, in face of the facts 
before us, yet respond to cross-breeding and 
selection, or even to hybridisation, in such 
a way as to become the most popular 
flowers of future generations. The Chrys¬ 
anthemum was no doubt cultivated for cen- 
*The Gardener's Assistant. A Practical and 
Scientific Exposition of the Art of Gardening in all 
its Branches. By Robert Thomson, of the Royal 
Horticuitural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick. New 
Edition, revised and entirely re-modelled under the 
Direction and General Editorship of William WatsoD, 
Assistant Curator, Royal Gardens, Kew. Divisional 
Vol. III., price 8/- the volume. London: The 
Gresham Publishing Company, 25, Farringdon 
Avenue, E.C. igoi 
turies before it reached our shores ; and the 
same might apply to the Chinese Primula, 
Moutan Paeony, and other plants from such 
an old country as China. Whatever is 
taken in hand with the view of improve¬ 
ment ought to be pursued with persistency 
for many generations. Differences of en¬ 
vironment, abundance of food or moisture, 
cross-breeding and hybridisation, sooner or 
later assert their sway and bring about 
changes of greater or less importance. 
Many of the most important and popular 
flowers have been largely the product of 
Continental workers, though one can point 
to some that have been worked up by the 
gardeners and growers of this country, 
while others have been carried to great per¬ 
fection that had a fair hold upon popular 
estimation before they reached our shores. 
A feature of modern gardening is the im¬ 
petus given to the cultivation of certain 
flowers by the development of really hand¬ 
some garden races of plants from forms 
that were rejected by the florists of a former 
day because such forms did not conform to 
the canons and narrow confines laid down 
by the old school. The Dahlia is a case in 
point. There are few gardeners that would 
now deny the decorative value of Cactus 
Dahlias ; yet the parent from which they 
originated would have undoubtedly been 
consigned to the rubbish heap by those who 
considered that show and fancy Dahlias 
were the one and only type worth cultiva¬ 
ting. Some of the old time flowers have 
suffered eclipse, for a time at least, including 
Heaths, Camellias, and hard-wooded green¬ 
house plants generally, though a few of them 
worthily find a place in collections. Hardy 
flowers are greatly in the ascendancy at the 
present time, and possibly no greater num¬ 
ber of them has ever been in cultivation at 
any one time, though there are many gar¬ 
dens yet where the old beds and borders yet 
require amplifying and extending. A half¬ 
page plate of the Iris garden at Kew shows 
a gorgeous wealth of flowers of bold and 
handsome form, that hundreds, possibly 
thousands, would desire to possess, and no 
doubt imitate if their season was a little 
more durable. The poor man’s Orchid, 
someone has described the Iris, and the 
idea is not very far-fetched, as they are 
gorgeous and varied enough in colour, while 
at the same time botanically related to those 
hothouse plants. The large beds and the 
wealth of flowers give an impression that 
the grass area is very limited, but a similar 
effect could be produced in reality by having 
one large bed crossing the line of vision of 
the beholder standing some distance away. 
Every garden with a lawn of any extent 
should possess at least one good-sized bed 
of these early summer flowers. There are 
now many choice varieties in cultivation 
that will bear the closest inspeclion. A 
Walnut and some other trees, with No. 2 
museum in the background, constitute an 
admirable setting to the Iris garden. 
Several of the species of Iris are illustrated, 
including the strange and striking I. 
susiana. 
Lilies also come in for marked attention, 
many common and uncommon species, and 
some garden hybrids, namely, L dalhansoni 
derived from L. Martagon dalmaticum and 
L. Hansoni, as the name is intended to con¬ 
vey. A good few of the Daffodils are also 
represented. The gardeners of the rising 
generations have many aids to a knowledge 
of plants at their disposal which their 
superiors did not possess, thanks to the aid 
of the wood engraver as well as the photo¬ 
grapher. A figure of Primrose Evelyn 
Arkwright reminds us that the flower is 
large enough until a longer and stronger 
stalk has been developed to increase the 
utility of the flower in a corresponding 
ratio by making it self-supporting and fit to 
