June 8, 1901. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
657 
again. If some good light soil is then put in it and 
kept moist, the plant will not be long before it puts 
out new roots from the wound. When the pot is 
full of roots the top may be cut off level with the 
base of the small pot and potted on. If the old stem 
is cut down to the level of the pot and carefully 
watered, it will often break into growth again from 
immediately below the soil. 
Solomon’s Seal.— 0 . K .: This should be trans¬ 
planted in the autumn or early spring. It will do 
well among bush fruit trees, and supplies useful stuff 
for cutting. 
Arum Lilies in Water.—S.: They may be suc¬ 
cessfully grown in shallow water in the open air 
during the summer, but the corms should be taken 
up and stored in moist soil during the winter or they 
will be killed by the cold. In very favourable 
positions they may remain in the water all the year. 
Ivy leaf Pelargonium, especially that beautiful 
variety known as Souvenir de Charles Turner. 
Petunias also are very effective and bloom all through 
the summer. 
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RUELLIA MACRANTHA. 
While this is by no means a common plant, it 
might be utilised to a greater extent than it is. The 
flowers are the largest of any Ruellia in cultivation, 
and possible of any other. It is a native of Brazil, 
from whence it was introduced in 1883. By growing 
it in the stove as well as the greenhouse it may be 
had in bloom at various periods of the year. During 
the summer it may be grown and flowered in the 
open air, a fact that seems to be known only to a 
few gardeners. Being a native of Brazil it is 
accorded a warm and sheltered position to make its 
growth in the open, and flower about the middle of 
August into September. The large, funnel-shaped 
because that flies, &c., are in larger cumbers about 
such parts, has not been quite thoroughly explained. 
Both considerations may be, in a fair way, proper 
or taken together, may be altogether correct. 
READING GARDENERS AT BUCKLE- 
BURY PLACE. 
[Concluded from p. 642 ) 
After tea in the Fireside Club Room, the visitors 
inspected the new bothy just completed for the bene¬ 
fit of the young men in the gardens, each of whom 
enjoys a separate bedroom, while there are cup¬ 
boards, bath room and other modern conveniences, 
all well fitted up. 
Kitchen Garden. 
In the kitchen garden there was a trial of winter 
Onions. Last year brought out Perfection as the 
best and longest keeping variety, some of the bulbs 
being yet quite sound. Two of the finest Cabbages 
Ruellia macrantha. 
Although called the Lily of the Nile it is a native of 
South Africa and not the north. 
Musk outdoors. —P : We have seen it naturalised 
on a north border and in a very flourishing condition. 
It seeded freely and increased very rapidly. It 
requires a rather damp position and not too much 
sun. 
Windowboxes.— Housekeeper : Now is the proper 
time to make up this useful house ornament. They 
should have plenty of holes in the bottom to allow 
the surplus water to pass away freely ; these should 
be covered by a good layer of broken crocks, with a 
covering of moss or rough leaf mould to prevent the 
soil from falling amongst them and stopping the 
drainage. A good soil for windowboxes is two parts 
good loam and one of leaf soil and a good application 
of sand. One of the best subjects for planting is the 
flowers are rose, fading paler in the throat, but 
beautifully veined all over with a darker hue, as 
shown in the accompanying illustration. Properly 
speaking, the plant is a shrub as it has woody stems, 
but it is a very dwarf and easily accommodated, not 
varying much above 12 in. to 18 in. in height, parti¬ 
cularly if annually propagated from cuttings, which 
root easily in a little bottom heat such as is accorded 
to Eranthemums, Daedalacanthus, Bouvardias and 
that class of plants, all quite familiar to gardeners. 
As a beddiDg plant it would certainly be a novelty 
in that line for some years 
Pinguicula or Butterwort, like most or all of the 
insectivorous plants, native or otherwise, Drosera, 
Dionaea, Darlingtonia, Nepenthes, and Sarracenias, 
is found by the sides of streams, or in places where 
a superabundance of moisture is to be found. 
Whether this is because of a physiological need, or 
for winter were Sutton’s April and Sutton's Flower 
of Spring, the former being the earliest, but the 
latter the most shapely and neatest little Cabbagp, 
with firm, conical heads. Little Gem is also a neat 
growing and dwarf Cabbage for table use but it was 
later than either of the above. 
Asparagus was being grown in single lines upon 
the French system. The natural soil is gravelly and 
not particularly rich, so that the material in which 
the roots are growing was artificially made up, and 
is added to every year. The young shoots in comiDg 
up through this material get well blanched and keep 
tender till the shoots are of large size. Some beds 
were also planted on the old English system A fine 
lot of Peas was coming on in sowings for succession. 
The ground in which Raspberries, Currants and 
Gooseberries are grown is not dug in winter but 
merely mulched. Hardy annuals and other subjects 
are raised in great quantity by making up a hot-bed, 
