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THE QARDBNINQ WORLD 
June 25, 1904. 
mixture or separately, according to the taste of the cultivator 
and his : employers. They may be put in beds or in lines bor¬ 
dering the walks of the flower or kitchen garden, according to 
convenience. If the soil is at all of this friable nature, the 
bulbs will increase from year to year; and if planted at 9 in. 
or 12 in. apart, they need not bet lifted until they are getting 
crowded, after which they may be lifted, the soil dug and 
manured, and the bulbs replanted, or a different site may be 
selected. All the Spanish Irises are very useful for cutiflower 
purposes, and Thunderbolt isi particularly popular, judging 
from the quantity of it which is put upon the market every 
year. 
Azalea indica. 
“ Why do my Azaleas not flower? ” is a question a gardener 
should often ask himself. The answer he might sum up in the 
one word “ neglect,” How can anyone expect flowers after a 
course of treatment like this, A gardener buys in February 
or March, say, two dozen nice bushy plants of the following 
excellent varieties:—Andersonii, Apollo, Beauty of Surrey, 
Deutsche Perle, Empress of India, Charmer, Francois Devos, 
G-randis, Hermann Seidel, La Victoire, Louise Margottin, Stella, 
Baronne Rothschild, Amoena, Phoebus, Mrs. Turner, Simon 
Mardner, Sinensis alba, Theodoras, Madame van der Cruyssen, 
Marshal McMahon, Rosaeflora, Souvenir dei Prince Albert, 
Yervaeneana. In order to secure immediately a blaze of 
flower, lie places them in a high temperature, and as soon as 
this blaze is past they are huddled together in a corner to 
make room for a blaze of something else and neglected until 
they are finally turned out of doors in sunshine and shower to 
remain without making a. vestige of growth. They are, how¬ 
ever, expected to do something, as, about October, when there 
is a. scent of frost in the air. we 1 find them transferred to- their 
old corner, not daring to' lift up- their heads, for the autumn 
queen. Miss Chrysanthemum, reigns everywhere. Disappoint¬ 
ment must inevitably follow. The questioner might at this 
point, ask himself the question : “ How did they flower so well 
the first time? ” Simply because thev received attention, 
and had the grower kept this in view the result would have 
been otherwise. 
Azaleas are very moderate in their demands. Presuming 
that the batch mentioned had been delivered here, say, in 
March, I would not rush them on in heat, but give them a cool 
house with just a circulation of heat to keen out frost and 
damp 1 . After the flowering stage was past, I would goi care¬ 
fully over them and nick off the withered flowers and forming 
seed-pods, slightly rartethe temperature by shutting up early, 
placing them all together for convenience for syringing twice 
daily. If the drainage of any were at fault, it would be seen, 
to. Others would be top-dressed, if necessary. Just now, at 
the middle of June, thev would be covered with fresh, green 
young growths.; to afterwards mature this growth, they would 
be transferred to a cold frame for the first week. They would 
be shaded from direct sunshine, giving air freely until the 
sashes could he removed altogether, or they might be plunged 
outside in. coal-ashes, which reduces their demand for water, 
which otherwise should not he carelessly or sparingly given. 
In October they should find themselves again in a frame or cool 
house, with abundance of light and air onlv, keeping out frost 
and damp for the winter months. When this would be done we 
might a.sk ourselves: Why do they flower?” Because thev 
could not help doing so ; they have had their modest demands 
supplied. James Bethel. 
"Westwood Gardens, Newporbcn-Tay, N.B. 
Floriferous Cowslips. —At the end of May a Cowslip bearing 
152 flowers was picked up at Thurleigh. On Whit Sunday a 
more vigorous one, bearing 188 flowers on a stem! nearly fin. 
thick, was found on the estate of the First Garden City. These 
must have occurred on patches of very fertile land, and possibly 
also they were fasciated. 
On the Editor's Table. 
British Orchids and Bog Bean. 
Will you kindly accept a small contribution to your “ Editor’s 
Table ” ? I went out about four miles to the loch on the estate 
here with the express purpose of getting them for you, so 
that you might have a. little idea, how glorious the countiy is 
here at present, while you are buried up in dear, smoky old 
London. • I think I have sent nearly every shade and marking 
to be found in Orchis maculata, while Menyanthesi trifoliata 
needs no comment. Orchis mascula. has been fine in patches, 
but is rather scarce. — H. Arnold. 
[The flowers which Mr. Arnold sends us are extremely varied, 
but all those belonging to Orchis maculata. were very light in 
colour. The pattern of the markings* was extremely varied, 
however, particularly on the lip of this variety, which usually 
grows very luxuriantly in Scotland in wet places on the hill¬ 
sides, in. open woods, and other land that has been undistnrbed 
by tillage. The lip. in. many oases made the varieties really 
beautiful, constituting forms of far more interest, than some of 
the Continental species which are often, introduced to* gardens. 
Some of them had a white lip ; , while in another case all parts of 
the flower were pure white, thus constituting a true albino. 
In the same box came several spikes of Orchis latifolia, which 
in all cases were considerably darker than the species already 
named. One of them had a spike 4 in. long, and the lip was 
beautifully netted in a distinct pattern. The other forms re- 
, presented very dark varieties of 0. latifolia with a smaller lip. 
We failed to’ detect. 0. inearnata, amongst them. 
The flowers of the Bog Bean showed more variation than we 
were prepared to. expect. Menyan.th.es succeeds better in Scot¬ 
land than in, the south, flowering freely in boggy ground by 
the wayside and on. the hillsides. These flowers are followed 
by fruits in. considerable abundance, so that the plant is 
evidently more of a northern subject than a southern one. 
More than half of the flowers were dirtinctlv tinted with pink 
on both surfaces. The fringes on the face of the corolla make 
this a beautiful, curious, and interesting flower that we should 
likei to see more often in, cultivation in gardens, as it is possible 
to flower it if grown in pot?; half submerged in a tank of water. 
Judging from the number of spikesi sent us., the species is very 
plentiful in Stirlingshire. Notwithstanding this, we should 
counsel cur correspondent not to reveal the place of growth of 
these Orchids, because they soon disappear in districts near 
populous’ centres when, the public has access to their habitats. 
This has happened in many places within twenty or thirty 
miles of London.] 
A Perennial Cauliflower. —Mr. Isaac Birch lias m Ins 
garden a Cauliflower from which a heart was cut last year and 
the year before. The stem is still alive, and promises again to 
P1 Another Park for Hull.— Alderman S. Cohen presided at. 
a meeting of the Hull Corporation Parks Committee on tee 
1st inst. A special sub-committee which had considered the 
offer by Mr. Christopher Pickering of a site, for a park at Dairy- 
coates reported that the following resolution had been agreed 
to on the motion rf Alderman Gill-ett, seconded by Mr. W. J. 
Atkinson, J.P. : “ That having visited the land on the north side ■ 
of Hessle Road "between the Hull and Barnsley Railway bridge 
and Mill Lane, this sub-committee do not advise the purchase 
of this land for a park at the present time.” The committee, 
which sat in private, deliberated upon this recommendation for 
some time. Alderman Gillett moved, and Mr. J. Porter, J-F, 
seconded, the adoption of the recommendation. An amend¬ 
ment. to accept Mr. Pickering’s offer was moved by Mr. 1. o. 
Hall, and seconded by Mr. F. Askew. The site comprises 
154 acres, and Mr. Pickering’s offer was to sell it to the Corpora¬ 
tion at £415 per acre. It has a frontage to the Hessle Road of. 
seven-eighths of a mile., and it is suggested that a portion of the 
land can be leased for building land, forty or fifty acres used for 
a park, and twenty or thirty acres utilised for a cemetery. It is 
also suggested to widen the road at that point. After a lengthy 
discussion the amendment accepting the offer was carried by 
seven votes to sis. 
