October 22, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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851 
ON THE EDITOR S TABLE. 
Sweet Peas from Uavenham Park. 
Cultivators in the South of England must no>w be getting 
very skilled in the cultivation of Sweet Peas, or else they are 
taking more care to give them the necessary treatment to 
bring them through the warm and trying months of summer. 
We have just been favoured with a bos of fifteen named varie¬ 
ties from Mr. G. H., The Gardens, Cavenham Park, Mildenhall, 
Suffolk. These were sown on March 15th, commenced flower¬ 
ing in June, and nave given a continual supply of flowers since 
that date. Quantities of the flowers have been cut nearly 
every day, and the plants are still a mass of bloom of 6 ft. to' 
7 ft. in height. 
Blanche Burpee was in. very fine condition, the pure white 
flowers contrasting beautifully with the green foliage. A 
companion to it was the creamy yellow Mrs. Kenyon, with 
flowers of large size. Proceeding from the lighter to the 
darker ones we noticed the delicately coloured flowers of 
Venus., a fancy variety which at this season appears a decided 
picotee-edged variety. Lovely is usually a delicate pink 
variety, but at this season it is paler and more pleasantly 
delicate in colour’, though that might not be considered an 
advantage in July. Aurora still retains its peculiar arrange¬ 
ment of rose markings on white ground. 
Prince of Wales usually take® a. very high position amongst 
rose varieties, but at this season of the year the flowers are 
more inclined to S'eparate that colour into, two distinct hues, 
namely, stripe® and markings of deep rose on a. lilac-pink 
ground. Another variety which has developed stripes at this 
season is the biool-or named Triumph, the flowers of which are 
still of large, size and produced on long stalks. The scarlet 
standard was sometime® striped with rose, and the wings 
more decidedly so. Miss Willmott is decidedly paler than, in 
July, but. the orange shade is nevertheless, well retained. Tire 
magenta - coloured Cooeinea. is paler, but nevertheless not 
striped, but shows two shades of colour as in summer, though 
less intense. Very handsome also' was Salopian, though dis¬ 
tinctly off colour at this season. 
Emily Eckford is. usually classed amongst the blue®, of which 
it is a, pale, though pleasing, variety. At this; season, though 
still fresh, the standard is more or less tinted with mauve. 
Dorothy Tennant is always a, mauvei variety, and this colour 
it retains, although, somewhat paler than in summer. Lady 
Grizel Hamilton was also a, little bit. off colour, and as 1 in. the 
case of the others above-mentioned this might be due to the 
greater amount, of moisture in. the soil and the more feeble 
light, so that the stems are growing in excess. Black Knight, 
in becoming paler displayed a distinct metallic bronze hue 
on the standards. Duke of Westminster was '.several shades 
paler than, the last, named, and not so handsome* at this period 
of the year. 
Although not suited for exhibition purposes; Sweet Pea® at 
this season of the year are. decidedly welcome'. Their colours 
are yet sufficiently fresh and decided to make them of great 
value for decorative purposes in dwelling rooms, where they 
keep fresh for a number of days. Those who have a well- 
grown collection in the garden can, however, get a, fresh, supply 
every day so that Sweet Pea-s may always, appear fresh on 
their tables. The prolific nature of the plants, the numerous 
very handsome colours, and the sweet scent of the flowers 
combine to brake this the most popular annual at the present 
day. 
Bougainvillea glabra on an Open Wall. 
We are in receipt of a, bunch of flowers of the above climber 
from Mr. J. Fraser Smith, gardener to the Countess of Sea- 
field, Cullen House, Cullen, Banffshire. The plant is grown 
in a No. 1 size pot, plunged in. the ground, and ha® flowered 
for the second season in succession in, the open air and trained 
on the front wall of Cullen House. The plant was; put outside 
in. April, making its: growth and flowering without other aid 
than the shelter of a wall affords. The plant, covers, 6 ft. by 
4 ft. of wall space, and is really remarkable on, account of its 
flowering on, this northern seaboard of Scotland. The tem¬ 
perature there isi never veiry high, and we know that it was 
blowing something like a gale on that rocky coast, stretching 
from Kinnaird’s 1 Head westwards to the inner reaches of the 
Moray Firth, about the middle: of September last. The. best 
place for this Bougainvillea, is in, a: greenhouse', but we have 
seen it, flowered in a, house at a temperature closely approach¬ 
ing that of a stove. 
Mr. Smith also sent some Figs 1 picked from the open wall 
as a fair sample of two trees: from which he has: already picked 
ten! dozen fruit®:, with five more dozen left. The trees fruit 
regularly, and did so last year, for, as bad as. the season was, 
Mr. Smith picked a few dozens. The fruits were evidently 
those of Brown, Turkey, and were of handsome size, and won¬ 
derfully well matured for that northern climate. We: doubt if 
the fruits would have ripened much better under similar con¬ 
ditions in the south at this season of the year. They were also 
of large size, with a highly-coloured flesh internally. 
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
A Fine 1 ilium auratmm 
To the Editor of The Gardening World. 
_ Sir,—A very fine Lilium aura,turn, when I saw it, had 
eight of the finest, bloom® both for 1 size and colour. I do- not 
think but, that others have grown, this, lovely plant to the same 
perfection as my friend, Mr. Sansom, but still he is to be con- 
gi a.tulated 1 , for it is merely a matter of pleasure and a. little 
leisure time that bet can afford to: spend in his garden, lie. beino- 
a keen beekeeper. His;'garden, too, I might add, is- devoted 
chiefly to. the growing of Rose®, novelties: of Potato®, trained 
up stakes., and Dahlias. Many visitors to the district pay Mr 
Sansom their compliments by looking over his well-kept garden", 
and when, I saw his. garden last I noticed upwards, of 300 Roses 
just, finishing their blooming, while upward® of 200 were look¬ 
ing well after budding. Surely this is: good for an amateur, 
with so little time at his disposal. Needless to; say though 
six mile® from Spalding, Gosh erf,on. Cbeal (Mi". Sansom’s home) 
is a.friendly word to many. jj. Harris 
To the Editor of The Gardening World. 
i Sw,—I am pleased to give the information asked by Mr. C. 
Blair re Lilium aura,turn I saw in the South of England. The 
bulb made five growths with 73, 13, 5, 5, and I flowers, re¬ 
spectively. The tallest growth was 5 ft. in, height, and the 
strongest a few inches under, when fully developed. ’ Perhaps 
Ml-. Blair will say how many growths: the fine, specimens he 
mentioned had. G. Hatch. 
[L holographs, for which we are. much obliged, accompanied 
each of the: above communication®:, but for different reason® 
were unsuitable for reproduction. That sent by Mr Harris 
represented a, beautifully-spotted, well-formed flower of lar°e 
sazei. The photograph sent by Mr. Hatch showed one strono- 
plant. with normal ficwerbuds of large size. The strono-er- 
growing specimen mentioned was: a, fascia,ted stem bearing 
seventy-three blooms, commencing to expand. This; cannot 
be considered a normal plant, though Lilium a.uratum fairly 
frequently behaves in, this peculiar way. We have seen a. plant 
of this, character carrying 132 blooms;, which were not so large, 
however, as in normally-developed and strong stems._ Ed.] ° 
Varieties of Potato. 
To the Editor of The Gardening World. 
Sir,—H. W. Hope, Esq. (gardener, R. H. Cockburn), Luff- 
ness, E,a,st Lothian, had in his garden this summer a number 
of Potato plots designed to test the cropping qualities of dif¬ 
ferent varieties: of Potatos. One of the varieties, so, tested was 
the Northern Star. All the different varieties were planted in 
drills 27 in. wide, and were manured with ordinary farmyard 
