April 15. 1905. 
rHE Gardening World 
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IESPERIS MATRONALIS ALBA PLENA. 
The first prize last week in the 
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oo UTUa§: its 0b j ects and Effects,” \ 
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lrt f e on “ Stewing Pears in Spring,” 5 
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Views and Reviews. 
A New Zealand Garden. ; 
As in the case of several other gardening 
books concerning which we have made com¬ 
ments, this one has also been written by 
the owner of the garden rather than by the 
gardener. It runs to 114 pages, and con¬ 
tains fourteen chapters on different subjects, 
to which no particular heading has been 
given. The writer in this instance is a lady 
who tells us in the first chapter that she was 
blessed with a craze for gardening, which 
she describes as a “ solid, real and satisfac¬ 
tory occupation.” She had worked at this 
garden for nearly twenty years, and worn out 
or broken many gardening tools. She had 
a great belief in the smell of Mother 
Earth. Gardening is a tonic for the nerves, 
and by its aid she bad been able to dispense 
with the doctor’s attention, for the only dose 
of medicine she had in twenty years was 
used as a weed-killer. 
Like several other garden lovers in the 
same line she had a poor opinion of the gar¬ 
dener, though we must admit that the 
variety she employed was not one qualified 
for the B.G.A. One day she sent him to mow 
some rushes in the paddock, and to make 
sure that lie would hit upon the right spot, 
she said, “ Where you see the white heifer.” 
He did her bidding to the letter, for lie 
followed that heifer about the paddock all 
day, mowing in the wake of the retreating 
heifer. 
In the first. bit of gardening she speaks 
of she tells us about the Bock-melons, which 
were thoroughly successful out of doors in 
seasons when rain and sunshine were plenti¬ 
ful, and the winds gentle. The Melons grew 
and ripened so fast that she gave them away 
to her friends right and left. Everyone was 
thankful except the gardening man, who said 
he “ biled it well,and it woan’t no better 
than Bothers.” In proof of this he offered 
one of his own Pumpkins, which she admitted 
was quite as good when boiled. 
Turning to her experiences with flowers, 
one almost envies lier eight beds of Litho- 
spermum prostratum, each measuring 7 ft. 
by 5 ft., and which were masses of Gentian 
blue. She started by planting cuttings in 
each of those beds at one foot apart each way. 
The intervening spaces were occupied with 
dwarf growing subjects, such as Aubrietias, 
“ My New Zealand Garden." By a Suffolk Lady. With 
illustrations. London : Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row 
E.C. 1905. Price in cloth 3s. 6d. 
which flowered well, and after having served 
their turn were pulled out. During the 
course of the following summer the Lithc- 
spermum put in as cuttings have met every¬ 
where, thus making solid masses of the plant 
which flowered splendidly. These beds were 
multiplied to twenty in course of time. The 
fact that plants can grow and flower so 
splendidly during the second year from cut¬ 
tings in the open speaks volumes for the 
suitable character of the climate. 
What the author speaks of as a pet bit of 
the garden is a border of herbaceous plants 
behind which are trees and shrubs of very 
varied character as to foliage. An interest¬ 
ing way of breaking up a straight line is 
shown in a picture where the edging consists 
of bricks. The hard straight line is broken, 
however, by means of small circular beds in¬ 
troduced at intervals right in the middle of 
the edging. The plants in these beds con¬ 
ceal their own edging by the growth thev 
make, and also break up the straight lines 
of the walk as a whole. Many of the plants 
are familiar to us in European garden , and 
need not be mentioned here. In New Zea¬ 
land, as in Britain, they get plants from all 
parts of the world, provided they are suffici¬ 
ently hardy to be grown in the open. 
Another feature of the garden, or the story 
of it, is the singling out of various plants 
which succeed well under the conditions. 
One of these notable plants was Grevillea 
obtusifolia, which formed a bush about 4 ft. 
in height, and was nearly always in bloom. 
The Waratab is always spoken of in high 
terms by our cousins at the Antipodes, and 
the Australian species (Telopea spec-iosissima) 
produced sixty heads of bloom on a specimen 
8 ft. high. Here we may say that the so- 
called bloom is really a large cluster of them 
surrounded by bracts resembling an immense 
Thistle head or something of that sort. The 
Cape Waratah was considered even more 
beautiful on account, of the vivid scarlet 
colour of the flowers 
Bottle-brushes (Callistemon) are fre¬ 
quently mentioned, and jostling the other 
plants are Kalmias from America, and Pieris 
from Japan. A great success was the flower¬ 
ing of the Queensland Lily (Doryanthes ex- 
celsa). A photograph rhows a plant with 
five heads of bloom, and standing more than 
twice the height of the owner. In this New 
Zealand garden it is said to flower only once 
in four years. In this country it does not 
flower so often, and we have illustrated a 
head of bloom in a previous number of The 
Gardening World. The itarberton Daisy, 
here named the Cape Daisy, evidently finds 
