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THE GARDENING WORLD 
January 18, 1908. 
“ The Horticultural Directory and Year 
Book.” 
The new volume for 1.908 is now on our 
table, and shows that it has been pro¬ 
duced consecutively for forty-nine years. 
We have no doubt it will see its jubilee 
next year, and these facts prove that such 
a book is extremely useful and even neces¬ 
sary to those who are closely connected 
with horticulture in its various branches. 
Besides the addresses of gardeners 
throughout the British Isles, or at least 
all the more important of them, the work 
also gives the addresses of nurserymen 
in various parts of the country with the 
names and addresses of the principal nur¬ 
serymen and seedsmen on the Continent. 
Much useful information is also given in 
the first part of the book, postal and 
otherwise, together with the new plants 
which were certificated between October 
9th, 1906, and October 2nd, 1907. The 
address is 12, Mitre Court Chambers, 
Fleet Street, London. 
- FLOWERS. - 
A German Acrostic. 
German .—Nock fehlt der Liebig-Kuss. 
English.—Love’s kiss is still wanting. 
By Madame De Crespigny. 
“Larded all with sweet flowers.” 
—Hamlet. 
Never, ah, never crush a tender flower! 
Think that the flowers have souls as thou 
and I. 
Canst see them blossoming around thy 
bower, 
Heartlessly break and doom their sweets 
to die? 
Fair child, hast read Clotilda’s hapless 
fate ? 
Enchanted by a fairy, one of those 
Heedful of love, and breathing aught but 
hate; 
Lovely transformed, for she became a 
rose. 
Think, hadst thou crushed, how fearful 
were thy crime ? 
Dooming the fair to death, in life's first 
bloom. 
Enchanted thus to pass from that fair 
clime, 
Ravished from earth to moulder in the 
tomb. 
Love then the flowers, for they all breathe 
of love! 
India’s rich perfumes are produced from 
flowers. 
Even a flower had brought back Noah’si 
dove, 
But that the waters still bedecked earth’s 
bowers, 
Ever with Nature’s children grace thy 
hand, 
Set beauteous plants before thy window¬ 
sill, 
■ Kind Spring gives birth to flowers in 
every land, 
Under Siberia’s snows the snow-drop still 
Silently blooms, unchecked by fields oi 
ice, 
Sweetly recalling man’s Lost Paradise! 
“The Mirror,” 1843. 
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The Wolverhampton Floral Fete hel< 
in July last yielded a profit of ^275. 
R J-larxlsome Greenhouse Plant 
\Maclaren and Sons. 
A number of very handsome shrubs 
come to us from Australia but which have 
suffered a considerable amount of neglect 
in recent years. This applies particu¬ 
larly to those which are slow growing and 
in the opinion of modern gardeners some¬ 
what difficult to cultivate, or else they 
take up too much space which they want 
to devote to soft-wooded subjects. B. 
.heterophylla is one of a number of plants 
in cultivation belonging to the Orange 
family, though somewhat distantly re¬ 
lated. It is of very elegant and grace¬ 
ful habit on account of the slender, 
twiggy stems, which vary from 1 ft. to 
2 ft. in height. These twiggy stems also 
branch freely, and though the flowers are 
moderate in size, they are produced all 
along these stems and twigs without being 
hidden by the foliage. The leaves are 
compound, but as the segments are very 
narrow, they do not hide the flowers which 
nestle at their base in small clusters. 
These flowers are rosy-carmine, cup¬ 
shaped, and hang with their mouth down¬ 
ward, so that the outside is most con- 
(Boronia heterophylla). 
spicuous, but as both sides of the flower 
are about equally highly coloured, this 
does not signify. 
The £lant is relatively easy to propa¬ 
gate by means of cuttings of half-ripened 
wood during the summer months. They 
may be taken off with a heel of old wood, 
ins.erted in very sandy soil, placed in a 
greenhouse, and covered with a bell- 
glass. The sand should be kept just 
moist without being sodden until the cut¬ 
tings are rooted. After this they may be 
potted off in about equal proportions of 
peat and loam with a plentiful sprinkling 
of sand to keep it porous. During the 
first year or two the plants may not attain 
great size, especially if the temperature 
of the house is not sufficient to keep them 
growing during winter. As they flower, 
however, in quite a small state, it is 
immaterial about the exact size of the 
plants, because specimens of various sizes 
may be had by slightly pruning them back 
after they have ceased flowering, and then 
repotting them in larger sizes if that is 
found to be necessary. 
Boronia heterophylla. 
