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TUB GARDENING WORLD. February 15, 1908. 
the beds should originally have been pro¬ 
vided herewith in the shape of old gar¬ 
den mould. When this is done choose a 
still, dry day to evenly distribute the arti¬ 
ficial manures, upon which much of your 
success depends. 
Amateurs generally are so ignorant 
about the feeding of plants that I may be 
pardoned for introducing the matter here 
as far as it concerns Roses. The amateur 
usually forgets that a manure must 'con¬ 
tain a great variety of different elements. 
It does not do to give them undue wrong 
conditions or out of their correct propor¬ 
tion. nor without some suitable men¬ 
struum to prevent them from being con¬ 
centrated. 
Analysis shows that roots, wood, leaves 
and flowers, roughly speaking, con¬ 
tain : - 
Roots. Wood.' Leaves. Flowers 
Potash . 14 14 33 48 
Soda . 4212 
Lime . 4 1 5 1 3 1 3 1 
Magnesia . 7899 
Iron . 3 4 2 2 
Phosphorus . 29 10 12 12 
Sulphur . 2244 
Silica . 1-5461 
Chlorine . 1-5 3 1 i 
They also contain very considerable 
amounts of nitrogen, carbon, water, and 
ammonia. 
It is manifest, then, the manure that 
will help the roots must be administered 
at the time when the roots (which are 
essential for absorbing food for the com¬ 
ing leaves and flowers) are developing. 
Later on, to produce firm wood, we alter 
its proportions. Later on, to obtain 
plenty of handsome foliage and to give 
the plant a sufficiency of lungs, we in¬ 
crease some of the elements and diminish 
others. When the flowers are coming on 
we must again alter the proportions of 
our manures, or our plants will not make 
any proper display. 
The space at my command will not 
allow of my treating this all-important 
subject fully. I only want now to remind 
my readers that they must not administer 
manures on any haphazard lines; and to 
show why from month to month I am 
advising differently-constituted prepara¬ 
tions. I would also advise my friends 
when in doubt to enquire of their nur¬ 
seryman what is the proper thing to do. 
It seems such a simple thing to give 
your plants-plenty of water and it is so 
easy to forget to water them that I may be 
pardoned for saying you must do these 
two things on scientific lines, so that 
your plants may be properly nourished. 
I will speak of this in a separate paper. 
Charcoal is so rarely used by amateurs 
and so vitally important to your Roses, 
that I would very strongly urge you to 
sprinkle a few handfuls of charcoal 
rubbles amongst the roots when planting 
your Roses. It holds and stores up many 
other essentials of plant life to be given 
off gradually as the plant requires them, 
instead of their being lost by being 
washed out of the ground. The Rose is 
a gross feeder, and unless you feed it 
well you will not obtain good results ; 
only we must remember to give it the 
right kind of food; for a delicate Tea 
Rose manifestly requires different treat¬ 
ment to that which is suitable to a sturdy 
Rosa rugosa. 
Nearly all the diseases of Roses are 
caused by bad feeding. If you withhold 
one element the others cannot act pro¬ 
perly. For instance, give your Roses 
sulphur in proper food combinations, and 
you will not need to dust them with sul¬ 
phur, because there will be no disease. 
I treat my Roses very much as I would 
children, and I'find the more loving care 
I give them the better results I obtain. 
Baynton-Taylor. 
Propagating Fuchsias. 
•During the month of February old 
Fuchsia plants should be slightly pruned 
or cut back as shown in Fig. 1 herewith, 
and be placed in gentle warmth, say fifty- 
five or sixty degrees, to start them into 
growth, and after a short time a large 
number of shoots suitable for propagating 
purposes will be available. The cuttings 
when prepared should be 2\ in. or 3 in. in 
length, and may be taken with a small 
portion of old wood or heel attached, as 
shown in Fig. 2, the cross line indicating 
where to cut off any ragged portion of 
the heel, or the stem of the shoot can be 
cut across immediately below a joint as 
shown in Fig. 3. 
Light sandy soil should be used and the 
pots be well drained, the usual practice 
being to insert several cuttings round the 
edge of a 4 in. or 5 in. pot. Make the 
surface of the soil firm, and cover it with 
a layer of sand. Use a stick with a blunt 
end, as £ ig. 4, to make the holes to re¬ 
ceive the cutting and see that a small 
quantity of sand is carried to the bottom 
of each to receive the base of the cut- 
tin?. Insert the cuttings firmly, water 
them in, and plunge the pots in a pro¬ 
pagating case or under a bell glass or 
handlight, and keep close in a tempera¬ 
ture of not less than sixty degrees. 
The R.H.S. and Affiliated Societies. 
The Royal Horticultural Sociefi 
“Book of Arrangements for 1908'’ co 
tains the following note : ^One of the me 
successful of the many new' branches 
wmrk undertaken since the reconstructk 
of the society in 1887 is the unification 
all horticultural, floral and gardenii 
societies by a scheme of affiliation to t] 
R.H.S. Since this was initiated, no le 
than 2.00 societies have joined our rani 
and that number is steadily increasing 
As soon as the cuttings have emitt 
roots, this being indicated by the appe; 
ance of new' top growth, a little air show 
be admitted to the case, the quanti 
being increased day by day until t 
young plants are fully exposed w'hen th 
should be placed in a light position 
the greenhouse. As soon as the plar 
are well rooted they should be pott 
singly into 35 in. pots, compost consi: 
ing of equal parts loam and leaf moul 
and a fifth part of sand being suitabl 
Keep the plants close for a Few days un 
the roots have obtained a hold on the ne 
soil, and afterwards grow on steadily ai 
shift into larger sized pots as required, 
good general compost for Fuchsias co 
sisting of four parts fibrous - loam, oi 
part leaf soil, one part decayed manur 
and a little sand. 
Plants to be trained as small bush ■ 
should have the point of the shoot pinchi 
out as soon as they are seven or eig 
inches high, w'hilst those to be trained 
pyramids should have the leading grow 
stormed two or three times, and the sic 
shoots pinched out as required to pr 
serve and obtain the desire shape. Sta 
dard grown Fuschias, of course, requi 
to be kept to one stem until the desire 
height is reached, W'hen the point of tl 
growth should be pinched out to indut 
the plan*: to form a head. 
L_ y i \ 1 1 f; ORTUS. 
