February 22, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Pallas’s Tamarisk 
he winter, when they can be removed to 
he greenhouse on a shelf near the glass 
)r otherwise to a pit that has a pipe round 
o exclude frost, maintaining a tempera- 
ure ranging from 40 degs. to 45 degs., 
ilthough a slightly lower temperature is 
^referable. The plants must not suffer 
rom want of moisture at the root or in 
he atmosphere. 
About February they will be ready for 
heir final shift, viz., into 9 and 10-inch 
jots, the compost for this potting consist- 
ng of rough material, comprising three 
)arts loam, one dried cow manure, and a 
air percentage of charcoal and sand. 
When the centre truss of flower appears 
t should be pinched out, so as to cause 
he plants to become more bushy and 
•ompact in growth. The support of light 
takes should be given early to the plants. 
Vhen they become too large for cool 
helves, arrange them on a light green- 
louse stage covered with ashes or damp 
qoss, as a rising moisture is essential up 
ill the flowering period, when they will 
equire a more buoyant atmosphere. A 
ight, airy greenhouse is the best position 
n which to flower them, and if shaded 
rom bright sunshine, the flowering sea- 
on will be considerably prolonged. 
Throughout their career the plants are 
pt to be troubled with green aphis, but 
>y gentle fumigations with nicotine pre¬ 
parations, these will be kept in check. 
J. Tyrrell. 
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trawberries a Guinea a Pound. 
The first Strawberries of the season, re- 
ently sent to market from the Middlesex 
arcing houses, secured as much as a 
uinea a pound first hand. It took only 
.vcivp berries to weigh one pound. 
Few plants of a shrubby type are more 
graceful than species of Tamarisk which 
are represented by one British species 
which grows sparingly on our sea snores, 
but is often planted with excellent effect 
on exposed and windy places near seaside 
towns. The sea shore seems to be the 
most natural place for our own Tamarisk, 
though it will grow inland. That under 
notice has come to the front within recent 
years and is well adapted for making 
clumps or beds in pleasure grounds, as 
the accompanying illustration shows, 
and which was photographed in the 
grounds at Kew during the third week 
of August last. 
Even the main stems are slender, and 
they give off a great number of twiggy 
growths as fine as those of a Heath. 
The leaves are exceedingly minute, 
merely clothing the twiggy stems much in 
the same way as a Chinese Juniper. They 
do not appear, in fact, to be in leaf, but 
merely to form a bushy growth of fine 
sprays of a delicate green and feathery 
in appearance. The flowers of this one 
are bright pink and produced in branch¬ 
ing racemes at tlje tips of the shoots. A 
very large proportion of the tips of the 
-shoots in the accompanying figure are 
covered with flowers, but individually 
each is small, although the number is 
infinite. 
The whole plant is evidently adapted 
for planting in windy situations, although 
not necessarily cold ones. Those who 
would add it to their collections might 
select soil that is light and sandy, as 
(Tamarix Pallasii rosea). 
damp would be more prejudicial to 
plants of this class than mere cold. Each 
plant may form an isolated specimen, 
when it will grow into a bush of good size, 
but a number of plants could form a clump 
or bed and will be more quickly effec¬ 
tive, although there is no reason why the 
planting of single specimens should not 
be attempted. Besides the slender 
Heath-like character of the twiggy stems 
and foliage the numerous tiny flowers are 
very pleasing and effective in the grounds 
at a time when shrubs in most cases have 
finished flowering for the season. The 
plant can be readily increased by taking 
cuttings of the young wood after it has 
become fairly firm, inserting them in light 
sandy soil, and covering them with a 
handlight or bell-glass. This could be 
done late in summer when the heat of the 
sun will be sufficient to induce them to 
emit roots. 
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Gardening for Consumptives. 
There has recently been inaugurated 
near High Wycombe a scheme for the 
open-air employment of consumptive con¬ 
valescents. Earl Carrington, President 
of the Board of Agriculture, has placed at 
the disposal of a newly-formed association 
a site of twenty-eight acres to be held at a 
rental of ^28 a year. The ground is 
already ploughed, so that growing vege¬ 
tables and a scheme of market gardening 
can be-begun at once. The capital will 
be £500 in £1 shares, bearing no interest; 
nearly all the shares are taken up. 
Tamarix Pallasii rosea. 
Maclaren and Sons. 
