February 22, 1908. 
TUB QARDBNINQ WORLD. 
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Pandanus Sanderi. 
A Useful Foliage Plant. 
Pandanus Sanderi. 
. . Growing . . 
Delphiniums. 
These stately plants are very handsome 
if they are grown in borders down both 
sides of a path. The long, bold flower 
spikes vary in colour from the palest sky- 
blue to the darkest shades of indigo, vio¬ 
let and plum; some are tinged with pink, 
rose, or even purple, and the pretty bee¬ 
like centres vary in colour from pure 
white to bronzy-black. If they are planted 
on either side of a walk, they look pic¬ 
turesque and majestic. They can also be 
grown in clumps or in tubs along the 
front of the residence. If grown in tubs 
they need more attention as to liquid 
manure and watering. The inside of the 
tub should be charred by 7 burning shav¬ 
ings, to prevent fungus. Holes should be 
bored through the bottom for drainage, 
and the outside should be given two coats 
of green paint, which gives them a very 
neat appearance. Some fine gravel should 
be placed at the bottom of the tubs, after¬ 
wards filling up with good loam incor¬ 
porated with well-decayed stable manure, 
as this is essential to~have large flower 
spikes of fine texture. For a succession 
of blooms, directly they have done flower¬ 
ing they should be cut back and a mulch¬ 
ing of manure forked into the surface of 
the soil; also give them copious supplies 
of water, and this treatment will bring 
about the desired result. When grown in 
clumps, slugs are apt to work havoc 
among them, but an occasional dusting 
of soot and lime will soon give them 
notice to quit. After the flowering period 
is over coal ashes can be strewn over the 
crowns of the plants, to prevent the depre¬ 
dations of slugs during the winter and 
early spring. 
Delphiniums are very hardy, and will 
succeed in any ordinary garden soil en¬ 
riched with well-decayed manure. 
Some very good varieties are as fol¬ 
lows :—Agamemnon, single, colour soft 
mauve-pink with white eye, growing 4^ ft. 
high; Dorothy Kelway, single, soft blue 
with white eye; Enid, bright blue, white 
eve, handsome truss of bloom, 5 ft. ; 
Highland, Hulda, Joy Bells, Mrs. Miller, 
and many others which might be men¬ 
tioned, and upon which the amateur could 
well bestow his attention. 
. Joseph Floyd. 
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Very few people who have the conveni¬ 
ence of a stove do not grow P. \ eitchii, 
and to such people the plant is well 
known. P. Sanderi is a variety of the 
same species, differing merely in the 
colour of the foliage, whereas those of 
P. Veitchii are variegated with a clear 
silvery white, those of P. Sanderi are 
variegated with yellow. Both of the 
plants are useful for decorative work at 
all seasons of the year. Few plants are 
more suitable for table decoration, and 
mostly everyone who grows the plants 
utilises them for most part in this way. 
Practically they are stove plants enjoy¬ 
ing a minimum temperature of 60 deg. 
during the winter months, with a rise 
when the plants are making their growth 
in summer. This heat is not absolutely 
necessary for the preservation of the 
plant, as it may be brought through the 
winter safely 7 where the temperature is 
no higher than 50 degs. possibly some of 
our gardening friends with greenhouses 
have managed with a lower temperature 
than this. The summer time should, of 
course, be utilised for increasing the 
number of plants and also for getting 
them into good growth. The universal 
method of propagation is to take off the 
suckers that arise from the base of the 
old plant making sure of a piece of stem 
or the old wood from which it springs. 
Each sucker may be inserted in a small 
pot of very sandy soil and placed under 
warm conditions. Those who have not a 
regular propagating pit could cover the 
cuttings with a bell-glass. This is as 
much necessary to preserve atmospheric 
moisture as to raise the temperature. 
Exhibition Pansies. 
Leading exhibitors take cuttings at the 
end of August, strike them in boxes, win¬ 
ter them in a cold frame, and take cut¬ 
tings from these cuttings in April or early 
in May 7 . 
The Snowdrop. 
The Snowdrop is the herald of the flowers, 
Sent with its small white flag of truce to 
plead 
For its beleaguered brethren—suppli- 
antly 
It prays stern winter to withdraw his troop 
Of winds and blustering storms; and 
having won, . 
A smile of promise from its pitying face, 
Returns to tell the issue of its errand 
To the expectant host. 
Westwood. 
