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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Under the above title, a small book of 
54 pp. is being published by Messrs. Sut¬ 
ton and Sons, Reading. This deals en¬ 
tirely with the cultivation of grass, ex¬ 
pressly intended for garden lawns, tennis 
lawns, bowling greens, croquet grounds, 
putting greens, and cricket grounds. It 
is well illustrated with examples of per¬ 
fectly kept lawns, and the literary part 
deals with the soil and how it should be 
treated. Other subjects that require close 
attention by those who are laying down, 
renovating or otherwise altering their 
lawns are soil, grass slopes, drainage, 
weed seeds in the soil, enriching the soil, 
surface preparation, selection of seeds, 
quantity of seed sowing, worm casts, mow¬ 
ing, etc" Some people interested in lawns 
like to prepare the ground for themselves 
or else to superintend it, and also get the 
proper kind of seeds This book gives a 
list of the most suitable species of grass 
for making good lawns. Most of the 
grasses named are of a wiry nature or 
otherwise are suited for different kinds of 
soil, and all these things have to be taken 
into consideration. Some of the Clovers 
and Yarrow are also used when they do 
not interfere with the particular games 
conducted upon such lawns. A number 
of weeds are also mentioned and the 
methods of destroying them. The book 
is obtainable from the authors for is. 
5ka of tU 
After so many years of enthusiastic 
cultivation it is but right and proper that 
the Chrysanthemum should have a litera¬ 
ture of its own. Mr. C. Harman Payne,. 
F.R.H.S., and Foreign Corresponding 
Secretary of the National Chrysanthemum 
Society, has been collecting every book 
on Chrysanthemums coming in his way. 
He has published a list of these books, 
evidently intended for the' benefit of our 
French neighbours, as the text is mostly 
in French, except in dealing with books 
by English writers, when, of course, the 
language is English. The various books 
or general treatises are classified under 
the name of the countries in which they 
have been written. England heads the 
list- as to the number of books written in 
this country, and France follows with a 
very respectable number of books written 
by their own cultivators. Books on the 
subjects have also been written in Ger¬ 
many, Australia, Austria, Belgium, 
United States, Holland, Channel Islands, 
Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and Japan. 
Strange to say, however, only three books 
are mentioned as having been written by 
Japanese growers. The pamphlet has 
been written at the request of French ex¬ 
hibitors when Mr. Harman Payne was 
acting as a member of the jury at Paris 
in November last. At the end he gives 
a list of the publications of societies, 
which would, of course, include informa¬ 
tion on the favourite flower, though not 
necessarily always cultural. 
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. . THE . . 
Ghost Plant. 
A writer in “ The American Botanist' 
mentions a number of plants under the 
above heading which are characterised b; 
being more or less entirely devoid of the 
green colouring matter of plants gener 
ally. Such must either be parasites o 
saprophytes living upon live plants o 
dead ones. We have a plant in thi 
country closely allied to the so-callei 
Indian Pipe, and the following is wha 
is said of the latter :—- 
1; Plants without green leaves arealway 
degenerates. They are beggar o 
burglar plants, and are distinguished b 
the fungus-like growth _of their deepb 
buried roots and their corpse-like bio: 
soms. The destitute organism of th 
parasite or saprophyte is usually reco] 
nised in many of our common woodlan 
plants. The family of Monotrppacea 
consists of twelve species, all of which ai 
parasitic. One of the species most fr< 
quently seen is the Indian Pipe or Corp: 
Plant (Monotropa uniflora), which grov 
among decayed leaves in dark wood 
The blossoms readily suggest a clay pi] 
with its nodding, bell-shaped bowl on tl 
end of a long waxen pipe stem. Tl 
Indians knew the flower long ago as tl 
Calumet or Pipe of Peace. Others call) 
it later the Flower of Immortality or tl 
Ghost Plant, on account of its pure whi 
garb. The whole plant turns black wh( 
bruised, and as soon as the waxy peta 
of the flowers have fallen, the seed ca 
sule becomes erect and loses the pipe-id 
character of its flowering season. V\a 
derers through the August woodlan 
scarcely recognise these as flowerii 
plants, and believe them to be some sc 
of fungus.” 
