Beautifying . . 
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should be removed to a dry, cool place 
for the winter, to be brought forward as 
required in the following spring. 
The following selection represents a 
good variation in the way of colour: — 
Admiration, deep rose, eye white; Argus, 
deep plum-colour, spotted with carmine, 
• eye orange; Diadem, magenta and crim- 
json, eye yellow; Edmund Bossier, white 
and purple, flaked with orange; Firefly, 
reddish carmine, eye golden; Grandis, 
deep violet; Harry Williams, bright cerise 
and mauve, spotted maroon, eye yellow; 
Longiflora major, large pure blue ; Longi- 
flora alba, pure white; Loveliness, rich 
magenta and crimson; Mauve Queen, 
pure mauve; MetAm, crimson-scarlet, eye 
golden yellow; Veischaffelt, white veined 
with purple; Pulchella, blue, with violet 
•centre; Williamsi, brilliant scarlet, 
throat, orange-yellow. 
J. W. J. 
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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
A Fine Annual Statiee 
(Statiee Suworowi) 
Many amateur gardeners have an un¬ 
sightly wall which is a constant eyesore 
to themselves and others. What can be 
more objectionable as a background to a 
beautiful garden than a bare, dirty wall ? 
I will suggest a way of transforming such 
a wall into an object of loveliness. I may 
observe that a partly shaded wall, or one 
that does not get the midday sun, will 
best lend itself to the. treatment I am 
about to describe. 
In the first place holes should be made 
in the wall about one foot apart, and into 
these holes wooden pegs securely fixed, 
allowing the pegs to protrude about three 
inches. Then procure lengths of strong 
inch-mesh wire netting, and fasten this 
against the pegs over the whole of the 
face of the wall. Begin with the netting 
along the lower pegs, and pack the space 
between the netting and the wall with a 
compost which I will describe, directly, 
how to make. Proceed next with a higher 
length of netting, working the compost 
behind this as well, and so on until the 
top of the wall is reached and the whole 
wall covered. 
The compost for this operation should 
,be very turfy, so that it will not easily 
fall away from the wall through the 
meshes of the netting. The following 
will prove useful for the purposeTurfy 
loam, peat, charcoal and sphagnum moss, 
well broken up and mixed; this should 
be riddled, and all that passes through 
an inch sieve discarded. 
After the wall is completed it should 
be thoroughly syringed so that every part 
of the soil is well saturated. Then after 
an interval of a few days in order to al¬ 
low the soil to settle we may furnish the 
wall with the plants which it is intended 
to grow on it. These may consist of 
Ferns, Saxifragas, Begonias, Tradescan- 
tias. Panicums, Selaginellas, and many 
other charming dwarf subjects. If care¬ 
fully tended and watered when necessary 
these plants will thrive remarkably well 
and soon clothe the bare wall with beau¬ 
tiful foliage and flowers. 
At the end of three years the soil should 
be renewed and replanted. 
Joseph Floyd. 
Statiee Suworowi. 
Most of the popular species of Statiee 
or Sea Lavender are perennials suitable 
either for the'hardy border or the rockery. 
The above species, however, is an annual 
of easy management. It may be sown in 
the open ground in April; or if one /de¬ 
sires to get the plants advanced early, 
he can sow in a little warmth about the 
middle of March. The plants sown in 
the open ground will, however, answer 
the purpose admirably. The seedling 
forms a rosette of leaves on the ground, 
and from the centre of this a single 
branching stem arises, but as it branches 
more or less from the base, the plants 
should be thinned out to 6 in., and they 
will not only occupy this ground, but 
branch more freely and keep up a suc¬ 
cession of bloom for a longer period of 
time. 
Very fine specimens would require a 
' foot apart, and even then a bed of them 
or patches in the border would be very 
handsome during August and September. 
The plant varies in height from. 1 ft. to 
2 ft., according to its strength. Each 
stem or branch ends in a long spike of 
pink flowers. The individual bloom is 
Maclaren and Sons. 
small, but produced in such numbers as 
to be very effective. The species is a 
native, of Central Asia, and first reached 
our shores in 1883. Since then seeds 
have been grown rather extensively by 
the seed farmers here, and most seeds¬ 
men effer seeds of it. 
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A Grass Murderer. 
Dr. Poch, the Austrian anthropologist, 
who has spent a long time in New Guinea, 
tells of a remarkable variety of grass 
that makes fierce warfare upon other 
kinds of vegetation, so that practically 
nothing else grows where it gets a foot¬ 
hold. The natives call it alang. It has 
a tall, thick, and tough stalk, but its 
greatest peculiarity is its roots, which 
spread out through every particle of earth 
they reach and give it a matted texture 
something like felt. There is reallv no 
room left for the roots of any other kind 
ot vegetation. Fields of alang cannot 
exist in forests because the plant does not 
thrive in the shade. Neither can any 
kind of tree make headway in a patch of 
alang. 
