March 21, tgo8. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Planting Horseradish. 
The Gulture of horseradish. 
A.n Annual . . . 
LILY. 
CZ___ 
There is a very elegant species of Lilium 
which comes to us from Siberia which 
may be grown and flowered from seed in 
a few months. It is, of course, like all 
true Lilies, a perennial, but, owing to its 
quick growth and comparative small size, 
seeds sown in gentle heat in February or 
March will produce plants which will 
bloom in July or August. 
The flowers are scarlet, a most intense 
and rich shade. They are produced, seve¬ 
ral together, on slender stems clothed 
with narrow foliage. Some care is neces¬ 
sary in raising all Lilies from seeds, and 
Lilium tenuifolium is no exception. It 
is advisable to sow two or three seeds to¬ 
gether in a 3-inch pot, using sandy loam 
mixed with peat; two-thirds of the former 
to one of the latter. Place the seeds one 
inch apart, and cover with one-eighth of 
an inch of soil. The pots may be plunged 
in a gentle hotbed, but as soon as ger¬ 
mination takes place cooler treatment 
must be given. After a time select the 
strongest plantlet and remove the rest. 
All that now remains to be done is to 
keep the young Lily growing steadily 
close to the glass until May, when it 
should be carefully removed from the pot 
without breaking the ball of soil, and 
planted out in rather poor soil, preferably 
of a sandv character. Peat max be added, 
but it is not essential. 
Erica. 
-- 
Four ducks on a pond, 
A grass bank beyond— 
A blue sky of Spring, 
White clouds on the wing. 
How little a thing 
To remember for years; 
To remember with tears! 
W. ALLIIsGHAM. 
rhe Cow Tree. 
The cow tree of Venezuela yields a milk 
of good quality. The trees form large 
forests along the sea coasts, and the milk, 
which is obtained by making incisions m 
the trunk, so closely resembles that from 
che cow, both in ajppearance and qualit), 
that it is commonly used by the natives 
as an article of food. Lnlike many other 
vegetable milks, it is perfectly wholesome 
and very nourishing, possessing an agree¬ 
able taste, resembling cream, and a plea¬ 
sant balsamic odour. 
The Uenard Train. 
The second number of “ Our Land 
reproduces some photographic illustra¬ 
tions of the Renard Train, in which the 
special feature is that each coach is 
driven, not trailed. None of them are 
therefore dragged, but the motor, which 
is in front, supplies the power to special 
machinery on each of the carriages. It 
is, of course, intended to be of- service for 
agricultural purposes, not only in carry¬ 
ing goods, but also in carrying children 
to and fro from a distant school, so that 
these road trains are intended for passen¬ 
gers as well as goodsf 
Although Horseradish is a most vigor¬ 
ous plant and will thrive in almost any 
aspect, the ground in which it is grown 
must be deeply dug and fairly" well ma¬ 
nured if straight, thick sticks of this ap¬ 
petising root are required. Where a 
fair quantity of Horseradish is regularly- 
used, the bed in time becomes exhausted, 
and in order to keep up a supply- of use¬ 
ful sticks, a part of the bed should be re¬ 
made every 'one or two years, the most 
suitable time for doing this work being 
during the months of January or Febru¬ 
ary, when the weather permits and the 
soil is in a workable condition. The 
ground must be prepared by being bastard 
trenched or double dug to a depth of at 
least eighteen inches, a liberal quantity 
of stable or farmyard manure being 
worked as deeply as possible into the bot¬ 
tom portion of the digging. 
Almost any piece of. Horseradish root 
will grow and push itself up through the 
surface, but in order to get thick and 
straight sticks, suitable root cuttings or 
sets should be selected, and although 
pieces that have a crown at the top as 
shown in fig. 1 herewith are the best, 
lengths of root cut square across the top 
as fig. 2 will readily grow. Fig. 1 shows 
How to Get Thick and 
WeIl=Shaped Sticks. 
the remains of a stick of Horseradish that 
has been scraped for household use, such 
pieces making splendid cuttings or sets. 
To plant Horseradish one or two inches 
below the surface of the ground as shown 
on the left-hand side of fig. 3 is a mis¬ 
take, and usually results in the produc¬ 
tion of many-legged, thin, useless roots 
similar to that shown on the right-hand 
side of fig. 3. The root cuttings should 
be planted in rows, twelve inches apart, 
with about ten inches from set to set, 
holes, some ten or twelve inches deep, be¬ 
ing made with a good strong dibber to 
receive them, as shown in fig. 4. If the 
soil is very- stiff and heavy, it is best to 
fill the holes containing the sets with 
•sandy soil as shown at A in fig. 4, other¬ 
wise ordinary soil will answer, and in a 
few months growth will make its appear¬ 
ance above the surface, as shown in fig. 5, 
the roots being straight and long, and 
after a time they will thicken out and 
plenty- of serviceable sticks be available 
for use. Another method of dealing with 
Horseradish root cuttings is to plant them 
in the ground as it is being trenched and 
prepared, this, of course, doing away- with 
the trouble of afterwards dibbling in the 
sets. 
Ortus. 
