March z i, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Diar.thus cbinertsis. 
Maclaren and Sons. 
t ARF Veronica 
quires. Provided each piece is well 
rooted, the plant will take readily to the 
change. It may also be propagated to 
any extent by mems of cuttings during 
July and August. 
The 
CHINESE 
Pink 
(Dianthus chinensis.) 
Apart from Sweet Williams, the 
Chinese Pink is, perhaps, the most easily 
managed of all the Dianthus family by 
the inexperienced or those who have not 
much time to spend on layering, pro¬ 
pagation by cuttings, staking, watering, 
and otherwise attending to them. It re¬ 
quires to be sown about the middle of 
March in pots and placed in a cold frame 
to get the plants sufficiently advanced 
to flower by the end of August. Those 
w’ho have hotbeds or a heated greenhouse 
could, of course, sow 7 seeds, say, about 
the beginning of March and bring on the 
young plants a little more rapidly. 
In either case little more attention is 
required beyond keeping the seedlings 
watered, pricking them into boxes when 
the seed leaves are about full grown and 
giving the necessary ventilation. These 
boxes can be kept in the cold frame and 
gjvefi an increasing amount of ventila¬ 
tion as the season advances, until towards 
the end of May the sash can be left off 
altogether, or the boxes of seedlings 
placed out of doors in a sheltered situa¬ 
tion. In most years the weather becomes 
sufficiently mild to permit of these plants 
being put into their flowering quarters 
by 7 the end of May. They may be 
planted out in lines 8 in. apart and 4 in. 
to 6 in. in the line, according to the 
space at command. A number of shoots 
will be produced, each giving rise to a 
flower stem some time in August, and 
these then keep up a succession of bloom 
for several weeks to come. 
The accompanying illustration shows 
three or four spravs grown in a London 
suburban garden by the above method. 
(Veronica Teucrium dubia). 
The plant known amongst botanists as 
Monica Teucrium is remarkably vari- 
ale as to habit, height, and size of the 
ftvers and leaves. The variety 7 selected 
i one of the dw'arfest forms and one of 
t‘ most ornamental for a rockery. The 
lives are linear and almost whthout 
t,th. The flower stems are usually 
abut 6 in. long, but arch over loosely 
i: her than stand erect. The flowers are 
pduced in short racemes from the axils 
cj the leafy flower stems, and are of a 
rh blue colour. Each bloom is rela- 
tjely large for a small plant like this, 
£|i comparable to the Germander Speed- 
vjll, when seen at its best on a dry bank 
l the wayside. They 7 are more durable, 
1 vever, and if a position is selected on 
c ferent aspects of the rockery for a plant 
t ier these varying conditions, a succes- 
s n of bloom will be kept up for a long 
j 'iod during the best part of summer. 
C r photograph w 7 as taken in the rockery 7 
sKew towards the end of June. 
Vs the plant is perfectly 7 hardy, it may 
s nd on the rockerv all the year round, 
a 1 as it grows freely, the cultivator has 
r difficulty in getting young plants by 
t :ing off pieces or lifting the wffiole 
c mp in September or in March and 
c iding it into as many pieces as he re- 
Veronica Teucrium dubia. 
Maclaren and Sons. 
