: Gardening World, November 14, 190S. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
Then came the autumn all in yellow 
, laden with fruits that made him laugh 
glad.”— Spenser. 
CONTENTS. 
lateur's Letter to Amateurs, An 709 
rder, Making a new Flower . 7 10 
rysanthemums : “ Rusting and 
Damping'’ . 7 r 3 
mpetition Awards . 7 10 
hlias, First Prize Stand of Pom- 
lon ;illus.)' .-. 7 11 
quire Within . 7 1 7 
Diver Garden. The (illus.) .;.. 7 I S 
eesia, The Culture of the . 7 11 
uit Garden, The. 7 J 5 
eenhouse, The Amateurs . 7 1 *- 1 
ppeastrums, The Culture of . 7 10 
s, A Fine Spanish (illus.) . 7 12 
tchen Garden. The (illus.' . 7 J 5 
chids for Amateurs . 7 16 
use Blanche Double de Coubert 
illus.) . 7 j 3 
ses .. ; 712 
ntilation of Greenhouses (illus.) /i 4 
irk of the Week (illus.) . 7 X 5 
IKka \(m5. 
en the autumn wanes with its after¬ 
glow 
rom the fields stripped bare, from the 
lanes left dumb ; 
en last leaves fall to their graves 
below, 
.nd last flowers wither, and no bees 
hum; 
en the hills peer forth in their purple 
hoods, 
fight and morn, with a front of _f6ar> 
1 a wail of wind shakes the wistful 
woods, 
deeping, “We die with the dying 
year — 
n, how vain seem the hopes that bring 
’he cuckoo's cry where the redbreast 
reigns! 
rd how hard to forecast the spring 
When the autumn wanes! 
S. Gertrude Ford 
in the "Dailv News. 
CLX 1 X. 
It is a small thing, perhaps, but it 
means a considerable amount of enjoy¬ 
ment through dull, grey months to have 
in the garden some few plants that carry 
their flower buds showily' and assertively 
throughout the winter. Such plants are 
to be secured, and it means a good deal 
to the flower lover to watch through a 
long bud-hood, the gradual and beauti¬ 
ful attainment of full maturity, even 
though that maturity be long delayed. 
To my mind the bud-hood stage of a 
plant or shrub is. an exceedingly interest¬ 
ing and beautiful one. 
The Laurustinus. 
It is for this reason that the Laurustinus 
(Viburnum Tinus) is so welcome an ad¬ 
dition to our gardens. We could better 
spare a more intrinsically beautiful and 
showy plant—and, indeed, it is beautiful. 
Look closely into the individual florets, 
admire the flat, white head of blossom 
at close quarters, and we realise how 
wondrously beautiful it is, and in a way 
we never can in merely passing the 
shrub. The season has arrived when we 
may consider the planting of various 
trees and shrubs, and surely the Laurus¬ 
tinus is well worthy 7 a place. In- a very- 
small garden where space was not to be 
found for it in the open. I have seen this 
subject planted against the house wall, 
and trained to it, and I was especially 
struck by the height it attained under 
these conditions. I need scarcely add 
that when thus used it must enjoy a cer¬ 
tain freedom of growth, for to be closely- 
pruned would mean a scant supply of 
blossom. 
Ericas. 
Another plant that enjoys a long bud- 
hood during this season and for weeks 
to come is the Erica, or, at least certain 
varieties of it,' among which may be 
named E. carnea. This plant might well 
be described as a winter flower. January, 
under favourable conditions, will. some¬ 
times see it in bloom. It is a delightful 
subject for the rock garden. Fourpence 
or sixpence will purchase it. It will grow 
and spread into a wide clump of white 
or pink, according to the variety chosen, 
and its patch of colour in the winter gar¬ 
den has a charmingly decorative value. 
It Is a little curious how. at this season, 
one patch or clump of flowers seems to 
go as far as five ot six at other seasons 
in furnishing a garden, and this is one 
of the reasons that makes me dwell upon 
the desirability of having a certain pro¬ 
portion of such plants for winter and very 
early spring flowering. 
Anchusa italica. 
It often strikes me when I go into a 
garden the pity 7 it is to go on growing 
year after y-ear inferior strains of hardy 
herbaceous plants. Of late y r ears mar¬ 
vellous strides have been made in the 
horticultural world, the result of careful 
selection for a few generations of plant 
life, and the hvbridisers' art has wrought 
great things, and vastly improved strains 
are the result. Take as an instance that 
blue-flowered hardy 7 perennial the An¬ 
chusa. It is an old inhabitant of our 
perennial borders. The rich colour of 
its flowers was its claim to its place, 
otherwise it was weedy and coarse, with 
little pretension to be reckoned as a high 
type of plant even in a mixed border. 
But the plant has received close and 
careful attention, its capacities and 
possibilities for refinement of growth, for 
increasing its beauty, have been seized 
upon, and the result is the Dropmore 
variety, or, to give it its full title, 
Anchusa italica Dropmore variety. I 
find it described in one catalogue as “the 
finest blue hardy plant grown,” and 
though I do not quite endorse this de¬ 
scription, still I can thoroughly recom¬ 
mend it as an excellent border subject. 
Avoid Monotony in the Garden. 
I believe in avoiding a too great same¬ 
ness and.monotony in the garden, and 
in order to do this I would plead, and 
that very 7 earnestly, that we do not, when 
the division and overhauling of the 
plants of a border takes place, plant the 
surplus in some other border. That plan 
often means a mere duplicate of the 
former, and is a distinctly bad, weak 
plan to work on. No, if we find that in 
one border there is ample material to 
plant and stock another, let us take a 
list of the plants that we may divide, and 
instead of taking portions of all and sun¬ 
dry let us devote certain subjects ex¬ 
clusively for one border, and others for 
the one that is to be stocked, and in this 
way get different plants for each. 
I know that we are sometimes told 
that we should be satisfied with one group 
only of a subject in a border, but this 
does not satisfy me, and I would far 
rather duplicate a plant or group of 
plants over and over in a border than 
distribute them all over the garden in 
every bed or border in which space could 
be found. 
And to return for a moment to that 
subject of improved strains. Among 
the familiar Monkshoods or Aconites 
there is in A. Wilsoni a charming late- 
. flowered variety. It is not, however, a 
garden hybrid, but has been brought to 
us from China. It is one of the showiest 
of all, and the flowers are large and 
borne in generous profusion. Then, 
again, among the Campanulas, C. Fer- 
gusoni decidedly is a plant to grow and 
cherish, and is of that most acceptable 
height among garden flowers, i.e., two 
feet, or thereabouts, while among older 
varieties C. persicifolia grandiflora 
Backhouseii is a grand addition to our 
gardens. F NORFOLK. 
The Fiery Thorn, either the ordinary- 
form or the variety crataegus Pyracantha 
Lelandi. is a splendid shrub for making 
a warm glow on a wall during autumn 
and winter. 
