The Gardening World, November 28, 1908. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK:’ 
“ Every green thing loves to die In bright 
colours ?*’—Ward Beecher. 
CONTENTS . 
Amateur’s Letter to Amateurs, An 735 
Chrysanthemums Madame C. Des- 
granges (illus.) .73 8 
Competition Awards . 73 6 
Competition, Prize Letter. 74 6 
Delphiniums, Grown for Effect . 73 6 
Enquire Within . 743 
Flower Garden, The (illus.) . 74 1 
Fruit Garden, The (illus.) .•• 74 1 
Fungus Pests, Destructive . 73 8 
Greenhouse, Economy in Heating 
a Lean-to . 73 6 
Greenhouse, The Amateur’s . 74 2 
Kitchen Garden, The (illus.) . 74 2 
Labels for Plants .. 743 
Onions, The Storing of . 74 ° 
Orchids for Amateurs . 74 2 
Photography for Garden Lovers 
(illus.) . 739 
Rhododendron Pink Pearl (illus.) ... 737 
Sweet Peas: November . 74 ° 
Walls, and How to Clothe Them 
(illus.) . 737 
Work of the Week (illus.) . 74 1 
‘Jhe Swikxwe’s T^usimss. 
To study culture, and with artful toil, 
To 'meliorate, and with artful toil. 
To give dissimilar yet fruitful land, 
The grain, the herb, the plant that each 
demand. 
These, these are arts pursued without a 
crime, 
That leave no stain upon the wings of 
Time. Cowfer. 
-f+4- 
Thanks to the human heart, by which we 
live: 
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and 
fears: 
To me the meanest flower that blows can 
give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for 
tears. 
W ordswortli. 
CLXXI. 
Lawn Beds. 
It is a perplexing point to a good many 
keen gardeness who need as much space 
as they can possibly obtain for flowers 
whether the lawn should be utilised for 
the introduction of flower beds or not. 
Where the whole available lawn is re¬ 
quired for tennis or croquet far better 
not try and crowd in a small lonely bed 
at some corner I think, for the solitary 
isolated little patch of colour is seldom 
effective under the circumstances, and 
the unbroken green is more reposeful 
and decorative. But supposing the lawn 
is not wanted for any game, or there is 
ample space to spare over and above that 
to be set aside for tennis or anything 
else, then, I think, if we desire to make 
a lawn garden it is possible to make this 
a charming feature of the garden all the 
more desirable if we have another lawn 
elsewhere in the garden to give us the 
reposeful stretch of level green. I am 
quite sure that beds of the boldest and 
simplest design, large and few in num¬ 
ber are to be “recommended. Thus I 
would far rather see a border-bed running 
down the length of the lawn some two or 
three feet from the edge than a certain 
number of small circular beds at regu¬ 
lar distances apart down the same space. 
Then, again, I greatly dislike an isolated 
bed on a lawn whether it be large or 
small, unless it does become a border- 
bed as I have called it, and take in the 
whole length or breadth of the lawn as 
the case may be, for then it becomes 
reallv a foundation line in the general 
design, and not an irritating patch. I 
came across a very charming lawn gar¬ 
den this summer. It was beyond the 
tennis court, and far enough beyond not 
to be in the way. It had not the for¬ 
mal! tv of the old crudely conventional 
parterre, because the beds were large 
enough not to cause any assertive sense 
of geometrical design, and most skill¬ 
fully had large old tree blocks and 
stumps been introduced covered with 
glowing masses of Helianthemums, or 
Rock Roses, to break ud the dead level. 
Standard Rose trees also helped to do 
this, and magnificent groups of Pampas 
Grass. And the charm of this lawn 
garden—its great charm—lay in the fact 
that it was not bedded out with tender 
summer subjects, but was permanently 
ol anted with the choicest and most 
beautiful hardy plants— Lilies, Roses, 
Carnations, Tritonias. Auccas. Ranun¬ 
culi, Veronicas. Linums, Hemerocallis, 
and many others.. Most of the beds were 
long and narrow, some crescent formed, 
and some L shaped, and there was not a 
round bed among them. A round bed to 
mv mind is an infliction not to be suf¬ 
fered. There was nothing very tall in 
the beds to hide the vista, and give a 
choked-un appearance. I mention this 
lawn garden at this time because the pre¬ 
sent is a convenient season when lawn 
gardens may be made, altered, and, if 
desired, permanently planted. 
Shrubs on Lawns. 
Nine out of ten lawns would be far 
more beautiful if no shrubs were planted, 
that is to say, where the lawn has a beau¬ 
tiful setting of trees at its outskirts, yet 
sometimes a group of flowering trees 
and shrubs may become a valuable fea¬ 
ture. On the other hand, I have seen a 
lawn with all its beauty marred, in fact 
entirely lost, by having numerous isolated 
evergreen shrubs dotted over it. There 
was a reason—they were planted to break 
the wind, it being an exposed, wind¬ 
swept spot. But even so, I cannot re¬ 
concile myself to this' method of shelter¬ 
ing the house from it. Far rather wpuld 
I have planted the shrubs as a belt be¬ 
yond the lawn, and, to be sure, it would 
have answered the purpose better. 
A Rose Note. 
Many a Rose would be budded in July 
if the ardent Rose lover had but remem¬ 
bered in the previous November to secure 
for himself the briers either to form stan¬ 
dards or dwarf bushes. All the same, we 
must not forget the value of Roses on 
their own roots, and cuttings that may 7 
have been planted within the last few 
weeks should be watched. I have still a 
few cuttings to put in, so I have a fancy 
for a few more specimens of that delight¬ 
ful Rose, Madame Lambard. I shall 
plant them in the open. I always find I 
am far more successful in rooting them 
outside than when the cuttings are placed 
in pots and grown in a cold greenhouse, 
in fact most cuttings of trees and shrubs 
I would rather root in the open border. 
But, talking of briers reminds me to sug¬ 
gest to my readers the desirability 7 of 
securing a few unusually tall ones in 
standard form so that when the time 
comes we may form one or more of those 
picturesque weeping Roses. A weeping 
Dorothy Perkins is charming, and at vari¬ 
ous shows always wins admiration, and 
I notice one firm - in particular which 
often shows, excellent specimens, growing, 
of course, in pots, but in the garden- 
scape, with the garden for setting and 
background, they are still more beau¬ 
tiful ' F. Norfolk. 
-- 
Chrysanthemum H. W. Thorp. 
In this we have a seedling from Butter¬ 
cup which is bright yellow, whereas the 
seedling has- given white flowers, but has 
retained the incurved type of the Chinese 
Chrvsanthemum. Award of Merit by the 
R.H.S. when shown bv H. W. Thorp, 
Esq.. Domington, V orthing. 
Chrysanthemum Mrs. R. H. B. Marsham. 
The above is stated to be a seedling 
from F. S. Vallis differing chiefly in 
being pure white. The slender florets are 
more or less twisted and interlaced. 
Award of Merit by 7 the R.H.S. when 
shown by R. H. B. Marsham, Esq. 
(gardener Air. V . Fairweather), Bifrons, 
Canterburv. 
