"Gardknlyg 'World, January 2 , 1909 . 
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MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty 
read."— Bible. 
C DNTBNT s. 
ateur's Letter to Amateurs . 1 
ipetition Awards . 2 
juire Within . 10 
wer Garden, The (Ulus.) ■;. 7 
it, British Grown .- 6 
it Garden, The (illus.) . 7 
enhouse (Cold), How to Make the 
■est of the . 2 
■enhouse, The Amateur's .. 8 
, The Golden (illus.) . 6 
:hen Garden, The (illus.) . 7 
hids for Amateurs . 8 
isies for Exhibition . 2 
itography for Garden Lovers 
Hus.) .... 3 
nula, A Handsome Hardy (illus.) 9 
:et Peas .. 4 
iter Protection for Plants (illus.) 5 
rk of the Week . 7 
Kolb* axui 
he Ivy is a bonny tree, 
And long may she grow green! 
ike little hearts her leaves we see. 
The berries black between. 
he forest ladies pour their wine 
Beneath the Ivy-tree: 
leir leaves are made of Ivy-twine, 
But Holly is for me! 
'he Holly-leaf’s a sword to keep 
All browsing beasts at bay; 
|Io sudden frosts upon her leap 
To reave her gems away, 
jler bloom is shed in rubies red 
To make the houses fair, 
i hen virgin-bells chime overhead 
For Christmas in the air. 
|)f all trees evergreen or sear, 
The Holly-tree 1 take: 
end of her coral berries here, 
My garlanding I make, 
hough green the loyal Ivy be, 
At grave and window bar, 
'he Holly-tree keeps company 
With God’s own Christmas star. 
Nora Chesson, 
in “One and All Gardening.” 
It is.wonderful how it adds to the in¬ 
terest of a garden to make some little 
annual addition, change, or alteration — 
and the winter is generally the time when 
such matters may be taken in hand. I 
remember so well going to a friend's gar¬ 
den last winter, and he was greatly ab¬ 
sorbed and interested. “ There,” he said, 
pointing to a bold newly-planted border, 
"you .see the tumble-down, worn-up old 
greenhouse has gone—pulled down—and 
a bit of sweet, hardy garden is henceforth 
to take its place.” I could not help feel¬ 
ing the wisdom of the operation, a worn- 
up, roof-leaking, old greenhouse is often 
better down, unless it is effectively re¬ 
paired. And during the ensuing summer 
that garden has gained more than one 
could have thought possible by that ad¬ 
ditional border, bringing, as it has, a 
beautiful wealth of flowers where before 
no bright colour has been possible, ex¬ 
cept as seen behind the glass. 
I have had the subject of lawn gardens 
forced on my mind of late. “ Do you 
ever advise the planting of lawns ? ” How 
shall I answer this correspondent? It is 
a weighty matter. If there be but one 
small lawn in the garden, then, I would 
say that, as a whole, we must have a 
quiet, unbroken and restful stretch of 
green, and I would not plant it, or, at 
least, if I did, it should be the simplest 
of long, straight, narrow borders at one or 
both sides, and just about the width of 
the mowing machine from the edge, or 
less. 
But where there is a very large lawn, 
larger than the needs for croquet or a 
couple of tennis grounds, then, if there 
should still be ample surrounding space, 
and anything remaining, why, that I 
should delight in making into a lawn 
garden. I have before me as I write an 
engraving of the beautiful lawn garden 
at Edge Hall. Cheshire, showing a lawn 
garden, close up to the windows of the 
house. But, O reader, when I write those 
words lawn garden, I am not for a 
moment thinking of mere summer bed¬ 
ding—the beds are to be 'permanently 
planted, and that largely with subjects 
of a bold and distinct character, the beau¬ 
tiful hardy things that have so much more 
interest and individuality than plants 
that are put out in dozens and hundreds 
for a few months. If the lawn garden 
should be in sight of some of the prin¬ 
cipal windows of the house, so much the 
better, for often, where there is a con¬ 
siderable lawn it means that no flower 
borders are in sight from these windows. 
I can recall several gardens where this 
is so, and I am always struck by the lack 
of colour from these points of vantage. 
I know the flower borders are to be found, 
but they, are just out of sight. 
Arches and Rockwork. 
Among the winter work let us not 
nehlect to think if one, or even a series, 
of arches might not be a picturesque addi¬ 
tion to the garden. A great mass of 
Crimson Rambler Roses, of Clematis, of 
Honeysuckle, is something to be rec¬ 
koned with in thinking out the summer 
beauty We would achieve. Colour above 
the eye level such as this means has ex¬ 
ceedingly great decorative value, and 
often the effective treatment of a sharp 
slope presents -a difficult problem. W hen 
this has a hot dry aspect perhaps the best 
thing to do is to put a quantity of bold 
pieces of stone and rock into it, embedded 
in it, and plant between various easily- 
grown rock-loving plants. The large 
slabs of stone and rock are invaluable for 
holding moisture in the soil beneath 
them, and the plants get their roots down 
into these cool moist root runs and do not 
suffer from the dry aspect as they would 
without the stones to help them. I often 
think that we do not value the use of 
stone as we should, as a retainer of mois-: 
ture in the soil. In treating such a slope 
as I am describing, I should be inclined 
to keep the stone only slightly raised 
above the surface, and to use chiefly 
plants that have a vide spreading habit, 
like the Aubrietias, and plants like 
Daphne Cneorum, Iberis sempervirens, 
cut back a bit each year after flowering, 
Potentilla formosa and P. pyrenaica, P. 
recta, and very freely of the beautiful 
varieties of Dianthus hybridus—some of 
these flower continuously. Even now, mid- 
December, here in this East Anglian 
garden, are a few plants shoving a con¬ 
siderable quantity of bright, rose coloured 
flowers, which constitute their third 
flowering this year. Freely, too, would I 
use in this position the Rock Roses in all 
the wide range of colouring. These Rock 
Roses are wonderfully easy to rear from 
seed, and they might well be among the 
things we make up our minds to rear 
in the now-to-be-thought-of seed-sowing 
season which, once the New Year turns, 
is soon upon us. Then, I would plant on 
this slope Violas, at any rate V. cornuta, 
and Veronica repens, and Saxifrages and 
Sedums. 
F. Norfolk. 
-- 
Monster Carrots. 
A Letter to the Editor. 
The enclosed photo .shows eleven mar¬ 
vellous roots, grown at Durris House. 
The total weight of the eleven roots is 
43 lbs., that is, almost an average of 
4 lbs. each, while the heaviest turned the 
scale at 4! lbs. The variety is Sutton’s 
New Red. Perhaps this might be inter¬ 
esting to the readers of The Gardening 
World. 
J. W. Forsyth. 
[The photograph was unsuitable for 
reproduction, but it gave an indication 
of roots of great size that must have 
been grown in fertile soil, though not 
specially prepared for growing exhibition 
Carrots.—E d.] 
