January 23, 1909. THE GARDENING 
WORLD. 45 
Carnation Dainty Lady. 
= Garpation Dainty Liady. = 
1 at ever should be done until it is ob- 
■ rved that all of the buds have opened, 
. d the blooms have ceased to be effec- 
te. No doubt, it is sometimes planted 
uere it is very inconvenient to have long 
]3se shoots hanging down, but it is one 
, the arts of the gardener to select a 
isition where it will be allowed to com- 
ete its flowering without any necessity 
. cutting away any of those branches 
<dng to their being inconvenient for the 
: uation. 
It is quite possible, however, to tie in 
ch shoot any time after the completion 
, o-rowth, but that would entail a con- 
ierable amount of labour in tying or 
tiling, besides giving the plant a very 
rmal appearance. The best plan H to 
ive it growing in such a situation that 
e annual shoots may be allowed to hang 
iwn in their own natural way until the 
avers have passed their best. These 
mual shoots can then be cut back to a 
iod bud near the base. If this is done 
mually there will never be more than 
le seakin's shoots to cut off at the wm- 
r pruning, and the nailing is thus re- 
lced to a minimum. Pruning may be 
:complished any time in February^ if 
.e flowers cease to be ornamental. After 
.at the sooner it is done the better, be- 
luse the dormant leaf buds have all the 
ngth of our season in which to make 
id complete the next crop of flowering 
mots. 
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Chrysanthemums 
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^—A That do not 
Readily damp. 
Last season fiqo8) has probably been 
ae worst on record for damping, and 
his trouble has been general all over 
he country. None of the troubles the 
vlumist has to contend with is more an- 
toying than this, and as there seems to 
re no certain cure, or rather preventive, 
1 becomes necessary for the average 
grower to try and choose varieties that 
re not subject to this terrible scourge. 
!0f course, the showing man has to run 
he risk of damping, as he must keep 
[uite up-to-date, but to the many who 
paw large blooms for pleasure, I am 
dad to offer a list of fairly good sorts 
hat, given fair play, do not damp even 
n a season like last. Here it is : Dorothy 
>. Eady: Edith Jamieson; F. G. Oliver; 
F. S. Vallis; Godfrey's Masterpiece; J. 
d. Silsbury; Lady Talbot; Mrs. A. T. 
diller; Mme. G. Henri; Mrs. C. Beckett; 
Mrs. G. Mileham ; Airs. Norman Davis ; 
Mrs. W Knox; Nellie Pockett; Souvenir 
pe Madame Buron; W. R. Church; and 
K-V. Wells. All these, besides other older 
varieties, like Lady E. Smith, Niveus, 
and Souvenir.de Pe'tite Amie, gave first- 
rate flowers this season here, and were 
practically free from damping, so that 
they are certainly pretty sure “ doers.” 
C. Blair. 
Preston House, Linlithgow. 
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Sf.F.T) Potatos are better if of moderate 
size than large, provided they are well 
furnished with eyes or buds. 
People in many parts of the country 
have got much enamoured of the Ameri¬ 
can race of tree Carnations, often spoken 
of as perpetual flowering Carnations, and 
it is but natural to expect that our own 
growers of the Divine Flower should try 
their hand at raising new varieties in this 
country. Indeed, several very fine varie¬ 
ties have already made their mark as 
first-class things worthy of being added 
to the list of standard varieties for regu¬ 
lar cultivation. Messrs. Hugh Low and 
Co. have been busy at this work for some 
time past and have several of their own 
seedlings which are handsome and possess 
more or less distinct features to recom¬ 
mend them to the general public. 
The variety under notice is a light col¬ 
oured one and the name Dainty Lady 
applied to it is very appropriate. The 
only one that we can compare it to is 
Prosperity, but it is a larger and finer 
flower and the markings are different. 
The flowers are really white with a 
large and bright lilac-purple feathered or 
branched blotch on the middle and upper 
part of each petal. LTnfortunately fox- 
light and pleasing colours the camera 
does not represent these fine shades of 
colour, as most of the light colours, with 
the exception of yellow, are liable to dis¬ 
appear. In the case of this light-coloured 
one, therefore, we have only light and 
shadow to represent the parts of the 
flower. 
The petals are only slightly fringed 
at the margins and are therefore tending 
in the direction of being entire, which our 
own florists regard as the ideal form of 
petal in a Carnation, The flowers are 
also highly fragrant when at their best, 
and seeing that this is so, even in the 
cool weather of December, when the 
variety was shown at the exhibition of the 
Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society, 
we should expect them to be even more 
highly fragrant when the temperature is 
higher and the sun having its effect on 
the flowers. Our photograph was repro¬ 
duced from a bloom exhibited on the 
above-mentioned occasion by Messrs. 
Hugh Low and Co., Bush Hill Park, 
Middlesex. We may add that the calyx 
is strong, about 1 in. in length, so that it 
is well able to support the flower which 
is large without being lumpy or over¬ 
crowded by petals. 
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The Selborne Society has revived the 
old title of its magazine, which will 
henceforth be called “The Selborne Mag¬ 
azine and Nature Notes,” and will be 
published by Messrs. George Philip and 
Son, Ltd., of 32, Fleet Street, E.C. 
Rose Veilchenblau. 
Some of our German friends are of the 
belief that they are on the road to get a 
Rose with the genuine colour of the blue 
Cornflower, which, by the way, is their 
national colour. The above is a new 
rambler, a seedling from Crimson 
Rambler, bearing large clusters of semi- 
double flowers of purplish-pink when they 
first expand, changing to amethyst, and 
lastly to a steel-blue colour as the flower 
is fading. The yellow stamens stand out 
in sharp contrast to this colour. The 
plant is also of vigorous growth. We 
hope their prognostications are likely to 
be fulfilled, but as for ourselves, we “hae 
our doots.” Some of the varieties of the 
greenhouse Cyclamen assume a distinct 
bluish shade when thev are fading, but 
beyond that they have not given us any¬ 
thing in the way of a real blue. The 
name Veilchenblau means violet-blue. 
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