he Gardening World, July n, 1908. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
f vain our toil, we ought to blame the 
ulture, not the soil.”— Po-pe. 
CONTENTS. 
.nateur's Letter to Amateurs . 453 
'.nterbury Bells . 454 
( rysanthemums : Work for July ... 455 
(mpetition Awards . 454 
(mpetition, Prize Letter . 456 
Cttings, On Making . 457 
1 quire Within . 462 
Icalyptus for Garden and House... 454 
bwer Garden, The (illus) . 459 
l:nch Garden, The .. 461 
Hit Garden, The (illus) .. 460 
Henhouse, The Amateur's . 460 
Echen Garden, The (illus) . 460 
Ganders, Propagating (illus) . 457 
Ghids for Amateurs . 461 
f udodendrons at C a r r o w d o r e 
iastle (illus) . 459 
Eododendron W. B. Elliott (illus.) 455 
Erkfoil, An Early Flowering (illus.) 458 
His, Garden . 466 
V rk of the Week (illus.) . 459 
-- 
She Rose aud ttva Sasdexvn?. 
1 : Rose in the garden slipped her bud, 
4 1 she laughed in the pride of her youth¬ 
ful blood, 
A she thought of the gardener standing 
by— 
'' j is old—so old! And he soon must 
die! ” , 
4 : full Rose waxed in the warm June 
air, 
A1 she spread and spread until her heart 
lay bare; 
Ajl she laughed once more as she heard 
his tread— 
“ji is older now! He will soon be 
dead! ” 
B the breeze of the morning blew, and 
found 
T t the leaves of the blown Rose strewed 
the ground; 
Aj he came at noon, that gardener old, 
A he raked them gentlv under the mold 
A I wove the thing to a random rhyme : 
f' the Rose is Beautv; the gardener, 
Time. 
CLI. 
There are gardens in which semi-tropi¬ 
cal bedding and other tender choice sub¬ 
jects may hnd a place and result in good 
effects, and make really beautiful garden 
schemes. But these same subjects in 
other gardens have only a pretentious and 
incongruous effect, and where this is the 
case, beautiful and choice though the 
plants may be in themselves, the gardens 
would be more beautiful in their general 
effect were homelier and more humble 
subjects to take their places. Let me give 
an instance. A cottage garden with a 
handsome planting of fine tuberous Be¬ 
gonias would appeal far less to the real 
connoisseur of gardens than the same gar¬ 
den full of the humbler perennials and 
annuals that seem absolutely and entirely 
at home there. If we wish to achieve 
beautiful gardens in the best sense, which 
means gardens beautiful by reason of the 
complete sense of congruity, and suit¬ 
ability of every subject within them, we 
must study this question. We ought to 
have in our minds some sort of an idea as 
to wdiat is a typical and beautiful English 
garden,, whether it be the typical cottage 
garden, villa garden, country garden, or 
suburban garden. 
The Valerian. 
The other day I came upon a great 
patch of rose and white Valerian in an 
old-fashioned garden. There it was, in 
the dry, warm position it loves, and I 
recalled how I had seen it growing in wild, 
rocky crevices round about Sorrento and 
other places in South Italy. In these 
sands of our English gardens, Valerian 
and other plants of no choicer or more 
uncommon kind have a far more beautiful 
effect than tender plants when these are 
intermixed in a haphazard fashion with 
plants of coarse and humble growth. It 
comes to this, you seldom can intermix 
the choice tender exotic plants with hardy 
subjects unless you have a rare gift of se¬ 
lection and disposition. 
The Valerian may easily be reared from 
seed, and is capital for hot _gandy soil 
and sunny positions, and with the 
Valerian may grow the Patrinia. It is of 
the same family, and a hardy enough 
member, seeing that it hails from Siberia. 
The flowers are yellow, and the different 
varieties vary considerably in height. It 
is decidedly showy, and lasts well, while 
it is easily reared from seed. 
Camellias. 
I wonder why we do not experiment 
more often with these as hardy plants out 
of doors. “Hardy as the Laurel,” a good 
authority describes it, speaking, of course, 
of the Camellia in its natural state, and 
not of one that has been weakened by too 
much artificial heat. The truth of the 
matter is, the Camellia is not an adapt¬ 
able plant for those who may have but 
a single glass house, and that kept at a 
fairly high temperature during the early 
vear. This temperature is generally too 
high for the welfare of Camellias, and 
year after year the buds drop off before 
expanding, and the owner looks upon it as 
a difficult subject. It is of the easiest cul¬ 
ture in reality, so long as it is not ex¬ 
posed to undue heat, where it cannot en¬ 
joy a cool temperature during the early 
months of the year. 1 would far rather 
experiment with it out of doors. It does 
not require too sunny an aspect, and some 
prefer e-Ven a north-west or north-east 
position, so that it is kept back somewhat 
in its early year growth. The present 
would be a good time to plant out of 
doors, and it should have careful attention 
as to watering during the summer. We 
must remember there are some remark¬ 
ably fine specimens growing with no pro¬ 
tection in different parts of England, and 
not by any means all in the south. 
Where a wall is convenient, I would sug¬ 
gest a wall for it, however. 
Canterbury Bells.' 
There is still time to rear these for next 
season’s flowering, but the sowing must 
not be delayed. A bed of pale coloured 
plants has a charming effect, and I was 
immensely struck with the beauty of a bed 
of white Canterbury Bells with an under 
planting of bright violet Violas in one of 
the London parks the other day. 
The Honeysuckle. 
Every year it seems to me I plead for 
the generous display of Honeysuckle in 
our gardens. The Honeysuckle m an open 
situation and with a mass of blossom is a 
sight that every garden in the land might 
give us. In a curious way it appeals to 
all. The wonderful beauty of form, the 
delicious fragrance, the soft colouring 
make it one of our daintiest garden,, sub¬ 
jects. Trellises may be hidden behind it, 
summer houses turned into bowers of 
sweet-smelling flowers; it may even be 
used as a climber about a wall; it can be 
trained very beautifully round a bay win¬ 
dow, and fill the house with fragrance. 
It may be grown from cuttings or 
planted in the autumn. 
F. Norfolk. 
-- 
Miltonia bleuana Stevensii. 
The flowers of this fine hybrid variety 
are white, with two pale purple blotches 
at the base of the petals and a large pur¬ 
ple and brown blotch bearing numerous 
rays at the base of the lip. It is a very 
striking variety. Award of Merit by the 
R.H.S. on June gth, when exhibited by 
W. Thomson, Esq., Walton Grange, 
Stone, Staffs. 
Rhodothamnus kamtschaticus. 
This small shrub is very closely allied 
to Rhododendron, and by some authorities 
is classed as a Rhododendron. The 
flowers are irregular in shape, five-lobed 
and two-lipped, and of a deep purple 
spotted with crimson at the base of the 
upper segments. Award of Merit by the 
R.H.S. on June Qth, when shown by Mr. 
G. Reuthe, Foxhill Nursery, Keston, 
Kent. 
Austin Dobson. 
