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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
August 15, 1908. 
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Bdifopial, 
Swaat Teas faom Uptovi-ow-Seveew. 
Notwithstanding the hot weather, Sweet 
Peas are still flowering splendidly, even 
although the stalks are getting rather 
short. We are in receipt of quite a box¬ 
ful of new varieties from Miss H. Hemus, 
Holdfast Hall, Upton-on-Severn. Amongst 
them was the beautiful picotee-edged 
variety, Evelyn Hemus, with huge flowers 
and creamy white with a bright pink edge 
greater or less breadth. This has 
already grown upon the fancy of a great 
many cultivators. The new variety, Para¬ 
dise Ivory, has been tried in the College 
gardens at Reading by the National Sweet 
Pea Society and accorded an Award of 
Merit. The standards are wavy and the 
whole flower ivory white, more or less 
suffused, in some instances with a delicate 
blush tint. Paradise Carmine also 
describes itself and was in splendid form, 
notwithstanding the hot weather. 
A new variety, not yet in commerce, is 
Zarina, with flowers of a bright pearly 
pink, and, if anything, finer than Queen 
of Spain, being darker. Miss Bostock has 
a beautiful buff flower which would come 
under the yellow and buff shades of the 
N.S.P.S. classification of colours. The 
flowers might be described as a creamy 
buff, sometimes flushed with another shade 
on the back of the standard. Occasionally 
it produces a double standard, but it is 
not a wavy form. A very pretty un¬ 
named seedling has wavy standards and 
bright rosy pink flowers, giving place to 
a creamy ground at the base of all the 
petals. We think it is a promising variety. 
A soft pearly pink named Zara has a 
creamy reflection in the centre of the 
flower. 
Striped varieties continue to be im¬ 
proved. and a blue striped one. named 
Hester, has slightly waved or plaited 
standards and has more blue than white 
in the flower. Paradise Red Flake is now 
a well-known variety, with finely plaited 
standards and wings and numerous red 
flakes, at times deepening to scarlet. All 
of the above are specialities or new 
varieties raised by Miss Hemus. We shall 
speak of them later on, as we intend to 
illustrate some of them. 
WHIP-LIKE Saxifrage 
V_ ^ (Saxifraga flagellaris). 
Amongst the species of Saxifrage o 
Rockfoil we have a wonderful variety o 
habit, making them suitable for quite ; 
variety of situations in the garden, bu 
Saxifraga flagellaris. Maclaren and Sons. 
“GARDENS OF ENGLAND.” 
For the leisure classes the above is a 
beautifully illustrated book on the sub¬ 
ject. No doubt the coloured illustrations 
form the nucleus of the book or the 
reasort. for getting some information 
together to explain these pictures which 
have been painted by Beatrice Parsons. 
There are twenty of these illustrations, 
and the plan is to give the picture either 
on the right or the left hand page and 
then on the opposite page to give a few 
lines of explanation showing what the 
picture is and in what part of England the 
place is situated. As coloured illustra¬ 
tions they are much superior to many 
which we have seen used in books of 
similar character. 
The letterpress is from the pen of Mr. 
E. T. Cook. Some of these pictures refer 
to the gardens of the nobility situated in 
various parts of England, but one relates 
to a villa garden on the banks of the 
Thames at Hammersmith, and evidently 
the owners are lovers of flowers and to all 
appearances spend a good deal of time in 
their garden. There is only a small 
amount of letterpress precisely relating 
to the pictures, but there are chapters, 
for instance, dealing with Lavender and 
Rosemary, the herb garden, Roses and 
the healthiness of gardening as an occu¬ 
pation. The book runs to 199 pages, 
while the paper and printing are excel¬ 
lent. The book is published by Messrs. 
A. and C. Black, London, at 7s. 6d 
more particularly on the rocker 
Although S. flagellaris is a native <, 
northern and Arctic Regions, it is by n 
means easy to manage under cultivatioi 
and many are liable to lose it, probabl 
owing to the mild and changeabi 
character of our winter, which excites th 
soft tissues of this plant instead of allov 
ing it to go to rest. It produces a sma 1 
tuft or rosettes of spathulate, dark gree 
leaves, from the centre of which a flows 
stem rises in spring to the height of fii 
or thereabouts. The flowers vary in nur 
her and are bright yellow. 
At the same time as the plant is pr< 
paring to flower it also throws 01 
numerous slender thread-like runner 
which have been compared to a whip. 1 
the end of each slender runner a voud 
plant is produced, as may be seen by r 
ference to the accompanying illustratioi 
which we had photographed in the Alpii 
House at Kew about the end of May. 
The only way of propagating this scan 
plant would be by saving seeds or affon 
ing the runners the means of rooting in 
soil as soon as they are produced. On tl 
rockery, if a suitable situation could l 
found for it, these runners would natuj 
ally root into the soil, but when grown . 
pots it would be necessary to direct tl 
runners into the same pots or pans whe, 
the mother plants are growing or place, 
series of small pots round about the larg< 
one, so that each plantlet could be roots 
in a separate pot of its own. 
