The Gardening World, August 22, 1908. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
“And add to these retired leisure, 
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.” 
— Milton. 
CONTENTS. 
Amateur's Letter to Amateurs . 539 
Annuals for pot culture . 54° 
Aquatics at Wisley . 544 
Beans, Broad . 547 
Competition Awards . 54° 
Enquire Within .•. 54§ 
Euonvmus radicans Silver Gem ... 539 
Forget-me-not, The Alpine . 544 
Garden, The Flower . 545 
Garden. The Fruit . 545 
Gafden, The Kitchen . 545 
Gaultheria procumbens . 54& 
Grass of Parnassus . 547 
Greenhouse, The Amateurs . 54° 
Irises, Beardless Flag . 54° 
Orchids for Amateurs . 54° 
Pansies and Violas . 542 
Photography for Garden Lovers F. 541 
Prize Letter Competition . 547 
Roses in Linlithgowshire . 543 
Scarlet Tassel .. 543 
Sweet Peas for August .. 543 
Tomato Culture . 55 2 
Viola olympica . 547 
Violas, Criticism of . 55 1 
Work of the Week . 545 
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tfsto’s Statae. 
An early worshipper at Nature’s shrine, 
I loved'her rudest scenes—warrens and 
heaths, . 
And yellow commons, and birch-shaded 
hollows, 
And hedgerows bordering unfrequented 
lanes; 
Bowerd with wild Roses, and the clasping 
Woodbine 
Where purple tassels of the tangled 
Vetch 
With Bittersweet and Bvrony enweave 
And the dew fills the silver Bindweed s 
cups. 
I love to trace, the brook whose humid 
banks 
Nourish the Harebell and the freckled 
p agil; , , . , 
And stroll among cfVershadowmg woods 
of Beech, 
Lending in summer, from the heats of 
noon, 
A whispering shade, while haply there 
reclines 
Some pensive lover of uncultured flowers. 
Charlotte Smith. 
CLVII. 
Hollyhocks. 
The month of August is a seasonable 
time to sow Hollyhock seed to secure 
flowering plants for the coming year. 
And, surely, all of us need these stately, 
bold plants for some position or another 
jn our gardens that no other plant can 
fill with quite the same beautiful decora¬ 
tiveness. I look upon them as taking 
the place during August as backbone 
colour that the Delphiniums have sup¬ 
plied during-an earlier period. It is dif¬ 
ferent colour, of course, but that gives the 
change and variety that is eminently 
desirable, and is especially delightful to 
feel that one has successfully achieved. 
With a little care and a good deal of 
forethought we can change the colour 
scheme of a border at least twice during 
the summer. Say that we have an ampli¬ 
tude of w'hite and yellow for the earlier 
as well as the later display; if, with them, 
we make blue our dominant note for early 
summer we get quite a fresh and dif¬ 
ferent effect, if, later, we change this 
dominant note to a bright rose, deepening 
to an equally bright and even richer crim¬ 
son. For the earlier display the Del¬ 
phiniums, the Lupins, the Anchusas, 
especially the new “ Dropmore” variety 
of this last, and the early-flowering Cam¬ 
panulas, will go far to give a grand 
amount of blue. Then, these flowers go, 
only too quickly, the way of all things, 
and we can call' up as if by magic a new 
garden so far as the dominant note of 
colour goes. The blue now shall take 
a minor position, the beautiful radiant 
leading note shall be the bright roses 
and crimsons that are never more wel¬ 
come than when summer wanes; and 
to achieve these bold bright colours the 
Hollyhocks, the Phloxes, 'the Sweet 
Bergamot, the Carnations, Antirrhinums, 
and Asters shall play a leading part in 
the general scheme of things. 
The Hollyhocks are the tallest and the 
most important in that they far overtop 
the rest, and we know well enough what 
brilliancy of colouring is obtainable 
among them if well selected. Now that 
I am on the subject of rose colour and 
crimson as dominant features in a colour 
scheme, I want to say, even though I 
know that many will disagree with the, 
that to my mind a far better and more 
beautiful effect will be gained if we do 
not include in the scheme the very deep 
dark tones. We may grow Hollyhocks 
of a colour as deep as claret, but to my 
humble way of thinking we shall stop 
short at a far brighter, gayer, ahd lighter 
tone. I suppose most keen gardeners 
have their own favourite methods of rear¬ 
ing their different favourite flowers; per¬ 
sonally, I confess I prefer to sow the se;eds 
in pots or pans, and if we have a particu¬ 
larly beautiful specimen we wish to per¬ 
petuate it will not be too late to sow the 
seed when these shall have fully ripened. 
If sown much later than the present time, 
however, it may be advisable to give 
frame or cold house protection during 
winter. With seed sown in good time 
I have tried both methods, planting out 
in their flowering quarters in early 
autumn, and also keeping the seedlings 
in the pans under protection. But, pro¬ 
vided the seedlings are sturdy and vigo¬ 
rous I find they make stronger plants by 
the time the spring arrives when wintered 
in the open. Shall we grow double or 
single varieties ? That is entirely a 
matter for individual taste, and there is 
this much to be said in favour of the 
double-flowered forms. They last con¬ 
siderably longer than the single, and I 
always hold that to get even one extra 
week of colour from any given spot is 
worth a great deal, and where there is 
room for a good many plants we may 
well have specimens of each. In these 
days there is a variety known as “ Semper- 
florens.” 
A Beautiful Evening Primrose. 
I have been rearing a large batch of 
seedlings consisting of a mixed packet of 
seeds of perennials especially suitable 
for a rock garden. As so often happens 
with perennials, some of them will flower 
the first year. Amongst -these is 
Oenothera taraxacifolia. Every evening 
there is to be seen the large pure white 
blossoms from the trailing plants-—flowers 
more than three inches across and lasting 
not the day through, but changing as 
they fade into a pale beautiful pink 
colour. The duration of the flowers de¬ 
pends a good deal upon the weather. 
During sweltering hot sunny days the 
blooms that expanded in the evening will 
not remain open after ten o'clock the next 
morning, but on cool grey days a good 
deal longer^ This Evening Primrose is 
a very beautiful variety, and will make 
a showy summer subject for the rock gar¬ 
den, the only thing to lament being the 
fact that it is not for the day. But then, 
how many can only enjoy their gardens 
during the evening. 
F. Norfolk. 
fcuowjmus iU&lcaws Site Sam. 
Most people who grow Euonvmus 
radicans in any form think of it only as 
a low bush or as an edging plant. This 
habit will, of course, be maintained for 
many years when planted in open situa¬ 
tions', but if planted against a wall and 
fastened to it a^ it lengthens the plant 
will, in the course of a number of years, 
mount to a height of 12 ft. or r6 ft., per¬ 
haps more. The silvery variegation, to¬ 
gether with the bright shining green of 
the foliage, produces a cheerful effect 
even in the winter, as the leaves are per¬ 
fectly evergreen. The plant is as hardy 
as any of the forms of E. japonicus, and 
hardier than some of them. 
Bell Heather. 
