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A fine effect has also been produced by 
the Japanese Irises (Iris laevigata) which 
like a cool, moist situation to succeed. 
Various devices are tried in gardens, but 
in this instance winding ditches have been 
dug out of the natural soil and the Irises 
planted in the bottom. During winter 
there may be water in these ditches, but 
in the summer they are fairly dry, and 
at least only comparable to a dried up 
stream or a semi-dried bog. The plants 
flourish without any attention, and bloom 
profusely in their season. This plan 
of any kind in the Prize Competitions become the 
property of the Proprietors of “THE GARDENING 
WORLD.’* The Editor's decision in Prize Competitions is 
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SPECIMEN COPIES—The Publishers will be pleased 
to send specimen copies of “THE G -\ RDENiNG WOULD 
for distribution amongst friends, and will appr°Hate the 
services rendered by readers in tlris connection. 
Bdifopiol, 
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might be adopted in many a garden 
where there is a low situation in it, 
whether water is present in it or not. 
The cool situation thus provided will 
enable the cultivator to grow these Irises 
with a minimum of attention. If entirely 
below the level of the ground there would 
be happy surprises for those who come 
upon the Irises unawares, but with a 
shallower ditch the flowers could be seen 
for some distance over a level landscape 
and thus be effective as well as healthy 
and happy. 
The situation of the garden of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, and the 
presence of water at no great depth below 
the surface, furnishes an excellent oppor¬ 
tunity for cultivating aquatics in great 
variety. Indeed, there are some inter¬ 
esting wild ones in the same locality. The 
late Mr. G. F. Wilson was not slow to 
recognise this fact, and made use of the 
natural facilities to produce some inte¬ 
resting pictures and enable him to grow 
certain aquatics successfully. The gar¬ 
den is now the home of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, but the wild garden and 
its accessories are still preserved in the 
same form. 
In one pond which keeps itself supplied 
with water are several beautiful Water 
Lilies, the flowers of which in many cases 
have attained a large size. Numerous 
varieties are grown, and amongst them 
we noted Nymphaea marliacea carnea 
with flowers of immense size. Slightly 
less in diameter, perhaps, were the flowers 
of N. gladstoniana, but the great breadth 
of pure white petals makes this a magni¬ 
ficent Water Lily. 
Another small pond was, to a^ great 
extent, densely covered with the 1 ringed 
Buck Bean (Limnanthemum peltatum, 
better known in gardens, perhaps, as 
Villarsia nymphaeoides). This is closely 
allied to the Buck Bean, but the flowers 
are yellow, not white, and the leaves are 
similar in shape to those of the Water 
Lily and float on the surface. The plants 
multiply rapidly by throwing out runners 
in all directions, so that in still water 
the surface in a very short time gets com¬ 
pletely covered. The yellow flowers then 
rise above this floor of leaves, and when 
in full bloom the effect is handsome. 
The Alpine porget-jVle-JIot 
Myosotis alpestris. 
The above is essentially an Alpine 
plant growing at considerable elevations 
on the mountains, and is a very scarce 
native of this country. For that reason 
seeds or plants are frequently imported to 
this country from the Continent. If the 
seeds are collected from plants at very 
high elevations they are almost as dwarf 
as the celebrated Eritrichium nanum, so 
that the flowers are almost without stalks 
appearing close to the foliage. For this 
reason many collectors name it M.a. 
rupestris and sometimes M. a. escapa 
in the belief that it is a distinct variety. 
When grown, as this was, in cold 
frames, and then placed in the alpine 
house as it came into bloom, the stems 
lengthened considerably, showing that the 
collected forms could only have owed 
their stemless character to the high ele¬ 
vation at which they were found. It is 
a charming Forget-me-not, with flowers 
of moderate size, but of an intense blue 
with an orange eye gradually fading to 
white. The whole plant was only 2 in. 
to 3 in. high when photographed in the 
Alpine House at Kew. 
Our readers may take it for granted that 
the plant is perfectly hardy, seeing that 
it comes from high elevations on the 
mountains where it must be subjected to a 
very low temperature and much snow. 
Those who would attempt it can, there 
fore, grow it upon a rockery, selecting ?.r 
aspect that is well lighted but shaded 
from the afternoon sun. What it want; 
is a fair amount of moisture to enable ii 
to make proper growth during the flower 
ing season. We may also recall the fac 
that the variety Victoria is a garden forn 
of this species. 
United Horticultural Benefit and Providen 
Society. 
The monthly meeting of this society wa 
held at the Horticultural Hall, Vmcen 
Square, Westminster, on Monday eveninj 
last. Mr. Charles H. Curtis in the chair 
Four new members were elected. Th 
amount of sick pay for the month wa 
^46 8s. 6d., which is heavy for this tim 
of the year. A member was granted 10s 
per week for two or three weeks from th 
convalescent fund in addition to his sic 
pay to enable him to get a change of aii 
Arrangements for the annual dinner ar 
being made. 
Myosotis alpestris. 
Maclaren and Sans. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
August 22, 190S. 
