e Gardening World, September 19 , 1908 . 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
le redd’ning Apple ripens here to gold.” 
— Pope. 
CONTENTS . 
ateur's Letter to Amateurs, An... 595 
b Number, Our Special. 600 
nations; Work for September... 598 
ysanthemums, Specimen . 596 
rpetition Awards . 596 
ipetition. Prize Letter . 608 
ilias at Westminster . 603 
phiniums, Tbe Culture of. 596 
; uire Within . 604 
iver Garden, The (illus.) . 601 
it Garden, The (illus.) . 602 
tiana septemfida . 596 
dioli from Langport (illus.) . 597 
mhouse, The Amateur's . 602 
cinths, Roman (illus.) . 5-99 
hen Garden, The (illus.). 602 
don Pride, A Substitute for 
lus.) . 598 
bids for Amateurs . 602 
; Jersey Beauty . 599 
; Lady Gay (illus.) . 600 
et Peas, Autumn and Spring 
nving . 601 
k of the Week (illus.) .. 601 
md the world once more your banners 
sweep, 
! thou triumphant legion of the grass ! 
>u shake the hill and valley as you 
pass; 
>ss the rivers and the seas you leap, 
music of your marching wakes from 
sleep 
lie forest and the field and the morass, 
id in thy fragrant train, a starry 
mass, 
blossoms all like constellations 
creep. 
1 1 power is thine, O army of sweet 
peace! 
> you at last all victories belong; 
, 1 battlefields are thine beneath the 
sun; 
"very sorrow thou hast bring surcease, 
hat vanquished empire but hath 
heard thy song? 
Iiswer, O Egypt; answer, Babylon! 
Edward Wilbur Mason. 
CLXI. 
Dor’onicum austriacum. 
With this cold spell of wet weather 
autumn work will begin early. It will 
be advisable to begin early, as this cold 
snap is not conducive to the soil maintain¬ 
ing its summer warmth, so desirable 
where plants are being transplanted or 
otherwise established. Anything of doubt¬ 
ful hardihood should be taken in hand 
any time now, as the sooner it is settled 
and its roots doing their normal work 
again the greater chance will it have of 
surviving the winter. Then, again, the 
hardy perennial plants that flower early 
in the spring should, where necessary, be 
planted within the next month. A hat aie 
the names of some of the most satisfac¬ 
tory of these ? I have no hesitation in 
putting among the forefront of these Do- 
ronicum austriacum. To my mind this 
is a grand spring flowering yellow peren¬ 
nial. It reaches only about a foot in 
height, and the yellow, daisy-like flowers 
are of dainty and delicate type. They 
are. excellent for cutting for house deco¬ 
ration, and very bright and cheery look¬ 
ing in the border. 
Crown Imperials. 
We have not a considerable number of 
tall spring flowering plants. That is 
natural, for a kindly Nature through the 
long ages has adapted the plants of the 
season to the weather of the season, and 
tall plants would find it a hard matter to 
-withstand the heavy gales and winds. But 
we have our Crown Imperials, and we 
give them a. most welcome place in our 
garden for their quiet, stately beauty, 
and, also, because they are so high above 
the majority of the plants that flower at 
the time. We find them under name Fri- 
tillaria Imperialis, and they are not ex¬ 
pensive, especially as a single clump of 
three or four bulbs, or iwo or three 
clumps, make a really good show. They 
seed rather freely, too, and where the seed 
pods have been allowed to ripen the seed 
may just as well be sown, for there is no 
difficulty in rearing them in this manner. 
Of course, if the seed is not required, it 
is a waste of energy to allow it to form 
at all. There is this to lye said, however, 
the seed pods are remarkably handsome. 
Plants for the Raised Border. 
If we have in our gardens a long, raised 
border — and such a well drained and 
healthy position is a great acquisition to 
any garden, especially those in which the 
soil is cold and heavy we may utilise 
the facing of this raised border for a 
charming spring display. It can be made 
radiantly and gloriously colourful and 
brilliant. Let us plant at the edge to 
hang over the stone facing such plants as 
Aubrietia, Forget-me-not, Mossy Saxi¬ 
frage and Alyssum saxatile—and we shall 
get such a display that it will outshine 
any other portion of the garden. The 
Aubrietia will yield us mauve, or rosy 
pink, or, again, a fine glowing purple, 
according to the variety we select. One 
variety, A. Leichtlini, might almost be 
described as crimson. The Aubrietias 
flower over a long period, sometimes, 
under genial conditions, and especially if 
they have been cut hard back after the 
previous flowering, they will show bloom 
m February, and they are often sail 
flowering in May. Next to the Aubrietias 
we may have great clumps of Mossy Saxi¬ 
frages, with their radiantly white blos¬ 
soms, and in this section there is no finer 
variety than S. Wallacei—the flower is 
large, the foliage is handsome, and the 
blossoms are more enduring than those of 
the commoner S. hypnoides. But the 
colour scheme is not complete, we want 
yellow, and we get it in its cleanest tone 
in Alyssum saxatile, with its myriads of 
tiny blossoms. But the single form of 
this plant is not enduring like those 
flowers of its companion plants that I 
have mentioned, and if we want to make 
the most and the best of this grand spring 
display we shall try to secure the double 
form. It is not new; it followed hard 
after the introduction of the double Ara- 
bis, but it has not been received with the 
same open hands and hearty welcome. 
Yet in its way it is every whit as valu¬ 
able. I remember seeing it priced at two 
shillings a plant, then at ninepence a 
plant, and now it can be bought for four- 
pence. 
All these plants make fine, massive 
clumps, the Aubrietias, the Saxifrages, 
and the Alyssums, and when they have 
been established long enough to attain 
this size make a bank of almost unbroken 
colour. 1 have purposely omitted the 
double Arabis, because for the exact posi¬ 
tion we are considering I consider it too 
smothering and rampant. The Forget- 
me-not may or may not be included, the 
colour scheme being as good, perhaps on 
the whole better, without it, but the pale, 
delicate blue is a great favourite, and 
many may wish to include it. 
F. Norfolk. 
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Gardening for Women. 
Miss Mabel Atkinson, who is contribut¬ 
ing a series of articles in the Daily 
Ne-ws ” on Work for Women, dealing 
with the subject of gardening, says, in 
summing up, that “ there is no doubt 
gardening and the other lighter branches 
of agriculture suit some rvomen who 
would never be really happy in town life. 
The woman with capital and energy may 
be commercially successful on a small 
holding, but the’bulk of women gardeners 
must probably be content to regard the 
pleasure and healthfulness of the life as 
an offset against the low rate of payment. 
It is also clear that not all women are 
suited for the quietness and loneliness of 
a country life. Those who need in¬ 
vigorating society and constant mental 
.stimulus should turn to another profes¬ 
sion. ” 
