October io, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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obably liken them to those of an 
stilbe, better known as Spiraea, and 
ey are, of course, closely related. 
R. tabularis is a native of the North 
China and Korea and reached Kew in 
05 in the form of seeds and flowered 
r the first time in this country in the 
ckery at Kew during the present year, 
ne photograph representing the plant 
is taken on June 23rd. The plants are 
11 young, making but slow growth in 
bir early stages and only one or two 
the seedlings flowered. It is planted 
a moist bed near the stream running 
rm the dripping well in the rockery, 
ke the rest of its congeners it likes 
enty of moisture during the summer 
onths, hence it would make a good 
bject for a bog garden and in this re- 
ect would form a fitting companion for 
ixifraga peltata. 
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HEAVY APPLES. 
A Letter to the Editor. 
Sir,—I have this week been gathering 
me very fine Peasgood’s Nonsuch 
oples, and thought, as a reader of your 
.per for years, I would like to mention 
e weight of some of them. The heaviest 
them weighed 19 oz. and 185 oz. re- 
•ectiveiy, and more than 20 Apples off 
e same tree weighed over a pound each. 
)u would greatly oblige me by putting 
is in your paper. 
Charles Harrison. 
[Our correspondent is head gardener to 
e Right Hon. Lady Arundell of War- 
ur, Wardour Castle.—E d.] 
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PROCLIVITIES OF VERMIN. 
A Letter to the Editor. 
Sir,—Herewith I forward three roots of 
eetroot for the Editor’s inspection, to de- 
onstrate the wonderful destructive pro- 
nsities of vermin in a garden. This is 
e third season in succession that the 
ietroot has been completely destroyed in 
is manner here. Two rows twelve yards 
length were sown on the first Monday 
May, and the seed germinated splen- 
dly. and everything went on grandly 
itil about the beginning of August, 
pen all the large outside leaves were 
mpletely destroyed in the course of a 
w days, and at the present minute , every 
ot in the two row's is like the three for- 
irded ; indeed many of them are even 
ore severely gnaw'ed than the ones for- 
.irded. 
This depredation I attribute to rats and 
ice, as the garden in which they were 
own is an old-fashioned country one 
died in all round, so that rabbits can¬ 
't possibly get near the Beetroot, but 
ts and mice are frequently seen inside 
id apparently appreciate the Beetroot. 
One day last week, about nine o’clock, 
threw' my jacket down on the top of a 
w’ wail about two |eet from the ground 
th two cocoa-nut biscuits in one pocket, 
id about eleven in the forenoon, when I 
ted it. two mice jumped out of the 
a ^ ter having regaled gingerly on 
e biscuits during the two hours. 
„ J. C. Peebles. 
St. Fort, Fife. 
[The depredators were most probably 
ort-tailed field mice or voles, which 
rve Carrots. Turnips, etc., in the same 
ty.— Ed. i 
Maclaren and Sons. 
Lilium Leichtlinii Maximowiczii. 
Ol til Y'l * O T 1 1 \T (Lilium Leichtli 
J—iCJUll lilil *0 J—illy Maximowiczii; 
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It would appear that the earliest form 
of this Lily introduced to gardens has 
bufF-yellow flowors spotted with orange, 
but that must only have been a pale 
variety of it. The finest form is that 
having brilliaht orange flowers spotted 
with black Over two-thirds of the lower 
half of the segments. If any distinction 
is necessary, this might be named L. 
Leichtlinii Maximowiczii, by some re¬ 
garded as a different species. 
The plant at a short distance strongly 
recalls the Tiger Lily (L. tigrinumf but 
it is of much more slender habit, with 
narrow' leaves and without bulbils'in the 
axils of the leaves. The segments are 
rolled back above the middle much in 
the same way as the Tiger Lilies. It is 
by no means a common plant in culti¬ 
vation and possibly we may not have 
arrived at a proper method of establish¬ 
ing it, but it may be grown and flow'ered 
in a peat bed where Rhododendrons, 
Azaleas or other American plants serve 
to shade the surface of the soil. At the 
same time, these shrubs should not be 
allowed to grow too close if value is 
placed upon the Lily, othenvise it must 
gradually dwindle ow'ing to the light 
being obstructed and the foliage of the 
lower part of the stem thereby weakened. 
Small plants or young plants of Rhodo¬ 
dendrons could be so kept as to leave 
plenty of space for the Lily. The species 
is a native of Japan. 
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Show Dahlia Tom Jones. 
The London Dahlia Union gave this 
a first-class certificate on September ioth. 
The exhibitor was Mr. S. Mortimer, 
Rowledge, Farnham, Surrey. (See p. 
628.) 
National Chrysanthemum Society. 
The Early Autumn Exhibition of this 
Society' will be held at the Crystal 
Palace, Sydenham, on October yth and 
Sth. A large number of valuable prizes 
are offered in competition and special 
awards will be made to exhibitors of new 
varieties of early-flowering Chrysanthe¬ 
mums not yet in commerce. The 
schedule of prizes and the annual report, 
&c., for -1907. may be obtained of the 
Secretary, Mr. R. A. Witty', Swain’s Lane, 
Highgate, N. 
