'he Gardening World, Octoeer, 17, 190S. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
“ And then the fruit ! the glowing fruit ! 
How sweet the scent it breathes ! ” 
— Howett. 
GONTENTS. 
Amateur's Letter to Amateurs, An... 657 
\.rch, A Pretty Garden . 658 
3 alcony, Beautifying the . 662 
Beans for Winter Use .. 659. 
Border Plant, A Useful (illus.) . 660 
Campanula pyramidalis .65S 
tarnations: Work for October . 662 
Competition Awards . 658 
Enquire Within . 665 
Flower Garden, The (illus.) .•••■— 663 
Fruit Garden, The (illus.) . 663 
Grapes from Wisley . 660 
Kitchen Garden, The (illus.) . 663 
Mushrooms in Pots, The Culture of 65S 
Orchids for Amateurs . 664 
Pentstemons, How to Grow (illus.) 659 
Photography for Garden Lovers 
(illus.) . 661 
Work of the Week .. 663 
<5) aUlas. 
There's a row of lovely ladies down my 
*wind-swept garden-way, 
Where the russet leaves go whirling in 
the sunny Autumn day, 
There’s the gleam of silk and satin, softest 
velvet, rose and red, 
Where my Dahlias bloom in splendour 
with the red beech overhead. 
There are courtly dames in crimson, there 
are damosels moon-white, 
Ladies gown'd in peach and purple, deep¬ 
est damask, amber bright, 
There’s the rustling of green cushions all 
around that bow’r serene, 
Where the Dahlias sweep their curtseys, 
greeting Autumn's gipsy-queen. 
There’s a row of lovely ladies where re¬ 
turning robin sings, 
Homeward come from farthest woodland 
with a flutter of soft wings, 
And tho’ all the garden's dreary and the 
wind wails down the hill, 
O’er my Dahlias swallows linger and I 
dream ’tis Sumn er still. 
— 11 Pall Mall Gazette.” 
Cl.XV. 
Trenching Flower Borders. 
At this time of the year, and especially 
if the autumn be a wet one, the health 
and care of the soil should be in our 
minds. It is a well known fact that a 
considerable number of plants that from 
time to time die out as if they were tender 
things, more frequently die from excess 
of moisture than from the cold. It seems 
to me then a good plan to do all rve can 
at the present time to clear away, as 
quickly as possible, weeds and overgrown 
tops of perennials that have thoroughly 
ripened, so that everywhere we can we 
let the air and the sunshine reach the 
soil to sweeten and dry and make it 
wholesome. Of course, we do not trench 
our flower borders frequently, but it is 
indeed well worth while in the case of a 
border that has been planted for many 
years to clear out every plant it contains 
and then to trench it deeply, as a rule 
keeping the top spit of earth for the top. 
And meanwhile the plants removed will 
take no harm if they are carefully laid 
into the soil on some spare piece of 
ground. \\ hen the soil has thus been 
stirred and worked, and had well rotted 
stable manure worked in, it will be seen 
what a grand root run has been made 
for the plants. There will be every in¬ 
ducement to make them root deeply, and 
for years they will benefit by this trench¬ 
ing "and be far less affected by droughts 
than on soil that has not been worked 
more than a few inches deep. It stands 
to reason it must be so. Some keen gar¬ 
deners in dealing with badly drained, 
water-logged soil will take the trouble to 
put a layer of old mortar rubble, broken 
brick and such material at the bottom of 
the trench, say two feet or more below 
the surface, and in this way secure the 
necessary- drainage, but, of course, in the 
majority of cases this will not be needed. 
Carnations. . 
The sooner now that we plant our 
rooted layers of Carnations the better, if 
the work has not already been done, and 
always supposing that the layering was 
performed at the right time. It takes 
about five weeks to make roots, but con¬ 
siderably more than this will be secured 
if the layering was done in July or early 
August, and fine sturdy plants should now 
be established. Carnations more than 
most plants rejoice in soil that has not 
already been lately under cultivation, so 
that if by chance a new bed or border 
is to be among the autumn operations 
we cannot do better than plant the Car¬ 
nations in it. \A here we have to deal with 
cold heavy soil nothing will be found 
more beneficial than constructing a raised 
bed for these plants, as this ensures 
sharper drainage than on the level. A 
foot and a quarter is a convenient dis¬ 
tance to plant the layers apart. The 
planting should be firm and attention 
should be given during the winter to see 
that the stems are not loosened by the 
action of frost. In speaking of Carna¬ 
tions I would like to remind my readers 
that a valuable addition to the cold 
greenhouse lies in the Malmaison sec¬ 
tion. In many cases ardent gardeners 
possessed of a greenhouse without heat 
make a vain endeavour to grow- plants 
that really need to be kept at a tempera¬ 
ture considerably above freezing at all 
times. Now, in a cold greenhouse with 
no means of heating at all, it is impos¬ 
sible to exclude all frost. These Carna¬ 
tions can withstand it; indeed, I have 
grown them entirely in the open border. 
Sweet Peas. 
We may like to remember that there 
are those who vehemently declare that 
no spring-sown Sweet Peas compare with 
autumn-sown specimens for fineness, 
length of flowering, and general superi¬ 
ority. Be that as it may, if we _wish to 
make the experiment there is still time 
to do so, but I would urge the experi¬ 
menter to choose a warm sunny site, and 
to work the ground well beforehand. 1 
have been especially pleased again this 
season with that lovely- bluish-mauve 
Romolo Piazzani, and I am not at all 
sure that it is not the longest flowering 
of all the Sweet Peas. Triumph, too, is. 
a charming variety and u'ould seem to be 
more weather-proof than many r . But 
though we grow Sweet Peas lavishly and 
grow enthusiastic over their beauties, do 
not let us forget to have a plant or tw-o 
of white everlasting Pea. Lathyrus l.ati- 
folius albus grandiflorus is a grand strain. 
I will even go so far as to say that it 
lingers in my memory' as the most notice¬ 
able object in a large beautiful garden. 
It had a wall for background and nothing 
to overhang or shade it and it was a 
perfect mass of delicate white bloom. As 
a cut flower it is preferable to the col¬ 
oured varieties, as these change colour 
when used as cut flowers and become a 
not too pleasing magenta. Some people 
find it difficult to transplant this subject, 
and these will do well to rear it from 
seed, as seedling plants certainly bear 
transplanting quite well. 
F. Norfolk. 
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Gardening for School Children. 
The Kingston Education Committee have 
decided that if the managers of non-pro- 
vided schools in the borough will pro¬ 
vide suitable plots of ground, the Com¬ 
mittee will undertake to make arrange¬ 
ments for giving the scholars instruction 
in gardening. 
A New Apricot. 
According to a daily contemporary a 
wonderful new apricot, claimed to be the 
largest in commerce, has been produced 
at Washington. The new Apricot, which 
has been ‘ named the Yakimene, is as 
large as a good-sized Apple, and when 
ripe the skin is said to glow like burn¬ 
ished gold. Those who have tasted it 
say that the flavour compares with that 
of the finest English forced Peaches. 
