Gardening World, October 24, 1908. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
Permain is an excellent, well-known 
—T homson. 
CONTENTS . 
iteur's Letter to Amateurs . 669 
vsanthemums at the Crystal 
alace . 674 
■[petition Awards . 670 
|uire Within . 677 
.ver Garden, The (illus.) . 675 
esias, The Culture of . 670 
it Garden, The (illus.) . 675 
enhouse, The Amateur's . 676 
icinths in Glasses (illus.) . 673 
icinths in Moss Fibre (illus.) ... 671 
icinths in Tots . 673 
il Homes Exhibition . vii. 
r Gardens . 672 
then Garden, The (illus.) . 676 
e Dorothy Perkins (illus.) . 672 
iter Flowering Plants, Preparing 670 
rk of the Week . 675 
SpUxi&\& Oclobw. 
a great queen, leaguered in coils of 
war, 
nving the march of ultimate defeat, 
marshals all her strengths and bra¬ 
veries, 
1 flings her proud defiances : so she, 
rimer's last child, upon the desperate 
verge 
Winter's arms, yet yields no tithe nor 
step 
ore the threatenings of wrath and 
gloom. 
lifting up her brow, serene and high, 
h fires of sunrise crowned, and gems 
of dusk, 
zons her pride upon a shining world : 
ries of royal crimson, pomps of gold, 
ting chromatics through her every 
realm, 
ding her lieges courage and delight, 
harrying winds and rains have 
wrought their dole. 
F. O’Nfjll Gallagher. 
What beautiful subjects are the hybrid 
or mule Pinks in the summer garden, and 
many of them nowadays are continuous 
in the production of bloom. Even at the 
present time a plant or two is in full 
flower and the brilliant rose colour is 
wonderfully effective. It always seems 
to me that these Mule Pinks (Dianthus 
hybridus) are* so much more decorative 
and worthy a place in the garden than 
the thin spidery Japanese strains. There 
are several named sorts and I give a short 
list of some of the best: Abbot's h ordiana, 
bright rose ; Crimson Bedder ; Emile Pere, 
rosy pink; Lady Dixon, bright rose, a 
grand variety; Marie Pere, white; Na¬ 
poleon III., crimson ; (Rose de Mai, cherry 
red; and Bismarck, also crimson, and in 
some soils more enduring than the beauti¬ 
ful Napoleon III. It does not matter 
where Ave locate these—in the rock garden, 
on a raised edging, in a sunny level 
border, everywhere, they are beautiful; 
and assuredly are among the plants we 
should do well to introduce into our gar¬ 
dens at this season. I find them im¬ 
mensely useful and decorative and from 
a single plant I have this season worked 
up a sufficient stock to ensure having them 
a charming feature in the coming year. 
Seeds. 
I think we cannot be too careful in 
securing reliable seeds, so that the result 
may not be disappointing. Rearing plants 
from seed is an interesting hobby and it 
is an economical manner of securing a 
sufficiency of plants, but unless high-class 
seeds be secured we often find ourselves 
no more forward than when we started. 
I speak from experience. I reared several 
plants of what purported to be Achillea 
Millefolium roseum, and as the plants 
were reared early in the season some of 
them have flowered and are simply the 
tvild white Milfoil. Again, a packet of 
mixed, red and Avhite, Valerian turns out 
to be the white variety only, and that an 
inferior strain. It is trying enough to 
make discoveries like these AA’hile the 
plants are still not transplanted to their 
permanent quarters, but it is far more 
disappointing in cases Avhere they do not 
flower at all the first season, and we have 
had the trouble of transplanting to beds 
and borders and are relying upon them 
for their quota in the general decorative 
scheme after a year’s growth and care, 
to find that they are not Avorth the room 
they occupy. 
Wallflowers. 
Wallflowers are among the plants that 
require to be moved to their floAvering 
quarters as early in the autumn as is 
convenient, but 'the recent spell of ab¬ 
normally hot dry Aveather may have 
throAvn many of us back in planting 
operations. The plants are of consider¬ 
able size AA’here the seed was sown in May 
or early June, and I notice that the move 
is making them flag rather pitifully. It 
is a good thing to water in, at the time 
of planting, and if exposed to hot sun¬ 
shine to cut some Beech branches and 
place in the ground to afford them a 
certain amount of shade. I have been 
moving some from a very Avet position to 
an exceedingly dry one, and this is ahvays 
trying; all the same, I ahvays regard 
Wallflowers as ideal subjects for dry 
positions, draAving my conclusions from 
the fact that they flower and flourish on 
old ruins. 
The New Anchusa. 
At this planting season we may Avell 
invest in a plant or tt\ r o of the neAV 
Anchusa known as the Dropmore variety. 
It forms a large handsome specimen and 
its flowers are larger and more effective 
than the older form. I would scarcely 
include it in a list of the choicest peren¬ 
nials, but it is a grand tint of bright 
blue, and a very useful addition, ranking 
Avith the Doronicums, the perennial Sun- 
floAvers, and Erigerons; plants, of course, 
that Ave should not regard as of so refined 
and delicate a type as, say, the Anemone 
Japonica, the Dictamnus Fraxinella, and 
large Japanese Chrysanthemums and 
some others of our garden favourites. 
Gaillardias and Michaelmas Daisies. 
I notice in a good many gardens, where 
perhaps an early frost has for some time 
blackened the Dahlias and the Begonias, 
that there is perhaps rather a lack of 
really effective autumn floAvering peren¬ 
nials, and by “really effective ” I mean 
at the height of their perfection. This 
fact made me realise, the other day, the 
great value of the Gaillardia in the 
autumn garden. That combination of 
crimson and yellow and brilliant gold is 
gorgeous if the plants be really well- 
grown. And the Michaelmas Daisy, Avhere 
good strains are groAvn, are really fine. 
This, however, is a plant in Avhich I think 
AA r e do well to be exceedingly fastidious. 
I always draw the line at late varieties 
as I feel that when the rest of the flotvers 
are gone the Michaelmas Daisies may just 
as Avell have gone too, and by growing 
the earlier kinds Ave get their keep in the 
general brightness and furnishing of 
colour at a time when we Avant it, and 
appreciate it far more than Avhen the 
beautv of the garden is over as a Avhole. 
We do not see nearly so frequently as 
Ave should that grand section of these 
plants knoAvn as Aster Amellus—there are 
many A'arieties, A. Amellus bessarabicus, 
A. a.' Framfieldi, etc., etc. They are only 
about half the height of the really tall 
varieties, averaging from 2 ft. to 2-i ft., 
and are, in many cases, large floAvered, 
clean and bright coloured, and not so 
late as many. 
F. Norfolk. 
The berries of Crataegus Pyracgntha 
Lelandi are very fine this year, but vary 
greatly in size. ' They are bright orange. 
