THE GARDEN 1 NO WORLD. 
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Sweet Pea 
ANNIE B. GILROY. 
February 20, 1909. 
[Madare7i and Sons 
Sweet Pea Annie B. Gilroy. 
We have still a certain leaning towards 
flowers with a fiat, upright standard, and 
in Annie B. Gilroy we have a variety of 
this type, recalling, in a measure, Queen 
Alexandra, but having a much larger and 
massive-looking flower. The colour is 
also different, the standard being of a 
bright cerise, while the wings are heavily 
shaded with cerise over carmine. This 
latter is the only evidence of tyro colours 
in the flower as seen by the naked eye, 
and their large size, when photographed 
in August, tells its own tale with regard 
to the quality of the variety. 
The picture really shows flowers that 
are very much below the natural size. The 
hot weather in August was also much 
against them after having travelled such 
a long journey, so that we scarcely ex¬ 
pected them to show up so boldly as they 
have done. 
The very stout stems have about three 
flowers at least during the period of the 
year we mention, so that the variety can¬ 
not but prove serviceable for cut flowers, 
as well as garden decoration. The 
colour shows up splendidly by artificial 
light. There may be something fascinat¬ 
ing about a wavy pefalled Sweet Pea, but 
one with a flat surface has a finer effect 
in garden embellishment in our opinion 
than where the waving is extensive. Even 
those who grow Queen Alexandra should 
still want this one on account of its larger 
flowers and different colours. Judging by 
those we received the colour keeps well. 
Landscape Gardening. 
An interesting lecture which Mr. Ed¬ 
ward White delivered, last April, before 
the Royal Horticultural Society, on the 
subject of “The Profession of Landscape 
Gardening ” has just been published as a 
pamphlet. “The British Isles,” says Mr. 
White, “thanks to their geological incon¬ 
sistency, and to other advantageous pe¬ 
culiarities, offer for study, within the 
smallest radius, a wonderful variety of 
types of landscape beauty. ” In Germany, 
says Mr. White, landscape gardening is 
not included in the curriculum of any 
University, although instruction in the 
art is given in all public and private 
horticultural schools. In France, too, it 
is not taught in any University or public 
school, although exhaustively treated at 
the Ecole Nationale d’Horticulture, at 
Versailles. In Austria landscape garden¬ 
ing is taught in all horticultural schools. 
It is in America, however, that “one finds 
a model precedent which may be of great 
assistance.” Definite instruction in land¬ 
scape gardening is given at Cornell 
University', Ithaca, New York; at the 
University of Illinois, Urbana; at Co¬ 
lumbia University, New York City; at 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Boston; and at Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Mass. The course offered at 
the famous University of Harvard is the 
most complete and important obtainable 
in America. 
Boeder Carnations. 
When the soil of beds or borders in¬ 
tended for Carnations is in good workable 
condition it may be levelled down, raked 
smooth, and trodden firm in preparation 
for planting as early in the beginning of 
next month as the weather and local con¬ 
ditions will permit. Some people even 
plant them out during the third or fourth 
week of F ebruary, but in smoky districts 
March is' sufficiently early, as by that 
time there is less filth in the atmosphere to 
fall upon the plants. This refers to Car¬ 
nations which have been kept in pots in 
cold frames during the winter months on 
account of the clayey character of the soil 
or the smoky neighbourhood. In other 
gardens, where the soil and surrounding 
are suitable, the plantations were made 
of course, in October last. Those wh< 
planted out their border Carnations thei 
should now look over the beds or border 
and fill up any blanks that may have oc 
curred during the past few months frcn 
one cause or another. Some" reservi 
plants are usually kept in pots for thi 
purpose. 
Show Carnations and Picotees. 
During mild weather, with the wind ir 
the south-west, the sashes may' be drawi 
off the frames where the layers have beer 
housed 'since lifted in autumn. Ever 
light showers will do no harm now, bui 
if the wind is in the east the sashes shoulc 
