March 6, 1909. 
THE 
GARDES ISO WORLD. 
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Pearly White Jerusalem Artichoke. 
\_Dickso>. 
VEITCH’S NEW WHITE Qfrhotr 
£ PERPETUAL-FLOWERING ± Sli - ii < 5 OfY OIUUA, 
Greenhouse or window all the winter, pro¬ 
viding frost is excluded. The plants re¬ 
quire very little water during the winter 
months, only enough to keep the stems 
.from shrivelling. 
Douglas Gray. 
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Pearly White 
Jerusalem 
Artichoke, 
Most of our readers, we presume, are 
familiar with the ordinary form of the 
Jerusalem Artichoke, which has tubers 
more or less deeply tinted with purple. 
The new Pearly White variety might be 
described as an albino tuber, if such yvere 
permissible. In any case, it differs cniefly 
t'rom the ordinary one in the lack of colour 
or in having the skin of a delicate sil¬ 
ver}' or pearly white. Those w'ho are 
adeots in the cooking line value this more 
than the purple-skinned one because the 
Jerusalem Artichoke is usually cooked 
and prepared in such a way as to form 
a white vegetable dish. The Pearly White 
variety would be more easy to prepare 
and look whiter when cooked, owing to 
the natural lack of colour. The tubers 
are also more even and uniform in charac¬ 
ter than the purple one, and are equally 
as hardy and vigorous, producing a 
heavier crop, while they are more delicate 
in flavour, as many other vegetables are 
where colour is lacking in the raw- 
material. Gardeners are uniformly of 
opinion that the white variety is superior 
in every 7 way to the old one, just as they 
consider the Lily-white Seakale superior 
to the old type, which has its leaf sialks 
more or less tinted with purple. 
The cultivation of this plant is easy, be¬ 
ing similar to that of Potatos. The tubers 
mav be planted in lines 9 in. to 12 m. 
apart and 3 ft. between the lines, it a 
close plantation is made. In some cases 
-where only a limited amount is necessary 
a single line, forming a sort of hedge, 
would be a very- good wav of growing the 
Jerusalem Artichoke, as the plants would 
■he well lighted on all sides and grow 
=turdilv and crop well. Just as .there are 
several methods of planting Potatos. so 
several methods mav be adopted with re¬ 
gard to the tubers of the Jerusalem Arti¬ 
choke so long as the above distances are 
observed. The tubers should not be kept 
exposed for any length of time, as they 
sooner lose their moisture than would a 
P otato, owing to the thin skin^ Me are 
Indebted to Messrs. Dicksons. The Royal 
Seed Warehouses, Chester, for an oppor¬ 
tunity of illustrating the Pearly \\ hue 
variety 7 . 
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Wargrave Gardeners’ Association. 
This little society, of which Mr. H. 
Colebv, F.R.H.S., is the energetic hon. 
secretary, continues to carry on its good 
work and reports steady progress. M ell- 
attended fortnightly meetings, at which 
papers are read, are held during eigh 
months of the year. An encouraging fea¬ 
ture is-that nearlv all the young gardeners 
in the neighbourhood are members of the 
society. 
Splendid double Stocks, both Ten-week 
and Intermediate, yyere in existence at 
least forty years ago, yet they continue 
to be improved in some particular or 
other. The Ten-week race are most gener¬ 
ally cultivated, and, like the other race 
above mentioned, they hat 7 e all been de¬ 
rived from Matthiola incana. which may¬ 
be found groyving in a auasi yvild state on 
the chalk cliffs overhanging the sea in the 
south of England. 
The special feature of the variety under 
notice is its capability of continuing in 
flower for a much longer period than the 
ordinary strain of Ten-week Stock. The 
plant only grows 1 ft. in height, but after 
the fine terminal spike is over it continues 
to throw up side branches bearing smaller 
spikes until the coid weather of autumn 
puts a stop to groyvth. It may, therefore, 
be regarded as a perpetual florvering 
strain, producing massive spikes of large 
double, pure white flowers of great sub¬ 
stance. 
These double flowers are in themselves 
reallv much more durable than the single 
ones.' It'takes a long time for the numer¬ 
ous petals to be produced, and as these 
keep developing, the flower appears fresh 
and the delicious odour emanating from 
them scents the garden at all times, but 
especially during the evening and when 
[/. VeitcJi and Sons, Ltd. 
Veitch’s New White Perpetual-Flowering Ten-Week Stock. 
