THB GARDENING WORLD. March 13, 1909. 
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In the majority of cases a heavy fall 
of snow does no harm in the garden. 
Indeed, it gives plants of dwarf character 
a great amount of protection and unless 
the snow lies unusually long the foliage 
will remain quite fresh when the snow 
has gone. Unfortunately, the long con¬ 
tinued prevalence of east winds before the 
advent of the present snowstorm did a 
considerable amount of harm to many 
evergreen subjects. This was due as 
much to loss of moisture from the leaves 
as from the amount of cold. Evergreen 
foliage, whether the plants are herbs or 
shrubs, gives off a considerable amount of 
moisture in winter and when the ground 
is dry and frozen hard the passage of 
moisture from below is checked and the 
evergreen leaves suffer, especially if the 
sun is strong while the east winds are 
blowing. 
The Wallflower often suffers in this 
way and the taller it is the more harm is 
done. Even Saxifragas and Phloxes with 
other herbs suffer in this way. The leaves 
of the Golden Privet and certain varieties 
of Euonymus japonicus, such as E. j. 
latifolius albo variegatus, have suffered 
a good deal this winter, especially in ex¬ 
posed positions and where the plants are 
tall. The leaves have already fallen to 
a great extent, but the wood is yet quite 
sound where we have been observing it, 
and beyond the loss of foliage the plants 
will recover with the rise of temperature 
in spring. The golden variegated Euony¬ 
mus has withstood the ordeal better than 
most of the others. Tea Roses have suf¬ 
fered somewhat where no protection was 
given and owing to the lack of snow, but 
the snowfall as we write will be of great 
advantage to them. 
Evergreen Conifers with horizontal 
branches like those of the Cedar of Leba¬ 
non sometimes suffer severely owing to a 
heavy fall of soft or wet snow which hangs 
upon them in spite of wind. Those who 
have trees or shrubs likely to suffer in 
this way should be on the alert and have 
the branches well shaken with a long 
pole so as to bring down the bulk of the 
snow before it breaks the branches. Even 
quite small Conifers may suffer in this 
The whole plant of an Aspidistra con¬ 
sists of a stout underground rhizome 
giving off one leaf at short distances all 
along its length. When a plant has been 
grown for a year or two in a pot under 
favourable conditions it will be found that 
these leaves have become crowded and it 
may be the rhizomes are pushing out of 
the pots for want of room to creep under 
the soil. At that stage the plant should 
be repotted into a large size or else 
broken up into several so as to increase 
the number of plants of,a useful size for 
table decoration. / 
The method of propagation is simply 
by division. The whole plant should be 
turned out of its pot and the soil carefully 
removed from the roots in order to dis¬ 
cover the best method of dividing the 
piece. A single leaf with a small portion 
of rhizome would be sufficient to make a 
plant, as a new axis or crown would arise 
at the base of the leaf. As a rule, how¬ 
ever, it is undesirable to make a large 
number of such small pieces. Three or 
four leaves may be retained with the 
rhizome to which they are attached. 
Clean pots should be used of a size 
way in sheltered positions where the snow 
hangs upon them and bears down the 
branches. Gooseberries sometimes get 
borne to the ground and all their branches 
broken in the northern parts of the island 
where the snowfall is heavy. This is often 
due largely to bad or neglected pruning, 
but even then if the bushes -were shaken 
so as to make the bulk of the snow fall 
the bushes would continue to stand up¬ 
right. 
proportionate to that of the plants to be 
put in them. They should be well drained 
so that no stagnant moisture may remain 
about the roots, otherwise the leaves will 
turn yellow before their natural time. 
Each leaf should live several years under 
proper conditions as to light, heat and 
moisture. In a greenhouse, where the 
light would be very powerful, a little 
shade would be an advantage, but in a 
window the plant may stand near the 
glass at all periods of the year to advan¬ 
tage. It is quite a mistake to keep plants 
dry half the time and standing in posi¬ 
tions where they cannot get anything like 
an adequate amount of light. Many 
plants are killed every year by that 
means. 
The compost should be fairly substan¬ 
tial for this class of plants and the 
accompanying diagram ‘shows a simple 
but suitable compost. The dark spaces 
on the right show that three parts of loam 
should be used to one part of leaf-mould 
and one part of sand. Some rough ma¬ 
terial should be placed over the drainage 
in the pot and some soil placed on this so 
that the rhizome will just be covered when 
The Propagation of Aspidistra. 
Propagation of Aspidistra. 
