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3799. Effective Way of Planting Forget- 
Me-Nots 
I have ordered four dozen plants of For¬ 
get-Me-Nots and would be obliged by your 
giving me a few suggestions as to the best 
and most effective way of planting out the 
same. I am having two colours, namely, 
blue and white (two dozen of each). I in¬ 
tend to have a border of Lobelia, so would 
not use them for that purpose. (E. H. Ful¬ 
lerton, Middlesex.) 
The dwarf Lobelias are usually employed 
for making edgings to beds and borders, but 
we understand that you have devoted a bor¬ 
der entirely to Lobelia, which is an unusual 
way of growing them. The Forget-Me-Nots 
most often employed in bedding are em¬ 
ployed in spring gardening, as they bloom 
‘only in spring and early summer. In that 
case it is customary to plant them in the 
autumn in beds intended to make a display 
in spring and to come off the ground before 
. summer-flowering subjects are planted. In 
those cases the Forget-Me-Nots could have 
been employed as an edging to the beds, 
or as a groundwork to beds in which. Tulips, 
Hyacinths and Daffodils are planted thinly. 
In those cases, of course, the blue variety 
would be planted in beds that would make 
a contrast with the other subjects employed. 
For instance, we should not make a ground¬ 
work of the white ForgeLMe-Not for a bed 
of the White Swan Tulip. Where pink, red 
or blue Hyacinths or Tulips are planted, 
you could, of course, employ the white 
Forget-Me-Not as a groundwork, that is, for 
. covering the ground in the spaces between 
_ the Tulips. The blue variety could form a 
groundwork to a bed of white Tulips, Hya¬ 
cinths or yellow Daffodils. We presume the 
Forgeit-Me-Nots you have got are varieties of 
Myosotis sylvatica, and in that case they 
should be planted at once and quite indepen¬ 
dently of any other bedding, as they will 
- Cease to be ornamental by the end of May or 
soon after. Could you not employ them as an 
edging to some other plants in the garden 
and then at the end of May lift them and 
plant the Lobelia to keep up a display till 
the end of the season. If you have standard 
Roses in small beds on the grass the Myo- 
- sotis could be used to fill up such beds. 
It is possible to keep on the Myosotis for an¬ 
other season if you lift the young shoots and 
plant them out in a piece of good soil where 
they can make bushy plants during the sum¬ 
mer. The usual plan, however, with this 
Forget-Me-Not is to get and sow seeds at the 
beginning of August every year as they 
always make the best plants when so raised. 
WATER GARDEN . 
3 800. Evergreen Aquatics to Cover 
Water in Winter. 
Will you ohlige by telling me in your 
Gardening World - “Enquire Within” the 
name of a hardy evergreen water plant, not 
Lemna gib ha. I want, if possible, to get 
a water plant that covers the surface of the 
muddy water in winter, as well as at other 
times of the year. (G. W. Wood, Herts.) 
You will have some difficulty in getting 
an evergreen water plant that will cover 
the water in winter as well as summer. Most 
water plants that do so die down in winter 
and remain more or less completely under the 
water. Under fairly favourable conditions 
the Winter Hawthorn (Aponogeton dis- 
tachyum) may be got to flower in winter, but 
the leaves would not completely hide the 
water. Lemna minor we more frequently 
find covering the water with a complete sheet 
in winter than any of the others, but even 
this likes a sheltered position, otherwise the 
wind drives all these things on to the edges 
or such of them as do not actually die at 
that time of the year. If the water of your 
pond is not very deep, you could plant such 
things as Acorus Calamus foliis variegatis, 
Iris Pseudacorus foliis variegatis and Gly¬ 
cerin aquatica fol. var., which keep a few 
leaves green during winter and these stand¬ 
ing up out of the water would give the same 
a fairly respectable appearance. In the au¬ 
tumn or early winter you can keep them tidy 
by removing all the dead leaves. All of 
them grow rampantly and you will require 
to reduce them annually by taking off pieces 
to give room for the remainder to grow. If 
the water is too deep you could pot up a 
number of plants and stand them on in¬ 
verted pots so that only the leaves are out 
of the water. The three-subjects last men¬ 
tioned have their leaves varisgated with 
white or yellow and they do something to¬ 
wards hiding the objectionable water. Evi¬ 
dently few things that live on .the water in 
summer are meant to do so in winter. - Na¬ 
ture has made preparations for high winds, 
for floods and for ice upon the waters, so 
that evergreen subjects would not only be 
unnecessary, but practically impossible in a 
state of nature. 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
3801. Making- a Collection of British 
Wild Flowers. 
Can you recommend any book which will 
help me in making a collection of British 
wild flowers, especially dealing with the 
best way of preserving them? (Constant 
Reader, Lancs.) 
Some of the books which will help you 
WARE’S HARDY PERENNIAL 
Catalogue for 1909, 
Illustrated and full of information, now ready. 
The list is the most complete issued, and con¬ 
tains particulars of new and rare Harcy 
Plants, Water Lilies and Bog Plants, 
Roses in Pots, Border and Tree Carnations, 
Choice Phloxes and Delphiniums, &c. 
A Supplement to the list is the Special Cheap Offer of 
Surplus Plants, worthy of everyone's notice. Write now 
for a copy to Dept. No. 3. 
THOS. S. WARE, Ltd , FELTHAM. 
are as follows :—“ Wayside and Woodland 
Blossoms,” by Edward Step, F.L.S., First 
and Second Series, 6s. 4d. each or 12s. 6d. 
the two, post free, sold by Messrs. Frederick 
Warne and Co., 15, Bedford Street, Strand; 
“ Flowers of the Field,” by the Rev. C. A. 
Johns, sold by Messrs. George Ro-utledge 
and Sons, Ltd., Broadway House, Ludgate 
Hill, London, with ninety-two coloured 
illustrations and 245 cuts in the text, price 
7s. 6d. and postage; “Familiar Wild 
Flowers,” by F. Edward Hulme, F.L.S., 
new edition, with 360 coloured illustrations 
in 45 parts at 6d. each, and sold by Messrs. 
Cassell and Co., Ltd., La Belle Sauvage, 
Ludgate Hill, London. The first book above 
mentioned contains two or three hundred 
coloured illustrations. We do not know that 
any of .them will give you much information 
about the drying of plants, but you will 
find an account of this in our last issue, 
P- 245. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
(J. D., Barrow) 1, Ladhenalia tricolor; 2, 
Kerria japonica flpre pleno; 3, Clivia 
miniata var. 
(D. Rodger, Fife) Dendrobium Farmeri. 
(R. W.) 1, Salix caprea; 2, Daphne 
Mezereum; 3, Ribes sanguineum; 4, Cornus 
Mas; 3, Erica carnea. 
(T. Reid) 1, Chionodoxa Lucilae; 2, Gal- 
anthus Elwesii; 3, Galanthus nivalis;-4, 
Narcissus minor; 5, .Scilla sibirica; 6, Scilla 
brfolia. 
(W. S.) 1, Erica . h} r emalis; 2, Azalea 
mollis var.; 3, Azalea indica amoena; 4, 
Daphne odora. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
A. W. Gamage, Ltd., Holborn, London, 
E.C.—Gamage’s Horticultural Catalogue. 
James Stredwick and Son, Silverhill 
Park, St. Leonards-on-Sea.-—Descriptive 
Catalogue of Dahlias. 
