April 24, 1909. 
THB QARDENllSiQ WORLD. 
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By the courtesy of the proprietors of 
The Gardening World, 1 am permitted 
to introduce myself to you, firstly for the 
purpose of amplifying the announcement 
which appeared in the last issue of this 
i paper, and secondly to bespeak your 
interest in the journal with which THE 
Gardening World will in future be 
associated. As you are possibly aware, 
The Gardening World is one of the 
pioneers of gardening journalism. For 
twenty-five years it has occupied a high 
and respected position among journals of 
its class, and during that long period it 
has never deviated from the principles 
with which it identified itself at the 
outset—thoroughness in instruction, and 
excellence in workmanship. These high 
principles naturally secured for the paper 
the support and adhesion of a large sec¬ 
tion of the horticultural public who are 
well able to discriminate between pre¬ 
tence and puffery and practical common- 
sense, and I am pleased to find that the 
paper still enjoys their confidence. It is 
to these readers that I particularly address 
myself. 
The present proprietors, Messrs. Mac- 
laren and Sons, are owners of several 
leading trade journals and their business, 
apart from The Gardening World, is 
exclusively that of technical publishers ; 
in order to devote themselves entirely to 
technical publishing they recently deter¬ 
mined to dispose of their interests in 
horticultural journalism, and the over¬ 
tures which they made to the proprietors 
of Garden Life quickly assumed concrete 
form and resulted in the decision of the 
proprietors of THE GARDENING WORLD 
to sell the copyright of their journal, and 
the acquisition of it by the proprietors of 
Garden Life. 
Henceforth The Gardening World 
will cease to have a separate existence. 
The next issue will be amalgamated with 
Garden Life, but the amalgamation in 
this case will not be altogether a case 
of the greater absorbing the lesser. As 
both papers have been addressing them¬ 
selves particularly to the amateur gar¬ 
dener, there are naturally several fea¬ 
tures common to both. In both papers 
“Answers to Correspondents” occupies a 
prominent position. In Garden Life it 
has always been one of our mos» appreci¬ 
ated features, and I have always charged 
myself with the duty of personally di¬ 
recting this section of the paper. Other 
features of Garden Life are a carefully 
considered and illustrated accohnt of 
“Next Week's Work in the Garden"; an 
interesting paper, also illustrated, entitled 
“My Suburban Garden — How I am Mak¬ 
ing it Beautiful”; “Leaves from a Gar¬ 
deners Note-book,” by that gifted gar¬ 
dening journalist, H. C. Davidson; “A 
Letter for Ladies” by “I.L.R.” (until 
recently gardening editor to “The Queen” 
newspaper); and lastly, but by no means 
least, “An Illustrated Interview with a 
Prominent Gardener of- the Day.” in 
addition to these there are, of course, the 
usual topical articles concerning the cul¬ 
ture of flowers, fruit and vegetables. 
As Garden Life invariably contains 
more pages of illustrations and informa¬ 
tion than any other gardening journal 
the reader will find all that he has been 
accustomed to in the pages of The 
Gardening World plus the interesting 
features which I have already enumer¬ 
ated. 
It only remains for me to ask you to 
transfer to Garden Life the support which 
you have so loyally accorded to The 
Gardening World in the past. The 
good-will of my readers and the success 
of their gardening operations is my first 
and last thought, and if I can, by means 
of Garden Life , add even a fractional 
amount to the pleasure and happiness 
which you already derive from the pursuit 
of your delightful hobby, I shall consider 
my labour in the cause of good garden¬ 
ing amply and abundantly repaid. 
The Editor of Garden Life. 
The Culture of the Arun? Lily. 
—~J (Richardia africana). 
The above, being a popular plant, is 
also known as Lily of the Nile, Trumpet 
Flower and White Arum Lily. It is not, 
however, a native of the Nile, as it and 
its relatives all come from South Africa. 
The present time is suitable for repotting 
and propagating this plant, particularly 
in those cases where the plants have been 
grown and flowered during the winter in 
a warm greenhouse. The plants should 
now be practically in their resting season, 
and a short rest is beneficial by withhold¬ 
ing water before disturbing the roots. 
Propagation is a simple matter, and 
consists merely in removing the small 
crowns or offsets from the parent plants, 
Arum Lily Culture, 
A , offset taken from established plant-, B, division of 
crowns; C, the same potted up; D, crown of Richardia 
elliutiana; E, good rooting medium. 
