January 12, 1907. 
THE GARDEN I NO WORLD 
23 
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OUR PRIZE COMPETITION. 
Our special competition commences 
with this week’s number and we reproduce 
the first verse which appeared last week. 
Competitors should set themselves at once 
to solve the questions, so that ail the an¬ 
swers may be ready as soon as possible 
after the last set of verses appears. The 
long winter evenings will afford the ne¬ 
cessary time and the mere act of finding 
solutions will be congenial exercise to all 
lovers of gardens and flowers. 
Each line of the several verses asks a 
definite question, which is complete in it¬ 
self, and the answer is the popular name 
of some flower, fruit, vegetable, well- 
known tree, wild flower or weed, all of 
which intimately concern the cultivator 
either as desirable inmates of the garden 
or undesirable ones tlo be got rid of. Each 
answer should be preceded by the number 
of the line in which the question is asked, 
thereby preventing mistakes when the an¬ 
swers come to be examined. 
The four questions set this week will 
be followed by eight next week, and in 
each of the three succeeding issues twelve 
questions will be set for solution. By the 
time the first few questions have been 
solved" the experience acquired will make 
the volutions more easy. None of them 
are really difficult, while the task when 
finished will furnish its own reward in 
reviewing the. wealth of flowers at the 
command of the cultivator independently 
of the numerous prizes offered. Indeed, 
none of those who enter the competition 
will go away empty handed. The com¬ 
petition will also furnish some evidence of 
the e’xtent to which popular names are 
used, as they are valuable only in pro¬ 
portion to the number of people who use 
them, and the area of country over which 
they are understood to apply to any par¬ 
ticular plants under consideration. 
Calceolaria integrifolia ang-ustifolia. [ Maclaren & Sons. 
[See Article on page 24.] 
DOUBLE 
SNOWDROP. 
Galanthus nivalis flore pleno. 
The double form of the common Snow¬ 
drop is a very old inhabitant of gardens, 
and some grower:-. like it because the 
flowers are rather more durable than those 
of the single ones. The plant is also 
later in coming into bloom under natural 
conditions in the open garden, and thus 
continues to adorn the borders long after 
the single one has passed into the fruiting 
stage. In the South it would bloom in 
March, but in the far north of Britain 
it may continue in beauty till well into 
April. 
On p. 7 is an illustration of the single 
or ordinary form, in which the flowers 
hang with half-closed bells in graceful 
The cSouttle Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis flore pleno.) 
