THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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CONTENTS : 
Foreword to Exhibitors. 
The Cutting. 
First Potting and Treatment In Frames. 
Second Potting, with Notes on Stopping. 
Final Potting ant Summer Quarters. 
Watering and Tying, with Notes on Manuring 
Top-dressing. 
Insects. Injurious and Otherwi;e. 
The Prevention of “Fust” and other Fungoid 
Pests. « 
Incurved Varieties. 
Taking the Buds and Housing the Plants 
Indoor Treatment 
Dressing and Exhibiting, with instructions 
for the safe carriage of Flowers 
Crowing Plants for Croupmg, with notes of 
arrangements. 
Chrysanthemums for Decoration. 
Specimen Plants. 
Seedlings and Sports. 
Early-Flowering Chrysanthemums for the 
Carden. 
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6difouial. 
With the advent of the New Year comes 
a revived interest in gardens and garden¬ 
ing. The work of the true gardener never 
ceases, but new energy comes with the 
turn of the season and lengthening days, 
and a lively endeavour arises to have the 
garden stocked to its utmost capacity. 
The old custom of waiting till Easter, 
with its antiquated notions that gardening 
only commences then, is giving place to 
a truer aspect of the capabilities of the 
garden to furnish the home with the multi¬ 
tudinous requirements which can be met 
by those who are earnest in a manner 
undreamed of by those of the old 
school. During the next few weeks we 
shall help our readers to prepare for the 
realisation of the capabilities of a garden, 
showing the wealth of material available, 
both in the way of fruits, flowers and 
vegetables. 
A new competition which commences 
next week necessitates a little research 
which will open up new vistas in the minds 
of readers as to the wealth of material 
available for the stocking of a garden, and 
offers the means of furnishing it with the 
subjects brought to the memory of those 
who take part in such competition. Every¬ 
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only a consolation one, but the reward of 
a little study will even be greater than 
the actual value of the prize gained. It 
often happens that when one has to pre¬ 
pare a paper to read to his fellows that he 
increases his knowledge and no doubt 
reaps a greater reward than those who 
listen to his instructions. The solutions 
to the various questions we put are simply 
the names of popular plants which may. 
readily come to the minds of those who 
January 5, 1907. 
have the least rudimentary knowledge of 
a garden, but lists of plants are available, 
and in scanning their pages much infor¬ 
mation will pass before the eye of the 
reader that had not previously been 
thought of. This week’s issue contains 
a sample of the verses, each line of which 
asks a definite question and is complete 
in itself. 
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Auriculas 
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Culture and 
Propagation. 
A 
With the advent of bad weather all 
Auriculas should be put under shelter 
from rain and frost in a cold frame 
standing in a light open position and 
given all the air possible; in fact, the 
light should never be entirely closed. 
They should be potted every year in 
early July, being sure to use clean pots, 
three-inch ones being best and five-inch 
ones sufficient for the largest plants. 
Look well to your drainage and put a 
piece of moss over the crocks to prevent 
soil washing down and choking it up. 
Use a compost of well-rotted dung, leaf- 
mould and some burnt wood ashes, with 
sufficient silver sand to allow of free 
drainage. 
Turn them out of their pots and shake 
them free of the exhausted soil. Pot 
them firmly and stand on the north side 
of a hedge on narrow boards to exclude 
worms, and give a good watering, after 
which keep them on the dry side. In 
some cases the main root will be found to 
be diseased, and must be cut back as far 
as the diseased portion extends. In 
February an inch of the surface soil 
should be carefully scraped away so as 
not to injure the roots, and top dressed 
with fresh soil containing a small quantity 
of some good fertiliser. They must now 
be regularly supplied with plenty of water. 
So soon as the flower spikes begin to 
push up feed them regularly evert' third 
day with weak guano water, always water¬ 
ing with clean water first. Do. not allow 
more than seven pips-to open on each 
head, and work small pieces of cotton 
wool between the buds to keep them in 
position, so as to form a well-shaped truss. 
Be careful to keep water off the flowers 
when expanding, and see that all decaying 
leaves are kept picked off. 
Propagation is by offsets or seeds; off¬ 
sets may be slipped off if possible with a 
bit of root in February and potted. Raise 
your own seedlings and select from them, < 
carefully throwing away all washy colours J 
and those which show a pin eye. Seed ; 
is sown in February in shallow pans, and i 
pricked off into small pots as soon as they 
can be handled. They will grow and 
flower better if rather cramped for room. 
Each flower should form a perfect circle, 
and be. about the size of a shilling. 
H. W. Canning. WriGHt. 
Surrey. 
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Value of Fowls’ Manure.— Accord¬ 
ing to experiments made with this valu¬ 
able fertiliser it is a one-sided manure, 
and should be mixed with others, such as 
phosphates and potash in the form of 
kainit. Some good dry loam serves to 
prevent loss of nitrogen. 
