The Gardening World, January 5 , 1907 . 
CONTENTS. 
Aconite, A Pretty Winter (illus.) .. 
Amateur's Letter to Amateurs, An .. 
Apple Growing for Amateurs (illus.).. 
Auriculas . 
Clematis Ville de Limoges 
Competition Awards 
Competition, Prize Letter 
Dioon Pectinatum (illus.) 
Editorial . 
Enquire Within . 
Flax, Powerscourt, New 
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Flower Garden, The ... 
Fruit Garden, The 
Fruit Growing for Amateur 
Greenhouse, The Amateurs’ 
Fledges for Gardens 
Iris, The Scorpion (illus.) 
Kitchen Garden, The ... 
Snowdrop, The (illus.) ... 
Sweet Peas (Letter) 
Vegetable Garden, The 
Winter, The Garden in 
Work of the Week 
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Notes on Early Chrysanthemums. 
Early 'mums are one of the most use¬ 
ful of late summer and autumn flowers, 
but it is not of the merits of those flowers 
that I am going to describe, but the 
mean; of propagation. Some leave the 
j roots in the ground and protect them dur¬ 
ing winter, but I consider the most con¬ 
venient way is to lift a few roots any time 
after being cut down by frost. Box and 
store them in a frame or structure that 
will protect them from severe frost until 
February, when they may be transferred 
to a temperature of 50 degs., and in a 
short time they will 'be bristling with 
cuttings. At that time of year roots very 
quickly form in boxes of sandy soil, with 
a little bottom heat,' and at that season 
are not so inclined to mildew as cuttings 
struck in autumn. 
Flora, 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
“ An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to 
form and ripen.” — Emerson. 
AN AMATEUR’S LETTER 
TO AMATEURS. 
By the Author of “ The Garden Decorative ,” 
etc., etc. 
LXXIII. 
A New Lawn. 
Having pegged out the exact outline of 
the new' lawn, the preparation of the soil 
is the first consideration. If this is foul, 
or worn out, it should be trenched, and in 
the same way as when dealing with an 
ordinary border ; that is to say, the sur¬ 
face soil should remain the surface soil, 
as it does more harm than good to bring 
up the subsoil, though of course to work 
and stir it is beneficial. Manure, 
especially stable manure, may be dug in, 
and the Whole may be left rough for 
several weeks to come, as the frost will do 
much to improve its condition, and seed 
cannot he sown at present, not, indeed, 
until March at the earliest. 
A Rose Hint. 
We may not have a single position in 
the garden suitable for a Rose hedge, but 
a single bush grown on a low trellis is 
charming and uncommon. Som'e vigorous 
dwarf growing variety should be chosen. 
Viscountess Folkestone makes a beautiful 
picture panel thus treated. The simpler 
th'e support the better, and in my bumble 
opinion, wood is to be preferred to gal¬ 
vanized wire. Such a Rose as this soon 
covers it, though if any considerable 
height has to be reached, Gruss an 
Teplilz and William A. Richardson are 
better varieties to select. A charming 
effect may be produced by growing Roses 
in this manner, one on each side the path¬ 
way at the garden gate, or at odd corners, 
even in out of the way positions in the 
garden. In small gardens where there, 
is no room for training Roses over per¬ 
golas, or making a good display of pillar 
Roses, there is still space enough, surely, 
for a beautiful Weeping Rose. This is 
exceedinglv interesting to train, and 
singularly beautiful when in blossom. An 
extra tall Brier should be budded with a 
vigorous growing Rose, and the branches 
are afterwards trained in a downward 
direction. There are still many who, 
amid the numerous beautiful and new Tea 
and other Roses, have not lost their affec¬ 
tion for the old-fashioned China Roses. 
My own idea is that it is a great mistake 
to mix these China with other Roses of a 
higher type; but, in a position by them¬ 
selves, they are very decorative, and I can 
tell my readers of a beautiful combination 
for a larger bed—pale pink China Roses, 
and old-fashioned Lavender bushes. If 
the Roses were other than they are, we 
should hesitate to associate such a strong 
growing plant as Lavender with them. 
China Roses. 
But the good old Chinas are grandly 
robust, and able to take care of them¬ 
selves ; and the colour-scheme of the two 
is as delightful as it is uncommon. It 
is more than this, it is full of old world 
fragrance, and of a fashion of gardens 
that are full of old world favourites. The 
China Roses flower and flower again and 
again, and even now in December, there 
are still great bunches of pink blossom. 
Perhaps the China Roses owe something 
of the neglect they are at the present 
receiving to the many new Rambler and 
Single Briers that have been nut upon the 
market of late years. If this is really so, 
it is worth asking oneself if a Tew weeks 
of a brilliant Rambler Rose is worth more 
than many months of continuous flower¬ 
ing from the old-fashioned Chinas. Some 
of us will, I think, decide that the Chinas 
might well come back to favour, even at 
the cost of some of the Penzance and other 
Brier varieties. The common pink 
China is difficult to beat by any other of 
this section, especially when massed, but 
Jean Bach Sisley and Duke of York are 
other excellent pink varieties. Of course 
there are the crimsons, but thev have not 
the charm of the pink, nor have the yellow 
varieties. With these crimson and 
yellows we feel, som'ehow, as if we ought 
to have a better, a higher type of Rose; 
we do not feel this with the beautiful pink 
coloured ones. But this may be mere 
individual fancy, and Fellenberg, Cra- 
moisie Superieure, are good crimsons. 
Cora, Queen Mab, Aurore, and Arethusa 
are excellent yellow or orange varieties, 
while Comtcsse de Cayla and Laurette 
Messimy are shaded from orange to car¬ 
mine. 
Reserve Borders. 
Now that the autumn planting is about 
completed, any superfluous plants may be 
used to stock a reserve border, perhaps, 
in the kitchen garden, in order to have 
plenty of flowers for cutting. A selection 
of the best varieties for this particular use 
should be made, and might include 
Actinella. Anthemis tinctoria, perennial 
Asters, Buphthalmum. earlv flowering 
Chrysanthemums, Coreopsis. Dianthuses 
Doronicums, Echinacea, Erigercn. Gyp- 
sophila, Helcnium, Irises, Lathyrus (Ever¬ 
lasting Pea), Liatris, Lilies, Lupins. Mont- 
bretia. Poppies of many sorts, Physalis 
Francheti (for the sake of its brilliant 
seed vessels or “lanterns"’), Primroses, 
Pyrethrums, Ranunculi (tubers should be 
put in during February and March . Rud- 
beckia. Scabious.‘especially the variety 
S. caucasica, Soiidago, Staticc latifolia 
and S. Gmelini, and Wallflower. The 
foregoing give cut flowers over a very 
long season, and is a selection of plants 
I have often contemplated giving my 
readers, and of course many bulbous 
