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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
May ix, 1907. 
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T^&uUiul §as<kns. 
Under the above title, with “ How to 
Make and Maintain Them” as a sub¬ 
title, Mr. Walter P. Wright, horticultural 
superintendent under the Kent County 
Council, has got together a variety of in¬ 
formation concerning gardens, but chiefly 
information how to make a beautiful gar¬ 
den anywhere where gardening is possible. 
For instance, he has chapters on laying 
out gardens, making lawns, herbaceous 
borders, rock gardening, beautiful flower 
beds, Lilies, annuals, Water Lilies, per- 
• golas, dry walls, Ferns and ferneries, the 
Rose garden, and other information of 
that sort. 
Under rock gardening he deals with a 
variety of questions which beset every 
operator or would-be cultivator who wishes 
to set about constructing a rockery and 
get together a collection of plants to 
clothe its rocky sides. The list of rock 
plants gives descriptions with each species, 
mentioning more than one of the best of 
each genus under notice. Under the 
heading of Primula, eleven or twelve 
which he considers indispensable are men¬ 
tioned. Amongst the illustrations is a 
very good one of a new introduction 
named Primula japonica pulverulenta, 
which differs from the ordinary Japan 
species by having mfealv stems. It is 
.evidently easy of cultivation, or the culti¬ 
vator was successful, judging from the 
picture. 
Those who desire to get away from the 
old and formal style of planting her¬ 
baceous borders can adopt what is known 
as the mixed border, and which has 
come into considerable vogue during re¬ 
cent years. An illustration, or a dia¬ 
gram, shows how four of these borders 
may be made on slightly different plans- 
The flowers with which to plant them are 
also mentioned. It will thus be seen that 
the writer's idea is to encourage other 
people to make beautiful gardens by fur¬ 
nishing them with the names of plants 
and describing how they should be planted 
or cultivated. 
-- 
. . A Remedy for 
Steam in- 
Green houses. 
It has occurred to me that some of the 
readers of the “ G. W.,” whose green¬ 
houses are heated by an apparatus with 
two lengths of four-inch pipes on one side 
of the greenhouse only, may be troubled 
by the steam which fills the greenhouse 
when the water in the pipes boils. I 
would suggest a very simple remedy 
which .will not only get rid of the steam, 
but will also add at least five or even ten 
Device to carry the steam from the heating 
apparatus outside the greenhouse; A expan¬ 
sion box; B, B, pipes; C, cement; D and 
E, elbows; F, pipe with pan, G, soldered 
on the top; H, roof of greenhouse; l, 
staging. 
degrees to the temperature of the house. 
I have kept up a temperature* of 60 to 
65 degrees in the very severest weather at 
night, which would have been ordinarily 
impossible, as the pipes could not have 
been kept hot enough without the water 
boiling, and this would have filled the 
greenhouse with steam and spoilt its con¬ 
tents. I had a growing flower bud on 
Cypripedium Sedenii and a sheath on 
Laelia anceps spoilt before I hit on a 
remedy which was as follows: 
I removed the staging over the pipes, 
got a block of wood and cut it just to fit 
into the top of the expansion box, and 
then bored a hole in the centre of the 
wood into which I hammered a small 
ordinary gas-pipe socket well smeared 
with red lead and putty. I then well 
coated the edges of the block of wood with 
red lead and putty and hammered that 
into the top of the expansion box, screw¬ 
ing two elbows into the socket in the block 
of wood. After that I fixed some boards 
round the top of the expansion box to 
form a mould, filling it up with cement, 
thus forming a block one inch thick on 
the top of the block of wood, and on the 
sides of the expansion box. Next I re¬ 
moved a pane of glass from the roof, 
nailed a piece of wood with a hole bored 
in across the sash bars, and put a piece of 
pipe with a tin pan soldered on the top 
through the hole in the wood, screwing it 
into the socket screwed on,the elbows, the 
pan being a little above the glass of roof, 
the pan acting as a supply tank as well as 
an escape for the steam. In frosty 
weather the pipe^ must be protected to 
keep it from being frozen or it may cause 
an explosion. 
Amateur. 
Pandanus Veitchii. 
Beautiful 
Foliage . 
Plant. . . 
The genera] way we see this beautifully 
variegated foliage plant utilised, is proof 
of its valuable qualities for grouping at 
exhibitions ; also as a specimen vase plant, 
which latter is a most successful method 
whereby plants of good shape and excel¬ 
lent in variegation mav be retained in 
such condition for some time, if a little 
more than ordinary care is given to them, 
especially in watering during winter. 
Should too much water be given, very 
soon we see the tips of the foliage turn 
brown, due generally to chance watering, 
instead of testing them 'beforehand. 
Such disfigurement makes it useless for 
particular work. Suckers or side-shoots 
which are freely produced at the base of 
older plants, may‘be slipped off and 
rooted during spring and summer. They 
should be put singly in small, clean, 
thumb pots, filled with equal parts- of fine 
loam and sand, and placed on a shelf in 
the stove-house, where they will root quite 
satisfactorily. W hen fit for potting, the 
earliest rooted ones may be put into 5 or 
5 % mch pots, and in this size they will 
make useful stuff the first season. The 
following year they may be transferred 
into pots of larger dimensions if required, 
using sandy loam and leaf mould, and 
potting moderately firm. Keep them grow¬ 
ing on a shelf, where plenty of light, and 
a moderate amount of sunshine may be 
obtained The application of a little soot- 
water will bring the beautiful variegation 
m the foliage to perfection, which develops 
evenly and possesses a very graceful 
appearance. We can speak favourably of 
it when grown in small 6o’s. A batch of 
these small plants looks very pretty 
occupying the corners of a dining-room 
table, these and such-like plants being 
grown extensively in small pots for fre¬ 
quent change in table decoration. 
A. J. M. . 
