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THE HARDENING WORLD. 
May 18, 1907. 
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“ Rustic Carpentry.” 
Under the above heading a little book 
of 150 pp. has been edited by Mr. Paul 
N. Hasluck for Messrs. Cassell and Co., 
Ltd., London. The pages are profusely 
illustrated with all sorts of designs in¬ 
tended to help those who make rustic 
work for themselves. For instance, there 
are rustic frames for windows, brackets, 
flower holders, hall stands, window bo'xes, 
elaborate window boxes, flower-pot stands, 
tripods, vases of various- forms and pat¬ 
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be worthless material suitable for fire¬ 
wood, the logs being branched, crooked 
and knotted, but all of which irregulari¬ 
ties the rustic carpenter seizes upon and 
turns them into ornamental articles suit¬ 
able for the garden, window, and other 
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den seats in great variety, fences, gates, 
supports for Roses are some of the many 
objects dealt with in this book, which is 
sold at is., with postage extra. 
“The Modern Carnation.” 
“ The Modern Carnation : And How to 
Grow and Show It ” is the title of a book 
written by Mr. Hayward Mathias, the sec¬ 
retary of the Winter Flowering Carnation 
Society, and Mr. P. Smith. It is pub¬ 
lished" by the Horticultural Printing Co., 
Burnley,' at 3s. 6d. The authors deal with 
a review of the situation, soils and sites, 
culture in the open border, growing for 
exhibition, dressing and staging, hybridis¬ 
ing, and diseases and pests. They also 
take in Malmaison and American Carna¬ 
tions. There are several photographic 
illustrations showing various conditions' 
under which Carnations are grown, and 
as they appear dressed and on the show- 
boards. Those who require information 
on the method of growing Carnations for 
exhibition will find it in a chapter com¬ 
mencing on p. 43. Mr. Mathias believes 
in growing plants in pots as if for exhibi¬ 
tion, if growers are fond of their hobby. 
This is, of course, the orthodox method 
of growing Carnations for exhibition by 
the old hand. The process of growing 
To the amateur and cottager it must 
generally be a matter of some considera¬ 
tion to get an ample supply of satisfactory 
stakes for their stock of Peas. Not infre¬ 
quently the professional gardener finds 
the matter one of some inconvenience. 
True, if his employer is of a liberal cast 
of mind, and ever helpful in assisting his 
gardener, the difficulty will be tided over, 
but how many leave the gardener to 
them is dealt with step by step, and finally 
the .authors describe the process of dress¬ 
ing the flowers and staging them. Various 
bits of good advice are also given as to 
how the beginner should conduct himself, 
what he may or may not expect, and how 
he is ultimately rewarded with success by 
being thorough in everything he does. 
next best material to wood branches. The 
setting up of the netting is much easier, 
it takes less time, and the Peas cling to 
it in a more friendly way. Take netting 
with the mesh large enough to admit the 
hand to the Peas, four, five, or more feet 
broad. At each end of the rows insert 
two nicely green-painted posts, or 2 
inches square, nailing a piece of wood 
about 6 inches long to keep them equi¬ 
struggle as best he can, and get provided 
some way without expense ? 
The best kind of stakes for Peas are, of 
course, the wooden ones, and whenever 
these are to be had every grower of Peas 
provides himself with them. This is com¬ 
monly more easy for the squire’s gar¬ 
dener than for either the amateur or cot¬ 
tager, as an estate is insignificant indeed 
where the necessary supply of branches 
for this purpose is not procurable. The 
Pea trainers so much in use are not at all 
satisfactory, and are dear besides. They 
appear to have some quality attaching to 
them which deters the Pea tendrils from 
catching on properly. 
I have been recently experimenting with 
galvanized wire netting, and find it the 
— A — 
Blue Alpine Border 
In Westmorland. 
For soil like ours, a little peat and a 
good deal of hot red sand, I find that al- 
pin.es are the most satisfactory flowers. 
My blue border will soon have Gentiana 
verna and Polygala calcarea in flower on 
it, but now, at the moment of the Equinox, 
it is gay with a mass of Muscari azureum, 
which grows low, Cambridge blue in 
colour; °and clumps of Iris reticulata 
spring out from this carpet; also there is 
the little purple Crocus, two inches high, 
from the summit of a mountain I know 
in Savoie, 5,000 feet high; tbis was grow- 
distant at the top. If the rows are very 
long another two may be driven in in the 
middle of the row to lessen the strain on 
the end posts, but generally the use of 
long bamboo canes placed slanting and 
crossed will suffice. The canes ought to 
be at least 7 feet long, which will allow 
of a greater slant, and 10 or 12 should 
do for a row 35 or 40 yards in length. 
This mode of supporting Peas looks ex 
tremely tidy, and I can recommend it to 
all who have not yet adopted it as a most 
satisfactory one in every’ detail. To the 
cottager or amateur it will be found very 
serviceable. With the editor's permission 
I subjoin a rough sketch of the plan of 
setting up supports. 
ing in the turf at the very top. This 
Crocus and the Grape Hyacinths and Iris 
all .are increasing and sowing themselves; 
also Anemone blanda. A few boulders 
sunk in the soil, or the bed raised with 
them, and the soil piled high with plenty 
of sun to shine on the plants, is all that is 
needed, only in summer the Gentians 
should have water, and some boughs of 
Spruce Fir put carefully over them when 
the sun is very hot. Gentians I always: 
top-dress in autumn and spring with some 
very old hot-bed manure, and they grow 
from seed. The more attention given to 
alpines when the soil is suitable the more 
interesting thev become. In one place a 
cushion of Silene acaulis from Scotland 
and another quite different one from 
Savoie, grow with Erinus from off the 
Roman wall, which has seeded all over the 
Pea Staking and Pea Stakes. 
