The Gardening World, June 8, 1907. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
" l:arly fruits and winter Roses are most prized.” — Martius. 
An Amateur’s Letter to Amateurs. 
CONTENTS. 
tmateur’s Letter to Amateurs, An... 377 
tsclepias tuberosa . 383 
tsparagus: Errors in Cultivating ... 378 
Chrysanthemums: Work for June ... 383 
'ompetition Awards . 378 
Competition, Prize Letter . 380 
Daffodil, A Beautiful Hybrid (illus.) 381 
inquire Within . 387 
-'lower Garden, The . 384 
•'lower Show, The Great Temple ... 390 
'ruit Garden, The . 385 
Greenhouse, The Amateur's . 383 
Herbaceous Borders . 378 
Hyacinth, The Wild (illus.) .. 385 
ris, Leichtlin’s (illus.)- . 382 
litchen Garden, The . 385 
degasea, An Early Flowering (illus.) 379 
Drchids for Amateurs . 386 
.^ansies (letter) . 380 
’olyanthuses from Forde Abbey ... 381 
Primula, A Charming Alpine (illus.) 381 
3 rimula Sieboldii . 383 
J yrus spectabilis . 383 
tichardia elliottiana from Seed...... 379 
loses: Work for June. 383 
York of the Week . 384 
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JUNE. 
The air is grey with dust and thick 
A ith ceaseless clamour, brutal noise, 
The sun beats on these miles of brick, 
The breeze dies strangled—who enjoys 
This London June? 
But somewhere, not so far away, 
Deep fields of grass grow ripe for hay, 
-ong leagues of grass sway green and 
grey 
Before the west wind’s wand’ring way— 
West winds in June! 
Bv waterway and waterfall 
1 ireen river reeds grow close and tall, 
rhe dragon fly threads-through them all, 
A hile in the copse the cuckoos call 
“Cuckoo” in June. 
Throughout the sunny summer land 
The blackbirds whistle, swallows play— 
j roars the traffic down the Strand, 
The pavements glare ; this is, we say, 
The month of June. 
Mrs. C. Y., in the “Academy.” 
XCIAL 
Types of Gardens. 
It happens to have been my fortune to 
have seen gardens in France, in Spain, in 
Italy, as well as to have enjoyed a very 
close study of our English gardens, both 
round about London and further afield. 
I think there is no garden quite so. delight¬ 
ful to recall as a typical English garden. 
But what is a typical English garden? 
It is a garden in which almost, if not the 
entire space, is given up to hardy 
flowers — flowers that can withstand our 
climate, winter and summer, except, of 
course, when it comes to annual plants, 
and they may well be largely represented. 
It does not matter whether it be a subur¬ 
ban garden, an ordinary town garden, or 
a country garden—all can be made into 
beautiful and typical English gardens. 
And I go so far as to say that never has 
it been possible to grow so large a range 
of suitable and charming hardy flowers as 
at the present time. Cheap seed has 
made beautiful and interesting gardens 
within the reach of all. I hold no brief 
for the penny-packet-seed-companies and 
firms, but I cannot refrain from saying 
that they have given such an impetus to 
gardening, have added so much to the 
intense interest of the hobby, that it is 
not too much to say they have won the 
gratitude of every real flower lover. I 
have an unknown correspondent, a work¬ 
ing man, who is one of the most enthu¬ 
siastic gardeners I have ever come across. 
This era of cheap seed packets has put 
many things within his reach, that other¬ 
wise must have been unattainable. And 
there is this much to be said — the seed 
is not necessarily clieaf seed because it is 
sold in penny packets ; the boon lies in 
the fact of one being able to get a really 
small quantity of seed ; and, at the same 
time, in grand variety of subjects. 
Growing Perennial Plants from Seed. 
There is still time to grow many things 
that with careful summer treatment will 
be ready to transport to their flowering 
quarters in the autumn. It is time, for 
instance, to sow seeds of AYallflowers, of 
Forget-me-not, of all sorts of hardy 
Primulas. And of later flowering sub¬ 
jects than these may be mentioned 
Pyrethrum, Anthemis, Dianthus, Lychnis, 
■Delphiniums, Campanulas, and many 
other subjects. Half hardy bedding 
plants, Geraniums, and others are all 
very well, but they will never satisfy the 
real flower lover. If I may say so, there 
is nothing very interesting in a bed of 
Zonal Pelargoniums. One day they are 
all planted— they flower throughout the 
summer, and gradually the plants merge 
one into the other; there is no variety 
of height; there is a good mass of colour. 
That is all! But plant the same space 
with hardy plants, of different families, 
forms, and heights. Every day there are 
new developments, new stages of growth 
and interest, and beauty. 
Rock Gardening. 
And in growing perennial plants from 
seed, I want to urge on all my readers to 
remember the needs of the rock garden, 
whether this is already made or only in 
contemplation when the autumn comes. 
The more I study gardens, the more do I 
see the beauty and the decorative value of 
making the rock garden a prominent and 
important feature of the garden. I would 
never hesitate to devote to it the most 
open and the best bit of ground the gar¬ 
den contained. There will be no por¬ 
tion of the garden to compare with it for 
brilliant colouring from the middle of 
March to the middle of July. That 
means a great deal, and I am glad to 
say that I heard from a nurseryman re¬ 
cently the fact that rock-loving and other 
alpine plants were coming greatly into 
favour, and the demand was increasing 
each year. 
We may well grow at the present time 
a stock of plants that shall be useful alike 
for the rock garden proper, or for rock 
work edging, which is another wonderfully 
effective way of using these plants that 
yield such grandly massive colour effects. 
I cannot give too great praise to well 
grown masses of Aubrietia, Iberis, 
Alyssum saxatile, double Arabis (this last 
only if there be ample room for each sub¬ 
ject) in the spring garden. Even the 
first season these plants will give good 
effects, but nothing to be compared to the 
display thev will provide when sufficient 
time shall have elapsed for the plants to 
spread themselves into wide clumps, that 
in their flowering seasons become masses 
of radiant colour. 
F. Norfolk. 
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The Gardeners’ Company. 
The arms of the Royal Gardeners’ Com¬ 
pany are : On a shield representing a land¬ 
scape, the figure of a man, habited about 
the body with a skin, delving the ground 
with a spade proper. The crest represents, 
on a wreath Argent and A T ert, a basket of 
flowers and fruit proper. The supporters 
on either side are female figures, proper, 
vested Argent, wreathed about the temples 
with flowers, and supporting on the ex¬ 
terior arm a cornucopia proper. The 
motto of the guild is, “In the swnat of thy 
brow shalt thou eat thv bread.” 
