The Gardening World, June 15 , 1907 . 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
“ Continuous rains upon the blossoms are hurtful .” —Jean Paul. 
CONTENTS. 
\mateur’s Letter to Amateurs, An ... 393 
\nemone angulosa . 39^ 
Apricots, Summer Treatment of . 394 
Carnation, The Perpetual Flowering ...398 
Carnations: Hints on Tying, etc. 
(illus.) . 403 
Carnations: Work for June . 402 
Coleus for Exhibition . 399 
Competition Awards . 394 
Competition, Prize Letter . 396 
Daffodil, New Trumpet (illus.) . 397 
Enquire Within . 4°4 
Fernery and Conservatory, A Com¬ 
bined . 394 
Flower Garden, The .'.. ' 4 °° 
Flower Show, The Temple . 4 °S 
Fruit Garden, The . 4 °° 
Gloxinias and Begonias . 395 
Greenhouse, The Amateurs . 401 
Hippeastrums . 4 °° 
Iris from Palestine, An (illus.) . 399 
Kitchen Garden, The . 4 QI 
Odontoglossums, A Splendid Group 
of (illus.) . 395 
Orchids for Amateurs . 4 DI 
Phlox, A Lovely Dwarf (illus.) . 395 
Primula, The Whorled (illus.) . 398 
Prunus serrulata . 397 
Work of the Week . 4°o 
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She \u xhe Sasdexv 
When to the garden of untroubled thought 
I came of late, and saw the open door, 
And wished again to enter, and explore 
The sweet, wild ways with stainless bloom 
inwrought, 
And bowers of innocence with beauty 
fraught, 
It seemed some purer voice must speak 
before 
I dared to tread that garden loved of 
yore, 
That Eden lost unknown and found un¬ 
sought. 
Then just within the gate I saw a child— 
A stranger child, yet to my heart most 
dear; 
He held his hands to me, and softly 
smiled 
W ith eyes that knew no shade of sin or 
fear: 
“Come in,” he said, “and play awhile 
with me ; 
am the little child you used to be.” 
—Henry Van Dyke. 
XCV. 
Summer Treatment of Violets. 
Now that the bedding out for the sum¬ 
mer has been completed there is time to 
look round and give attention elsew'here. 
I will suppose that my earlier directions 
have been followed, and that the end of 
April or the beginning of May saw the 
making of new Violet beds ■where neces¬ 
sary, and the planting of rooted offsets, 
or the dividing of old plants. So far so 
good. The present work consists in keep¬ 
ing them free from weeds, watered when 
necessary, and the runners pinched off as 
often as they form. This treatment, if 
the soil is all that it should be, will give 
us capital plants to deal with in the 
autumn. Remember, Violets give us 
blossom at Christmas, at least, such ex¬ 
cellent varieties as the beautiful double- 
flowered Parene de Toulouse, with no 
more protection than a cold frame in a 
sunny position. I picked a large bunch 
myself last Christmas morning, so feel 
that I am not placing tempting, but im¬ 
practical, ideas before my readers. 
Seeds to Sow. 
Have you sown your Carnation seed for 
next year’s flowering ? Well done, if you 
have, but if not, there is no time to lose. 
Carnations belong to the choicest, and one 
of the most beautiful types of flowers, so 
that they may well be classed with the 
Lily and the Rose. Colouring, foliage, 
habit, length of flowering—all are excel¬ 
lent, and, wonderful to relate, the Car¬ 
nation is a capital plant for the town gar¬ 
dens, and the London suburbs. I like 
best to sow the seed in boxes very thinly, 
and keep these until the seedlings have 
made their second pair of leaves in a cold- 
house that has proper means, of keeping 
out a too. fierce sun. After this stage has 
been reached, the seedlings should be 
planted outside in a warm sunny position, 
and the soil, if very heavy, should have 
a little silver-sand added to it. Such 
treatment should mean that the young 
plants will be ready to be transferred to 
their flowering quarters early in October. 
But, as I said before, the time is getting 
away, and it should not be delayed. 
Pot Plants. 
Such subjects as Deutzias, Cytisuses, 
•Diplacus, and others of a woody nature, 
benefit by being planted out in the 
warmest and sunniest border the garden 
affords, and, failing that, the pots con¬ 
taining them should now be stood in the 
open air for the summer months. I al¬ 
ways like to reckon on a few annuals 
growing as pot subjects, and in the bed¬ 
ding out, generally, pot up a few surplus 
plants. Balsams are especially useful, 
and this year I have the luck to have some 
plants grown from seed sent from the 
Transvaal. I expect them to be better 
than English-ripened seed, and mention 
the fact, to show what additional interest 
it gives to our hobby even to vary in any 
way the humdrum way. At the same 
time, I have Gazania that has been sent 
me by the same kindly and unknown cor¬ 
respondent. Even seed grown in other 
climates titan ours is an additional in¬ 
terest, and one many of us with friends 
abroad can indulge in. 
Edelweiss. 
There is the charm and sentiment over 
and above the beauty and interest of this 
plant. Everyone who attempts to grow a 
collection of alpines should, I think, add 
this to the number, especially as it is quite 
easy to rear from seed. I need scarcely 
say that in seeking this plant in the seed 
catalogues we must look for it under the 
title Leontopodium alpinum. V hen 
planted out it should have a sunny and 
well-drained position, this last being an 
essential matter. 
Violas. 
It is never out of season to sow Viola 
seed, and by sowing three or four times 
in the year we ought to manage to have 
Violas in blossom pretty well throughout 
the twelve months. I have seen them 
buried under January snow one day, and 
the next look as fresh and beautiful hs 
ever in full blossom. 
Various Sowings. 
I like the present month to sow a batch 
of Primulas, Cinerarias, Streptocarpus, 
and other plants of a like tender nature, 
and, where there is'but slight heat afforded 
during the winter, I have come to the con¬ 
clusion that an early June sowing is much 
more satisfactory as well as easier to bring 
through the winter than earlier sowings. 
And, by the by, I mean to make the ex¬ 
periment, and as it seems an interesting 
one worth naming, to my readers, of grow¬ 
ing a batch of late-sown Cineraria plants 
for bedding purposes in a cool position 
next summer. Cinerarias have been suc¬ 
cessfully used thus, and I do not see why 
thev should not figure much more largely 
as summer plants than they do. 
F'. Norfolk. 
No Penny Packets Then! 
Little packets of precious seeds were 
sent as presents to German princelings 
by special couriers, and Burgundian en¬ 
voys are known to have carried certain 
seeds to Holland in the fifteenth century, 
when Holland was ruled by a Duke of 
Burgrundv. 
