I n Gardening Wori.d, June 22, 190;. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
Noisome weeds that without profit suck the soil’s fertility from wholesome flowers.” 
Shakesfeare. 
An Amateur’s Letter to Amateurs. 
CONTENTS. 
A ssiims for the Rock Garden . 413 
,'iateur’s Letter to Amateurs, An. ... 409 
.'drosace, The Trailing (illus.) ... 411 
Cnnell, The Late Mr. E. A. 422 
Gerarias* The Culture of . 41° 
■ mpetition Awards . 4 x o 
(npetition, Prize Letter . 4 12 
[ isy, The Blue (illus.) . 4 11 
1 in thus Knapii . 4 21 
1 quire Within . 4 2 3 
Inver Garden, The . 4 ^ 
I rget-me-not, The Alpine (illus.) ... 417 
hit Garden, The . 418 
luit Growing for Amateurs (illus.) 421 
uit Trees, Cropping Young . 410 
1 rden Pests and How to Destroy 
Them . 4 ! 3 
i raniums (Zonal): Their Culture 
:or Amateurs . 4 2 ° 
eenhouse, The Amateur's . 419 
:rbaceous Borders, A Chat About 415 
tchen Garden, The . 419 
ly. The Beautiful Mariposa (illus.) 415 
asters, The Late Dr. 422 
edlars, The Culture of (illus.) . 421 
chids for Amateurs . 4 l 9 
dox, The Creeping (illus.) . 417 
imula japonica . 4 2 i 
veet Peas : Work for June . 4 X 6 
ola Family, The . 4 l 4 
indow Boxes, Plants for . 414 
ork of the Week .418-419 
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JUNE. 
riumphant June, with stately tread, 
Advances day by day ; 
ar all her enemies are dead, 
And winter’s fled away. 
ranscendant glory of the year. 
Thy head with joy is crowned ; 
hv sceptre is a Lily wand. 
Thy throne a grassy mound. 
uee'n Flora leads a merry dance, 
To honour thv brief stay ; 
he Roses all their perfumes shed, 
To greet thee on thy way. 
lajestic splendour stay with us, 
Or let us come with thee; 
or. where thou art, there life abides— 
There, surely, Heaven must be. 
Baynton-Taylor. 
XCVI. 
Antirrhinums. 
Now that the arduous work of rearing 
and getting into their final quarters the 
summer bedding plants, annuals and 
others, there is time to give a little atten¬ 
tion to other matters. To-day, I want to 
call to my readers’ attention some of the 
plants that I may truthfully say should 
find a place in every garden. They are 
in many cases not novelties, far from it, 
they are numbered among the good old- 
fashioned plants. Yet in a sense they 
are novelties in that we can now obtain 
varieties and strains that are of quite 
modern introduction. There is the 
Antirrhinum, more familiarly called 
the Snapdragon, and to go back 
to find the real old-world name, the 
“Calves’ Snout.” It is not enough to 
have growing in our gardens strains that 
have been there year after year, and 
simply go on reproducing themselves. 
These old strains lack the clear, clean, 
and brilliant colouring of our up-to-date 
strains. Yet I can tell of gardens in 
which dull purples,, and majentas still sur¬ 
vive, when there might be a grand dis¬ 
play of plants as vivid in colouring as, 
sav, our present penny postage stamps. 
Thus, in fact, it was once described to 
me. It is a grand plant for a dry, sunny 
position and a soil that tends rather to 
poorness. How much better for a posi¬ 
tion such as this that I describe, to get a 
radiantly glowing effect from easily-reared 
simple plants such as Antirrhinums than 
to make the vain endeavour to achieve a 
fine display from choicer subjects which, 
however, demand a good soil and an open 
position. 
Anthemis tinctoria. 
Another plant for which I wish to say 
a good word is Anthemis tinctoria. If 
we happen to be versed in the familiar 
old-fashioned names, we may know this 
plant as Camomile. Here, again, much 
has been done to develop the latent pos¬ 
sibilities with which the plant abounded, 
and the modern strains and varieties are 
excellent in all respects. I have found 
this plant even vie with the Antirrhinum 
as a suitable subject for dry and ungenial 
quarters, where much sunshine abounds. 
Sow now. 
I am naming these plants with an 
especial purpose to-day; it is to advise 
the immediate sowing of seed. Time 
after time I have come to the conclusion 
that Antirrhinums sown in June or July 
make far and away the most satisfactory 
of all plants, and with the Anthemis it is 
also a satisfactory patch of plants that are 
of good size to deal with at the autumn 
planting season. I am an ardent convert 
to the free stopping (pinching out the tips 
of young growths) of many hardy plants, 
and this is one of the reasons why 1 am 
so greatly in favour of rearing plants 
in ample time. 
Canterbury Bells. 
Thirdly, I would name the Canterbury 
Bell. It is pitiful to realize that in many 
gardens the old and rather crude blue is 
the only representative of this indispen¬ 
sable Campanula. A pinch of seed sown 
now will produce the most delicate and 
daintily beautiful display ne'xt season— 
pure white, softest of lavender blues, and 
clear full pinks in gorgeous and lavish 
profusion. We may have them in double 
or in single varieties, and the only word 
that anyone, however fastidious, can say- 
in their disfavour is that their flow'ering 
period is too brief. That, alas! is the 
fact, and this makes them more suitable 
for borders than for beds. I have known, 
however, one keen lover of them who used 
them with a bold and really magnificent 
effect. He used them in this way: 
Wherever he had it in his mind to estab¬ 
lish Begonias for the summer season, 
there, during the previous autumn, he 
planted his Canterbury Bells, a short, 
broad border, holding perhaps a couple 
of hundred plants, and a large bed in ad¬ 
dition. When they flowered they were 
a sight to remember, but, as soon as their 
season was over they were uprooted, and 
the Begonias that had been held over at, 
the usual bedding-out time took their 
places. Of course, there was an interval 
that lacked brightness, but not a long 
one, and the Begonias, which of course 
had been growing forward all the time, 
soon burst forth in all their brilliancy. 
It strikes me that this is a lesson to a 
good many of us of what may be done 
with a little forethought and ingenuity. 
F. Norfolk. 
Linnaeus and the Furze. 
When Linnaeus, the great botanist on 
a visit to this country, first saw the golden 
bloom of the Furze on Putney Heath he 
fell on his knees enraptured by the sight. 
Begonia Rhoda Pope. 
The huge flowers of this tuberous Be¬ 
gonia have flesh-white petals tinted with 
pink at the edges, being very handsome. 
Award of Merit when shown bv (Messrs. 
T. S. Ware, Ltd-., at the Temple Show. 
The Hortulus Corporation. 
An association has been formed in Lon¬ 
don under the picturesque title of the 
Hortulus Corporation, its object being to 
encourage roof gardening. 
