THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 29, T907. 
429 
A Fine 
Window Plaint. 
(Sedum Sieboldii.) 
Those who have sunny windows facing 
e south often delight in suspending 
iwers from the top of the window in the 
rm of basket plants. We need not men- 
m the number that are suitable for this 
irpose, but call attention to a neat and 
retty one which we grew when a school 
jw but now find that it is rather scarce 
gardens we have visited. From many 
garden it is absent altogether. The 
tonecrops present a great variety of 
fight, habit and colour, but Sedum Sie- 
>ldii has slender, arching stems furnished 
ith three leaves at each joint. These 
aves are nearly round, beautifully scal- 
>ped on the margin, and of a pleasing 
•a-green hue. The flowers are produced 
1 flattened clusters at the ape!x of the 
em and of a pleasing pink colour, 
eautiful as is the ordinary form, we like 
le variegated one even better, namely, 
S. variegatum, and sometimes named 
. S. medio-variegatum, because there is 
creamy-yellow blotch in the centre of 
ach leaf, while the margin itself is of a 
inkish hue, even in the ordinary form, 
'he plant may be grown in a shady posi- 
on, but it will produce the best colour 
given a sunny aspect. The stems and 
Daves will also be firmer and more dur- 
ble. Whether grown in sun or shade, 
owever, the plant never becomes coarse 
r rampant, so that it is admirably adap- 
ed for growing in windows in light sandy 
oam. If hung up by a piece of wire or 
tring, as shown in the accompanying 
llustration, it will fill a place in the win- 
iow without interfering with other plants, 
md be seen to better advantage than if 
rowded up as other subjects. The photo¬ 
graph, of course, shows a small plant 
'rowing in a cocoanut shell. 
Zebra Grass 
In Greenwich Park. 
(Miscanthus japonicus zebrinus). 
There are a green and two variegated 
varieties of Grass grown under the name 
of Eulalia, though the correct name is as 
above given. Sometimes they are grown 
in pots for decorative purposes, but those 
who desire to see their full beauty and 
learn what they are capable of doing 
under favourable conditions should plant 
them out in a piece of rich soil in the 
garden. Here they attain a much greater 
height than in pots, and will bloom in 
autumn when well established. 
The- ordinary form has green leaves 
with white midrib, but is not so frequently 
grown as the variegated one M. j. varie- 
gatus. That which we here notice is the 
zebra-striped variety, M. j. zebrinus, 
which has bands of yellow at intervals 
along the leaves. This is a very uncom¬ 
mon form of variegation in a Grass, as 
white or yellow variegation usually fol¬ 
lows the lines, of the venation, that is, the 
long way of the leaf. The accompanying 
illustration represents a mass of it grow¬ 
ing among shrubbery in Greenwich Park, 
London, although, unfortunately, it was 
taken at too great a distance to represent 
the variegation. 
In the south of England and other 
favoured quarters these Grasses prove per¬ 
fectly hardy, and if planted in good soil 
make splendid growth during the course 
of a season. For this reason they are 
sometimes used in summer bedding or 
sub-tropical gardening to furnish con¬ 
trast and variety in beds where flowering 
subjects are largely employed. It can be 
increased to any extent by lifting the 
clumps in spring just when commencing 
to throw up fresh leaves. Each crown 
with a few roots attached will grow, but 
in the course of a season or two it is un¬ 
necessary to break up the pieces too small 
seeing that a sufficient quantity for any 
purpose can be reared by this process of 
division alone. In parts of the country 
where it is not quite hardy it would be 
sufficient to lift the clumps with a fair 
amount of soil attached and lay them 
under the stages of a greenhouse until 
they commenced growing in spring, when 
they could again be planted out. 
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British Ferns. 
English people, says the “American 
Florist,” cannot be very proud of their 
native Ferns. “No British rubbish” 
reads, in part, the advertisement of a 
Fern specialist in Lancashire. 
R. H.S. Summer Show. 
The Royal Horticultural Society will 
hold their Summer Show (by permission 
of the Dowager Countess of Ilchester') in 
the grounds of Holland House, Kensing¬ 
ton, on Tuesday and Wednesday, July qth 
and 10th. On’Tuesday the show will be 
open from 12.30 to 7 p.m., 7s. 6d. being 
the price of admission to the public ; on 
Wednesday the show will be open from 
q a.m. to 6 p.m., admission being 2s. 6d. 
Royal Horticultural Society's ticket, of 
course, admits free. Members of affiliated 
societies and bona fide gardeners may ob¬ 
tain as. 6d. tickets for is. which will 
admit them to the exhibition on Wednes¬ 
day. These tickets can only be obtained 
on or before July 6th from the Society’s 
Offices, Vincent’ Square, Westminster, 
S. W. 
Miscanthus japonicus zebrinus in Greenwich Park. 
