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THE GARDENING WORLD 
October 12, 1907. 
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“ School 
The question of education is something 
that will exercise the mind of the com¬ 
munity for all time coming. While 
changes are always taking place, there 
is always something new to learn or a 
better way of teaching the young idea 
how to shoot. The above is the title of 
a book concerned with the education of 
school children in the art of gardening. 
It has been written by Messrs. W. E. 
Watkins and Arthur Sowman, both con¬ 
cerned with the Education Committee of 
the East Suffolk County Council. It 
runs to 103 pp., and gives instructions 
for each month of the year. It is, as 
it we're, a calendar of operations for the 
year to be followed by children attending 
schools to which a school garden is at¬ 
tached. 
All the instructions given are of a prac¬ 
tical character, and as the book is in¬ 
tended to be studied in private, it is illus¬ 
trated with various drawings and photo¬ 
graphs, showing how certain operations 
should be carried out. Even the sub¬ 
ject of draining is taken into considera¬ 
tion, and the pupil is shown on paper 
how a drain for certain soils should be 
made. Tree planting is also taken in 
hand. The illustrations show samples of 
bad planting, correct planting, and the 
right and wrong methods of pruning, both 
root and top. Photographs of Apple 
trees show some that have been regulated 
by pruning at the proper time during 
the development of the trees, while others 
are shown to have been neglected. 
Grafting and budding in a variety of 
ways are also illustrated. In most pri¬ 
vate gardens this form of education is 
much neglected. As a rule, however, not 
very much of it is required, or, at least, 
has not been required, owing to depend¬ 
ence being placed upon the nurserymen 
for young trees — it may be of new varie¬ 
ties. The propagation of various other 
things are also gone into more or less 
minutely. The b>ook is obtainable frorr 
Messrs. George Philip and Son, Ltd., 32 
Fleet Street, London, E.C., for 2s. 6d 
- VIOLAS - 
IN A 
SUBURBAN GARDEN 
It is late now to speak of Violas when 
bedding plants are about to be lifted to 
make way for spring bulbs, but amateurs 
are not always in such a hurry, and the 
Violas are still blooming in a London 
suburban garden. That might be said of 
some varieties of Violas which were 
planted last autumn, but this relates to 
Violas which were planted at the begin¬ 
ning of June. The relatively sunless and 
was that named Fred Williams (see illus¬ 
tration), quite of tufted habit, which 
maintained the size of its blooms till to¬ 
wards the end of August. These are ol 
large size, flat, blue-purple, and rayless. 
Royal Sovereign seems to be chiefly 2 
spring bloomer, as it passed out of bloorr 
bv the middle of July, but this might be 
owing to situation, although we are cer 
tain it blooms very freely in spring. 
Viola Piirity. [Maclaren and Sons. 
cold summer favoured the Violas on this 
occasion, but it is not the intention to 
plant them so late on another occasion. 
There is a considerable amount of 
variation in the habit of the plants under 
notice, but some of them owe their un¬ 
usual height or length of stem to the fact 
of their coming within the influence of 
the shade of other plants in some parts 
of the plantation. One of the dwarfest 
The flowers are golden-yellow, with ai| 
orange lip and ravless. Another golden 
yellow flower is Mrs. Spencer, of talle 
habit and more persistent in blooming 
Continuity is a deep primrose-yellow 
with a slightly darker lip and rayless. I 
maintained the size of its flowers till sum 
mer was practically over. 
White varieties are now very numerous 
and not the least interesting is that 
