The Gardening World, No-ember 16, 1907 
CONTENTS. 
Amateur's Letter to Amateurs, An... 727 
Annual, A Showy (illus.) . 73 1 
Chrysanthemums, Notes on Early ... 728 
Enquire Within . 735 
Flower Garden, The . 733 
Fruit Garden, The . 733 
Greenhouse, The Amateurs . ■ 734 
Kitchen Garden, The . 733 
Leaves, How to Utilise Them. 732 
Onions, A New Book on . 732 
Orchids for Amateurs . 733 
Roses, Work for November . 731 
Scabiosa, "'The Bride” (illus.) . 73 ° 
Sparmannia Africana . 73 2 
Union of Horticultural Mutual Im¬ 
provement Societies . 73 ^ 
Vacant Ground, The Treatment of... 728 
Virginian Stock, An Uncommon 
(illus.) .... 7 2 9 
Work for the W eek . 733 
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Hoses. 
Poets have always sung the Rose, 
As the fair queen of youthful spring; 
But who will dare with my sweet Rose 
Their Roses into contact bring? 
The fickle zephyrs by the flower 
Are held, so that they may not rove: 
But fair Louisa hath the power 
Of everywhere commanding love. 
Poets have always.sung, etc. 
Oh! sweet breath'd is the spring-tide 
Rose, 
Especially at times of evn; 
But sweeter far is my sweet Rose, 
Like some bright flower that blooms in 
heav’n. 
How playfully her golden hair 
Flows o’er a neck of purest white : 
Louisa is supremely fair ! 
Louisa is divinely bright! 
Oh ! sweet breath'd is, etc. 
She is not vain, my beauteous Rose ! 
Of those attractions Nature gives; 
Meek as the lowliest flower that blows, 
Louisa, dear Louisa lives. 
Child of the skies! I'll place thee, aye, 
The first, the nearest to my heart: 
I'll love thee to eternity, 
Angelic maiden as thou art! 
Child of the skies, etc. 
K. 
CXVII. 
Plants for Shaded Beds and Borders. 
A bed or border that actually is over¬ 
hung presents difficulties • but beds or 
borders that are not overhung, but merely 
in cold and sunless aspects, are wonder¬ 
fully interesting, and may be made as 
beautiful as in more sunny positions. 
There is nothing like seeking an object 
lesson in. wild nature ; there is the sunny 
south side of mountain slopes and there is 
the cold, bleak northern side, and even this 
has its mantle of gaily coloured flowers. 
We must seek out the things that do not 
need the sun to induce them to open their 
blossoms. Among the many charming 
subjects we must not forget the Mimulus 
and the common Musk, both of which are 
indispensable in the garden. It is not so 
generally known as it should be that the 
little M. moschata is perfectly hardy. 
And there are Violets—double and single 
—these, too, flower with a minimum of 
sunshine. I prefer, however, an eastern 
aspect for them rather than one due 
north. Double Violets are showy in their 
quiet, subdued way, and to have plenty 
to pick is always acceptable. 
Campanulas. 
Among the really grand plants for 
rather sunless positions are the Campanu¬ 
las. These flower well in sunny, open 
positions, but far longer and often far 
better with less sun. It is an important 
consideration to give plants the conditions 
that enable them to flower over as long a 
period as possible. It makes all the 
difference to the brightness of a garden 
to be able to count upon a display from 
a given space for eight or nine w r eeks or 
more, or only for three or four. For a 
long time now I have been moving my 
Campanulas to the coolest positions in the 
garden for this reason; and Campanulas 
may have for companion plants Delphin¬ 
iums and the beautiful old-fashioned, but 
grandly effective orange Lilies—L. cro- 
ceum. A collection of Campanulas is 
charming, and*it is possible to have the 
different varieties in flower from June to 
late autumn. Thus, we may begin with 
C. medium or Canterbury Bells, and end 
with the handsome C. pyramidalis; be¬ 
tween these are such showy varieties as 
C. grandis, C. persicifolia, and better 
still, C. persicifolia Backhousii, one of 
the best varieties if not the best of all. 
Of dwarfer habit is C. carpatica, with 
flowers large and bold in proportion to 
the height of the plant. In growing 
Canterbury Bells with other varieties I 
find it effective to choose the pretty and 
dainty rose coloured tints, wonderfully 
beautiful, and a pleasant change among 
the prevailing blues and whites of the 
rest. I ought to add of C. pyramidalis 
that it is better under somewhat warmer 
and sunnier conditions than the rest. 
For a Bpring Show. 
There is a brilliant scarlet Lychnis 
known as L. haageana that is never seen 
to advantage unless grown with a mini¬ 
mum of sunshine—indeed, it flowers 
splendidly close under a north wall. It 
should commend itself to the amateur, as 
it is one of those subjects that flower well 
in late summer from seed sown in the 
spring. I am mentioning plants that 
flower in the summer rather than those 
that give a spring display because it is 
the later season that presents the chief 
difficulty to the novice. For the spring, 
beautiful masses of colour can be secured 
by such easily grown plants as Primroses, 
white Woodruff, Wood Anemones, 
Hepaticas, Daffodils, Scillas, and some 
of the Saxifrages. These can be followed 
by Wallflowers, Honesty, Foxgloves, and 
Solomon’s Seal. Then come the summer 
subjects I have mentioned, and to these 
I would add Phlox decussata, and some 
of the Michaelmas Dasies for autumn 
flowering. 
I would remind my readers that it is 
just as necessary to see that these sunless 
borders receive the same attention as to 
occasional trenching and manuring as 
the choicer portions of the garden. 
Flowering Shrubs for Sunless Positions. 
And in selecting subjects for them very 
valuable additions can be secured in 
flowering shrubs. It is a little curious 
how great a number of these flower wel 1 
with little help from the sunshine—the 
Philadelphus or Syringa, as more 
familiarly it is called, is invaluable for 
such positions, more than that, it will 
flower even where partially overhung. 
So, too, will the Diervillas; of these, pei- 
haps, Eva Rathke being the most desir¬ 
able because of its brightly tinted flowers. 
But there are other varieties bearing these 
rich red blossoms, and D. Mme. Lemoine 
is to be recommended. Deutzia crenata, 
especially the double form known as can- 
dissima flore pleno, is a grand summer 
flowering subject for such positions as we 
are considering, and in choosing a double 
flowered variety such as this, we have the 
advantage of a prolonged period of flower¬ 
ing. I must not forget the Guelder 
Rose; it, too, flowers well with a mini¬ 
mum of sun, and I have even come across 
it flowering as undergrowth under large 
trees in a bit of garden woodland, not 
as it would under more favourable cir¬ 
cumstances, but still making strange, 
white beauty in the cool dim shade. 
F. Norfolk. 
