iE Gardening World, November 23, 1907. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
“ Flowers of all heavens, and lovelier than their names.’ 
- Tennyson . 
CONTENTS . 
mateur’s Letter to Amateurs, An 
(illus.) . 739 
libs: Selections for Amateurs . 740 
urysanthemum Clara Wells (illus.) 744 
• lrysantbemum Crown Jewel Im¬ 
proved (illus.). 743 
urysanthemum F. W. Lever (illus.) 749 
lrysanthemum H. J. Jones (illus.) 747 
lrysanthemum Mrs. L. Thorn 
(illus.) . 745 
lrysanthemum Perle Chatillonaise, 
Freak of . 754 
arysanthemum Romance (illus-) ... 741 
iirysanthemums at the' Crystal 
Palace . 748 
ompetition Awards . 740 
ompetition, Prize Letter . 742 
nquire Within . 750 
lower Garden, The . 745 
ruit Garden, The.'... 746 
reenhouse, The Amateur’s . 746 
reenhouse, The Cold . 741 
[erbaceous Plants, A Few’ Choice 740 
litchen Garden, The . 746 
)rchids for Amateurs . 746 
-weet Peas in November ..'. 742 
Cork of the Week . 745 
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fctoijsauttaums. 
Their tender blossoms greet our eye, 
leneath the grey November sky; 
Like snow-wreaths in the valleys piled, 
Ake summer clouds or fairy child, 
Their fragile beauty strews our way, 
\s moonlight night turns into day 
The darkest hour; on this fair earth 
Their blossoms smile in time of dearth. 
O’er garden wall, or trellised stair, 
They fling their branches, sweet and fair, 
Or clust’ring on the window bright 
Reflect the glow of sunset’s light; 
As in old age our cherished friend 
Grows dearer as we reach the end; 
So we w T ould greet this lovely flower, 
That crowns the year’s fast dying hour. 
Minnie M’Kean. 
-- 
Carnation Beacon. 
The flower in this instance is of a rich, 
uniform scarlet and very shallowly 
fringed at the edges. The calyx is also 
good. It is an American variety, and re¬ 
ceived an Award of Merit from the R. H.S. 
when shown by Mr. A. F. Dutton and 
Mr. G. Lange. 
CXVIII. 
Some Suggestions For New Gardens. 
I have more especially in my mind the 
town, suburban, or country garden of 
small proportions. But if we exclude the 
very small backyard garden, these are 
few indeed which are not improved by 
having the general monotony of a dead- 
level surface more or less broken up. 
But how break it up ? Our first care 
should be to arrange something to pre¬ 
vent a general survey of the whole space 
from any given point. There are many 
ways of doing this. Suppose that at the 
end of the small lawn we build up a 
rock garden, better still, I think, if our 
rock garden is made to extend round 
three sides of the lawn, because then we 
have quite a considerable space for this 
most fascinating of all phases of garden¬ 
ing even in a small garden, and, again, 
the lawn comes to have somewhat of the 
charming appearance of an old-fashioned 
sunk lawn. I would go farther, and say 
that even the fourth side—that nearest 
the house—may also be thus utilised if 
an opening is left. 
Beyond the lawn and rock work, on its 
lower side, the eye can be raised to 
colour at a yet higher level by a line of 
posts driven firmly into the ground, and 
used as supports for Roses and Clema¬ 
tises. This is a grand method of achiev¬ 
ing valuable masses of colour, especially 
in the small garden, and masses so strik¬ 
ing and beautiful that they always gain 
for themselves much admiration. But it 
must be understood that I speak of speci¬ 
mens really well grown so that a lavish 
profusion of blossom is produced. 
Always, in dealing with small, oblong 
town gardens, it would be my plan to 
carry my features across the whole gar¬ 
den. Thus should it be with my poles 
for climbing Clematises and Roses, and 
thus would I arrange my little Rose gar¬ 
den, for beyond these poles should run 
one, or if space allowed it, two straight 
borders, with a dividing pathw’ay that 
should be wholly devoted to bush and 
standard Roses, always supposing, of 
course, that Roses could be successfully 
grown in the neighbourhood, and edging 
the Rose borders should be my Violas. 
I am obliged to add this detail, as in my 
humble opinion Violas are of all flowers 
indispensable in the garden, and more 
especially in the small garden, as they 
are more enduring than almost anything 
else I can name. 
I am supposing that the garden is en¬ 
closed by the ordinary and prosaic paling. 
The border from the top close by the 
house and running down on either side 
may be devoted to herbaceous and other 
hardy subjects; likewise any space there 
may be beyond the Rose border or bor¬ 
ders may also be utilised for a really good 
selection of hardy plants. The borders 
in their upper portions, that is to say, 
those portions facing the rockwork, 
should be especially planted for summer 
and autumn effect, as the rock borders 
are at their best during the months of 
April, May, June, and early July. It is 
very important, however, if the rockwork 
occupy this prominent position around the 
lawn that attention be paid to planting 
in it a fair proportion of rock-loving 
plants that also flower in summer. We 
must not, in such a position, have our rock 
garden bare of blossom during the 
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brightest months of the year; and we 
need not, for any one who has visited Kew 
during, let us say, the first week in 
August, knows that it is full of beauty and 
in striking contrast to most of the rockeries 
one sees in ordinary English gardens. I 
may mention the following plants that 
should find a place for late flowering: — 
Campanula carpatica, Prunella grandi- 
flora webbiana, Sedum Ewersi, S. spec- 
tabilis. Hypericum moserianum and. H. 
moserianum tricolor, with its dainty 
variegated foliage, Iberis, the variety that 
is indigenous to Gibraltar and thus 
named, which is continuously in flower, 
the little annual Mesembryanthemum tri- 
