Ti Gardening World, July 6, 1907. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK: 
“ Contentment will make a cottage look as fair as a palace.” —W. Seeker. 
CONTENTS. 
d nes, Among the . 456 
u teur’s Letter to Amateurs, An ... 445 
ir'osaces and Drabas . 45 2 
u degias . 44 b 
Jr jerries, The . 45 ° 
h ling, Effective . 446 
! ling: Planning for next Spring 462 
,e lower, A Variegated (illus.) . 447 
1 ,-santhemums: Work for July ... 45 ° 
;< [petition Awards . 446 
hipetition, Prize Letter . 448 
'uimber's in Frames . 45 1 
h uire Within . 45 $ 
'1 ne Flower (The) at Greenwich 
irk (illus.) . 45 1 
’ ] ver Garden, The . 454 
■ it Garden, The . 454 
i inhouse, The Amateur's . 454 
i hen Garden, The . 454 
relia Kathleen Mallard . 449 
s jtina affinis, Hybrids of . 453 
) hids for Amateurs . 455 
1 c Mrs. Sinkins (illus.) .. 447 
l k-Cress, The Double (illus.) ... 453 
1 kwork and Spring Bedding . 448 
> wflower. The Summer (illus.) ... 449 
ii wberries, Layering (illus.) . 457 
’ nsplanting, Hints on . 455 
' es and Shrubs, Flowering . 452 
\tering . 45 b 
'rk of the Week . 454 
.' an (The) as a Wall Flower . 456 
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ijeviw’s ?oaUcal ot 
SiOjUS of tUuu 
he hollow winds begin to blow; 
he clouds look black, the glass is low ; 
he soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, 
nd spiders from their cobwebs creep ; 
he walls are damp, the ditches smell ; 
'losed is the light-red pimpernel. 
.ark! how the chairs and tables crack ! 
Pld Betty's joints are on the rack ; 
ter corns with shooting pains torment 
her, 
nd to her bed untimely send her. 
| oud quack the ducks, the sea-fowls cry, 
'he distant hills are looking nigh, 
low restless are the snorting swine! 
'he busy flies disturb the kine; 
•ow o'e'r the grass the swallow wings ; 
he cricket, too, how sharp he sings! 
‘uss on the hearth with'velvet paws 
its wiping o’er her whiskered jaws. 
Twill surely come, we see 't with sor¬ 
row, 
| To working in the fields to-morrow. 
xcvm. 
Budding Roses. 
There are few gardening operations 
more interesting than this. No amateur 
ought for a moment to think it is beyond 
him. In reality it is one of the simplest 
of tasks, so long as a really sharp knife 
is used, extreme neatness observed, and 
proper attention paid to the condition of 
the stock. I was talking to a very suc¬ 
cessful budder of Roses the other day and 
he was most emphatic as to this last point. 
This particularly wet season it will be as 
well to be in no great hurry to bud, be¬ 
cause the growths generally are unusually 
soft and spongy for the time of year, an 1 
this is the e'xact condition that is to be 
avoided. The outer skin or bark should 
be firm, and work easily, and I must con¬ 
fess I like to water both the stock to be 
worked on, and the bush from whence 
comes the bud, even if the soil is not very 
dry some five or six hours before the 
operation. I am very glad to see that 
Standard Roses are being freely used in 
Rose gardens of recent planting. They 
combine with great advantage with 
“ bush” specimens, and a heavy, wide 
spreading' Standard covered with blos¬ 
soms is a strikingly beautiful object. I 
know it is a difficult thing to advise, but 
from personal experience I am bound to 
say it is far easier to get a magnificent 
bold head, such as I am describing, when 
the bud can be inserted on a brier that 
stands where it is to remairi, and no 
ultimate autumn moving has to be under¬ 
taken. I have a standard Madame Lam- 
bard that is grand, and has never been 
moved ; another budded the same day and 
moved the following spring has never 
reached the same proportions or anything 
like it. We must not forget, though, 
that a strong, robust standard will pro¬ 
duce a stronger and more vigorous head 
than will a slender and weaker one. I 
have at different times been greatly 
struck with this fact. 
Honeysuckles. 
I know well enough I ought to have 
headed this paragraph Loniceras, but I 
am so in love with that word Honeysuckle 
I like to have the excuse to use it—it, 
among other things, brings to memory 
the book, of all others, that has the 
spring gladness in it. I mean old Izaak 
Walton's “ Compleat Angler.” No gar¬ 
den, I think, should be without this 
example of the true Wane. There are few r 
flowers of sweeter scent, few of subtler or 
more beautiful form, and few of sweeter 
or more delicate colouring. It is easy 
enough to grow, and will flourish in 
town gardens; yes, and even suburban 
gardens as well as in the country gar¬ 
dens. A Honeysuckle arch is beautiful 
indeed ! or again, Honeysuckle covering 
paling, or used as a climber on the house- 
walls. My ideal way of using it is to 
have it wreathing round a bay window. I 
prune it myself, after flowering each 
year, and cut it back so severely that 
only the last pair of leaves on each shoot 
is left, and treated thus it is a close, even 
climber if well nailed in to the wall. It 
Alls the house with its scent for weeks, 
and you can hardly see the leaves, so 
great is the lavish profusion of flowers, 
and this annual pruning is all the atten¬ 
tion it gets year in and year out. It is 
just our common wild hedgerow variety, 
because I love it best; but there are many 
other varieties, and some of them 
flower considerably earlier than this one, 
which is known as Lonicera Pericly 
menum. These other varieties include 
L. semperflorens, L. japonica, L. 
japonica halliana, L. sempervirens, and 
others. I once knew a kind of covered 
way; it was really a glorified and ex¬ 
tended arch, that was a mass of Honey¬ 
suckle, and this growing of it well in the 
open away from the shade of trees is very 
desirable, as it flowers with far greater 
freedom. 
Mignonette. 
A sowing of this fragrant annual at 
the present time on no account should be 
omitted, as the result is some capital 
flowering plants for the winter season. 
It is a good way to sow thinly in several 
pots, and then pick out all but one in 
each pot, as if never disturbed by trans¬ 
plantation they will be more satisfactory. 
They need not be brought into the con¬ 
servatory until mid-October, and prove 
more robust and vigorous plants with this 
previous out-of-door cultivation. M. Red 
Machet is a capital variety to choose for 
this particular use. F. Norfolk. 
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Artemisia stelleriana. 
There is a homeliness about the old- 
fashioned Southernwood that never fails 
to bear its impress upon us. The soft 
foliage and the fragrance reminds us ever 
of the country and its peaceful associa¬ 
tions. The species stelleriana is some¬ 
what more refined than A. Absinthium or 
A. Abrotanum, and it is really a very 
effective little plant of a sub-shrubby 
character. Its fpliage is almost pure 
white, elegantly cut, and fragrant, a 
plant that may be welcomed in any gar¬ 
den. Cuttings will root with little diffi¬ 
culty, and it will grow in a dry, rather 
poor soil. Heather Bell. 
