THE GARDENING WORLD. 
467 
July 13, i 9 ° 7 - 
an even better Rose for town gardens 
than Mrs. J. Laing, to wit—Mrs. Shar- 
man Crawford. It is now (June 14) full 
of bloom and bud; it never disappoints, 
and the colour, bright flesh pink, is the 
delight of my lady visitors. 
S. G. T. 
Carnations. 
The season has arrived when we must 
give some special attention to these 
beautiful flowers, always taking care to 
have them well staked. Those showing 
buds should be fed with weak liquid 
manure, first saturating the soil with 
clear water; a mulching of horse manure 
should also be forked in. 
If large flowers are desired they must 
be made secure, so as not to be broken 
down by the winds, all the weak buds be¬ 
ing pinched out. The propagation of 
Carnations can soon be commenced, by 
taking cuttings, slips, or layers. When- 
taking cuttings always cut off im¬ 
mediately below a joint and insert them 
in sandy soil, either in pots or a shady 
border. Slips must be taken with a heel 
at the base, as this heel quickly forms 
roots. When layering half sever the 
stem at the base, making a slit an inch 
or more in length, then peg down with 
an inverted V-shaped stick and cover with 
: soil. 
Joseph Floyd. 
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Tramway Men and Floriculture. 
As vice-president of the Leo Grindon 
Flower Lovers’ Association, Manchester, 
Lady Leigh, w-ho was assisted by the 
Mayor and Mayoress of Salford, recently 
entertained about a hundred and twenty 
of the tramway men and their wives, mf 
the Rochdale Road and Palatine Road 
routes, who haye developed the flower-lov¬ 
ing cult. Much progress is reported in 
connection with this Association and the 
kindred societies. 
R.H.S. Examination in Horticulture. 
At the Royal Horticultural Society's 
examination in horticulture on April 10th 
last 150 candidates sat for the examina¬ 
tion. The results are now announced, 
and 20 passed first-class; 59 passed 
second-class and 63 passed third-class. 
Those that passed first-class are nearly 
double those of last year, while fewer 
passed second and those in the third-class 
numbered about the same. The 
examiners complain of some old-time 
errors that have not been eliminated yet, 
but that is a difficulty with which all 
examiners have to contend. In looking 
over the list we notice that students in 
the first-class hail largely from Swanley 
College, Studeley, and Reading. In the 
] second-class the students were more 
widely distributed, but nearly all of the 
Chelmsford students come in this class, 
which is very creditable considering the 
youth of the students. Students from the 
Studeley Horticultural College, those 
from Glynd, Sussex, and Lady Warwick’s 
School at Dunmow figure largely in the 
second-class, as well as in the third. Ac¬ 
cording to the examiners the students 
mastered the first and second questions 
well as a rule, but evidently had given 
themselves too little time to master the 
third and fourth and remaining questions. 
R Sunpmer Flowering Ggclar^ep 
(Cyclamen repandum). 
Commencing with C. neapolitanum in 
September, the hardy Cyclamens keep up 
a more or less continuous succession of 
flowers through the winter, but especially 
spring, and finish up with C. repandum, 
C. libanoticum and C. europaeum in 
summer. 
C. repandum is a native of South 
Europe, and is hardy enough to be 
grown upon the rockery, but it is equally 
amenable to pot culture, and flowers 
splendidly either in a cold frame or in a 
greenhouse or special house for hardy 
plants where such exists. The accom¬ 
panying illustration represents a plant 
that was flowering profusely when photo¬ 
graphed in the Alpine House at Kcw on 
May 11th last. It will be noticed that 
or the soil gets inert or sour, the best 
plan is to repot them some time after 
they have gone to rest, which may be in 
July, earlier or later according to the 
season. After potting they should be 
stood in a shady situation upon a cool 
bed of ashes or else placed in a cold 
frame facing the north, to be kept there 
till autumn. This is provided the plants 
have leaves upon them. If they were 
at rest, baking would do them no harm. 
At the end of September they may be 
placed in frames facing the south, 
especially if they are desired to bloom 
early rather than late. Very little 
water will be required during the winter 
months, but an increasing supply should 
be given them as they commence to grow 
Cyclamen repandum. Maclaren and Sons. 
the flowers are not unlike those of the 
greenhouse Cyclamen (C. latifolium) when 
imported in its unimproved or wild state. 
The segments of the corolla are consider¬ 
ably elongated without any auricle at the 
base, and seem capable of being greatly 
improved by seed raising and possibly 
by crossing. It simply requires time and 
patience which has been accorded to the 
greenhouse species, to the neglect of the 
really hardy ones. 
C. repandum owes its name to the form 
of the leaves, which are rather more 
deeply scalloped or repand than in most 
other species of Cyclamen. This will 
be seen by reference to the illustration. 
They have also a grey band on the upper 
surface, as in most of the species. The 
flowers of the wild type are rose coloured, 
deepening to crimson at the mouth. 
By using a compost of two-thirds loam, 
one-third leaf mould, and plenty of gritty 
sand, the wants of these hardy Cyclamens 
are easily met. The same corms will 
last and bloom well for many years. 
When they get too large for the pots, 
in spring. If placed in shade while in 
bloom the flowers will last longer, but 
this is not really necessary in the early 
part of the, season, unless the sun is un¬ 
usually scorching. 
Sweet Pea Carmine Paradise. 
The flowers of this new variety are of 
large size and bright carmine. It is very 
handsome in appearance. Award of 
Merit by the R.H.S. on the 25th June 
when shown by Miss H. Hemus, Holdfast 
Hall, Upton-on-Severn. 
Figs and How to Grow Them. 
A small pamphlet under the above title 
is being circulated by Messrs. Hugh Low 
and Co., Royal Nurseries, Bush Hill 
Park, Middlesex. In dealing with the Fig 
and its cultivation, instructions are given 
concerning the soil, pruning, training, 
forcing, manuring, ventilation, ripening 
off, etc. This is followed by a list of 
varieties, the fruit of which is described. 
