The Gardening World, July 20 , 1907 . 
CONTENTS . 
Vmateur’s Letter to Amateurs, An... 
tarnations : Work for July. 
Lompetition Awards . 
Lompetition, Prize Letter. 
inquire Within . 
Eremurus, A Late-flowering (illus.) 
terns: Indoor Culture. 
tlower Garden, The . 
tlower Show at Holland Park . 
•'ruit Garden, The .. 
greenhouse, The Amateurs’ . 
.rises, Tall-bearded . 
litchen Garden, The. 
Lily, A Handsome Yellow (illus.)... 
Drchids for Amateurs . 
lose Madam Melaine Soupert 
(illus.) ... 
.lose Mamie (illus.) .. 
lose Mrs. Edward Mawley (illus.) 
lose Suzanne Marie Rodocanachi 
(illus.) . 
loses at Regent’s Park ... 
Streptocarpus, The Culture of . 
York of the Week . 
tarnations, The Culture of Tree ... 
Celery and How to Grow It . 
Cottage Gardening. 
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Quaaxv of $lovi«s. 
A Posy from the Poets. 
Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves, 
And the Broom’s betrothed to the bee; 
ut I will plight with the dainty Rose, 
For fairest of all is she.' 1 
Thomas Hood. 
■ A rosebud in my morning walk, 
.down a corn-enclosed bawk 
ae gently bent its thorny stalk, 
All on a dewy morning, 
re twice the shades of dawn are fled 
n a’ its crimson glory spread, 
L nd drooping rich the dewy head 
It scents the early morning.’’ 
Robert Burns. 
The Rose is fairest w r hen tis budding 
new, 
And hope is brightest when it dawns 
from fears; 
'he Rose is sweetest washed with morning 
dew, 
And love is loveliest when embalmed 
with tears.” 
Sir Walter Scott. 
Roses red and Roses white 
Plucked I for my love’s delight. 
She would none of all my posies. 
Bade me gather her blue Roses.” 
Rudyard Kipling. 
Veronica spicata. 
The above is a great addition to the 
summer garden. It is an intense blue, 
and we should remember that in normal 
summers it is just when the weather is 
hot, sunny, and brilliant that the garden 
needs its most radiant and glowing 
colours. In hot countries bright, intense 
colouring is seen on all sides. We con¬ 
nect brilliancy of colour with the Orient, 
and in a small way it is a grand 
brilliancy of display that we may achieve 
in the summer garden as our tour de 
force for the year. This variety of Ver¬ 
onica is larger and bolder than the more 
familiar V. rupestris, and equally as 
brilliant in colour. The other day on 
my way to a flower show I saw a mass of 
this delightful plant while waiting for the 
train in the platform garden of a tiny 
wayside station. At the show this same 
variety of Veronica made an excellent 
exhibit among the hardy perennials. It 
is good either for border work or for a 
bold patch in the rock garden. My ex¬ 
perience with a good many varieties of 
Veronica, not including V. speciosa and 
other shrubby varieties, is that they are 
grand plants for heavy soil, and I have 
the recollection of a long edging of V. 
rupestris in a cold heavy clay soil that 
was a grand sight, as, just beyond it were 
many specimens of the low-growing, 
white-flowered Tea Rose—Hon. Edith 
Gifford—with its red bronze foliage; the 
combination of colouring was wonder¬ 
fully decorative and distinct, especially 
as within eye range were hundreds of 
glowing Oriental Poppies. 
Summer-flowering: Shrub. 
The Olearia Haastii is an excellent 
subject for every garden. A white- 
flowered shrub, easily grown, and a pro¬ 
fuse bloomer, it seems to fit into all kinds 
of positions. It should have a sheltered 
spot and a sunny one, and may not prove 
hardy in cold, inhospitable soils and dis¬ 
tricts. But it never does to be frightened 
by being told that a plant is not ab¬ 
solutely hardy; any way, experiment, and 
find out. It is worth it, well worth it, 
if only to test its hardihood. It is a 
native of New Zealand, and in many an 
English garden it becomes a perfect 
picture during August—just the month, 
let me observe, when, by their rarity, 
flowering shrubs have an especial value. 
The bees are immensely fond of it, and 
it strikes root readily from cuttings. 
Speaking of insects, reminds me that an 
enthusiastic amateur gardener once told 
me that he made a- point of having a 
goodly number of dark coloured flowers, 
and especially many of the deep purple 
Scabious for blooming during the late 
summer because dark flowers attracted 
the darker and handsomer butterflies— 
peacocks, red admirals, and others—and 
these he looked upon as attractive in a 
garden as the flowers themselves. I am 
sure I cannot say whether dark flowers do 
attract the dark butterflies, but any way, 
it is an interesting theory, and worth tak¬ 
ing into consideration. 
Summer Hints. 
Unless they are wanted for future use, 
it is a pity to let seeds form. For more 
reasons than one should seed vessels be 
removed continually. Not only does it 
husband the strength of the plant, but it 
adds to the length of the flowering period. 
Also, it adds to the general trimness and 
beauty -of the garden. We do not want 
the eye taken to plants that have ceased 
to be beautiful, and if the seed vessels 
be removed and the soil around the 
plants be neatly pricked up with a small 
fork, and all weeds uprooted, the plants 
continue to make useful growth (in some 
cases produce a second crop of flowers) 
and they pass almost unnoticed. But, 
leave the seed vessels upon them, then 
the plants catch the eye and detract from 
others that are at the height of their 
beauty. This is a lesson I learned long 
ago by visits to Kew. Walk through 
the rock garden there, and you will find 
that practically you see only those plants 
that are in blossom. 
In some gardens the lower growing 
plants are not staked and tied, but plants 
that need no support during normal sea¬ 
sons may require it in wet summers like 
the present, as they make over luxuriant 
growth. If the plants have already be¬ 
come out of hand and still remain untied 
and unstaked, it will in many cases prove 
a difficult matter to do the operation in 
a neat and effectual manner. Where it 
is too late, then, to stake, a better way 
will be to put firmly into ground around 
and amid the flower stems some short, 
well branched Pea sticks. Any way, it 
is better than letting the stems lie along 
the ground as too often happens. Dah¬ 
lias are particularly soft and brittle this 
season, and should be well staked as soon 
as necessary. F. NORFOLK. 
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Coleus Cordelia. 
The leaves of this Coleus are of very 
large size, much wrinkled, and almost 
wholly of a rose-red colour. Award of 
Merit by the R.H.S. on the 25th ult. 
when shown by E. Mocatta, Esq. (gar¬ 
dener, Mr. Stephenson), Woburn Place, 
Surrey. 
