The Gardening World, August 3, 1907. 
CONTENTS . 
Amateur’s Letter to Amateurs, An 513 
Arches and Covered Ways . 517 
Candytuft, Kotschy’s Burnt (illus.) 515 
Celery, How to Grow . v. 
Chrysanthemums : Work for August 516 
Competition Aivards . 514 
Enquire Within . 524 
Flower Garden, The . 519 
Fruit Garden, The . 520 
Gooseberry Mildew, The American v. 
Greenhouse, The Amateur’s . 520 
Hydrangeas, The Propagation of 
(illus.) . 5^ 
Kitchen Garden, The . 520 
Lily, The Scarlet Pompon (illus.) 517 
Orchids for Amateurs . 521 
Oxalis, The Nine-leaved (illus.) ... 519 
Pelargonium Mary Welch . 5*6 
Rhododendrons, Picking Seedpods 
off . 5 21 
Roses, Budding .-. S : 4 
Roses, Buttonhole . 5*4 
Roses, Three Beautiful . 5*6 
Schizanthus wisetonensis . 5 2 3 
Squill, The Italian (illus.) . 515 
Sweet Peas at Westminster . 522 
Work of the Week . S I 9 
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Via Spvett of the $tow«s. 
Ye sweet and silent playmates of the sun, 
Have ye no souls within your painted 
breasts. 
Your beauty hid beneath, unmanifest ? 
’Tis hard to think your bosoms do not 
own 
Some sort of spirit kin unto the one 
I have who look on you. Your sweet un¬ 
rest 
When, winds about you and the sun for 
guest, 
Ye play and dance, by what is such thing 
done ? 
Surely ye know' that morning light is fair, 
And something have within that ever is 
set 
Unto the good in heaven shining there; 
Or why that guise no soul can ever forget 
When, virgining the morn your gaze ye 
bear 
Fronted to heaven, though your eyes be 
wet ? 
A. W. Adams in “Life's Cameos 
CII. 
Clematises in Small Gardens. 
Where the Clematis is generously and 
well grown, there in the majority of cases 
you will find picturesque and beautiful 
gardens. The more I study gardens the 
more convinced I am of the value of 
colour well above the level of the eye, 
and also of the extreme decorativeness of 
bringing the colour out from the limits 
and confines of beds and borders; or 
rather, I should say, linking by means of 
this colour, border with border. I know 
how beautiful are the Roses of the 
Rambler and other climbing sections for 
this purpose, but do not let us use Roses, 
beautiful as they are, to the neglect of the 
Clematises. I have no hesitation at all 
in declaring that a pretty little town gar¬ 
den I was in this early summer owed more 
to a free use of Clematises than to any 
other plant, trees or shrubs the garden 
contained. This most beautiful of all 
the Ranunculaceae, this petalless flower, 
has a wide range. We have species and 
varieties from the Himalayas, from Tibet, 
from China and Japan, from North 
America, Texas, and many parts of 
Europe, including, of course, our own 
wilding. But in addition to these we 
have numbers of grand hybrid forms, 
which come under the title garden varie¬ 
ties. In fact we have so wide a range to 
choose from that selection is difficult. 
For early flowering it is hard to beat C. 
montana grandiflora. It was this variety 
that grew so luxuriantly in the garden I 
have mentioned above. It can be used 
on arches with a charming effect; and far 
too seldom is it thus seen. 
It covers summer houses, walls, and 
paling. Another variety that follows 
close on the heels of this is C. Viticella 
alba luxurians, of a habit of growth very 
similar and pretty nearly as profuse a 
bloomer. 
We are having many new varieties in¬ 
troduced every year, and many of them 
of different tones of colour from those 
with which we are already familiar, but, 
for richness of colour, for beautiful 
autumn effect, for a keynote of colour, as 
it were, I know nothing to equal that 
magnificent C. Jackmanni superba, or 
for the matter of that, the older C. Jack¬ 
manni. 
Treatment of Clematises. 
The novice in gardening is often 
puzzled to know how to treat the different 
varieties. I may say here that the mon¬ 
tana section flowers on the growth of the 
previous year, this therefore must be 
carefully trained in at the present time. 
But the Jackmanni section flowers on the 
growth of the current year; therefore it 
may, when the time comes, be cut hard 
back. I have seen a timid grower shorten 
back the growth just at the points and 
keep practically all the growth of the 
year to go forward into another season. 
I treat my own after a very different 
fashion. I cut it down to within a foot 
of the ground every year before the spring 
growth commences. February is the 
month usually selected and advised, but 
as often as not I cut my own down before 
then, sometimes in early -December, if the 
weather is open, and every year it reaches 
the top of the house in a wide cascade of 
blossom. 
It is well to remember that the 
Clematises rejoice in a chalky soil, and 
that they should not be starved. Any 
plant that makes so luxuriant growth as 
does the Clematis needs to have attention 
from time to time—a few doses of liquid 
manure, a top dressing occasionally, or 
the surface soil removed and fresh com¬ 
post given. I do not say that it will 
not flourish and flower without these, but 
I always think that it is worth while to 
grow decorative and important plants 
like these to the utmost of their capacity 
for beauty; there is a world of difference 
between a specimen thoroughly nourished 
and at the height of perfection and an¬ 
other struggling to do its best against 
hard and unfavourable conditions. 
The Wistaria, Starved and Otherwise. 
I once knew of a Wistaria that for years 
made no new growth worth naming; it 
flowered, sometimes well, sometimes 
meagrely. Then one autumn a few feet 
from where it stood a small bed was made 
and good soil put into it for a depth of 
three feet or so. Presently, the Wistaria 
took a new lease of life; plenty of young 
growth was made; it became rampant, 
luxuriant. Its roots had found their way 
into the soil of the bed, and it was show¬ 
ing at last that for years it had been on 
starvation diet. This may be an extreme 
case, but to a lesser degree it is often 
met with, and the owners of the plants 
conclude that the soil does not suit them, 
or that they cannot grow such and such 
plants. My advice to these is, try a 
somewhat more generous diet where 
plants have been standing year after year 
with no attention to this matter. All the 
same, rank, raw manure should not be 
given; the material that has served for 
an old hot-bed is generally in splendid 
condition for this purpose. 
F. Norfolk. 
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Sweet Peas are holding out well this 
year, and the scent of them fills the air. 
