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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
September 14, 1907. 
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Bdiforrial. 
“Ste Small Sowxi Saito.” 
“ Of books, there is no end” King Solo¬ 
mon said, but we feel sure that Solomon 
saw very few books by comparison with 
the number to-day. The above is the 
title of a book, however, written in the 
Midlands by H. M. Swanwick, and with 
the experience, of course, gleaned from 
gardening under somewhat different con¬ 
ditions from those which prevail at Lon¬ 
don. Being more inland, the climate is 
cooler and, as a rule, moister. The 
book runs to some 21 1 pp., including a 
good index. It deals with soils and 
manures, planting flower borders, Roses, 
shrubs, trees and climbers, hardy and 
half hardy perennial and annual plants, 
bulbs, and garden operations. 
This gardener commences his opera¬ 
tions in November, as he thinks that the 
most suitable season to begin gardening. 
It certainly gives the operator a long time 
to prepare the soil before planting, and 
that is absolutely necessary if success is 
to be obtained and maintained. Some 
growers are delighted with the success 
during a year or two, but if they begin 
to fail in the third or fourth year they 
cannot quite underseand it, and get dis¬ 
heartened. Soils, of course, require re¬ 
storing by digging, trenching, and 
manuring. 
Under the gardening operations for 
November the writer includes information 
about manures, draining, path making, 
building a rockery, planting trees and 
shrubs, protecting Roses and other 
plants, the burning of rubbish, the tidy¬ 
ing up of the garden, and other opera¬ 
tions. During the succeeding months 
up to March the writer finds plenty to 
do, and indeed there is no month of the 
vear in which there is not plenty of work 
that requires attention of all those who 
would make the most of a small piece of 
land. A good many drawings in pen and 
ink serve to illustrate what the writer 
means when talking about the varioi 
operations. The book may be obtainc 
from Messrs. Sherratt and Hughes, Mai 
Chester, for 2s., with postage e*xtra. 
Violas 
In a London Suburban 
-Garden.- 
No better time than the present could 
be selected for the propagation of named 
Violas by means of cuttings. Those who 
are content with the variations -that may 
be had from a packet of seed would do 
well to sow the seeds any time from the 
middle of July to the middle of August 
to enable the seedlings to get some size 
before planting-out time in spring. 
Those who have made the acquaintance 
of the beautiful named varieties rarely 
want to go back to seed raising, for the 
reason that with named varieties the 
colours are all known, and the effect they 
will produce, so that in bedding arrange¬ 
ments, or for making lines along the 
borders, the requisite colour can be se¬ 
lected. There is nothing uncertain in 
the growing of named varieties and pro¬ 
pagating them by cuttings. 
In suburban gardens, but more pa 
ticularly in the south, the cultivat 
should take care to have the ground pr 
pared during winter, so that he can pla 
out the Violas in March. Even if thi 
make no show for a month or more, th< 
are making roots, and thereby gettir 
established before the warm weather se 
in. Of course, those who intend to pla: 
Violas where spring flowering bulbs ha’ 
to be lifted must take their chances, b 
the best results are obtained from tho 
which are planted early. 
In some instances, where it is desin 
to have an edging of Violas to beds 
bulbs, the planting can be done 
March, although the bulbs were plant; 
in the previous autumn. Except in ve 
favoured districts, the cultivator cann 
always be certain of getting a display : 
Viola Mrs. J- H. Rowland. 
[Maclaren and Sons. 
