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THE GARDENING WORLD 
September 21, 1907. 
us Leuchtstern. The flowers are very 
large for its class, and of quite a distinct 
pink colour. This is unquestionably a 
striking advance. I have budded several 
standards with it, as in this way it will, 
I think, be a great success. J. B. Clark 
has again been disappointing, and I now 
consider it scarcely worth growing. A 
maiden standard has given me one excep¬ 
tionally fine bloom, and that is all 1 
can say about it. My dwarfs of this 
variety have developed into climbers 
eight feet or more high ! Hugh Dick¬ 
son at present remains the best crimson 
Hybrid Tea, and I am also favourably 
impressed with Messrs. Dickson’s Lady 
Rossmore. For Tea Roses, as I have al¬ 
ready pointed out, the past-season has not 
been at all favourable. Mdlle. Jeanne 
Phillipe has proved quite the best of the 
orange yellow sorts, and it has the most 
lovely foliage imaginable. Though not 
a new variety, General Gallieni should 
be given a trial, if only for its strange 
rich colouring. 
Mildew is dreadfully prevalent this sea¬ 
son, but this is not surprising. Still, it 
should be kept in check as much as pos¬ 
sible to save trouble next year. Keep 
the hoe at work and the old blossoms 
cut from the plants, and then, if the 
weather be favourable, there will doubt¬ 
less be many good blooms on the plants 
before the frosts come. 
A. R. Goodwin. 
Worcestershire. 
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Fuchsia Coralie. 
The habit of this plant is similar to 
that of F. triphylla, and the flowers are 
of a soft salmon, and produced in droop¬ 
ing clusters. Award of Merit by the 
R.H.S. on 3rd inst. when shown by Mr. 
H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, Lewis¬ 
ham. 
Victoria Medal of Honour. 
At the last meeting of the Council, the 
three vacancies in the Victoria Medal of 
Honour list were filled by the appoint¬ 
ment of Sir John T. Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 
Bart., J.P., D.L., F.L.S. ; Mr. Henry 
Ballantine, Orchid grower to Baron Sir 
Henry Schroder, Bart. ; Mr. George 
Dickson, Royal Irish Nurseries, New- 
townards, Co. Down. 
Provisioning the World’s Largest Steamship. 
1 he great liner, Lusitania, which re¬ 
cently made her maiden trip from Liver¬ 
pool to New \ork, took a vast amount of 
provisions for the passengers and crew. 
The articles included the following : 20 
tons Potatos, 400 Cauliflowers, 500 Cab¬ 
bages, 200 lb. Tomatos, 1,000 lb. Pears, 
700 lb. Grapes, 2,000 lb. Plums, 200 lb. 
Peaches, and 500 doz. Bananas. 
Dahlia C. E. Wilkins. 
The above Cactus Dahlia is of exhibi¬ 
tion size, with long, slender, incurved 
florets of a beautiful salmon-pink over- 
lying yellow. The latter colour is seen 
only in the centre previous to the develop¬ 
ment of the salmon shade. First-class 
Certificate by the National Dahlia So¬ 
ciety on 5th September, when shown by 
Messrs. James Stredwick and Son, St. 
Leonards-on-Sea. A bunch of this variety 
also ^took the Silver Medal offered by 
Mr. Edward Mawley for the best bunch 
of Cactus Dahlias in Classes six and 
seven. 
Border Carnations. 
New plantations should be made as 
early in October as possible, and with 
this object in view pots and compost 
should be got in readiness for the require¬ 
ments. Whqre the plantations are made 
in the open ground, only a few plants 
of each stored will be necessary to make 
good any blanks that may occur in the 
beds during the course of the winter. 
Where the soil is heavy, and in the 
neighbourhood of smoky towns, it is 
better to winter the plants in cold frames. 
The layers will have to be potted in 3 in. 
pots as an average size, but some of the 
smaller ones may be placed in 2 \ in. pots, 
and the very largest in 3! in. pots. Any 
light compost may be employed for this 
purpose. 
Keep an eye on the layers for the 
presence of maggot, which in some 
seasons and in some gardens do 
great damage to the layers during 
the process of rooting. A valu¬ 
able layer may often be saved by cutting 
off the top, if the presence of the maggot 
is detected. Where the maggot is known 
to be troublesome a good plan would be to 
syringe the layers at intervals of ten days 
with strong smelling tobacco water, or 
even dilute paraffin emulsion. 
Show Carnations and Picotees. 
Growers for exhibition like to get the 
layers potted by the end of the month. 
Owing to the lateness of the season, some 
of the varieties may not be well rooted. 
In such cases esjreciallv over-potting 
should be avoided. Before severing the 
layers, it would be as well to examine 
them to ascertain what progress the roots 
have made. It may be advisable in 
this season to delay potting until the 
roots are fairly well advanced. At the 
same time it is well to remember that the 
plants winter best if the roots are fairly 
well round the sides of the pots before 
the advance of winter. 
Get out a list of all the varieties in 
stock, and the number of each to be 
potted. Pots and compost should also 
be prepared in advance to avoid delay. 
This also is the best time to order new 
varieties from the nurserymen of those new 
and desirable varieties- which may have 
been noted during the flowering season. 
1>ee Carnations. 
The early varieties will now be advan¬ 
cing to the flowering stage, and all such 
plants should be taken indoors and 
fumigated to eradicate such insect pests as 
green fly, thrips, and red spider, though 
with the dripping summer and cold 
nights, they should not be badly infested 
in this respect.. All plants of this class, 
late or early, should be housed by the 
end of the month. In the meantime, 
the house should be prepared to receive 
them by having it cleared of plants and 
washed dow-n with paraffin and water, So 
as to destroy all vermin which may be 
lurking about the walls or woodwork. 
Bear in mind that light is the main es¬ 
sential, especially at this season of the 
year. At the same time the plants 
should be staged without any intermixing 
of other plants. 
Malmaison Carnations. 
Plants that were layered early will now 
lie ready for severing from the parent 
plants and potted up. Strong layers may 
require 35 in. pots, but over-potting 
should be avoided until the roots are 
well established in fresh soil. If plants 
have been stood in the open during the 
summer they must now be housed under 
the most favourable conditions as to light 
and air. 
Marguerite Carnations. 
If the fine weather continues, the out¬ 
door display of this class of plants may 
last for some weeks longer, but when 
we get anything like continuous wet 
weather the flowers soon get disfigured 
and worthless by damping. Plants in 
pots intended for flowering during 
November and later should be hqused 
before the end of the month to protect 
them against wind and rain. They need 
not necessarily be put in the flowering 
house, as cold frames will suffice for 
shelter until the space is ready to receive 
them. Keep them neatly staked. A 
temperature of 48 deg. to 50 deg. will 
be sufficient when they are advancing to 
the flowering stage. 
American Carnations. 
The earlier batches of this class of 
plants will have been housed by this 
time, especially those intended for early 
blooming. Some growers prefer to keep 
their plants under glass either in pots 
or planted out on benches, but in those 
establishments where only a few plants 
are grown there is a tendency to mix 
them with other plants. This plan, 
however, is undesirable, as Carnations 
are very exacting in the matter of light 
and air, and if placed under the influence 
or shade of broad-leaved plants they soon 
suffer by getting drawn. In any case 
plants that are newly taken in should be 
fumigated or vaporised to destroy insect 
pests. It is undesirable to stop any 
variety after this as it has a tendency 
to encourage short flower stems in some 
varieties more so than in others. A suc¬ 
cession can always be kept up by having 
early and late varieties, and by propa¬ 
gating plants at different times. 
J.D.F.W. 
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Lady Gardener who Wears Trousers. 
In a Norfolk village there lives a lady 
gardener who for over a year has 
adopted male attire. The garden she 
manages extends over many acres, and 
she has several male assistants. She 
found that skirts hampered her move¬ 
ments when gardening, and so took to 
wearing “breeks.” 
