A Monthly Journal of Floriculture and Horticulture, for Professional, Practical, and Amateur Gardeners. 
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1905, (39 EES eUe ie }) Price 3d 
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A Subscriber.—Will you kindly tell me 
if double flowering Stocks produce seed on 
their own stem. I had always understood 
that the double flowers were obtained from 
seeds saved from fnll petalled and extra 
fine single specimens; but I was given 
some seed the other day certified to be from 
the double stock plant itself. I should be 
greatly obliged if you would settle this 
question in your correspondence column. 
The double flowers of Stocks never seed, 
occasionally get seed from a semi-double 
flower which appears to one as a double 
stock. The best double seed is procured 
from a‘single stock fertilised from the 
pollen of a double flower. 
The Hlower | Garden 
OPERATIONS FOR MARCH. 
By W. S. Casrepeny: 
March is an important time for the gar- 
dener for there will be many matters to 
attend to, and work prepared now will haye 
a great deal to do with the subsequent 
beauty of the garden. 
First of all, there are the bulbs to plant, 
and the earlier this ig done the better, and 
the greater chance they will have to make 
roots before the flowering season begins. 
. Now is the time to plant Daffodils and 
Wareissi of all kinds, Crocuses, «Tulips, 
Showdrops, Snowflakes, Anemones, Ranun- 
culuses, Ixias, Babianas, Sparaxs, the 
beautiful Watsonia O’Brieni, and other 
kinds of Watsonia, as well as many other 
handsome and interesting bulbs. The 
general rule for depth of planting is to 
plant as deep as the diameter of the bulbs 
—that is, if a bulb measure an inch across, 
plant it an inch deep, and so on; but where 
the soil is of a dry or sandy nature the 
bulbs should be planted rather deeper 
If the soil is of a satisfactory condition 
and not dry plant out Violets, Primroses, 
Cowslips, Pansies, Polyanthus, Daisies, 
Carnations, Phlox Drummondi, and any 
other hardy plants that can be obtained. 
Get the best kinds of Violets, and for warm 
places plant only the single flowering kinds, 
because, except under very favorable con- 
ditions, the double varieties are not likely 
to succeed. — 
Sow all sorts of hardy annuals, and also 
seeds of perennials; but the sowing had 
better take place after the middle of the 
month. 
At the end of the month make ready for 
planting cuttings of Roses and other plants, 
for during April cuttings are. far more 
likely to strike roots than during the— 
winter. 
Prepare for the planting of evergreens. 
A PICTURE FOR AUTUMN, . 
Plant a Virginian Creeper, the old non- 
clinging sort, at the foot of a Willow Tree, 
and allow it to have:its*way among the 
Willow branches. Unless the experiment 
turns out differently from one that I have 
in mind, a very pretty effect should be 
given in autumn,° when the leaves of the 
Willow and those of the Virginian Creeper 
turn yéllow and red respectively. The light 
open growth of the Willow is especially 
suited to the advantageous display of the 
Ampelopsis growth and leafage, while’ the 
root conditions that suit the former cause 
the latter to thrive amazingly —E.J.C. 
WATERING SEEDLINGS—A NOVEL 
oo DADE. ca 
A simple experiment which T have lately: 
tried here may be of interest to your read- 
ers. Ido not know if the idea is new to you, 
it is so to me. J placed a board across a 
- greenhouse tank nearly full of water, and 
on this board placed two flower pots (48’s) 
containing an ordinary compost, with 
broken crocks, &c., at bottom as usual. 
Into one of these I inserted the ends of two 
