Aprii 1, 1905 
Fern; or the comnion Polypodivm vulgare 
may be substituted. ' 
The above named sorts are best for a 
somewhat large bed; fewer of the large 
growing species should be planted in small 
borders. 
A long, narrow border facing the north, 
whereon the sun rarely shines, /s a capital 
ono for a ribbon border of ferns; the large 
ones should be planted at the back and the 
dwarf ones in) the front. 
For several weeks at least after the 
plants are put out water must be given 
very carefully. When once the soil is tho- 
roughly moistened through it should be 
kept so, but not saturated; evening syring- 
ings are very beneficial. 
SOLENT. 
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AN ENTHUSIASTIC ROSARIAN. 
It might be said with truth) that, every- 
body likes roses, and there is no other flow- 
er that has more admirers. The same re- 
marks probably cannot be applied to any 
other flower amongst English-speaking peo- 
ple. While it is exceedingly interesting 
to walk through a garden with admirers 
of the Queen, of Flowers, it is a positive 
charm to be escorted by one who knows his 
roses like a book, and never tireg of extoll- 
ing their beauties. Such a one our repre- 
sentative met in Dr. J. A. G. Hamilton, 
who showed him some of the finest blooms 
to be seen anywhere. The doctor’s resi- 
dence in Jeficott-street, North Adelaide, is 
built upon the usual size of a building allot- 
ment, and being a house of considerable 
preportions, with the front close to the 
street, the casual passer-by would never sus- 
pect that any portion of the ground could 
be devoted! to a garden, of any proportions. 
But it is often under such disadvantageous 
circumstances that one finds some of the 
rarest beauties raised under an affectionate 
care. Indeed, it is only the love of the 
beautiful thati overcomes difficulties that 
are insuperable to the common. variety of 
amateur gardener. The man who has a 
hundred and one excuses for a shabbty 
garden may rest his soul in peace that he 
will never have a flower worth: looking at, 
but the true lover of flowers will always 
have them, no matter what difficulties may 
appear. 
At the side of Dr. Hamilton’s house is a 
strip of land less than 20 ft. wide. A huge 
pepper-tree takes up a good proportion of 
the street end. This gives a grateful shade 
im summer, and makes a fine breakwind, 
but the doctor is jealous of the room it 
takes out of his limited space. 
lawn is planted the full length of the 
ground to a dividing fence from the back 
portion of the garden. Although about 
half of the lawn was replanted early in 
December last, it looks very well, and one 
could hardly tell the new from the old por- ~ 
tion. In this lawn are four circular flower 
beds, each containing a favorite Rose. No. 
1 contains a Triumphe de Pierre, No. 2 
Madame Lourette Messiny, No. 3 la 
France, and No. 4 The Bride. These are 
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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
all full standards, with large bushy heads, 
through having been lightly pruned. They 
are, however, fine specimens, and the blooms 
were exceedingly good from bud to blos- 
som. The beds also contain a setting of 
choice Pelargoniums, dwarf Coxcombs, and 
Coleus. The latter are particularly good, 
and demonstrate that these plants do as 
well in the open. bed as in the shadehouse. 
The doctor’s neighbor is divided off by 
a high latticed fence, and upon, this are 
grown a number of climbing Roses, all of 
the best, in the veterans William Allan 
Richardson, Cloth of Gold, Crimson, Ram- 
bler, La Reine Marie Henriette, Perle de 
Jardine, Waltham Climber, Fanny Stol- 
werch, Ard Pillar, and Purity. At the 
end of the fence is a shadehouse on the 
neighbor's side, and this is covered by a 
wonderful two-year-old growth of Cloth of 
Geld. No ground can, be spared to waste, 
and along this fence, in addition to the 
roses, the lawn is cut back to allow bedding 
for Zinnias, Phlox, Coxcombs, Carnations, 
Petunias, and Asters. Being all summer 
bleomers, the green lawn has no lack of 
cecloring for a ground setting, At the end 
of the lawn is a bed of self-sown Balsams, 
and nothing could be finer. Up to about 
2 ft. high their rank growth is covered with 
bloom, from the richest prime coloring to 
the daintiest shades. Some of the largest 
double blooms are charming rivals to small 
Roses. In this bed also is the ever delight- 
ful White. Maman Cochet, and Mad. Lam- 
bard. It is an accepted dogma amongst 
rose-growers that the royal Queen of Flow- 
ers is so exclusive in her exalted dignity 
that she is fretted with indignation’ and 
will not thrive to bloom if “plebs’ are 
forged into her company. Here we have, 
however, an illustration of two royal 
queens throwing off their dignity and 
blecming profusely while their court is co- 
_vered, with a mass of Balsams growing with 
the strongest vigor. 
Crossing the footpath alongside the 
house the doctor has cribbed a few feet of 
the back yard, which, viewed through a 
high lattice, is none too spacious, and here 
we find Perennial Phloxes looking splendid, 
Portulacas, Violet, Dianthus, Perennial 
Sunflowers, Zinnias, Coreopsis, and Del- 
phiniums, all crowded, but all in bloom,’ 
and making a gay setting to a huge Rose 
tree of Mad. Berrard, in company with La 
France, and, to give the bed a tone of 
choice up-to-date standing, we note a last 
year’s “novelty” in Lady Roberts. In spite 
of her crowded surroundings, Lady Roberts 
is doing well, but would probably show to 
better advantage with a little more breath- 
ing space. 
Turning now, we enter the back garden, 
and herein. can be no offence, because the 
back garden is quite equal to the front. 
This, divided by a high growth of climbing 
roses, with an archway for entrance. This 
dividing fence, if a mass of loveliness can 
be called such, is a perfect shrine of beauty 
when in full bloom, as may be imagined 
when we name such choice colorings as are 
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given by the Duchess of Ostard, Rey. C. T 
Cole, Meteor, Devoniensis, Gustave Regis 
and Souv. de Watton. In that lot the eye 
wanders, never wearying of the charming 
tints, and fancy curving of petals from, bud 
te bloom. And the perfume, too, so deli- 
cate and refreshing that! the most sensitive 
clfactory nerve will plead for more. Will 
creation ever present another such thing of 
Leanty and fascination as the Rose. 
Surely, never. As we pass under this 
bewer of beauty another high fence to the 
right shelters the garden from, the south! 
west winds. This fence is covered the 
whole length with the beautiful red La 
France, the sweet-scented Pink Rover, Lor- 
raine Marie Henriette, Fortunatus, and 
Marechal Niel, and so completely covers 
the fence with strong woody growth, nice 
foliage and beautiful blooms that one won-. 
ders why people are at any tme at a logs 
tc know what to plant on fences. 
This little plot of ground is divided into 
three long beds, the whole area being any- 
thing up to 30 x 40 ft., as far as the eye 
cculd judge casually. On the eastern bed 
attention is first arrested by a deep edging 
of Balsams, one mass of bloom, vieing in 
beauty with the Roses. The double flow- 
erg, with their delicate tintings and sweet 
perfume, being highly favored. At the 
ead of this plot the doctor thas started a 
new line, to him, in Carnations. This now 
fashionable flower has a little square patch 
all to itself, and we noticed some choice 
labels, amongst them being such as Edith 
Grey, Piedmont, 'General Gordon, W. R.- 
Deane, Ravenswood, and many others of 
the latest fashion. Passing a galvanised 
iron back to a shed we noticed it being 
rapidly covered by a Souv. de Joseph 
Metral, L’Ideal, and the commonly-known, 
Fortune’s Yellow. Not an inch of ground 
is to be wasted, and at the foot of the Roses 
is a bordering of Portulacas, with their 
bright blooms beaming in the sunshine. 
Ai, the corner of the end footway is a little 
pigeon-house, embowered ini a Billiard: et 
Barr and James Wilson, and. ever-bloom- 
ing Plumbago Capensis, and a Linum of 
which we forget the name for the moment, 
but throwing some fine trusses of deep blue 
bloom. | 
The pathway between the centre and 
western beds is nicely bordered with varie- 
gated geranium, and the doctor affection- 
ately thandles the blooms of his favorite 
roses as he descants upon the colorings and 
forms of Rose Darien, Mad. Abel Chatenay, 
Jules Grolez, and two of which he does not 
know the name, but one which is uncom- 
monly like Belle Siebrect, but evidently 
bearing another strain in the very deep 
golden centre, and the other of deep pin- 
kish hue, described by a florist as Jeanne 
Guillaumez. The very brilliant red Gross 
en Tipletz has al soft corner in his 
heart, and none the less favored are Dr. 
Grill, Sunrise, Antoine Revoir, Shandon, 
the lovely buds of Germein, Ethel Brown- 
low, Pink Maman Cochet, the blooms of 
which he speaks of as being as big as your 
