Perpetual Dianthus 
Allwoodii Alpinus 
Dianthus under this classification are) 
crosses made between Dianthus Allwoodii, 
which are hardy perpetual flowering Pinks, 
and such species as Wiimmerii, alpinus, caes- 
jus, fragrans, etc. The object was to get 
a dwarf growing plant with a silvery fol- 
iage but perpetual flowering. They are a 
new race and naturally very much but the 
plants are certainlyy all beautiful. 
Seed and cuttings are best started during, 
the summer and the buds should be kept 
pinched off during the balance of the year. 
The soil should be on the gritty side and 
alkaline. 
In preparing soil or a bed for them, al- 
ways add lime to it at this time. Wood 
ashes is excellent fertilizer to work into any 
Dianthus bed. Leaf mould may tend to 
make the soil slightly acid which should 
be avoided in Dianthus beds. 
A well drained loamy soil, on the gritty 
side, is ideal Dianthus soil. It also is best 
to grow Dianthus on raised beds; they re- 
quire perfect drainage. 
Growing Clematis 
The following is in addition to the Clem- 
atis article on page 225, which was over 
looked at time of printing. 
The growing of the large flowering types 
of Clematis, especcially, much attention 
should be given to the soil. If it contains 
stones and rubbish, it will be impossible 
to accomplish and the best thing to do 
would be to remove a space of 3 square 
feet of the soil and down to good moist 
subsoil and fill in the space with good loam. 
This should really be done the fall before 
setting out your Clematis, so that the soil 
particles will be together and unnecessary 
air pockets have been expelled by the 
winter frosts. 
The practice of covering part of the top 
soil with flat stones should be tried out by 
Mr. Payton, on a few plants that are in 
especially dry locations. These stones need 
not be exposed if not wanted; merely cover 
with a few inches of soil. In our own 
plantings we find it necessary to set out 
many plants, alpines especially, by the 
side of a stone, some on the south side and 
other kinds on the north side and without 
this sort of treatment, they would not flour- 
ish: 
The various species of Clematis are not 
as a rule as hard to grow as the large- 
flowering types, in fact many are found in the 
worse possible places in nature. Many are 
very beautiful and what is still more im- 
portant is the possibility of doing hybrid- 
izing. So many species, while beautiful, 
can stand a great deal of selection and 
pure color strains developed as well as tha 
establishing of other characters and this 
possibility opens up a large territory for 
those short on space as well as money. It 
has always been the desire of this magazine 
to further this sort of work but we will 
have to admit that too few readers are 
actually interested. 
We might add that most all Clematis 
prefers full sun but cool feet, very much 
as with Lilies and in the ordinary small 
plantings, a location north of some leafy 
plant, as Mr. Payton suggests, solves the 
problem of too much heat and dryness at 
the base of the plant. Shrubs or other 
plants that have strong root systems and 
thus draw heavily on the soil moisture, 
would, of course, never be used: 
at price of three. 
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