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Title: The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden
Identifier: centurybookofgar00cook (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, ed
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London, The Offices of "Country life" (etc. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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TENDER PLANTS FOR THE SUMMER GARDEN 47
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A SCOITISH GARDEN. indoors in October. In the same place Stag's Horn Ferns (Platycerium) and large Nephrolepis are grown specially on teak-wood rafts and on tough, fibrous sods of loam, so that they can be wired tightly to the gnarled and mossy trunks of the trees overhanging the stream, and the effect is quite unique and surprising, the plants seeming quite natural amid their leafy and rocky surroundings. One of the most subtle of all the conditions concerned in plant arrangement is that known as "keeping," a word which here means "the right thing in the right place." There is a perfect sense of fitness, or keeping, if we associate Bamboos, or the Greater Reed (Arundo Donax), with the Giant Gunneras by a pondside or stream, because they are all naturally marsh-loving or bog plants ; but if you plant Yuccas or Agaves in similar situations the sense of fitness is destroyed, seeing that they naturally love and grow best in dry, rocky, or stony places. Those who really wish to excel in this effective phase of flower and foliage gardening should read Letter 111. in Ruskin's "Elements of Drawing" on "Colour and Composition," in which the principles of form and of colour are clearly laid down. " The Sub-tropical Garden, or Beauty of Form in the Flower Garden " (Second Edition), by Mr. W. Robinson, is also a work on this subject that will repay the perusal of those interested. AbUtilonS.—These beautiful plants may be used in many ways, i.e., for clothing greenhouse or conservatory pillars and roofs, to grow in pots—though less attractive when thus used—and for planting out in the open, where they flower as freely as under glass. In the extreme South of England and Ireland they may in sheltered spots be even left out the whole year. A delightful kind for the summer garden is Boule de Neige, which is the most beautiful of the white kinds, very free both in bloom and growth. This may be grouped upon the outskirts of the lawn, or associated with other plants in large beds, and an easy way to manage it is to sink the pots above the rim, lifting again on the approach of frost. The plants will then continue to bloom under glass. They should be kept moderately at rest, however, to prepare them well again fi >r the summer garden. Of yellow, choose Golden Fleece or Chrysostephanum ; and of reds, Sanglant and Scarlet Gem. Anna Crozy, King of the Roses, and Premier are of a rose or rosy purple shade, whilst of striped kinds, which are always less effective than the selfs, striatum splendidum is as good as any. A. Thompsoni fiore-pleno has double orange and crimson veined flowers and variegated leaves. The Almtilon is much valued lor its foliage, as some kinds are conspicuously coloured, and of these the most important areSouvenirde Bonn, Thompsoni, which is, perhaps, the most popular of all, naevium marmoratum,

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