Fuchsias, especially the old-fashioned fulgens, are
satisfactory. Carnations— Eaby Castle, Countess of Paris,
and Mrs. Eeynolds Hole — I grow in pots, and they do
extremely well ; they must be layered early in July, and
answer best if potted up in September and just protected
from severe frosts. This year we took up a large clump of
Montbretias out of a dry sunny bed of Cape bulbs in the
kitchen garden, just as they were coming through the
ground, and dropped them into a large Sea-kale pot.
They flowered exceedingly well, and in September we
put them back in the dry border to die down. In fine
summers Myrtles and Oleanders flower well with us in
tubs, not in the open ground. We treat Oleanders as
they do in Germany — cut them back moderately in October,
and dry them off, keeping them in a coach-house, warm
shed, or wherever severe frosts will not reach them.
MAY 113
When quite dry, they stand a moderate amount of frost.
Then in March they are brought out, the ground is
stirred and mulched, and they are taken into a greenhouse
and brought on a bit. In May they are thickly covered
with good strong horse-manure and copiously watered.
At the end of the month they are stood out in the open
on a low wall. During May, June, and July they cannot
have too much water ; after that they want much less, or
the leaves turn yellow and drop off. Campanula pyrami-
dalis (see * English Flower Garden '), a biennial, does well
in pots, if shaded — blue and white both in one pot, or apart.
The seedlings have to be potted up in autumn (plants a
year old) ; as with the Canterbury Bells, if you cut
off the fading flowers the flowering season is much pro-
longed. Canterbury Bells (Campanula medium) make
charming pot-plants for large rooms or corridors in
May or June. They are annuals, and the seed can
be sown out of doors in March or April, keeping the
seedlings well thinned, transplanting in the autumn, and
potting-up the following spring (see 'English Flower
Garden '). If strong crowns of Campanula persicifolia
are potted up in autumn, they force beautifully in a
moderate greenhouse in spring, and are most satisfactory
for picking or otherwise.
Some years I grow Solanum jasminoides over bent
wires in pots; they are rather pretty. Clethra (Sweet
Pepper Bush), a small North American shrub, we lifted
from the reserve garden in June and put into a pot, and
it flowered very well. The variety of plants which can
be experimented upon for growing in pots out of doors
in summer is almost endless. Love-lies-bleeding (Ama-
ranthus caudatus) is an annual ; but if sown in January,
and very well grown-on as a fine single specimen plant,
it looks handsome and uncommon in a green glazed
pot or small tub. Nothing we grow in pots is more
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Fuchsias, especially the old-fashioned fulgens, are
satisfactory. Carnations— Eaby Castle, Countess of Paris,
and Mrs. Eeynolds Hole — I grow in pots, and they do
extremely well ; they must be layered early in July, and
answer best if potted up in September and just protected
from severe frosts. This year we took up a large clump of
Montbretias out of a dry sunny bed of Cape bulbs in the
kitchen garden, just as they were coming through the
ground, and dropped them into a large Sea-kale pot.
They flowered exceedingly well, and in September we
put them back in the dry border to die down. In fine
summers Myrtles and Oleanders flower well with us in
tubs, not in the open ground. We treat Oleanders as
they do in Germany — cut them back moderately in October,
and dry them off, keeping them in a coach-house, warm
shed, or wherever severe frosts will not reach them.
MAY 113
When quite dry, they stand a moderate amount of frost.
Then in March they are brought out, the ground is
stirred and mulched, and they are taken into a greenhouse
and brought on a bit. In May they are thickly covered
with good strong horse-manure and copiously watered.
At the end of the month they are stood out in the open
on a low wall. During May, June, and July they cannot
have too much water ; after that they want much less, or
the leaves turn yellow and drop off. Campanula pyrami-
dalis (see * English Flower Garden '), a biennial, does well
in pots, if shaded — blue and white both in one pot, or apart.
The seedlings have to be potted up in autumn (plants a
year old) ; as with the Canterbury Bells, if you cut
off the fading flowers the flowering season is much pro-
longed. Canterbury Bells (Campanula medium) make
charming pot-plants for large rooms or corridors in
May or June. They are annuals, and the seed can
be sown out of doors in March or April, keeping the
seedlings well thinned, transplanting in the autumn, and
potting-up the following spring (see 'English Flower
Garden '). If strong crowns of Campanula persicifolia
are potted up in autumn, they force beautifully in a
moderate greenhouse in spring, and are most satisfactory
for picking or otherwise.
Some years I grow Solanum jasminoides over bent
wires in pots; they are rather pretty. Clethra (Sweet
Pepper Bush), a small North American shrub, we lifted
from the reserve garden in June and put into a pot, and
it flowered very well. The variety of plants which can
be experimented upon for growing in pots out of doors
in summer is almost endless. Love-lies-bleeding (Ama-
ranthus caudatus) is an annual ; but if sown in January,
and very well grown-on as a fine single specimen plant,
it looks handsome and uncommon in a green glazed
pot or small tub. Nothing we grow in pots is more
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