The Cardiff Times

r Climbing Plants for Cold Positions. In the winter and early spring, as well as in the summer, one may see what climbing plants thrive in positions in the garden that are cold and bleak. One coald not reasonably expect a. beautiful tender rose like Nipheto3 or Marechal Niel to answer satisfactorily for long on an east í wall, but ivies would, and if, instead of planting them in places having a southern, aspect, as is sometimes done, and1' I leaving the rosea to the tender mercies of a north wall, the positions for them wero, ireversed, much more satisfactory results would? follow. Ivies stand out prominently now other: | things are leafless, and the yellow jasmine nudi- ilorum shows what may be done in brightening a' "cold wall. Root Grafting for Roses. To graft rose trees on roots get some brier roots at the end of March, selecting these a lie tie stronger than the scions. Cat a slice off the stock and a corresponding slice off the scion, and fit aud bind the two together. The bark of both stock and scion must fit on at least one side. ,Pot up as each graft is put on into 60-sized pots, plunge in a propagating pit with a. bottom heat of not leas than 75deg., and keep close. In a week or two they will begin to move. Harden them off gradually and plant out in May. Being grafted on the roots, there is no necessity to use clay, as when potting is completed the junction is quite bnried. only about two eyes of the graft being visible above the soil. When care is taken to select pieces of brier root with a few pieces of fibre attached to them, and only well-ripened wood is employed tor the grafts, with the buds dormant or only slightly on the move, there will be very few failures. Propagating Bedding Plants. Cuttings of all kinds of soft-wooded plants which have been warmed up will strike freely now in heat. says a writer in Gardening Illns- trated," Geraniums will strike best on boajda laid on hot-water pipes. If placed in a close pit j they may damp, but the latter place will suit I most other things. Sow seeds of begonias, petunias, verbenas, lobelias, and other tender annuals, but stocks and asters may be held over for a time. Sow musk and start old roots. Window Gardening. Strike chrysanthemum cuttings in small pots plunged in boxes and covered with glass in the window. Reverse or wipe the glass every moru- ing. Do not overwater, but keep the soil reason- ably moist, and as soon as the cuttings show signs of rooting ventilate the frame by tilting up the glass. Geranium cuttings may soon bo potted singly into small pots. Maiden-hair ferns which have been kept dry may have water. Chrysanthemums—Cutting Down. In houses where other plants are grown as well as chrysanthemums, it is important that no time should be lost, now the Jatter have done dower- ing, in cutting them down, stirring the soil in the pots, adding a little fresh compost if neeos- i sary—should it be found that the old has been j washed out—and. if possible, placing the plants in a light, cool hoase.and thus encouraging them to throw up suckers. This overhauling of the I plants, removing sticks, and cutting the old wood away should not be delayed, as the sooner the cuttings have the advantage of light and air the better. Many of the vigorous sort will be best served by being transferred to a cool frame, covering them at night in case of frost. The houce will thus be free for other plants coming into bloom, and one will be able to secure cut- tings for propagation from the old stools as they appear, after which the old plants may be put oat of doors, and some of the earliest of the mid- ( season sorts will be found useful for furnishing cut blooms another year. Under any circum- 1 stances there ia nothing to be gained by keeping ] old plants with stakes to them and decaying foliage about them, as they only tend to spread I mildew in a house. ( Outdoor Garden. To obtain good rssults )t ia often necessary to create special sites for various shrobs and plants, such as roses, carnations,rhododendrons, azaleas, maenolias. tree paeonios, the Christmas rose, &c: Beds intended for hollyhocks, phloxes, dablies, 1 pampas grass, trifcomas, and other strong-iooting ) things may want rather better treatment iban is sjiven to ordinary things. A starved pampas grass will only prodnce poor stunted plumes, and the red-hot-poker plants will use up a good deal of 1 nourishment, so it is better thoroughly to prepare the sites now than have stunted plants if the summer is dry. Eveo liquid manure given freely will not-compensate for lack of depth of soil. Therefore, when time can more eaaily bs spared get the sites ready, and add better stuff for the roots to work into when growth begins next spring and summer, iioses generally thrive well i in a clayey loam, if well drained and manured, but for teas the soil should be made a little lighter, and 11eptb is quite as important. Soot is always useful in eouotty gardens, but in town gardens there ia generally euough of it brought down in the rains. The Use of Lime. Lime is generally present in most fertile soils, bat it is a usefal dressing to all newly-broken land, a3 is helps to scatter insects, and is other- wise beneficial. Of course, lime is not required for rhododendrons and azaleas. These do best in a peatv soil, though they grow and flower well in good loam where there is no limestone or chalk. In Staffordshire and Worcestershire they thrive over the red sandstone, and flower well, especially where thera is a little shade. Mulch is always useful for flower shrubs. Fruit Garden. In pruning Morello cherries, leave enough yoang wood to produce a good crop, but do not overcrowd. These trees are often tronbled with black aphides,and a good wash with an insecticide now will clear off some of them. The simplest and cheapest wash ia soapsuds from the laundry and to each gallon add a wineglassful of paraffin oil, and to keep the oil and water thorooghlv mixed return every alternate syringefnl into the water-pot or pail. This wash may also be' used for plum trees or any other trees which have been attacked by insects. Peaches after thev are pruned are usually washed with an insecti- cide before they are again nailed to the wall. We have generally used warmGishursf compound at the rate of 2oz. to the gallon, using a sponge for the small branches, drawing a sponpe care- fully towards the extremities of the branches, so as not to disturb any buds. Peaches are among the most difficult trees to keep clean, and no opportunity must be neglected. In pruning neglected fruit trees which have been trained to wallit or espaliers, it may be necessary where the old spurs are much crowded to remove some to give more li:ht to the spurs left, to throw vigoir into the folfagS. The thinning should be doae tentatively and the old spurs cut clean out and if any large branches ar.3 removed from fruit trees, smooth over the wonnd with a sharp knife or chisel, and rub a little Stockholm tar over it to keep out the wet. Fruit trees and bushes mav still be planted. Avoid deep planting, especially in heavy land. The tendency is always down- wards. HINTS TO AMATEURS. Sow a. few seeds of good kind of Brussels sprouts in boxes under glass. To have good sprouts early sowing is necessary, and as soon as they are large enough prick out 6in. apart, A few leeks and celery should be sown for earliest crops. Early Erfurt cauliflower is generally sown now in heat. Some gardeners now depend upon the early summer plants. They are less liable to bolt prematurely than the plants raised outside in August. Sweet marjoram and basil are reqnired in a green state as soon as they can be obtained. The marjoram can be potted up and kept in a warm house through the winter, but the basil should be sown now. Marjoram also may be sown now. Mint roots should be placed in heat to produce green shoots for cutting. The best way to obtain a stock for forcing is to fill a few boxes of cut- tings in the spring, and grow them outside dur- ing the summer, and they will be in good condi- tion for forcing when winter comes on. Rooted cuttings may be obtained in spring, and these, if planted in boxes, will be strong and useful in forcing the following winter. If green fennel or other herbs are tequired, a few roots may be potted up now and placed in hoat. AntumP-sown onions may be transplanted in rows, 1ft. apart and 6in. apart in the row. The ground should be rich and deep. Plant when the surface is dry. See that all seed potatoes are laid out tbinbrjiJ a light place to sprout.

CARDIFF MATRIMONIAL SUIT. In the Divorce Division on Tuesday (before Sir F, Jeune and Mr Justice Gorell Barnes, sitting as a Divisional Court) an appeal in the matri- monial suit of Williams v. "Williams came up. The appellant was Henry Williams, of 13, Irian- fair-road, Cardiff, and the respondent Mary Williams, of 12, Llandatf-road, Cardiff. The husband appealed against an order of the Cardiff magistrates that he should pay his wife 15s per week, the order being made on the ground of per- eistent cruelty. The grounds of the appeal were I' that there was no evidence of persistent cruelty or of cruelty which had caused the respondent to leave her husband. Mr Ivor Bowen (instructed by Messrs Winterbank, Samuel 1, and Lawrence, agents for Mr Harold Liloyd. Cardiff) was1 for the respondent. Mr Barnard (instructed by Messrs Smith. Rundle. and Dodds, agents for Mr J. H. Jones, Cardiff) was for the appellant. It appeared that the case had come into the list earlier than was expected, and that Mr Justice Bucknill had granted an extension of time in which to settle a matter of costs. The hearing was therefore adjourned for a week.

At the meeting of the Trevethin School Board on Tuesday, at the TownHaii. fontypool, Alderman J. Daniel presiding, it was resolved to spend £3,050 in repairing the Board schools and asphalting the playgrounds. The attendance officer stated that there had been a fall of snow three inohea deep at Varteg, a hilly district about foax tnilea distant from Pontypool.

——*—— FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, The Feud and Its Ending. BY MADGE S. SMITH. The Carltons lived in Castlc-square. This sounds well, until you learn that the square took its name from the public-house at the corner. They lived in the Square becauseit was cheap, so you will see that their father and mother bad not very much money. The Square had on been a fashionable neighbourhood. Kich people < lived in the tall, ugly, well-built houses, and I carriages rolled up the common drive around-' the Square garden. It was called Blenheim- I square thon. But now the big houses were let J to poor people for low rents. Sometimes two or three families shared a, house. There were1- mines underneath somewhere, and one or two houses bad fallen in, and others had a drunken, Jeanicg-over look about them that added to the untidiness of the place. A^d as the other children that lived in the. Square were not the sort of children for little gentlemen to play with, the little Carltons made nn excellent arrangement, and fought with them instead. Mr and Mrs Cariton did r.ot like the Square,- but Geoff. Hal, and Edgar all thought it rather. joUy. To begin with, there was the ccmmoa garden plot in the middle, a, large, empty space, once a pleasure garden, which the iuhabitants used mainly as a rubbish heap, and on wash- days spjiled for games by hanging out their flapping, wet clothes. The Carlton boys called the Square their gar- den, and at such times as the small fry among their neighbours were not backed up by their elder brothers, they held it pretty successfully against all comers. To do them justice, they; did not begin the feud, but, as Edgar pleaded! in extenuation for a. black eye and blood-spat- tered collar, what else could they do, when the other boys pelted an\! chased them, just because they were gentlemen ? So the feud in Cantle-sqnare grew weekly more and more bitter, and generally came to a violent* issue on Saturday afternoons. Such was the; state of affaii-s when oue Saturday mornincr young Edgar rushed into the dining-room, where. the two others were finishing their dinner, and breathlessly announced, no grown-up person being present There's one of them in the Den Hooray I" cried Hal, tugging at a, bootlace,, come on. Geoff. Now for a lark Geoff finished his padding at a. mouthful, and before you could say Jack Robinson the three boys were setting out cautiously in the direction of the Den. The Den stood in the middle of the square garden. In its balmy day3 it had been a sum- mer-house, and ladies had dn,nk tea there, A later inhabitant had added a door, with a. small bole, and kept hens there. Now it was the common property of the Square children. The Larltons called it their den. It had served many x tlma as a. staunch stronghold of defence against ;he rough boys of the Square, and the Carlton iadA had quite an affection for its crazy, moulder- ing walls, aud cobwebbed roof. We'll have aaiege exclaimed Hal, "What sort of a fellow is it, Edgar ?" Ob, ever so much bigger than us said Bdgar. He was sitting there, reading, and his head came over the window-ledge." Edgar was dancing with excitement. Wetil have a siege said Geoff. Halt go round and get the Orrelis to help. We'll keep the door until they cone." The Orrella were tho doctor's boys from the next street, great churns of the young Carltons, wid they often assisted materially in the Square raids. Reading a book," said Geoff, after a scrutiny )f the Den from a safe distance. 11 That's soma, sort of a blind. Look out for ambushes." The boy in the Den looked up from the book. He seamed a tall fellow of about fifteen, and. nobody bad ever seen one of the Square boys with a book. As they drew near, the door was slatnmei violently to, and the crazy shutters were drawn hastily across the windows. He's frightened," said Edsar, strutting like, a. bantam-cock, as he hurried off to sumtHOtt the allies. As tho forces joined, shirt-sleeved figures appeared at the doors of saver.il bouses; the appearance of the Carltons ou Saturday pfter- noons was nsually the signal for a muster. As they came nearer, the shirt-sleeved ones were seen to slip in for coats and caps, and some half- dozen lads, ranging from seven to fifteen, lounged carelessly along the railings to the gate. Still, tbev did not seem so keen for the fray as usual. The Carltons felt a little disappointed- perbapi the Square boys were getting a little tired of perpetually having the worst of it. Go 'way," said a. theatening voice from the Den, as they drew near. If ye come in here, I'll fair kill ye. I've warned you now." I say I" said Edgar, somewhat taken aback. Poch, he's only frightened," laughed Ralph. He was twelve, and the eldest of the party. Say, you fellows," he aaid: whispering, what a lark to get some boards, and nai) up the door. Then we'll have this one fast, and we can hold the gate against the lot of them." Splendid," cried Hal. Run, Edgar, and get those old boards art of our vard-and qome nails—and a hammer. Off ran Edgar, eager to do their bidding, and in a great hurry to miss none of the fun. Se returned staggering nnder his burden. A few stray stonefot from tho Square boys missed their mark, and Edgar gained the Square garden with a, queer shaky feeling under his waistcoat. It was his great ambition not to ba a coward—and it was sometimes hard to remember when the Square boys set upon him all alone. Good," cried Dick, as the boards andnaih) made their appearance. "Nails? Thanks. Now for it I" The- intruder made no sign of resistance as the pieces of wood were nailed across the door. P rap3 be's got out," suggested Hal, dubi- ously. Not he Still, I may as well have a look at him," Ralph replied, going cautiously round to the cob-webbed window. There was a yell of pain, and Ralph came capering baek, holding a band to one eye. Oh, oh my be exclaimed. The prisoner had hit him smartly in the face with a piece of jagged stick, through the chink to which Ralph barl applied his eye. The others had to finish the barring-in pro- cess, for poor Ralph was too busy attending to his face. When it was done they all thought it looked very nice.and Jim boxed Diok'e ears for saying the prisoner could get out. To tell truth, the door did not look very formidable, as the laths were rather thin, and the woodwork of the crazy old den rotten and cracked. Still it was a creditable job for small boys. The boy inside took it all so quietly after his attack on Ralph that the boys decided he must be expecting help from outside, bnt onlv a few small foes hung about as yet. They were clearly awaiting reinforcements. The Carlton boys watched the gates into the Square until tea-time, when the two Orrelis came to relieve them. It was slow work. All the Square boys seemed to have Rone off for the afternoon, and perhaps each of the besisgers.felt in his own private mind that there were better ways of spending a holiday. They were scolded when they mahed to their tea, leaving Dick and Ralph on guard, and when they escaped again from the house they found tnat the Square boys had mustered in force, and were attacking the gate in earnest. Jnst like HoratiUs," said Edgar, as he hurled himself into the fray. It was along scrimmage, and the fun soon wore off. The Square boys, seemed more anxious to annoy the Carltons and their friends than to get in and liberate their unhappy comrade fast in the Den. Even Edgar had misgivings about, the prisoner's tea, and wanted to have a con- centration camp, but the sight of Ralph's eye hardened their hearts. The enemy got tired of- the hand-to-hand fight, and retired to a little distance to throw atones at tho holders of the gate. A flint cut Edgar's cheek, for the Square boys were not particular whether they hurt people. But at last. bruised, tired and hot, the five boys bad the satisfaction of seeing the foes drop off one by one, not witboutaignsof the con- flict on their faces and clothes- n "I aay," said Jim at last, let's chuck it, and let that poor beggar go to bis tea, eh Yes, agreed Ralph Orrell, let's clear off now, and they can unfasten him as soon as thev like." Hadn't we better let him out ?,, suggested Edgar, timidly.

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No," said Ralph, firmly. He's a dangerour specimen. Come along home, you fellows, It'/j. getting late." Geoff and Hal slept hard that night, for tha fight bad been a hard one but Edgar, who was a little over-tired, tossed uneasily, and woke early, 80 early that tho sun was not properly up and the city sparrows were hardly awake. His first thought was of the fight, and springing out of bed he gazed in surprise and dismay out of the window. For the boards were still nailed as they bad left them across the door of the Dei). The poor prisoner 1 No tea, no supper, no wann bed. Edgar thrust himself into some clothe- and slipped downstairs, his boots in his hand and made his way to the Den, It was as he had thought. No one had been to set the captive free. Through a chink Edgar saw in the half- darkness a white, dirty hand, and a ragged sleeve stretched on the floor. lIe began to pull down the boards, and wondered tuat the big nails came out so easily. He soon had the door opeu, and burst impetuously in. ) And then, oh dear, how sorry, how dreadfully sorry and ashamed poor Edgar felt. How he wished the horrid fepd and all its silly battles j had never begun. For there, stretched on the damp floor, was a poor, deformed; half-witted lad whom they called Cripple Willie, the butt of the rough boys in the Square. He was fast asleep on the ground, with clean places on his dirty pale face where the tears had run down. The book, an old sixpenny novel, lay in a corner, and by it the rough crutch that had done execution on Ralph's eye. The little boy fell upon his knees, beside the cripple, kissiug tho dirty face, and begging for forgiveness. And I now Geoff acd Hal arrived, having been aroused by Edgar shutting the front door. Ob," cried Geoff.what cads we have been What awful cowards." Is he dead Hal asked, glancing at the pale face and off he went to fetch Dr. Orrell from the jjext street. When that gentleman arrived Cripple Will was sitting up in the two boys' arms, explaining it all in his simple way. He had felt a little stronger than usual, and had hobbled, with his book and crutch, to the Den, to find a refuge from the teasing of the Square boys. He had taken the arrival of the Carltons to be a fresh onslaught from bis tor- mentors, and defended himself in desperation. He felt stiff certainly, and cold and hungry, but oh no, be declared himself not much worse for his night in the Den. And, after all, the last battle of the Square fend did more good than harm, for under Dr. Orrell's care and attention Will soon became quite surprisingly nimble, and found himself the possessor of a bewildering nnmber of friends. It would take a long story to tell of the treats the boys devised for him, of the fine new crutch they made and the easy chair on wheels they contrived for his use. And longer still it would be to tell how the Square feud was changed at last into a Squaie Club, and how the boys joined to mend and paint the battered old Den into a brand new pavilion for the Castle-square Cricket Club.