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grounds of limited extent — among the best 

 we have seen, the Pinus Strobus nana, 

 or a dwarf variety of the Weymouth Pine. 

 There is also a very pretty variety of the 

 Scotch Pine (Pinus sylvestris), and another 

 of the Swiss Pine (Pinus Cembra) ; and the 

 old Pinus Mugho, may be introduced as a 

 dark background for the more rare and less 

 vigorous sorts. In addition to the above, 

 the Thujas, or American Arbor-vitses, should 



receive a due share of attention, particularly 

 the dwarf varieties. The Yews are also desir- 

 able, and the Golden Yew has few equals 

 for giving brilliancy to a garden. 



Among the many hundreds of species and 

 varieties of evergreens cultivated by nursery- 

 men, there are certainly enough to suit every 

 individual taste, as well as every situation, 

 those enumerated above being merely types 

 of species to select from. — T. M. 



PEACH TREES ATTACKED WITH MILDEW. 



THERE is a great complaint this season 

 of Peach trees being attacked with 

 mildew. Many first-rate gardeners [who have 

 grown Peaches for years with great success, 

 complain that in spite of all their precau- 

 tions mildew has put in an appearance, and 

 not only destroyed, as it invariably does, 

 the crop of the trees affected, but the trees 

 themselves. On looking into several houses, 

 my idea is that it is more due to the particular 

 locality than to any want of right management.' 

 I could name places where the houses are 

 so sheltered with walls, and then with plan- 

 tations at the back of the walls, that no sys- 

 tem of ventilation would seem sufficient for 

 oxygenizing the pent-up atmosphere. The 

 consequence is, that this closed up state — 

 this state of quietness— is favourable to mildew 

 spores, and then, once they they have got a 

 footing, every gardener knows how subtle 

 they are in their migrations, and how fatal 

 to the combined growth and health of the 

 tree, I set down the appearance and propaga- 

 tion of mildew to the sheltered condition of lo- 

 cality morethanto a want of attention. Doubt- 

 less, there are some gardeners, not quite so 

 experienced as others, who may unknowingly 

 allow such a condition of atmosphere as may 

 induce the appearance of mildew, but they 

 are in a minority. 



What I would recommend is more ventila- 

 tion, both during day and night. It is by 

 far the best preventive, and every one knows 



that after the mildew has stolen a march 

 upon the choice ground, the best antidote is 

 sulphur syringings and sulphur fumes, or an 

 atmosphere charged with sulphurous acid. 

 Some may say, if we throw open our ventila- 

 tors to the utmost limit we endanger the set 

 of fruit. That is only in cases, we would re- 

 ply, where severe weather sets in, and we 

 have had no weather to destroy Peach blos- 

 som under glass, even supposing the house 

 had been ventilated. There is too great a 

 desire shewn to shut up a house — shut out 

 the ordinary atmosphere, and keep the climate 

 for the trees as an house-wife prepares a 

 climate for mankind. The cases [are totally 

 different. Plants must have ventilation, and 

 plenty of it, too, even supposing they come 

 from a tropical climate; the success lies in 

 selecting the right time for exchanging the 

 air of the artificial climate. 



But it will be seen Peach trees mildew 

 very frequently out-of-doors. And so they 

 do ; but it will be found attributable, on in- 

 quiry or examination, to either an unhealthy 

 state of tree, improperly ripened wood, or 

 the position so surrounded with trees that 

 the wall is practically preserved from not 

 only every wind that blows, but even from 

 the usual movement of the atmosphere. So 

 long as such a state of things continues, there 

 always will be mildew, and the trees will 

 never be healthy, and yield of fruit conse- 

 quently never satisfactory. — lo' 



