198 THE GARDENER. [May 



any cognisance of those pursuits that formerly afforded him so much 

 pleasure. Mr Stains died in the King's Road, Chelsea, in the early 

 days of the month of April. 



The Central Horticultural Society, of which the late Mr Samuel 

 Broome was an active member, is taking steps towards the erection, in 

 Nunhead Cemetery, of a memorial over his grave, in remembrance of 

 the high esteem in which he was held, and by way of perpetuating his 

 memory. 



Our readers, says the ' Canada Farmer,' have heard of the atrocity 

 of girdling some 1500 fruit trees near St Joseph, Michigan, last 

 spring, and how the neighbourhood turned out in a body and ban- 

 daged them up so as to save them. Every one of these trees is living, 

 and the owner has realised an immense crop of fruit from them the 

 past season. This fact is considered quite marvellous by the residents 

 round about. Those wise in such matters explain it by saying that 

 the interception of sap by girdling has caused the production of fruit 

 instead of wood this season, and that the real trial for the life of the 

 trees will come next year. It used to be thought that there was no 

 help for a girdled tree ; but the theory is now exploded. In the 

 above case the damage was remedied by bandaging the trees with 

 strips of cloth dipped in wax. If the girdling was very broad, we 

 apprehend that a portion of these trees have borne fruit for the last 

 time. What is thought a better way of saving girdled trees, has been 

 very successfully practised for some twenty years at Nashua, New 

 Hampshire. The method is to graft five or six scions as large round 

 as a goose-quill, and long enough to reach over the girdled place into 

 the tree. The live bark is first notched above and below the girdle, 

 the sprouts sprung into place, and the ends fastened with wax. These 

 scions grow rapidly, and in time spread over the whole girdled surface. 

 Apple-trees completely girdled, and having the bark taken off over a 

 foot in width on one side, have been saved in the above manner by 

 Mr Town. 



The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have succeeded in 

 making what appears to be a very favourable arrangement for securing 

 a portion of the Chiswick Gardens. We learn from the ' Gardeners' 

 Chronicle ' that the present arrangements are these : — The arboretum 

 is to go ; the Wilderness is to be a wilderness no longer ; the orchard 

 is to be abandoned; of the 30 acres 10 only are to be retained as an 

 experimental garden ; the council-room, large conservatory, and fruit- 

 room, and all the other houses, will be retained. Though the old 

 orchard is to be abandoned, young trees have been secured on dwarf 

 stocks, so that space will thus be gained without much loss. A lease 

 of the 10 acres will be granted for fifty years, at a rental of about 



