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Aeril 18. 1905 



ber that the primula being very fastidious in its tastes, 

 it is the cultivator who pays the most attention to de- 

 tails who will ultimately secure the greatest success. 



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WIXTEE FLOWEKIXG CABXATIOX SHOW 



There was a varied and interesting display at the 

 spring show of the Winter Flowering Carnation So- 

 ciety at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London, on April 

 1st. The Guernsey growers were again well to the fore 

 in the prize list. H. Burnett had a meritorious collec- 

 tion, very effectively arranged to which a gold medal 

 was awarded. An award of merit was granted to Mr. 

 Burnett for Mikado and a fiist-class c-ertificate for Mar- 

 mion. W. H. Lancashire, another Guernsey grower, 

 took the ttrst prize for 18 blooms of a variety not in 

 commerc-e with Ivanhoe, a variety of a deep rose tint. 

 There was only a small entrj- in the class for varieties 

 new to commerce. The judges expressed a wish to see 

 Burrswood Scarlet again in the winter. In the class 

 for white blooms White Perfection carried off the pre- 

 mier prize. Enchantress was the wiimer in the blush 

 section, and Fiancee was the winning pink. Har- 

 lowarden was able to beat its rival in the crimson 

 secrion, whilst Eobert Craig was the best scarlet. 

 Jessica took the chief award in the fancy secrion. At 

 the annual meeting a satisfactory report of the Society's 

 progress was presented by Hayward Matthias, the Hon. 

 Secretary, through whose zeal and energy the Society 

 was brought into existence. 



THE SUM5IZK SHOW 



The National Carnation and Picotee Society, which 

 is responsible for the summer show, has issued its an- 

 nual report and schedule. Several new classes have 

 been added for dressed and tmdressed flowers. The 

 object of the four new classes for dressed flowers 'is to 

 encourage the c-ultivarion of bizarres, and white-ground 

 picotees, which to some extent have been neglected of 

 late. Additions have been made to the open section 

 with a view to attracting the trade. A valuable chal- 

 lenge cnp has been offered by E. C. Cartwright, a mem- 

 ber of the committee. A class has been added for 

 seedlings, to be shown in a vase. It is stipulated that 

 the blooms must be from plants that have bloomed at 

 least the second year. The committee explain: "It 

 often happens that seedlings blooming for the first time 

 give flowers of much excellence and great promise, but 

 afterwards deteriorate to such a degree that render them 

 worthless for exhibition and misleading to the public." 



' X XEW CHKRKT DISEASE 



E. S.' Salmon,' mycologist to the South-eastern Agri- 

 cultural CoU^e, at Wye, has published some details of 

 a fungous disease affecting cherries which made its ap- 

 pearance last stunmer in Kent. The disease causes the 

 leaves of the cherry to curl, and at this period they 

 become pinMsh-red in color. A delicate whitish bloom 

 is visible, spreading over the greater part of the under- 

 surface of the leaf. Then the affected leaves turn 

 brown, and quickly blacken and rot off. The name of 

 the fungus causing the disease, Mr. Salmon states, is 

 Exoascus minor Sadebeck. It is closely allied to E. 

 deformans Fckl., which causes the leaf curl or blister of 

 the peach, and also to E. Cerasi. It does not appear 



that this disease has been recorded hitherto as occurring 

 in this country. Possibly it has been confused with the 

 "Witches Broom"'" disease caused by E. Cerasi, since in 

 both cases the leaves on the affected shoots ttirn a pink- 

 ish red color. The cherry tiee when attacked exhibits 

 a curious malformation among the branches, so t'nat at 

 a distance it looks somewhat as though a bunch of mis- 

 tletoe were growing there. The suggested remedy is as 

 follows: "The disease can be cured by pruning As 

 the spawn of the fungus is perennial, living on from 

 year to year, in the buds and young wood, it is abso- 

 lutely necessary to cut off each affected branch well 

 below the last diseased leaf. The spawn does not ex- 

 tend backwards, or downwards into the lower main 

 branches or the stem, consequently the pruning will 

 completely remove the disease. It is well, however, to 

 spray during the first season with Bordeaux mixture 

 (using i lbs. copper sulphate, 4 lbs. quicklime, 50 gal- 

 lons water) at the time when the leaves are just 

 expanded. 



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Bark Effect and Pussy Willows 



I am delighted to learn that Mr. Eehder is to give us 

 tiirough HoETiccLTCRE notes from that greatest of all 

 -Vmeriean horticultural repositories, the Arnold Arbor- 

 etum. I have been advocating for a number of years 

 the planting of shrubs and trees with colored bark in 

 groups so as to be effective. To the list given by Mr. 

 Eehder in your issue of April 4 for bark effect add 

 Salix Jeaime d'"Arc — intermediate between Viminalis 

 and Britzensis — and S. violacea purpurea. To get the 

 very best bark effects all the saUxes should be pollarded 

 so as to produce long whip-like shoots. About six or 

 eight of these wiiips are a delight and that's about as 

 many as ought to be left on a stump. Thin 'em out the 

 same as you do raspberry shoots. 



In a group of shrubbery a day or two since I was 

 impressed with the effect that the common buckthorn 

 (Ehamnns cathartica) with its coal-black bark made 

 between the red Comus stolonifera and the golden wil- 

 low, Yiminalis. 



In Jackson Park there are some points where the 

 common matrimony vine has been permitted to run 

 riot — and it certaiidy has rioted — mostly on comers, 

 and today with its opaque cream-colored withes from 4 

 to 6 feet long it is beautiful — thafs all. Eemember 

 this old matrimony vine all of you, and use it for banks, 

 for hanging over walls or anywhere it can hang over. 



I have never seen finer pussy-cat willows than there 

 are in the neighborhood of Chicago. Every ditch in the 

 prairies, where it is as wide as an ordinary bathtub, is 

 furnished with them. I particularly wish to draw your 

 attention to Salix dasystyla, a Japanese species. It has 

 the largest, most brilliantly-colored catkins of all of the 

 wiUows. Xow, of course, you wiU not keep this a 

 secret but I want to tell you, anyhow, that just as soon 

 as this Jap. pussy-cat willow gets known it will be 

 grown in pots by the thousand for Easter. Willows 

 can be grown in pots as easily as chrysanthemums. 



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