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IRISH GARDENING 



" Hawlmakk " Entkkprise. — lu the Northern 

 Whig of January 1st appeared a fine illustration 

 of Messrs A. Dickson tS: Sons' handsome new 

 premises in Belfast. Of inxposing appearance 

 and admirably equipped for business, this noble 

 building is fiublcmatic of the firm's onterprist? 

 and success. Headers of Irish Oakdexixc! need 

 no introduction to our friends, who first set up 

 business as lon^ ago as ISBli, and have steadily 

 built up a world-wide connection. Priniarily 

 identified with Kosps, of which they have raised 

 Inmdreds of celebrated varieties, their activities 

 are manifold, and embrace seed growing bulb 

 growing and floral decoration. As growers, 

 raisers, and exhil)itors of Sweet Peas they 

 have reached front rank, and in the present 

 urgently important lines of farm and vegetable 

 seeds they are the vendors of numerous notable 

 strains. Their new catalogues are now in the 

 hanf^ls of their customers, and with the increased 

 facilities resulting from the possession of new and 

 improved premises we have no doubt they will 

 !)(' rewarded by an increased volume of business. 



Sweet Pea Annual 1917, 



This annual, issued by the National Sweet Pea 

 Society, free to all members of the society, is now 

 ready "and is full of most interesting matter for 

 all growers of the •' Queen of Annuals." It is 

 profusely illustrated, one of the most striking of 

 the illustrt.tions being a photograph of a trench 

 taken out for Sweet Peas in the garden of Mr. 

 Cerard Black's at Clareville. 



Mr. Black knows how it should be done and 

 does it. how few do. this picture is an object 

 lesson to all Sweet Pea growers, go and do likewise. 

 Some of the most interesting articles are.—" Xew 

 Earlv- flowering Long Season Sweet Peas," and 

 " Winter- flowering Spencers," showing how 

 blooms can be had for ten months out of the 

 twelve. Sweet Peas in Nova Scotia, in Devon, 

 at the Front, are well described ; " Impressions " 

 by Thomas Stevenson and " Random Notes " by 

 (•". H. Burt are full of information, and " What 

 Scotsmen have done for Sweet Peas" are short 

 notes of the achievements of sonie of the great 

 leaders, in the marvellous improvements that have 

 been acconxplished in the beauty, form and 



Winter Spraying of Fruit Trees. 



rpHE following extracts are from the " Spraying 

 Calendar,"' given by Professor Pickering, M.A., 

 F.R.S.. Director of the Wobnrn Exjicrimental Fruit Farm. 

 and V. V. Theobald, M.A., Vice-Principal, South Eastern 

 Agricultural College, Wj'c, Kent, in their very useful hand- 

 hook. " Fruit Trees and their Enemies." (Copies of this 

 book can he had post free for Is. 9d. each.) 



"' Apart from the consideration of the direct action of a 

 winter wasli in destroying various pests which are probably 

 present, moss, lichen and dead bark must always accumu- 

 late, and the freer trees are kept from these the healthier 

 they will be, and the less will be the opportunities afforded 

 for insects to flourish on them." 



'" From .Januaiy to March. — Spray tree with a caustic 

 ])araf!in PTUiilsion for cleansing them of dead bark, and 

 destroying moss, lichen, mussel scale, small apple, ermin 

 moth, gooseberry and currant scale, gooseberry .spider, 

 currant shoot and fruit moth, pear leaf lilister mite, and 

 possibly other insects." 



Winter s])raying is now resort'.-d to by practically every 

 up-to-date fruit grower. The formula m.ost reccmmended 

 foi Winter Spraying Emulsion is as follows : — Soft soap 

 J lb. ; paraffin (solar distillate), 5 pints ; caustic .soda, 2 to 

 2i ll)s. ; water, 9i gallons. The necessary articles for this 

 and all other Spraying and Fumigating Mixtures can be 

 had, with directions for misins, from D. M. Wataon, 

 M.P.S., Itorticultiiral Chemi?t, 61 South Great George's 

 Street. Dublin. "Phone. 1971. 



fragrance of the most popular of all the annuals, 

 since Mr. Henry Eckford (himself a Lothian) 

 undertook the great work of his life, the ennobling 

 of the Sweet Pea. The National Sweet Pea 

 Society's Secretary, ^Ir. II. D. Tigwell. Greenfoid, 

 Middlesex, will welcome as members all who take 

 an interest in Sweet Peas, the subscription being 

 only five shillings. 



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