December 11, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



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Dendrobium Sanderae 



The discovery of a new orchid of showy character is 

 rather a rare occurrence nowadays. When this new 

 Dendrobe was exhibited in London at the Eoyal Hort. 

 Society, August 3rd, 1909, it gained a first class certifi- 

 cate. It is a beautiful orchid. The flowers are three 



inches wide, sepals and petals of the purest, glistening 

 white, the lip white, lined with dark purple in the throat. 

 The plant comes from New Guinea and its nearest ally 

 is Dendrobium Dearei, which it resembles in general 

 habit. It will require a moist, tropical house. 



British Horticulture 



A SPEAYINO AND FUMIGATINO DEMONSTRATION 



An interesting demonstration of spraying appliances 

 recently took place at Waltham Cross, a big market 

 growing district. A machine known as the Carlton 

 sprayer was exhibited. Another invention shown was 

 the cucumber spot fumigant, introduced for the benefit 

 of many southern growers who annually suffer through 

 the rav.igos of this insidious pest. By the use of the 

 lamii a dense volume of smoke was emitted, which is 

 Btate<l to be effective in eradicating the spot disease. 

 Another seviceable apparatus was the new safety cya- 

 nide packages. These consist of tins, with sides of 

 a certain gauge zinc, filled with cyanide of soda. 

 After the bowls are filled with sulphuric acid and 

 water, the packages are dropped one in each bowl. 

 Owing to the fact that the acid necessarily takes 

 some three minutes to eat through the zinc sides, the 

 operator i? enabled to walk through the house to be 

 fumigated, placing the packages as he proceeds. The 

 idea is e\'tremcly ingenious, and abolishes the old- 

 fashioned method of using a long string and wrapping 

 the cyanide up in brown paper. The growers present 

 wore particularly impressed with the safety of this 

 method, which appears to minimize the risk of using 

 the cyanide to the lowest possible limit. . 



ITEMS OF INTEREST 



A leading grower of chrysanthemums for market in 

 Middlesex is using out doors a special lamp as a pre- 

 ventive against the havoc caused by frost. — The 



British Columbian Government is making a meritorious 

 display of apples gTown in that province at some of 

 the leading shows in this country. A bioscope series 

 of fruit ranches is also a popular "side show." — Mr. J. 

 Cheal, a well known Sussex nurseryman who has ex- 

 tensively travelled in America and Canada, this week 

 gave =ome of his reminiscences at a meeting of the 

 llortirullural Club in London. — An attractive show is 

 being arranged for Dec. 8th, by the Perpetual Flower- 

 ing Carnation Society. — There is a movement on foot 

 to'amolgamate the Eoyal Botanic Soc. and the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society, the former society haven fallen 

 on "evil days." — A new apple, "EenowTi," raised by 

 Mr. Charles Eoss, of Newbury, is now being offered to 

 the trade. It was obtained as a, cross from Beasgood's 

 Nonsuch and Cox's Orange Pippin. An award has been 

 obtained from the Eoyal Horticultural Society. — Ee- 

 cent practical trials of Nitro-Bactcrine treatment of soil 

 h;ive been very encouraging, peas showing increased 

 yield of 37 per cent and beans 28 per cent. — The philan- 

 thropic efforts of the Vacant Land Cultivation Society 

 and similar organizations have met with gratifying suc- 

 cess t1:e past season. Many scraps of vacant and waste 

 land have been brought under cultivation and several 

 hundred unemployed men have been able to partly sup- 

 port themselves from the sale of crops. 



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