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of local units, had been regaled with tea and 

 toothsome dainties al fresco, and a brief expression 

 of thanks to the kind host and hostess terminated 

 a particularly pleasant and instructive outing to 

 " Pennicks." K., Dublin. 



Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. 



The monthly meeting of the Council was held at 

 the Society's offices, 5 Molesworth Street, Dublin, 

 on the 13th nit. Present — Lady Albreda 

 Bourke, J. Wylie-Henderson, J. J. McDonough, 

 (J. Watson, E. H. Walpole, W. F. Gunn, Canon 

 Hayes, M.A. ; Captain Riall, D.L. ; D. L. Ramsay, 

 J. P., with Alderman Bewley presiding. The 

 revised Spring Show schedule for 1914 was sub- 

 mitted, and, with the addition of a class for 

 Malmaison Carnations, approved and passed. 

 A unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to 

 Mrs. Geo. Mitchell, Ardlui, Blackrock, for the 

 presentation of a challenge cup for the Spring 

 Show class for twenty-four vases of hardy 

 flowers. The following were elected members of 

 the Society, viz.: — Captain Shuldham, Oona- 

 varra, Gorey, Wexford ; Miss E. D. Colvill, 

 Holywell Cottage, Howth; Dr. McDougall, 

 Drnmleck, Howth; and Mr. John Good, The 

 .Moorings, Merrion Road, Dublin. A cultural 

 certificate was awarded to Judge Bird, Church- 

 town House, Dundrum, for a line flowering 

 specimen of Saxifraga longifolia ; the thanks of 

 the Council being accorded to S. A. Jones, 

 F.R.H.S., Forest Lodge Nurseries, (iowran, Co. 

 Kilkenny, for a collection of Pansies, and to 

 Captain Riall, for Crinodendron Hookeri and 

 Calceolaria violacea. 



Movable Hothouses. 



Any means by which glass-house work can be 

 rendered more readily available for crops for 

 market-garden purposes is likely to prove of 

 great interest and value. One of the Board's 

 inspectors has recently visited Worthing to see 

 the movable hot-houses introduced by Mr. Pullen- 

 Burry. A movable hot-house is no new thing, 

 but one type introduced some years ago has not 

 been a success chiefly owing to the difficulty of 

 moving it, and to the fact that the weight of the 

 roof caused the sides to give. Both these points 

 have been overcome in Mr. Pnllen-Burry's inven- 

 tion, the weight being taken by what may be 

 called the "chassis," which is low down and 

 strongly built, while owing to the gearing arrange- 

 ment, the whole affair can be easily moved with 

 one hand. The wheels, which run on cement 

 tracks, are plain, the cogs which drive them being 

 at the side and meshing with a cog-wheel on the 

 shaft which inns through the house. An earlier 

 pattern house, which Mr. Pullen-Burry still has 

 in use, is a comparative failure owing to the 

 torque or twisting in the shaft, which caused one 

 end of the house to move before the other end 

 started, but this has been overcome in the new 

 houses, and the two ends move together. The 

 houses appear to be correctly built, and do not 

 seem likely to give or collapse even after years of 

 use, while the mechanism is simple and would not 

 get out of order. The present house only allows 

 of plants up to about eighteen inches in height 

 being grown, but houses can be built on tin- 

 chassis to any reasonable height to allow them to 

 pass over trees and shrubs, which could be nailed 



87 per cent, of sound fruit out 

 of your orchard. 



HOW does that appeal to you ? It is the result of 

 spraying an orchard with Berger's Arsenate of 

 Lead mixed with Berger's Lime-Sulphur— the 

 two together destroy all insect pests and all fungus 

 diseases without harming trees, fruit or foliage. The 

 Arsenate of Lead must be "neutral" or it will burn 

 the foliage, and the Lime-Sulphur must be "standard 

 strength "—so to ensure safety, say "Berger's" when you 

 buy Insecticides or Fungicides. 



Ask for free handbook on spraying— and spray nettf With the "neutral" 



mixed with Berger's Lime-Sulphur 

 D. M. WATSON, 



61, South Great George's Street, DUBLIN. 



