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courses in farm institutes, might very well he 

 considered as of importance to the whole 

 country. 



6. Trcat)iient of Plant Pests and Diseases. — 

 Here, again, there seems to be a field of work 

 which is waiting for numbers of workers to 

 tackle. To mention a few only on which cul- 

 tivators desire to get really efficient remedies 

 and cures, I might cite: — - 



(a) Silver Leaf in Plums, Cherries, &c. 



(b) Canker in Apples, Pears, and Plums 



(c) Mite or Big Bud in Black Currants. 



(d) American Gooseberry Mildew on 



Gooseberries. 



Notes from Rostrevor. 



A NOTK on a few j)Iants that have liowered at 

 Rostrevor this year may, perhaps, be of in- 

 terest to some of the readers of Irish Gardkx- 



IXG. 



Dryandra formosa is a little known shrub 

 from Australia, belonging to the Protaceie 

 order. It is an evergreen with a remarkably 

 beautiful foliage, bright green above, whitiQ 

 beneath ; the leaves are linear, of hard sub- 

 stance and waving, some six inches and more 

 long, narrow, hardly a third of an inch across, 

 and they are cut down to the midrib into 

 regular sharp-]iointed lobes, like a large toothed 



Tm'J.()j:i;sci;n(K ^n■' Dkyaxdha loioiosv 

 From a plant at Rostrevor. 



(c) Eel Worm in Daffodils, Onions, and 



other crops. 

 (/) Black Scab or Wart Disease of Potatoes. 

 (g) Various Fly Larvae or Maggot Attacks. 



7. The Development of an Export Trade. — 

 There are many plants whieli can be grown as 

 well if not better in Ireland than in other coun- 

 tries. One wonders to what extent advantage 

 is taken of this fact to build up an export trade 

 in those Horticidtural products. 



8. Conclusion. — I trust that I have written 

 sufficient to arouse a discussion and to indicate 

 the need for a Chamber of Horticulture, or some 

 other definitely Horticultural organisation to do 

 some steady work and development. 



The Agriculturists have their problems also; 

 but it is hardly likely that many of them will 

 appreciate, as Horticulturists can, the need for 

 a big scheme of Horticultural reconstruction. 



saw. The liowers, each some two inches wide, 

 appear at the ends of the shoots ; they are 

 formed of numerous florets which, before 

 they exjiand, are brown in colour, and then 

 become yellow as they open and detach them- 

 selves from the undeveloped i)art of the bloom. 

 It has a strange and uncommon appearance at 

 all times of the year, and it is needless to say- 

 that it is very half-hardy, and is, I think, 

 seldom grown in this country. The plant here 

 was put out in the spring of 191(), in a suiuiy 

 position in an angle between a wall and a 

 greenhouse, facing south, and it is in this way 

 com])letely sheltered from the north. It for- 

 tunately escaped injury dm-ing the severe 

 winter 'of 1910-17, wi'tluiut further protection; 

 but since then we have usually put a sort of 

 curtain round it at certain times during the 

 early spring to ward off the effects of the east 

 winds. It flowered for the first time this year, 



