IRISH GARDENING. 



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National Rose 

 oil the lytli of 



his or her power to bring- for generiitions to 

 come some added pleasure and comfort into 

 the daily lives of perhaps thousands of our 

 fellow-countrymen ? As Keats has sung — 



" A thing- of beauty is a joy for ever, 

 Such the sun, the moon. 

 Trees, old and young-, spi-outing, a shady boon." 



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It is particularly requested that all those who contem- 

 plate even the most modest Arbor Day planting will put 

 themselves in communication with the Secretary of 

 the Irish Fc>restry Society, 

 12 Collegfe Green, Dublin. 



A GENEROUS offer has been 

 made by Mr. Alex. Dickson, 

 who offers to give, free of 

 cost, 6,000 young trees to 

 be planted by school child- 

 ren on Arbor Day. Applica- 

 tion for these trees shc>uld 

 be made direct to Mr. Dick- 

 son, at 50 Essex Street, Dub- 

 lin ; or Nurseries, Dundrum. 



At the 

 Show held 



last month in London, Ire- 

 land took premier position 

 with regard to honours, and 

 this in a competition in 

 which "the quality of the 

 collection was the chief sub- 

 ject of astonishment, con- 

 sidering the lecent unfavour- 

 able weather." Messrs. S. 

 M'Gredy & Sons, of Porta- 

 down, were awarded two 

 gold medals for the best new 

 seedling roses — one for 

 "Lady Alice Stanley" (sil- 

 ver pink), and another for 

 "His Majesty" (rich crim- 

 son). Similar honours were 

 bestowed upon two other 

 new roses exhibited by 

 Messrs. Alex. Dickson & 

 Sons. Ltd., of Nevvtownards, 

 one "Dr. O'Donel Browne" 

 (bright crimson hybrid), and 

 the other "A Grey Hill" 

 (lemon-coloured). Mr. Hug-h 

 Dickson, of Belmont, and 

 Messrs. Alex. Dickson & 

 Sons secured two out of 

 the three silver medals 

 that were awarded for the 

 best blooms in the show. 



In the Garden of Banchory House, Helen's 

 Bay, Co. Down. 



Behind the brilliant rose (Suzanue Marie Rodocauachi) stands 

 Miss Barbara, ihe little daughter of W. H Calvert. Esq. 



of 1908. The disease appears to be spreading in Eng- 

 land, as cases have been reported from Cheshire, 

 Derbyshire, Dumfries, Lancaster, Leicester, Merioneth, 

 Salop, Stafford, Warwick, and Worcestershire. As the 

 disease is not yet reported as having appeared in 

 Ireland, potato-growers are again warned to examine 

 their stock, and particularly any " seed " imported from 

 Great Britain, The disease is described and illustrated 

 on page 120 of our issue of last Augfust. To keep our 

 potato crop free from this most destructive fungal pest 

 is obviously a matter of considerable importance to the 

 country. 



Rose Canker. — A specimen of canker said to be 

 common on roses in Ireland 

 was exhibited by Mr. H. T. 

 Giissow at a recent meeting 

 of the Scientific Committee 

 of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society of England. The 

 canker starts as reddish 

 spots on the shoots, which 

 soon die, and as they dry 

 contract and form cracks. 

 The margins of the wounds 

 rapidly callus ; but as this 

 tissue frequently gets dam- 

 aged with frost, &c., large 

 cankerous growths are pro- 

 duced, Mr. Giissow attri- 

 buted the beginning of the 

 trouble to the fungus Coni- 

 othyrium Fuckeli, being the 

 conidial form oi a Lepto- 

 sphKria. 



f: F F E c T OF Severely 

 Pruning Laburnum. — At 

 the meeting of the Scientific 

 Committee of the Royal Hor 

 licultural Society of Eng- 

 land on September ist, Mr. 

 George Gordon staled that 

 he had at the present time 

 in his garden at Kew, a la- 

 burnum in full flower. The 

 tree had been in its present 

 position for fifteen or sixteen 

 }ears, and, getting too big, 

 he had all its branches cut 

 back to within tliree or four 

 inches of the main stem, The 

 tree threw out shoots from 

 the cut stumps, and about 

 two-thirds of these produced 

 terminal racemes of flowers 

 which were much larger than 

 the normal. 



American Gooseberry-Mildewon Currant Bushes. 

 — Mr. E. S. Salmon, in a communication to the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, states that he has this season found the 

 American gooseberry-mildew on both the red and black 

 currants in England. He states that in the case of the 

 red currant he has discovered the characteristic bro-wn, 

 felted mycelial patches, being the perithecia (that 

 contain the winter-resting spores), on the under surfaces 

 of the leaves. (In the gooseberry they have only been 

 found on the stems and fruit — never on the leaves.) The 

 affected specimens of black currant were found in Kent. 



Black-scab (Wart Disease) of Potatoes, — The 

 English Board of Agriculture has scheduled this 

 disease under the Destructive Insects and Pesls Order 



The Royal Horticultural 

 Society of England, in union 

 with the Fruit Growers" Association, will hold a con- 

 ference on the spraying of fruit trees on the second 

 day (October 16th) of its annual exhibition of British- 

 grown fruit in London. An interesting discussion is 

 expected. 



When the leaves are falling, hear the moorland calling, 

 Deep it lies in purple, a mantle for a queen. 

 And it's Oh ! the heather, and the clear grey weather. 

 And the brown that's dearer than the green. 



When the leaves are falling, hear the moorland calling, 

 And the heart gives answer — Aye, the green is dear. 

 But it's Oh ! the heather, and the clear grey weather. 

 And the red and brown and gold that crown the year. 



