IRISH GARDENING. 



Correspondence — continued. 



Fklit Prospects. 



Sir, — Seeing your notes on fruit prospects in 1908 

 I trust that by August or September we shall have 

 a report of the strawberry crop of 1908. We would like 

 to hear about the different districts in Ireland and about 

 quantities of fruit sent from different districts, and 

 names and varieties of strawberries principally in use. 



Before proceeding to stiawberries, however, I should 

 like to make a short note on your remarks about the 

 saw-fly, which for several seasons had made ravages 

 amongst my gooseberry bushes ; but I have nearly de- 

 stroyed these b}' means of vaporite in early Ma)-, thickly 

 scattered round the boles of the bushes — firstly removing 

 all the old soil, and then adding fresh soil on the top of 

 the vaporite. 



Strawberries. — Three wet years in succession have 

 to a certain extent damped my enthusiasm for stra\\- 

 berries, but this season has been simply perfect for this 

 fruit here, starting from 17th June, finished oft' crop, ylh 

 July, with hardly more than two hours rain at any time, 

 and no rain to damage fruit. Unluckily, owing to the 

 fact that I have to use so much land and lime on violet 

 growing, I have not much space to spaie on strawberries, 

 and this season found me with more than one-third of 

 my land planted with six-year old plants of Royal 

 Sovereign. In an ordinary spring this would not have so 

 much mattered, but with a very cold April, and plants in 

 an exposed position, these gave a very insufficient 

 quantity of blossom, and consequently fruit. Oi nine 

 himdred runners put out in August during my absence 

 from home, a nuiseryman sent me a quantity of runners 



Summer Bloom. 



DURING the hot, dry spell of the latter half of June 

 there was little growth, and about Dublin roses 

 were poor both in colour and size. The heavy 

 rains which followed changed all this, and growth came 

 on rapidly on ever)thing out of doors. 



Good things are always to be seen at Messrs. 

 Watson's Nurseries, Clonlarf, in the blooming season. 

 Their Delphiniums were very fine this year, and 

 they have a large collection of Pyrethrums. A plot 

 of "Liberty" Roses (grown for cutting to supply the 

 firm's floral branch in Nassau Stieet) promised well 

 a lortnight ago, and the fine collection of Roses in 

 general showed good growth. P'ruit Trees are largely 

 culti\ated, also Shrubs and Ornamental Trees, and, 

 having got through the rush of business occasioned by 

 the summer bedding season, careful attention is being 

 bestowed on the training and cultivating of all sorts of 

 hard-wooded stuff by a skilled staff'. 



Border Carnations, a leading speciality of Messrs. 

 Watson, for which they have won prizes everywhere, 

 are now coming into flower, and fanciers find it a great 

 advantage to see varieties in bloom so near the city, 

 enabling them to choose kinds for delivery at the 

 proper season for planting. The same applies to Roses 

 and ;dl classes of nursery stock. 



The Nurseries are only some fifteen minutes' tram 

 drive from Nelson's Pillar by Howth or Dollymount 

 cars, which run to and fro every few minutes. 



RATS IN GARDENS 



Rat;, 

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FOR RATS. 



d Mice do an L-iioriiious aniOLint iii' damage in Gan 



1 u^ed with conspicuous success in banishing these 



and may therefore be safely used where 



Island o>- Hkrm, April 7th, 1907. 

 " I am pleased to tell you tliat the Virus has proved most effective, 

 and dead rats have been found at the further extremity of the island 

 some three quarters of a mie away. 1 keep large quaniities ot 

 old English game fowl, pheasants, emus and kangaroos in the coverts, 

 so cannot use the ordi: arv poison. I,EICESTER GOW." 



PRICES. 

 '•Liverpool" ^'irusfor Rats 2/6 \ per tube, 



Large 'lubes, conta.ining 6 times amount |_ post free, 



of Virus ... ... ... 8/= j for cash with 



"Liverpool" Virus for Mice ... 1/6 j order. 



The Rat Virus also affects mice. Full directions are supplied 



with each tube. 



N.B.— If Rats are numerous the LARGE tube should he employed. 



lens, (.'.recnhouses, Vineries, i^c. "Liverpool" Virus 



troublesome pests. The Virus is absolutely non-poisonous, 

 there are Dogs. Cats, Fowl, Game, &c. 



FOR MICE. 



I Ik- Steward of a Nobleman writes : " T'he last tube I got for 

 the Mice cleared the places of them completely." 



Fresh Supplies can always be had in Ireland from 



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Phai-niaccufical C licmist, 



61 South Gt. George's Street. DUBLIN. 



GarefulK' Xote Address. 



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