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rid of ;" bnt how, is another story. Wo have not a house on tho 

 place that is anything like smoke-tight, so with ns fumigating 

 is almost out of tho question. Syringing with tobacco water 

 or quassia mixture is impracticable with trees in full bloora. 

 Brushing off the aphides with camel-hair brushes dipped in 

 tobacco water has been carefully resorted to by the young ladies 

 with the most praiseworthy perseverance, but as fast as the 

 trees are cleaned they become covered again, and as a last 

 resort I write to you for advice, as we are at our wits' end. 

 Our Apricot trees, which are arranged amongst the infected 

 Peach trees, are all right, being well sprinkled with fruit ; the 

 Cherry and Tear trees are also looking well. The green fly 

 has attacked some of the Plums, and something not unlike 

 mildew has appeared on the Apples. Now, we want to know 

 whether it is possible in our case to ward off the attacks of 

 green fly by previous management, without being obliged to 

 have recourse to much fumigating and such like doctoring 

 whilst the trees are in bloom ? because if orchard-house trees 

 are so very liable to be so terribly injured, and the means of 

 prevention so difficult, our hopes of success will be as much 

 impaired as the health of the trees by the blight. — Dilemma. 



[We have known cases quite as bad followed by great success. 

 There is nothing in the house to prevent your being quite 

 successful. One thing you seem to have omitted, and that is 

 washing the trees in autumn and winter ; this should always 

 be done in the way of preventive. Most likely if with a brush 

 you had washed the trees with warm soap water, or syringed 

 them well, and then painted them with weak Gishurst, or even 

 with a paint of sulphur, clay, lime, and soot, so thin as to work 

 freely, you would not have been so troubled, though you might 

 have had some green fly. This season we drew merely a little 

 limewash over our trees, and wo have not noticed insects as 

 yet on more than half a dozen shoots, hut we have had them 

 years ago in abundance. With the trees in bloom, and the 

 insects so clustering round the bloom, you can do little good 

 with washing or brushing. 



The openness of the house is not favourable for fumigating, 

 but not so much so as to prevent that proceeding being success- 

 ful if you cover the roof with cloth or mats, and keep them 

 wet. We have smoked such open-glazed houses with the aid 

 of the garden engine alone, playing on the roof all the time, 

 and the water thus filling the spaces of the laps. If for want of 

 cloths you could laj- hands on some rough hay or straw in a 

 mild day to cover the roof, and use the water engine freely, 

 you will find the smoking very effectual, but you must not give 

 it too strong. The roof should be slightly shaded for a few 

 days, and then the smoking should be repeated, and after that 

 we should hope that syringing would keep all right. After the 

 second smoking you had better shade a little for a few days. 



The simplest mode for temporarily shading would be to scrape 

 down the size of a walnut of fine whitening into three or four 

 gallons oi water, and then with a syringe throw it nicely over 

 the roof; the first shower will wash it all off, and then shading 

 will not be needed. Of course it will not be needed iu dull 

 weather; but in such weather as preceded the Ith of .\pril it 

 would be wanted, otherwise the blossoms would suffer. We 

 say again, " Never give up," you will yet succeed to your own 

 satisfaction. See "Doings of the Week."] 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



With the view of assisting the Eddcatios of Yodxg Gar- 

 DEKEKS, the Council of the Koyal Hoeticultuual Society 

 have made arrangements through the Department of Science 

 and Art for the formation of a Drawing Class at Chiswick. 

 Until the class becomes too large for the room available, the 

 lessons will be given in the Harden of the Society on the 

 Wednesday evening of each week, excepting in August and 

 September, between the hours of seven and nine o'clock. 

 Arrangements have also been made for giving a course of 

 twenty lessons in Surveying, on evenings, of which due notice 

 will hereafter be given. 



The fees for the Chiswick students will be paid by the So- 

 ciety, and also the cost of all models and examples for instruc- 

 tion, but the students will have to provide their own drawiug 

 materials. A limited number of other young gardeners, well 

 recommended by their employers, will be admitted to these 

 classes on a payment of a fee of 5i. per subject for a session of 

 twenty lessons ; they will also have to provide their own draw- 

 ing materials. 



The subjects of instruction will be— Free-hand Drawing, 



Model Drawing and Sketching from objects, Geometrical 

 Drawing, and Elementary Design as applicable to Landscape 

 Gardening ; Land-measuring, including levelling. 



The Drawing class will commence its work on Wednesday, 

 April 8th ; the Surveying class in May. All applications for 

 admission to the classes are to be made to Mr. .lames Kichards, 

 the Assistant Secretary of tho Society. 



We are authorised to announce that the Council of the 



Koyal Horticultural Society have decided on offering for sale 

 by auction the splendid collection of twelve varieties of new 

 iivmiiD CoLEVs, raised in the Society's garden at Chiswick, 

 and that the sale will take place at the rooma of Mr. J. C. 

 Stevens, King Street, Covent Garden, on Wednesday, the 'i'2nd 

 inst. We cannot commend too highly this step, which will 

 permit these beautiful plants to be at once put in trade, and 

 will enable the public generally to participate in the possession 

 and enjoyment of a set of the finest decorative plants which 

 have been introduced of late years. 



On Thursday last, the 2nd of April, Her Majesty, ac- 

 companied by Princess Christian and Prince Leopold, visited 

 Mr. William Paul's Smi.sa Snow at the Royal Horticultural 

 Gardens ; and on inspecting the flowers. Her Majesty was 

 graciously pleased to express her gratification, and requested 

 to be furnished with copies of Mr. Paul's works on horticul- 

 ture, which were at once supplied. 



Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and 



the Princess Mary of Teck honoured Messrs. Veitch & Sons by 

 visiting the Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, on the 1st inst., 

 and spent considerable time in inspecting the plants, &c. 



We are glad to see in our advertising columns that the 



inquiry of " L. M. N." has aroused attention to the query, 

 " Where are Flowei; Pots to be had ?" Knowing that so much 

 importance attaches to the quality of the pottery used, Mr. 

 Collier has for some years been unsparing of expense and 

 labour, both in the selection of suitable material for and in 

 manufacturing garden pottery. 



The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Dinner of the Gar- 

 deners' Royal Benevolent Institution has been fixed for 

 the ■24th of June, and M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P., will preside 

 upon the occasion. 



On the 28th of March, at Brighton, in the eighty-eighth 



year of his life, died Edward Jesse. Gardeners and 

 naturalists are the children of age, and truly marked as those 

 " long walking hand-in-hand with time." He had retired from 

 public life about five years since, but retained his characteristic 

 blithe and candid spirit to the last. The following biographical 

 notice is extracted from " Men of the Time." 



" Edward Jesse, son of the late Rev. William .Jesse, Vicar of 

 Hutton Cranswick, Yorkshire, and subsequently of Bewdlcy, 

 Worcestershire, was born at the former place in January, 1780. 

 He was educated privately, and at eighteen years of age entered 

 the public service as a clerk in the St. Domingo ofiice. He 

 next became private secretary to Lord Dartmouth, while 

 President of the Board of Control, and when that nobleman 

 became Lord Steward of the Household, he obtained for Mr. 

 Jesse the court office of Gentleman of the Ewry. Mr. Jesse 

 subsequently became Controller of the copper coinage issued by 

 Messsrs. Boulton & Watt at Birmingham. About the year 

 1812 he was appointed a Commissioner of Hackney Coaches, 

 and soon afterwards Deputy Surveyor General of the Royal 

 Parks and Palaces. This post he held, together with his office 

 at Court, until 1830, when both offices were abolished, and he 

 retired on a pension. Mr. Jesse is the author of ' Favourite 

 Haunts and Rural Studies,' ' Gleanings in Natural History,' 

 ' Anecdotes of Dogs,' and editions with notes of ' Izaak 

 Walton's Angler,' and of ' White's Selborne,' published in 

 one of Mr. Bohn's series in 1819 ; an edition, much enlarged, 

 of Ritchie's ' Windsor Castle,' ' Lectures on Natural History,' 

 itc. His eldest daughter, Mrs. Houstoun, is the author of 

 ' Hesperos, or Travels in the West,' a work most favourably 

 noticed by Lockhart ; ' Texas and the Gulf of Mexico ;' and 

 also of some novels, including ' Recommended to Mercy,' 

 ' Such Things Are,' " itc. 



Mr. Jesse's son, John Heneage Jesse, is favourably known 

 as the author of several historical and biographical woiks. 



WORK FOR THE WEEK. 



kitchen garden. 

 BroccnH, all the varieties require a deep rich soil, and the 

 ground should be trenched to the depth of at least 2 feet, incorpo- 



