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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



441 



sprinkle them with water of the same temperature as the pipes 

 until the house is full of steam and sulphur fumes. The house, 

 of course, must be shut up closely. This may be repeated if 

 necessary within a week. It is not necessary to 8yrin(?o the 

 Vines, but it may be done if the state of the crop allow. The 

 walls should be painted with sulphur and soft-soap water, 4oz8. 

 of the latter being dissolved in a gallon of water. This paint 

 mnst not bo put upon flues unless it is quite certain that they 

 will never be hotter than IGO", for should the sulphur ever 

 burn it will destroy the foliags and, of course, the crop. 



To destroy red spider in houses having no heating apparatus, 

 the following method will he found effectual : — Take some 

 11-inch flower-pots, half fill them with fresh lime (unslaked), 

 and place one at each end, and the others 8 feet apart along 

 the front of the house. Pour water over the lime so as to 

 cover it, and sprinkle a small handful of flowers of sulphur in 

 each pot. In the morning syringe thoroughly, but if syringing 

 cannot be practised, as when drapes are ripening, make the 

 floors, walls, and other surfaces quite wet. This is an excellent 

 remedy but requires care, as if the snlpbnr ignite the foliage 

 will be scorched. Ba careful, therefore, not to put in too much 

 sulphur, and to give enough water to the lime to thoroughly 

 slack but not drown it. 



Water is the natural enemy of red spider, it will prevent 

 ■and destroy it. A moist atmosphere and a plentiful supply 

 of water and nutriment at the root are the best means of 

 preventing the attacks of this insect, and these conditions 

 being afforded red spider will not be difiiouU to got rid of. — 

 G. Abbey. 



(To be continned.) 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 

 Cm more than one occasion we have asked for the attention 

 of our readers to the Likdi.ey Library, and we now place 

 before them this circular recently issued by the Trustees. If 

 they would publish a list of the works already in the Library, 

 donors would know which to present that would not be du- 

 plicates. 



"Notice 13 hereby given, that the Committee of the International 

 Horticultui-ol Exhibition having offered to invest the balance of the 

 profits realised bv that Exhibition (over £1850, after presenting £1000 

 to the Gardeners' Benevolent Institution) in the purchase of books to 

 form a Ubrarj in connection \tith the Royal Horticnltaral Society, 

 and to be called the * Linilley Library,' in t?stimony of the respect 

 in which the lato Dr. Lindley'^; memory is held, on the condition that 

 the books so purchased, and any others which might hereafter be pre- 

 sented, should be vested in seven Tmstees, and that the books should, 

 under rule';, be available for the use of the Fellows of the Society, and 

 other horticultural students, — the Council affreed with pleasure to 

 accept the offer, and appointed W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., a Vice- 

 President of the R.H.S., John Clntton, Esq., the Hon. Treasurer of 

 the R.H.S., Col. H. Y. D. Scott, R E., the Hon. Secretary of the 

 R.H.S., as their three Trustees; and the International Committee 

 appointed Dr. Robert Hogg, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, and Thomas 

 Moore, Esq., to represent them ; and the six having agreed, nomi- 

 nated Sir C. Wcntworth Dilke, Bart., M.P., as the seventh, and the 

 trust-deed has this day (May 5th, 1S68) been signed. The first pur- 

 chase made by the Trustees is Dr. Lindley's Botanical and Horticul- 

 tural Library, at a cost of £'300. and steps are being taken to make 

 the library available. As the Trustees are unanimously of opinion 

 that the addition of such a library to the Horticultural Society would 

 be a great boon to student.^ of Horticulture and Botany, and also mti- 

 terially promote the best interests of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 and as the Trustees wish to make it as perfect as possible, they think 

 it right to call upon the Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society 

 to aid them with funds and presents of books, to extend the useful- 

 ness of the library which has thus been commenced. 



"The Trustees have the gratification of being able to announce 

 that Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to present to 

 the ' Lindley Library ' a botanical work of the value of twenty-five 

 guineas. 



" The Trustees are also happy to be able to state that already 

 several Fellows of the Society, and other gentlemen, have promised 

 valuable assistance, amongst others — 



Georee Bentham, Esq., Pres. 



Linn. Soc. 

 Kev. JI J Berkeley 

 Messrs. Erfidbury, Evans, & Co. 

 •John Glutton, E?q. 

 Sir C Wentworth Dilke,Bart.,M.P. 

 W. M. Fladgate, Esq. 

 Dr. Hoag 



Dr. .Tosepb D. Hooker, P.R.S. 

 G. W.JohnBon, Esq. 

 Tiiomas Lee Esq. 



" Any presents to be addressed to ■ The Trsstnes of the Lindley 



X. Lindley, Esq. 



Dr. Uaxwell T. Masters. 



Tbomns Moore, Esq. 



Prof. E Morren. Lifige. 



W. WiUon Saunders, Esq., P.B.S. 



Col. H. Y. D. So.'tt, B.E. 



M. Henry Vilii oriu, Paris. 



B. S. Williims. Kfq. 



Mrs. C. A. Chalfleld, and 



Mrs. Inwood Jones. 



Library,' Royal Horticultural Society, 8oDth Eenaington, Lon- 

 don, W. 



(Signed) 

 John Glutton Thomas Moobk 



IlOBKKT Hoo<; W. WnjoN SiiTNDBBa 



Maxwell T. Mastkrs H. Y. D. Scott. 



C. WKNTWORTn DiLKK 



" Trustees of the TAndley Library ," 



■ EvF.r.Y gardener knows the " Wardian case," by the 



agency of which living plants have been introduced after half 

 circumnavigating the world, and which bad defied all efforts to 

 preserve them, until that case was invented. Its inventor, 

 Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, died on the 4th inst., at St. 

 Leonards, aged 77. He had been Master of the Apothecaries' 

 Company, and one of its Examiners, for which duty ho was 

 additionally qualified bj- his botanical knowledge. He wag 

 also a Fellow of the Royal, the Linnean, and other scientific 

 Societies, and for forty years vaccinator to the National Vac- 

 cine Establithment. He resided successively in Wellolose 

 Square, and Clapham, and in his houses he most strikingly 

 demonstrated how healthfully plants may be cultivated in con- 

 fined spaces, and in the smoky atmosphere of a city. He pub- 

 lished "Observations on the Growth of Plants in Cloaely- 

 glazed Cases." 



WORK FOR THE WEEK. 



KITCnEN GARDEN. 



Everyone who has had the benefit of the late rains will be 

 planting, sowing, and thinning. As soon as convenient let the 

 surface of the ground be well stirred with the hoe or fork, to 

 prevent the moisture evaporating. The late very dry weather 

 will have forced several matters upon the consideration of 

 many, such as the importance of so choosing the site of a 

 garden as to have a plentiful supply of water ; the construction 

 of tanks in gardens to receive the water from drainage, hot- 

 houses, and frames. It is an ascertained fact, that in general as 

 much rain falls on a dwelling house as will supply the inmates 

 during the season. Why should such a fact not be taken 

 advantageof in gardens ? In most pit and frame grounds much 

 valuable water is lost every heavy rain, which would be of great 

 service for summer crops. The past season will likewise have 

 demonstrated surface-watering to be insufficient, the import- 

 ance of keeping the surface of the soil loose, and the great 

 advantage of digging or trenching deeply for all the main crops. 

 About the end of June and beginning of July, as the early Peas 

 and Beans are cleared off the ground, is the usual time for 

 planting out Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Savoys, &c. ; but if 

 room is scarce these may be planted out between the rows of 

 standing crop? that are expected to come off soon. No one 

 ever thinks of planting any of the Cabbage tribe without first 

 manuring the ground. CoUworts are much sought after in 

 places, but in some families they are never used. This is 

 about the time to make the first sowing of them, and in many 

 late situations it is high time to sow Cabbages to come in early 

 next spring, but in good situations a fortnight hence will be 

 time enough. Celay. another trench or two may be planted 

 out, but a fortnight hence will be time enough for the main 

 crop in most places. Peas and Beam; the earliest varieties Of 

 these should now be sown for the last time, but some Early 

 Frame Peas may he chanced as late as the second week in July, 

 and if we have fine weather in October they will afford some 

 dishes which will be very acceptable. 



rBCIT GAKPEX. 



If the tops of shoots of Currants or Gooseberries should 

 become infested with insects, as they often do about this time, 

 the best way is to cut off the tops at once, which will do no 

 harm to the bushes so late as this in the season. A good 

 washing with the engine occasionally will be of service to the 

 wall trees, and unless they are attacked by insects ckan water 

 is as good for this purpo.se as any mixture" See that the Vines 

 never get loose or grow too long before they aro tied-in, and so 

 with all w.<ill trees. IV-;; down the shoots of Cucumbers and 

 Vegetable Marrows under hand-lights. 



JLOWER GAKPEN. 



Everywhere in the flower garden the greatest order and neat- 

 ness should prevail ; not a dead or fading flower should be 

 seen, not even in the wildest corner of the shrubberies. No 

 plants requiring support should be a day without a neat slick. 

 The flowering of many of the annuals may he prolonged i£ 

 their seeds be cut off as they begin to form ; some, again, 

 would do better if the strongest shoots were cat back all 



