AUGUST. 377 



Enteral Botitts, 



Blight Cored bt Sulphur. — On Thursday, the 12th June, the vines 

 in a vinery here appeared affected by a sudden blight (the leaves shrivelled 

 and burnt as by a sirocco), so severely as to promise the eventual total fail- 

 ure in perfecting frnit. Sulphur was directly applied without, and after, a 

 syringe washing. This appeared to do little good. Last year this process, 

 although it seemed to check the blight, completely failed in saving any por- 

 tion of the fruit. Sulphur was then placed on the floor and burnt, and this 

 seemed to arrest partially the progress of the blight. Then the thought 

 occurred of sprinkling water on the heated flue, and sulphur upon that. 

 This caused a health-giving vapor to rise, but it was found that the water 

 poured upon the hot flue dried up too rapidly. The thought then came into 

 the mind of the experimenter to sprinkle the water, and next the sulphur 

 upon the cold flue, and then gradually to warm the flue. This, along with 

 keeping up sufficient temperature, has been found to answer (as far as yet 

 appears) perfectly. Each night this method has been followed, and now 

 new leaves are growing, and the whole crop looks beautifully healthy. 

 From this may not the inference be drawn that the evil effects of blight, of 

 all descriptions and in all places, — in trees, on walls, or standards, and in 

 hop grounds, — may, by timely and proper employment of water, fire, and 

 sulphur, be in a great part checked, mitigated, or altogether avoided ; al- 

 though, of course, their application sub Dio may be a matter of difficulty, 

 and prove of less virtue ? The virulence of that exceedingly curious, novel 

 distemper, which so (almost) unaccountably last year affected the otherwise 

 ordinarily little excitable minds of many worthy hop factors — sulphuropho- 

 bia — would probably also yield to the gentle "alterative " thus humbly pre- 

 sented for exhibition ; their main cause of dislike to the application of sul- 

 phur to the foliage of the hop being, in great part, obviated by its taking 

 the form here mentioned. It is for you to say whether the individual who 

 has apparently saved my vine crop deserves especial notice for his ingenu- 

 ity. He is a laborer in my employment ; his name Samuel James. — ( Gard. 

 Chron., p. 422, 1856.) ' 



Great Exhibition of Rhododendrons in Regent's Park, London. 

 The exhibition of American plants held here under canvas is as fine, if not 

 finer, this season, than ever we have seen it. Individually, the plants are 

 literally masses of bloom, and the three collections (which are supplied by 

 Messrs. John Waterer, Standish and Noble, and Baker), coming into flower 

 as they have done all at one and the same time, have produced a display, 

 the effect of which is grand in the extreme. 



Decidedly the gem not only of Messrs. Waterer's contributions but of the 

 whole exhibition is the rhododendron called Lady Eleanor Cathcart, a bril- 

 liant salmon pink with a dark spot in the upper petals. This noble speci- 

 men, which is at least 12 feet in height and as much through, has been and 

 still is covered Avith flower, and looking over the whole show, from whatever 

 point of view one will, this plant naturally attracts attention. Fifly guineas, 



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