bia THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Mar 14, 1964, 
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Cystopus and ksen a d those which relate to f parterre gar rdenin Plan 
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the resting spores in the same genera are scarcely | Tn mating ti e me vag tat poer g hey once | We have received from MM Frenn, Hor 
: - TU x im i "c Bac Time was when the brightly-coloured sorts & Co., of queo os itd PLANTS of í mida 
Miipsinson of. largo reficulMos spores which were found useful in flower-beds on account of | to deserve gud al notice. 
xi E 5 * | their colours, had to be pegged e ui i, earth to . The first s an Abies of such yeu dwarf habit 
pawn of Peronospora runs in every direotion. rie: ref and the disp! pr t ith a Heath ; leny, 
The analogy between these and the resting spores might be Taide deu y PUTA very dar i green, with a white aireak Jemen T bag 
of cer rtain A go was at once apparent. The bana Now. eae the perseverance of florists, at the edge, and no Digger than those of £ Mende 
swarming spores were ne ry for immediate mh a fal the Darwinian s system o of natural polifolia. It is no doubt some sport of Abies canadensis, 
D of the species ; the resting spores, on | sel y possibly be included in some catalogues under 
t sis nana, but the leaves 
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nd so could be nari for germination i in the fort the flower ver gurdon a 7 a race A p E vhi s sles logy ord than in alan wales have seen 
i » if De Bary’s observations | dis laying florid masses of colour, Leva ese at name. We all it A. ca 
cpm dme a : bom ia ns 1 - something approachin g to a definite ur gee Messrs. Fisher & Co. raised it from seed 
e| and sym lform. As ia nny < how =n imported | fro om Canada, and they have found i it m mud 
; : a PARACE p providing materi or Dahlia beds, | mo er 
ee — ions Pataca eed BS = raha f direct preci nt = a few of the best | in the severe winter two years ago when so = 
The swarming spores d Are ioris 8 we fell in with last season, our rv spam being Conifers were in jured. 
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the resting spores are due to the action of the|of dwarfness, gracefulness s of habit—that is, ewe a variegated Trish spec mens 2, what they call there 
rest upon i a “ berry- ” varie, 
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sion: in Saprolegnia netrate the outer ves ust give the preference to the | sort wi e habit of an 
in eot wiltale tulo: Tn Cystopus following half dies Seletin, namely :—1, Dwarf ut far more y of these es 
tion of these dar to Queen, a 3-feet plant, very free, and yielding E hardy | hybrid Berberi "i ween deri 
" e protrus lled with | fine head of blossoms, the colour being : m ch prom ^ ises to be o pos of the i 
: n : : tipped with white; this is a very showy Dahlia, and | ev ergreen shrubs in cultivation. call it B, 
— Mr elosely resembling the ug exceedingly effective. 2, Little Wonder, growing 3 feet | stenophylla. The branches are oe 42 the spines 
spores. These observations in respects hi gh, fr ree and showy, and every way adapted for beds; 8-parted ; the leaves very dark green, about 4 inch long, 
require confirmation, but they are beyond doubt of | ¢ pale beneath, tipped w with a short’ spine, and rolled 
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immense importance. mier to be calle at true scarlet, but yet a Md backward at tt edge, 
subordinate points are mentioned in| colour. 3, Joy,a 3-feet plan t, blush-white tipped with 1e flowers are of the same 
the same memoir. One is that the spawn of| purple, free, und loger tio Dx he light tipped 
Cystopus and of most species of Peronospora, | sorts. 4, Queen of S un t high, a showy | 80 ornamental, but Mes are smaller. We are informed 
hou e ta ould, throws out at white, heavily laced wh y^ rple. 5. King of|that in the autumn the branc es are “compel 
Dwarfs, a 2-feet plant of capital “habit, the er hong Ape ed with berries of x. ge size," and that the " 
we purple will grow in any expose situation without injury, 
: Pluton, 2 feet hij h, with large, ; well- meni a capital 
they'are ids ^ Voodruft (A LN "e ellow ‘blooms,’ nd EN a habit in every way adapted cover for game.” We 1 be much mistaken pi 
grows on the comm E for bedding purposes. The last two sorts we —— e not become a univer favourite. Of course 
the suckers are curiously ramified, a bunch goi in perhaps. oer! so much advanced as could hive it can ain nee ed U^ om the barbarous name of 
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into -— &» ell oh of nada as by which Handsy swort hit has been exhibited. 
main thre e spawn direction, 
Another matter of eminet noe consists in his} A grade lower in merit, c he following half- 
observations upon the manner in whi ch these dozen :—1, Alba floribunda nana, 3 feet, clear white, 
parasites gai hie! n habit; 2, Royal Purple, 
they prey. aa Cystopus, Peron onospora , Uro myoes, 2k feet, purple, a ca variety; 3, ‘Sun light, 23 fee t, HE International pug i the Fen of the 
oidium, Endophyllam, and Puccinia, v he has | Showy, sie ro dsi; 4, Duke of Nowenstio, 3 an Horton ltural ee of Belgium opened on 
seen med pese em n admission & pure yellow; 5, Lilac Lilliput, 2 fee ! t : "mde md 
5 Xp. by means of the zm senarkdby bushy VAN teed wit = idto of M. de Cannart d'Hamale, President of the 
often QU ng very ORE fa ediately | ower-heads ; 6, en viegta, 3 am with the Royal Horticultural Society of Malines, Vice-President 
after the admission of the delicate kamatia "A distinctly margined wi — -— — "om oM Med byt 
thr ad. ‘Tn all th d oth lli ed Of a stiff dwarf habit, ET feet high, rand with Con mittee, composed of M. Van den Hecke, President 
e ese genera, and in others allied | huge ‘blooms’ on short stalks set down closely | of the Royal. Agrionltural - Botanical — of 
she i Ghent, Vice-President; M. Ronnberg, Chief f the 
és erkak to be the same. We must remember r, | crimson-red, Prince peA t1 looked in M i d tte tei 
Deer 1 that in the several gen E formerly vem d over the better sorts "i bedding varieties, for | Deputy of t the Gove onorary 
referred to Uredo and Puccinia, there are several | stiff and ungainly as is its growth, we have seen it in | Director of t he Royal Tega i Garon P" puniri 
médé es of fr naga hm n. Ft little e oysts, called fovtaable . seasons more effective — an other 1. Kegeljan, Secretary of the Royal Haeret 
edid dd garden „Oft sam me hab ociety of the province of Namur, aiii |I 
bodies at the tips of little th — these nnd but also very eff p etary of the Royal Botanic Society of Belgium 
BIS s = atia, from a conjecture that they a foren gnome eis claims ctii mention ; and ecretary, in the place of M. Morren, who was 
ot boat i. the sa may be said of the dwarf and M ding by illness ; M. Barlet, doce 
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single or in necklace-like rows, which accompany -— a foot —— half high as wo e pa sre eira in be as tn "t M. Wesmael 
or precede the true spores, differing from them in | pn clear yellow, and Re t be m ip as sight. ap had idem n am ied " cond " Aet s nt-Secretary, 
form. Thirdly, the true spores, which are often | nor must a very dwarf white, wt about the samo President delivered the following * address cn 
more complieated = Be ey Fourthly,: bodies | height as the last, called Empress of the White es, e Federa f the ehsa erri Societies of 
which are produce he germinating "threads | ety clear in colour and Belgium m, ar in the anea of the Governme 
of the spores, called sporti, of one or more orders, Mi» it came under our notices hardly enough developet seized with eagerness the occasion of the fête wh à 
which do not seem netra ely into |! Sociétó Royale de Flore has organised with 50 af 
the un on which they are parasitic, Tia is not| From amongst the foregoing, may be selected | success, to bring into one focus the intelligent? ^. in 
the c varieties adapted for all purposes where dwarf or | those who professionally or for amusemen tbe hp 
ites: t the wuss ER the more recent they ON vhs Arak requiro MN NEL MO ms m peii 
are, i ine on they able le to preser ve tha power for! | alike give satisfaction in regard to the quality of the | which these mutually render to each other, P 
| blossoms, and their habit of growth. But dwarf as are | predic nnda in contact with science, y and ie advance 
me Sonlbe. xs how- man 1 
is y of these, the process dwarfing b lect 
ry during Poe bien they | will riii d go on—certainly if a — for |m 
- y -e in very for | dwarfer vari pie kopt an. We hope to see this "The. appeal of the Société TOROS de Flore has n 
grai ps | ra beyond P pp understood ; and that of = d eee be 
ya r seen the spawn of these less com mpreh hended. Both h eon respondesse the 
orate the walls of the cells. The admission is} —— At -— 147 of this J 1 for tt i own 
means of the stomates, and if E he stat f a Young Gardener n loo he Fei 
: table d f pl tion, in its turn has narta nearly 50 Do dans 
ed, to various natural o rs. Specimens | of diferent bulbs NET ess"; rst roo t bins: si are happy T 
t € which had failed bcn, transmitted to and also a “distin nguished men, who have devoted of 
roper nutriment; a o paw lub rear that quantity of the soil. We are now in a oid to their pe or oe practical E promo 
Neon gurmi "ud state that the Poi itself vas Decoy Hari. We | the science which to so dear. And if the end 
of Seky, and produce spawn to such an extent | disease, ‘Bat n the but the b 
as to 1n ae at te a sath a corm rmen, which were patet y pet ly exhausted by the |salute with pleasure the learned m ^ 
ve ry, at the sporidia pro-|decay of the first roots which they had develped, and the distinguished representatives of foreign | the 
ie e Deme. V threads of the perfect | when planted in T — soil of a border succeeded | culture, who have come amongst us, Thanks the», 
xdi when germ hei t semen. G one of them producing one of the most | zealous and devoted individuals who have OP ugs 
l contig we ever saw, and all throwing up | themselves e Pit ogress of agricultura red bd 
r yn therefore may especially to you, the botanists, who have C* 
assured that the fault is to be attributed neither to | give éclat to our modest Congress by 
rc eed soil nor to any disease in the plants them- | selves with our labours, and cese have not and use 
selves; and if he i " friendly 1 hand, and by your hints io horti 
in rsen Ve any other great error in cultivation, hi ride us t pe ours 
c- | suspicion they were E i m in some|culture is ' susceptib 2 Your: debates, sirs, con" 
"i y, either by the admixture o oxious sub- | in this sense, that we shall gather fruits, MI pr E 
bags = the water, or by the M of éd | vinced will Ketipna in all soils, and princi dover 
at too igh a o perito, ie not without probable M us fine country, the cradle of the culture Belgis? 
grounds. M. J. B. ve of which is innate in the beart of the 
ever, they ar dg 
in the 
