Manc 26, 1964. ] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 293 
meto t all tion, | wintered so well; I think the plants suffer from |' A Midland wants. Young Gardener? Our su ibscrip- 
em I can ‘account for the circumstance in way o nly. in nordinate croppiug. The best amm planted after | tions are merely nominal, and mn k reduced esn as 
It is pro — à er first plant, and perhaps the only | fruiting are President, a fine genie | honorary members. joi ent nv ambe ers, E shall 
one, that ev Eur ope e from 1783 t o 1861, , Was | of good — and of exellent constitution. Its flav be happy to give further in emet n ct it 
a female, and f : and besides it is desired. Thomas Bunyard, Jun., Nur. rsery, A shfo a 
more Pines the most [Thes e Moped Mutual Instru ction Societies are 
stocked. A person ree an Aucuba in a Ja apan 
is mueh more Jikely to get a female plant 
and for ple 
f well managed, but their success depends a 
good ren on the presence ‘of one or two active leading 
yit of aot ni sorts— uate S d 
orke d s The runners bd suffered much. 
the first-class Strawberries of extra penes members, 
on the hill sides, and carry them home to plant in their 
eeri favour of the ya REF 
Pine. Both old 
nd young, 
The plants of Empress Eu 
I hav e nevet: yet i 
have | suffered by. the win nter 
hey can I t hand to 
supp pose bad been picked up in so 
the sake of i 
being no male plants in the em to which it came, 
it ceased to bear any more Fr om this plant, 
is the type ofa plant, , and gains caver fast in this ert | 
of the country ; Wonderful also. I strongly veterem | 
your readers to e constitut tional Strawber: nd ti 
plant now, and tr sind 
runners throug 
m:— Royal Hautbois, 
Eliza, Wonderful, 
then, all those have sprung w 
not of much importance. 
fully aware 
m gardens | for 80 yoke sprang not by reproduction, Pine 
y Such is my theory ; i I may be wrong, | ven 
cakes a few remarks on the Sagres and | wil 
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Rain gauge 2 feet 3 inches above deis 
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good habit and constitution ; and if ‘these ‘tail, vi 
l have no chance with others; nor can you bri ing 
r lines to match them in their many 
good qualities. 
: Min append a few useful observat 
quid Manure.—This should be not 
ions 
ast in a garden € Ve do. 
sho put ow, 
to the T of the plants, but into the acre space 
the ra anks, Suppo sing the ranks to be 2 feet 
, either with 
stems, and size are concerned, the male plant does ‘not | 1 
fi is o he flowers 
the aid of a penkni 
M pocket glas, t the little anthers in the Famdereloped 
buds, and th allIw The plant was imme- 
diately secured, put ina a Ward's case d shipped for 
En ngland. in 
. 
1861 
he early part of & 
“The rootlets in 
wis Pei increased. Bewar 
hav is seen Due cereus v by Pide these into the | 
p of the pla 
oot. oð 
dvanta AS id 
an *i i and also a goo: ey 
is subject to red spider more than any other sort, bat i 
ad any trouble after a good sootin, It 
as used to fert lise the flowers of the female plant 
which Mr. Standish cm ted at the late meeting of the 
Both are subject t to white ti tips; ;| 
ety. 
‘The reason why the Aii of our gardens 
had any m it, or a& most only a few iori vé 
ones, will now be evident. I wasso somewhat amused by 
a version m 
i the ": 
review of my rece k t was coral 
stated that the Te male Aucuba “is, of course 
n and m x ita male plant is covered Via a 
profusion of great crimson berries.” Well, this, to be 
in but 
nonproductiveness was simply owing to the 
He pollen which is naturally shed by the 
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rries, abo ve curiosities. 
ie. —Fragarin v Miguel pai spoken of in 
e Gardeners Chronicle, orthless in itself; but it 
might be valuabie for hybridization, 
h polished shining leaves, is also a curiosity, but 
i san S for the above PD ose, The stems 
are ive short, and the fruit is mall 
orthless. disastrons. year 
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The three last dm 1861, 1862, and 1863, TASA ien 
p due gardem orchards, an 
I have had M dew years ago a -leav 
hybrid of this. and Eleanor here, raised b ‘the is late Mr. 
” Planta ago peers A it is because 
a ber. tas a i by enat 
vorious 
hat} 
Nicholson. 
y for it; e always dis- 
to keep it. Mrs. Nicholson can supply, I "believe, 
W hat is went: —We want not only good Straw- 
berrion but better than we have got; or rather we 
ant Strawberries that being hardy, are also distinc- 
If the Queen could 
In poni t ty 
taken indi weed prac dm that | 
is the true berry-bearing 
rte Spat correct, All the uies 
ae gap 
The tenis d 
be ony ‘of "ihe yat in “the Japanese 
ls-eonntés ts are 
eir value in 
Puri. Con. 
ere are many varieties of the Aucuba in hp acm 
- coenam one already nam to be 
nal parent or species. 
met wit 
the green-leaved dis ur 
rere tea : 
whether t. len 
When the 
greai 
m amongst the leaves. Iam gl 
this Pm and many of our other Japanese 
have passed through the late nas frosts, 
= ety unharmed. Robert Fortun 
eT 
STRAWBERRIES, 
em trial—Lucie, M 
ur | John Powell ; sce the following mter e sr Mrs. 
ggan Rec 
tal point of view will be | Pu; Hoà and |?" 
Gw 
be on on to the plant of Eliza there would be perfec- | 98 
tion. The standards are still e Carolina 
superba, and Filbert Pine, but they cannot be grown 
moer n all pm I doubt whether they can be 
deii dt ut wf ter year in land. 
e these on 
poleon the Third, 
E 
Clements, of War 
nch, rear Sahat, Rute, Robin 
eniver. F. Radclyffe, Rushton, March 15. 
n Tepon ondence 
Japanese fel ostors.— When rea ding you 
remarks on the fessde | 
rs, I irresistibly reminded o 
| furata tha 
bo that was why I took it into my head to discover the 
means by which Nature frustrates all our plans. I don't 
ant is a weed—an unmitig 
w 
there 
is that its ovale are vit fertilised wit 
duced he 
p 
r|puff 
d tised on our ened um by 
self last year. ier Slichbod uro wa 
1 took a 
ussing the de ts of itermitatiag it and it may 
want to deny that the pl 
| ine 
? 
everything else has; and e 
may te oe mething eet o of study. 
my notice in examining this plant 
ae ae pollen pro- 
fact that came u 
same flowers. Look a 
aving 
t he had r from a conn 
in the East, and which consisted of me east a hundred | 
akan of Japanese seeds, d in as many gay | 
kie On these were portrayed a a ‘variety of nr ge | 
etn forms, naturally enough supposed 
e flowers which in em time 
odds within ; 
with me a riis 
was quite out or owe, I removed it, and found that 
only a very few of the flowers had set their seeds. On 
the average only one flower in 20 produced seeds, and, 
| these were all upon that side of the spike vieta the 
centri I left on wo un- 
pos spikes in 
tural e copie As this was 
cag HE time of year. fd 
n be 
Straw e 
been sai 
of their 
to plant now, oo Be hs 
Meee Ts 
rich, friable, 
one 
last 
"i 
wing wn Se 
year’s beatin have 
a The bé works a vintered ti the 
a Te Victorin, o 
x 
deep | 
m, ginti G te 862) of Rivers’ Bln | 
Wonderful have not pk as your pine i “A Young Gardener,” and 
Bari orien 
dener 
Gardeners’ Education.—As the subject of gardeners’ | 
uoo is now being ventilated;in your columns, per- 
e to draw attention A 21 adopted 
- | fro 
at | ¥ 
j | lim’ sted a sphere t. 
is | insures 
| you examine a flower spike i in its natural reckon you will 
le ced its 
ree spikes which had al l been trea 
insi ns we may presume that the few seeds which 
were re fertilised ‘with — ce 
fi which had been 
vá aa number than 
ncy do - a great 
an was genera d 
à | inclined to think that pk: is to the wi nd, 
help of insects, that we must look as 
such | perfect t fer tili ity in this eommon wee 
d 
hardly find a 
a single t produ 
