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THE GAFDENEBS' CHRONICLE. 



[Seitember 1, 1888. 



Fig. 28. — lisianthus kussellianhs : greenhouse perennial : flowers purple, (see p. 239.) 



above, and do not expand fully'; the growth is long 

 and straggling, and it is far from ^being a desirable 

 pot plant. 



L. princeps. — This, according to descriptions, is 

 the cream of the genus, which numbers something 

 like a hundred species, but only a small number are 

 in cultivation. W. Harrow, Botanic Garden, Cam- 

 bridge. 



Forestry. 



Fences. — Fences of every kind, gates, and stiles, 

 should now be made perfectly secure against the 

 inroads of cattle, particularly such as border planta- 

 tions, as when tortured by flies, farm stock naturally 

 seek the must shady recess for comfort and repose. 

 Hedging can now be carried on with freedom, oper- 



ating on the Privet, Yew, and Box first, afterwards 

 on the Holly, Thorn, Hornbeam, and Beech. 



With the recent unusually wet weather, water- 

 courses of all kinds will require an occasional look to, 

 and all accumulations of twigs, leaves, and grass, col- 

 lected and removed from their channel ; the mouths 

 of closed drains must likewise receive constant atten- 

 tion, and this is work well done, for the expense of 

 opening and dislodging obstructions from these is 

 frequently an item of no mean importance. 



Gratings alongside roads and bye-paths should 

 have all accumulations of debris removed therefrom 

 after each spate, else the roads become flooded, and 

 sand and dirt get washed thereon. 



As soon as the corn and hay crops are removed 

 fi'om the fields, hedgerow trees may, where neces- 

 sary, be pruned, or taken away altogether. A fair 

 quantity of hedgerow timber is highly beneficial to 

 lands under culture, but a superfluity is an evil with 



which, unfortunately, the British farmer is too well 

 acquainted. In removing hedgerow trees, grubbing 

 out is far preferable to cutting over the stem at 

 ground level, and this not only for the extra gain of 

 land, but on account of the damage inflicted by 

 stumps in the ground to the various farming imple- 

 ments. A. D. Webster, Holwood Park. Kent. 



Plants and Their Culture. 



Begonias. — For winter flowering many of the 

 shrubby species are very useful, being graceful in 

 appearance, with flowers varying from red, rose, or 

 pink, to pure white — rarely yellow, as in B. pris- 

 matocarpa, a small African species, which only grows 

 to a few inches in height, but which, thickly planted 



