NOTBMBEB 10, 1888.] 



THE GABDENEBS' CHBONICLE. 



551 



Notices to Correspondents. 



Intelligent Readers, do please Note that letters 

 relating to Advertisements, or to the supply of 

 the Paper, should be addressed to the Publisher, 

 and that all communications intended for publica- 

 tion, as well as specimens and plants for naming, 

 should be addressed to the Editor. Such com- 

 munications should be written on one side only 

 of the paper, and sent as early in the week as pos- 

 sible. Correspondents sending newspapers should 

 be careful to mark the paragraphs they wish the 

 Editor to see. 



Books: W. H. J). Chemistry of the Farm, by H. 

 Warrington, is the best book for you, published 

 by Jlessrs. Bradbury Agnew & Co., Bouverie 

 Street, London, E.C. There is no book, so far as 

 we know, which treats of the analyses of fruits 

 and vegetables.—/?. M. The British Moss Flora 

 is published by the author, R. Braithwaite, 303, 

 Clapham Road, S.W. 



Chrysanthemums : A. C. Nice well-formed flowers, 

 but not better than others already in commerce. 



Embossed Rose Labels : Mr, Sogers. You would be 

 able to get these labels from any large horticul- 

 tural sundriesman. 



Galls on Spruce: G. 3. The galls are produced 

 by Chermes Abietis. There is no available remedy 

 but to burn all the galls in the young state. 



Gaeden-walk Scraper and Broom : JI. H. S. Any 

 ironmonger will supply you with a wheeled hoe or 

 scraper, but we know of no implement combining 

 a scraper and broom. 



Grapes: E.J. L. The Vines have been greatly 

 mismanaged. The splitting of the berries was the 

 result of mildew attacking them, which prevented 

 further growth in the skin of the berry. We have 

 never remarked a worse case, and it is evident the 

 man does not know anything about the treatment 

 of the Vine. 



Marechal Niel Rose on Roof : Poor Geordie. Your 

 Rose will bloom well enough if you thin out the 

 weaker shoots, cutting clean away to the old wood. 

 Do not spare the knife, but so cut these away that 

 the stronger Willow-like 6hoots stand a foot or 

 more apart ; and do not cut the latter at all. 

 Erom the points of these you will get your earliest 

 blooms next season. By cutting out as we advise 

 you will be enabled to use the ventilators at the 

 back of the honse, and more light will fall on the 

 plants beneath the Rose. 



Names of Feuit : W. W. 1 and 4, Benrre Ranee ; 



2, Nouveau Poitean ; 3, Van Mons Leon Leclerc ; 

 5, Beurre' Hardy ; 6. Duchesse d Angouleme ; 7, 

 Doyenne Gris ; 8, Winter Nelis ; 9 and 13, Beurre 

 Diel ; 10, Chaumontelle ; ll,Beuri6 Capiaumont ; 

 12, Jersey Gratioli ; 14 and 15, wild seedling. — 

 W.Fisher. ], Warner's King; 2, Hawthornden ; 



3, Waltham Abbey Seedling. — A Weekly Sub- 

 scriber. 1, Passe Colmar; 2. Duchesse d Angou- 

 leme ;' 3, Chaumontelle ; 4, Doyenne Gris. — Tho- 

 mas Matheson. Pear Vicar of Winkfield. — Notts. 

 1, Jersev Gratioli ; 2, rotten ; 3. Fondante d'Au- 

 tomne;*4, Beurre Superfin. — J. Earl. 1, Belle de 

 Bruxelles; 2, Chaumontel ; 3, Doyenne Boussoch. 

 — N.N. P. Apple Hanwell Souring. — A. B. 1, 

 Aston Town ; 2, Autumn Bergamot. — Hexham, 

 Apple Gloria Mundi. — R. Bidley. Apple Brabant 

 Bellefleur. — W. § H. Brown. 1, Pitmaston Du- 

 chess ; 2, Marie Louise d'Uccle ; 3, Bowood ; 4. 

 Hambledon Deux ans. — Wooton. There was found 

 no letter ; we prefer the letter to be enclosed in 

 the box, and not sent separately, as it is some- 

 times difficult to identify the package to which the 

 letter relates. 1, Beauty of Kent; 2, New Haw- 

 thornden'; 3, Royal Somerset ; 4, Hanwell Souring ; 

 5, Hambledon Deux ans ; 6, Emille d'Heyst. 



Names of Plants : J. Mantin. The name of Orchid 

 omitted in our last issue is Saccolabium calceo- 

 lare, probably. — F. H., Manchester. The two plants 

 you 6end without numbers are Restiaceous plants 

 from South Africa, now coming into use for the 

 same decorative purposes as Pampas and other 

 grasses. The one with the blunt spikelets is 

 Thamnochortns giganteus ; the other is T. elon- 

 gatus. The two Heaths we hope to name next 

 week. — G. W. Aster Townshendi; Helenium au- 

 tumnale, yellow. — R. A. G. 1 and 2, fruits next 

 week ; 3, Scirpue lacustris ; 4, Typha latifolia ; 5, 

 Antennaria tomentum ; 6 Acalypha'Macareeana; 



7, not found ; 8, Acalypha musaca. — R. L. 1, 

 Aster Reevesii ; 2, Francoa sonchifolia; 3 and 4, 

 Davallia dissecta, probably— both barren fronds, 

 send fertile one ; 5, Pteris scaberula ; 6, Adian- 

 tum hispidulum. — Camjee. Lockhartia acuta. — 

 A. 0. W. Dianthus Seguieri.— A'. B. 1, Dendro- 

 bium bigibbum ; 2, Oncidium tigrinum ; 3, 0. 

 verncosum ; 4, 0. flexuosum. — H. C. 1, Salix 

 fragilis ; 2, S. Smithiana ; 3, S. aquatica (cinerea) ; 

 4, S. caprea. 



Report of the Apple Congress, 1884 : W. Jordan. 

 It is out of print. 



Tomatos Autocrat, Prize Belle, and The Queen : 

 R. The only variety mentioned in any of the 

 American lists of late date is The Queen. It is 

 a yellow fruit of great excellence in America. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Thomas Smith, Daisy Hill Nursery, Newry — Alpines, 

 Bulbs, and Border Plants, &c. 



Ben Reid & Co., Aberdeen — Roses ; also Forest 

 Trees. 



Robert Mack & Sox, North of England Rose 

 Nurseries, Catterick Bridge and Scorton, York- 

 shire — Roses. 



M. Bruant. Boulevard St. Cyprien, a Poitiers, 

 Vienne, France — Autumn and Winter Price 

 Current of Fruits, Roses, Trees, Shrubs, &c. 



Charles Sharps & Co., Sleaford, Lincolnshire — 

 Agricultural Seeds, &c. 



Communications Received.— P. MidJleton. — W. Gill. — 

 P. D. W. (no Grapes to hand).— J. H.— T. Gill (next week. 

 — W. N.— M. J. B.— R. A. G.— H. G. R.— J. S.— W. P.— 

 A. M.— W. W.— P. E. N.— W. B. H.— J. K. J.— W. B — 

 D. E. 

 gp" Correspondent* sending plants or fruits to be named, or 



asking questions demanding timeand research for their solution, 



must not expect to obtain an answer to their enquiries in the 



current week. 



The Pine Forests of Western France.— 



In a report on the agriculture of the Gironde, the 

 British Consul at Bordeaux refers to the forests 

 which cover about a third of the department, 

 especially the Landes district, where the soil is 

 wholly unfitted for ordinary cultivation. Hence 

 forests of Pines (the pin maritime) have in recent 

 times been planted, and the wood and resin obtained 

 from them have now become an important and, in 

 in some instances, the sole source of revenue of the 

 inhabitants of those districts. In the parts distant 

 from towns and other inhabited places resin is chiefly 

 produced, while in places nearer to Bordeaux or 

 other shipping ports, where means of transportation 

 exist, the production of pit props, railway sleepers, 

 telegraph poles, and wood lor fuel forms the chief 

 business. The collection of resin affords a living to 

 a large number of the very poorest persons, and the 

 recent decline in the exportation of this article from 

 Bordeaux has been a great misfortune to the inhabit- 

 ants of some parts of the Landes district. The de- 

 cline has been caused by the annually increasing 

 competition of the United States, which has become 

 the chief exporter of resin to the almost entire 

 exclusion of Bordeaux. A new kind of oil, called 

 Pine-oil, is now made from the refuse of 

 resin after the latter has been employed in 

 making turpentine. This is used as an illuminant in 

 some private houses in Bordeaux, and burns very 

 brightly ; it is cheaper than refined petroleum, and 

 is not explosive. The trees do not appear to suffer 

 by the extraction of the resin, if it is done carefully, 

 and the wood is even better fitted then for certain 

 purposes, such as paper-making and the manufacture 

 of pyroligneous acids, than it was before. The 

 export of pit props made from the Landes Pines is 

 an important branch of trade between Bordeaux and 

 English ports adjacent to coal districts. One 

 hundred and seventy-five thousand tons of pit props 

 are now shipped annually to England from Bor- 

 deaux, while ten years ago the shipments did not 

 reach half that quantity. Railway sleepers and tele- 

 graph poles are likewise made in large quantities in 

 these Pine forests ; they are used chiefly in France. 

 Besides, a large quantity of young Pines find6 its 

 way to England every year to be converted into 

 paper. The Landes is a sandy district in which 

 nothing but Pines will grow, and the forests are all 

 of recent origin. 



SAVE H ALF TH E COST. 



GARSID E'S 



BEDFORDSHIRE 



SILVER SAND, 



Coarse and Fine, 



Is admitted by the leading Nurserymen to be the Best 

 Quality obtainable in the Trade. 



Consumers should Buy Direct from the Owner of these 

 Celebrated and Extensive Pits, which contain a practically in- 

 exhaustible supply of Splendid Sand, and thus save half the 

 ordinary cost. NO TRAVELLERS OR AGENTS. 

 Apply "direct to the Proprietor for Samples and Price. 

 Free on Rail or Canal. All Orders executed with the utmost 

 promptness and under personal supervision. Special Rail- 

 way Rates in force to all parts. 

 GEO. GARSIDE, Jun.. F.R.H.S., Leighton Buzzard, Beds. 



ORCHID BASKETS, 

 RAFTS, BOATS, AND CYLINDERS, 



AND ALL GARDEN SUNDRIES. 



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Crushed Bones in all sizes for Vine Borders, Lawns, Potting, 

 Grass Lands. &o. Also BONE JIEAL for Poultry Feeding, 

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For Prices, apply to 



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GARRETT LANE, 'WANDSWORTH, SURREY. S.W. 



PEAT for ORCHIDS, 



AZALEAS, HEATHS, FERNS, RHODODENDRONS, &c. 



The Best in the World. 



A. JOHNSON AMD CO., 23, Leadenliall Street, London. E.C, 

 continue to receive the highest of testimonials (unsolicited) from 

 large Orchid Growers, stating the ORCHID PEAT supplied by 

 A. J. & Co. is by far the best they hare ever used. Samples can be 

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HUGHES' Soluble 



Fir Tree OIL 



FLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN SHOULD NOT 

 BE WITH3UT IT. 



Unsurpassed as an Insecticide, it kills effectually all 

 parasites aud indents whi h ime-t plants whether at the 

 roots or on the foliige, without injury to tender plants — 

 eueh as ferns, etc., if u^ed as directed. Used as a WASH 

 it impirts the glo>s md lustre to the foliage which is so 

 desir ible on exhibition specimens. 



Dog Fanciers should not be without it! It makes a 

 silky Coat and produces healthy Skin Action; kills fleas, 

 and is excellent for washing dogs. 



Housewives should not be without it! Used with 

 ordinary household poip it is an effectual DISIN- 

 FECTANT. BLEACHER, ft CLEANER OF FABRICS. 

 It kills insect life on man, animal, or plant, without 

 injury to the skin, wherev-r parasites may appear. 



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 A gallon 7s. 6d.,l gallon 12s. Gd.,ovlessin larger quantities. 

 " A Treatise on FIR TREE OIL as an INSECTISlDE, 

 its application to Plants and Animals, sent Post free 

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