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CHRONICLE 



[May 4, 1912. 



The hoe should be 

 Roses where the soil 



used 



freely among all 

 not mulched * 



is not mulcned ; even 

 then it does good to slightly stir the manure. 

 Artificial manures will be useful, and doubly eo 

 if they are applied just previous to or during a 

 shower. Roses on walla and arches that are 

 carrying a large number of growths will be 

 benefited by copious waterings with liquid 

 manure obtained from the stock yard or cow 

 stall. Do not pour the liquid clo^e to or again<st 

 the base of the plant. Any mulchings that may 

 be objectionable may be covered with a light 

 dressing of fresh soil. 



Plants 



Roses Under Glass. 



root 



Pot 



A 



growing in borders will need 

 waterings with diluted liquid manures, 

 plants need constant feeding at this stage. 

 slight sprinkling of a good fertiliser will do good 

 if applied at the rate of a tablespooniul to each 

 8-inch pot. Afford water, and then dust the sur- 

 face of the pot with fresh soil to prevent any 

 smell arising or unsightly appearance. Liquid 

 manure from animals is not always desirable in 

 the conservatory, but it is the best stimulant for 

 Roses. Afford a little d 



shade by the end 

 of the month, and promote more moisture in the 

 atmosphere. Practice. 



CLUNTHUS PUNICEUS MAGMIFIGUd. 



Clivnthus Dampieri, the Australian Glory 

 Pea, for long enjoyed an unenviable notoriety, 

 because very few cultivators flowered the plant 

 successfully. The majority gave up its culture in 

 despair, and to the memory of its intractability 

 we may perhaps attribute the lack of interest 

 shown to the merits of Clianthus puniceus, a 

 species infinitely more amenable to ordinary cul- 

 tural methods. 



Clianthus puniceus magnifieus may be flowered 

 either in a large pot or planted out; the latter 

 method giving the best results, the soil of a border 

 having more uniform conditions as regards 

 moisture and temperature. Cuttings root 

 readily in a brisk heat, and specimens in- 

 tended for planting out may be grown to a good 

 size in 6-inch pots. A suitable compost for this 



plant is two-thirds light fibrous loam and one- 

 third leaf mould. 



Clianthus puniceus is well suited for furnish- 

 ing a pillar, rafter, or wall in the conservatory, 

 where it will grow up to 12 feet high. Estab- 

 lished specimens flower profusely each season ; 

 the drooping clusters of large, scarlet flowers 

 being very effective. 



I recently noticed a healthy well-flowered 

 specimen in a cool show house in the Spring- 

 burn Park, Glasgow. The species has been 

 grown and flowered out-of-doors in the sheltered 

 gardens of the Scottish Western littoral. Fred. 

 H'. Jeff cry, Wooden d Garden*, Renfrewshire. 



NARCISSUS MRS. ERNEST H. KRELAGE 



AND N. ENONE. 



The beautiful trumpet Narcissus, illustrated 

 in fig. 143, was shown by Messrs. E. H. Krelage 

 at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 

 on April 16, when the Narcissus Committee 

 granted it an Award of Merit. The creamy- 

 white flowers are 



markably fine, and the trum- 

 pet is very imposing, both in size and substance. 

 The flower-stalk is long and stout, so that the 

 blooms appear well above the foliage. CEnone 

 (eee fig. 144) is a fine, silvery-white Incompara 

 bilis variety, the tone being uniform through 

 out the flower. The base of the cup is of a pecu- 

 liar shade of green, which intensifies the silvery 

 whiteness in the flower. The segments possess 

 great substance, and the cut bloom lasts a long 

 time. The form is distinct and very beautiful. 

 CEnone is not new, but blooms have been shown 

 very finely this season. 



THE MARKET FRUIT GARDEN. 



April has been a month of trial to all fruit 

 growers, and of disaster to not a few. Drought, 

 frost, and north-east wind have been set off 



almost impracticable, as the men could cmh 

 scrape the weeds, and required double the uiJ 

 time to do a given amount of work. C< 

 quently the attempt was relinquished, in ord«r 

 to wait for rain to soften the soil. When 



against a wonderful amount of sunshine. Only artificial manure was applied early in April "i 



l-20th of an inch of rain has fallen at my station lay undisturbed on the surface of the* land at 



up to the morning of the 29th, and in eight days the end of the month, and will hardly be of much 



at the end of March only 0.C2 inch fell. Such benefit this season, at any rate to bush fruit 



a drought for over five weeks after five months To what extent the fruit crops were damaged 



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{Photograph by G. W. L"* k ' 



Fig. 143. — narcissus MRS. e. h. krelage: a creamy-white trumpet variet • 



of flood was bad for everything that grows, and 

 in the latter part of the time the land had set 

 nearly as hard as cement. In the early part of 

 the month the horse cultivator was got through 

 the spares between rows of fruit trees and 

 bushes ; but even then the numerous roadways 

 along which manure had been carted were un- 

 workable. As for hand-hoeing in the rows of 

 trees and bushes, by the; time' that the first 

 summer spraying was finished the work was found 



by the frosts of the nights of April 10 and ^ ^ 

 not yet fully known, and probably ne '^ ere it 

 with any approach to accuracy. ^ 



reached 10° to 13°, as it did in parts 01 * ^^ 

 Worcestershire, and even 15° m extre ^^ 

 the destruction among Plums, Pears ' ,-i.r *x- 

 Gooseberries, and Currants was lamen 

 tensive. In my extreme southern 



rict the 

 dan*? 



frost was c 

 partial and 



pro 



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