June 22, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE 



403 



when this is the case the chances are that or checking the ravages of mildew, and 

 some six weeks after planting three or 



four other bunches have passed through 

 the flowering stage and are on 

 way 

 ing 



the wise grower employs it long before 

 the disease makes its appearance. In- 



m _ the stead of dusting the plants with powdered 



to form fruits. After the flower- sulphur, as is most commonly done, it 



of the fourth or fifth truss, most would seem that syringing the plants with 



growers adopt the practice of stopping the a solution made of sulphur and skimmed 



plants altogether, and the plan is a wise milk is a better plan. Sulphur is difficult 



one on the whole, for, although under this to mix, but the process becomes compara- 



further fruits that would tively simple if a small quantity is first 



THE 



j ytff I * "tf given a mucn oeiLer uiiamjc ^j. uum 6 



d&ttVll iMYOVti III ill VftlYTrl P well and reaching maturity before the cold 



V^alU tlUlP Kl/iJlUlllMK, . h f mn reduce the strengt h of 



system some 



have ripened may be stopped from form- worked into a paste with cold water and 



those that are already formed are the milk added afterwards. The mixture 

 much better chance of doing should be well stirred and then strained, 



after which it can be applied with a 



ing 



given a 



No. 1,330— SATURDAY, June 22, 1912. 



CONTENTS. 



418 



Arnold Arboretum 

 Books, notices of — 

 Garden Design in 

 Theory and Prac- 

 tice 



The Guild of the 



Garden Lovers ... 

 Carnations, border, in 



pots 



Clematis, a fine plant 



of 



Coleus thyrsoideus 



Crops, prospects of the 



Deutzia longifolia ... 



Disease resistance in 

 plants 



Education, a gardener's 



Ficus repens fruiting ... 



Flowers, exhibiting ... 



Fruit crop, the 



Horticultural society, a 

 new 



Horticulture, State de- 

 partment of ... 



Hot water circulated 

 by pumping 



Insurance Act, the, 415 ; 

 commercial travellers 

 and the ... 



International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition 408, 413 



Ireland, notes from 414 



L.C.C. gardeners ... 413 



Lily season in Scotland, 

 prospects of the 



Market gardening in 

 Belgium 



Neill memorial 

 prize 



Nesting place , a 

 curious 



Obituary — 

 Hay, Lawrence 

 Jennings, William 



John ... 

 Strasburger, Profes- 

 sor Eduard 



407 



467 

 416 



415 



412 

 414 



409 



412 

 416 

 416 

 416 

 415 



413 



... 412 



413 



415 



.. 406 



414 



413 

 415 

 414 

 414 



414 



Orchid notes and glean- 

 ings— 

 Cattleya Mossise 

 Laelio-Cattleya Aphro- 

 dite ••LordFaber" 

 Megaclinium leuco- 



rhachis 



Peat-moss litter, the 

 manurial value of ... 

 Plants, new or note- 

 worthy — 

 Lilium Brownii leu- 



canthum 



Mesembryanthemum 



decorum 



Primula uniflora 

 Rhododendron Victori- 



anum 



R.H.S. summer show... 

 Scotland, notes from ... 



Societies — 

 Birmingham Botani- 

 cal and Hort. .- 

 Essex Agricultural ... 

 National Gladiolus .. 

 National Hardy Plant 

 Royal Horticultural... 

 Saltaire and District 



Rose 



United Hort. Benefit 



and Provident 

 Yorkshire Gala 

 Strawberries, record ... 

 Tomatos, outdoor ... 

 Trees and shrubs, 



hybrid 



Wallace, Dr. Alfred 



Russel - 



Week's work, the— 



Apiary, the 



Flower gai den, the ... 



Fruits under glass ... 

 Hardy fruit garden, 



the 



Kitchen garden, the... 

 Orchid houses, the ... 

 Plants under glass ... 



nights of autumn reduce the strength of sprayer or fine syringe. The plants 



the plants to too low an ebb. The single- should have a good wetting with this once 



stem system of growing may be said to be a week, especially on the undersides of 



quite the best for outside work, as it is the leaves. If the plants are put out on 



held to be for inside, and the thinning of raised ridges, as they should be, the appli 



_ _ - _«. . . • • ■ • 1 _ 



405 the leaves is usually advisable. 



This cation is comparatively easy. 



405 

 405 

 401 



After the first bunch or two of fruit is 

 set, feeding may be started — gently at 



and there is nothing 



404 



403 



407 



406 

 413 



415 



421 

 413 

 418 

 418 

 416 



413 



421 

 419 

 416 

 403 



414 



413 



411 

 411 

 410 



410 



410 



411 

 410 



latter process may, however, be carried 

 too far. If the leaves are shortened or 



removed when they are full of sap, i.e., first, of course 



before they become hard and glossy, the better for this than the draimngs of the 



plant is weakened through loss of sap, and stable or the cowshed. By the time all 



much of the protection from wet which the fruit is swelling, this mixture may be 



the fruits derive from the foliage is taken applied at great strength— that is to say, 



One of the worst troubles that the diluted with no more than its equal bulk 



outdoor Tomato-grower has to put up with of water. Meanwhile, the plants should 



is " cracking," which renders the fruit be mulched with stable manure that may 



almost valueless from a market point of be almost fresh, that is manure which has 

 view, and this is largely caused, or, at 



away. 



turn 



least, aggravated, by too hard leaf-iorun- the rank heat. The great 



thing 



is to 



mg 



CVWpjA W » Mrfw^-w»j r ~ %J I'll 



umk The fruit gets wet, and then when push the crop on as much as possible, so 

 the sun comes out after the rain, it shines that by the first week in September a good 

 fully upon the fruit and cracks it imme- portion of it has been gathered. After 

 diately. The thinning of the blossom is a that time rapid ripening becomes doubt- 

 good practice wherever the necessary ful and it is usuaUy considered safer to 

 time and labour can be afforded, though P^ck all the fruits as soon as they cease 

 time ana aoou ' .„ J. h * to swell, and to bring them under cover to 



the process is less necessary with some 

 sorts than with others. 



ripen. Last year outdoor Tomatos 

 matured almost as quickly as those grown 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Clematis Mrs. H. Wood 



Coleus thyrsoideus (Coloured Supplementary Illustra- 

 tion) 



Deutzia longifolia 



Jennings, the late William John, portrait of 



Laelio-Cattleya Aphrodite •' Lord Faber " 



Odontioda Cooksonias, ••Fowler's variety" 



Primula uniflora 



Rhododendron Victorianum 



415 



409 

 414 



405 

 418 

 407 

 406 



The commonest fault with the inex- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ cannot expect guch 



perienced is to over-feed their outdoor fo ^ ^ ^^ Jf ^ 

 Tomato plants in the early stages of 

 growth. A good, rich soil is, of course, 



absolutely necessary to success, but recent ^ ^ _ _ __ -*—. 



manuring is as bad for the Tomato as tbn beyond that> Green Tornat os, by the way, 



make an excellent pickle, so that even the 

 smallest of those which fail to ripen need 



grower can ripen three good bunches on 

 the plant he ought to be satisfied, and 



very 



OUTDOOR TOMATOS 



for its near relative, the Potato. The 

 plants make wonderful progress and look 

 well, but the development of stem and leaf 

 is at the expense of the fruit, and the 



are rendered far more liable to 

 disease than they otherwise would be. 

 Tomatos, by the way, should never be 

 planted outside anywhere near a crop of 



not be wasted. F. B. 



plants 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY 



PLANTS. 



T UST as the indoor varieties of Tomato Potatos, for the latter will almost certainly MESEMBRYANTHEMUM DECORUM, 



have been improved out of all know- contract disease to some extent before the - 



ledge in recent years, so have the end of summer, and they will assuredly 



kinds suitable for outside work undergone communicate it to the Tomatos. One has 



a remarkable development in the right seen the Potato blight carry off a whole 



direction. In this variable climate, how- crop of Tomato plants in the space ot a 



ever, the outdoor Tomato crop must ever day or two, for a slight touch of it, such as 



be regarded as uncertain, for we cannot would hardly be noticeable on the Potato, 



expect often to enjoy a summer so entirely is quite sufficient to be fatal to the more 



propitious to the crop as 



that of last tender Tomato. 



year. Early planting— or, rather, the 



putting out of forward plants at the first dreaded by every Tomato-grower is the 



possible moment— is, of course, half the next most likely disease to attack the crop, 



battle in Tomato culture in the open, but 

 even that will not ensure anything like a 

 full crop in a damp or cool summer. Those 

 who make a point of outdoor cultivation of 

 this precarious crop 



least one bunch of fruit practically set 

 at the time the plants go outside at the 

 end of May or the beginning of June, and 



N. E. BROWN, n. sp. 



This plant was introduced into Kew Gardens 

 about 40 years ago, and flowered there in 1873, 

 when it was placed in my hands for determina- 

 tion. As I could not find any description or figure 

 to agree with it, a drawing was made of it for the 

 Botanical Magazine, concerning which drawing an 

 unfortunate error has occurred. When it was 

 being prepared for publication, it was indicated 

 by Mr. Baker as being "near M. intonsum," 

 which was unfortunately mistaken by the late Sir 

 Joseph Hooker as being actually M. intonsum, 



^ _ _ Haw., and it was so published in the Botanical 



andVf it once "gets a firm footing there "is Magazine, t. 6057, where by a printer's error the 



nothing that will stop it. Bnt itmay be —^*,"»JESS reproduced fro™ 



South Africa by Prof. Pearson, who sent it to 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, where it flowered in 

 May of this year. It is quite distinct from M. 

 intonsum, Haw., being distinguished by its more 



Mildew, so 



and so much 



largely, if not entirely, prevented if pre- 

 cautionary measures be taken; a good 



will depend upon the 

 m Sulphur is the 



time-honoured and still, apparently, the erect branches, leaves ascending and subparallel 

 most efficacious substance for preventing with the stem, unless they have young shoots or 



aim at having at deal, of course, 



nature of the season. 



