of an inch rqaare, and about 18 3 long, and on 
one of the surfaces transverse cuts w ade, some 
being oblique and notched on one of the edges, these 
signs representing — and by keeping a list 
oun Now, I think th 
tell, for if desirable it could be thrust waged in the very 
centre en from 
view ties the casual í 
numerals its prt an any 
correspondent reco more suitable border- 
label for private eee combining the following 
ad claim for this label, such as dura 
rect fod ey nd can de ainte 
to please one's — 
thrust down, — cannot lift. it, or rake or hoe 
— Sager y Editor, this label is 
to you; ; it 0 — ve a drawing of it 
3 pages ot the Ga vit ail Ra porine and 
eae ning their ‘numerical ee er, Nostell 
Priory Gardens. [We know t e labe pa corre- 
spondent . and always Sog highly of it; 
and if it be slightly charred for two-thirds of its 
length, and whilst warm dipped in melted Stockholm 
pitch, it will be found in good preservation after a 
5 ten years, Ep | 
MATO CULTURE.—Your correspondent, Mr, 
Nader (p. 18) compares Horsford’s Prelude to a 
Tangierine Orange in shape his description 
pply with 8 correctness to Conference, a 
m Gre 
would apply 
cross between Ha Favourite and Prelude. 
When the strain is pure, Renten Prelu 
nearly oval in sha It is a most prolific variety, 
and I have frequently had seven thickly-set bunches 
on a single at a time, but the fruit is rather 
3 it 8 take want} bunches to weigh 
uch ore profitable variety is 
Chemi e, whi ons. de Vilmorin justly con 
sidered the best of all Tomatos. Even sum 
it ripened out-of-doors with me, and in an unheated 
ouse it grew to great perfection in company w with 
m Green Favourite Toes Gardeners’ Chronicle 
September 22, p. 349). grown Tomatos for 
many years in pots, both outdoors and in, a n 
many es in this mode of Gager. The 
roots ar 8 pi er than when in 
er in a larger pot, a struggle for the 
mastery ensues, which is not sonder ive to fruitful- 
e statem 
holds 
„ m 0 le, which I om 
2 en a boy, — never wie t I 
t ato. It isa good friend - 
culturiat, W. R R., Streatham fe mo hori 
WANT 
nes, som of 
climbing plant. Now this is a practice met 
er saw a first-rate crop of fruit taken off a 
— wall, and what fruit is obtained is always at the 
was 
rode shon should ses be closer th: hite, The 
pan 
n 4 feet, nor th 
distance than 18 or 90 inches apart. de 
THE GARDENERS’ 
_ Allusion is made in 
inches, 
to the back wall and be reflect 
begin to change in colour, the hats should be tied 
g 
w 
(=) 
retaining m 
reflect the 55 — Morton, 
PROPAGATION OF THE MISLETO BY BIRDS.— 
our interesting article on 
the Misleto to the assumption that one of the most 
2 
li modes of the propagation of the parasite 
s the deposition of eed o he branches 
of the trees a of the bird, the seeds 
jured. This theory, wa appears 
erroneous, considerin assage through 
pa canal of ye bird, desk . the seed must 
e place, thus render the seed’s adhesion 
ra the bar Ot the branch comparatively ag 
though enveloped in dinary excreta. 
them of any of the viscid po the berries, 
e as in * 7 ga 
method of propagation o Misleto by r 
hand. Miller, the old ican ist, 
noticed both ways, but objected to the former 
theory, because he considered that the seeds would 
not grow after passing through the 
the birds, and also because their deposits could 
not adhere to the undersides of the branches 
where the Misleto is generally found to originate. 
Regarding the comparatively few kinds of trees on 
which en Misleto has been generally found, those of 
a more succulent nature mi to be the most suit- 
able, 5 the reason why it dom s on the 
Oak, an e vigorous young de with their 
ucculent bark. ave observed as affording red 
such as the A 
with the 1 of ~ Misleto ure 
of its m which * n 
hard to —— with a cuits, and very brittle, — 
of strong tension and not inclined to splinter 
The arrangement of the minute medullary rays 
uing, found on inspection, from on 
side of the stem instead of the omc 15 2 the 
concentric rings present the ellipse, 
is also interesting, but this aer "y perhaps 
open to further investigation. Viseu 
TREE CARNATIONS,—Being one of the tyros for 
whom Mr. Dougl ardeners’ 
3 December 15), I should be N if p will 
greenhouse, and t perature best sui 
2 good results. I should like him to kindly 
te e nam those Hosea En carry 
„ ep! 
reader of the N hes A oe would any 
0 oniel 
& great lover of the sun), that the more s 
leaves it could rear to the li gh es 
poston t the greater the crop 
better the quality, TP, 
the contrary of th his. Ep = Re pre! 
p ee year it had twenty-five spikes of ted 
pals 9 aes five and seven flowers on 
aa eight flowers, 
soot-water has been a oa bas 
Eucharis to flower so well, W, — 8 
UCULIA GR . 
beautiful gles @ aoe When visiting 
of the Rev. H. G. Jebb, at Fir- 
CHRONICLE. 
[Janvary 19, 1895, * 
— . 
beck Hall, near Rotherbam, on Januar 9, 
particularly struck o 5 m j 
tory with the delightful perfume from some a] 
bloom, and on lookin ng round I noticed a Magnificent a 
planted it about eighteen 2 ars ago. S. 4. W 
Osberton Gardens, Worksop 
E NONPAREIL DAFFODIL.—There is a . 
trait of this 
of Nonpareils, brie calle 
calice ; r, which i 
mnium maximus i 
contains sixty-nine folio plates, but no let tterprem, 
The figures are freely and e pirated h 
Par indo, 15 ng to the fashion of those times— 
as are thos lusius also—but the copies are vey 
inferior, as of art, 5 the originals. My cop 
at an executors sale 
in Nottingh isin 
solid calf binding, with ornamental gold lettering on 
the sides, marking Bibliothec Bignon.“ — 
this was the A gnon, after whom Tournee 
named the Bignonia. He was i 5 Loe XIV, 
and it is recorded of him tha his own library 
that he might pay exclusive attention to o that oe q 
king. C. Wolle Dod, Edge Hall 
AMATEURS’ — COLUMN. | 
HARDY FLOWERS FOR AMATEURS AND vill 
GARDENS (Continued from p. 48).—In the 
the beauty 
this in favour of autumn sowi 
more bright and beautiful during the early sp 
2 than they are en the warmer 
of summer. e not particu 
shay’ will succeed in iiy soil that will grow an om 
nary garden plant. A rather poor soil, providit 
broken up, would suit them 
for 5 — purpose. 
anxious to m 
ig e occupied with s * 
the hardy and half- hardy — one can 
in the spring, and blo 
hg 2 > b 
9 apart, and it de * 
lightly wit th fine soil, Any position 
for the seed-bed in the vegetable 
provided ii 2 nat shaded or exposed $o 
oon as the seedlings peeP 
the most pr 
the plants that are u 
of embellishment, but will 
ot the most useful for the purpose 
as 
height of all 
style 
begin with the of these 41 
bicolor, LT ora, and verna; they penta 
rett useful hardy annuals, of eat) 
p 
great beauty, They can b "be grown 
