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THE GARDENERS’ 
favourites with Mr, O'Hagan, In the culture and 
fruiting of these plants, Mr. Laat has proved himself 
an adept, so much so, that hie employer, encouraged 
ndsom 
ost forward bunch 
e large handsome leaves 
drooped, and the clusters of fruits 
howed signa of decay, The variety here 
grown is M. Cavendishi, and the experiment has 
proved so successful, that their loss is all the more 
This is especially so, as the ripening of 
their fruits was 80 he Vine- 
ater, but bei 
on the outside, to some extent would get more rapid 
drainage. 
The Me n and Cacumber-honses are on some- 
co 
well-grown white Cyclamen persicum were noticeable 
here, 
Ia the kitchen garden a greater depth of water 
g 0 
Ia p! the gravel paths were 3 in 
tong hedges were overturned, and fences 3 
while here and there were quantities of 
Cn had been brought down stream 
with the flood. 
At the extreme end = grounds, and ne ar 
river, is the magnificent boat-house ge, 
damage was done 
to 2 mach inery. To rid the paths of the slime, it 
became necessary when the water subsided to clean 
them w ater-hose and besom. t 
risa it is oe a question of 8 and 
waiting. E. Jenkins 
GARDENING IN NORTHERN 
m RUSSIA, 
Continued from p. 68 ) 
y Isla we started 
with several hundred pilgrims in one of th 
monastery to the holy islands of Solo- 
» in the Gulf of Onega, e 
ourney Archangel, Her 
we saw r most o 
- Rasp- 
filled the qaadrangle of 
as I have mentioned, the monks’ 
We 1 7 5 chief E and but little pains seemed as 
rule to be expended upon them. The boys in the 
monastery school were mee e eee and 
ere urged to aroshka jam in ou 
uA the TAANS Church of Mount Sekerna, ten 
verets from the monastery, and nearly 300 feet abovs 
sea-level, the chief eminence on the main island, the 
monk in charge, who ne previously been a sailor, 
garden, 
me 
ee -up terraces from the top to the bottom of 
e hill. He had a few small frames, and boasted 
a he had A that season pickled two hundred 
Cacumbers: his Raspberry-canes were well kept, he 
had a fair crop of ibe a one calling the larger of 
t vo sorts “ Victorias,” and his soil was evidently well 
He t old me i s the water 
turning to poy we atarted 
up tae Dwina in a Avek kinai. Stopping every 
twelve hours to reload with wood-fuel, I got half-an- 
hour on shore each time to botanise and look around, 
but saw little that could be called a garden till our 
arrival on the 19ch at Ustyug, nearly 400 miles from 
Archangel, where the Dwina or“ double river origi- 
nates in the confluence of the Yug and the Suchona, 
Here it was necessary for us to change into a 95 
Suchona we 
fruit, of Hemp, and of Oats; and here w we had co me 
rity as 
ozen or more vo e 1 and . —— 
Be possble 3 of the existing population. 
There is a c garden here, much like that at 
spk — a promenade on Sunday 
afternoon. Birches still predominated amo 
trees; * here were also a good 8, 
some small-leaved Lindens, some dres-rose 
bushes, and a shrubby Spiræa, It is noticeable yr 
of Lady’s-mantle (Alchemilla 
vulgaris), and Cock’ 20 5 (Dactytis), 
As we left Ustyng, we passed various villages 
where Sunflowers aditi in fall bloom, and Hops were 
trained over a few poles in many small gardens, 
e had seen a few Hops at Archangel, where excel- 
lent beer is 1 now, as 
that ; presumably so 
t concerned 
many miles of aa igi 
red reg cliffs by which w. 
Calla palustris and Lysimachia Nummularia in 3 
swamps, or Stone- crop, Sedum acre, on the s 
shore. Beyond the occurrence of Hazel, 3 is 
little e in the forest trees, n 
n length, straggling 
The fine weather ak which we = hitherto b 
3 » failed us as we completed on hy bee, 
ologda, where we had little lei 
the train for Moscow sisare RT 
of the public garden seemed to n gepe 
oscow.—In Moscow, the short ‘tne at our dig- 
e prevented my even 
where I had been 
aome of the species of Ferula 
e in caltivation 
resident that th 75 — 
co N . peas 
„ gay with P 
and Nicotiang affinis and N. ena i 1 
CHRONICLE. 
(Janvary 26, 1895, 
boys eat Sanflower- is baem.. and Locust- 
beans are also for sale i market, whilst Boletus 
edalis formed one of di be tos on our hotel buffet. 
Moscow seems well supplied with vegetables, The 
market visible from the wi indows of our hotel was 
ace 
restaurants the sensible practice of dishin up s 
portions of several vegetables, small Carrote, Padi 
or French Beans, for instance, in addition to Potato, 
Travelling by night to Smolensk, between that 
place and Minsk, on August 29, we bod several 
additional plants in cultivation Poppies (small 
heads of which we had seen in the Moscow market), 
Sunflowers, Broad Beans, and Beet, were growing in 
many places, and at Borisoff we came upon the first 
of a series of very pretty and well-kept station- 
gardens, bright with Portulaca, 9 Tiger - 
Lilies, and Dahlias. At Minsk we our first 
nursery garden and Apple orchards, sui ‘the station 
, and before 4. 
German ‘frontier. G. 8. 
18, Ladbroke Grove, V. 
FORCING PLANTS, FRUITS, AND 
VEGETABLES, 
HE season of forcing is upon us; indeed, m 
gardeners in charge of the leading private pe 
have begun forcing a month or six weeks 
When I was a g gardener in such estab- 
lishments, the details of early forcing were vividly 
impressed my memory, and I should be 
upon 
glad to impress upon young gardeners and students ai 
of to-day the le 
branch of their profession, A la umber of 
hem, when questioned upon the subject, gave the 
temperatures, to s ith, far too high, Even 
the gardening press make the 
mistake of advising too high temperatures. 
I read that “starting Vines on December 1, begin 
with 
if the sun should appear.” Sach temperatures would 
be very dangerous to start Vines, Peaches, and other 
things, 
Vines—Vinee will stand a higher temperature 
than Benches will, but even Vines must be 8 we 
gradually, as early forcing, even if managed / 
— best net skill, will cause the growths 
to push out considerably in advance of any 
lied „ 
at the roots; indeed, if there is no heat ap 
rootlets 
the roots, they do not push out the new 
he sap stored 
Vines, A little consideration will mha 
the cultivator to the conclusion that too high 
p 
growth has been made, add 5° more as a m 
and by the time the Vines are in flower, & 
of 65° may be reached, to be kara to a 
again when it is seen that the „ oe 
over. The above temperatures refer to a con 
of things that gives the cultivator a con 
cots. In the case of o 
roots running outside as well as 
“| 
Thus, 
inside, much nor 
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