6, 1895. 
APRIL 
Mandi, but we do not see these varieties, bulba worth 
guinea each, grown in pots. Referri Tring to Hyacinths, 
one thing was noticeable, and that is, that the dis- 
trict seems changing; for where i 
En thrown away as useless rubbish—ill-broken 
reeders, foul flowers, with 3 flames and 
biotehed feathers, John Pope 
COLOUR IN APPLES,—It is — — to read the 
of the various corresp pondents n the aboy 
potash m a important part i k, 
seeing that almost invariably the finest coloured 
fruit comes fro of a rather heavy nature, and 
i al 
with in the course, we 
te E served in plants 
* a s to give — bee 
bright colour we — with i mage hoor ly 
time or another, 1 must plead gui 
ti ent w rictly in keeping with facts 
two trees of Worcester Pearmain growin 
within a few yards of each other, but on an entirely 
different formation, we could scarcely recognise them 
to same variety, 8 ent, 
ite fruits beyond the russety-green stage. I may also 
remark that our instructor told us that he found the 
colour in Apples, bat before the tints attainable 
made manifest, the tree m the benefit of the 
zung ra the process. To of this, we 
zun. Apples, P eache 12 er 
utility of po olouring agent to other fruits 
than the by mentioning the produc 
by an application of that substance to the roots of a 
tos Colmar Vine, hre ag lb. 
hI hold, having proved that pot- 
ash i . the chit raip ent of colouring matter in 
and 
ins 
h are usually deficient in 
light soil, so that in dealing with plants growing on 
to the square yard, or to exceed 14 oz. of kai 
the same space—as a rule it is lese, and I apply the 
at mysel if, I would say, then, try a few experiments 
for the sake of being convinced. Potash, 
THE DESTRUCTIVE — 1 — 
Which occurred añ —— on will be 
Large specimens 
Soren ir, ee Fe ne 
the roots, te ro kee, 
Worst, and nearly all are destroyed; whilst &. 
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Deodara and C. atlantica have not suffered so much. 
yd large specimens feathe to the ground, and 
70 feet high pi a ies Concolor, A. Pinsapo, 
ri zÄ elsa, and x. halonica are completely de- 
stroy pressus Sy A anar mat and C, macrocarpa, 
the latter especially have suffered; while large trees of 
Ash lie about in all directione. Libocedrus 
decurrens has stood well, only one out of six large 
specimens having lo T, and many of the 
Pines have od well, notably P. Jeffreyi, macro- 
arpa, Coulteri, * triaca, muricata, Laricio, and 
ponderosa trees of Pinus Pinaster, P. Strobus, 
Qs shed and P. Sabiniana were blown down, 
the force of the gale well were the 
eae gigantes, and Thuja gigantea, not one 
400 trees of these two 3 ing over- 
sikisi, and m re much ex 
ter rge vian of the Sequoias are between 60 and 
70 feet in height, and the Thujas between 50 and 
60 feet high. Others that have stood very well are 
Salisburia, Torreya, 
high, was partly blo 
kinds of leaser atature e have pulled 
— with strong 2 and alleys. and au A boy 
with strong props, A, Harding, Orton Garden 
Peterborough, 
APPLE CANKER.—I have carefully read oe 
oe eg gress article in the den 
, p. 72, and see no reason 
opinion = weber’ as to the idea entertained by 
Mr. Greaves that Nectria ditiesime is the direct 
cause of the disease, as he n in his 
opening geno . 72, Nothing could be clearer 
than ther — was, moreover, all the more 
convinced | — this is 80 after h 0 
i ublication of 
on Hardy 
to lat r. Greaves said Seeg pee cultural 
conditions having anything to do with the inception 
or spread of Apple canker, but based lecture 
solely upon the scientific aspect of the case, Owing 
his of re pasir, from a 5 
int of vi e diagrams, 
— led to much information in regard to the 
manner in 
very 
not fail to impress 
n his 1 the = 8 the article * 
2 ared in the p. 72, wi 
written N with the d rerh to > elici ee 
upon the subject of canker in the Apple; and spoke 
person who was not upon very sure grounds 
the 
Area = 
383° 
— 
hing business, age 
mad 12 use 
roved to be of value in combating it, 
rather than abe to the — teaching of 
Mr. Greaves. 
vn Sei ee MANURES —T a2 note on the above 
p. 334 i ortune, as many will now be 
seat 0 to 85 fertilisers for both crope under glass 
a they 
not only supply the constituents necessary for th 
proper development lants, &c., but are free from 
the seeds t in manures in 
ordinary use, n De tor so much labour in 
clearing away For about ten or eleven 
artificial manures largel 
Sere pat T hava employe arti results; Hai AD a 
good many experimenta have found marinte of potas 
. of all 1 P 
motes a sturdy healthy growth, that 
For fruit trees under glass 
and on 
and 2 oz, of superphospha 
. 
just as growth commences; as 
fruit is set; and the third, immediately 
after all the fruit is gathered. 
— — — e 
sake of ne I A an 
this combination in one Tomato-hou — 
manures; the fruit was a 
the plants Lans 
both in the nd fruit departmen nte, artific ial 
manures have done such sterling Ye that they 
are now looked upon as indispensable. 
MARKABLE TREES IN ENGLAND,—The fol- 
a — — of remarkable po eee 
and 
a Strutt’s Sylva an, 1896" w 
1, 1 pein Oak in 21. Fx og — Bury St. 
— ow Forest, Edmund's, Suffolk 
22. Black Poplar, Bury 8 
2. Beggar’ s Oak, in Bagot’s Kdmuna’s, Suffolk 
rk, Staffs, 23. Oowthorpe Oak, near 
3. Three Oaks at Fredvitte Wetherby, Yorks 
near Adisham, 4. Qaeen Elizabeth's Oak, 
4, Panshanger Oak, —_ Buntingfield, Suffolk 
5. Chipstead Elm, K 25, Sir P, Sidney's Oak, Pens 
6. Rafeld * Middlesex hurst, Kent 
7. Tut a Wye Elm, 26. Kin ‘Oak, Savernake, 
pas 1 
8. Ank near 27. Spanish Chestnut, Tort- 
Staines M Middlesex worth, Gloucestershire 
9. Saley F. Oak, North- 28. Lime and Sye 
am — ham, Kent 
10 andos Oak, Southgate, 29. Oriental Plane, Lee Place, 
Middlesex 2 
II. Spanish Chest; “F wley, Sussex 
nut, Four 30. E 
Oobham, Kent 31, — Dade 
12. Beech, Knole Park, Kent 32, 3 
13. Park, Herts 121 
14. El Ox 
re 
15. Oak, Shelton, Salop am shire 
16. Oak, Bound’s Park, Kent 31. 8 3 
17. 1 aa Park, Here- E a — = ari 
fo ` n — i 
18, yen Wotton, Bucks Pans r 
19, 1 Fou ntain’ Abbey, 36, Elm, Checquers, Bucks 
"Toten 37. Maple, Boldre, Hants, 
In my communication to you of September 29, ial 
I gave some rece 
d 30 respectively 
A gecrption P the Shelton or 
Glendower Oak 0 15 505 given in your n 
of April 12,1879 + As to 53353 „ 
to be, or to have andos” Oaks, asin 
+ many the trees described by Strutt in 1826 
still exist, in what condition such as do exist 
now are, I shall be obliged to any of your readers 
who can give me any infor 
n 
Perpetual Spinach is very hardy, prolific, and 
excellent quality, this claiming the attention of = 
year, even if m 
