Aprit 20. 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 497 
AL Funeor DISEASES 
The other ee group of fungoid diseases, which 
we have called epiphytal, are those in which the 
fungus makes its appearance superficially upon the 
green parts before the internal 
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of delicate vegetative threads s er the 
face like a white film, ora ee en which i in 
some cases cause the leaves to appear as if they had 
been dusted with flower or chalk. This appearance 
is very familiar to you in the Hedge Maple, the cul- 
Greet Pea, the pe cultivated Roses, — the well - 
wn Oidium of the Vi In auch stems is 
no ere, disease to be dealt — rather, 
we should say, no affection of the tissues. If we are 
getting rid of 
plant is left comparatively healthy. The natural 
i hat this form of disease is 
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the endophytal, and its presence may be detected 
in its earliest stages before much mischief has been 
in the h of all who are interested in horti- 
culture, pwin book would = the descriptions 
of the pate with indications of such reme- 
dies as had be srg pesan w or might be tr 
with some . uccess. Y e well aware 
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hat the Germans, ie instance, are pee ahead of us 
. this respect, and possess elaborate and exhaustive 
eatises on vegetable pathology, whilst the gegen 
parm urist, unless he is fortunate enough 
read German, is r arse to es 
along in “serge with no other guide than his 
own pap n 
If you “pao he suggestion, it seems to us 
that the gorda chery of plant disease is one of 
increasing interest and importance. That it is 
oul 
Dik, Apple, 
hem to be e of cultivation. The only 
that we can tender is an increased acquaintance 
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HORT, SANDER), 
Fig. 70. —BOLLEA SCHRODERIANA: FLOWERS WHITE, FLUSHED WITH ROSF. 
done, Hence it is a matter of considerable impor- 
tance to the cultivator that he should be able at 
cide for himself whether he has to deal 
remedies as experience 
successful with each of these forms of disease 
It A ego necessary to remind practical men 
that e are numerous forms of fungi which 
kenn ne upon vege in which th 
ich have been 
nothing to . 
parasites, a are They, at least, 
offer no occasion for alarm 
Lire History OF, AND REMEDIES cn DISEASES, 
The conclusion to be arrived fro ese 
marks the importance of ‘eating know- 
#0 met i of the names of species as 
ane e, of the cant of 
ups. N 
with the life history of some of the most 
uisition of 
re 
tri 
. And lastly, an untiring effort to discover 
the tendencies and predi ng veel of diseases, 
remembering that “ prevention is better than cure; 
for if ago is any science in ceeded it should 
posse e p to struggle against adverse 
9 and devise means to circumvent the 
most insidious of foes. M. C. Cooke. 
ORCHARD CULTURE. 
an address t 
Society :—“ In the old days the soil had to i 
to prevent the encroachmen The idea was 
to do only what . There was 
absolutel 
no tilling of the soil in ancient times for the sake of 
the crops or for the “ay itself. Now we have learned 
to till for ing 
have experienced a W of the Apple crop. Well, 
reaping 
you 
3 and attend to the tillage of the orchard. 
The only good orchard is the one which bas been 
given the best of care care from the beginning. You will 
a8.2.% 645.08 + htta be hil 
to live on the husks of the hay that has been cut, and 
in addition support and feed six or ve kinds of 
tramps in the way of disease and live pests, The 
only assistance rendered the orchard is t gh an 
attempt to eliminate these tramps with the aid of a 
squirt- gun. 
“T do not say that preying is not ane aa the 
orchard should have full n 
nine-tenths o 
York, with ahem tillage, will not require artificial 
fertilisers 
BOLLEA eA aan at 
7 (H nder). 
Ovr illustration er w represents a flower of 
this fine new Zygopetalum of the Bollea section 
and which was — y Messrs, F. Sander & 
Co., of St. Albans, from a Andes of Colombia. 
Jociety, 
Messrs, Sander showed a fine plant of it, bearing 
nine pure white flowers, on which the only colour 
a pale tint on the front of the labellum. 
The 33 are delicately fragrant, i 
of the plant is so robust as to to the belief 
that it will bea free grower. Bollear, Pescatoreas, 
and other of the leafy Pog. wget come from 
oiet shady valleys, where the 
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cultivation they generally do best when grown with 
Miltonia Koezlii, 
LAW „ NOTES. 
e O FEFE COURT. 
A of the Official Receiver, Mr. H. C. 
Tombs, at Swindon, on Monday, April 8, a meeting 
took place of the Fer of Felis Fletcher Mould, 
seed merchant and n an, of Pewsey, This 
debtor’s gross liabilities —— A to £1,046 10s, Id., 
of which £868 14s. 7d. was due 
deficiency of £380. eee attributed his failure to 
pressure by creditors It was 
resolved to ad — ry debtor a bankrupt, and 
Mr, Edward Hobbs, chartered accountant, of Oid 
Jewry, London, was appointed trustee, with a com- 
mittee of inspection numbering five. 
ee 
S. KiMBALL.—We announced in our last 
issue the ee of this enthusiastic Orchidist. He 
died in his fifty-eighth year, from abscess of the 
brain, on h 26. He was o 
citizens of Rochester, 3 and a 
basin In attendi 
register testifies, of 
ae ke of Mr. Kimbali’s pear 
to the public from 
in opening the houses 
