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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arrn 27, 1895, 
pots, and these, if rooted in May, 3 erent 
splendid plants by the end of the seas A 
plants mostly in flower in June and July, the 
— elt usually far enough advanced to be put 
down before the ordinary border varieties are ready 
Exposure to hot sunshine under glass is injurious to 
Malmaisons, They like slight — even when not 
in flower, J. Dougla 
THE BULB GARDEN, 
THE 3 
We have had a very fine lot of bloom from these 
sh hothouse flowers this season, but it is now 
after two months continuous display 
from two small houses, I write a few notes at this 
ceeds to 
This they will not do in a green- 
house, or turned out of doors after the last week in 
May, as I once saw a collection, 
The cong 23 do best in a N a W a 
bottom-heat 85° to 90°, We as I 
write these a a a th pots in which t the 
plants are growing e rims, The roots 
push up into the tan N over Saha rime, until the 
tan-bed is quite filled with them. The leaves must 
a be kept healthy and clean until they die naturally, 
growth 
has been fully developed, when they may be gra- 
middle of August, hap t 
the leaves, pA that they die off before their time, not 
aboye half of the plants will flower next season, 
The formation of the embryo flowers must take place 
in A t—at least, I believe it does; consequently, 
let us be careful that the plants are well-attended to 
at that time. 
Some young gardeners may say How can you 
tell when the plants require water, if the flower- pots 
are covered up out of sight?” This is a very 
reasonable question, and it is easily answered. The 
, whether the plants are or in 
gro In winter it works — the skin of 
the bulbs, doing much damage, As the season 
advances, if it is not checked it works upwards, and 
its effect is to cause 25 lower part of the leaves to 
become yellow ato upward fi 
of sap, and h as die before their time, 
When this pest once gets on to any plants, 
it must be ons, and the only chance to 
be successful is to hunt it up until not a trace 
remains. My plan is to appoint one day in the 
week for such work as this, say Friday; one man 
F 
gotten, o- 
powder; this, if applied to the crown of the bulbs 
kills it; but the powder cannot reach the insects 
unless the skin is removed, and this must be done 
without injaring the fleshy part of the bulbs with 
the nat ail, 
hrips are very difficult to kill. Tobacco- smoke 
usually settles them, but in this case they drop 
down into the tan, and most of them erie . escape 
for the leaves swarm with them again ay or 
two; so that two or devas fumigations are —— 
Those who have oe varieties, and wish to increase 
them, should raise seedlings, No flower is more 
easily contre, age se ay is abundantly pro- 
duced, As soon ripens, about June or July, 
let — be sown in rae y bay et in bottom- heat. 
The vegetate, and the young plants, if 
ne out a 3 or so in a 6- inch pot, will make 
good growth by the end of the season. J. Douglas. 
NURSERY NOTES, 
ren oa AT FARNHAM ROYAL, 
Wansr the winter furnishes a fine show of 
Chinese Primi and Cyclamens in the long and 
admirable span-houses which Mr. James has at this 
outlying Bucks village, in the early spring Cine- 
rarias are fall of beauty, making remarkably attrac 
tive features and the Calceolarias follow in ere 
order in May. he great feature of these four 
8 florists flowers is, that they are always of 
the very best. Not only is there no deterioration, 
but hero is ever advance, though it must of neces- 
things. Just now mu 
of seed -pods. It is appalling K learn that the stock 
includes some twenty-two diverse grown single and 
semi-dou = of various colours, Seed of these 
is invariably sown in the m onth of May. 
Cyclamens, too, are nearly all in a seeding an 
A bi bateh of the blood-crimson and maroon- 
ms; they give wonderfally rich clo 
and | the flowers are of the very finest. The gia 
&c., are carrying heavy crops of seed, but there are 
flowers enough on old plants, as well as young ones, 
to show the splendid quality of the strains. As for 
Cinerarias in such vast quantities they make a 
marvellous show, especially when, as now, the seed- 
ing process has comm — ear they are arr — in 
g 
inches, e 32s. 
the secret of the remarkable dwarfness of the plants, 
and the fine forms found in the large blooms, Too 
much heat to force into bloom early in the winter, 
the common practice with gare onduces to 
and 
to very demoralised flowers. Those who 
wish to have Cineraria blooms of the finer form and 
quality, should neither employ too rich compost, 
which invariably creates coarse ae always 
obtained at the expense of bloom; or 
heat, which compels the plants to draw up un- 
duly. Just now, blocks of colours comprise 
pure white, pale blue tips, heavy blue tips, 
blue selfa, magenta selfs, magenta tips, heavy red 
h just recently much of the 
leafage has been removed to kepen damping, 
and also enable more strength to be thrown into 
1 
seed - production. Not less clean, and ag aa all know, 
most difficult of plants in pots to keep clean, are the 
large number of Calceolarias. These comprise many 
old plants in 10-inch pots, that promise to make 
he Tem ; and far 
in 7-inch pots. Remarkable is it to 
notice how ey tear b dry they are 1 ut the 
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gro is very c of the use of water, alm 
SY eae to let k Pet flag a little frat; or, to 
e his words, “letting them ask for it.“ Seed ig 
sown from the middle to the end of July, Mr, James 
speaks enthusiastically of a e new kal XL, 
as the finest and most innocuous instrument of aphis 
destruction on herbaceous Calecolatl ias he has ever 
used, 4, D. 
Obituary, 
REW KER.—We regret to announce the | 
death on — April 14, of Mr, A, Ker, nursery 
manager to Messrs. Stuart & Mein, of Kelso, N.B, 
at the age of sixty years, The deceased was a native 
of Kelso, and served his phage sn as a gardener 
Mei He 
Stuart & Mein. He wasa 
man, and a frequent contributor of articles on horti- 
cleat subjects in the — newspapers and in the 
ow non-existent Garden 
THE WEATHER, Bi. 
(The term “accumulated | temperaturo” in ina the aggre 
te amount, as well , of degrees of 
kipita ‘above or below the period 
named : and i is —— result is ei is — — ee 
de degree si ing > 
—ů— — or any other number of degrees for 
an inversely proportional number of hours.] 
TEMPERATURE. RAINFALL, 
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200 aver 35 13 — + 299 3 — | 33 
ali + 51 [n — 4107 306) 3— | 3 
42 4 56 11 — 64/7 30 1 — | 50 
62 ＋ 51 3 — 9804 342 2 — 47 
61 2 + 49 10 — 64+ 382) 4 — 60 
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8 2 2 3 — 105 345 2 — 53 
9 4 — 106|+ 285 2 — 68 
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THE PAST E 
THe following summary renee of the wear 
the British Islands for 3 ding April 20, is 
from th 3 
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