May 11, 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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far below 32°, and there are few of our Roses that 
rather than its absolute severity that 
cripples and kills so many Roses is 
by the fact th i 
is often found on the warmest walls, and in the 
cosiest localities. For many years t ter grew 
Tea and other on every available an 
site, and noted after every slaughter or injury among 
Roses through cold, that those taken and those left 
were chiefly the very opposite of what might have 
me oe 
of the extreme cases, Maréchal 
32 1 a oe in fine Pa M condition on an 
pect om O * other; While sheer south and 
extreme warmth protection of site, seemed least 
favourable to the 5 of Roses. Rosa 
Kalsxnix Avouste — 
On the occasion of the meeting of a Verein zur 
Beförderung des Gartenbaues, Berlin, a 
surprising lot of — of this variety at ' Rose were 
shown by H, Ed. Crass, the exhibitor stating that 
at th 2 when the importation of Italian 
Roses began to recede, variety ſetehed good 
paying prices, whieh four to six weeks earlier would 
not have he case, The plants had been forced 
The variety is very hardy, even in Germany; free 
in growth, and the blooms well formed. The 
general secre to the fact that 
the 
whole houses being planted with it, 
BIENNIAL LILY OF THE 
VALLEY. 
Mr. W. Rozerrs thinks that a mistake was made 
when I wrote in the Gardeners’ * 7 
March 30 that o one of the advantages of Fricke’s 
the Valley pisses in 
in the second 
1 the real 
state of the 2 
ing information, which I translate word for word 
— * I have had the about four years, and 
I divide strong which will not 
flower, from the feeble cultivate 
for three years, whilst the strong ones I culti 
o years—are the best root-stocks for forcing.” 
I have also questioned * Perring, ee of 
the Royal Botanic ee at Berlin, w ho told me 
that a biennial syste 9 ng the Lily of the 
Valley had been there * years; 
iem long period of romh, at frat I intended to 
later on, but I 
worth 
the plant an amount of nutritive matter in 
tain * omy proportions, if the plant is — 
ing, to speak more accurately, if the plant 
is . those growths, which later will 
into flowers. ust be a yae ot 
nutritive matter in aeiia ensure 
that these growths e as flowers, en this 
the numerous malformations show us, especially 
those ranged under the * ol chloranthy. 
If this is right, I argue that then perhaps it 
may 
be le to give to the plant artificially 
th nutritive matters in the necessary pro- 
Bat there arise some weighty questions, 
of which I mention only the following—what is the 
influence of the different nutritive matters upon the 
life of the plant, and what 
ve growth, especial 
On the other hand, we know that a 
containing potash and 
stage of their life than under normal conditions, I 
N 
the means 
what are to attain thie end? 
* —. D can be given, as 
plants are very different in constitution, It 
is, I think, necessary to find out the 
y to 
shorten the experimente, is, to find out 
for each species what is the time of year ich 
a are formed, which on e the 
flowers, Itis well known that these growths are often 
formed very early, but it is also well known that the 
time of formation is very distinct for eac 
species, if not for each variety. At this date, which 
I should like to call the critical date, at which the 
future flowers are formed, it is necessary that the 
plant should receive 
$ are with a 
solution of nitrate of one part to a thousand ; 
given at first at intervale of about a week, then 
sh so that at last 
the plant receives the solution instead of pure 
water, In this way becomes stronger 
and , and able to take larger quantities of 
It is not necessary to that the soil in which 
the plant is cultivated must a nutritive 
IE the plant by nitrate of 
is reached at or immediately before the critical date 
Thee give the plant a solution of — Ire: of 
potash, two or three to the d. I will 
not say that this will . I the desired 
result, but I may say that different plants N been 
found to be well satisfied with euch a mode of cultiva- 
. Fuchsias flowered so freely that the plants 
I must add that 
INSEOTS ON FRUIT TREES. 
‘The large old Apple 
trees are 
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5 1b. of soft son 
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