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THE. GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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oarse sand. Place them close to the glass in the 
greenhouse until rooted, afterwards removing them 
PRIMULAS.—Sow the main portion of seed in 
ow, — ae pans filled with Sifted loam 
and cover 
but not 
— where they may be closely shaded until the 
have mane the fresh soil, when air should be 
— admitted 
THE ORCHID HOUS ES. 
By W. H. WHITE, Orchid Grower, Burford, Dorking. 
PHALAENOPSI8.—By this time the prone anaa 
of — species as P. Se a ee P. Aphrodite, P. 
„P. Esmeral Ida, P. Sanderia ame | fl pak r- 
i of flower, 
45 renewed 
activity at the root. This is therefore the proper 
or ascertaining ie new _baskets, pots, or 
to be renewed, which must be done if it be decayed or 
will sometimes happen that 
to injury in repotting, &c., and the operation needs 
to be carefully done, separating them from whatever 
they adhere to without violence he better method 
is to immerse t ot or basket in a bucketful o 
tepid water for a few minutes, then with a thin 
bladed knife detach the roots one by one. In re- 
basketing a plant, y8 use new basket, 
bly hi aye: than the top- A po 
amen, 8 * pia ie 2 elean- picked 
p um bers = ape crocks in about equal proportion 
amongst them, pressing it moderately firm, but not 
s njure the roots, finishing off with a thin 
i - living sphagnu s, and so t t has a 
shape, the plant being at the apex. These 
ter will be necessary. On no danesi 
arated, as that would speedily 
e Phalenopsis, Lcd 
85 3 they may be 
completely eradicated. r washing the 
foliage a "e Karre with a sponge and clean rain- 
wards the successful 
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FRUITS UNDER GLASS. 
By RICHARD PARKER. Gardener, Goodwood, 
MELONS.— Without clean healthy foliage, fine- 
flavoured fruit is — the plants, therefore, 
suffer for the want of 
of the moisture to escape. 
is no — on to cause the fruit 
to break away from it during the process o of ripening. 
— plenty of air in fine meme! and do not quite 
ose the to top-ventilators at Allow the night 
— to fall to 65°. 
8 are growing 
5 and require "daily ‘attention to atop and 
gulate the e e plants will be ex- 
are ready, or they fiar suffer a check, Make 
mounds of h-cut t a little fine 
il a r le a t 
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the ah 
done in small quantities, making eac 
„rather heavy — light, is the 
Plants in pits and frames will * 1 the same general 
treatment as that given above. Continue to cover the 
lights with double mats at night, and close the lights 
early in the afternoon. Place young fruit on pieces 
of tiles, or inve plant * and — iving 
water at the roots see tha mperature is not 
Add fresh — of vtable-litter, if 
leas than 85°, 
necessary. 
CUCUMBERS should be looked over every other 
day, in orde and tie gro 
R e all male flowers and weak also thin 
. erowded. Keep m 
lation Cut the fruit as soon as 
li 
; soot-water is beneficial to the pla 
apt to make the fruit bitter. Top-dress the borders 
occasionally with fresh horse-droppings. 
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whisk- broom, or dipped in the mi Red - spider 
is not often troublesome at this season tee Roses in 
the n ground which are plante rich soil, 
2 zupplied with weak eee in peri 
dry weather. 
weathe walle, or dry 
tions, are much more eat i to be infested, t 
indications of which tre are a yellow tinge in the foliage, 
which soon f: ff. Against red-spider nothing is 
so effective as a mulching of manure, freque 
root-wateringe, and a vigor application o 
den-hose or engine, The Rose-leaf-hopper is 
ometime 
appearance to 
firsts ** he insect. = es bind 8 by means of hick 
ap great distances, and thie akpa i dificals to 
REET vitai in the open air, A 
leaves underneath, and dust 
rapida or that of 
powder). The Quai and 
effective. The Rose-caterpillara or leaf -rollers are 
if means are not taken in 
in countless numbers. 
killed, and small inse 33 birds 
about the garden, . being better as 2 
n dust them 
e kind of mildew-destroyer, or 
that made by boiling 2 Ib. sulphur and 2 lb. quick- 
10 quarts of wate r for 20 minutes, strainin ng 
to 4 gallons of water, The Roses * be 
— syringed with this, aad every part w 
A reventative of mildew is to well = = 
soil with rich manure, and affor with 
ear water, and frequent root w: 
alternating these with liquid- manure, 
THE HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 
By W. Pope, Gardener, Highclere Castle, Newbury. 
AND THINNING THE SHOOT 
THE APRICOT.—AII the trained trees on walls and 
fences should sap pae of the breast-wood removed 
oh pinching the sh 
case of th — tron m the part of the 
cach =o which is next to the wall, they should be 
cut clear away, or rubbed off wi the hand, It is 
good practice to perform this sort of 
— tia tervals, so as to e 
the growth of the — The lateral shoots 
of which will be laid-in when sufficiently — 
should also be reduced in num hose laterals 
t 
om 
4 inches for th 
Trees bearing freely will requ ire a good w ateri ring 
ith li 
of the bor der with a fork before Kr it, and 
mulching with 3 bg afterw 
evaporation. tre — ter the lighs 
green-coloured maggot or leaf-roller (Tortrix). When 
oticed, caterpillars or 
ed — 
within, between the thamb and finger 
with a 83 motion. 
1 branch: thi ed in the ard and 
other trees which aro -thinned in 
make a quantity of shoot, and most of these must be 
removed, doing this fre cently during the early 
summer, Senger the 
wding up of the —— 1 s growths. 
