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condition of the Vines, and for many years they have 
been pinched or cut off. The ar 
applies to the aérial roots 
from 1 18 inches long. T 
things show that there is something wr e- 
where, As it is ost common where Vines are forced 
with moisture, Da conditions are favour- 
able for the emission of r probably etd jiasi 
something from the Arbe, but I have never 
ot is this, and cut or break them off as a as 
—and I always consider that if these roots 
1 asihing wants seeing to. I found on one 
occasion that it was over-dryness in the border ; the 
matter that admitted of easy remedy. mes 
the bulk of the roots are in the outside border, 1 
the cold weather causes stoppage of grow 
remedy for this is to place a good depth of forming 
hot-water pipes in his vineries; that he considered 
the moisture obtained by sprinkling the borders and 
paths daily, with syringing the walls occasionally, 
was sufficient, this affording all the moisture that 
was required for healthy growth, 
e of the evils Vine-growers have to contend 
with is 5 a pest that i is a constant source of 
anxiety to t ivato am well aware 
that in some districts red-spider does but little 
, but in others the gardener must be con- 
stantly on the alert to check it on its first appear- 
ance. Where the soil is a clayey loa 
as it is in dry districts and on light soils, Gardeners 
have not yet decided as to the beat way in which to 
2 this pest, and it is a point upon which there 
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syringe well, but if this is done the Vines have to 
be syringed once at least every day, and by the time 
the Grapes are ready to cut, the bloom looks as if it 
bear to hold the hand on them ed Reser a een 
Shut the house up in o that t 
ature will rise to about "i 9e, less or Ar 
but more rather than less. Paint the pipes when 
thus heated with flowers-of-sulphar di in soft- 
soapy water; the mixture should be paint, 
sulphur until a thin haze appears in the house, and 
parasite will be destroyed; 
repeated at at intervals until the Vine-leaves 
must be 
are free from it. 
It is dangerous to try experiments with enlphar; I 
rr once, and bitterly regretted doing so. So long 
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mildew as well as 
the red-spider. I followed out the directions, with 
the result that I destroyed a fiae ho ouse of Vines with 
the Grapes just beginning to colour, I found after- 
wards that the word “saturated” should have bee 
-n instead of “ sprinkled,” Young gardeners must 
act with caution, and not be too forw orward to try 
things of which 228 have no knowledge. Pinching 
the laterals is an ortant part of the tani’ 
work, and iat ite attend to this in good time 
has probably something to do with shanking. 
Every gardener knows something of this evil, 
but very few can say what is the real cause of its 
appearing in a vinery, and the cause not being ap- 
parent it is not so easy By find a rem Shanking 
is unknown u pon Vin outside tr 
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the Vine when in full growth, and this may sometimes 
be caused by allowing the Vine to make a great deal 
of growth that is not needed, and a check is received 
when it is cut away. Sometimes the half of the 
leaves will be cut off with the laterals ; this ought 
never to be allowed, all laterals Longat to be pinched 
off when they have grown abou inch or two. It 
stands to reason that cut pia eof nearly half the 
foliage of a Vine all at on 
cripple it; . stopping T Teale at the very 
earliest period possible cannot cause any check. I 
am not quoting any suppositious case, for I have seen 
a man wheel out a barrow-load of lateral growths 
from a vinery at one time; moreover, the leaves that 
remain after this thinning-out are poor in quality 
compared with those not so crowded. J, Douglas, 
NURSERY NOTES, 
MR. LADHAMS’, SHIRLEY, 
To those interested in hardy herbaceous plants, a 
visit paid in early spring to a hardy plant nursery 
cannot fail to be interesting. With the object of 
observing the condition of the plants after the late 
winter, and to hunt ont novelties, I visited recentl 
Mr. Ladhams nurseries at Shirley, near Southampton. 
For the last few years much attention has been 
to the cultivation of hardy plate, as his large 
collections at the wy us shows have testified; and 
10 gr s the demand for these plants, especially 
in 2 peep rosea ot Shirley, that more land has 
been taken in to enable the demand to be met. 
When it is considered that but a few years ago 
a part of what is 
found on the surface, To mre masses of 
certain species of plants gives the visitor an idea of 
the value of many of them when cultivated in clumps 
or beds, Epimediums are largely cultivated, and rex 
pure white E. niveum, the pale yellow E, lute 
and the soft pink outer petals and sulphur centre ‘of 
E. Harrisii attract one's attention at once; and then 
the bronze-tinted foliage is so useful for cutting. 
The pure white blossoms of Ranunculus amplexi- 
caulis, which are freely produced, and the glaucous 
leaves and stems of the Fair Maids of France make 
f.-pl.), 
is not eed much seen in private eee although 
it was 
coloured flowers, Sas es of — so deep a — as 
T h the: larger and more 
striking. Trollius napellifolius has immense blooms 
of a pale yellow colour; T, Gibsoni has a deep 
orange tint, and on that account is of value, A 
10 yards long, 4 feet wide, planted with Polemonium 
Richardsoni, was a lovely picture in pale 
blue. A fine batch of that best of dwarf 
Campanulas, G. F. Wilson, had so well withstood 
the winter weather as to render it even still more 
useful as a blue-flowered plant. A bed of Iris 
pumila was a mass of pre flowers ; it is one of 
the best of the dwarf Iris 
Of Heucheras there were lar arge masses of H. 
+ Richardsoni, 
the latter having rich copper- coloured foliage. 
lden Gem Auri uricula, was a 
mass of bright yellow flowers, It isa that 
would be difficult to excel, so hardy is it and such a 
profuse flowerer, Arnebia echioides van qit 
pale yellow Ba 
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to be one of the best of the dwarfer sa 
inside of the bell-like flowers is t orange lon t 
but 4 inches high ; and a capital loé of B . montanum, 
i variety with single yelloy 
paid much sttention of late to se lecting and raising 
improved forms of oTr and of A. ccerules he 
possesses a large nu 
mproved Hirsi of Ch hrysan nthemum 1 
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long time when I saw them. Visitor. 
THE PUBLIC PARK, DEVONPORT, 
Wes have already had occasion to afford ou 
readers a plan or two of public parks from designe 
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laid out for the use of the public ought to be; that 
the walks and other ways should N a par siè 
one of these is to give ready access to every 1 
out being needlessly circuitous. Plenty of paths in | 
public place perform other ser mie besides this one 
—they do much to preserve the general 
good appearance of the turf, which for lack of them — 
would surely suffer, E 
most in having no walk which skirts the boundary the 
entire length—a good innovation, we think, inasmuch 
as it does not permit of an easy comprehension of 
the extent of the enclosed a aoe the intended 
planting we are unable to form ust estimate, 10 — 
much depending on the species 2 variation of . 
and shrub made use of; but we may 1 
not err on the side of excessive planting, i 
lessening the area of open spaces, 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, 
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YELLOW SELF CARNATIONS. 
Wuitx there are plenty of yellow 
flowers having their yellow pe 
marked in some way, generally with rose, ente 
red, there are but few distinctly yellow 
of these Germania atill holds r * In 
it has stood the winter in 
well. 
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fine yellow self still holds its own in com ‘ail the 
classes flowe’ nd bat 
petals so finely developed that it requires 
ng. It lacks 2 i 
fect Carnation, Monte is a fine cleat ine adde 
self, good in colour, comea to a good sith 
