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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
PLANT NOTES, 
MYOSOTIS ALPESTRIS VICTORIA. 
Tuts, when true, is not only very . but in 
many important respects is to be pre M. 
alpestris, the type variety, or to M. 8 The 
In habit it differs more than in anything else; 
instead of being sprawling, the plant forms a 
neat clump, with upright, well-clothed branches, 
m. k k 
charming. Botanically it is Wlan 8 
see fig. 94, and also p. 159, vol. x., 1891. 4. H. 
VERONICAS, 
The shrubby species of Veronica are useful and 
attractive plants during the attumn, winter, and 
early spring months, the en of flowers of various 
shades of blue, purple, an mson, showing boldly 
above the glossy clon coriaceous foliage. The 
plants are, moreover, nearly hardy, and survive 
all but the hardest winters if planted in sheltered 
able 
embellishment for a portico or for the cold * 
during the colder parts of the year. The variety 
Blue Gem is dwarf and free-blooming, with “Tighe 
blue-coloured flowers and small foliage ; Bolide has 
a flesh-pink, clear the 
ntoinette, is a free-flow 3 salicifolia has 
willow-like leaves and — * light i colour ; 
Hulkeana has spikes 18 inches in len creamy- 
pink yh wers; Andersoni has large, die ark-green 
foliage, above which the spikes of blue p>: white 
flowers show well; Diamant has flowers of a deep 
red colour, darker in the centre ; Eveline is is of good 
habit, and produces fine spikes of flowers of a pretty 
in a south or west border in a compost of five parts 
sandy loam and one of leaf-mould, making this firm 
round about the roots; a space of about 1} feet 
should be allowed between the plants. The young 
growths should be pinched two or three times during 
the summer months to make them branch, and water 
afforded at the roots when the soil is dry, a in 
September, the plants should be potted u 
of a suitable size, using the compost —— 
H. W. V. 
Hoxxsrr (LUNARIA BIENNIS), 
well-known s “ne Mico biennial has 
wonderful recupe 
course, the r of 
so great as if the heads had not been partly destroyed 
by the frost; still, the quantity is remarkable when 
one thinks how utterly hopeless the plants a: appeared, 
I have now patches of three distinct varieties—the 
fine reddish-purple or eed 2 the ordinary 
purple, and the white, and t e all very e 
in patches, Occasionally, arb come flaked p 
and white, and they assist to make Monat babi is te is 
well not to seed from them, if the colours 
kept true. Honesty is best sown where the peee 
have to flower, because the 
and th 
to sow the seeds in a skilo ansplant to 
a well-prepared bed in the ome as — as * plants 
are enough. It is almost tim onesty 
was taken in hand, and atte: attempts marty to improve 
it by means of selection. It is such a useful and 
effective spring- flowering plant, that it is well worthy 
of being taken in hand. R. D 
RUSSIAN INDUSTRIES. 
A BULKY Pye: has been published re n = 
Indust ussia, and dealing with the agricu 
and 8 of that country. 
Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and an English 
translation, edited by John Martin Crawford, U. S. 
Consul-General to Russia, now lies before us. It 
z i 
n 
interest, not merely to the culturists of the dis- 
tricts referred to, but also to 1 of this industry 
in other lands. 
t is not possible here to do more than allude to 
the contents of this * which comprise careful 
and statistical papers ed by various authori a 
and dealing with — * subjects: Climate 
FIG. 
94.—MYOSOTIS ALPESTRE VICTORIA—HEN-AND- 
CHICKENS FORGET-ME-NOT, 
soil, rural population and landed property, systems 
of agriculture and field rota — cultivation of the 
soil, bread-stuffs, grai eld produce, Flax 
and Hemp, gardening, 3 and orcharding, 
live stock, rural econom * sar arming machines and 
implements, agri Wem 
credit, forestry, goode-freighte i in conjunction with 
» household industry, manufac. 
tures from farm produce, fisheries, rural industries of 
rural forestry of 
ice of 
maps tables, and some 
idea of the — of the work before us may 
be arrived at 
It is perhaps invidious to make selection aie 
wW 
pt 
the following extract however, describing 
4 N ee spoons, is inserted as likely to be 
our readers, and he show the minute 
of bia tetrad in this boo! gs 
Woopzx Spoons, 
“The manufacture of spoons is specially worth 
of —— 7, y 
. 
ment. 
Birch wood, supplied on the spot; to a less degre 
Box w 
a year, d 
which more than 30.000 e 
wood a e mploye 
no less than fifteen times through the yer 
specialists,” 
FORESTRY, 
and it woul well for all 
of the land at present left waste ete 
tive were planted with such timber 
a fair return in the future if properly atti 
