Mar 25, 1898. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 657 
Part 3, edited by Witt Faw and well be thankful for the enterprise of the Canary was never seen here until the other classes were 
taining: Rum Analysis, *. on ge cer yielding Islanders, A very warm compliment should be paid nearly extinct, and even after they were extinct, the 
Rubber, Grabs at Roots of Cocoa Trees, Oranges, to the “Council for the remarkably successful effort soldiers were formed in companies under flower-pote, 
Eucalyptus as Fuel, &e. made to enclose and darken the lecture end of the &c. I might sa: eg that this particalar ant is not a 
x oer s us hope it may a be by — 
the last of such illustrated lectures, Since writing THE E a 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE, the above I have rend in one of your contemporaries EASY IRELAND, t, ine bosa saggened that i would 
— an opinion that the lantern pictures were a compa- be of interest to lovers of plante if some record were 
35 rative failure. That deprecatory criticism is happily made of the effects of the — — severe frost of 
po Aa i maia The head of Lettuce I counterbalanced by that of another contemporary, last winter, and as we grow about 1100 species and 
vena ws — n grown out-of-doors all the winter who regarded them — a success, This latter adde a varieties of more or less rare in the gardens 
| under à frame protection without covering; they suggestion that some similar pram K ree here, I have te to 3 ou a list showing the 
were expose e weath bout the third week should be ado 10 the case i slightly a minie A and the uninjured, 
in March. I have been cutting or pullin the bat may * phen auen pen Among the first are several which were moved just 
| F ta ing the same period, the present sprawl-footed cu in, and it is, perhaps, hardly fair 
and am still doing so, Our garden is protected from nuisances, and the curtains eter Perbae i it to count them the dead, When we read of 
the north and north- -west, also the east side by a would not be difficult to ha the common L having been killed in several 
s a very hardy variety, and seldom succumbs to gallery, and could be easily lowered or raised at will survived here; but the reason is that the gard 
: peop ised at 
[The Lettuce has stood the winter very well, but it made to unscrew into Tor lengths from the fret the number of rare and half-hardy things me Hy have 
frost, except it be as severe as that of the past with the aid of pulleys, Such an enclosure would on the slope of a hill, are well 8 by ou 
wood, Ric rd C. Harris, Oaken Holt, near Oxford. baize curtain suspended by an iron i whic h — parts of England, some le may be au 
winter. Ep.] also during the lectures shut out the noise of feet trees, and the prevailing wind passes over them. In 
and voices in the hall. D, the list of survivals I have not mentioned the com- 
| THE 3 aa THE WINTER IN eae moner plants, Tea Roses have not suffered in the 
. Gardener’ have been killed out of 160 ponies and varieties of 
There is no doubt that we are a little m `: Cronicl: who wiil bogia bertut Chere t's — g Psae — ee ete > iis, 
th 3 ot, N still sure remedy eradicating this troublesome peat 8 1 waon alba spica, C. erecta viridis, 
e E cee * 3 , from their g uses, ose who bled C. pyram — 8 i 
with ants to the extent that I and my niana albo-spica, Glyptostrobus — 
Coniferous plants, &c., that have suffered © here have been, will know how to appreciate this This is a for 
killed outright, while others, I am afraid, are so but of the Himalayans, Rhododen barbatum, 
dron R. 
much injured as past recovery. Cupress essus ciliatum, campanulatum, R. fulgens, R. Thom- 
Tamborine tere eis ted bee i have, fon, who know rg er Sot f. gerad, I elopyinm, and R. niveo 
brown as the Gorse on Woodbury Common, and than all the other insect p t together. They have flowered freely. . Ryan, 
oat as destitute of foliage; Wellingtonias dread- had bee ; i wellan, co * 4 [We hope to publish the fall l list 
fel cut, especially on the north-east side; Pinus than thirty years, and proved a constant w and next — Ep, 
artwegi i i 
e the appearance of fire having p 
over it, while a tree ot P. insignis close by, p! — a ee ree — othe employer NECTARY IN THE BLOOM OF CALTHA PALUS- 
e of the finest specimens in the kingdom, is Daring this long period, e ery imaginab e (I my TRIS.— Ia Herman Müller's Fertilisation of Flowers, 
almost unscathed ; several of the Junipers are cu — ae as —— is effective which ae there is at P. 80 a drawing of a carpe 
up as bad as the Cupressus above-mentioned ; and allow the working ant to carry the poison to the palustris showing, near the base, a nectary bearing a 
cannot remember seeing the Irish Yews having such neens, Ke.) remedy has been t 1 hav drop of honey. cannot, — most careful study, 
burnt ile Picea Morinda destroyed millions by various methode; for E find a nectary or anything resembling the depressions 
(Smithiana) isseverely punished, as well as P, Albert- e, I preserved those we killed in the spaco of six on the sides, bounded by slight folds, pene to by 
iana, Choice specimens of Rhododendrons of huge peee AA these filled a box 12 i inches chee lon inches Müller. What is the experience of others? Wm, 
size show the s n front where they were ‘ond 133 An Cuthbertson, Springfield, Rothesay, 
in the least degree struck by the wind; aleo Ber- A y ; VVT 
beris dulcis, The Tea plant —— viridis), is quite the very reason that it was the working ant only VICTORIA 8PINACH,—I 18 the notice o. 
destitute of foliage. Colletia bictonensis, a very that we destroyed—and how to get at the queens and Jour correspondent “A.” in the isene of the Gar- 
7 
as 
: ee have it brought to 
killed to the ground; whilst against south and cast by the neuters. Neither does the soldier (which ing valuable variety, I have cultivated it with 
walls Magnolia grandiflora, Ceanothus azureus, varieties of Spinach during the last two years, for 
e RPO, E S E tS MR CO nae sane, we as Pea IE S 
oides and Berberidopsis corallina sa fered . N of the most severe winters ever known, I have a 
stays to guard the colony, and is also fed by the 
A plant of Coronilla glauca growing against an east enters, When I say that bands of birdlime had to great abundance of it in fine condition, and the 
wall, and considered to be hardy in — county, be put on the pillars, rafters, trellises, Vine-rods, plants will doubtless continue to afford pickings for, 
was kille . 1 pret enumerate many more, bat Peac every other — ante could dt the least, three weeks longer; whereas, the old 
have said enough to show that we cannot all pen ran up N varieties have ran to seed. Iam so satisfied with 
— ſavourable returns as your —— corre- berries, Peaches, Grapes, Ko., and that they carried the Victoria, that in fature I shall grow it only. 
pondent, James Mayne, Bicton G: y Market-gardeners will find it to their advantage to 
the mealy-bug, scale, ‘eat aphis from plant to eg wG Castle 
tree to tree, and house to house, and burrowed in Cultivate the variety, W. G. Pragnell, Gardens, 
THE DRILL HALL LECTURES.—Will you permit —＋ poss in 8 benders ann — — put the — 
me au tion in relation to these usuall mealy-bug on the roots of our Vines nearly 
admirable 5 the Council or — 22 piant. — — houses, ome idea an v6 — JADOO FIBRE.—I have been asked by several 
ves should arrange prior to the commencement ot the trouble this pest was, I am most than made b 
er each lecture to Save ú couple of Fello we are now entirely from them, there them into Jadoo fibre is a necessity, and I should 
ready to mo votes of thanks, and is not an any ; you would give me an r ol 
nt the somewhat unfortunate contr this has been M with the Ballikinrain saying it is not; in fact, I have decided in futur 
hich sometimes happens; as, for instance, at Mr, Ant Destroyer and ounded by not to recommend amateure to attempt washing the 
orris’ lecture last week—and relieve the chairman gardener at Ballikinrain Castle, Stirlingshire. f plants 
of a difficulty. I venture to think that on all occa- commenced using this compound the last week i dinary soil, I have myself ly washed plants 
sions the a of thanks should begin the discussion, eg 1894, and by the middle of April follow- when I transplanted them into Jadoo, : = 
should any follow, as such a proposal at once fur- ing we e quite clear of them, An ing doin * as it e 3 es > roots to run more free 2 
nishes encouragement to Fellows to express their fact si ina at ith this work of destruction is that in the fibre, but I find — —— — — amount 
opinions, It is so commonly a case of g for in some of houses cyan - ing —— ep 8 
in. A cordial, if formal, vote of Ballikinrain, ng i wr pS eran 
anks has y been more thoroughly either ca bat d 
than was the case on —— 13th, for Dr. Morris not Baste, 
only gave a singular! i i n 
4 i "the audience dae to follow him * * y tes 
ffectivel * leasantly, Some prese were more numerous in these, several wee aie 
tase: tines M z fie ng e mature before they were from those where cyanide was FROST IN me org Sanday night, May 19, we 
of the trade My — et produets which as s to employed. This proves that if the means of supply- hada repetition of the severe severe weather of May 20 of 
be so largely growing there, in spite of the enema ing the queen with food is taken away, she very last year, 6° of frost being registered at Crosswood. 
difficult ee the volcanic nature of the soil quickly produces others. The neuter may be de- Fortunately, the weather was cold — — 
furnishes an e Canary Islands thrive on their P cating the occurrence of frost; we, theref 
great warm th and light —climatic conditions Great killed, the supply is constantly kept up and the peat covered everything up that we could do, thus greatly 
pe hese island remains, soca —— Ant Destroyer is com- lessening the damage done by the frost. The shoots 
enclosed under a gla roof, the interior of which i 1 che work- of Potatos in jaa oponata hinkane, ank oho zomg 
— tnd hted artificially. For that millenium Fg ant oar ie 2o the queen, young, Ke. The 8 AA amean.: > Williams, 
as he is termed by naturalists,  Crosswood, Ab 
we may well in vain, In the meantime we may 
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