THE 
GARDENERS’ 
PLANT NOTES. 
PELARGONIUM RADULA MAJUS AT 
GUNNERSBURY HOUSE, 
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clothed with th foliage, and setting int fine bloom. The 
are in tubs, about 16 inches in mie peg and 
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MEDINILLA MAGNIFICA AT MANCHESTER, 
What may 3 be considered to be the finest 
specim 
en of Medi er seen is now in bloom in 
larg — at th Roy 
Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford, and numbers of 
visitors, om di x to see the 
its carmine-pink flowers, which are produced by the 
and old wood alike, some of 115 . being 
in the middle of the head. 
Alpinia another 
remarkable plant now in flower at 014 T Trafford. 
DROPMORE. 
As many know, the glory of Dropmore consists in 
the magnificent array of choice Conifers, but in addi- 
tion at this season are the hardy Azaleas, gorgeous in 
orange, yellow, pink, crimson, and white; Kalmias, 
and Rhododendrons. Planted in masses of all forms, 
and from 6 to 12 feet high, and very generally over 
the entire area surrounding the gardens proper, as 
well as within them, in i in sharply eGned beda a nd 
groups, they d of 
a week or two, an extremely pada feature of the 
place. The old gardening genius of the place, the 
late Philip Frost, was undoubted! 
great insight into wae Ne method of dealing 2 
wild and, woods, a copses, and h e knew how 
easure to the 
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of m are prodigally and indiscrimi- 
parts 
nately planted ; one cate, a giant specimen in 
true Frostian ar. of the rules of the bene 
for nurses, so that where space is found necessary for 
a fine Conifer, that which is removed is usually of 
but little value. Conifers always look their best? E 
isa specimen 60 feet high, besides smaller ones. 
grandis likewise afforded a similar contrast. 
Morinda, or RRR looks well 
its pendent 
whilst Cryptomeria ee is qu 
ock (Tsuga Branoniana) was 
b „ but the Bes: are fast recovering. Pinus 
insignis is in magnificent form, without a spoiled 
needle visible. A grand feature of the flower garden 
and iberica, and these beds an 
tinuous display the whole season, helped out by 
Dahlias, Sunflowers, annuals, Gladiolus, &. Wall- 
fruit is fairly abundant, Peaches and Nectarines 
especially so, although it is not the custom to afford 
pie kind 8 ee Ate to the trees at the flowering 
on, errin, the head gardener, finding 
that i in that ary elevated spot it is seldom needed, 
THE WEEK’s WORK. 
By W E. Gardener, 
CATERPILLARS ETC, ON A aterpillars 
s year more than usually abundant, — every 
possible means d be used to 5 in 
Fowls eagerly 
. for, pero devouring z caterpillars as they 
fall from the tre så ee ould be well shaken 
every day. Man y be cau nett by 8 sheets 
under the trees e Kere Small pyramidal 
bush or espalier trees may be band. -pi icked. Paris 
but being of a highly poisonous nature it requires to 
sed with considerable care. It should be applied 
i lons of water, and 
ing repeated two or three times 
four days. Should American blight be 
with a mixture of petroleum and hot soapy- 
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STRAWBERRIES, — Protect Strawberries with 
netting at ray first sign al laap fruit. 
A simple 
and effective way is to short stakes at inter- 
v ng the sides of th covered, and 
asten straight sticks longitudinally to these, The 
draw the ne ightly over, and n at the 
fruit cannot be easi 
crop, 
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BLACKBERRIES, — At gp to Blackberry plan 
tations i 2 the suckers to five or eg of the 
strongest, and pinch the points as the top o 
trellis or other support is reached, — laterals 
at the fourth sarate 
young growths 
length, pin shite the 3 at the mg E To 
n the best results in Blackberry culture, good 
— must be given, 1 — plants — have 
been well mulched — in t 
last autumn. If this 
done at once, and oma 
manure applied, 
fey NECTARINES 2 
depredati: 
uent waterings with liquid- 
ALLS. — 
needful. re next 
year’s he same eee : E where 
ble, by means of small twigs laid under the 
CHRONICLE. 
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Do not thin the fruit 9 
more effectual if "applied warm, and they she 
in the evening when the sun is off th the trees, 
FRUITS Pein: GLASS. 
By RICHARD PARKER, Garden 
ACHES 2 si 
wood w ee as e fruit may be cut back 
young res 1 ype 2 ecome mi 
the autumn. 8 are pruned non i ‘ 
be seen what gr cia is ese to furnish the be 
with fruiting - wood ano 
heat should be spend bi „ and 
gradually N e by in 
night. The bright t weather, 75 ether with 
atmosphere, required in 
was ripening, may have e red-# 
which case the spread of thisi insec t should ould be 
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ea a 1 85 slightly pricked over 
farmyard s work e 
ning has bee web. 
and close the house rp in the. 
courage the swelling of 
STRAWBERRIES.— bate 
should not be forced with other 
there being a great canoe of thelr 
The may 
plants are established by p 
which also protects the fruit, w 
— grow much stro 
Peres y in readiness to commen 
soon as these are ready, 80 ; 
early forcing may be well e 
fruiting-pots early in the autumn. 
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By W. H. War 
EAST INDIA-HOUBE. —Owing | 
ast now be 
ndia-house be some. 
which will require to — For 
plants as Chysis bractescens, \ 40 
Chelaoni, and C. er 
summ 
attack them. 
a warm shady corner of the 
