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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Joxe 8, 
may be eared for the instructions. [The month 
of May was probably a misprint for March, our cor- 
respondent's "writin ng not being very legible. En | 
Wm. Cuthbertso 
ATHE EFFECTS OF THE WINTER (p. 687) — 
list of sles un nhurt, . and killed at og 
wellan ia very interesting. But Castlewellan has 
such exceptional horticultural wee that the 
te will be very 
remarkable result of the wi 
amount of permanent injury that has ey ab uc 
by it; many pla ants ha ae been disfigured, and hav 
ut the complete deaths 
ave been much fewer “than might have been 
expected, for the, wonder ot that particular plants 
have escaped or been killed; i th ae any except the 
I 
in one at of | garden and 
been killed i der, and it is hard to give any 
reason f e erence, For instance, of thr 
plants of Senecio Greyi, the one in the m ed 
is alive and well e two others in 1 
tered places are dead; and of four plants of Lavatera 
Olbia under almost precisely the same i rst 
one is mere nhurt, one is struggling back i 
life, and tw dead. following, then, is rae 
list of my partie taking first the names in the 
Castlewellan list: 
Acanthopanax ricinifolia = aes 
Actinidia volubilis reana 
Akebia quinata — — 
Astragalus Tragacantha e W ad 
Azara microphylla anthera crassifol 
Baccaris patagonica Indigofera floribunda 
Bambusa, not injured ura japonica 
Bent hamia fragife: Kolreuteria paniculata 
is aristata Olea s 
„ buxifolia Olearia Haastii 
» dulcis 5 ì 
i Pailiyres Viani 
japonica nillyrea Vi 
>» N — a Piptanth nepalensi 
eu a us s 
Bignoni a pa ara aapt Pittosporum undulatum 
Caragana Cham. der a japonicum 
Carmichaelia fagelliformis 
Caryopteris Mastacanth Waben 3 
Oassinia fulvida „ Odoratus 
Cerci sma gee japonicum n 
ve ifoli 
—— on trichotoramxa Stephanandra flexuosa 
Coriaria myrtifolia Traehy us excelsus 
Paphos Maselit eronica Traversi 
Viburnum macrocephalum 
Daphniphyllum glaucescens „ Plicatam 
* J is „ Tinus 
Desmodium pendulifiorum Xanthoceras sorbifolia 
Elæagnus edulis filamentosa and varie- 
Ephedra altissima ga 
Escallonia virgata (Phillip- „ gloriosa and variegata 
iana) rec 
Garrya elliptica 
Abelia rupestris Phormium tenax 
Aristot lia me = — 
lius capensis 
2 Gloire de Versailles Verai H 
Colletia cruciata Viburnum Awafurkii 
Edwardsia grandiflora Escallonia coquimbensis 
Laurus nobilis Rhaphiolepis ovata 
Maclura aurantiaca Rubus australis 
M. „ Phoenicolasi 
Nandina domestica 
The above are all in the Castlewellan list. To 
these I 8 add the following, which have sur- 
here, y have survived at Castle- 
wellan, but may have so certainly 
hardy as not to need 5 
Tropzolum tuberosum Buddleia ‘paniculata 
Ilex cornuta Colvillei 
i — chrysantha 
Lavatera Olbia nchospermum jasminoides 
acerosa Ene pungens 
Juglans rupestris Bignonia capreolata 
Castanopsis chrysophy Stauntonia hexaphylla 
concinna, and many Corokia Cotoneaster 
virga 
itis ie i 
„ Davidiana Heterosmilax japonica 
rosal ba Olearia nummulariafolia 
japonica Pourthiea villosa 
Enkianthus japonicus Mutisia decurrens 
Stanleyi Mctaplexis Stauntoni 
„ Sieboldii Pistacia atlantica 
Discaria longispina Shrubby Veronicas, several 
Asparagus aphyllus 
Considering the very severe fight we have had 
with the frost, followed by a second — = 
drought, I think we may congratulate 
the large list of peoo and the small list of 1 — 
unded. To some of the 3 shrubs t 
e We — 
nc 
an g good fruit. 
Bitton — 2 — 
HARDINESS OF AZALEA INDICA ALBA,—We have 
onds at this 
Wit 
Cha sles bes behind it, t 
1 from the opposite side ary the water. T. H. 8S 
Lea Park, 
ance TREES OF LEBANON CED — Re 
He bs = Gar 8 Chronicle, dated 
„F. G. M enquir 
June p may be interesting t int out that at 
p. the Conifer Caren ‘por Age ie re 
f Cedru 
attra 8 
i are recorded by Mr. c 2 — „ vat 
at Methven, Perth, height 90 feet, girth at 5 feet 
up, 9 feet inch d t Bretby, Derby, 
Gran Tobi Weat 
Secale 
y paper a spite ee 
wishes to oi dimensions of some lar 
of Leban e Pinetu 
ge Cedar 
bury, Herts, its and m 
farand wide. The tree 
ground, 22 feet 4 inches in girth; 
branches extend over a space of n 
height is 107 feet. The great weight of its piney 
after mr rains or snowstorms, 
caused each limb to be tied by iron rods to t as — 
atem to 3 their splitting off, whereby upwards 
of 14 ton of has to secure it, forming 
KP u gave a figure of a large tree at 
Bayfordbury, eila Charles Palmer, District Bank, 
King Street, Manchester, 
ROYAL SOVEREIGN 8TRAWBERRY.—A 
a novel a 
2 ve plants in - were p 
in March, in a house menia occupied by young 
To aeris plants. Many people would have ridiculed 
the notion that and plants at that 
u 
One plant which I exam 
one of which weighed —— one ounce, and t 
other fruits on it besides. This plan 
of ver: solid, 
penetratin to the centre, a ben win teeta 
them with, . ie 
ays his especi favouri plants 
were placed on pieces of turf, which h. bl 7 1 
helped them considerably, and at the time I saw 
ee ich had been 
them, the n h allowed to 
grow at , loo ry pretty among the rich- 
coloured fruit. V. H. Divers, Belvoir Castle Ga 
ham. [We can speak favourably of the size, 
flavour, and general appearance of these fruits. Ev. | 
THE BATH AND — OF ENGLAND AGRICUL- 
TURAL SOCIETY.— Society’s show, which this 
year was held at Taunton, had its usual horticultural 
exhibition, 2E of a particularly 
char: report of the same is being held 
eee ede next week. 
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SOCIETIES, 
VIOLA CONFERENCE * 
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opening the r the Chairm: alluded to tte 
great loss sustained by hy ola gitta 1 stan te 
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$ That thi is regi of the Viola Conference express i 
meas. sympathy with the widow and rer of the late . 
William Dean, and deplores the loss sustained by floricaltes 
bee his death. 
This was beste Mr. A. J. . Treasurer, as 
supported by Professor Hillhou TLS. 8. Mr. John Wigi 
eee, of Horticulture), and others, „and carried unaninoal, d 
inui ing, t 
any new 3 in the Viola, as they could per 
expect roduce such varieties as Coun Kintore 
conference did 
wer sO much 
reliable information 
you ng be ginners ; and a consensus of opinion from expt ! 
conferences such as that they were holding that diy W 
freely discuss the 
such opportunities could not 
an immense d of ; and he trusted such 
would be continued, not only in 1 to the Viola, 
* popular flowers 
essor Hillho ae, F. L. S., then read a valuable 
e genus Viola, illustrating the subject wie rao 
ot muc than 
sonally known to him in a living condition, What he 
as bein ui i the Conference was 
account of such species as were horticulturally int ö 
had played an important! 1. 
d las of „ 8 * 
included in the genus. It is a genus of wide-spread 
hemisphere, i 
group of dw a 
rarely shrubby, characterised by flowers, of often 
appearance, and wi certain limits of great 
essenti e flow mu 
induced from the wild types, though 
tals, 
ivi 
funnel-shape e flowers Uhle! in the Pansy type to 
the bedding Violas — the Wee petals are cru ' 
flower is flat. Tw r features appertain to 
the v. od 
e 
ing above their a 
555 surface of which is a 
en to the gutter; 
has a “flexible Lp rn ar 
the lip is transferred to 
