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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 22, 1895, 
likely to vary than seedlings from any of the a ant 
species. So I believe biep wee e from 
hybrid forms of Cinera g that Mr. 
Drummond cultivated 0. piir tee 6. lanata in 
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C. cruenta had not been ee 
It is significant that he 
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eruenta usually proves abortive. ven ke seventy 
years ago, were not likely to be careful in making 
in flower 
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plants on a damp cool bottom, n. and seas well supplied 
with water until it 1 tim 
matter of culture h boii 80 Stoa dealt with T 
lf and others, that it gehad non es to say that 
a cool positon dur hot sum weather is best, 
—— ntilation, “mufficient wane o keep the soil 
— aive vely moist, and frequent 8 to 
keep down thrips and green- fly. J. Douglas, 
‘EARLY PEA8.—This year, I gathered my first 
dish of —.— Peas from plants growing „ 
May, only two days beh 
their present quarters as 
— its hold of the soil a the of 
rs I gathered hg first dish of Telegraph Pea 
inst., a fair sample of which 
f the Royal 
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type of Peas from ers 3 although the 
seed sown time as h 
and that the Rovere — We was the same, the 
only difference being that this year the plants were 
f-doors 
boughs stuck 
side of and close up to the plants. 
after the e boughs were removed from 
the warmer side ->h the bigot replacing them at 
the rom both 
sides ‘of the rows in sig a ee replacing t ekoi at 
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DIVIDED P8EUDOBULBS OF Tr ae oe 
of this hatin wg in Orchids, we wish to say that we 
had two breaks on a D. nobile whioh are both videl, 
although not to ‘the extent of t e shown in 
pa ig sage nts a in the ncaa Chronicle ; it A 
o have formed two eyes after growing about 
13 inches. H. H. § Co. 
INJURY BY SQUIRRELS TO RED- FLOWERED 
CHESTNUT TREES. —On Saturday last, * 28 
ung red-flowered 
wilfully injured the tree. 
arboretum, to who 
mentioned the matter, suggested that the injury 
was done by squirrels, Later, passing the 
om 
We arde 
N the e right one. Further 
confirmed this. Several of the Red Coestnut trees 
growing in this part of the arboretum have suffered 
in the same way, The trees are ours ealthy and 
vigorous, and about 5 to 8 feet high. The injury is 
all of the s character. The stout and some- 
what succulent shoots have pieces bitten out 
em in places, whilst many e the 
pith scooped out, as shown in pecimen 
enclosed with this note. aed marks of teeth are 
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clearly ag vs Eag The cause of th 
ttack, no dou the e dry eee 
food and moistur 
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is not far to seek, we 
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to Kew in the wild life dens, w h 
keep the squirrels as long as we can 08- 
sible to break 3 of ths We esent habit by giving 
them food, we may tide over the pros 9 
and save both the eee aoa our trees. D. Morris 
Garde June 17. 
CEDAR OF L —Mr. Wm. Whalley, head 
se r at Addingto ton Park, Croydon, has been kind 
the specimen of Ce bani red t h 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, Jone 1, as the biggest Cedar 
of Lebanon in Britain.” The tree is about 50 feet 
high, and branches th The main 
trunk is 22 feet inc se geet the largest branch 
10 feet 6 inches, and the next 7 feet Ginches, The 
tree has a ae of 121 feet (or say, 360 feet 05 
pricy ali very noble-looking, and qui 
healthy. From the notes in the Gardeners’ Cheon, 
therefore, during the 1 fe eke, 
assu that some of the largest Cedars = Lebanon 
are at (1). Langleybury, Herts; (2), 
be found 
Methven, Perthshire ; (3), Bretby, e and 
sed Tapley, near Teignmout th. ia ae Ws, 
ind enough to give the height of the 
pepe wie this latter n John Palin, R. H. S. 
INULA GRANDIFLORA, Vid. — In 
is stated that the committee of the R 
tural Society has awarded a certificate to Inula 
Baar eee >) bee Paul & Son 
over, t, according to description 
given, the “plant in in question must be I, toe esta 
mala yas. 
n your last issu 
ee occurs in the 
Wee atlas flo 2 paler in ee as car 
by the figure n Bota Magazine, 
supply green rly No 6411. Max Leichtlin, hates Baden ays e plant 
part * f Jul y ; seeing that th the gr ‘was notin aht own seemed to be a form of I, glandulosa, certainly 
to sow Peas during the i — from 3 end of not Hookeri.—Ep. | 
to the middle of March. A. W. We 
NECTARIES eo W CARPELS OF CALTHA 
PALUSTRIS.—I have read with interest Professor 
Henslow’ decade or re oy, to o my query. I had read 
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ut regret 
gone.” "Next spring, fall wll, , I shall try to get 
— earlier for Wn Gut 
those eon. in this country. uthbertson, 
Rothesay, 
HYBRID oen PIES. — In 
Pflanzen Misc ged (Berlin, 
contains a vast amo 
ocke’s 
0. 
1805 a work which 
Poppies are recorded. It will suffice to quote one 
<P. dabinm 9 x orientale, produced by 
flowers ve is perennial, and 
sterile,” ot 
e” No U a e 
of which were raised by Godron. 
THE 3 SEVERE FROST IN YORKSHIRE.—The 
froat that we experienced on the ame of June 15 
KN 1 on the popoy orning 8 The 
rench 
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„ destroyed f 5 n 
the middle of the garden; Scarlet Runners, Bi 
were 3 to 4 feet high, are killed down to abon t 1 foot, 
and the haulm of Potatos, where 2 
black 3 to 4 inches down the Tn the der 
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are past k this 
ason. Itis ery disheartening A, J. Te 
Hall dee Garg emple, Eshton 
orry that I 
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that if 
ime, t rmometer 
hanging in the kitchen-garden 6° of frost this morn- 
ing, and os an rench Be 
— a ey 
some hail showers’ 
fall yesterday, and about 7 p.m, the wind shifted due 
rth, and the sky became very clear, not a cloud to 
een. I hope this cold snap has not been general, 
r. Fish spoke of passing the rubicon on May 20 
but he would find he had not passed it on this side 
the Border for a mana after that date. The wind 
has been 5 gl west all day, but is due north this 
evening reast sky. John Page, The 
Ga — 3 dung h, N. 4 „June 18, 1895, 
--— At Belvoir Castle.—This morning (June 15) we 
ha ai a ag frost; the thermom istered 
cannot see an 
Vegetable Marrows in these gardens. 
ing plants are 22 safe, nih we have sona much 
better th eighbours in th rounding 
os are severely da 
gardens and allotments, W. H. Divers, * Castle 
Gardens, Grantham 
NURSERY ERY NOTES. 
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showy een imported direct t 
collectors are the special subjects dealt in, bu 
with moat 25 the leading firms, the prepara 
being made in the private houses for crossing 88 
raising crosses and hybrids, point to gar 
f curious e : 
Cattleya, Lelia, Epidendrum, Sophronitis, &e,, which 
can hardly fail to be beautiful. T 
is being carefally ted, the nage of ‘i 
curately recorded, and the results 30 161 i 
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are not lost sight of by the operators. i 
In a cool house we found a large large part of the 
those we saw in flower were well-bloomed, 4 
were trained round sticks placed in the bon. 
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