Jury 6, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 7 
onnection with the existence of parasites 
ticated record in Bentham’s Handbook of the British 
Flora of Viscum album growing on Loranthus euro- 
рив, for which I could find no other authority. І 
have since ſound a more de finite record of the fact in 
con 
etiam alius -speciei parasitice, scilicet. Loranthi 
europæi; nnnquam vero super Qercuum species," 
W, Botting Hemsley, 
USE AND e eal OF ato IN 
UIT GROWING 
ATTENTION is been call led by Prof. 
increase the quantity Hi improve the quality of the 
f 
The experience of many large fruit growers 
favours the use of potash in manuring orchards, It 
is most commonly applied in the form o iate 
of potash, from 200 to 300 Ib. per acre being con- 
sidered an economical dressing, if the orchard 
mployed, as this salt contains a 
r pe ы шй of soluble potash, and it is 
only about one-third of the 
or Britton i 
thinks that if a complete fertiliser were used, it 
would in many cases give better results 
The result of experiments on zm fertilising of 
Peach orchards at the New Jersey station shows the 
h 
n vigour and thrift which 
were lacking in trees NUM of the 
A later report from the same station confirms this 
experience, and says, ·* potash has proved the most 
valuable of the single elements, a net gain being 
greater than where farmyard asused." Th 
largest net gain, however, came from using a 
complete fertiliser, 
. Willar well-known western New 
3 ge e 
ard wood, h 
ventive of Peach-yellows, but experiments show this 
to be without foundation. In a recent bulletin from 
the Cornell Station, Professor Bait’. says: “I 
believe that the keynote to the proper fertilising of 
Peach orchards is potash and phosphoric acid, and 
element to be applied directly to orchards, particu- 
larly after the trees have reached bearing age. 
weakened by leaching that it cannot be confidently 
recommended when in that condition. Forty to fifty 
bushels to the acre is а good dress ssing if the ashes 
have nie kept dry. Muriate of potash is perhaps 
the and most reliable form in чка to secur 
— — t the present time. Commercial samples 
Mio a contain piaia eighty to en hy ti per cent. 
of muriate of potash, or about 50 per cent. of actual 
soluble potash, An Apple orchard in full bearing 
Thus it is seen that in a majority of cases an 
application of potash benefits an orchard in bearing 
condition. This fact points towards one of two 
postions (1) that the — ae generally deficient 
potash; or (2) that potash is beneficial when 
ж: resent in excess of the анаи of the crop. 
At first thought, a deficiency of potash i 
b. of tt mer and 4,400 lb. o 
oil th er four an 
as асб potash as it does of phosphoric 
a half times as much 
Much of the potash present in the soil becomes 
available to plants so slowly, that it has to be 
assisted in rendering it more soluble by some other 
agent, or by an application of ready-formed potash. 
The ashes of fruit trees contain a large percentage 
of potash, and it is also present in considerable 
саде in the fruit. It may be mentioned that 
some prominent fruit-growers fail to note any benefit 
derived from potash alone when applied as а age 
liser to orchards, and some claim an injary fro 
ff This the first аа 
ва 
tash very be 1 on some soils—perhaps, o 
most soils, while useless on others; ыг» applying 
large doses we should use it in y and 
note its effect, It is also thought Ghia potash applied 
as а fertiliser improves the quality and flavour of - 
fruit; it certainly tends to maturation and to t 
production of sugar, J. J. Willis, Harpende 
"d 
e 
THE ROSARY, 
ROSA WILLIAM ALLAN RICHARDSON, 
READ somewhere within the last few days a 
severe condemnation of this Rose, stating that it 
was £0 fugacious as not to be worth growing. Surely 
the writer could have never seen this charming 
Rose in free bush form, or climbing up into a tree, 
ascending a church-tower, or clothing a house- 
gable in a half-wild and free state. The exquisite 
form and great variety of colour in the buds and 
expanded EL the beauty of the leaves, and the 
prodigality of the bloom, surely atone for its lack of 
substance and ot ite ing powers. 
tion of L’Idéal, we have nothing in le 
among our Roses ee Desprez. Ер.] And William 
Allan Richardson seems to me worthy to rank with 
Gloire de Dijon and pts for the production of 
PEPEE and telling effect around the house or in the 
ndscape. No Rose can produce similar colours or 
sec fresh and fascinating results as William Allan 
Richardson, 
Тнк Extreme Harprness or Rosa RUGOSA AND ITS 
VARIETIES, 
Sussex seems to have been KAP ча in the 
matter of the safety of its Roses this year. From 
all I have seen and heard of Mis wo counties, 
Suffolk has been hit much harder 
frosts of February than Sussex. The county has 
doubtless a warmer climate to start with, and has 
more au greater undulations be surface than 
Suffolk, 
changes and ameliorations of climate than sre hills 
Ф 
in common, and that is the extreme beauty and 4 
fect hardiness of Rosa rugosa in all its vari 
The only change that I have noted in this —— 
Rose this year is in the colour of the foliage. 
have noticed this change before, but not to the same 
extent. In some cases, almost entire plants have 
Ib. become almost golden. The change of 
receive as high as 1, 000 
potash per acre, but a normal and economical _ 
application is "at 500 to 700 Ib. 
leaves has not 
со! the 
ected the bloom, which is plentiful 
as usual. Rosa, di 
A PARK FOR DROITWICH. 
ROITWICH, though situated in an agricultural 
district, finds its chief support in the manufacture 
of salt. 
o bo sing TR support also, and 
ате leaning 7 ry direc The churches are 
like the houses, anced out eY the perpendicular, and 
the High Street has lost gra 
— known on account 
of the brine baths that were provided by Mr. 
John Corbett, of Impney, who built up a gigantic 
salt industry in the town and at Stoke Prior, four 
miles nearer Bromsgrove, These baths are rightly 
becoming famous for their curative and alleviative 
properties in rheumatism, sciatica, gout, and kindred 
The though 
bout 4000 rer is well маал with 
hotels at: boarding-houses 
To meet the requirements of visitors, Mr, Corbett 
has provided a beautiful park in a centr 
and within a short distance of the hotels. 
covering nearly 12 acres, was formerly an orchard, 
the fruits being chiefly Apples, Pears, and Medlars. 
Many of the trees are 100 to 150 years old, and of 
immense size, The ground is slightly undulating, 
avies, the head 
hel of the natural 
f the land, and has proin own p 
& xe which is at once beastifel сь. — 
unique. 
A few of the fruit trees have ora асе for 
artistic reasons, but most of t tained, 
Roses, Wistarias, Clematis, akin ere 
Virginian Creepers being planted near them, во as 
p into the crowns, where they will in course 
of time form pietures of floral loveliness. Then 
imagine the glory of the Apple blossom, of the 
ripening golden fruit in autumn, and the feast of 
R in summer. A wide carri 
the park, and in one 
ance of th al - undary. 
In suitable er-garden 
positions 
planted — the usual "kinds of bedding "ped & 
Rose gar da 
of Ghent на чац Andromedas, eni ae ey 
masking undesirable objects and the 
intersecting points of walks and roads. Seats and 
summer-houses are plentiful, J. Udale, 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
— — 
RANUNCULUS ASIATICUS VARIETIES. 
Тносен the Pansy, Tulip, Auricula, &c., are now 
the subjects of reviving interest, Ranunculuses, the 
favourite flowers of my boyhood’s days, seem to be 
more and more neglected, Yet no flower is more 
beautiful or perfect in form, they excel most other 
situations are not “equally adap ted to th е require- 
too fully 
exposed to the sun. Prepare the ground by deep 
