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THE GARDENERS’ 
to disgust many of the insect pests, e.g., the Onion- 
A It would be interesting to learn whether carbon 
n the form of charcoal it 
ng oxygen, n. во helping to sweeten the t 
worth while mentioning, however, beg а patented 
— many years old, was o be с of 
stone-coal (anthracite) and sulphate of iron, and it 
was said in тч» to be useful. Perso nally, I 
do not think G. S. H.“ will find anthracite “duff " 
a — for soot, which is valuable in more ways 
than on Ray, 
pa reply to the — f I p. 747), 1 do 
not think "G. S. H." “duf” of any 
value x тты Wainy [o p be of а uit 
clayey, or light calcareous nature, n thes 
cases the application wou ve a mecha — 
effect, opening and lightening the clayey soils во 
d pass into them more freely; and 
soils, which 
The m in t i 
т, and сап therefore readily undergo 
deco ition. An average sample of soot contains 
4 per cent. of nitrogen, chiefly as sulphate of 
ammonia, from 10 to 14 per cent. of sulphate, car- 
ate, and phosphate of lime, about 7 per cent. of 
substances required . зр in their nutrition. 
W. Dyke, Turnford, Hi 
CARNATION DUKE OF YORK AND OTH 
Nursery th variety, s 
ot all s of Carnations, 11 at its best 
the colour may be ety: ed 
, , d finely 1 a 
valuable to any one who grows for cuttin 
When are we to have a fragrant yellow wait? ў 
have пет 
It may be coming, g it мара — ar 
made itself known ^ as yet cm = an 
perfect asa yellow self had it с dove — of Uriah 
Pike. It is sometimes said th 
grower, bu uem zi p at the Royal 
Nursery, Slough, а Med of ge ned -old plants in 
pote, large in OM. nel branc 9 
remarkably free. Mr. Harry Turn 
ner flowers could ee мыз — 
year-old — than from — B D. 
— —It is a pi 
з. Anthony ЕЕЕ Woking 
not name the newer 
varieties they exhibited at th the Drill Hall 
8 eof —— = — June 11. 
flavour to those Peas which — NN "t 
have grown most of the wrinkled Peas, wud fad Qum 
Harbinger, & мет sent out by Dieksons, Chester, 
last year, to rior to any other that I know of, 
it being quite as nian; and although 
s are not of such a deep green colour as that 
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getting it true it MUT tee a gene 
favourite. The introduction of these fine Peak еы 
lead to the extinction of inferior pasteles М, 
MIDAL SWEET CHERRY ee It is 
ы, has aweet Cherries s a | 1 4 — 
ivate gardens, a aa roba е unsatis- 
4 s и they fruit, fords to their liability 
ns iege wa 
e is abundant, and a western aspect can be 
devoted to these fruits, truly нм crops are obtained 
needed; but where 
e 
in ques 
close together, so p 
& wooden fram S is easily 3 over them, 
hese some fish жч. To is 
the birds from the fruit. These trees are grow- 
ing on the Mahaleb and el, and they 
are modera pruned nually, so as to pre- 
vent в too free growth of the shoots. At these 
prunings some of the stronger coped are severed at a 
distance of 3 ed measured from the stem, and аза 
consequence there is & mass o health y fleshy roots 
veis distance around the stems. Daring the 
ason the young shoots are constantly 
pin acad to assist in es formation x fruit-buds, &c., 
so that both at top and bottom ees аге much 
nd а practice к some — 1 might regard 
аз However that may be, a better апа 
more fraitfal Ì lot of toit т not S wished for than 
these; and the pinching and root-pruning will be 
rsisted i in so lon es as freely as at 
present. Ofthe early varieties I may н Frog- 
le, Kentish 
Elto 
ripening ones are Fiorence, Bedford Prolific, Black. 
and Tartarian. All of the Dake Cherries are well 
deserving attention of the gardener. H. Markham 
TOMATOS NOT nt к OFF. m cause of 
" Nurseryman's" Tom fruits not swelling, Е 
either owing to рив $ fertilieation of t the bloom 
or to the plants, at an earlier 
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r my notice a 
few days ^ when visiting a friend's Tomato- 
houses; and, in this case, the plants wer 
in & well- $ i 
not suffered. 4 e roots nae be ene 
indeed, as evinced by the vigorous shoots above, and 
2 good crop will doubtless e F. Le Sueur, 
Grand Vale, Jersey, July 13, 
ARAUCARIA IMBRICATA,—On the terrace- 
opposite m 88 рез of Alderbury Vinten 
remarkably good 
the Chili Pine ( qe dtes insi La. Poe d 
9 — mi high са planted by the Rev, Canon 
[ : ener in 1851, now it is about 40 fi 
high, straight, and of handsome outline, and D a 
the green sward, which is ita bi 
я when I say that the tree is ji Merit) trier 
five large flowers near the reade the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle wi 
unde: 
robust health, thoug М rev io = the brace is in 
close to the pond show slight signs of diat 
probably caused by the Ben a influence dit "the 
CHRONICLE. 
(Jory 20, 1895, 
unusually dry summer of 1893, and the equally ex. 
ceptionally severe ern experienced in Janu 
February last, follow the prevailing tropical 
weather as * or ten weeks. Canon 
Hutchings, however, is of opinion that the distress 
referred to is varo to the fact of the ke having 
penetrated the s ndy sub-soil—the na ural surface 
soil being light, inclining to peat. 
stance remin me о 
examples of 8 imbricata w 
Branksome Dean Park, Lord 
h, which were then 
being pr ts 
winds, so long will it make satisfactory growth, 
H, W. Ward. 
VINE PERONOSPORA.—I send you a few mildewed 
Vine leaves and immature Grapes of the . шй 
as San Gioveto (the. beat quality used i 
Chianti), as it may interest you to see t Pye 
of the dise nd the effect of the Bordeaux Mix- 
ture upon They e from the re attached 
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(that is, 2 kilo; ulphate 
of copper to a amend of — e disease is by no 
means subdued. О r leaves sent, the 
most is one which — early in — 
paoired ie its 2 and is cured. In the 
isease 
not ү йт ed. 
rbi but the disease is still spreading. 
me severity, an 
The — = the fruit is su 
rule the disease hae ego € z 
colour acid to „I suppose, to 
the extreme "аА ei: the year, "ар to the end of 
un ega ly, With t e result on 
promise of fruit, but at least half of it did 
not flower, rotted e stem, and withered. 
Tho ds of fine bunches have gone that 
ay eve his well-tended vineyard. My 
neighbours who have been less careful in this and 
previous years, have no fruit left at all The 
the most formidable enemy of the Vines which bat 
ever yet appeared, I think, but far from ing 
to be discovered, and if i 
Vine-growing as a profitable industry may some day 
be as "EN as the Dodo, Thomas C. Hayllar, 
and I — grown it hen 
ing thirty, a — the 
— for saith a W йй; the height her 
haulm is about 1 foot. 14 hl af is very 
чену зар riety, 
THE ROUND LEAFED китү may not 
generally known that the round- leafed 
(Drosera rotundifolia) occurs in the gr 
be 
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fusion near the source of Brony Ваго, Callen, Banff | 
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