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THE GARDENERS’ 
EDITORIAL NOTICES. 
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take to pay fo d com- 
зай mi or illustrations, Beber * special arrangement. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MEETIN 
G. 
Royal Horticultural Society "AT 
TUESDAY, Ата. з} в €— at Dril Hall, 
SHOWS. 
. eee ee 
rere в Stortford Horticultural. 
ardiff Horticultural (two days). 
WEDNESDAY, Ava. 14 ‹ [eius Horticultural. 
(bey: re Horticultural, at Salis- 
THURSDAY, Ave. 15—Martock Horticultural. 
SALES. 
Imported and Established 
Tuan aw dr ee E 
Imported and Established Or hid j 
FRIDAY, Ave. 16 { at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms, ` 
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE 8 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK. — 62.5, 
9 Ат the meeting at Ghent convened 
4 — "T3 consider this question, M. 
l'Echevin BRUNEEL presided. He 
briefly summarised the state of affairs since the 
enaotment of the Berne Convention. The Italian 
Government has at length demanded the entire 
abrogation of the rules that have proved so futile 
and which have caused so much loss and incon- 
venience, 
a meeting of the signa- 
tories of the Convention to carry this into effect. 
general acclamation E the meeting. What 
steps the British nurserymen and t those amateurs 
1 +. 
: remains to be seen. Hitherto t reden, 
1 D V фе ш ышы be purus 
dur to free themselves from the shackles, 
have an opportunity now of strengtheni 
nd: om prin ann Per. mrad 
А tion, and it is to be hoped 
they will avail themselves of 
onde Wnzmz heavy rains have fallen, 
ot Potatos, {а land y the late 
opical most varieti 
the Potato will have commenced to eee 
tubers from 
8 iag ; These 
| ER all early and second ise varieties, 
M would be more injured by remaining in 
the earth, than by storing them in а cool dark 
place that is fairly dry. The ordinary clamp 
will not do at this season, the weather at this 
season 3 sprouting in such store places. 
on like the present, the advantages 
of wide inating become more apparent than 
usual; for the soil, being but sparsely covered 
by the shoots and foliage of the Potatos, is more 
rapidly dried by the sun. Moreover, should the 
disease attack them, the spores would chiefly 
fall on land under which no tnbers are found. 
With crowded rows, say, from 2 feet for Ash- 
leafs, to 3 feet for the more robust of the earlies 
and second earlies, the tops cover the soil, and in 
the case of an at ttack of disease, the spores of the 
fungus actually fall on the ground beneath 
which the tubers lay, readily affecting them; 
in fact this method of planting affords no sort 
of protection against disease, but rather favours 
its spread, 
If gardeners, and cultivators generally, would 
nsenian m 
would 
smooth, sloping sides of the ridges causing the 
rain to find its way to the furrows instead of 
soaking the former, the spores of the fungus, if 
any, taking the same route. All of this has 
been often repeated, but there are few who pay 
any heed to the voice of one crying in the 
wilderness. Our farmers will be found lamenting, 
precaution on their 
some extent, a question of: expense, Does it pay 
better to lose a large part of a crop, with some 
problematical advantage in higher prices being 
got for the remainder of it, or to follow Jensenian 
methods? Thatis a question for experts. The 
consumer will get what potatos he wants and 
that are lacking at home from the foreign 
cultivator, and only our own growers will be 
any 
.  TuosE about to plant should 
be eMe. not omit the Hautbois varieties, 
The species is more. distinctly 
delicious than cross-bred varieties; and the buyer 
should therefore ascertain from the nurseryman 
or the friend who supplies the runners, if the 
sexes are fairly well mixed in the каноп 
from which they were taken. Failing to do this 
he may get plants all of one sex, or but very few of 
the other, with the result that the bed will produce 
litle or no fruit. This may be a reason for the 
rarity of the species in gardens. The Hautbois 
succeeds on ly ed borders, or on one 
at the back of a wall sloping to the north. 
In good soil it is a strong grower, and the 
esi not be less than 3 feet apart, 
good ground, and top-dressed 
annually with well-rotted sta'le-dung or leaf- 
mould, a bed of Hautbois Strawberries will con- 
tinue in bearing for a dozen years. Sometimes 
the plants in old beds, if annually manured, run 
too muzh to leaf, and gp discretion should 
then be exercised in the matter of dunging. 
There is nothing to be gained by frequently 
making plantations of this species, the plant 
seeming to succeed better when growing in 
thickish rows, which с а good deal of 
to the fruits and the d 1 
If a plan UA баа its b 
days, the runners, which are sure to pete e 
sufficient mixture of males and females, should 
allowed to occupy the alleys, tine all over 
them, but being thinned out w e standing at a 
less distance dud 6 inches мә! When the 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avevsr 10, 1895, 
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fruiting season is passed, the old plants may 
be shovelled off, and the land where they stoog 
double dug. 
The varieties are the Royal Hautbois, one 
white, the other purple-fruited, and larger than 
any of the others, as well as being richer 
favoured. Prolifio Hautbois (Belle Borde 
has small fruits, almost black on the sunny side, 
and on the shady side 7 — The fruit has the 
peculiar flavour of the ra 
ANGRAECUM PELLUCIDUM (see Supplementary 
Iilustration).—Firat introduced by Messrs, Loppiom 
from Sierra Leone in 1842, and since that time ocea 
rally cultivated. Although not having the large flowers 
of A, sesquipedale and some of the other species, it 
has always been regarded as a plant of sufficient 
beauty to warrant its being more widely distributed 
tion, taken from a photograph of a specimen which 
has been growing for some years in one of the warm 
Orchid-houses in the gardens of Sir Trevor Law- 
rence, Bart, at Barford, Dorking, shows to what 
beauty the plan ee may be made to attain by carefal 
cultivation, its long sprays of opaque cream- -white 
— 
it requires the same ki 
lenopsis—a warm moist atmosphere and protection 
from bright sunlight in summer. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. —The next 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society I 
3 o'clock а paper by Mr. 
Hardy Bamboos” will be read. 
Mr. BaRRON'S RETIREMENT.—In reply p 
numerous enquiries, we are in a position to atate that, 
after the long vacation, steps will be taken to secu” 
а public recognition of Mr. Bannox's long and 
loyal services to horticulture be — by his 
friends, and by those who value the со 
discharge of 5 under very difficult and pes 
circumstance 
Leicester (Аџаивт 6). — The great 
bition of Flowers and Fruits in the ne 9 d 
the Abbey Park commenced on Augus 
shine and showers, and was 
succeeded in getting such а beautiful and harmoniow# 
in the six great marquees in 
ne ar arran 
t : 
ned by the Mayor, who, in his speech, > 
showed how truly he was & ener in on 
ouched on some of the exhibits, and es 
the praiseworthy display made by the cottagen uid t 
2 gardeners, which he said formed 00 
most ry pro roofs o 
Mr. Jonx Foire had redeemed it from 8? "e 
. A great crowd of visitors flocked (0 
ov which embraced many very fine exhi 
best being a grand — of Begonias 
T and of Caladiums Jom 
In our next issue оми 
account of the show. 
or GARDEN ено 8 yi 
U 
at the — fiov Show Mr. ber T 
remarked :—“ You may depend upon it А 
had before l“ 
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