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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avevsr 31, 1895, 
better use сап be found for it than to produce 
At any rate, it is money-producing, 
and that may be a sufficient excuse, although 
experimentally it has now little value 
Having inspected the state of the Vineries, 
always considered the crucial point in a gar- 
dener’s management, and a test of his 
abilities, we found everything looking as well 
if not better than in some former years; other 
houses were visited, viz , the Peach-house in the 
ed an early crop o 
nothing but healthy vigorous plants. which were 
being gradually matured by sun and air. Standing 
3 
outside was a lot of young Peaches, Nectarines, 
Plums, за е which having done their work for 
— season, i ipened off, the house 
had 00d i in being furnished with Tomato 
Sans with fruit approaching ripeness. Most 
accommodating plant this—if you do not know 
whet to do to fill the house, put some Tomato 
ces at Chiswick, but every house 
is put to some эү of useful purpose. 
In one house only American varieties of the 
Tomato are growing, and but few differences were 
oted between these and those usually grown 
English gardens. The house in which these varieties 
are placed is a Messrs. Skinner, Board & Co.'s 
bn: with а rene roof of small span, gal- 
vanised iron ribs fixed at very wide distances apart, 
the glass panes resting on strained wires, cured 
clips, It seemed to need fuller ventilation 
when the doors were closed; but it suits the Tomato, 
Р ЩИ sk 
теге vio 
Canna-house—well farnished with these beautiful, 
combined flower-foliage subjects. They were quite 
stuff when received in the spring, and have 
had to spend their energies in making leaves and 
roots, and, as а consequence, there is not quite #0 
nished with varieties of Pelargonium peltatum (Ivy- 
leaf), now past their best, ied which have been 
particularly beautiful this seaso 
In another house was found s а collection of f pro- 
Yea:icucs 
and old favourites, Another house contains 
Gore. 
starved of the needful manure and loam, although 
the superintendent was too ener fo 
neglect the customary winter and summer pruning, 
Since better times have set in, in the Society’s affairs, 
made of a row of trees of Blenheim ae 
on 
every known kind of stock, which have a full crop 
for the first time. There is a fact worth knowing in 
regard to this variety, viz., that no kind of stock will 
hasten its coming into bearing. The other grand crop 
is that of Cox's Orange Pippin, which was never 
aged pyramidal Pears 
rem 
year for hardy fruit at Chisw 
There are extensive e of Cabbages, Let- 
Potatos, Endives, Spina , Sweet Р 
3 including the small - 
effective elegans type; of Dahlias of the 
ieee’ „Cactus forms supplied by the larger 
To give the reader an idea of the extensive 
character ese trials, it may be mentioned that 
about 500 varieties of Phlox were planted from 
English, French, and Germ 
colours, time of beginning to bloom, being duly 
noted, Of Turnips there are 37 чөөсү OR 
20; Cabbage, 76; Lettuces, 39; Beans, 74; 
new and old, 59; Potatos, 70. The — — үн 
clerical labour entailed in төгөр all the more 
essential points in connection with these trials is 
very great, especially as every report has to be 
i out three times. One rubs one’s eyes on 
hearing this, and asks whether copying-presses 
have been invented. The writing of labels for 
seed-beds and plantings takes up а great amount of 
time, These trials, so far as they go, benefit the 
purchaser, or at least they are instituted with that 
intent; but instead of being published in a form 
easily ‘accessible to the owners or cultivators of 
gardens, they are published long after date in the 
Society’s which appears uncertain 
ence they lose the merit of o 
; hen 
ness, and ИТ ав a consequence, of relatively 
small val 
The sadi мы floral decorations are well worthy 
of notice at the present time. They consist chiefly 
of a series of beds, circles, and parallelograms, of 
vari dimensions, -& arranged on each side of — 
long walk which leads to the great vinery. Ther 
were beds planted with old stock-plants of edition. 
flowering abundantly; beds of Fuchsia fulgens, an 
old inhabitant of our greenhouse, but seldom em- 
ployed out of doors, although in the warmer parts of 
the country it grows well and flowers charmingly. 
Begonias, both tuberous and other, are planted in 
numbers, sometimes one variety being used in a bed, 
and in other cases several of them are чаб - o- 
gether for the sake of me estimating their e 
ав bedders, testing th e comparative height 7 p 
plants, and various other points which it may be 
desirable to ascertain, There аг f the 
2 кё, crimsons, &e., of the езы 
rooted btai from the best 
d Duchess 
of Edinburgh, pink, and —.— Snowflake, white, 
VARI In the case mod these semperflorens 
very numerous, 
and mom from all parts Psy the plant, and : of 
а uniform colour there is no dull side o 
e petals 
be seen in dull weather, as is the case with the 
the amount of bloom on them 
The same may be said of Plum- 
capensis, the — of which are covered with 
their light vd flowe erent in tint from the 
T f — 
t was remarked wh edgin 
Sedum Ewersii, when Fig d me with — 9 > 
ad = “ie Воже 
being considerable, 
as noted wer; but, like those 
in ata, the plants are no: of пег оддин to flower 
rman growers, the height, 
Ooo 
well this season. A bed or two of Zinnia elegans 
pumila, consisting of a few distinct-coloured тагы 
about 14 foot in height were noted. This wean is 
decidedly better than the usual lanky one deen jy 
gardens, yet not so dwarf as Zinnia 
Other beds consisted of Asters in bm single. 
flowered Petunias, and yellow Marguerite 
The beds of Tea and Noisette Roses wi afford. 
ing а quantity of bloom, although these were byt 
very small plants when put out at a late part of the 
spring. It was easy to see what the plants were Were lits 
before the storm of Thursday had dashed thir 
flowers, for a time at leas 
It is said, we believe, that the cost of keeping y 
Chiswick i is out of proportion to the resulta ts obtains] 
ters a ing, mowing 
pruning, and the liko eet which are the samein 
all gardens, At Chiswick, the cost, time and labor 
involved in the distribution of plants to the Fellow 
is very considerable, all manure must 
highly paid than in country pl 
In making comparison — the cost of con 
ducting Chiswick and a country establishment, 
these are points which ought to receive due con- 
sideration. Who but the Superintendent himeelfaai 
hi р. Ср t ez 4 éhn lah 720 
ing the trials above - mentioned? moreover, there is tho 
loss of labour from the garden which every meeting 
at the Drill Hall entails; the gathering and 
up of fruit, flowers, and plants, for which there 
nothing to show, The Superintendent has also to att 
as cicerone to visitors, foreign and native, and ere 
one is courteously received, as should be the cat, 
nd shown ro 
is а distinct loss to the garden 
and this cannot but add to the expenses at thi 
present juncture. 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. 
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CHLOROCODON Ма 
It is an pide 
branches, Leaves petiolate, o — 
vals. Petioles about 3 cent. (1 inch) . 
puberulous, channelled on the W dam 
forming а ban d a base of 
blunt lobes. 
10 to 12 cent. (say 6 + 7 + 
glabrous, rounded at the base, oblong a 2 
and abruptly acuminate, venation arcuate oblong 
areole broadish, irregular, squarish, pe the 
Upper surface of the mid-rib a 
base with а er linear, lanceolate, ™ thet 
deciduous Inflorescence flowered | 
the leaves, > ymosely branched, man) 10 n | 
pedicels spreading бањонаи die mill. 1006 | 
ute eoles, ultimate Cu | 
у 3 
: 
ally ric 
Corona of five fleshy sc alte 
petale, each three-lobed, lateral lobes 
btuse, median lobe prolonged, nearly 8 
