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flattened hairs ac 
confined - * lower side to the vein 
parts of the flo 
this se may bé ased on a ae wy ea in the 
greenho prunin ach year after ipid 
end con) it may be use ы іп a variety о 
It is admirably adapted for covering walls, brun 
&c., and may also be plant imb 
can be spared for the purpose, 
now several varieties of this plant in 
form 
paler shade than the €— а but its chief 
distinction is in the long rac re is als 
form with variegated leaves; bat, ены er ылын 
of the double - flowered variety, 
longer in bloom, the typical old л is she — 
The white-flowered varieties are beautiful, but do 
not flower во freely. 
W. multijuga. — In the Inder Kewensis, this plant 
is referred to as W. sinensis, but from the point of 
view of horticulture, there can be no doubt as to the 
desirability of keeping up the present name indeed 
this is done in the recently- published List of Hardy 
Trees and It is not of the same 
value ar W. sinensis, but it does not come into 
com flowers two 
or three weeks later. It was introduced from эче Ж 
about twenty years ago, and being frequently met 
with. there in a cultivated state, was for long 
. It is now 
to that 
thought to be moat жесе a native of China 
h er which, besides its later 
extreme length 
at least 2 feet long, and the Hon, 
the Temple Show of 1894. showed г racemes a yard in 
length, grown in his garden at Henley-on-Thames. 
ving shorter pedicels, and in being 
-smaller. Ia colour they are moat frequently a blend 
-of blue and white, the proportions of each co 
— divided than in 
ies, and whe: 
can only be afforded fie one of them, it should not 
have the preference. 
PNP. brachybotrys.—It ie doubtful whether ү ы 
-can be admitted a» a distinct Ih 
deen it under eu but judging boi die 
ve been published, it is, most 
W. chinensis, Sone is now 
to be a native tive of Japan as China. 
vered it in мае o ridin 
the Flora of Japan, t. 45 It was introduced by him 
to the continent about 1830, and flowering subse- 
quently in the mos Garden of the University of 
G Flore des rres, t. 880. 
2 
nent, was fi n the 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Aveusr 31 1895, 
Japan, t. 49. g 
“the clusters of white flowers hanging 
tops of the bushes and trees form а toe ficent 
the vegetation an aspect of wild 
The mes are small, as are 
бы раса: with those of W. chinensis. It 
flowers in July and August 
rutescens.— This, as before stated, is the one 
species found out of Asia, being a native of Florida 
and other southern United States. It is a climber 
like W. chinensis, but is not so strong a grower. 
The leaves are of a rich bright green, with the leaf- 
ultijuga. The 
the young branches, are covered with down. The 
racemes vary in size from 3 inches to 6 or 8 inches 
being & pale biuish- -purple. 
on the whole, well worth cultivation as ай orna- 
In the racemes of W. frutescens 
the flowers are much more closely packed than in 
the Asiatic species, 
Little need be said in regard to cultivation. 
Wistarias are amongst the most amenable of 
hardy plants, thriving in oil that i 
fairly 2 substance, and moist. In the early 
stages t may be helped by top-dressings of 
manure м in spri 
phir — they are intended to climb, a large 
of good loam should be provided, and they 
moii b Е planted in such positions that light and 
rain ach them. Some fine e 
ver Pine-tr In the 
latter case especially, the simultaneous flowering of 
the two things, and the intermingling of the yellow 
eautiful picture. All 
pti 
chinensis ripened a fair quantity of seed. W. J. В, 
Book NOTICE. 
MANURES AND THEIR APPLICATION, 
Ix no department is the average gardener more 
deficient than in the knowledge of manures and 
their proper application ; we, therefore, welcome a 
fu 
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some idea of the different kinds of manure i 
their action when applied to the soil, aud th the а. 
tity likely to produce results gene use 
the 
It is wonderful and instructive to see to what nice 
shadings of adaptation this preparation of food for 
plants has during recent years Here 
in organic matter, on which we wiah 
rop of flowers or fruit, but because of 
the very abundance of organic matter, there will be 
an overgrowth of wond and fo! oliage—a splendid show 
of pe ty but little blossom or fruit. We ask, 
through the agricultural chemist, 
is? He shows us th 
the fabric of the wood, and phosphoric acid lar 
into the formation of the init, and it is 9 5 
we are after. S) we give the planta food containing 
10 or 12 per cent. of soluble phosphate, with a 
* Published by William Cate. EG: wi 
iit fios. » Bouverie Street, E. O., price 
64, 
liberal amount of potash, and the tree or fowerin 
plant gratefully responds to our 9 Mies 
in asking it what food it needed or prefer 
The pamphlet before us will assist the practical 
gardener in his study of manures, as to what 
8 
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those which contain all the ingredients required 
by plants for their nutrition ; and “Special Мапше" 
those containing опе ог more pe not all) of the 
necessary constituents of plant 
A few corrections in the w ceasary, to 
which we should like to call Мый The 
83 Кезим in sulphate ammonia is sulpho- 
"The quantity of nitrate of soda recommended to be 
of garden plants can take; otherwise quality is sacri- 
ficed for quantity. The keeping quality of Onion 
is greatly vss dti by large dressings of nitrate 
в а very variable manure; it contains 
es little Ade en, and from 1 to 4 per cent, of 
monia 
"Blood, er being dried, is a valuable manure; it 
contains from 78 to 79 per 
8 
was found that the fertilising power of 1 of sods 
was greater than that of dried blood, a 
so on light land. According to Ростан results, 
by far the best results with dried blood were 
obtained on clayey soils, whether the manure ти 
alone or in combination with phosphates and 
otash. 
The quantity of nitrate of soda recommended for 
Nr ag is certainly a 
0 ent, of nitrate 
a lawn A um coarse 
me too prominently 
follow 
OUR POULTRY 
By gree WEIR. 
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(i ron ы p. 46) 
In my last I note an omission, bc e 
As stated, th 
lub has, I think, very unwisely ба opinion 
that any other colour is not desirable, nor can such 
be of the true breed, I remember years 82° ago seeing 
among a flock of Rooks two pure white birds ; would 
the committee of the у кышу. pic bave 
hardihood to say that these we ot true 
Rooks or white Biackbirds, w which “a "not veg 
common, were not true bred ousels. In breeding 
animals or birds, especially rnm entirely 
white or blue is by no means an unnatura 
for black, and therefore to my eg pa 
e 
very narrow-minded conception of itis 
variety of fowls called the * ейи ee 1 
asserted that only the blac der 
while the white or blue are — by the ein 
cross-bred. In this matter, I entirely differ I эш 
the committee of the Langshan Club, of which 
an honorary member, 
Again, I most seriously differ with them when tb 
state in their “points of excellence, 
should be “tight.” I have paid 
the peculiar style of th 
n imported by Major Croad in 1872. pr n | 
to аз, 
s, and I am bound to y that I 
domestic, 
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