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of flowering, кө of 500 Phloxes, and a propor- 
of common garden — and 
plants that ce hardly ever heard of 
eedmen’s noveltier, 
cost about as sid — time as it would 
do to write the labels for 500 Phloxes alone ? It has 
cum, * in cash than as good a border 
hen he s t a ‘finely divided soil” was the. 
at for Vines, so long per . Numbers 
of other p i e 
might be 
not to say fri 
gation. 
some of the glass-houses are “ white elephants” on 
the Society’s hands, and Grapes hardly do more than 
„it is not ne fuel at a 
fruits and trees that prefer А — structure all the 
2 round, and mbers of useful tests 
ould be made that require little trouble, Head, 
PRIZES AND т. ПЕ8,—1 is so generally 
held that the ма of pris at flower & shows 
to exhibits according to 
is the right and proper atas to L^ that it eems odd 
the prisco is not generally adopted. Two things, 
tell against the adoption: first, ordi- 
пагу practice which 9 Де arbitrarily and 
without real regard to the relative merits of the 
exhibits to each other; and — nd, ] 
principle which во strongly — flower show 
management, and sanctions the contin 
At the an ш> bank holiday 
shaltoa, Sarrey, 
реа А ged originated, and there is e continued, & 
numbers o 
rigidly in accordance "e quality. At the хораш show 
— М-м 24 in the clase, and when al 
‚ it was risa ft that the first six stood as 
follow, K. 57. 55, 49, 49, and 46 points, the grada- 
no case very wide, Asa 
diu „the first me would have been 
ore, and the sixth 113, 67, less, 4. D. 
JUDGING AT FLOWER 8HOWS I notice in your 
answers to correspondents in r last issue 
gro ace of 10 feet 
~ 6 feet, or ite equivalent бы irele), 1 the centre of 
was the tent-pole, urse, 
boos, Ivy, moss, &c.—or left entirel 2 withont 
disqualifying the exhibit, Judge, í 
ject was introdaced 
CUMBER LOCKIE’S PERFECTION,— There аге 
of this Cucumber in the St. 
branch nursery of Messrs, Wood & 
Hantingdon, the plants having been put out in the 
eet apart in 
and both houses being span-roofed, they 
are trained тә the inside ; o depth of soil in which 
they are growing is — inches. a es 
вау па а — for pro 
tiveness is "established ; the c normous and 
я seem as if 
828 could be more productive, and 
г be better adapted for market and es 
M e eee . 
VENIDIUM CALENDULACEUM,—I have been look - 
ing in vain for the year in which this charming sub- 
Ia flower-seed lists it is 
а 
generally classed as an annual 
m for 2 ЭР: 
sowing — be made in May 
for late summer неф ди atumn- sian te - — like the 
Gazania it is seen at its best late owers are 
golden-yellow, with a dark —— — and it may 
be appropriately likened to a glorified pot Marigold. 
One of its chief тонні ia ite freedom of bloom. І 
fiad it does best wh 
but it should not са for water. 
rm sandy loam of the Bedfont seed grounds it roots 
freely, and the plants grow into large sizə, 
тем ME enterprising seedsmaa ed ЕА 
» 
often wondered if 2 gi T 
It well deserves to be more generally grown. R. D. 
UCHERA SANGUINEA AND HYB3ID.—Com- 
plaints are frequently е that this plant does not 
flower freely, but nothing cou : e more satiaf. 
than its 
e 
e type, 
prove the pure aaa "lod potat of the flower as 
first a hybrid seedling 
€ spontaneously in my garden, more rob 
than the seed- with flesh-coloured flowers, 
of — eni: — їз — out in abundance, I 
it to have resulted fro sanguinea X H. 
e I think I saw the same in flower last 
e at Kew. C, Wolle Dod 
LARGE PEACHES.—Some Sea Eagle Peaches, of 
unusual siz3 and finish, have been — gathered in 
ens — at — Hall, Stamford. The crop 
medium one, and the fruits 45 25 about 
1 1b. “each, The 1 83 weighed 17, 1 
etton, 
splendid fruit to any exhibition, 4 Grower, 
GLADIOLUS SHAHZADA,—This is one of OMEN, 
Kelway & Son's new i luctions, 
able for its deep 
le, and its rich иы markings їп the throat, 
iter the — fine form of the individual 
owers, of it were exhibited 
T ne spikes 
at the recent flower show at Taunton, aud its 
seal 8 of colour caused it to stand 
out from the rest of the flowers in A stand, 
e caution * now necessary in awarding 
cy ems. rms 
8 of Merit to new varieties of Gladioli, 
of the eR pre of this one there could be 
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FOOD REQUIREMENTS OF THE CHRYSANTHE- 
MUM.—Referring to the article upon the above 
subject ee correspondent, M. P sen, 
which appeared in the issue of August 17, p. 181, 
compost and manurial mixture о! Mr. 
decidedly deficient in pera The rate at which 
ed 
tra manure, was one 
parts of soil, while that by 
still er. 
will 5 find that I recommended after the potting 
that the Chrysanthemum ti every 
ment, gain, the mixture used was lackin 
| ered by g rowing plants over long 
periods of time. The * is, Laat the capacity of 
cultivated 28 ts to take up Ча атчу of lime exist- 
ing in on differs in a MoA 
may sel an 
experiment with 'S wedish чае There wane two 
€ of land, one rece wts, superphosphate 
lime per acre, and the other 6 cwts. per acre 
el basic slag (ground fine). The roots нена the 
superphosp grew m f at the be 
rnips were not able to take up the 
there. acid of the basic slag until towards the 
end of the on. It is quite clear t e absence 
" а айыу 2 9 т of lime in the early stages of 
rowth and insufficient nitrogen was use 
of failure in Mr. Aadersen’s Chrysanthemum expe- 
riments. J. J. Willis, Harpenden. 
AP! nta n FERNS. — Mr. 
me s € we den eei in the Botanische неа 7 
&rks thereanent. De Bary, how- 
assertion, and my remarks were 
— t Inficning exceptio 
alr зун as indicating ex ns 
which Do Bary failed э find. I also sai ve 
no reason to assume gamy is a bar 
any more than other bud-formin 
which to my mind covers the 
Lowe's contention. uming,as we must do, that 
shed contains th 
progeny, 
tion from apogamic buds 
fertilised by antheridia on same prothallus; and to 
