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CHRONICLE. 
[SxrrxunRR 21, 1895. 
cold in very severe winters. This seems hardly con- 
abitat, Arctic America ; but 
ardeners for 
same reason that man 
Jerusalem a century earlier, because no 
o there to look for them. 
bes hunted for planta, 
America, says of this plant“ vaguely attributed 
to No rth America, ^ni m unkno 
P.S.—If this alleged Es че 1086, І — un- 
dert TA ake it again very few rs by a 
on from dwarf forms of с persicifolia. oO . 
ERITRICHIUM STRICTUM (?)—A most beautiful 
and continuously free-blooming hardy an i 
— Norwich. He wrote ^ me when sending it 
that, being perfectly hardy, i seni no special 
ally sowed its im bu freely all round 
this spring round one o 
Gladioli, where they have bloomed continuously and 
most pri tma id during the whole summer, and have 
been much a itors to my garde n; to 
none of w ma was the plant known, and nearly 
every one баа for the name, and wished to know 
where they c ай seed of it for next year. 
The small Pes blue flowers exhale а 
mewhat resembling that of the flowers of the 
common tr uring the sunny hours of 
| I hi name 
n any of m my books of ce, except the Index 
2 the horticultural W cq pe 
tioning one species of Eritrichium, the pretty little 
ine, E. папи nt came flowering specimens 
to Мевагв, Cutbush, the well kn 
tal On referring to the index Kew- 
for this second specific name, I it is said to 
be synonymous with Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, 
I also sent flowering specimens to the Herbarium at 
Kew for identification, and t i 
au ti ere said it was ium 
all, but apparently one of the =ч -tongue family, 
ynogloss um, fi t in his 
Illustrations of East Indian Plants, vol, iv., t. 1395, 
recognise and give 
I hope some of Narr readers 
the of this plant. V. E. T n. 
SLUGS AND WORMS.— You must be almost, if 
— 2 'alton 
ack, — pes and a third hag 
Lodge, 
one; but 
spines on its b 
only one spine, Robert Warner, Widfora 
Chelmsford, 
JUDGING 
pi ea and sometimes they bring undeserve 
judges, quibbling and cavilling 
s and committees, cou 
instance some awards at а adr eraon show 
recently held, чов have borne frui subsequent 
shows, an ed pegs bn ahs nonplussed 
competitor to baik his quibbles upon. P, M. 
HARDINESS OF —Ó бей, Mee —It may 
enag eat your correspondents 
e Gardeners’ Chronicle to [енә that the Ciematis 
o longer “a 
iis great recommendation of —À dear to 
ladies! Н, M, E. ington 
A VINE 8PORT.—I looked in the other day to 
see some of the wonderful examples of fruit, plant, 
and flower culture at Mr. Thomas Rochford nurseries, 
бн ei and they are furnished from base to 
splendid bunches. There is no ee e 
here of the . of sap by amne The Vin 
for 4 or 5 feet from the base ing быны 
the rod about 6 feet or more is producing Grapes 
altogether different, and resembling in size of ber 
and wood are not 
e they quite identical with 
pret m the Vine should thu 
break into & new character at & certain point, and 
retain it to the very top of. riv cane; in all my ex- 
perience of Vine gro new such а case 
as this, The difference in the berries is so marked 
that it cannot escape observation, J. Douglas 
THE PE ete DAI&Y.—I in ve 
pleased to я r, E. Bennett's remarks on these 
Hower in a recent issue of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
206. een Daisies at their best in the 
Le places na 
and have no мы tion in placing Aston first with 
enormous masses of beds and borders of 22 
colours. The Daisies, in fact, were the е eyes 
ts best. Messrs, Fleming at Cliveden, and 
Wm. Ingram at Belvoir, each m good use of 
Daisies in those great examples of ng gardening. 
w, through no better 
— the caprices of 
‚ the employment of Daisies is on the wane: 
spring- flowering bulbs, annuals, Violas, m- 
roses, Aubrietias, Arabi с, having crowded 
the from many a spring garden, and 
er are also sharing the same gg А 
— of Forget- —. — aly el. fall 
me-Nots, mostly o the beat of ail 
the early- наук, z., Myosotis dissitiflora, 
propagated for spring e 
we seldom meet with this ur cae med 
and brilliant =. 
in such bold and telling masses as were 
that time. Writing of Daisies, it is 
be h 
that we may not lose the quaint — Chicken 
form amid our owe of fashion, Farther, does 
any reader of the Gardeners’ а ronicle possess the 
white-flowered Heir and-Chicken Daisy, or h 
one been successfulin raising new forms of this curious 
and interesting 5: Perhaps the introduction 
and illustratio new Daisy 
our spring gardening, 
TRIALS AT CHIBWICK,—4A recent wran wrangle over 
the nomenclature of a Bean, with a urposeless 
resul e stateme: being; made & ^ 
Chiswick Gardens that everything sent there for 
Mem x qeu н such is the с ue 
Я Of space, and second, bei 
trial of icular ucts g e that 
j place 
season. There is a assumption in the 
_ a 
— that any one may unsolicited — ап 
at any time to Chiswic кк 10 be к or trial, чиш 
oblivious of the fact ‚лєт one thing hs does not 
constitute a trial, but that real tests of value ara 
found 2 when the best representatives of any ong 
roduct are grown along with new-comers, It was 
8 under such conditions that the B 
ime, and was, with 
many other things, probably relegated to the dust- 
heap after the ad become sterile, There 
be no d ever, but that the best work d 
these trials are 
most —— and others, when arising fnm 
they are leas во, These are 
Chiswick to examine results 
spirit of absolute impartiality, ui entirely devoid й 
these trials, as 
and can ман * that those membe 
the meetings at Chiswick, 8 be it understood do 10 
at personal and pecuniary sacrifice, come to their 
work with the honest desire to be just and impartial, 
and nothing more. Very rarely indeed is it thats 
ver in what may be 
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able be requested next year is on 
with which andon 91 
his is a vegetable 
мавчи made daring the past te n years 
quite so great as to justify the production of н" 
a dozen new claimants for honours in one ут" 
No wonder, with so many Richards in the field С 
the Егпі felt course Mr d 
invite the Council to promote a thorough tr й 
th ew and esta sorts $ 
any committee to deal satis y he 
at t the table, — when the c т^ 
handsome varieties in commerce are nd it een 
аву gne rin advance — " be ſou po 
n the direction of greate "v 
= Я den 
testify to their 5 ots 
1 е conduct р 
remains Б diffi ета А.-с out doubt the 
. There is, so far 
the gardens suited for a trial, and if te ri Te 
great service 
one — 
general good suc 
the gardens. 
the soil is very porous, an 
certain that the enclosed eben 
