SEPTEMBER 21, 1895.] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
weather literally super-heated. These are not con- 
ditions ordinarily 
fi een fu 
have been cool and drippy.  Potator, again, d 
not often turn out well; that is chiefly due, 
is year, to the ex MT porous nature of 
оо highly charged with 
r soil, — A ch 
and 
— for 
, Disease has badly raged amongst the trial 
nitrogen is a minor elem 
potash are in — —.— is always bet 
Po tatos. 
deren cael І have found the same results exactl 
БЕ 
асе on poorer and stiffer soil the crop is 
clean and сходна? Some of the same varieties 
muc Ze 
crops on poor soil не bis 
would be well for 
ап acre of more open and firmer soi 
trials; that would then leave room 
things of interest to be gr 
directions the “ебат. of horticulture would be 
ATOS TRUE "To NAME.—Year by year t „ч 
difhealty of obtainin, mato seed tru 
becoming greater, minces in regard to the inis 
of fine quality, viz., Hackwood ud. 2 which 
I make bold to say, from several year 
different times procured some 
ariety above-mentioned 
was raised by Mr. Bowerman, gardener at Hackw 
Р B * it arded a First - ч 
stock A im hands of a - 
nursery firm, with whose name I acquainted ; 
and, judgin by the habit of the from a trial- 
pac acket of seed received e few weeks since from 
this firm, I think they have the true variety. p prtom 
variety, also difficult to obtain true, i phy. 
res ave & house planted with plants raised 
om seed fro well-known Lon firm; 
would not car 
hold t са. занан seed-saving is practised, there should 
be but o in the house, an 
out mentioning md 
means whereby it gets distriba 
men cannot be too particular as as to the source from 
which their stock is obtained. "There 
more annoying areful and сч 
culture of a house, ог houses fi with plants, to 
find when the fruit appears that it is not the right 
thing. It is only a e es of a half-a-crown or so 
at ra outset, but n wrong varieties are yr idol 
my case gon worthless Хы the los 
— is serious, ‘especially to a market айё. 
Р, F. Ге Sueur, Grand Vale, Jersey, “Sept. 10. 
A flower ant pseudo-bulb was forwarded to Professor 
Reichenbach, who — it as D. arachnites, 
and described deners’ Chronicle 
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either of the seven other flowers at hand. 
It was sent by Mr. Boxall in 1875 to Я 
W. Bull, who sent me a flower and an extract 
from his correspondent’s letter, which said the plant 
astly, Mr. Е, Sander 
plants, dried flowers, and ak ulbs are 
аме 333 honey - coloured, neatly atalked, per- 
aps not so always, as Mr, Rima aketch does not 
represent it. The — have broad, linear, blunt, 
equal sepals and s, and a much ‘broader lip of 
different shape, 5 йү" ligulate, with basilar 
angles, sometimes wit 
part. It is amr ts The whole flower is of a 
innabar-red, the veins of the E sotia 
covered with a ue, 
E 
m 
^ 
~ 
р 
ч 
half length. E ann speaks in the highest 
terms of it, and such a pyramid of cinnabar flowers 
ав he sketched them must be striking. the 
leaves I know nothing. I was lately most agreeably 
ed to 
obtain a fine bem bulb, and a very good 
flower from our Orchid rof. 
er notes or 
ot be known until the secrets of his great 
LA i are revealed to the world. C. Woolford 
RUST IN BEGONIAS I am an extensive grower 
of Begonias, and it is ж < гут that the so-called 
rust mentioned by “ ee 
is caused b 
to the opinion that 
t is produced by а induced b 
n being careless wit 
t 
ur will 
notice of this the name 
дере, ме ‚ who planted 
ine twenty- dee, und te Welded cate ^ 
dentally omitted, C. 
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND 
MR. BA з Ш іп the dark as to detai 
but cannot rest until the Council bas recognised its 
responsibil d has made all to its consti- 
tuency. e shall learn next that a 
the future re, and wish, 
inthe * place, to "i Introspec*or in his con- 
tention snot a sufficient sa 
ualified man as the new Superintendent, 
It is not a living wage. The very тете 
should be offered is £250 sag year, with a d 
its usual accompanimen If the ui n offers 
ould not live in 
& suitable manner pt фе an salary offered. It is the 
ег a salary upon which a 
man may live without аер and discomfort. . 
that the kind of man for tke 
i £400 
post is really well than ог £500 a 
year, which is, perhaps, no more than that of the town 
surveyor who looks afte: neigh! roads 
sanitary en men get much 
more, and I beg to ask why a proficient at 
ld receive less average of tech- 
nical 3 „for , to the 
Telegraph D бон; of f the Post Office, ‘which I 
happen to light upon in 5 in 
sideration of the future, it seems to rash t а 
should 
ене ен чт rightly or wrongly, that а Council not 
qualified for dealing with Chiswick, was, necessarily, 
represented by the Chiswick board, which, however, is 
tary, in order that he may be іп close 
touch with that body, and be in a position to under- 
tand be understood e cannot be regarded 
as à mere subordinate, but must be looked upon as a 
tion. The head of the Chiswick garden i is necessarily 
the chief officer of t 
ought to 
the full а of the Society a and for the и of the 
1 is to ouncil 
may retrac — thus avoid an . expenditure, 
i de, is quite 
unne —unleas, it be perhaps, to provide the 
present Superintendent with t the assistance he may 
want, Pro bono P 
e things worse, 
nation 
second, the w policy which 
seemed to the Council inc compatible with the reten- 
tion of ет distinguished services of Mr. Barron 
The hono 
as the oud рт require 
= production of both at the ien possible 
oment. D. T. Fish, September 17. 
THE QUARRY, SHREWSBURY. 
Тнк € is well known to many readers of 
th › Ch 
d to find а more 
to the Qaarry gula. which co 
Corporation of Shrewsbury (to 
which kad this public park belongs) backed up by 
the e Hortionlinral 
r 
Church, and isa very imposing one, there being a 
roomy and a m ат the Queen Anne style 
h exte 
400 yards in length, in a gradual descent down 
to the broad, awiftly-flowing waters win 
Severn, and is flanked on either side by extra fine 
specimens of Lime trees (Tilia europea), which were 
