ЈАҸСАВҮ 15, 1887.] 
they finish flowering, and never ——— them to be- 
come entangled. Plumbago capensis P, rosea 
form good pillar plants; the former should be cut 
back in such a manner as will en 
Jasminum gracillimum is a fit 
eompanion to grace a pillar. 
EARLY FLOWERING STOVE PLANTS. 
The fragrant clusters of Toxi icophlæa spectabilis 
xing in bouquets, 
&c. The plant blossoms freely in g state; 
after flowering its longest shoots should be stopped 
to cause break, and the rlant kept 
uniform sha Га ERE and Psy деде tr ria 
purposes, and require similar treatment to the бете е. 
n be increased by cuttings 
in spring if placed under a bellglass and afforded 
stove temperature. Thomas Coomber, Hendre Gardens 
Monmouth, 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
Е BLUE Tir A Carnivorous Birv.—Having for the 
f 
een 
of what, at a distance, appeared to be the outside 
scales of buds, but whic 
the top of the wall, and suspecting he was the depre- 
dator, Ihad not long to wait before I saw him ho 
on to а beehive, and in an instant eun X smallest 
hole of the hive; and when he came o e had 
little busy bee in his beak, when, ig on to the 
Green Gage trees, үз „фе devoured it except the 
parts I have before 
picki 
- fruit, "enis ч 
In my 
eating و‎ and s (although this i is not а 
believed), bu e may assume it i 
_ obliges cag binds to eat sorts of food they would 
otherwise reject. Alfred Bishop. 
Orvers.—Those horticulturists who 
seeds would confer t 
pon their respective seedsmen by sending 
e ү ially during snowy or frost 
weather, as by this the t pon the 
en's t must otherwi i m 
diately the weather changes, would be considerably 
vantage 
THE GA EN S' 
CHRONICLE. 
83 
Es 
viz., that they are 
of а fungus (Pilobolus ditata; which I 
ound км к, on the surface of the border? 
du ycelium white, flocci crystalline, e: and 
te пазней М а black spore- po The uttings are 
eet a the border fun hs likely to 
injure t the Vine rootlets ? “Binet M. Lingwood, [Yes ; 
we do not think the Vine will be injured. Ep.] 
good condition, and proves 
а M that most of the other varieties ar е 
Eo s were grown on 
"takin ng" of the buds, as we require them for 
eutting 7! ure rand decoration. W. H. Div vers, 
Ketton Hall. 
P FuMiGATOR.— The following description of 
& ha zn cheap utensil for ар гетер (fig Ж үөр, 
tics from t merican Florist o Derd 886, 
Iti is en v invention of Mr. J. L. Dillon, an ایت‎ щн» 
йог 
e a tinner make a cylinder of yere iron (the 
idi as is that's sed for stove-pipe) 2 feet long and 
8 їпсһез їп disset er. Cutas 
r 
1 d to allow for draught, and mak оозе 
tting cover for the top, the latter о = pne with 
forty quarter-inch holes, A brick p "ince the 
hole at bottom will regulate the ih 
Fig. 17.—А CHEAP FUMIGATOR. 
* We make our Tobacco stems quite wet, turn ^w 
fumigators upside down, = full of stems, place a 
shavings on top, place it on the ground or male 
р with the others in the 
rre йм fally eiii to anything we e have bei for 
the purpose." 
HORTICULTURAL ssh pegs конере, 
Mr. J. Rust, on p. Tor, о l. xxvi., raises some im 
portant T in hs with this subject, one 
t campai 
profi 
for this рей being over and the heroes of many 
hot gles resting on their well rels, 
Mr. Rust states, and with truth, “ Some ens 
sometimess place on the tables articles not of t 
own growing," although in the schedule it is pra 
subj intended to hown for 
tition must be in the possession of the exhibitor 
th previ е е 
таге 
Regarding the matter of “own кус. "although it 
p ж pertinent to the question at 
I raise the point. Here it is:—Is an exhibitor who 
allows another to “dress” his flowers acting quite 
straightforwardly when of such 
“ 
bidden i i allowed." 
adical a 
business entirely? 
mild s din les of Ако, рота cularly to the 
Pili Bem pi n thinking the 
to the s ME cipe 
blissfully ignoran 
n the exhibi 
idea for some — 
society to leave the “beaten track,” and in 
of prizes for florists' flowers stipulate that all рчы, 
yield: will be disqualified ; the pu lic would then see 
hei at 
the sam ects. Ошу recently 
ing to a successful exhib ito or, he, pointing » 
some i things i in his = grr whieh had gai 
first honours, gave 
bre бен ard at hich” угы 
vould appear ad e iL matter requiring the attention 
of schedule fram The hei: j i 
re 
ough ts wal’ n be turned to 
making нане Yo for next bois ’s tournaments, 
seems ап appropriate one in which to discuss the 
subject. B. 
— 1t may interest you to know 
that ч кы, joy ees of the striped form, referred 
t p. 45, are just now, and hav e been since 
Cie. adorni ing a corner 8.3 my a e in 
an old china vase. It m may not be so uncommon аз 
is supposed. 4. D. Webster 
LIA ANOEPS u reading f the notes of 
pon nA presen 
m, but which on dull 
May not э be 
ragrant 
places but not in all? .N. чөе, The Gardens, 
Moor Hill, West End, Southampton 
THE DERIVATION al = Woro Picotee.—I think I 
can find a more piene of the word 
verc than that "ем e Rev. 
your last number, can dione understand any- 
one loving & pretty ete "orem it after the small- 
ien о be more strictly exact, the small pock). 
sah ed fringed with Points, and it seems end 
bable that this departure er from 
e 
of 
the Spanish ho, AE a sharp 
point and sts allied t things. George Maw. 
VIA RUTILANS.—I find this new Salvia very 
ины, г it flowers after S. ege endens is 
before Heerii 
commences, thus keepi 
continued supply; the bs: are also more 
many purposes than € of the 
tioned varieties would be, as 
in AE fier Ee d T E Bes similar to S. 
Heers, and ell. 
S. Pitcheri is a very rtelling t Mm 974 at this season, 
when blue flowers are very scarce, from 
being as Чада and free in growth as the others. 
W. H. Divers, Ketton Hall, 
ALIS.—AÀ. new station for this interest- 
ing а) ае r Helleborine has been found € 
the ; and one, mers gren it oc 
in great abundance. How t is plant s ipti pus a 
mystery to more persons iem ке for t i 
springing from the cracks of the l س‎ rocks, 
one’s suspicions 
ан iier or not the plant is not vei dus allied in 
ner of growth to some epiphytal m r from 
the the Indies, A, D. Webster 
