Ferrvary-5, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
185 
(Amaryllidacee, p, 306) disposes of it as “ another 
absurdity which will never be found to exist. Ihave 
no hesitation in rejecting it as anonenity.” Never- 
theless a Daffodil answering to Rudbeck’s description 
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In the first place the 1 tube is almost pled bera. 
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that of тане нти? апа во do the anthers, 
ressed against the style and uni-serial. 
The corona is very long, deeply lobed, and ы 
traction of the corona at its base, 
is nearly flat on the inside, has on the 
species of vitia. but seem. 
„о produse seed very freely, and 
. Tait last summer 
is already gro C. Wolley Dod, Edge Най, 
: Malpas, Jan. 31. 
f .— This plant is now in flower here in a cool 
ie I have promised to send Mr. Baker the 
flowering plant, as the thing has never yet be 
la 
WA described, &c. The woodcut (fig. 46) repre- 
sents it well. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE.— The "Pod ri ^is 
22d ult., is worthy of being 
amount of subscription, rangin 
every one а chance of showing his loyalty and attach- 
ment to her most gracious Majesty the Queen on the 
culture i is aided by scientific and rien iieri 
yet horticulture has no such institutio 
Hs advancement. I should advocate tlie 
"О. Т.е tion to the proposed institute, 
= I have n ur employers, friends, &c., 
| һо ате аг ent lovers of horticulture, would con- 
: tribute liberally towards such а scheme. So let us all 
put our shoulders to the wheel, and give a long pull, 
a strong pull, and a pull altogether. James Hewet 
Phillips, Curator of Public Parks, Swansea. 
DISEASE AND ARTIFICIAL MANURE.— 
in the use of the above has 
settled the question. in my own mind, that artificial 
to disease, I have tried 
her 
adding of 
are healthy, never having been treated with manure, 
but Ves vapour with e ipit p d liquid 
fro ow-manure, which mild, stimulating, and 
мы if used rightly. зае bulbs and tubers which have 
Ing :— 
very successful 
several ait irs in rude health till watered as dre 
wh e evil а I 
years gone dd 
healthy stock. I pert in from ав the kinds of 
manure used, as — no wish to injure any maker 
i experience, and if others 
г rselves much 
perplexity and loss. Hy Snow, Blackhed th. 
R AND APPLE GROWING.—It is to be hoped 
hat your excellent leader on the cultivation of 
ret s and Pears will stir up the gardening public 
FIG. 46.—NARCISSUS sagte mesa SEGMENTS PALE 
YELLOW, CUP DEEPER YELLOW. 
to е efforts in pud direction of growing a larger 
proportion of late keeping varieties of the best 
quality in i thë нм profitable 
of climate an ary 
t Chester, in the 
under the auspices of the committee of man- 
Mu — which it is 
— regards the 
ity d the ‘meee ofc ‚б, am їп 
Walker 
i fruit 
Cheshire and North oth Wales, Alfred 0. 
e ground-li 
the apex. The second e variety, named Dwarf 
n full bloom, 8 or 9 inches 
much 
sters, each is sold by the 
seedsmen in a variety of colours, and a good assort- 
ment will give flowers that in the late summer have 
a charming effect. William Earley. 
TIT ipte an — ofa ЖУ at Rochester 
report ur columns, the nt was made 
that тече sanies to the State, and therefore ought 
I should be obliged 
any of you ould point ou parte any Act of ate 
liament which gave the tithes to the Church, _ They 
and all that the State or the Parliament - ever done 
s been to secure уй Church those 
which were al я Mni 
th e 
f England, ry paris 
England was nah not by Mor State, but by landed 
donators in ages past." East Kent Vica 
A DRESSING FOR PEACH AND NECTARINE 
ea it destroys all in , mildew 
disease, &c., without inj 0 buds in any 
2 1b. of tobacco-powder, 1 Ib. of flowers of 
sulphur, 1 oz. of nux ic er, 2 Ib. of clay, 
ł1b. of oap, with suflicient boiling water 
to make it the thickness of paint ; well m 
up bets ы-ы then paint the Vines and trees 
over. Smythe, Basing Park, Alton, Hants, 
WHY DO FOOTPRINTS REMAIN ON A LAWN 
AFTER SNOW ?— When the snow ере upon the 
in light flakes, and 2 _the depth of a few inches, it 
pre to bend Pug the blades 
of M nest ; there is no doubt, unless 
und be previously : rendered hard by frost, that 
of the lowermost 
snow is an excellent protector from frost, and let the 
latter be ever so severe, it ta. t о ge 
through 3 4 inches of w en one 
walks over the snow,i tis trodden down firm i in a 
tion that ens The weight of the 
presses it firmly down upon the се fracturing the 
ades, and frost turns them That is my 
theory, but it may be that а salon. one can be pro- 
pounded, R. D. 
DAPHNE nine raped ма Ъееп said of 
f as much root-roo: them as 
is with some р 
has this Daphne planted out in the centre bed of his 
Rose-house at Gunnersb Park, w эне it does 
irably, and flowers in great The 
gr seen in the et is the best indication Pe 
treatment suits them exactly. 
vithin a brick pit, raised somewhat above "the level 
f the floor, ie PS re and other things plan 
p in it, and to thi be 
satis 
ant se ms to be to restrict the root space; and 
eep iin roots fairly dry even ee чат ve 
growth. Mr. Roberts has reversed these 
agr] Ma is rewarded with vigour and ا‎ ан. 
NEW „ишы с Е Wilson, Po 
Abe 
erpersie, Alford, rdee , has made a 
interesting discovery of uM p^ been viet 
obean . He found it first some 
ago, stream zd the n Hills; took it 
ome, and watched its developmen n 1 в 
sent it to Kew Gardens, where it grew, ап 
ed by J. G. Baker, F.L.S., Kew Her- 
rium, one of st authorities on Fe 
: reported = the fronds were inter- 
mediate, between forms of Lady Fern kno 
as rheeticum and crispum. The finder also sent 
0 e first den ae h kept 
the same form as а found, 
