Fesrvary 19, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
247 
ТНЕ BULB B GARDEN, 
DAFF tn ARD-RIGH v. PALLIDUS PRÆCOX 
MARKET FLOWERS. 
STRANGE how the two varieties potted in October 
last should now be simultaneously in bloom ast 
season irai whole of the N. p allidus preecox flowered 
at Christmas. _ This year I ventured lrish-grown bulbs 
on both varieties was quite withered in the first on 
of June, 1886—a sure sign of maturity. W 
aware that February is the earliest period at which 
collectors gather blooms on the Pyrenees, while here, 
wet soils, and succeeds better when grown in peaty 
or turfy stony soil—just what one finds at elevated 
positions on the mountains. I send you bulbs with 
blooms attached of a very early single Snowdrop, to 
prove the mildness of our climate. It has been taken 
from the open. Is it a variety, or only an instance 
of the early verdure of Erin? William Baylor Hart- 
land, Temple Hill, Cork. [It was, so far as we could 
tell, hardly worth considering as a variety. Ep. 
HARTLAND’S Irish Kine DAFFODIL fece 
end you some blooms of this very early m 
ket рамы It was potted и with 
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bulbs" are a month e nce of the latter-—“ neck 
and neck ” with pallidus precox, and fully a fort- 
Ето, 55,—ALToN TOWERS, 
in the south of Ireland, Ard-Righ flowers freely in 
the open—about Feb. 10. As we have had but little 
frost and very little snow upto the present time I have 
hope of very САЙТ, results from plants.. in ine g 
Among Da e 
temporary t AR E beds of white Daffodils 
Ia, б inches of ‘frozen snow DEM on them. This 
WO a Snow BART 
ing is rather ben eficial, d 141 
effect on the bulbs as а down ird on the human 
e. But some чым Daffodils will not stand much 
Mis or wet unless in very dry positions, where there 
i drain Some of the stronger brown- 
wn, 
common Irish cernuus, &c.; but the silver-skinned 
or glaucous foliaged section, such as pallidus præcox, 
name e m 
Pyrenees, to distinguish it from the large Dutch 
one), and (fon capax, which is a true silver- 
skinned yariety, has a tendency to die out on cold 
(sEE P, 243.) 
night ahead of all они including the famous 
Tenby Daffodil. By Feb 0 we Sommers to 
cut from the open, beginning again -Righ. 
The bulbs are fully Pu in June Pus i and 
ransplanting. The foliage is quite yellow in May, 
in the open the blooms are much finer and larger. 
The blooms forwarded were opening on January 11, 
William Baylor Hartland. [The flowers were fully 
open, unblemished, and are very desirable at this 
season, Ep. 
MANURING FRUIT TREES. 
have often noticed great waste of material 
experienced, the ce of surface- 
dressing was denounced as useless, and then aban- 
3 cation 
the manure, the feeding roots being far distant from 
the stems of the trees, and I need not say that these 
' sire to give offence, stated that it was not a Tea 
roots had no assistance rendered them whatever, 
Ina large West of England deer which we visited 
during last summer, manure in abundance was place 
over the hard dry soie in circular form 14 foot 
wide, by the trunks of the large trees, 'The advice 
was copied from some horticultural journal, but 
certainly not to the letter, and it is because such 
work is often performed in such an guae id 
manner that the ime so well given have 
been treated with contempt. 
have been well prepared with the best of material 
are long since vacated by the feeding roots, which 
may have gone out into the vegetable quarters, or into 
a hard road if such were near by. 
хасме be seen t 
tions are given which is utter waste, The hint gi 
regarding the renovation of the Madresfield Vines may 
taken by many who have long been helping (in 
vain) the roots of their Vines. d the ее to 
their utmost limit, and good service may en 
done by feeding them where pa can consume 
their food 
Shr ine is much с complain ed of this season 
(we have a little of it), m — it to absence of 
moi at the roots, or a dry, hot atmosphere, 
or both at the same time, go shrivelling is easily 
accounted for. The roots of some two Vi had 
into the surfacing of manure in the inside 
border, and wh d 
these roots were dried up. Caledonian, 
ROSES, 
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THE CLASSIFICATION ОЕ EXHIBITION 
ROSES, 
(Concluded from p. 210.) 
Rarsıxe New Rosrs,—There is another point that 
we have to consider. I do not think that we are 
to take Ше? ipse dixit of any raiser, that the parentage 
ed 
showing either that other agents 
or that the natural tendency of all hybrids to varia- 
tion had asserted itself, and in this, as in other 
things, 
“ The best laid schemes о’ mice pee men 
Gang oft agley.” 
We have had in your columns recently an 
instance of sit «од confusion, Ina paper I 
wro hs "- I stated p" we were having 
now brought out a rac eas r and 
constitution than au p Slat date ; фед as ques- 
rrespondents, who as an 
id و‎ Mary Fitzwilliam, which, 
although a most beautiful Rose, is also a bad grower, 
Rose ; ee 
statement, but Task are the facts? 
nouncemest of 1882, he divided the Roses to be 
out into three classes—Teas, hybrid Teas, and 
КУРЫ vi s. In which of these divisions is 
Mars Fitzwilliam to be found? According to 
Mr. Bennett’s latest views it ought to be in the first, 
but I found it in the second, under hybrid Teas; so 
I may ask where is the mis-statement ? But I 
