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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
257 
advantage, that sundered somewhat from greater 
суш for public favour—the Soc 
d in t sid 
delight gardeners everywhere., 
ible 
an should 
y reasons for its being "end in the 
Ape 
1 olde Мени гана of Chiswick. 4. D 
THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE: GARDENERS' ORPHA 
n 
eners m ow de — do t receive more than 
ap n decent дой othing at t all 
It is, typ ls ‚ hardly 
ould, 
suppose that they would, o sub- 
ast four 
е that the scheme (at present) is 
p. I suggest a more 
the ‚зе a eye Soc 
of Despon ea 
sly e 
ould be “devoted solely 
гем pine 5 establis ed fees fro 
emit to shows, 
ion The а side 
always best when money is concerned, and though 
en à I me A ae shi 
heme be started, and soon a 
is appointed My name is et to the Editon 1 but 
in this place it is W. H. 
BULB DISEASE AND ARTIFICIAL MANURE.—Your 
discovered th 
dent believes he scove arti- 
is the cause of plant-disease; may it 
disease 
m which has come under his 
as been coincident with yc application 
0 artificia im кан should t the proper а ica- 
o to the soil of the mineral elements of plants 
isease 
M 
Н 
in 
d 
^ 
= РШ plication of p potash 
a Ms 
were repond эр! by the it ares therefore it is 
(it 
possible e bulb is very doubtful 
hat the Еч the niece "af the mischief) [not 
the least, we should say. Ер.] may attack bulbs 
whether they have ever bee essed with the 
nostrums ot. Your correspondent might rea- 
sonably have objected to the use of nostrums of 
unknown composit contain 
here is now no neces- 
sity to have recourse 1o "nostru Physiologists 
and chemists in this and other countries, notabl M. 
ci 
to ordinary so re perfe owt "hes 
are пета орт рна апа рһоврһо Th 
roportions [and at the 
tio n proper i 
right periode] do vh soil will: never produce disease 
or injure a plant y way. Edmund Tonks 
Packwood, Knowle, 
REWOOD.—In addition to “ om or pimps’ 
"i firewood mentioned in the Gardeners’ буна 
тоату 
тп 16 
Ріпе, af 
by machine 
ws X many 
ons im moving along the тн апа "breadth of 
untry? These might, perhaps, carry this 
cheap material at almost nominal prices to centres 
of population, where they might be distributed by 
means d hand or donkey carts, as many other things 
all events, if the hi igher x an despise 
such Pod things, the lower classes pon be Ни 
о йо во. e true economy of a nation requi 
that ie should be €—— and the utilisation. of 
these sm. ddition, give employ- 
ment to me те ta of ch hildren and others, for whom 
it would be diffi pro e work. There 
n 
oneself more co would 
otherwise admit of. Te. should pe ren i reee that 
servants of the higher ager oppose any measures 
ce of economy, simply 
ow. Iti every - 
4. e resources he country were utilised, less 
‘ney oul leave the count 
left for the use — people. 
ARDINESS OF vse a —In the month of 
last & er 
ral years. e 
nd to be a shady 
corner, the shade of trees. 
The ый аста for these plants is a mixture of 
road drift and If the possessors of 1 ants 
Min: i space that 
them were to plant them out in such places as those 
indicated i in well drained s ites the finer foliage a and 
trouble incurred. W. Woods, Oak Tree House, Woking, 
RIOCARPA STIPITATA.—This is a remarkably 
distinct má effective foliage plant, although spiri d 
y to our common Nettle (Urtica). It is a plant 
noble — especially in a 
bed] large oval leav 
irregular margin o of a lighte 
on freely it produces leaves from 1 
and 6 to 9 inches br In h Kanté of O 
appearance. y easily 
ropa m from ME cien which m — nid dca 
plants the same se 
side shoots, which may off when they have 
made three or four le nas the cuttings 
are taken off a little dry Meri should be applied to 
he ends, to prevent bleeding ; -— ipn тоо x = ely 
in an ordinary propagating c the 
lants are ev rid rooted гея should. be potted 
on, using rough peaty soil, and a little manure, with a 
libe ral addition of coarse s sand. As soon as the gos: are 
m is remarkable that this fine-foliage plan nt is nof 
rated in the catalo — of the leading nursery- 
men, л, either under the name o fM yrioc arpa o т Ве h 
eria, wi g 
S ON ont tp CALANTHE kc sg AND 
vien JA .—About the latter part of March shake 
the pseu "ge bs out, йч cut off all old roots, and 
repot in 
ina tdi state, adding a 
dung and sharp sand 
rm in ition 
t, n occasional watering with liquid-manure 
with soot added proves ve ial If all 
well, by the beginning of November the plants should 
their er-spikes, whic 
as 
as to ious their foliage just when the flowe 
expanded. W. G. 
THE PROPAGATOR. 
BOUVARDIAS. 
Tue old cut-back plants will now Bees young. 
growths, cuttings of which should be 
inserted in properly crocked 3-inch pots £d with 
light sandy soil, and a surfacing of sand, which in 
rose to settle the soil about them. As soon as they 
are rooted they should be potted off singly into small 
60-size ory pinching out t the points of the shoots as 
soon as the p to cause them 
to аы. If they are to o ien 
the second week in 
une, the 
at the 
plants d be shifted into 48's, using а compost 
consisting of three fibry 1 leaf- 
ould and sand. They should, (having been duly 
ardened off), ted out in a wa 
16 inches y the second or third week 
in June, in soil to t indicat. 
y ving water a 
the roots, these will make К, plants 2 а 
2 of Ane, when they pda be potted w 
