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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Feprvary 26, 1887, 
poiled a eee valley. “Н. E.'s" hint that the 
ng 
nied th 
mitigated and condoned 
e. He do 
u 
since I visited Al I was staying for a 
with Paxton, "^. Chatsworth, and took 
the Су of going to notable places in Derby- 
and its vicinity. ibus a trip to Dove Dale 
wer Ilam Hall, I ed Wootton and Alton 
Towe 
being chape d г yth, is pri 
I well remember seeing the interesting old blind 
harper, for whom the “ ilt 
by the Earl, and hearing him play for me, at M 
orsyth's request, “ Ye banks s о’ bonny 
Doon ” in the hall of the mansion ts. the best of 
my memory, this about ‚а 
ed up into a lofty tower lined with. stone; and o 
e ry resonant, and si rly fitted 
for giving full effect to a performance on the ha 
r. Forsyth told me a very pret as to ату 
history of this blind harper, which may be wort 
repeati His ship chanced to be haie, des 
in h i 
,h 
кон соба t 
о find this offer promptly дере. 
After further і inquiries, however, he ques that the 
obstacle to acce e was that the ist had an 
aged mother entirely dependent on his €— 
skill, and that he Sn gh agi to leave her. 
Naturally, the generous Earl at once proposed 
overcome this difficulty te taking both a and 
son nr his чрез — - and building a cottage 
speci n his or their Nine: 
this proffer, it is E: necessary to add, was 
fu d to, an e harpe 
t 
and those hok the Podio. to ны, 
Edward jm Birkenhead Park. d 
AND AURICULAS. — I 
re 
p. 248 that Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks in pots 
d surface-dressin dried cow- 
dung, rubbed through a 4-inch riddle, mixed with 
double its bulk of — d that “ Auriculas 
ould be similarly tre ust say that I 
cannot understand such instructions as regards 
Саг- 
nations, Picotees, and Pinks. АП the principal 
trade and amateur p have now 
The оте 
‚ and the work may be performed any time 
in ‘ihre h. May I ask Mr. Baillie what class of plants 
he recommends 
had not “e ssed his баай» ey two years 
J. Douglas. 
THE LEGEND OF be e —Many readers of 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle are no doubt acquainted 
with the — eit of Narcissus, or Nar- 
kissos as the name of the багс deity is now usual 
tten. It is that one Narkissos, a son 
or this the gods changed 
of the e pining чя into the — 
the last 
flower which ich now bears his umber 
of the Journal y “ Anthropological Institute it is 
and Indian max maxim 
stated that 
the water by taking the reflection, at the same time 
е the life of any gazer into a dark pool. The story 
— os, it seems, originated in similar ideas, 
gazed in water and lost his soul: his soul 
wa Fes ter water-spirit, an 
was left in a soulless state to pine or perish. 
belief, it is said, must have been —Q: 
being found i n both Greece and In The 
of Hylas sie „was carrie h 
supersti- 
st v 
following lines, illustrative of an English ч 
: f 2 idis 
ve, are Merle 
Anthropological Review, by J. G. Fraz 
* Alas, ew moon should e m 
ов w what man should never see! 
air was she! 
"d ye to Wytt а little space, 
pa lips if she would sing 
The n iini | closed above her face 
ng. 
<I know E life will fade 
know that I must valli) pine, 
For I am enc of mortal clay, 
But she's divine!" W.G. 8, 
LILIUM AURATUM.—As pamm. the жаг? э 
importations of Lilium auratum apan, 
be stated that, commencing in October last нб of 
rt som 
our leading firms, wiil this season import so 
cases, th mbers averaging from fifty to 
a hund pe , and so f the bulbs are 
remarkably fine, several bei: d nearly lb. i 
rence. On the whole the fidis reach this country 
set in on one bulb and 
spread i the others packed with it. R. D. 
DEUTZIA GRACILIS.—At s Ton Бе а 
Hudson, Gunnersbury Hous has 
splendid bushes in flower of this pes useful ч 
shrub. The plants have not received a shift for the 
past ten years, yet-they do not show oe t sign 
exhaustio: word or 0 he treatment 
r may n not 
comparatively поо of the yea 
be о lants are sone in the 
leas after flow t 
ut of place here. The 
same manner as nis дааа er ering ; the 
og gerne are r е Аа the plants placed in 
ry, where they re frequent syringings, and a 
pent fal E of Wr. € ben roots. When the 
wths are completed they are gradually inured to 
deo open p and a sunny postion, t he b e 8 being 
in a bed of coal as 
for proper attention than Deutzia gracilis. 
ITS CAUSE AND CURE.— 
We feelthat on this matter we are — t to enter 
on dehateahle ahem but as we have experienced 
the results of ha bloom гоне no bloom c Phe 
be had before, - za кке satisfied, and п 
Wic ' (see p. 223) has diced 
ves MITE, 
so ast the belle. io] or, аз a growe 
said, either to kill or cure-—the mite in this case being 
Nature's scavenger to eat up pum € ге decayed 
ннен For this opinion & particular 
whether itis accepted or mici goly for the second 
part, viz., Ч аѕ 
we claim to have cured, and our plants are now open 
inspection any Lem interested in the matter. 
At potting time (February, 1886) we determined to 
make “ ions усак of our others bulbs, so, taking two 
bulbs e pots, we subject a brownish dust 
ont the base of the bulbs toa poscit remet 
kindly put at our service by a friend, = sure 
the mite was easily discovered. Wit 
tion guide 
e scraped and cleaned the base 
carefully, and dusi em them over with у m 
After potting in hag 4 the 
ms in tan bark with a brisk bottom-heat, and the 
ouse at stove temperature, with plenty of moisture, 
Here, after starting regularly inta foliage; they were 
occasionally watered with lime-water, m after full 
development we removed them to an We 
g time, to mature, g the 
brought them back to the same stove-heat, and ia 
rewarded by a fair supply of bloom for the first time 
during several years we have had them in stock. 
this as 
Enid se we ун advise “ Wicklow," or "a 
o go and do likewise. Clark В rothers, Nur. 
ym, Carlisle, 
" MILDEW” ON HAKLUYT SOCIETY'S PAPER 
The “ sort of mildew, like a very pretty black lichen," 
on ar to paper makers, caus y the 
pn of manganese or some other iis used 
n paper making. W. G. S. 
DETERIORATION OF THE POTATO.—The pie 
клр of Mr. W. Foord in the E Chronicl 
p. 220, is perfectly alarming, and what makes itso 
is raf truthfulness, 50 far as the Potatoes of comm 
merchants will 
hasten their extinction as a comm 
It is almost я кэй. ч oy that the Potatos you buy 
are not fit t E was this same kind of careless- 
ness that w: à the main cause of the di 
and if it ааст in it will be 
results i in future. 
e 
never be cover s 2. The wai 
est. and driest soils should be chosen s fee them. - “Cold 
also avoid planting them too close to; 
Highly stimulating онун either na 
ficial, should never 
manure or E in рег Къ quanti у 
best. 4. Avoid лот Rei March an 
are the best ст all Potatos 
out of the 00 
none later than the en “aa 
ce се without bruising а 
На em as carefully 
Зен, together, ‘tot gives them together; 
Ў ог casks, not in 
but o € 
point; rub off the spears carefully as ind 
requi pa transit in box cask = 
kets—never in sacks, for fear of eee | 
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