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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 26, 1887. 
loam, and sand, while Acacias and Desfontaineas 
succeed without peat. Care should be taken that 
hey ке аге moist at 7 roots when turned out 
ir pots, and after the operation is completed a 
M positio free from draught, where they can be 
placed upon a damp surface of spar clear of worms 
should be found b them. Thomas Coomber, Hendre 
Gardens, Monino 
PRUNUS PISSARDI. 
Ix the year. 1881 the Revue Pes ole first made 
soon made its way in this cou 
beauty ofi its rich claret-coloured foliage (fig. 80). 
gh not = 
first- rate quality, were by no means к Гө despised, 
while only quite recently Messrs. Paul & Son, of 
Cheshunt, have shown us that the plant has no 
mean qualifications as a plant for forcing — 
m o be inferred 
in the Revue Horticole, 1881, p. 191, by M. Carriére. 
'The plant has an assured future 
ROSES. 
a 
SNOW AND ROSES. 
Taw snow has been a good protector of these and 
many another not perfectly hardy subject this winter. 
With the im amount of frost our losses e winter 
uld be fi отан Һа ow been 
меш freni the earth. Here we trust. rch much to 
what the weather se bring us in the way of pro- 
tection for Roses and other things, and if we get this 
uty, even by the most 
erefore let us for cn future 
frosts set 
which in heavy 
becomes a receptacle for holding water to the 
einar of the Rose-stock. Prot 
ARD-RIGH DAFFODIL. 
In the time of Daffodils we are glad to be able; 
thanks to a niece of Mr. Hartland, of Cork, to present 
to our readers an illustration of one ofthe most strik- 
€ early of the Daffodils, being earlier even than 
i iful, 
dus przcox. well 
vcrum зен аюби that we hope to be exeused 
from odmera- to give a detailed description of 
a т ин characteristics are better shown 
by the accompanying illustration (ig. 81, p. 417) 
- feet Porti We do not suppose that 
a most ardent Unionist will E n in eee ca to 
A GRAND OLD GARDENER. 
(Concluded from p. 380.) 
MAR .—Hippeast g in Mr. Kel- 
way's nursery to a great extent, and with remarkable 
Of course most growers know that there 
onna, which has a solid stem, whereas H 
astrums and most  Amaryllids have tubular 
scapes, beside g different in their seeds 
ber that, though it very closely resembles Belladonna, 
Crinum, bearing a fleshy, Potato- 
A. Belladonna 
it is really 
like excrescence it calls a seed. 
Fic. 80,—PRUNUS FIS:ARDI, THE PURPLE-LEAVED PLUM: 
comes n the Cape, and the Hippeastrums from 
America and the West Indies. While here I found 
usual 
which is injured by the frost "^ much smaller E 
the totally uninjured єзї iri ety called major. 
word is pmi to the 
If Hippeastrums come Жор tropical America апа 
the West Indies why do gardeners dry them off? 
When rl get their drying.off there? Who origin- 
ated this fat. Do they dry off at Veitch's 
nursery at Chelsea, or at Weston Birt, or at Hilden- 
ley, in Sir ma Strickland’ rid е collec- 
tion? Here they are markable way 
Iu чое SL 
the cold in winter. Most of the winter thousan 
Any 
the ouchet's are quite hardy, and 
at Саке ү in Derbyshire, there is an open 
border, 200 feet long, filled with Ackerman 
greenhouse border at Sunnyhill, Shirehampton, 
ма piso ected. Curious Ismenes flowered in the open 
last summer, and the blue Hippeastrum procerum, the 
Brazilian species, is there ; Crinum Powelli, loveliest 
FLOWERS PALE ROSE COLOUR. 
i to, 
a A Amaryllids, is is as hardy as a P 
d grow in a ploughed field or kitchen garden, 
vii protected byany wall. Why,then, are the 
trums dried off? They love to let ead roots 
the surface. Is it to get them t a 
that most people withhold water? The he result is that d 
they flower a little earlier, but wi 
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few things that oit be ak dul Ms 
