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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 9, 1887. 
employed as that recommended for Lycastes. I 
imm pae which require repotting should be placed 
rmediate-house for a time, but as the 
endis becomes warmer : will be found that a cool 
house will grow them bes Ler ERS Falconeri 
should be ne ‘fasts overhead mo 
temperature does not fall lower than 50°, but a 
should be turned on during the night, so as to guar 
against frost. The tobacco-vapour process should 
ve a id growers, destroying the 
insects without injury to the plants. C. Woolford, 
Downside, Leatherhead. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
DENERS' BENEFIT SOCIETY.—The sugges 
tions i are being made in the segete! Chronicle 
and also in the columns of some of your tempo- 
raries as to the a that exists for the forma- 
i a ers’ efi 
nefit nded 
about and it was established by gardeners, а "m 
i d 
mé ve no claim on 
unds. · The overplus of the funds 
y divided hoo ар the members yearly, 
ed in the Bank of En 
a je a separate account, 
fund, = all interest accruing, 
of a member to his 
enty y 
Society lore at the present time sums ee 
to between £40 and £50 credited to them 
oks of the Society, and when such o 
is reached, the yearly interest accruing се 
55 to the тету Кран Bis gta from eac 
‘member. This is submitte a point of the 
ا‎ the matter is 
rdeners— 
көтө or quite all the 
added to the 
that in the course of ti 
sums paid as contributions, will 
rs de п 
paying 365 
are contribute 3s. annually to the above fund ; 
all pay 2s. 64. annually to the management fund. 
ding 
31 last huis det to ы 17s., this being 
ki by deducting only 1з. 8d. > members 
nah ntribute 26s. а ye m thus vii £1 4s. 4d. of 
pall - 
holly le by si sick- 
yment ГЫ 18 pares to full 
t frai 
„Р 
iety. The benevolent fund is 
established to enable the committee _to grant 
sistance is needed, as, for instance Code aee e 
tor's emi iode. ‘and unforeseen аксын. Тһе 
| ion {от membership requires that the 
pe ighteen and not a 
worked not 
m 
I uad Lend that they are to be found in old 
English iie Bhs as in 
TS ur сач 
me a few weeks since remarked in seb to M 
yea 
ing in lx books of the Society to my credit is about 
50, t early of 
ien ers and nu 
expenses of the Society Een very low ind 
managed by a committee of gardene 
dh 
Road, Clapbam 
Hudson, The Gardens, Gunnersbury House, Acton, 
W. R. Dean, Ealing, W. 
HUGE СЕСЕ —Your Wire persil Mr. 
423, doe: 
Hussey, p. not mention ze of pots 
his pom are grówn in Ге have some fora flower- 
ing at the present time that a growing in 5 and 
с ege an үл measure e6 a d 6} Teet round 
the of flow The s га ог н e plants 
a sown about № t 1а e manure- 
water given them diea flowering. 
T. Н.. Holinwood Park т Tunbridge Wells, 
LIGHTED LEAVES AND FLOWERS OF NARCISSUS 
AR. PULCHELLUS.—These are affected 
by a blight I never noticed before. The dozen 
bul umn fi arden in North 
Wales, where they have grown for many years. The 
spec t have been grown in a greenhouse, 
but er same wp planted in the open 
ground are showing signs of the same Arg must 
therefore have come with the bulb. The hich 
contained the enclosed is the only o Affected 
which stood. n you kindly get it reporte 
on? C. Wolley Dod. [The case cited by Mr. Dod is 
а remarkable one, and from the evi e he adduc 
the disease seems, as he to be derived 
the bulb. the examples sent the flower-stems 
and leaves have very extensive dar wn, t 
jet-black or and these patches have a ten- 
dency to become hard a ttle. The disease 
ncy b 
n ДЯ resembles externally ber $ eae. e ч ke 
Am Pea 
3 
e Am idacem ar rom the attacks of 
parasitic fungi, and, as know, none of th 
umerous fi peculiar to the Liliaces have ever 
to st the Amarylli A 
as to the condition of the bulbs of the blighted 
plata would be instructive. W. G. S.] 
WHITE TRUMPET DAFFODILS.—-As the season 
has pais "- when we can make pri wp Lim the 
classification a 
I should like to аз 
cially Irish growers, who have old gardens 
they are established, and who may 
ha 
We ha ve rrap a 
possible. “ Eile mit weile” is a safe ru pira one which 
in this case we must follow, if we den t wish to be 
of the preceding. 
ish gardeners to notice their white 
ve become ойд in, or may never have existed 
în English gardens, have been found established 
in old Irish ens, v 
sti 
Ф 
B 
: 
— 
апа 
rish ones. n ы 
WV 
„is no 
26, ped May 10, they will confer a favour on all 
specially оч зару in these very ee 
уена or if t refer end blooms 1 
shall be glad to گل‎ themy iu willlet the. senders 
know whether they are forms T M already ha 
or not, "er — r they are worth sending on i 
the Com ее. Differences might be looked for in 
the flow em particulars :—Flowers either unusually 
lar mall, very wide or Wer trot trumpets ; 
perianth ‘longer that the trumpet, or much shorter; 
perianth divisions very broad or very narrow. H. M. 
White, “Charleville Roscrea 
PARASITIC FUNGI OF TOBACCO PLANTS.— 
In the ee ners’ Chronicle for February 8, 1887, 
p. I warned growers of Tobacco дш the 
pos ssible attack of the Potato fungus, nospora 
infestans, as this parasite has been rec carded on the 
Nicstiahnds, rof. W. G. Farlow now records the 
resence of another species of Peronospora, viz., 
hyoscyami on Nicotiara glauca at San Diego, and 
a re entertained that the latter parasite may 
fears a tertained 
extend to the cultivated Tobacco of Virginia. g is 
quite possible refor i 
T 
this country may be attacked by both the abóro 
is Brit 
tish, and was illustrated and described in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle for February 7, 1885, 
S. 
p. 176. 
GARDENERS THAN GARDENS.—A write 
d that he treated his 
young men to an all-round tr 
and remarked that gardening i 
үчүн of pounds, shillings vod hao e, and the 
and obt 
nothing of the 
Through the competition Aes ge, gato the wage 
of gardeners is cut down en are obliged 
to take ке much below p^ merit, rather than 
drag out a miserable existence bene D. something 
better to turn up. Could not m r 
at th 
and who after years of hard o and study find so 
little chan vi of procuring such a 
abilities and а елее: them to. I 
ofl — mie this ie peo ie "for 
stan 
against 
nd 
notified, it would see 
кэк of our аы should be drawn 
W. Watson, Eaglehurst, Fawley. 
THE HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 
н FOR т ACTER FRUITING. 
riety to use for t is the 
Yieomtése Héricas 
frame, and a s plan 
ven ien. previously Licorne by the 
in ing well manured : 
planting a dne зза of long sable СЯ should | 
