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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 7, 1887, 
Lettuces—Plants raised from seed sown in Febru- 
be transplanted at distances of from 8 to 12 inches 
Good rich rather light ground should be selected, 
e seeds thinly, and utilising the surplus pla 
when large go for additional plantings. John 
Austen, Witley Cou 
KULALIAS. 
Eulalia japonica variegata. —Although this beau- 
tiful Japanese grass is quite hardy, and thrives well 
in the open ground, yet it is much improved by bein 
where more tender plants would be damaged. It is 
easily increased by division, and will grow freely in 
any ordinary soil. жзне that have had a period of 
be divided and potted any 
if 
temperature they will soon mak 
eulture it is better to divide ا‎ plas À Жош 
time to time, as older plants are more liable to throw 
up flowering stems ; and although the inflorescences 
are very attractive, it is the foliage that is the most 
effective when grown as a pot plant, 
japonica zebrina,—' This is also 
ed crosswise with yellowish bands, and to bring 
out the colour торент. the plant should be well 
exposed, and not grown on too vigorously. А, 
Sere 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, 
THE CARNATION AND ыдын 
I эм sonet this on the last day of Apri 
time when w 
. To look at the plants one would suppose 
that it is the 30th of March. 
out-of-doors as they are potted into their flowering- 
pots. I used to do so at = but even м деу started 
potting in fine weather, rtainty that 
it would continue, and finest the plants would be 
covered over with snow, or, what was n worse 
weeks after being repotted. Our 
plants require to have the surface soil to be ese 
. 
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plants ont. that El 
-mould, 
We have just now pricked out the seedlings that 
were raised from seeds sown in pots, and the pots 
пей in а gentle hotbed on April l. In seven 
inch or more apart. In June they will be planted 
t where they are to flower, at the distance of 
18 inches from plant to plant. Some of these seed- 
lings will produce as many as 150 to 200 flowers 
each; the period of bloom being looked forward to 
with great interest 
Tue Ріхк. 
These are of course earlier and hardier than the 
Carnations, and the plants have stood the winter 
very well. The beds should now be surface-dressed 
as advised for Carnations, no other attention being 
necessary at present, We shall place sticks to the 
stems when they have grown a little more, and those 
who want to see s good display of pen will allow 
all the side ms to remain. e flowers for 
exhibition are EE by ЖҮ АЗЕ ER out. J, 
Douglas. 
VEGETABLES. 
THE HARDINESS OF STANSTEAD PARK 
CABBAGE LETTUCE, 
Many gardeners, like myself, are anxious to send 
as complete a salad as possible to their employer's 
table all the year round ; to do this in the North, we 
a 
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outright or been badly damaged, although standing 
in the same aspect (at the foot ofa south w: By 
putting the Stanstead Park Lettuce in batches into 
the Mushroom-house for a few days, we manage to 
get some good bleached hearts, which are much ap- 
preciated. О, Flack, Cholmondeley Gardens, Malpas, 
SEAKALE. 
Whilst all seeds че hardy plants, but especially 
vegetables, seem to truck wit 
se of weather. 
in the matter of soil and situation, and yet it is to 
be found only on the tables of comparatively wealthy 
people, and is an impossible luxury to myriads of 
the population. 
At a time when all members of the Brassica 
family are abnorm: 
ree 
rin largely destroyed, Greens withered and baked 
in the wind, when Spinach has to otally failed and 
Turnip-tops are thin and late, what à gain it would 
be could we have an ample supply of Seakale to send 
into the market. Here, too, we have a vegetable 
which is а less than others Pdf upon tem- 
pera that we in this none too hospitable 
дыш have some chance of holding our own if we 
are to do so. 
Much of the ground now lying waste or 
ployed in producing crops which fail to obtain a 
profitable return would, with proper өр. рго- 
duce akale, and prove doubly, na trebly а 
blessing because, in furnishing the m ти the people 
with а hg olesome and cheap vegetable great 
would 
be done, its cultivation would employ labour 
much more largely than would ld ; 
and, not least, the grower would have emm at 
least to give him a profitable | return for his ow 
that aan it 
becomes marketable it must be blanched, but still it 
їз certain that, by means of the soil alone, blanching 
dy soil, 
ken 
to thrive best in 
а stiff soil, but the surface needs much NIS Mer 
needed for blanching. Planted in extensive breadths, 
and in rows some 20 to 24 inches apart, it is no] 1 
difficult by using the horse-hoe to loosen and pul- | 
verise the soil to obtain the needful blanching, mate- — 
rial in abundance, and even a moulding-plough, as - 
employed in Potato breadths, might be used to р 
earth-up the soil into ridges over the Seakale. : 
form of blanching does not lead to successional cut- _ 
tings for any lengthened period, but may reasonably - 
extend over a month at least, whilst growers must 
ever be planting new med and destroying old 1 
ones, and the latter, lifted and crammed thickly into | 
outdoor growths would be r > n stock is 
obtained in the а ee 
nial supply of root-cuttings is ensu 
and many _ 
thousands of such sets may be di bbled j^ pe pro- 7 
perly prepared ground іп a short time. A wide field - 
seems open to growers in the above direction. 4, D, 
Harpy Ввоссои. 
It is a good time now to compare notes as to the 
havoc made by the frost in the past winter; and I . 
was forcibly reminded of this by a fine plot I saw in 
the kitchen garden at Burghley on the 16th inst.—a _ 
bright sunny day. The plants looked very fresh and _ 
perfect, and were counted by one of the gardeners in — 
my presence, the result being 847 alive, and eighteen _ 
dead, or & loss of just about 
variety was the Victoria, which is one 
bert’s eee am is the best late variety I am 4 
acquainted w 1 
The above € says a great deal in favour of the — 
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a Burghley cultivator, which resembles a E^ terb i 3 
treated — 
and free SMS of air amongst them before severe _ 
weather com 3 
At ow дн soil is such that most gardeners 
uld be glad enough to get, чә 
enough to please the consumer. W, Н. 
Hall, Stamford. 
POT- зад TERE SULIT уы 
TION A mS MEREWORTH CASTLE 
yearly about 2000 of ihe Meme One of the houses 
devoted to Strawberry forc 
mm for on an Sn the нонй the eye lighted upon 
st ripening, finely col 
Sir уер tesi is when well done. 
was maturin rpm par greg rara Дари ban 
had been gathe 
ment of the foliage and setting d of the 
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