Max 14, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
649 
ا 
PHILIP FROST. 
нплр Frost, whose death o ay 10, in his 
eighty-third үкү it is our duty to | тод was, in 
more ways than one, a man o marked individuality. 
seemed alm „А 
time during the last quarter of a ry he has 
been cal “old Frost, but in some senses he 
seemed to us no older when we saw him last—only a 
wW m. н when we first made his 
acquaintan 
bust in "health, hearty in manner, as dog- 
rid to tell us what “ ту lady " to hi 
what he said to “my lady ;” ever ready to detail the 
Я nd his intense love of his work. were 
quite incompatible with any feeling of monotony ; 
and so to bo last viris maintained an amo f 
ergy that a grandson might envy. We 
zeal and e 
have кенне the ome ا‎ they are the glory 
of Dropmore; but Frost was a d тетт) 
gardener, taking justifiable pride in his kitch 
i well SR y 
son оолай employed, under the forester, Mr. m 
grounds in the winter mon 
а 5 : 
put in the flower garden, which was not then of so 
much note as it is now. I soon moved into the frame- 
ground, "e E thought there was more to be learnt, 
In 1826 I ft Drop 
I was rated and trea 
common labourer, but a; thought ср اا‎ some- 
thing better, and soon obeyed her ladyship’s request, 
the result being an intimation to chile to Dropmore 
I 
d place. In 
iud. and at that 
vinery to force, which is still (1875) 
producing excellent crops. We had also Melon and 
Cucumber fram 
s "i .per we so doing. In a short 
I the foreman, John Milne (a nephew of Mr. 
ilne, of the Fulham Nurseries), ык and I was 
the position of forema aen Wood 
Botanic Garden, Chelsea, as foreman under Mr. 
Anderson. gained his а оразан, "ic the 
ee t I made in the plan бын d by 
Sweet, Haworth, and others, Lay were in the habit 
of dus the garden. I raised a new ов from 
cuttings, which had not been done for years. In the 
le had reasons for dis- 
pre 
Schultze’s Mantissa in Volu 
Терки Caroli a Linné. 
in English botany, and at that time T most of 
wild plants of this neighbourhood. y беш 
ea ume put in two en bound, 
interleaved, w y name ae оп the 
cover, charge i pe garden here in 
Jan planted 
nuary, 1833. In Octo 1834, 
wp Е trees here—fine Ded. Cedars. The largest 
eet high, and measures in diameter 
of "танана 52 feet, the girth of the trunk at 
асын, From 
а 
it 
3 feet from the ground being 9 feet 7 
of Lord Grenville's I learn th 
: iteknights m 
ani ape а en 106: feet high pa feetin 1890]. 
raucaria is ay fee h [63 fee 
re are three Dengladi plants from 
seed sent ene from a , Horticultural 1 
ut down and t 
Б 
1 
183 
SEES ® 
BR g 
ТР 
вїпсе 1 nspection, especia si 
en the nature of the фо ш, sterile gravel— 
co 
taken ics ruber will gei em that in December, 
1872, the friends and admirers of Mr. Frost pre- 
sented him with а — арсы сир, ы the value 
engraved portra gh his ie 
done N 1, 1886. E».] 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
CRINUM CAPENSE OR AMARYLLIS seer ттт 
able to agree with your 
tance to eat its leaves. W, E, Gumbleton. 
RED-SPIDER ON VINES.—Mr. Douglas inquires at 
In ч opinion | the sponging of the leaves with. soft- 
anu 
The sponging еи be carefully and thoroughly 
done, sponging th upper r and lower surfaces of eve 
Vine leaf in the fin = 
plants should be rented fro 
the . The sponging process is s 
tedious, the result amply repays the labour 
hereby incurred, h regard to the practice of 
sulphuring the hot-water pipes Mr. Douglas says :— 
“Tt should be done when the temperature has been 
raised in the nd that the house 
ought to be shut up with this temperature, and that 
mist in the ouse from the fum 
ы 
о 
S.H 
n such an atmospheric tempera 
ve, Sulphur Sois be applied. re 
fir 
the pipes well heated by the time the sun had gone 
comple off the houses, leaving air till then, 
hen t owers of sulphur, he thickness of 
wi 
n 85° 
which fime s a little үе 
ould T iier and the "й, banked пр. Theh 
ainder 
atment which they dis slike, When 
red-spider infest Vines badly it is the 21 po of a dry 
— аа а in the vinery. Maher. Tai- 
tendon C 
A FROST RT.—The PE! figures ipi 
the amount Fi foe each month and the number of 
ys on which frosts peremit d with 
ca that 
t 
0 n December irè were 
twenty-two frosty days or Eis with a total o 
201°; Janu igures wit 
gate o ing -fi 
days; in April there were Ath mê and 59°, апа 
9° o n May 1. In spite of the length and severity of 
the months mid recorded as spring, Apples, Pears 
