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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Max 14, 1887, 
— те, эл bush fruits promise for an 
d 
rawn plants 
to resist the t cold w е d frosts. J. 
Perkins, Thornham 
SALE ES.—Many subscribers to the Vase! 
Chron ile besides m myself look hopefully to your paper 
for some in b i 0 р еп 
produce, and datali refer to the page of quotations 
of zavet val r guidanc g 
re w no "poc English Asparagus is 
still quota a hun n the strength o 
these repeated Бован we iat to Covent 
Gard t s us 2s,a hundred, and 
[ELSE 
Market ? Must we patiently hee without even a 
hope of our grievance being from time to time 
ventilated in our natural representative, he Gar- 
is even 
to be bought in the shops under 6d., but our 
return for fine buds is 1s. a dozen. South-Eastern 
DEDUCTIONS.—' W. T." is informed 
ч deductions of rates are made onl 
Board are 
s, and then only upon the sanitary. о 
Hike f кү, No deductions can n the 
case of poo tese m of all rates collected by the 
overseers of a parish under the heading of poor's- 
rate, vi as eie ке, police, burial-board, free 
library, oreven sanitary when outside of local board 
areas. In the latter case rk mean 
i W se n the Es aik local 
sanitary рае "x in тет M rds, the guard 
of the ee tary rate is applied кучы due 
purposes foitéctiótt an 
infectious Hiriko, &c. In local board areas drainage 
for sewage NR (pe is Aie ades ut bos аА iM 
buildings, hence grou 
the full eoe and i is D hated for’ iit purposes but f for 
such solely, at one-fourth ordi poor 
raté assessme dl In died districte, у Mie "gach as a 
outside of Local Board ar t commi ittees 
may AT relieve Jand by y taking off 10, or eyen 
per cent. from the assessment throughout the 
union, should A башы that land is too highly 
burthened. А 
; your correspondent’s query re 
* Rating Case at Worthing " (see p. 621), this assess- 
ker does not sen to the r-rates, but only to 
аў и under the blic Health Act of 
1875. H. 
AUBRIETIA vires VIOLACEA.—This love ly 
is just now flowering in one of the cold pits at 
Royal Horticultoral Society's Garden, Chiswick. 
i анису with whic 
effective and 
B 
fts a red 
excellent Pt fared for the rockery. 
PROSPE ECTS IN THE FRUIT GARDENS ABOUT 
N.—It is tee to note that the severe 
winter h which we have passed has caused no 
erem dd to ъд fruit, and that the outlook is pro- 
of course late—quite a fort- 
night behind. Apis not yet ont plenty of bud. 
Pyramid Pears эней» aes s с 00 get ron 2 
bloom, and pan a prett ct in many garden 
Louise Bonne of Jersey is an specially early Bloomer, 
and nearly always bears a full crop of fruit, quite, there 
fore, ing the notion which commonly prevails 
that these early bloomers are le to be materially 
by the “Frost " the explanatio 
1 in furnished 
with f ore harm by the frost can be done 
Plums are fully in flower. 'The Peaches when in 
bloom were visited on one occasion by from 6? 
8? of frost.” " Middlesex. 
RDY BROCCOLI.—I am a little uncertain 
Meder t in his note on hardy Broccoli at Burghley 
(р. 616) Mr. Divers wishes d pr e wem of dins 
to the kind hE mode of 
adopted. Seein е; кай of 
b Broccoli in my own fede have 
well through the winter—and I name Late 
it's Pro- 
—it does 
one of Mr. were as worthy of 
Gilbert's Urge. Ж 
hen n soil is made 
e 
te quality. 
fi 
just above the snow line; the shorter the stems, 
therefore, the less the iain from frost. 4. D. 
DAFFODILS and Bose AND DECAYED: ITS CAUSE. 
ver of Daffodils, and have been 
rhe Д and noticing what 
and decay in the bulbs before a recent meeting of the 
my EE ience. 
ing to the 
injudicious selection of soil and 
bad drainage. Amateurs and ers 
purchase new sorts of Potato alin spoil them by 
over-kindne It is just this kindness that destroys 
and flower well under proper өй We 
first nd се habits of the bulbs. prior to planting, 
and hov oots leties, as 
mpet, maximus, an eo 8 ction, all the 
Tazettas, have great fleshy roots, that get down 
grows 
ight, and plants deeply in 
of deep 
n the habit of root formation, and 
ur > idge, at den M 
ma s to а grea 
risk жеп. trenched aa pos re the rule 
planting depends o 
—all such are 
e-feeders, or nearly so, putting out ee m 
like foot енота from the base of the bulb, a: 
naturally luxuriating in light gritty or 4 y 
To plant this section ore 2 or 3 inches is 
certain death, cularly in heavy wet situations, 
and for the bulbs w come in contact with rank 
manure is sure destruction. reram all wild col- 
lected Daffodils should be treated as infants, giving 
them milk at first, on аі) y stages, weak эче 
selecting suc prove fleshy root-form for 
stronger soils, And treatment as to deeper planting 
: kr ra all эе E near eme to the 
Eng winter roots ес 
ен ate, or же bulbs wore in a soil where rank 
cow manure may have been Le out to enrich the crop 
fish 
he roots are ould be used in great 
moderation. Corvante 
OXLIPS FROM CORK.—Mr. W. Baylor Hart- 
land has just forwarded to me a box of trtisses of 
scented Oxlips of Seems m 4 that are fitted to 
ong 
yellow, and most deliciously scented, and it is, n 
doubt, one of t ta nest Oxli culti- 
tion. Round the fhrum-eye is a circle of dee 
One Thee. In point of quality this ы а — s 
en there are two others, kno he 
Discs fort Golden Yellow and Sulphur Yellow ; the 
former has the smallest 
c 
so is very swee 
loomer. The Danes tort Sulphur Yellow 
y f good form 
aie vin eyed, 
are produced ы не ша 
шы dd e > fourth is a 
rich crimson variety, with a golden centre and 
lovely crimson pes stout, and of good form, but 
pin-eyed—still a very fine and Vg ep. variety. 
Were it not for ‘the pin-eye it pate. be termed е 
imson counterpart of William of feds ‚ as it 
quite as fin — erfumed. Mr. Hartland ема thee 
xlips on ем t Temple Hill, Cor <, and.h 
thinks that, dae as бы; are, they w р. e NE ed 
y the in жайылы ا‎ of sea-sand and Iri 
These fine Oxlips do not seed ern but to idm 
fertile than = naturally are it is 
ili It is 
ose-in-hose varieties of the 
e Oxlip are very sparse seeders 
compared with tin commoner types. R. D. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
—On this occasion the conservatory at 
South Kensin deed ias 
Roses, Azalea Ane 
Primula, у мава pei а variety of flower- 
ing plants from the open ground. 
den ost striking feature of the whole was that 
e colle Viam of САРИ ipediums ion 
the garden t Mr. Measures, Camberwell, who com- 
peted for the Veitch Memorial ai a Gold Medal 
£5 
d 
In the s CUR Adi; the committee's labours 
haein very li 
cultural Soc wys gardens at Chiswick, completing 
the exhibits 
Floral Committee. 
Present : ze F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., i 
the chair; 
rem Bron ssrs. W. Wilks, uglas, A. 
er 
л 
D 
ъ x 
£ 
m: ny O'Brien, T. Bain , О. No 
Т. г Н. pe H. M. Pollett, C. dun 
A Uv one . W. Holmes, G. Dufü 
and сы М. T. Mas 
itch Memorial Ped —For the best pein of 
S. ; 
Tie House, ; Shepherd d's Bush. W. W. 
i Collected s ust b ib gram as being a very 
arge one for a priv: pte o exhibit, and ex- 
ceedingly emule as s regards e: species and varieties, 
It es of C. bar 
lished pla aay ex of С. 
observed, some few beist gorth destitute of spots. 
C. ciliolar wis often repeated. С. S 
remarked as ing a number of its well-developed 
g 
less than 3 inches in length, the white ground 
sparsely striped with chocolate-brown. The petals 
were long, twi arrow. Bullerianum 
as a small crippled looking flower, and the pe 
ing colour pen wW lk dark brown 
hai C. ri has а glazed port-wine hue, and 
is mottled ith a slightly ке one, only goir n yv 
sepal is edged with white. as 
nd bliss, a rich FO hewn lip, the Laer: 
droop somewhat, and the dorsal ig are white an 
green, striped with the lip colour 
looking ripedium, and 
gro 
atum г 
: it brown-coloured lip ELE sepals, th dr moustache- 
0 
A small plant of С was observed; and one 
