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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 4, 1887, 
NORTH or SCOTLAND HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
The monthly meeting of the members of this 
Association was held in the Christian Institute, 
Aberdeen, on the evening, of the 20th ult., ES 
Alexander Robson, President, in the chair. The 
Mr. Leslie Тай, 
Foveran, read a paper on “ Bees." 
Royat HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ABERDEEN. 
A meeting of the acting directors of this Society 
was held in the office of the Sec retary, Mr. A. M. 
erdeen, on Friday evening, the 20th 
Mr. Henderson, Wellwood, 
report of the committee in reference to “ Jubilee 
prizes." It stated that in commemoration of Her 
Majesty's Jubilee, the North of Scotland Association 
have decided to offer the following prizes to be com- 
d for by members of the Association, viz. :—(1). 
Gold Medal for the best essay on * The Principal 
Points to be considered in Judging Fruits, Plants, 
and Vegetables." (2). Gold Medal to the member 
to various ex 
tion of their mode of arran 
of thanks to the ec for presiding brought the 
proceedings to a clos 
THE GOOSEBERRY BORER. 
Tue Gooseberry "is often materi rially injured by 
attacks of its enemies, of different kinds ; at the 
destitute of a single leaf, tl the buds having been picked 
i ard winter by tomtits. Later іп 
n 
the duse Й cate 
illars as that 
the last-mentioned moth) is келе obnoxious to 
the growing berries, and hence it is known to growers 
of this fruit by the name of the Lek en nien бн its 
habit of burrowing into the half-grown fru 
We have received occasionally notices кын differ- 
ent correspondents of the ravages of this species. In 
& writer from the neighbourhood of Dundee, 
1 
(three of which are represented in the accompanying 
figure, 141) and stated that half a ton at least. of t the 
о w 
ва 6 Ӯ 34. ны. 1 bd "n 
the mischief. The caterpillars sent with the wipe 
are of a green colour, with the head and 
two longitudinal lateral stripes 
£v $ 
а darker — not made Á— t in our 
great family of the (Ge 
metride), and produce ‘a pth е unm moth 
(Halia vanaria), which has several dark kings on 
chrysalis is slender, and has two little curved hooks 
atthe extremity of th e body. When the mischief 
has extended thus far, it is not vo to say what 
other remedy than hand-picking can be adopted for 
destruction. We do not know exactly where 
We do not know whether Gooseberry shows are as 
ommon now in the North of England as they used 
to be, or whether the growers of fine fruit now adopt 
a plan which we used to hear about, termed “ suck- 
the berries, which was practised by placing a 
glass of water beneath the fruit, so that the end of the 
pips (or dead blossoms) was hanging in the water, 
which was gradually absorbed by the berry, causing 
it to attain an unnatural, swollen size. 7. О. W. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
NEW AND CHOICE ZONAL PELARGONIUMS, 
Is not the zonal Pelargonium in danger of becom- 
ing too lar; Who could but admire the fine 
trusses and splendid pips sent to the last meeting of 
th ssrs. J. R 
unduly large and bordering on coarseness, The zonal 
Pelargonium is attractive in proportion as the 
flowers are stout, finely formed, smooth and circular ; 
“colour is a matter of taste, and there are flowers 
FIG, 141. —GOOSEBERRY BORER. 
of all shades d n those who have varying 
fancie t ib 
Daird Saunders, pale Hlc- pink very large, 
symmetrical ; and W. by, rosy-scarlet, large, and 
striking. Of older flowers the following were par- 
ticularly noticeable ;—Aspas ia, white, very fine; C. 
rose, very fine; Edith Stra trachan, clear salmon ; Inter- 
national, very delicate асо extra fine; Lady 
Francis — clear rosy-pink ; Lord Che iterüeld, 
s s 
rosy: ; and § 
shaded with orange and pi coloi 
All the foregoing were raised at “Chilwell, and they 
that robustness of habit, branching character, 
and freedom of bloom peculiar to o the strain. D. E. 
THE сано 
- As а rule, when the weather is cold, as it has 
still is, most cá grow 
the Gladiolus 
is no exception to this, especially when the 
weather is dry — as it has also been—the roots 
work freely underneath. As soon as the plants | 
dressing of light decayed manure, and to give the 
plants a good watering through the rose-spreader of 
people imagine. In Nature the surface of the groun 
is protected in some way, less or m 
undergrowth or some decayed matter, such 
the seeds sown broadeast over it. The р 
grown freely gh the ‚ an 
exposed to the light in the autumn, " Ves Pv ч» m 
bulbs may have а chance to ri 
THE AMARYLLIS. 1 
illustration at p. 709 of Amaryllis Colonel 
еоро 
either а line from Empress of India or has be 
of which that is the polle 
r 
in an eminent degree the 0 
of vi te growth and the habit of pro- 
Now is the time to sow the seeds which have Ju 
ripened. ey in 
plunged in a brisk bottom-heat 
if the seeds are good in 0 
in five or six weeks from th e 
young plants may be pricked out, and ou ht to 
grown on freely during the next two ye 
the plants are in the early stages of their gro 
they have no tendency to rest in winte 
n require much ; 
lose their bere as the old-established plants dod 
the wi e old plants 
ing freely in à ) Коа inis arie and the je i 
have plumped up again, some of them muc z 
than their usual size. Tt is mi interesting, during tne 
wi n, to watc ач ants ‘develope t à; 
ch features i ; t0 Шей 
made a 
have cultivated a bulb of Keizerii 
years, and it is the same now that it was 
chased, nor has it made any increase. J. 
MASDEVALLIA VELIFERA. 
Axruoven not strictly speaking showy, this en 
of its peculiar form and colour. The flowers, ' 
are thick and wax-like in texture, are greenish-ye 
shaded with brown, the tails being clear dark ye 
There is one thing about it, however, to which 
