Joxe 18, 1887.1 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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aid of a glass light placed over them at night, but 
removed or tilted during the day. 4. D. Webster 
ause a plant may be hardy in the moist uniform 
s are of rare 
Ww 
orthern parts of Britain. We 
ticulars of its нон {тот lone ex nm E I 
COLONIAL NOTES. 
CAPE AND NATAL PLANTS. 
N common with many others, I had often ms 
and ж of the ve difference between the flor. 
of Wes and Eastern South Africa, but it was s 
till yery r recently t chat a visit to Cape Town enabled 
me іп a small degree to see and judge for myself. 
Ileft Dios the last week in May, a month before 
our shortest day. All —— was quite at rest; 
everyw where, save on the coast, where some quantity 
of rain falls in the wind. бе oil was parched, and 
the air dry and cool. No plant was to be seen in 
on save Nd wes urus, and a stray Polygala 
variegata. The t bush presented a dark green 
coloured 
flower, and ае д ч iii E species), Hibiscus 
tiliaceus, Caris Mangroves, Sponia 
guineensis, aca wap seis Begin discolor, 
and many other trees and 
Arriving at Port Tish wh a contrast !—the 
ve coast hie barren in the 
many small dull 
Frost is Mgr on here. On 
landing, the pepe. in plant-life was more marked 
than ever. I had come 350 miles, yet every 
plant was new to me. The hard, — leaved semis 
strongly contrast with our glossy, large leaved sh 
Even in the Botanic Gardens the ka rior plants 
were of a nom class to those one sees in Natal. 
Great Echium za Statices, 4 to 7 feet high, covered 
iant Mesem sig int T an 
the gorgeous Strelitzia juncea—a t I had not 
In a cool mbi rd Adiantum 
F PE Pe in v very. fine form, both large and small. 
With us s Fern is rarely seen in presentable 
“д 
ore days' steaming brought us a further 
distance of about 600 miles to 
fi 
ey y sandstone "brought out 
by the brilliant. iih with photographic e uteness— 
was t eei А eet, 
геч зет WRG cloud 
o 
ч 
n 
= 
and the descrip- 
Natal in soil, 
1 
rs from 
m might be thought 
le Mountain 
part o 
ET nearly the last two centuries; but, as is well 
os 
а sucodendron 
argenteum are known to 
Tabl 
eir firs 
la Dies Дейди sibus of Cape Town, where Oak 
lay, 
ы gree as oat leaves that strew the з 
In Valom 
Memes t to ri as we have in Natal. They 
ids “р under an African sky. The Stone 
Pine here very well, forming large woods, 
planted of course. Iwas — " cm miina 
g up am o 
verdigris ; t oides, very 
тоят; the deep crimson Tritonia. uae tod 
R. W. Adlam, Maritzburg, Natal. 
KIMBERLEY 
Last — e were а at the mien 
Exchange very ex с" т ов wn in the 
Public Bids at Kim ‘the m 
wonders of the place hate Cauliflowers were once 
sold, or said to have bee 
i i 
berley Grapes here. Everything at Ki ey, o 
course, depends u a 1 
which ye much een le ut then there is the 
money The wee n and South 
Ki 
ican а арт ‘Com mpany are enclosing all 
d with те" "1 hedges, and are 
Ka 
district. The Kameeld 
ury is said 
abd enr in th 
ley that is now happily going чы 
ebruary 21. 
PLANTS AND THEI THEIR CULTURE. 
IMBING PLANTS.— РЕБЕ selection of climbers i is in- 
h ice 
neither will do well; whereas, if the е ен were 
reversed, both would succeed. Established pl M of 
and aiit 
and fi 
di tion, and liquid 
die бай idi mer months will ee of great assistance 
e ifloras, quadrangularis is one of the best 
stove varieties for covering a a large space, and Р. Impe- 
ratrice Eugénie takes a similar p lace amon ongst green- 
house kinds ; while forcoveringlimi ited spaces in warm 
houses the small- ile ira is unsur- 
d. О ori = 
t s ng at Gunnersbury 
TU colat it was grown in and ed under 
the roof of a stove. T ias enjoy а n- 
house temperature, but impatien of a cl 
MIND i T. Van Volxemi and T. exoniensis are 
the mos cellent m- 
panion nre sta for clothing the roofs of large houses 
both varieties possess free-flowering habits, but the 
latter has the T constitution, an nd s be 
ferred where o d 
е 
singly over the trel re and in tho- 
oshi сМ trusses of flowers make capital sub- 
жи for flower glasses, &c. Thomas Coomber, Hendre 
THE KITCHEN SHEN GARDEN, 
: Pzas.—The last sowing of late kinds of 
these ade at once in trenches, and for a 
late stibplf, early kinds being preferable for these last 
s0 , which should extend fro middle of 
July to the first week in Au ound 
all other late 
d i dryness 
the roots be apparent, means s be taken to pon 
rough soaking, е ber with clean water, or, 
better still, with mete liquid manure 
oad assist the poddi ng, these should 
be top when | some of the earliest flowers have 
set, and the pods commenced swelling ; another 
sowing, which should be the final one for the season, 
can 
made. 
French Beans.—More seed 2 these should be put in, 
to meet requirements, an earlier ones noh 
up, and, where necessa ipod y small twigs, 
or by soft string stretched along the rows and sup- 
ported at intervals. 
y still be sown, and where the 
earliest planted ones have not prov stisfactory it 
will be better to A afresh. Before staking is 
i the plants ts should be li ghtly 
forked ке, ne Ced а up to 
eser a je t npn for the purpose v^ 
be at least 8 feet in d 
aa when placed i in neni oor: cross 
bout 6 feet from the groun nd, and be 
eather Runner С like Per are great assisted 
in ae their TATS by waterings and by пө 
of litte 
roccol 
and i in rotation as the various kinds өсөн» p 
i 
rdy com growth, properly developed 
an ured, in order that the pla = ina 
proper condition for а і 11 
drills should be drawn out for planting in, ‘which will 
advan en earthing-up has to be 
done liest supplies м " 
rely principally on Veitch's Spring White, Adam's 
Early, and Knight rotecting ; while for general 
nd Jate use nothing surpas gt 
gucce 
drawn : and weakly i in the seed 
of all d o be planted out, when 
sufficiently rh and as favourable opportunities 
for doing so occur. Ind armes anf bow regular 
uarters, necessary d r n of these 
торв, any spare ground wider t rees, er уенин же for 
the better class of нем. could be utilised, by 
being planted with the T kinds of Kale, 
J. Austen, Witley Court Garden 
