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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 18, 1887, 
fever and disease not long in catching hold of the 
k ely I have had one y very best 
collectors— ld—die on oco, and a few 
days ago another—Peths—ca ho m Pe 
ve ourse, if a collector simply locates 
, Ran- 
O. crispum, Dendro 
and yt ыч уе collect the very plants —- 
e anted; but if he enter 
m untrodden pes doe ! n the interior, antares 
not having fn covered by Roezl, 
Ee Wallis, Bruchmiiller, Se pm -— Pe € 
Lobb, Arnold, Fra ur Klaboch, Bow &c., 
uiis one, fall of "x 
untries 
feel asif I had contributed to their death, and as if I 
would never again send a collector abroad. F. Sander 
TE TULIP SEASON.—How се in flowering 
the florists' Tulips are in some of the country 
is shown from the fact that the ipo annual 
range Tree Inn, Butsey, 
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Macclesfield, is fixed this year for June 17, 
la n previously ared in the 
sh Five y e season was 
ау te one, and the fix then Jun 
In 1841 it was such an early season that the Tulip 
sh plac early ere are a 
few conditions attaching to this show worthy 
r 
list of th айа Мона ing; and growe 
of = flowers they intend to exhibit, three ae 
before the show. fei the commencement of 
, 1883, Mrs. Kitchen, the en 
iss Kitchen, at p olds that office 
RE announcing the s further states that non- 
ibers wishing to to see the flowers, will be ad- 
mitted after 3 o'clock by paying silver at the door; 
but no set sum is indicated. R. D. 
— Probably the exceeding 
percio ob ie howls bloom has this year been 
remarked by most gardeners. em y years since, 
with even a fine кн it w ed that it 
totally disappeared within a week, «ій the result was 
& crop of fruit. Not only has has the bloom bee 
has been fine 
istent, but it , and these two things 
combined "naturally lead to the conclusion that the 
bloom is very — and free. from insects. No 
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the northern districts through t by кел, visitation 
of more than t nty-four hours' persistent rainfall, 
will have туне flowers and trees effe САЛУ where 
needed. Still farther, such a 
the roots не es n gi 
satisfaction, because it h een all the spring but 
in that, even with surface soils fairly moist 
[2n 
ч © 
РЕ 
“ш 
Uu 
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too certa 
subsoils and root too ple 
Thus, the grand , the un 1 we 
rainfall, and the veg of frost combined, should 
pples o 
from perfi 
which we е got to think € essential t. 
. the due luction of a crop. Perhaps that Mbit 
duel as had something re - ге Ans 
continuity of the Арм bloom, as it i 
rally that insect er 
Bu 
again, y in whether in the 
a. the fine blodi we have been 
| DR g will се ә Seed all. Should it do 
во, then we "n omn the bees as, 
after all, only li little е рар 
FRUIT, PROSPECTS 
IN SOUTH WILTS.—Not- 
а 
nig: fruit. I neversaw Peach and Nectarine trees 
thickly set with fruit as they have been this 
Cherries, too, ense crop. 8 
the result of the severe frosts which we ha 
spring after the sap had risen, several of our 
Apricot trees are crippled; yet the trees not 
o injured carrying good 8. LEAL on 
the whole, are a fairly good crop, t of Pit- 
maston Duchesse, nn Beurré (рше) Beurré 
Diel, Beurré de сей mont, Knight's Monarch, and 
Mone: M Callebas e, "both Pis pedi and [ees 
cropped ; Marie peni Glou Morceau, et 
Louise Bor onne of Jersey, Jargonelle, Beurré d'Are 
berg, and Van Mons’ Leon le а, e being fairly well 
d ums, the following rrying 
average laude de Bavar, rleans, 
—Reine C О: 
Fonthill, Pyne Engelbert, Royal Hátive, Reine 
Claude "Violet, Coes Golden Dro р, Jefferson's, 
Mitchelson’s, Denniston's Superb, Denyer's бзана 
and Late Green Gage. Figs n walls, а 
have not had any tti from frost during t 
last fifteen yas, are a good crop, as also are Жы 
апа Жр а в, but Gooseberry bushes and Rasp- 
are et so heavily cropped as Fiber were 
last year. "The orchards in this district and in the 
neighbourhood of the New Forest were 
worth seeing the = t week i ЕМА ay; the trees being 
literally covered with inege healthy blossoms, 
H.W. Ward, ра Ы. Castle, 
POTATO cree —The неа, of the “ Potato 
Culture” articles now ing through the Gar- 
eners’ Chronicle, seems ste be more killed i in the art 
of putting interrogatories than in giving replies, but 
none the less his matter is not without interest, and 
well calculated to provoke discussion. Не asks, for 
i he van 
g at pro 
ne would have thought the 
table produe and m 
duae of large 
number of nails erones? However, here all depends 
upon what size is termed lar; If, fo 
bers weigh 16 oz of are ungainly ; and if 
they weigh bu 02 they are still large, 
ough, as a rule, not ioo "big for ordinary require- 
ments; still, t 
is 6 oz., as such tubers, when properly peeled, “need 
no cutting, and a Potato boiled or Jiang whole is 
invariably better than we cut in halve the 
п all, Is ies relatively 
ore of starch or food “found i in tubers of modera 
initiis than in big ones? Here the reply oat 
materially depend upon the sort and the cultivation 
received; but I hold that, as a rule, 
tubers are relatively less nutritious than the same 
weight of smaller ones, because moisture in the 
larger tuber is in the greater proportion. The same 
lee is found in cattle ei roots, but those 
en — е in producti The writer in Жей 
s that whether tli tuber produce be large = 
sibi, "the foliage or leaf area can only form 
secrete a certain amount of starch; but he ahead 
know that Potato plants which produc 
always have the dams t leaf ar 
ioned to 
n 
م 
[zw‏ 
Б‏ 
S‏ 
B 
i: 
а 
mparatively few waxy d hence the matter 
gives little concern. Wha uch more to 
point, B dere would be to саан 
from intercrossed kinds, bot 
in censure r y Potato would originate. We saw 
a few years since, International Kidney and Wood- 
BEK Kidney 
yet the former was ‘close and m the latter dry, 
nutty, and mealy. I have frequently found similar 
strange results in Potato raisin vr: alwa ec 
I “aa believe in the reversion 
twenty of the named 
of tu 
kind the big інн will boil mealy а 
small ones, tes —— difference — perhaps, that 
in the latt s present in relatively 
properties 
rates. rede акиси en of 
prenter rates, small tubers—experience has shown 
there is little difference. 
All depends u оа, ih 
method of storing and I y 
in any form heat somewhat, and 
thus induce the pranon, of moisture. Then 
Potatos us. перья а dry atmosphere it is very pro 
bable that deeem air would absorb some moisture 
from the Wed, but replaced in a moister atmosphere 
and it is probable that the moisture lost before 
Td be reabsorbed. B 
any ordina wa 
dis what TAL. be called the safe normal tempera- 
of the Potato soon induces wth, and with 
pe wi comes waste. There is a rece but whether 
d not prepared to aver, that some 
when applied to tubers up to the m 
ا‎ мел а depends Muy the kin 
ure. Whether that improvement 
3 pro ey i okama] 1 change or by еи with 
water, T ene t say. A. D 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL, 
Juse 14.—The conservatory at South Kensington 
as gay on this occasion with onies, Irises, Py- 
rethrums and many another hardy from the 
nurseries of Messrs. Kelway on, and 
Ware. O put i g ppearance, 
The ing W. s very videi - attended by = 
public, d preventing a marked contrast to thos 
of the years between 1883 and 1886. 
Floral Committee. 
Present : Y x cin der. 5 1n zg с апа 
essrs. s, J. Fraser, G. Pau Herbst, 
A. Bradshaw ҮН. Low ^B Wynn Gs on 
C. Noble, С. ‘Pilcher, J. Поу Н. M. Pollett, 1. 
O'Brien, A. F. Lendy, E. a. H. Turner, J. Hudson 
H: Ballantine, and G. Duff 
r. Tautz’s Orchids ‘for their number = 
, we obs song Үлүш. erian 
ерд variety in good form hes the distinctive 
points of the variety standing ou well, amabilis 
dh ell Revlon бот; 
ral pretty forms, and 
and elegans, all of them flowers of mark. ypri- 
pe vum ны е point in this Er 
um grandifloru ue whose 
an 
and C. atum gigante 
inches in ime The s 
purple lines, is а rarely seen 
in Mr. Tautz's lot 
imbata was апо! 
han 
plant, ме; ЫСЫЙ, hak semen in bright colour ; 
Phalenopsis grandiflora com- 
ariel ‘the oup; Cypripedium Cheltoni w: 
b Messrs "res th & Sons, Cheltenham, i vm 
Mossim, and labiata Warneri, & pE th | 
flowers: both varieties were good 
