i 
JaNvARY 18, 1919. ] 
во showing the СЕ. w Miu the trade 
E bud. by the s ay be men- 
tioned that hi ‘fede have 
Soldiers as Fruit Pru кеш a er the super- 
аа of E Hortioultural Tast 
E oldier re being utilised 
r the pruning of a furtner 
he work is said to have been most 
satisfactorily perforn med. 
and Wales 
T. 
Shtain ind supplies are 
с т Department that the 
hav pa ar more orders i 
he i 
parry that 18,762,000 cases 
we packed for pur 
rs rr ; this 
with 789,000 
cases packed = eR e la үн уеаг eT 2,207 
tons of Tom canning, as 
against 852, BA0 t n 1918, hile the amount 
us ган by manufacturers for pu { puree, and soup 
1917 tons 
s 224,069 and in 1918 545,035 
r. Frank Reader.— 
Mr. Franx Reaper, the 
oyal Horticultural Society. 
know he 
The many 
pular cashier Б the 
l b 
H.S. has bee pleted durin 
nd heavier responsibility а нета füllen 
xig р 
a pr — Experiments 
formed m YASUTARO "Уве at the College of 
эздин eril appear to promise results of the 
highest horticulturi ye 
of app 
to diseases. g^ - 
sul- 
ownward 
Ф 
Ф 
“и 
1] 
ted gubstances 
ey es ves 
ranspir: mos 
results are өлүү Siaku 
the discoveries made also w E. F. 
D 
to the heaping rhe. = of various 
excreted by bacteri I 
to iiia small Bali vhs 
E methods of dealing with 
Ds = Injection 1 Experiments on | Plants," шака Col 
Att. Science, Im, mperial University, Tokio, Vol. XXXVIII., 
2. ме 
m 
n Ph 
plant- Е. 
of Overgrowth in Plants,” Proceedings of 
ilosophical Society, Philadelphia, Vol. LYI., 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
s of rU oe normal p HG iwo 
uighest importance the present 
its of le 
Pinguiculas.—The Mexican 
r to be larger flow 
coyntries. The. best 
Pinguiculas 
vered than shane of other 
of them is P. candata; 
Mr by Messrs. SANDER D 
, St. Albans, in 1881, and is now 
ke 
ap- 
AN 
fairly com- 
mon, growing it in qué 
in 
breeders 
edling houses as Fay -t 
down pu os midges vidc "ds thei 
tiny seedlings, the maggots hatched ther 
of mich destruction. Apar 
hes "e has a strong claim to favour 
s flowe Next to it, 
c 
being capable 
this value the 
in the beauty so far 
v 
D 
as ti afe known in cultivation, comes 
jsei, named after Dr. Rosz, of Washington 
who sent plants of the sp 
wered in 1911 t differs from P 
having violet-purple, almost 
ler e other diff ou. Г 
produced it xd 2 shows P. E 
ё еу, whe grown ir 
house, ind blooms continuously 
winter the leaves a diffe 
they become small, gen are аттат‹ close 
rosette, like a little cone, which, rest 
ing condition of the plant. S, i 
a note on Mexican Pinguiculas, pub'ished in 
Jard. Chron., May 1911. p. 292. refer: 
this winter condition, which appears to 
be 
usual with the several species ee ea 
He fou nd one growing in Mexico at 
feet ‘in dry, volcanic sand, on mt 
banks outside the forest," the leaves of which 
had formed a small, close rosette, which was 
lried up to the size of a Cherry; he sen 
m examples home by post No doubt the 
dry, volcanic: sand was wet enough when the 
plants in active growth. At all events, 
neci moss and plenty of moisture are 
what these plants enjoy in this country. There 
was formerly a h: n yellow-flowered species 
at Kew, viz., P. lutea, which came from Mexico, 
but.i › longer exists ther Another remark- 
ab'e “species, P. gypsicola, also Mexican, with 
linear summer leaves suggesting Drosophyllum, 
чы ed 
nter leaves like a little Saxifraga, 
г about five years 
1t 
desinam Receivzd.— Transactions of the 
tish Horti кн Association. Second 
erie Yok HI (Edinburgh : ga 
lane & Fishing ) "P ce goo E ungi 
D seose іп Р! By E. J. Butler. (Calc im: 
T Senk & Co. ) Price Rs. 15 
