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114 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
ns expressed b norrasponda ents.) 
pa ае —The mention of Garrya 
озеш оп 101 recalls to emory an 
' interesting little discovery ade 15 the late Dr. 
Hogg. He 
gg. e brought to the Scientific puc ari 
€ the Royal Horticultural Society y; 
retary, à cuttin ng of Garrya grafted on Auc be 
арал ба. He said he had tried a number of 
о experiment, and this was 2 
eceeded. Не 
Be mtham 
when vas 
a as 
following (9 showing 
close affinity. This may be a useful hint 
tivators who raise the former George Hens ib w, 
Bournemouth. 
Insects ungi on Grass Land.—When grass 
land i is first: red up for the cultivation of vege- 
tables, or anything else, one expects to 
саге with many insects, pari arly wire 
worms. On a 
under + my ob: 
single, wireworm nor hear ў А 
The insects native to the place were the: Summer 
THE GARDENERS 
, bulbor: um did a little 
,wW акп 
was pre 
on „Окса seedlings, but the latter pata 
eae 2 
he fungi, ый етин 
bs nage to On 
usually к oh eas Bhephesd's ан se, 
lent « 
out of 
Frost and о A great many questions are 
у yi А. . 88), some of which are 
not er = answer. €— kd them, however, 
come within the scope of »xperiene i 
common novi ка amongst gerd ries i 
snow- or frozen lumps of soil are 
Fan ipia of trenching and digging they take 
if left оп the surface, and 
x and 
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much lower vel, th eaving ра 
сар vhi gin w ker air adem follow. d 
the temperature of the land. This may 
even in fa 
2.5 
u 
© 
may tak the form 
iod dec ecay ed leaves, 
vents t = 
ж i evaporation. This 
of manure, 
road sweepings 
and more less decayed veg getable matter 
generally. f лее of 1 to 2 inches of dry 
. Fic. 44.—wWwO0DHOUSE FARM, ON 
Chafer (Rhizotrogus solstitialis}, Cock ` Chafer 
Melolontha vulgar За) унш у Cris 
and the Surfac pillars (A 
tionis and A. ыйа The ача € were 
the afte ааа ys to. Cabbages, Parsley and 
otatos.. Some other insects v mee but 
ppeared with the destructi of their 
Iter were not injurious us cu 
—— 
the 
^s Ар 
more or less destructive. 
moths (бери bestias): 
leaves more quickly than the dm 
happily Ofa 
damage was is done by the Selka giarik Of 
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THE ЕХНАМ ESTATE ids p. . 112). 
dust- makes a very good mulch. I had good 
каз Зри of this last year on shallow "t soil 
overlying ug vie dro continued from 
late : Apri ae week .of July 
Frequently: hoed Potato See healthy, dark 
ntil a hey «were earthed 
ae "The ^ wW als.: of t i gre quickly dried 
t to the bottom, and the ridges did not e 
ттеај with moisture til ar the 
Septei I cannot agree with the MAR that 
he winter mulch would keep the soil drier. It 
800 irated, and the excess runs ee 
No g osarian would muich his in 
wint Soluble plant f in the il gets 
reached by rains, but if the subsoil is water 
ed the 
10; gged the nitrates and salts are lost- by diffasion 
where the roots of plants cannot follow. J. 
—In refer- 
in n MD (see T7). 
I ME ee that 
0! 
marks of Dubious; 
t e 
'eas rhy she 
branches. I attri ure of зо many 
educated women gardeners in war-time to the 
following reasons:—(1) They have been ov 
CHRONICLE. 
ae in agri 
Marcu 8, 1919. 
obt they have о of 
к J t 
had only a few gente — 2 
has at опе 
> the training 
The male gardener ay eee usually devoted his 
whole life to the garden; and how is it a 
for a woman, educated or not, to be 
a success 
and assimilate the knowledge and experience in 
such a short period elieve that there i 
the educated woman, if she is 
chance for А ; si 
pared to devote not a few months but 
years to the study of horticulture, instead of 
rushing headlong and in ignorance into 
post. "Ho pef. А: 
Birds апа Fruit-buds (see р. 237, Vol 
LXIV. .— Like Mr. Hudson, I have no desire 
some 
that in 
h t 
er ins 
it trees in Mo s sing. 
s young almost entirely & 
th Ev 
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ying the grubs to their young. I 
the sparrow to touch any ind of fruit or 
fruit-buds, except in garden near London, 
where they apt out the den of Gooseberries 
and Currants the spring. We sprayed the 
es with Шш Ида. which peur 
stopped the birds from damaging the buds. 
The oe s of Plums — never touched. When 
I came here, so 20 years ago, the 
ШОО me that ernie т the buds from 
the bush fruits, Plums, Almonds, and so 
ears. I asked them when they s saw a E 
00: 
RE 
rrant bush as soon as It was 
pruned, and as many Plum trees as sible 
he re in bl I put pieces oi 
uts зо h 
tins could swing round, also im front of the 
wall dozen bullfinches will do enor- 
mous ‘au шы a garden. It is rather strange. 
t М g rears ows 
Crocuses ryanthu 4 
oun: Tomtits, wrens, and tree mbers 
re useful birds for searching the st ега 
ranches for mu scale an gs О 7 
insects. robin. thrush, blackbird (when 
there is no fruit about), and hedge sparrow ате 
all useful garden birds. Blackbirds and starlin 
are greedy birds for fruits of all kinds. Ia 
е ut e 
deners and f rs to put prejudice on я 
ide and eeu look for the sparrow 8 the 
as wel its faults. I may add that where a 
ullfinch is re me to bush fruit inier 
spraying with freshly на. lime n th ge 
Уе так ked lime Van nr 
adhere to the trees or e = m. Stan bury: 
Walton-on-Thames 
——On p. 55 CHAFFE wish 
know how to deal po with sparrow 
Evidently of the 
he which 
sparrow-trap—roughly "в pacis square ^7" of 
he could get (in war days) ? 2- lo Ne 
he big London general stores. As арн. 
I ana not in тауба of such aieakures havi gid 
be taken; but where про ows are Pn 
where there are too of 
trap method is the simplest and 
wire 
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