156 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. | [Maron 29, 1919. 
spaces for this purpose, and when the war is Hare’s-foot fern (Davallia pyxidata) and the HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
over it is only — that the land should -so-called Rock Liy (D: endrobi dier резо (The Baitors do wot hola those) EE 
be restored .to the for which it was ac- Large vines of the semi-parasite Loranthus булн ch ponsible jor 
quired. In view of the great demand for addi- elastroides were in full flower, and on them а » — 
tional land for games and recreation, the Board was “a plant of the hyper-parasite " Notothixos The "Recent Severe. "Weather and Plant Life 
do not feel that they can press the London cornifolius var. subaureus—the Golden Mistleto. (see pp. 115 and 129). —The ee 
County. Counc il to allow a small minority of Two Apocynaceous creepers Chilocarpus aus- recorded by the three 
the ratepayer to monopolise the use of ‘land tralis and Parsonsia velutina, е embraced tne seem almost 
which was онаа = the benefit of all, and branches, together ти the Liliacecus climber snap аз we | 
to which all ratepayers have to contribute.— Rhipogonum Бауи _ In the branches in a — interesting to learn 
Signed A. G. Bosc: AWE fork cavity was а nearer specimen of Pithe- records in ui s 
е з grandiflorum, а tree which could not оѓ Feb.-Mar., 1 
Prices of Nicotine. Manufacturers of nico- permanently find room for its development in наг. whic 
tine have agreed that the maximum price to such a restricted soil medium. Seven species of — N.E., registered 
be charged for nicotine to the grower or manu- Orchids flourished on this hospitable Bolly Gum, by 4 c r 9 degrees than it did t 
facturer of compound washes up to the 30th апа all except Jeisostoma tridentatum which same ass ition ; ў 
June next is 16s. pet lb., 95 to 98 per cent. habited on slender branchlets, were attached to it never went 
purity, for 1001Ь. lots, delivered to purchaser’s the main trunk or main branches. With the . in 1917. С icholso qe End, Chin ford: 
nearest railway station, and 16s. per lb. ier, Orchids „were nine Ferns. The Orchids were 
for sales of less than Pau lots. Prices fo Dend iosum, D. tetragonum, D. tereti- Birds ihe Garden.—I was much interested. 
par of lower purity are to be proportionate iolium, D. gracilicaule, a species of Sarcochilus in, the ieri on “The Study of Wild Bir 
Buy of nicotine are required gi and the aforementioned Cleisostoma. Beside in your issue of March 15th. Some five or 
2 3 4 о o 
] ne 
possible that the birds only attack fruit buds 
that have some grub in them ч vehi yer 
full, 
never produce “fruit? W. ameron 
Frilsham House, Yattendon, воа! hin 
Women іп Horticultu (see page 7T)— 
m R remarks бп Wort in К тер. ire’ 
interesting reading, and the facts so 
eloquently described BER I think, to bring 
forth ver trong com ments from some of our 
leading RANER ion nal EER If something 1 
not done very soon the professional gardener will 
soon be: ex adn peus will be finally supp plan ted 
by the class your scribes аз “our 
gardener.” ‘Not for a minute det pite that 
our gardener ” is not a praetical man, but is 
, he a professional man? The difference Levan 
ical professional men in the sphere ot 
opini g 
y aat the wi 
it 18 e to try and bring profes- 
f i very 
п Ag: e 
difer alt Ai to ace е h he only way I can 
n 
by 
that if our is is by org n would only unite 
апі гро] together there is yet time to save the 
gardening ssion from sinking below that of 
the ordinary paves ral worker. The work ot 
a gardener is, in most cases, amy from the 
centre of Балды). бонна He may be 
quite near to, but not actually _ amongst, his 
Fic. 65.—DENDROBIUM FUSIFORME; FLOWERS CREAM WHITE. 
(See page 155.) 
undertaking, in writing, that any ище bes Ferns already enumerated were found 
— by them wil me used sole a in- A ao enella, Asplenium adiantoides, 
ecticide for their crops, or iet manu- prom sa: Polypodium pustula tum and о ce emp 
facta by them of саромад abies for re-sale, yelophort In all, fifty plants were alleviate our position? Cannot some 
he Flora of a Single Tree.— The remarkable foud growing бнуу оп the single tree. done by / Parliament to have all horti ‘cul: 
richness and variety of the epiphytic komme ial it eet recognised, as has been done in the 
of tropical -and sub-tropical forests is illustrated Pri for Potatos—At the National Potato e of agricultural workers? у. P. 
by the records* obtained by Messrs. Longman Exhibition to be held at Birmingham in Novem- :." interesting 
and White from the botanical survey of a single ber, 1919, Messrs. Sutton ^ Sons, Reading, Spraying for Big Bud Mite collem Ё Mere 
recently-felled tree in the sub-t ropital rain- forest . will offer the sum of £100 rte rizes, in classes to learn from the Long Ashton experiments 
of the — Mountain {шин d). The for several of their specialities in Potatos. The (see page 141) that big bud mite | Se mixture 
tree subjected to reat ee was a specimen sum of £60 will be offered in ten first prizes rikis). may be controlled by using 8 i 5 per 
of the Bannio на icula or Bolly and ХАО in others. During the past forty years eousisting of 10 per cent. of irm " if the 
Gum, a tree used € ally for i ling Е 1 Sutton and Sons have been pioneers ~cent. crude mers gre v particu TIN mix- 
Chief erin, S e. iphytic the gie of heavy cropping, diseas spraying is applied ce or thrice bt but it 
ее Bird’s Dem ry fre а Nidu) Sich varieties, à number’ of which are ‘ture will kill "e mites without den nmended 
w side ^ yor with the Elk-horn’s (Platy- T trom wart disease. Particulars of the appears to me tha з season ret 9р: ber.cf 
cerium bifurcatum and P. grande), and the cla in which the named above are for applying it i AM . The pes so 
Е * The "Flora of а Sinple Bree. By H A. Lonaeman may G. Morter, tne family o: see 8 ee is one 
and C. T. White. Proe. Roy. Soc. Queensland, XXIX, 6. Hon. Sec. National Potato j Exhibition, Council Mh балов, to Black, Ситат d any ordinary 
1917. House, Birmingham, whic у easily killed, and : 
