Арап, 12, 1919.] 
ope of remunerative xr Же 
country. ‘The same ma; co б ыш ht 
in Potatos. The Potatos nearest the control i 
were muc xd 
орч away, showin, 
of ee aca: from the contro 
I consider the de- 
5 
X 
5: 
2 
в: 
= 
пе cumbersom 
gundy mixture іп n 
Б prepare. There аг 
on the market, some practi 
few теу good, ‘and better in ther effect than tis 
of these has been 
i knows 
dica 
no 
is most effective in wardin 
remains on the adt. MG an аси вргаув. 
makers advert as 2 чю 
= 2 t. solution, 
and at Ain ( е» айлы vel and o 
the u e of leaf) gm complete im- 
munity to the кт и from late blight. From 
reports 1 have ions а wi 
per cent. * Blighty " Burgundy ixture were 
immune from mn 
nx Strawbe ldew ы leaf spot. Possibl 
а } per cent. оно of “ "y co HR = esi» в 
Orange Apples — not affect them ad , 
pe robab! effective against 
. Е. Mackenzie, 38, Ntrathcarne Hoad, Wimble- 
tg S.W.19. 
Ti 
сору, which I hope will clear u the ints at 
For the sak з |же 
е of r ; 
ved 
control By q^. 
apparently to do i-es iu tae prb ig 
"4 ings. That would, I feel sure, cost 
an. the fruit is worth, and ore will not 
be likely to appeal to 
growing, ix 
D Wm e d £ р: б рг Agricultural 
v; eun escart. tation, 
Damping’ Off.—With 
re to Mr. Wm. Taylor's letter on the 
above subject, in your issue of March 29, p. 157, 
I should like to call attention to some facts which 
given ori on this disease," 
but which do ii 
appear in the short note on 
р. 142 of The Gardeners’ eg re Batches of 
“damped-off ” Тота several different 
TH. E GARDEN] ERS’ CH RON. ICLE. 
in which plan 
di 
Еа 
enm uti 
proportion of per Sonos growing in. soil 
a previous year ha va poe 
is od ofi, and were | ot es tain 
lated with їп. 
same effect, 
healthy asiings with ‘small "portione ‘ot él 
g Phytophthora also caused t| pical 
tact with them, never ‘developed best disease. 
These facts appear conclusively that 
damping-off of Tomato е is eiii due 
directly to the attacks of this tong. of pesti o 
ora. oes not exclude 
other cases of m kg g-o det и, 
by Mr. Taylor, by unsuitable temperatare 
and humidity эй seedlings ате. transplanted. 
As regards other points eve by Me “Taylor, I 
may say that I Tn "WC ping-off in the 
-pan when the iie vy been -— in 
infected soil, The same Ph 
уор 
attacks much older Tomato plants, еч A what 
I described ES my paper as “ Collar-rot," though 
in this case I do not oun at what stage of Ey 
growth the plant is infected. I am, howev 
more "n with the money form ор ‘the 
disease, . G. h 
is di is evidently identical with 
my “ collar-rot,”’ and is by the same 
fungus, Dr. Pethybridge Mr. Lafferty have 
proved by i ion experiments with pure 
ultures of the Phytophthora that it is the cause 
the disease. ‘hey have also su n 
taining the sexual form of the fungus and, 
finding that it had хл г before completely 
ibed, they epee it Phytophthora 
cryptogea. С. T 
Gardeners' Wages.—The letters 
ig under this heading. (pages 144 and 
d with interest by D 
gardene, and I feel that we owe E d 
the editors of this paper fo 
forward a plea for a 
cial position than ‘the sale old Ag need 
trotted out which are but thinly-veiled 
= Chivers that 
— 
to my notice in 
ng Р his 
— 
proe er payin 
ever, are 
, Epes 
"y = 
Yo mul 
hich 
TE "us in ese be taken as 
у to gardeners generally? 
the Royal Dublin "Society, 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
APRIL 8. yore Ле Сы а showers of 
rain daring the day remarkably 
good ноя at {еч meeting of the R.H.S. 
London Scotti oe — Hall, 
The Floral T Duties had a ur time, and 
to novelties and awarded four medals for col- 
lections. 
^ Nie Committee. 
a paul essrs. Н B. May (in the € 
W. J. Bean WEN W. Bar 
Bowe H. 
Geo Paul di 
Dickson, W. P. Thom mson, „Јав. Н Hudson, E. H. 
. Cranfield, W. H. 
. Blakey. 
Barr, S — 
shown peng Mr. R. ee bà Bart 
shire, was the most interesting disp 
demonstrated in remarkable fashion the 
prc alread i 
Commendation for i for large spathes 
africana 
AWARDS OF MERIT 
Mauve.—A ody, srody: 
The: 
neat s flowers 
widely DET ded. and Te colour is ий Soave: 
ith dar stripes running down the 
whitish tube. 
Freesia Bartley Rose.—This charming Freesia 
has widel flowers of a soft rose- 
variety appea: 
but it carries numerous flowers pike. 
i Goldfinch—A bright -— 
" orange yd at the lower 
wers of fair and well 
The 
alm ost € 
purple, Se a 
ye. Show 
b bec ardens, Wisl 
cought a сос of yard plants п 
of pw җый Do, splendidly 
xif ra о 1 "wt 
n p Petrachii, 8 
d ы Bissolettii, "Anemone ran 
anella montana (Bronze Flora 
urseri 
8. Sundermannii 
ana Gloria, 8. Pauline, 8. 
were all in fine 
Elizabethm, and 8. Griesbachii 
ver a aes TU 
fons ius 
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