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ME May 31, 1919.] 
MIC. ——————— E aet о. is aas SSE 
male a Colours of s spring flow ers and how much it is a 
бү. al phenomen I пей! 
vivid subjective psychological p on, I neither 
know nor care; but this I know, that never has 
the countryside been so beautiful as it is at th 
hi (i moment The evanescence he blossom of 
id individual pla makes no erence, fo 
tint although the double Cherry by my window only 
pues remained i 1 fo af 8, its place 
an dig in the pageant was taken by the flowe f th 
bhi, js rab Apples, uch in turn are now shedding 
Ка their petals like snow flakes and making а wh 
jams 881 jet on the ғ The blue of the spotted 
npa E" Polemonium has only just faded, but 
s o Pp eady CE eto of yd more heav enly 
Tw ә has fallen piece of sky in the rock 
ШЕ: in te, акей cone 
ө а should sorrow а 
he the manifest fact that the Lithospermum i 
vial flowering for the last time. It is in truth a poo 
Hi _ Perennial with me, and after several years of 
res Er sness and neglect àt s making a last 
iim, rave and successful effort. The brilliant weather 
ime Т pou Los bz a rly ER has е 
, a conterence of flowers—kinds 
Zn which had never met before are now nferring 
n d with one another to make tlie garden world 
iudi brighter than ever before. . The earlier and 
hs later Saxifrages ar blossoming together, and 
ШЫ i E^ hem Phlox bulata, Anchusa myosot 
T Ed aum „со "сад irysogonum 
d ant Allionii, ar course, tne 
a Aubrietias, which, for some Penson lot appar 
TS E m статти пе ап rsistent this year 
E e fruit garden bids fair to associate 
PT Eo: vig ке; x to atone "n the dis 
| ess last year n spite o 
ee the blizzard, the Plums have set well, ЗД what 
wit even te surprising, Peach and Nectarine 
E уй га о nob seem have been 
И E y that bitter experience. / pples and 
[Т ш A Sete fine crops, but I am regretting 
m s 1 itterness that hey were not sprayed 
x dul des quoe d eet for ier llars are sunn 
unp easant ar unconge 
9: ЕЕ toa cds to check them by the rul 
aon umb methai e than by a poison ground 
vc. P be 4 However, gardener is no grea 
d ES dm ^ spraying ‘Holding, I think, that “a 
jg dd Ет Et of fleas is good for a dog," and 
rs н rs. Sm Ш fruit al trying Repaid gs 
хеп, Goose ruit also promises extremely 
Ka br. È Seberries in particular and, inde 80 
dy IE to £ arn there no trace of mildew 
d TEE iscovered | anywhere. This is a 
B ru essing grower, but a misfortune to th 
fin) person of ir quirin 5 Wei pe ny 
pir Should have liked 1 pnd; CUR BERS i 
ШИ trying the effe ó fave ап opportunity of 
purs sul hid © ellect of Prof. Salmon's' ammonium 
КОРТ Pide as ific against; American Goose- 
erry mildew t is, I believ Г th 
Market, and is said to hay les Г rchi dm 
Bion the mor del ave less scorchi t 
п (ie Kihn H icate varieties than has lime 
f the trial of ihe er, 1 am well content to for 
oc Spared the o Sager on wx on that I 
E ег ne disease. АП t 
етай Bons ont to а great extension of gardening 
"Dif count; Т^ 1ёР5› to that wh rred in thi 
Е E 1. = aoe em п apoleonic wars. 
Boxen: saner nor re 
( анан pleasure than "that whieh may be had 
of a heater: adep alike from the cultivation 
in it ever 
м апа every failure an Senet a. Me = 
hat 
PLANT NOTES. 
MALV 
1 tis [ALVASTRUM HYPOMADARUM. 
alth tty greenhouse lant (se 155 
» poe ird has Eee bia en in P cultivation i 
жр over 
j^ жы kn A on lani t A udis s ум 
pur Fea ҮП Under various names. such as Maly 
рез. Malvast OS 21 EB 
j E Virgat strum capensis, M. capensis, M 
EE It is cro M. grossulariaetoliu 
ye P durin, Мају ргорара y means of cuttings 
4^ туш di or June, and if young pisti are 
"m th Ped severa] em during the 
they make con ig the growing 
ate | Еу in act мин, which flower 
oo bar t the following a е flowers are 
NE sea white, with a 
t the үл The whole plant 
E na bh 
EB 
THE GARDENERS’ 
has a light and elegant appearance, and remains 
in flower for sever al w eeks. 
a pot p plant, усе ae m 
trained ap im w vall 
the plant corridor in the Royal Botanic 
Edi ; 
ES bán 
flowers. 
M. hypomadarum is a native of South Africa, 
and grows well in an ordinary 
ted 
overed with a profusion of 
perature, potted in the usual potting compos 
consisting o О medium loam with t 
addition of a ae le leaf soil and sand. J. C. 
( Malvastr raie was fully de 
of June 20, 1908, pp 
scribed in Gard. Chron. 
594 and 395.—Eps.] 
CHRONICLE. 
267 — 
his absence the school was lightly 
and one of the main Еш burnt. 
X trained fruit trees on its 
shell had destroyed a 
tree and several other 
During 
shelled 
numbe 
perished. 
pyramid Pe: ar 
р> 2, 
suffered slight damage from; fragments. On 
he whole the garden has been rem arkably 
fortunate in escaping koe: so little damage, but 
all books and a large mass of valuable corre- 
spondence, «угы? with all the — of M. 
I >] 1 is 
srette’s house, were looted during absence. 
ined fruit trees, as st in full 
a now 
‚Ате most inue айу ates of *' Taille 
I regulari 
The tr: 
bk ec 
Lorett was amazed the larity of 
the tre at the great num Eb or, even spacing 
id co oin actness of the fruit spurs; by the 
“е of unfurnished wood; ved at the enor- 
mous production of flower-clusters 
Owing to the late hour of my arrival I was 
able to take only a hurried w: ЫК round the 
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Fic. 133.—MALVASTRUM HYPOMADARUM, FLOWERING IN А WARM GREENHOUSE AT KEW. 
LETTERS FROM SOLDIER GARDENERS. 
A АЧЫ: ТО М. LORETTE’S отр 
Іх f the publication in current 
issue ек the ойын of the Royal Hortcaltora 1 
Society of a paper by Dr. Durham and of his 
artic which ma in Gard. 77 To during 
the 1914, describing a system of 
t troes which has been devised by 
Lorette, the following notes 
near Douai, on 
'and was ve ery kindly 
He told me that ‹ погаш 
ud st. 
'agnonville, 
fternoon x df 1 Тау 3rd 
received by M. Lorette. 
or the 
the gate hen t conr vacuation of 
civilians from the area was carried out in Septen.- 
ber, 1918, M. Lorette and his family were re- 
his eT 
moved througn Belgium and Holland, and were 
„чалан repatriated via Dieppe in January, 
919 
garden, and the qm лр made photography 
impossible, so M. Lo asked me to 
jack next mor rning. Ex gere B an 
hour and found that M. Lorette 
k а 
work very early and had already TP a lot of 
clearing up. 
M. Lorette took great pains to explain the 
T system and made clear several points in 
Durham' w wW i erstood 
br e See E pumps the necessity of allowing 
кеш рне: е n the 
con- 
shee им м», Boni U is jar the most 
desir ble of cordon tree. 
I grate Mk acknowledge the extreme courtes 
and kindness Mec M. Lorette ext ended to me 
in demonstrating the principles ot. je system 
which he has founded on ма observation and 
scientific knowledge of a very high order 
That M. ws should hav месе on his 
vg at all under the iron Fale of the invader 
а zone of d operations, with his premises 
А ts occupied t and with no assist- 
ance than that h ters, is remarkable. 
e a menie of the spirit of his country- 
which has carried their ont through 
the. trials of the la st Jour = a half years, and 
proof of the "nie energy and in нь. itable 
perseverance of a very grea pl e C. C. T. 
