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example, and lay no claim to the ge He pee 
Strawberry ps into their fruiting pot 
ow ever, at once say, do mean = tell the venders 
of the Gardeners’ dpi a » that t ay to effect a 
saving of t nd labour, and at ie; same time to be 
n the soil as firmly 
n the kun - qme nac pianis I also beg to 
нда we do not do things ‘‘ by halves" (how does 
but to 
profit by the hints we obtain from the horticultural 
Press, and also the experience of o 
practical men. It does n 
we rai 
rry pla 
With re egard to the potting of rane arias, Cale olarias, 
r. Ward alludes, I sho uld 
If there 
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fashioned w ee 'a fair Hl w willing to go > 
to the old. Edward зуя, obi ud Dorkin 
Pot Ca pus eem as.—I have now in bloo 
pelas turb turbina 
and shall soon s in bloom a large pot of 
C. turbinata is the стаси 
or so above the 
pot, the large bell-shaped deep blue flowers are 2050 
above the foliage about 4 inches, on stiff erect stems. 
C. turbinata alba has slightly diverse doliage, is rather 
more robust, and the flowers are sim e, but, 
eing white, are in co our ale о 
markably robust but com- 
filling alarge pot; the foliage much 
resembles that of C.turbinataalba, but israther cy Tas 
inds, 
-blue in cae and 
са ч the winter. If w ted to produce effect, 
t a dozen и these small plats should be blocked 
into a large pot. 
Potatos at Nee House, Beckenham.— 
In “К, D.'s? description of these in last week's 
Der Chronicle I um that Mr. McKinlay got 
o not mean to say it was 
not possible to get seven m eyes from 1 lb. o 
but I do say it is most improbable, rd at t 
size of the Potatos and the distance of the eyes i 
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crops in a well managed garden or farm? 7. C. 
Culture of the Canon Hall Muscat Gra 
Is € correspondent, LS Prestoe (p. 18), not mistaken 
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Its successful cultivation is the training of its: shoots 
PE horizontally the strong shoots 
s the right thing to do if they 
are wanted for future fruiting, for this reason—that 
the buds all along the shoots get better ; devetoped, 
and, when they break the otc g year, of a cer- 
xu they make a better show, and give the cultivator 
ch for success, be 
abortive ч 
 bunches as well set ded 
times I have seen Y rides but very poorly set, 
All Muscats have a tendency to set реба if te 
weather is sunless and the tempera cold ; 
the Canon Hall variety pre ien ^to cu: one in 
to the extreme i licacy. i 
I should certainly advise the retaining of some good 
wood to work upon. other Vine which I would 
secure still more to insure a i 
cro Barbarossa, 
which is usually shy in another A er cen 
bunches = аП, Шеу Гар usually cut off in prun 
This year a Vine of the latter is e which Беа 
towards Н wo dozen nd by the system of laying in 
some good wood; ei 
which, if they nich, nerd pen 
f second crops of Masests? Every good 
mange will be satisfied with 2 ood crop, and 
any do not even succeed so far. X, 
Gooseberries u E any of your rode мину 
say whether 12 weight of Gooseberri 
sidered a large Sic be ‘en one tree? i phasi 
this quantity on [ше 30 from an ““ Ironmonger” bush 
standing 2 feet high, and measuring 39 inches in 
е hooped. y 
trees give evidence of larger crops than the one col. 
lec -— hs ur neighbourhood is Seaforth, on the sea- 
side, the land low and flat, and the’ soil sandy. 
° Suly 2. 
for Forcing.—I find the plan I 
adopt in preparing Strawberry runners for forcing 
simple, successful, and expeditious. It is as follows : 
So soon as the runners om be found pushing out young 
rootlets, cut them off and pot them into 4-inch pots, 
eep them in a close frame, shaded w 
wberries 
г fruiting pots. This 
upo 
result, let them try one hundred pants à at a, they 
will then satisfy themselves. 4. S. Kemp, 
The Ice Storm ч me: anten pd —In 
the afternoon of June 29 a mil ts effects, 
only, ү Pe one disastrous than that noticed by 
Mr. at p. 20, swept over Chelmsford and espe 
cially cs north side of it, моћна sad Һа 
all growing sopi апа glass-houses. 
ower 
Lodge about 300 squares of glass were broken, and at 
the Broomfield ca ursery, a few hundred yards higher 
up, nearly a d squares shared a like fate, while 
usan 
the streets and p ars of Chelmsford were com ч йет 
ooded, The oldest inhabitants declare that they have 
never wi such a ѕсепе e, and believe that 
never since the D elu 
were also experienc follc 
10.30. At Broomfield vegetation has suffered quite 
as much or more than at wicke, and the flower- 
beds are complete skeletons. 
houses, it is singularly stran 
has 
а £ 
lighter than aor glass, of second or third сео ег; 
a recurrence of these disastrous st 
is very slight. Tomas рман, 
ps.—In the various articles about amica and 
the devastation they commit in orchard-hous that 
have latterly — in the Gardeners’ ей 
mention is of a whi 
I learnt from you б ошта! a year or 
cultivation of Tomatos in the (on 
said that if Tomatos were геа 
the wasps would desert I mn Pen “filled. wi ith 
and Pea the fruit of which was formerly 
Grapes 
much injured by wasps, which abound in my vicinity. 
I 
used to have numerous soda-water bottles, half 
id wir enr : ed all over it ; and 
although t were always half full " 
d i 
oot of a fruit great 
thinks that the wasps object to the rather penetrat 
odour of the Tomato bush. The remedy is certainly 
very simple, and, as shown above, appears to о be effica- 
cious. Henry Bennet, M.D., Weybridge. 
Spring and Summer Pruning.—In an article 
your journal which a some time ago on 
Я тек terr urget and summer is 
, for pruning most trees, 
been chosen because rini convenient, Tieas 
states that in spring an tr 
paag a of life, 
hereas, in autumn and winter, 
the iim life i the xen being in abeyance, dormant 
as it were, the wounds c 
abro 
ever t the latter rg of May. Now, one of my 
delights is н sally forth after d = prune my 
n trees, a course of proceeding w 
the day after my arrival; indeed, Li 
without my snippers, saw, and knife. M 
have always warned me against thus cutting m ар 
ping trees at this time of the year, asserting that the 
autumn an were the time; but I despised 
their opinions and went on my own course, because, 
firstly, I was not there in the autumn ; and secondly, 
— I pes, rtm do the фаш myself. More- 
r, I had an idea of my o t the trees would 
"Me ‘suffer bd recover with ће 
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branches up to IO feet, in order that the eye might 
reach more distant woodland. ave also a small 
orchard of fruit trees which suffer severely from spring 
r To avoid the A I thought of getting the 
fruit-bearing part o e into a wa 
spheric region by growing standards and running them 
with clean stems eet i 
my own pruning w 
one in heei and Те whereas that of ie тк ед 
пе in Novem 
examining the results of the 
o me that the statement in the art 
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know of the laws of v 
nutrition, air a d 
in either - eiergele vital action, vigorous life are 
such life in the T — is 
present in summon all but absent in winter 
Bennet, M.D., idge, 
ш o have esca to reappear until a 
EE In spring the trees should be wa 
and the paint applied on the first appearance 
any damage — to the 
anti-corrosive paint, the kind 1 endi m employ on 
my preserves, Henry Bennet, M.D., Wey bridge. 
Starting Early Vines.—According to Thompson, 
if you wish to see very ear rapes, it is better to 
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of all g% иу off the leaves? My own plan 
would lower the Vines at once, so as 
to stop the x of sap, 
to strip зно жан to 
last week in July, to start the last week in 
y a d Would y Touch danger of bleeding ? 
Z T. 5. [No doubt properly Vines started 
in ist are ds than those 
that be are really 
This may be the case before 
fallen off. Do not strip o oliage in any 
case in the hope of бесе: е wood to p for т 
may just as we ell prune the e 
lup. The V ines, if E ripe, may be start started 
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