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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 17, 1875, 
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will scarcely be iene but the p uad cin one “ ue — with cloth or Manilla paper has been 
alluded to, of those with the flowers much most important one. To perform this Home Correspondence, 
suffused with pink, nd be expected de prove poner operation mid machinery has been Goassa that 
ornaments of our flower borders ll o draws off the paper from th ps it, and oyal Horticultural Society.—Acting on your 
WILLISON remarks, are very light, ма on sabes it and then unites it to the veneer sheets, both | suggestion of last week, I shall be happy to assist the 
being made to adhere to each other eavy pressure yal Ногай Society's show on the 215 ‘inst., 
rom revolving rollers. ee is similar to | by sending one o ~ t groups o and rare 
—— From Patras, the wee of the | that used in putting ca duck on indiarubber | plants that has r been exhibited in "this or any 
CURRANT produce, we learn that the Crops teg sheeting. Without the backing of cloth or paperit is | other country. William Buil, 
the past year have been highly іу Бе тч 
541 tons in 1873. Тһе 
ton 
‚ ап for cg descriptions, which 
about b per cent. an was paid for the 
erop of 1873. the above total yield ae — 
erm but it 
to import cuttings of from France, for 
fear of introducing the воа ge. 
"m ollec 
e pas ast 
:—Adiantum hispidulum = da cag falcatum 
IMS “Asplenium obtusa tum, A. umbro- 
caudat я D media, bee 
m japonicu 
„Ралі creti v. 
All of 
owt e new 
n 
bolus) Lingua surviv ed 
artially destoyed by the bombard- 
ell-known correspondent, writing to 
се to the POTATO зь, thus e: 
meri 
something considerable 
* I have Bis жуш bee informed on Es — 
that these os could only be grown 
year or two in on. Basen States ; that they — 
qu 
They 
that ‘even the pigs would dcn =, t them. 
obliged to receive new 
the most subject to disease,’ 
Det BD ee MUNITUM, a noble species, is 
in ем Ма among the hardy Ferns at Kew, If to 
be found E it is at least e tremely rare. In 
general a 
Сав of Борей oe the fronds, however, 
are cend in a variety of 
dark 
g and 4 broad ; densely set 
with pinnze, auricled on the upper side, with a inu 
lose Megan ighl y Ere Rede deh б 
choice selections. A native tive of western North America, 
from Nootka to California, We also observe several 
other North Am rarities. Dicksonia puncti- 
lobula, vm g extremely т rare, is here represented by a 
good sp 
34 of vies last oe of the Gardeners’ 
e drew attention to an 
e 
P. 5 
Clone, Tor A 
merican s of rooms 
vention A rait 
with thin prie of real inst paper, 
which are known in the e as PATENT PAPERED 
Wo оор HANGINGS, We have since read a very inte- 
etailed account in an American periodi um 
antic vimm Si 
phar 
are of 
ссек lengths and si 
bout Io feet 6 i inches. T are first 
—— 40 feet long dics 7 feet ер for the purpose 
of soaking and enn d After b 
are Boma and e then passed to 
directly to plaster T 
= spei of a — — ин any backing, 
the great im ое ETE 
t bre D: 
become worthless. ‘The pape 
aa irl ora d 
them, so that th 
m 
ENDE of the w e colour of the paper 
orm background ue gros woods, 
preventing stains and dar alls owing 
through. This p i i 
ive to he planter eds favourably 
impresses every one with the сопоту and desirability 
of this mode of wall decoration, 
r. DARWIN has kindly forwarded to us the 
Ache oe received by him from a lady, with refer- 
nee t CTION OF THE MAC OSE 
— І think it possible that the extinction of a species 
md interest you. The Maca Rose, of which 
а tree, has all over England simultaneously 
ceased t in 
je I tried in riven places, with the same result.’ 
end perse ет correspondent hice further light on this 
5 
OCODON = the ** Mundi-root’ 
s 
—— CHL 
of Natal, is i profusly i in flower -house at 
Kew. Itis king Eier with large көзе 
but not сауны ended for the riesen of its flower: 
which are of a = purplish colo They are, gems 
— interesting on account of their peculiar structure, 
as repres ening es — species of a iid and very 
distinct genus of Asclepiadezx. It w ed and 
gur 
ed in the deus a: бербе ofi 1871, whence 
we learn that the aromatic 
lected and sold by the sities as Mundi or Mindi, an 
machic. So has it been collected 
that roots се with difficulty procured к m is- 
si É ITE further the 
Mundi as climbing to the tops of the loftiest tr trees, with 
roots spreading 
of 15 to 20 feet from the stem ; —— that it was 
fro 
never found more than a few miles the sea, and 
that the nearer the sea it ae - Sweeter 
and better was € Арк не of {һе г Dr 
HOOKER remarks that **it is to be ‘hop 4 that 
о iT ais. ies of Е sin: will T 
instituted in Natal, and the results own.” 
this country, in a stove or warm prctnbouss; it Sows 
rapidly, but seems to ы ег Fer ul ith the war 
treatment, qu i propagated Mns patting 
the roots in b piece i bout 3 inches long—a a 
that me (us aene bethe best if its сий аан р P 
desirab 
—— g the rarer Bee choicer plants in the 
чю w there is nothing more 
rare Lysnracima CLETHROIDES, a 
put орнын unlike its congeners in E serae 
ition, dncidedy ornamen ws 
about, 3 feet high, the stems erect, 
ranches, each surmourted by a 
of pure white flowers. 
ing at first horizontal, rising ere e 
open i below u upwards, so that the роо n in bud 
always bends at a 
c 
"VI 
very narr s to be one of 
broader- Juni нан It is a nisl of Japan, 
pa quite hardy. 
wretched weather on Wednesday night | 
had а very depressing effect оп the ROYAL BOTANIC 
Society's FÊTE, though we mimis ei е 3000 
n visited the gardens between м. and mid- 
Our notice of ble 
he ta daióritóna 
other features of the display is unavoidably deferred 
until next week, 
The Potato Disease and I — Аз insect 
agency has once w^ ries brought pues the publi 
as the cause of the ied diseas se, 
lowing lines from Dr. F 
insects produce ens r. Berkeley also, in his 
excellent mem hed in vol the Fournal 
of the Royal Быйыл Society, р. 17, refers to the 
presence of i i tu which have perished 
prey to the fungus which causes the murrain, it dies o 
lood poisoning, and is ft Рыа preyed upon b 
wireworms and other allied EN ; and it is quit 
as illogical to attribute the death of the Potato to 
ireworms, as it wou a 64 doctor to dis- 
inter the corpse of a man who ha E fro a. Il. 
pox, and, finding worms, say—** A w, he 
or fe 
id not die of small-pox as the ve өчө uim "but 
from a bad attack of worms; see, here they are," 
W. Є. S. 
It seems to have been generally accepted 
that th the n wi ber ce of the > isease visible 
n the American Pota s been confined exclu. 
sively to ho -saved seed, ad that Say imported 
seed has escaped. am sorry, rte ever, to find 
that this notion is incorrect, as I h the 
develo in a most distinctive forth. in Thorburn’s 
Paragon, bispat ed last spring. This form, 
een, as the haulm generally was 
and healthy, but within the last ten days I have 
ке that the peus of the leaf.s lackened, 
then gave way, and eventually the whole of the foliage 
on a sli fell off, eL o only a bare diseased stem. 
his appeara is variety only; 
but if the present. fearfully — cold, and wet 
weather continues, I fear that sh 
rst to suffer, is УШ a problem ; 
бопгон y, they аг 
wireworm 
neither velit 1o scoff nor remained to pra 
I find t 
O disease, s 
for thie the last thirty has now made 
ance sufficiently prominent for me to г 
its usual virulence, who have read my essay 
sent in to compete for the Ear 's prize 
— motto, ** Vox Naturz vox Deo "— will harvest their 
crops safe if do t ust be no 
elay. The ture of the soil ely 62° 
of Fahrenheit. Should we get another fall of rain, the 
in ing due North, t will 
spread rapidly, I enclose you a specimen leaf. If 
n g unforeseen prevents me ill harvest six 
varieties to-morrow. eat: those who will hearken _ 
o my то! 
will not must abide 
Potato Sets from One Pound of Tubers, —I can 
best assert the accura racy of m T ree as to the 
pound each 
safe ; ! 
e consequences. W. Pres 2 
ureka Potatos plate y 
McKinlay by quoting a remark of that cultivator to 
the effect that wh ased the pound of 
Eureka over the ep at Messrs, Hooper & Co.'s, 
Centre Row, Covent Garden, he counted sixty-eight 
eyes in the Pose foret the pound, and he 
stated that he had about the same number ion 2E 
pound of Snowflake. To the e of my recollection 
i counted sixty-five plants x the datter, and in m 
a y coi ight verlooked five or 
six plants. t “7. Cw 
such a much u of sets for his pound of 
iety, I am unable to say. Mr. McKinlay 
planted his sets in the p of Mr. Hooper, sen. . 
and I presume that Мг. mrar id bere of treat- 
ment did ‘comply with | vx by which the 
