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JULY 3l, 1875.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
143 
—— The 
Abney Hall, Cheadle, the residence of Sir JAMES 
Warts, is just now covered with i beautiful sheet of 
flowers of NEM i ge INSIGNI en the sis 
shines it is as pretty a border as вее: is on the plac 
There is little ains een it, and 
the roots, Mr. MACKEL ‚ the able ga 
|^ charge of the establishment, pe not think it will do 
: emo opa oes not grow so rank 
| Vine border in front of three houses at 
garnish and i wy. 
к Шы, that has di fel ‘at Abt Hall 
for the first time this season, is the white East Lothian 
d 
—— Some idea of the enormous — ga PEAS 
grown in эш рерна hood of arket 
fa ct ‘that Mende 
purposes may be inferred from the 
_ а grower in West Mi еек paid the large sum o 
£90 in one week for e а р ета at the 
rte of 5 er bushel ost of cultivating 
а di aver 
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о 37. 64. ; e 
. hint ought not to be disregarded by market — 
that the. better the quality o the Pea g 
e hav 
© now some quick-growing Peas of high-class Miei 
that are heavy тее while of moderate growth 
and already some of these are taking the place of 
_ varieties that iat been ат {ог years, but are of а 
t value, 
PII 
|; — —— А valuable collection of Орол. Palms, and 
other stove and E enhouse plan sold 
Stevens" Rooms o A Ay when A following 
amongst other s were realised : —Odontoglossum 
Cattleya a sy 178s. 6d. ; 
s. 6d. 
sal AY, Esq.) ; Cypripedium cauda- 
tum, the plant figured in this “омуна! on February 1 
s BOWRING, C. villosum 
Y, ); Lelia purpurata, 2205, 6 
L. superbiens, 1685. Aeride: od 5 Fai ; 
leyana, ыо, d roseum, 1105, ; Vanda 
coerulea, 189s. ; des Fieldingi ii, 147s. A specimen 
of Anthurium ен ianum, established in а 
30-inch pot, realised um being bought by J. F. 
. WILLIAMS, Esq., Wore 
——— On Wednesday next Mr. STEVENS will sell, 
аі оа in Covent Garden, a collection of about 
200 established Orchids, the property o 
_ WRIGLEY, Esq., of Вагу; and o 
А x the valuable e deo = stove and Кете 
i inc" have ix oe ae es = 
B caren. of tia late THURET, of Antibes— 
garden so truly г алые {ог the vast numbers of 
most interesting plants, especially succulents and 
"New Holland" plants, grown therein. This week 
We give tens ац on p. 141, showing the entrance 
to M. Iu s house, covered with P Bougan 
y a fine specimen 
Agave ‘Salmia iana, The йы is p n from c 
- Photograph of M. Borner’ 
de at the next mosting of 
s Royal эл үнгеш Society Mr. W. G. SMITH 
wil remember 
L m the ‘frst Пес, сод- 
_ Sidered the саре: o be the second form of fruit 
Ф the Potato 
__—— The supposition ва. Cheiranthus Marshalli 
| nd ee from a cross betwe heiranthus ochroleucus 
— Showy liar rdy егесі of dwarf 
| w flowers, and the latter a we 
be annual producing deep o 
| to some extent verified b 
аи rae ee зг i to 
he dual character of 
ing 
the seeds, These were soon after sown by Mr. ALLEN, 
| жеде estimate Се — = с: for this 
i 
some PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE Жыны 
and some ofthe seedlings have just ошо; and the 
following чачат о : € а vae om V г. ALLEN, 
xu forth ini He sig “му Cheir- 
to 24 inches high, and 
n to have ee their т character, and 
e only i im Е m Pero s 
Some of the transplanted 
seedlin s yet unbloomed have 
Marshalli, whilst ‘iss others have that of E. Peroff- 
skia As med, I 
саз НЕ 
imp s 
is very evi arsha Hi was a hybrid, and my 
seedlings ‘ie ^ иара back' to the two parents," 
that наа, as well as Potatos, are 
ecent deluge. The leaves are 
which, however, are not all 
an Uredo i is also very 
prevalent, but clearly by wet weather. 
The stem is also affected, 50 as вг eee very like that 
of the Potato when decomposed by the Peronospora, 
but much darker, “= — — ” pga hang 
down and wither. ka ars a 
similar affection was ine 
curious incident Mini ai нне with it,’ A first- 
rate cul , near pton, found that h 
o that there was not the slightest 
nce and, consequence, 
ploughed it a m es A farmer, whose 
о 
Wome Correspondence. 
с ач ора in Central Yorkshire, —The 
n has 
rrived when we can form a gps 
15 y 
past win эзы whic n some districts, 
in hiami eir атсан more 
able ise the length of time the cold weather аман 
the great severity of the A 
towards the end of 
exception, the cold was not very 
he continuance of he's storm ; ; the 
EE 
December the was seve 
ЕД 
intense durin 
fi 
little suffered in this n 
The dull, sunless weather and ату 
tinued late into spring kept ders a in a backward 
stat trees came into bloom there was no 
general, are ri h 
ee a ces abundance of blossom of most kinds, = 
it ak and defective—not 
finely Жоаоа 3 A е4 in my opinion, етелн p 
e as was anticipated, 
о a great bearer 
aoa be well thinned, ot therwise it will be small. It 
is a famous Apple in this district, and is to vá found 
in almost every orchard. e are more trees of 
this kind planted annually than of any other "that I 
know of, Pears are an average crop; on walls they 
are pretty good. ЈагропеПеѕ are a very hea avy cr 
іп general. There is ана of this kind grown in this 
district by farmers, &c., 
buildings. The crops 
pretty yod ; some trees heavy, whilst others are 
light. Plumsare a op—much better than was 
expected, as the trees suffered h last season from 
aphides. The Victoria is the one most grown for 
market in this district, its siz colour always 
r mending a ready sale. It should always be 
well thinned, as the fruit sets so thick in clusters. 
m сэр ош to the crop of 
: there w 
es нет Ар are a heavy 
much bloom. Peach 
crop here. We have had to remove immense quan 
tities, so ene were o "a Figs on walls a good 
crop, and p The crops of bush fruit 
of all kinds very go, but ч late е D сата 5 
Strawberries have only been a moder p 
general ; inds т. iode soils hive beet pretty 
ey have been light. But 
5 whils E i others th 
ind 
rowns uts are an nt crop, as are als 
Walnuts, All fruit trees are remarkably free of 
lthy. Plums, Cherries, &c., present 
crops of 187 
an 
ones, which n cause them to inferior 
quality, and would so exhaust the trees La о render 
p chances of а бай crop next year very uncertain, 
M. Saul, Stou 
The Potato Curl.—As I judge from your re- 
marks in last week’s issue that there is some doubt 
visti the disease known as the ** curl" is identical 
with that which has appea hiswick and else- 
where, I send you herewith the haulm and roots 
of a Dalma tato, w er of 
which is badly affected this year by the curl, or 
le wh ave ays regarded as 
more frequently 
amongst the T than any other, which is also 
one of the worst for otato disease, so 
called, i idi a rem т т individual 
he s^ sr 
plants of this variety could not be curled ; 
as a ru S um E y is goo and еі 
cropper. is year it is a зак бе all 
the plants presenting the appearance of the зем, 
Phe ioi have bee crumpled or curled since 
came pa t e grou the tu whieh 
should have been twice the size of one’s fet by this 
same variety fro ame quarter, е not so чы 
ffected as the p = the plants аге, І ѕе 
it that you may see what o Tollé p this kind i is 
like when not curled, clas no means a 
healthy sample. e have no American on 
he place. 7. н обес iWeb “believe yours to to 
Chiswick. Eps. 
сз од эши, enough, this is 
sorbing topic 
w the all-a f discussion among 
i-eomeeraed in its culture, that almos 
everybody. Tn this part of the coun try the fungus is 
leaving its mark at a most destructive rate, and a few 
days of warm sunshine, with drying wind, has only 
served to make ita effects the more apparent. Nothing 
ort of a period of dry, can now 
check the progress of t , or го 
experiencing о 
tubers, the crops will not b 
munity from frost in the spring —9 by the haulm 
been of great service in p 
i T sence of big Potatos жал 
while to anticipate, o 
know are is best to be done under the хоча инен, 
and I them to exercise patien 
Except vius the soil is pulverous and dry, and the 
crop — hinge I would not at present advise lifting, 
I that the tubers will mature ой 
early kinds are too 
but — sena sorts ar ` 
warm may continue to exist 
weeks, dait ‘which time the tubers will мА in 
