144 THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 31, 1875, 
size. About here, where the soil is close, the tuber 
наф lifted come out covered wi ith earth which is wer 
wW 
tubers where the foliage is quite destroyed may 
their skins so far harden э render them fot ы 
lia "ben A w lifted, if ever so 
t be, by amy eges saved for 
used, 
but the saving in that way wi 
that are —À may h ax ig be benefi 
of experience. have а соте to the 
e of all crops 
h 
dcan be 
d then, mi res weeks 
s is mani- 
fested, and not Mic Alex. Dean, Bedfont. 
Hedge of Scarlet Thorns.—Have you seen a 
hedge planted with single and double scarlet Thorns М 
І have t two ay oe which were put in about five yea 
ago and whi ve been much admired. If cut about 
this season they waver miss being covered with flowers. 
Another advantage is that a 4 or 5 feet fence can be 
got the first year, especially where nurserymen 
them as sink Sei Fohn Carter. 
Strawberries for Forcing.—In reading over the 
interesting articles on Strawberry culture that have 
lat ate in the deed Chronicle, it isa 
ue m SO oo varieti 
permission name a few 
to be good for forcing. I m 
ans in my experience, is the est forcing variety 
It is a heavy cropper, and Early Garibaldi 
eavy cropper, but not so early as id the former. 
is a very early and excellent 
(Reeves) is also good. Eliza 
trawberry, and does sd forced 
good forcer ; and 
g the Vines with red.spider. have forced 
them dy in vineries on temporary E below the 
ines, and removed them into later ones to colour. 
I have tried several sorts of manure, but f fot nothing 
than horse droppings both in a dry and liquid 
state. William Paul, Edinburgh. 
Graft REEL Potatos.—It is four years, I think, 
ted Potato taken up out of the 
ee that you might have ocular evidence of 
the fact of the united stock and 
md Mee e 
-house. er, lam digging up as fas! 
ible, and I am am happy to say I have got splendid 
crops very nearly free e murrain in the tu 
and should е C off"; now they are up, of course 
they will be watched to go into the copper, an 
boiled, with the ае 
mien—when shall I look upon like again? F 
to your manes! The bolled Potatos kept good 
E three T€ and the pigs ate them with avidity 
the las en a sack each of barley-meal 
finished cde Tn E sold them to the T ae Mr. 
ing, grocer udlow eraged 
treny score rer 1 "dt thel rs at poor fois then, 
and it rather astonished others of my neighbours, who 
I have been led into this digres- 
a correspondent recommending the ver 
sensible plan of taking up the Potato crop immedi- 
ately, but he left se the tag about im them and 
boiling them down as above, at least those of them 
which are sure more or less to become diseased after 
the severe visitation which the haulm is oS ie tae 
this season. ell, Nos. I, 2, and 3 in the box ma 
pr ove a oo to the condemnators of Potato аай 
ing. I always felt ink be ae that 2 had е 
plished jue fact, but I n could have infused o 
variety to sport into that ‘of. another i in the remar kable 
way of the proofs I send you, pes the work had 
been really ioc list ; a 
Onwards top with a Lapstone tabet for co set, and 
that a Lapstone became dwarfed, and a onth at 
least in роон to the 
gra t next are we to t 
this sport in the variety three years ago, and 
out, after sho them to Mr. Alexander Desi for 
again last year. ommi 
sioner and Mr. Barron, &c.: nocredulity. But to find 
e same ppening again this season is coming 
it rather m strong, and perhaps you will say so after 
examinati e examples which I send m 
sorry the sake are decayed by their natural exhaustion, 
but the skin of one set with the Onwards top is suffi- 
e seed, 
Mr. ington Smith’s Mer Mode the Potato 
dime] is most felicitous. His scientific unfolding of 
the matter for us is really wonderful, and I am ve 
glad to find that his leboun have found the acknow- 
ledgment they deserve from the right quarter. Of 
course practical ig А like rg must be thankful 
for s mercies t all; but I ri a 
- ran = the Am ва me, and if 
any m шаге j Wii » А ѕсіепсе І will 
iy. forward them to your office for Mr. 
e of the resting-spores, 
they having been kept by me n a perfectly dry state. 
By-the-bye, I would send you now, with the other 
examples, a shoot of Yorkshire Hero entire for com- 
parison, only to do so it would requir 3- 
hamper at least, The stools I do send are the smallest 
I could select. Rod enn, Rec oodstoc. 
July 23. [We mal ра by the time we could inspect 
the specimens s ped were a putrid mass ; 
for all that, w e thi n has the best of the 
argument as 36 the possibili of grafting. Eps, ] 
en ooting up strong ; 
Tritonia crocata is 
not eat, Exogonia at all. 
shooting w up w eit er ok e 
but the frosts in 
May May ile 17 it down to the -Akes the bulbs are njima 
oming up very strong. It was 
I s generally lost it in former 
suffered ichs ely, but is 
кы» кар 
as Diplacus 
Culture of ‘Strawberries in Pots.—** Let each 
i at best bears hi 
propagation should be c 
is vues. 
antages ei may possess may 
asly se dos i in the after-treatment, as I learned to 
my ann autumn, when a water- over- 
Sued uae кайа it and submerged as fine a lot of 
Sir C. Napier . Hogg a from the 
d | ББ * 
S decided 
d 
fo 
er the | 
——— 
Small pots wou uld be dried 
much sooner than large ones, Probably af 
give m to 
large pleasure-ground. 
throu 
make these Dur n with the least oe 
Benjamin Greave The Aue. ‘possible los, 
Holmwood, Эне, " Zuly 20 al, 
The Weather, —The cause of the rece 
rains, with Which the ioci "of duis eners ul fa Mig 
e sorely a e MR 
Hampshire Independent announces that the authorities 
Cathedral propose to 
"un 
them or 
will 
Should they, eai proc 
lege, \ we Robin for the ani. 
e lately experienced pe suffices to cool 
ы ълът Pee at a proposal, surely n o" buta 
deluge will allay the irritation consequent upon its 
consummation, 2, 
саг, for there 
only twenty-seven e eyes in my poun 
n sharp- бошой sticks, and they broke 
aS, to the best of pA Le 
d: 
I mounted ' 
my Potat 
away so жє rt at when the eyes were divided the — 
abovenumber wasthe result, One basin and twenty: - 
now about 3 feet 6 inches in 
vind. divided 215 
of seventy 21 $20 
has made its appearance in this gar 
afraid that 1 shall lose most.of my 
tried sulph 
practice, I beg to inform “7, С 
scarce varieties in the same way long before 
of Eureka or Snowflake 3. 5, Belliss, Sulhamstead, | 
Reading, Fuly 
d Pea, Dr. Maclean,—Could the 
mbe or di Fruit Committee ef the Royal 5-4 
cultural Society, at their meeting on the 215 ш | 
but eg 
is $5 as now ^ A 
кю, > they would no! A 
dedded “to have o it Chiswick, before | 
the sight, as there por would be 
unan 
imously conf it the highes' E award that od 
be given ; should сад ae doubt my word, go, 355^ — 
have done, a 3 worth a journey 
a alone, not to name the 
score or more of other varieties that are 
Dr. Maclean is a seedling from Advancer, but is 25 
vance on that variety as it is possible 0 — 
созе тв, It gro a heigh ч 3 feet, su ee 
rom the very bottom, the s containing | 
{еп Р ек ап эш, the finest paie ; 
ity. Its productiveness must be seen to d 
believed ; in some instances thi шел 
literally cover th am 2 more senses м. 
one it may be des th E i 
esignated ming Pea, 
may consider himself fortate in being 
raiser and distributor of it. W. Wild. ud 
Ee ex will question your —€— ; 
the resolution to have al 
Chiswick an excellent one, EDs T 
feuis 
оте ow aa 
Culture of the Canon n АП eho 
a and myself probably dilier 
er this h f had it соб 
not defect in root 
