THE 
SEPTEMBER 25, 1875.] 
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flowers spotted pass red, „д а фаз of qeu shape, 
about an inch in uremen чо» r the mouth, 
d more than an inch in] з ф make it a conspicuous 
object that might be useful as an addition to the orna- 
mental water- i in ie garde 
Wire Fence,—In answer to your invitation, and 
in reply to “А, D., Middlesex,” I trust the following 
rove useful :—I planted a wire fence, 
bearing, a 
thicker e Onions are usually strung for 
adopted was, to place a young, well-tckined 
са: got en 
ne stiff, fruit-producing Apple hedge, 
which combine the elements of protection, eig pk 
ness, and о t Sti rd 
ould not succeed, on 
indeed, most other varieties, exception being taken 
All these crosses were carefully performed, the anthers 
being all removed before 
year 
the petals and markings, but, as mentioned above, they 
А EE shown any decide dc cross between the two 
kinds bad pink : spotted ones on a white ground, like 
speciosum punctatum, up to very dark spotted on a 
In raising 9 seedling Lilies of 
speciosum e stems 
n 
spotted, William Tillery, Welbeck. 
otato Culture, —We have now lifted our Pota- 
and find the crop good, tubers clean, with ve 
little disease, The plan adopted in this перт 
n the drills 
owing Potatos is to open the 
double-furrow plough, ca e ure down the 
rills, when it is spread ; the sets aret " 
the pl 
affected by disease, and are often badly flavoured. I 
invariably grow them without directly manuring (the 
Fic, 86,—WHITE NICE: WEIGHT, 25 LB, I5 OZ, 
the Cornish Gilliflower and such ser don 
оне pe e usually Р their fruit n the 
extremi Ges of the brandis es, an ed to the 
process. Should ** A.iD,’s ” situation be elevated, and 
the soil be stiff and clayey, I would recommend him to 
I App 
ince Stocks wo 
pen it, ын entirely 
Iha us simply led o 
ching and pru ning the superfluous gr 
scissors s Siig the winter. Ihave Pear trees trained 
in the same manner, giving the most satisfactory 
results, ©. 5. S., Fers p 
_Hybridising Liliums,— The interesting comm 
ion received from 
een speciosum Ц 
Serves to show d little the pollen of the o ae ашышы, 
For the last seven or eight year 
trying to effect a cross betwee 
Out. to speciosum type. e likewise 
mem some seedlings raised from the E^ band 
auratum, making the s male 
parent, they have all wn ag on gga: д the 
kings, 
auratum shape, but vary mu eir 
Some being with red bands, cg, some »ith po 
| the 
Mageney. 
il being enriched for речин. T find this 
The Vine Mildew.—The question your corre- 
spondent, Mr. Dean, asks with reference to Vine 
mildew, and its connection with root dr ought, is 
worthy of consideration at the hands of all Vine 
growers, although his B гидро may turn out to be 
жое, І have e of mildew myself 
ason in a young ad ae was planted from 
equa. on July 1o, 1874. The house is a span-roof, 
running north and south, and was originally intended 
for a plant-house, but owing to the necessity for 
ate cl of So. d Vines here, last year, 
ided upon planting a house tem) 
p of giving the Vines in the ” vineries 
a fair chance to establish themselves i 
them, The b riage” Тї yomg Vies 
consideri 
they are 
had to grow, and as 
work, and И шу a makeshift "dot we started 
pretty early this pre "e * finer. lot m.s one could 
wish to see ; in fact, o y difficulty has been to 
kin the ond ripened, Ching ^ the vigorous growth 
me have made. І am no believer i niri Vines 
ripening, but, for the reasons give ord 
the > supply of water to the roots to be Фрак 
di Abou пема noticed а Y 
horoug 
night, vith fire-heat ear got it was necessary, W 
"A have thought of case becoming serious? 
Sethe Foie on WF Ка, Dr . 
But it б, and a few days afterwards I was not a little 
urp ofi t the alarming rapidity with w 
ep minute ex 
nation of the border, which poer thickly mulched, p" 
I found it by far t et the demands of so 
E 
3 
а. 
о 
E 
pipes are hot enoug mes 
phur in all pruna through the house, Meng will be 
when the thermometer in the house stands at 90°, or 
water pipes p from E to 170°. 
sible to do, ап 
Vine ee can be brought about 
dryness as as we ell as 
with water in 
from the latter Mildew is 
re, c 
fumes, it cannot survive, but it isa nemy if 
allowed its own way to W. Hi ds Otterspool 
бөгөн, ды; te 
ean's inquiry is an interesting one, but, 
as you is case is not supported by facts, 
= I can 46 to a garden at the tim oa 
ildew has compito spoilt tw jn rà ДОДА abe 
nev 
ч ieee where it was never before, and that 
^ does "where the rainfall ast July exceeded 
with dh this pest than has the oft-repeated damp confined 
atmosphere, which some jump at as the sole reason of 
Vine mildew. Fr any ' experience I am 
perfectly satisfied that no man can wi i 
ut the true cause, would be a an, and 
vonia deserve -— of his craft, if one cout b AT 
ho could point out the true cause a cure, 
Fames Clarke, Cotictong A are 
our uth instant Mr, A, 
and 
g 
ducer, but, unless it is sweet a fair amount of 
moisture, there is no ho ope of the ровых nd result 
sta only а, Зоре is а ресор cause of 
re than LASS afflictions p 
cold 
id 
parison wi ү тк ЖЫ red-spider, thrips 
mildew, mealy-bug an mg scale (in its obnoxious 
Wy of forms) luxuria! it. 
plants they are aM: гіпо, І venture to say that the 
principal cause o of these afflictions lies in the wa 
As far as the Vin erned the short mien of 
the xu and development of its pe fa leaves, and 
in 
a story” 
Saunders, 5 
Strawberry Armstrong's Garibaldi.—I here» 
with rel you a sample of Armstrong's Stra тояр 
Сагі picked this day in im open gr 
a great number of 
Standard Peach Sa gs may be interesting 
o know what abundant 
supposed 
| This year 
have given large Srops of fine fat, and look well after 
es were pres as good as 
wall qe a — one Nectarine I red twelve 
dozen v ruit, Is a! this a „эъ стор? 
An Old Prine, Chiswick 
ipid pns jm —In ied a sapere de 
th Ivy 
who imbing plants 
in the е North of f Seotland, I beg to inf. 
lant es a more 
not appear to su 
. riantly in most parts af Scotland. Tt should gti 
