IHE 
GARDENERS’ 
“CHRONICLE. 
[OcToRER 9, 1875, 
er palings, or stone dykes, than contend 
esaea difficulties in growing hedges, 
pointment. Each 
ing plantations, and x hedges fo for ides, 
sheltering and adorning the lan 
ust be admitted there are soils 
many situations upon which hedges cannot be success- 
wn, ie o see the maltreatment 
to which hedges are often subjected at om stage o 
The Whi rn or Quick, d our 
growth 
bark, in the earliness эй lateness in the seaso 
nual top-growths, and in the time of 
destination as hedges. Th 
only term in А whidi proper selection. чы be d by 
marking all those 11 — 
e active soil thoroughly — 
ils be use 
hook. The top shoots of B 
hedges, should in no manner of way be either 
in till the hedge M. as high as required, 
tops should be cut off, and the hedge 
о end and ves аера and oe 
The last and best BG achieved in hed 
hwo a is that of running a No. 4 or 5 
ong the nag and upper part of the hedge, 
y first allowing the hedge to 
u 
be kept uniform c leve 
row o| s about the thickness of s -net 
stakes driven in ve a distance of about 6 to 8 feet 
apa 
over t Is it quà 
where it could injure A Кш 
vantages of the wire thus 
inserted are to inis * reae nem ipsi as 
it were, to the hedge, — preventing animals, as 
cattle an from themselves through, 
very liable its do at all E 
parts of a hedge. 
- fairly been the wire, the posts are i fe fa farther 
and do not require renewal, as ce itself 
sufficiently Supports the wire, and sort it me "eren: 
wards in its place. 
In many situations unfavourable to Thorn or Beech 
nc very able kind, and by no 
means devoid of a certain description of beauty, may be 
formed in the following A 51 ound, 
ridge, or back of a drain or d ay be ch or 
repared, and rapt it a sort of zig-zag double row of 
wing pia yi жа of Willows stuck 
uttings or rooted plan 
od four years 
old, and about 2 к. long, Lares or driven in about 
half their length into the n the centre of 
the row a few rough „л Ve fas description of wood 
are driven in, an ires e u 
them, as for The Willows soon 
grow up, and, with a very little to some 
-ofthem into the wires, and give them from time to time 
nent and substantial fence is maintained, cheap, and 
by no means void of adornment, hedge may be 
allowed to v to any desired height, а when 
реу —— ome higher the better, as the 
tops her removed from 
the reach of cattle, whieh of course: browse on 
to some extent if within their reach, C, Y, Mechie, 
Cullen ullen House, Cullen, Sept, 28. 
ge 
fenc- 
Florists’ Flowers. 
ALPINE AURICULAS.—While it is thought by some 
ward movement being made 
magnificent did of great size, substance, and rich 
u y. 
Between some of Mr. Turner's largest and boldest 
Because, as the northern florists remark, Mr, Turner 
is getting them too near to the self Auricula, and pro- 
bably not a few of those that have received certificates 
at the hands of the Floral Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, would be absolutely rejected by 
= еса ing growers among the Auricula fanciers іп 
The latter attach much importance to a golden 
i t 
strong was this feeling expressed i 
particular type of flower that alpines with 
centres koi no chance whatever when competing 
with them, This year, however, the schedule of шы 
National Auricula Society con 
golden-centred and white-centred alpine Ais 
each being shown by themselves. The importance 
attached to a golden-centred over a white-centred 
flower was seen in the fact that a much larger number 
was staged in the former than in the latter class, and 
more of a telling character belongs to a flower with a 
golden centre, 
According to the northern standard, all alpines, 
yellow and white-centred flowers alike, must have 
haded i.e., the margins of the segments of the 
more does the flower gain in quality, Now, whether 
a flower have a golden or a white centre, if it have an 
unshaded petal it is no true alpine, and i in a competi- 
tion would b notice ; while 
the self Auricula “must have its БоЗусасіса? ог mar- 
colour r extending om the -— of the 
paste to that of the pip, and there m 
oe is the 
whether the бед be white or 
cream-white, or yellow or custard-yellow, it must 
entirely free from that meal or paste so much 
prized in the show varieties, and which must be 
present in а true self Auricula,” Such, then, are Ae 
points of quality as recently laid down in the 27 
and Pomologist. 
And while it not ecd happens that seed 
uriculas, even when the 
e these hav 
wever, they are 
not strictly, for after all the distinctions of ‘the e 
are to a great extent artificial and arbitrary. 
carat "XE ere з. sh. lpi 
Auriculas [ie the i of the 
National Auricula Soci мй асть A 
no place there, the advent of the alpine Auri- 
cula as a show means remote. Mr. Tur- 
"з very improvements brought it into 
mcn and it is now as ive 
tivat it in poor sil, s in order to get the tints of 
shading well-defined. Large pips are of 1 Í 
sequence a ect shading, and a poorness of 
soil is conducive to the latter. As hens of the leading 
cultiv remar ‘I grow my alpines in the 
greatest rubbish." € Е ронед іп May or or June 
«иа they have of flower, in the ч 
the edged varieties bie they will Dear kas т" ех. 
боите than the latter, and they make on had whole a 
see “кн growth. 
hey, h eit та repay eere in good 
p bold trusses of fine flow 
urner's mu new rw id itid will be 
зг обок the neve d T eed Ray, rich golden 
colou n edged with 
bright orange-claret, very ne ір and as flat in 
ired by the most rigid rar 
velvet margin e with ті Зеки еа 
chiar centre, and velvety maroon margin yer with 
bright purple, very handsome and striking; Queen 
Victoria, white centre, — with rosy liae, = 
fine quality; King of the Ж ы. gokien M 
k m g ery red, very fine; Na 
ча Pur etas rich shaded m on 
ry fine; Selina, white Fae 
shaded "with pale ros reg Beatrice, white centre, 
very broad rich velvety margin edged with violet, and 
hite Beauty, white centre, 
ar, eep maroon; 
Майа, 1 
= to че dolet; $ "Natio nal, white ce 
oon ; phe 
large pip, кор, edged with plum ; Clippen pa 
centre, rich shad um ,v 
Nonas Queen, golden centre, dark margin, b: 
edged with fiery bronze, very fine ; and Titian, golden 
centre, with a bright red edge, very 
ne. 
Among the es already catalogued erg be 
named Diamond, Кагыс gold centre, margin 
bright claret ; John s golden centre, at d 
cri A of C mso els a ht yellow 
centre, and rich i margin very fine; 
Percival, a wer, of great poni) Spangle, 
bright golden жан and very dark margin; and 
Wonderful, yellow centre, d broad crimson m 
shaded with violet. R. D. 
Apiary. 
of that 
FovrL-BRoop.—I have seen the effects 
earful disease, the rinderpest, amongst our live- 
stock, and never witnessed one clear 
animal was attacked and showed Бере 
of the disease, in which it reco А 
also heard heartrending accounts of the dicit m 
what was even worse, the dreadful e of London. 
Bad though all these were, esolating 
effects they are as nothing co 
— Some of your readers 
smile at my making this comparison, and 
even think foul-brood is made too much of мү ee 
and other appliances ; in this instan 
in with an Italian queen, and thoug h everything wis n 
adopted on scientific bases to check the disease, ? 
in vai season every stock Wis ^ 
by the autumn my friend —€— 
a single stock living—they were all dead. "e 
the not spread, matter would 
some were nearly half a apart—were its 
and is will to some extent show ! 
frightfully infectious nature, and the fearful rapidi? 
itl hick the i . 
