LME 
AvcUsT 8, 1874] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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evident to any one acquainted with the nature 
mast be of the areen peg that come under 
e hard-wooded plants. 
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; i The above p. lants canno 
_ 3 ike Satatactorily unless for a time they ar 
x se all through the autumn and winter to such an 
a as often seriously to masar their foliage, 
3 iste they attention and repe 
use of sulphur 
otes. "Apher al tear 
without placing out-of-doo r are 
such it is to any plant grown for the greater 
re the year under the A isvee 3 of a glass cover- 
which must necessaril 
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of the ie in con- 
wth in the season fo: 
ften turned outside, the impres- 
a Hit i agog as rdié Thi 
e it has to such an as to prevent the free 
ment in tir OE, so essen- 
ize i case of young plants, 
tke production of large a-forirs a “the older 
Tha bed on kwhich the pienta t to be turned out 
] 6 or of clean 
ts are 
from maer they a are diffi- 
0 dislodge, a sath etait ey do an amount-o 
that i in the case of Seat coted | sibjecta, such 
at they do not get too wet at the ro 
rains. It is best to use a bg frame: 
Sufficient to carry a roller 
can run down oe doubtful 
when heavy rains are threatening. Neve 
to remain over the plants when it is Abe 
to throw off such rains, cat A during tw 
hours in the middle of the day, when very 
for the first four or five days after their being 
Vi 
Areal be somewhat wea 
r will want ro, i attention with 
up. much quicker hits Moe 
plant as 
| destroys es en of th 
„Fuchsias are much to be preferred to old p 
kodi bee 
ich, Aor 
ape ‘and re 
ome a prey 
which more Puickly 
Sledri of any plant it effects 
a lodgment upon than any other insect), they are rA 
maturely injured, a corresponding weakness sets 
which 1 I 
the base, where, in consequence of there ep Saas 
disposition to owen at the bottom, they can least be 
red eci s plants naturally recover more 
quickly, owing on ihia early renewal of their leaves. 
SOFT-WOODED GREENHOUSE earl 
flowered Peo lg will now 
arly red-spider, 
be ready for on 
down. ase of large plants, nog current ye: 
shéats should be k ahostebed back to within two a 
three eyes of where cut to ar 
may be allowed a es 
a the soil becom 
ing that, with 
once a week or 
= too reer exhausted, the summer flowering plants 
n be m: o last until the tana If the shoots 
of J Fuckeias tiar flowered early, and have had a rest, 
are now slightly reduced in n lengt th, an inch or two of 
the surface soil p with some new and rich, the 
plants well washed with ‘‘Gishurst” (2 oz. to the 
gallon) to destroy any spider, thrips, or aphides ip 
may be upon them, and afterwards seme ved t 
house val p wh yan they can be k a little alie 
and m ging overhead, ht and even- 
hey will conve} 
into bloom in about six weeks, and if ass 
sae ‘with weak manure e-water, will Sarr 
to flower until be autumn is far advanced. Young 
ing, noe il = dee y r- Arbh and show flower all over, 
ing 
pre 
Good free aR we should be struck tas the present 
month under bell-glasses, o r they can be 
keptolose ted sooiets They should be removed, as soon 
loam, to which ma ded one- 
sixth part of ipg dung, with an og quantity of 
leaf-mould, and as much sand as eep the soil 
sufficiently open. pe blooming bits should not 
sg for cuttings, as they neve nts. 
plants should be placed as near the glass as 
be mite in a nice growing atmosphere, with the 
temperature of an es house, say 50°, at rie 
t h the autumn. These in two months’ time will 
require moving into ak, pots in similar soil and 
kept on until Christmas in a like position to that 
which they have previously occupied. 7. Baines, 
Soni 
FRUIT HOUSES, 
aig ae a Pine sucker has attained a 
to form a 
ac error st 
prevails in cording young growing ` Pine ne planis 
and ill greatl igh to ‘upset a, systematic “course 
ji + reason of the plants being 
argin and voma tde condition in which there is 
muc ertainty as to when t it, unless 
e rt miisi ei applied, and these are not at all 
times to be entre At this season climatic 
msa are such that Pine plants in all stages of 
will thrive luxuriantly, provided they have 
ention. See to the state of 
been rev or upset by 
a: 
are | and light, as well as 
hen suns 
— June, and July, highly inept to both 
plants and fruits. s, however, should now 
discontinued altogether, and the plants subjected 
ht i ersan with a bountiful 
supply of air when the rature in the 
ands at from 85° to 95° ; por t temperature, fruiting 
mond a to 75° others 65° to 70°. Geo. Thos. Miles, 
Wycombe Abbey 
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foe early work, and this will afford him the opportu- 
nity of remedying any defects in the came appli- 
ances, thoroughly scrubbing and cleansing the 
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detail there is nothing fresh to add just 
cultivator, therefore, cons ult previous directions, 
unremitting in his en 7) mi 
Secure at the either h molly igloos’ Malye sen’ S 
small ridge Cucum rite n pits and 
frames keep ras foliage emi thinned, the old growths 
tantly removed, geh in laying in the young wood 
w new soil where con- 
of the plants, and maintain a free 
at whatever pains. Thos., Simpson, Broomfield. 
HARDY FRUIT GARDEN 
iioa gakpe as the present season has in many 
n, the fruit crops have in many aurae 
ect ricots 
are here already qui of excellent paasi; ` 
indeed I do not allect Pihis fruit ever being fin 
or less injur sects. Ants are generally ‘the 
most troublesome of all their insect enemies, but they 
are less so this season than ; and as to wasps 
botons pane hare been seen f e eons 
destroyed between four and five hundred of them 
during the apei ig fea and May, being paid a 
each w r hornet destroyed up to the 
e b Í ss 
tion to this being a few trees of Rivers’ | Pro- 
lific, which are about a third of a crop, > NOW 
nearly ripe. This is an excellent early Plum, 
tnd saan ever fils to prods, op the 
leading sorts closely 
nailed or tied in, to back 
superfluous foreright shoots, in order that the 
young wood ae a ae 
Mildew induced by the dry weather in many 
instances appeared — the fruit of Grape Vines on 
, but has in all instan 
ressure or concussion is suffici 
orem and yes this is done decay will at once 
and progress very rapidly. As soon as “the 
fruit i is hasti it papasan ee upon shelves covered 
with cotton-wool or severa cknesses of soft, clean 
