370 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER Io, i 
London would know exactly what to look for and 
what to find on any day they could spare for Kew. 
There are plenty cog: wh uld do it fora 
small subvention, an House of Co ns never 
mhmh ure on an t 
d about Kew. 
A Siaa "it would be obviously impossible to 
affix a 
f labellin im- 
tanist mi zA be told off 
ory i to see that the plants were cor- 
labelled where¥ er practicable, and, if heci ry, 
houl pH 
the 
to. Inthe more popular and shaw i e- 
practicable chan 6 one of his predecessors, Eps 
Covering Outside Meed ee Th au sur- 
prised some rag: since to n your corre- 
spondent ( . Paul, of Edinburgh) ad vooatihs 
uncovered orders for early forcin - 
vailing practice i th which I have for 
more than twenty years been acquainted, is to 
cover them up with fermenting materials, If 
remember right, Mr, Pau ’s success Moe De 
The Pelargonium Society. —May I be per- 
mitted to say a word or 
first and second items 
two wi to the 
tems in the prize list of the newly 
formed Peciponian Society, as given 
_at p. 301, 
5? The first item is intelligible—‘* Twelve Zonal 
Pelargoniums, distinct varieties, of the florist class, 
&c.” Well, in these days, w he acme of per- 
fection seems almost to have ttained as regards 
shape, size, E f Sgt substance by petal, and 
h an well-known 
size 
highly esteemed, and py heed varieties, the 
h 
is it a combination 
A little ipah e light on this i will 
iets | r the guid of those wish to 
enter the lists for Saioa. next July. er, I 
do not altogether enny in his 
ong Gardeners’ aen of Saturday last, 
“the nomenclature of all the sections, 
is erg oor gg ific, i at heist For instance, 
é i to plants ‘ios a zone. As for 
ae ‘ nosegay,’ it is positively ridiculous.” Ia 
Ea adni the obtuseness of ees, but I om 
scarcely see what science has to e classifi- 
-to the iy Siavecr ant fe aE APR i 4 
ing as to w. rope nder any 
meere for this or that secti I will only 
x As Beg: the n of the P 
grown out-of-doors I think think will 
* _ others, We to meat of He 
culture i 
a ie 
Seen aE wey do the rates patt of he yw. 
In order of truss, shape, colour, &c., 
ths ? wi 
us four Opinion? A Gar- | 
I would suggest that i should be awarded for a 
cut truss os Tin t dimensions in the various 
o prizes for the best thirty-six 
dissimilar blooms i (cut twenty-four do., prs : 
so prizes for the six best cut trusses (new, or not in 
commerce), that should be shown in sands similar to 
the Dahlia. is way of exhibiting would aeey 
add to the number of exhibitors; and if they 
create quite a furore my name is not Æ dward sends 
Hatfield, Herts. 
Neats’ sag meg a Preventive and Cure of 
American mae stla read in your eon 
paper for several nik that several of your cor- 
pe tee van ‘pestered by American blight, nw 
of my experience in the matter, 
ify you can spare cae a short space after s i 
bj yself, 
upon my fru 
told was, and which proves itself to be, a sure cure for 
ms Pasa, a The ee Apples were among 
ffected by the pest rig some; Pippin, 
Grenadier, 'Ribston Pippin, B well Souring, 
Blenheim Orange ; but wpe mn the remedy, by 
means ant of a Il bru ed for harness- 
work (I found that the best apr of applying the 
oil), to my great surprise I e this “ae seen no 
appearance of ‘blight in ty ‘slightest degr Not 
only does it prevent rap but hoo Bar = oo a 
of a 
In the bni ing of an year the seit: 
cation appears like oating of bird-lime u h 
trees, and proves itself a valuable preventive against 
birds at that season, e feathered tribe do not 
cy its glutinous nature. ter Mid the 
are as clea though o 
heahiy ték pa aor th the bli nai, 
y trees ith ight ; therefore, 
ical I onlay comme! 
neats’- a sure preventive and cure 
of the American bli and have no itation in say- 
‘all Gardens, Soli- 
Wistaria sinensis.—This 
dard if 
can be gro 
ed on a lawn or “in shru Pieris at 
supported by a stake for two or three years 
ries. They flower freely twice a 
year with me, ine ‘the colour heeg so 
makes them very effective. G. Wood, 
Rochford. 
The a Horse.—I am very glad y 
have placed on record such an ex ntatio 
eripi O is very re ble natural 
p * N t way yesterday, and eve 
time I see it s more wonderful and a 
and by daylight, standing out as it does 
singly and a 
between it a 
s upon a 
aami n pedestal, Sohn Biome, Royal Gar- 
idem, Windsor, Sept. 
The Sweet ae —Having read with piis asure 
an article in the Gardeners r a on the Sweet 
Flag, fa Which the or seems doubtful as to th 
; 1562. "Tt is in te: form of a dialogue between 
and Marcellus. In answer to Marcellus, 
perhaps was 
Wa Bh 5 
so was such an overflowing abun 
in Shakspeare to the Ne of Rushes. The 
scene ih Henr ry IV. —‘*More Rushes! 
ushes 
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mentioned by Ray 
nica in 1650. by Parkinson in 
chapter ‘“‘Of the Sweet-smelling Flagge” in 
Adam in Eden, 1657, ich ge its 
countries, and makes no mention of England, 
Ellacombe, Bitton Vicarage. 
and Shr in Cornwall. —TI hp 
me Laurel at Denjetdie 
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from the grou e 4 feet 3 inches, 3 feet 8 in 
and 3 va in cirouinferen nce, It grows in a 
moist ey, ing down to the coast at 
Porth, bew d Mawna: 
ki 
Cornwall) ‘and has ‘all i Uranok perket as fat pi 
injury from frost ed, are 
flower show of the 
A 
country show only were t 
the unusua =A fine 
the cottagers, and the sa 
great mers 
eatl 
regretted, particularly as circumstances are so 
able for holding a first-class exhibition, 
hall of St. John in which the shows afe 
d well adap 
s Th —— compran e comi 
f management orthy every res pee 
support, The ‘ics district for miles bia i is on 
gigantic garden, ate garde : 
resident gentry are both nu and beauti 
Imiost a es displaying much love and good 
for gardening. I trust the in Eng 
Penzance inly is geographically, will not 
ne of its principal summer aheactions to fall th 
for t of the necessary support, particularly as 
fc) sually thronged b an sU 
o 
Crystal Palace Fruit Show.—In you Aa report 
be Crystal Palace fruit show I was 
h 
y men well qualified to give 
W. Bond, E 7" Gilead A, Smith, Esg., Ob 
Park, Weybrid, 
Reports of Societies. 
righton and ea Morenia Au 
Show ; Sgt cs —This show was doub 
atures it was probably 
Fruit, 
a 
rior to ewe its gen Pees 
| plants were all well represented. In fact 
bundance that 
ting things 
1 in time for the ao. As usual the $ 
was | in the Pavilion saloon and grounds. 
| bright these rooms answer the purpose 
i , for some laos pests cularly well, but 
i fom one aida Aa i ieueiea gad the be 
a, sine vee ana ag ae a itals as in the | many plants and 10 e but imper 
Thomas Rushe.” 4. S. Lockwood, Prescot = | i tered ey the case where ject mally 
