530 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [ocross al 
have had a hibernation of about Tave peA 
Shirley Hibberd, Stoke Newington. 
Cassia corymbosa.—I have rarely met with this 
d old » which, however, only want ts to be 
nerall: 
out. ae the end of April they are turned a 
un slight TE until danger from frosts 
over, w uba they are planted out. The plants begit 
to bloom directly, an keep on until ta a up, win 
or wet having but little pei on them. Oliver Gold- 
smith, Polesden, Dorkin 
zolum canariense and CEnothera macro- 
beautiful gien fod tke ‘ower They require 
woul te and pegging down once or twice a week. I 
aggro those with Wok the ‘Calesolsht 
to try the Tropzeolum canariense by plant- 
i in 
in case of failure. othera macro 
— has $ done well here, zy flowered all mSS 
the It is easily raised from seed, and cuttings 
strike free ae in the spring. Shoes Smythe, The Gardens, 
Imh 
The Royal Horticultural Society’s Fruit 
Show.—Will you allo ow me, through the medium of 
result ; and after the enormous amoun 
ae and expetive in in preparing for the show, it would seem 
a pity to limit its erations to about three or four hours 
on a dull November day. I would su suggest that on 
tie blowing day the public should be admitted at 
perly advertised, it w d 
, and give much pleasure to 
the public. I also think it worth pent. whether 
er might not be organ Wit 
airman, a very Pleat “evening 
our country horticultural 
n June 22, ws, one "running 5 ens 8 
a quarter of Savoy, another brie ough a a Strawberry 
, and so on, gi ving at once a maximum Bean 
s light and air We eon fee a long time ceased 
grow our eas in a mass in one ites of the 
and have mn anea the oe soe of casti rows 
Se ati Soe gaie 
working was the only thing likely to any good. | During winter I have them protected by s 
The gwd said the border ought to be re-made as | 3 pang ge of half- eS mposed leaf-soi] oy 
ho 
lee only 
my own ts kis 
upper surface of som 
it, The best way x usin sulphur o dust the | to express its gratitude for 
glass at the lowest sins of t of, and the sec ai: is | thing before? C. 
then driven off by the sun, ni ascends among The Sea 
rods where it is wanted. W. K, Devas, orwich. son,—Four months ago we 
e Double Blue Lobelia.—There has been a | months of autumn were unusua 
good cael said of late kanp this novelty. The | Springs would get drie 
k i 
a 
but I must call out Queen in ‘Hine for it is such with | back so as to note the rik 
t is, in em op 
, took the: matter into | they ushed e other 
first year scarcely a trace of | and these *half-rotten leaves bein 
and the § capital 
mildew appeared, ee this year not a vestige eer it | ductors prevent injury to the bulbs by fro 
been beg B 
S your acceptance of a most successful method of flowering th 
small bun as a sample of ur, | successfully is to encourage plenty of 
off four different Vines, fair specimen of th mmer mo 
general run, although some bunche from $ bed for the bulbs to rest in durin 
lb. in weight. [Very good under the circumstances, | having the border well drai 
E They have had no fire-h e border | success is certain. Y. Sheppard, Woolen 
has not been touched, but i been accomplished 
special treatment in the way of manuring and A Word for the Robin Redbreast,- 
ventilation. y Rose beds were equally free until, | occasion to-day to put a young man in the 
as an experiment, I had recourse to former treatment, | to remove scale from a Croton 
and ina few days they were covered with mildew, | the house, a 
and have not been fre ~~ I tried ame on | called my attention to a com 
one Vin ty ar, and two days afterwards the leaves | 1 I was astonis a 
began to spot, but I r revere rsed the treatment directly | picking up every scale that dropped, and oc 3 
I had obtained evidence, and ther wra no more of | taking a flight and alighting i i 
enj 
of the ee directis aes the | Have any of ee oO witne 
that unless the late months of summer an 
escribe ack in Green,” | month of October; and n 
inion, one of the finest dwarf | we had 2.93 inches of rain at K 
blue bedding plants we possess at the present time, | 2 inches more than last year, but in the 
and bs puts all the 
other Lobelias on one side for there was only 1.75 inches in the 
beau In a season like t eme we have just passed | shire. In July we had 2.93 inches 
sacl I hare it bedded by hi sa pede al „being was rather less then last ye 
well, I intend planti 
inclose iced for the 
ito: a rA was 3.47 inche Ps Kelso, being 
(Oct. ta it is quite one e, an been | than last year, 5.60 i 
so since une ; therefore I recommend those | Berwickshi In § 
who have been ie pa TR pe eason to give it | at Kelso, and 2.06 inches in 
another trial and use less water thelr ower beds. | for the first ei 
. he kotai sent was really good, T Kelso 20.28 inches, which is 3.42 inches more 
more than we can say of the plant in most places | it was 
this year. EDS a natural result we have now 
ism and Fungi.—Some time since gp sent 
Galva $ 
you some pirig n ‘‘Galvanism in Plant-c ” and | 
ey meti heb | 
for thes , by diggin ging ont the seil a feet 6 
bro! 
rapes were — fit to eat, 
said that cutting down and re- 
abun 
for all purposes, and for Potato- Me e agod 
fro th 
The Pelargonium Society.— May I suggest | much. West 
for the consideration of the Pelargonium Society digious: but the banaa has pedi naine I 
at their forthcoming meeting that in any schedule | October began. On the night of October 6 a 
they may issue for the guidance exhibitors a | morning of the 7th, the floods in Dum 
list of sorts be ins rom which the ki to | very hig ut at Carlisle the Eden o 
be exhibited should be selected? Say, for instance, nks to an extent unkno or 
— be pein as 
o 
no room for disput 
are com mong t 
na Particularly “aie are some Aa that come 
o florists’ vari d 
were appended to them, thus giving them an authority hte apessr Beauty hans 
: . arinen E ae 
and iip term afi 
manure, ese a 
many of what are termed nosegay | recollection of any person n 
d hybrid nosegay varieties. The great advantage | having been about 5 inc 
rr such an Rr es nt would be , that there would be | Toward the east co 
t the 
as to what section any Ais btful | matters, In the east of Northumberland ti 
variety should be lanii: I would suggest that each | little rain. Springs and 
the Spiega eee eee fifti 1 
within 
good srt cog 5 oe ors eae ite ie etier i they | west or south-west, while 
ensue at the 
i It would very much enhance the commonly long in scene an ad Prin Print 
value of such lists as above suggested if the names of, | into flower. Z., Roxburghshire. 
like he uce 
uthoriset Tt = y would be selec- | ing just 3 lb. 2 02. 
d lis new A: 
aver: 
en up and yim. on Ma E I; | cultivation for gen 
year 
in weighed: t1-Ibs:_ I also-planted.| the wow Vietorne y to lift 
length of the oo old Fluke, | Seedsmen, Derby and Nottingham. 
stan ba wn for twenty y 
may be termed florists’ | Kendal the flood was the highest that had b 
extremely low, and land is too dry for autumn 
ys reach; and if they are | ing, The reason is, that all the rain has com 
w. e east coast 
e hybrid nosegays | rain except from the south-east. Though t 
i been rem 
given as suggested. | judiced 
avi 
ng, | proved, which we consider to 
quite isease, 
y good Ww coo i 
Forestry. 
