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814 LHE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [DECEMBER 26, 1874, 
slow combustion of the stove. The error was this poca of the decorations ae Soe ” being | own, not mine [As our readers fro: m lingan 
the architect, for the symmetry of the Srechice, had sed, of red, blue, and gold colour more understand], Kindly set this right a week would 
placed m chi n the tre ; the pro ly paper with a cloth-like pa Sas on vou side ae this letter. With reference to Mr, by pub 
vapour, therefore, after opne! the open air imme- | ofit, which may be procured of al olours tack u suffice it to dismiss t e Ps 
diately descended the adjoining aperture. Had t I hope you will shortly ane some Hiastintionn o of maculate gardener with the rk that I ha: m- 
drawing-room chimney been-in the middle its strong a suitable for drawing-rooms on festive in every competition hitherto for M Bop, aten 
t would have separated the — two, and the | occasions, for it is not oo one who lies in a | that the disparaging article ten 5 cups; 5 
evil would have been avoide t we e have since billiard. rosie vee oy ers’ Chronicle about the plants I exhibj ited = 
will not inflict upon yet ers, but en by him l Mr. Shuttl 
uld any of them be meditating a similar hee i e Potato Disease and the Royal Agricul- | reference to this stick i no a give e win | 
sean I trust that they may take warning fro Ar saga Society. —In reply to Mr. Carruthers’ comment by Mr. Croucher] ; rag in the interval eset 
Sae on some incidental observations of mine on this subject Kensington an he had fortified hited een South 
at a recent meeting of the Royal Ho Itural Society, | several additional sine d that, ‘ome eit with 
Doum Palm.—In a recent article upon the | I may say that I been desirous of alluding to the ain, ehav E defeated 
The 
Libyan Desert, p. 743, the writer seems in doubt 
whether the fruit a the Doum vkan ra T 
from the place 
its pee I re many 
jare ago seeing wt Jaffa a Sostien hori ai with 
cargo of hard Palm nuts, on its way to Jerusalem 
to be manufactured into ig these I iierstoon 
ed 
o be the produce of t m in question, and 
et formed a denhierabie article of commerce. 
A, 
Prize Gardening. —By all means let us give due 
weight A a good house A Grapes ; but when the 
judges ne in the wa’ would suggest t that th 
examine judge, not od vineries alone, but the 
whole garden roe. x Soa t. It might be worth 
expenditure hes cause of horticulture to set t 
nery in cot to point out the best 
a bo 
Were a gar mpetiti 
No provincial how of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
be th interesting and instructive 
mait “gardeners while at the show 
to visit the prize gardens as being the best in the dis- 
trict, and bein a bit of good govern! was to be 
seen, lieve a prize den c oe would 
meet with the approval and support of most employers, 
and may venture to say most itae too. 
Were a prize got up—say, from 450 to £100, 
there would be no lack of competitors. There are no 
uperable amen tg in the way of carrying out such 
a competition were the Royal Horticultural Society 
oyal Agricultural 
= 
ngland have 
prize farm competition for de benefit of farmers and 
the advancement ming. D, Melville, aes 
sin the Household.—The excellent 
nore tage which 
not, therefore, oe unaccept- 
ad 
general history of the Potato disease, or had I spoken 
i itati oubtless have re- 
Berkeley gave us that Lye of the 
ich has bec ie Regn cal, The 
ever, does not my opinion at all ‘invalidate the 
general spirit dt tenour of my remarks. It seemed to 
me then, as it seems to me now, that an ah fortuiiste 
slight was passed on the botanist who, of all others i in 
this country, was the on 
was unfortunate is, I think, saliiciently 
the genie results vra icted by ge and 
practical men alike) which have accrued from the 
prize essa pe eme fad the recent trial of lesan 
disease-resisting Potatos—results which, I submit, 
justify anything I may have said. Maxwell T. Masters. 
Some New Roses : What are their Meri 
Will any of your correspondents tell me what is = 
ience of the Rose meS a Hybrid ” 2e 
budded three stocks with it, “all ich, as 
well as the Enim, plant, have grown vel but no 
a single flower- as u one 
disappointing after all the trouble nis g expense in- 
rred about them 
able if I jot down a i of. the th red | So that I want to Vie ellen eiz e is Via 
to me hile was ex is consi gro ee 
ee Fm cwsicin Se the | Subscriber. : 
d- se tae amg re depth to the 
general colouring Lele to the same erti lightened 
~ the effect of the decorations above. (It will 
_ be understood that in making these remar 
Sia of 
o decorations of this kind being effective, and to 
e those who attempt such arrangements u 
bright-coloured or figur ground, such as most 
of Chi must 
been a mistake ; their gloomy foliage must have ill- 
assorted i the cheerful greens of the 
Abutilons and Acacias ; 
Solanum 
Four small plan 
ipe berries 
Low pon owen eg Benevolent Insti- 
tutio t me to invite all the friends 
—Kindly perm 
of the] late John Scobie, of Holland House 
vi m that three 
pensioners l be’ oat e list beg come: election ; 
this leaves rion other randidated 
oe 
pis: Tier ie wim- | 
neutral colours, as kene aei aiia ag 
for not subscribing, and I think this is not the way to 
encourage them to do so, A Subscriber to =e Funds, 
Fruiting of Stephanotis floribunda.—Seeing 
at p. 785 that of is pe unusual = this irem to 
fruit, allow me on that on en 
ts of 
would have looked | 
of the non-floral | 
r Shows. When T 
Flower my letter under 
s | on pei heading in hat weak’: Gardeners’ Gost ts 
ai i 5 me that the words in 
uying ”), re “ing to buying plants for exhibition, 
ld, : the absence of your orial si ure 
(which was omitted) be considered as emanating from 
» whereas the reverse is the fact, They were your 
es, reac.” 
olleagues, he attacked the t 
s pl aced i 
ody to’ stir, g M. Teabags 
Praia Dec, 
Objections to Dyed Plants. —The seed 
fruit oes are at.present gay with dried flowers 
es from the Continent, he latter dyed ok 
Beautiful selene. but utterly untrue to N Nature- and T 
isa e is an unwholesom 
e one, 
mg ji a false 
barge or, what is much worse, that man can impi 
by such erile k ane the woe of Nature as created 
G ow re we of meddli ith 
creations. Who now-a-days would presume to patch 
up and improve the’ Temples at The ol 
at Rome, restore the Elgin marbles 
i i 
aster 
and ating ret 
F 
extreme—a trifling bunch of dyed grass can 
3 pe, 
, Edinburgh, December, [We e pragt 0 
the sp sirit of our oleae dues remarks, Eps.] 
The Sanitary Condition of Villages.—I 
been reading with considerable ao the very 
m nations of Bee gs 
ords and ruins alike of such 
** Cleanliness is n liness,” I think 
** Cleanliness is next to godliness,” is 
of John Wesley’s sermons, Eps. ] 
Sclanum Capsicastrum, —In answer to “ 
are loaded wi 
for at least five mont e year, and that at 
en they are of much service— 
arch, anage them as seedlings very 
e same ) Ward does his (Garde 
dea ie ipao bat always keep them in pots, 
mparat small ones for the size of 
April es oe berries: ye span from t 
are the ed ina little, all the weak sh 
out, io the plants S into a in which v 
Azaleas and Camellias making their po 
ing them close moist till they begin tc 
start. We then turn them out of their pots, T 
mass and repot them again in the 
pots, : em again to a growing 4 
the ‘gaat with roots apr if 
some growth, If larger a another sn i's hift, a 
place them in a growing house again a short 
till r 1 hold of the fresh sı 
then gradually give them more air, 
June or July stand them r 
