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THE GARDENERS^ MAGAZINE, 



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His method was to strike the cuttings m a 

 comiX)st of loam, leaf-mould, and sand, and 

 when the cuttingcs were well rooted, pot them 

 into three-inch pots and place on a shelf 

 where they could receive plenty of light and 

 air, stopping them ae soon as they were pro- 

 perlv established. In July they should be 

 planted out on a good open border, very little 

 attention l>eing needed after planting them, 

 except to give water, and an occasional stop, 

 ping of long grow^ths. In the early autumn 

 they should be carefully lifted, potted, and 

 plunged back into the holes they came out 

 of. After about a fortnight they should be 

 transferred to a cold frame or greenhouse, 

 taking care to give them plenty of air. 



The methods of propagating Euphorbia 

 jacquinaeflora, and the subsequent treatment, 

 were well dealt with. Poinsettiae, the lec- 

 turer said, should be grown out of doors in 

 the summer, if strong, short, sturdy plants 

 with big heads were to be obtained. ^ The 

 pots (should be placed on a bed of ashes in an 

 exposed position, thus keeping the plants 

 dwarf. 



A discussion took place at the end of the 

 lecture, and a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Pullen closed a very enioyable evening. 



TRADE NOTE. 



Mr. Leonard Cutbush, only son of Mr. Her- 

 bert Cutbush, has been admitted as junior 

 partner to the firm of Messrs. Wm. Cutbueh 

 and Son, Highgate, IN". 



(g^^ METEOROLOGICAL 



OBSERVATIONS. 



TAKEN' IN THE EOYAL HOl^ TICTLTURAL 

 SOCIETY'S GAKDENS AT WISLEY, SURREY. 



Height above Sea-lev-el, 150 feet. 



Date. 



1912. 

 January 28 



TO 



February 3. 



S 



Temperature of the 



Air. 



At 9 a.m. 



D.y 



Nigl.t 



Dry 

 Bulb. 



Wet 

 Bulb. 



His-h- 



ebt. 



Low- 

 est. 



Jan. 28— Snnday 

 „ 'i9-MondKy 

 II 30— 'J uesday ,. 

 31-'Wedu^sdaj,. 



Ffb. l-Tuursuay.... 



II ii — I'lidav 



br. m. 



7 U 

 5 54 

 4 12 



2 12 

 o 48 



3 12 

 7 54 



deg. 



20 

 25 

 33 

 32 

 24 

 21 



2:i 

 20 

 24 

 31 

 32 



19 



1 



deg. 

 39 

 36 



39 

 37 

 31 

 33 



deg. 

 21 

 18 

 21 

 26 

 30 

 28 



17 





(total) 

 31 i!4 



25 



24 



36 



22 



Date. 



1912. 

 January 28 



TO 



FlBRUARY 3. 



Jan. 28 

 11 29 



« 31 

 Feb- 1 



>. 2 



„ 8 



Snnday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday., 

 Thursday.... 

 Friday.. 



Saturday,... 



eans 



Temperature of 

 THE Soil 

 At 9 A.M. 





At 



1ft. 



deep. 



At, 

 2 ft. 



deep. 



At 

 4tt, 

 deep. 



w 5 5 



O K 



ins. 



(leg. 





deg. 



deg. 





38 



41 



45 



10 





36 



39 



44 



9 





35 



39 



4i 



11 







3S 



43 



20 







37 



43 



18 





35 



37 



43 



10 





3k 



37 



42 



5 



(total) 



35 



38 



43 



12 



Si^ow fell at intervals 



on Friday 



\r. ^ r-oxs Tor sweet P 



^^i^^SV^^ ^^'^^^ ^"^iths article on 

 on^ iSl^7^f "^^''^^ appeared in 



tions r J^^V^^ary 27, were two illustra- 



photoL u ^""^ glass. The 



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The pi;!! ^^^y otherwise would have been. 

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ANSWERS TO 



CORRESPONDENTS, 



LOSS OF AUTUMX-SOWN AXXUALS.— 

 S. F., Maiden. — Please tell me why so many 

 of my hardy annuals have died during the 

 la«t week or so? — The loss is due to intense 

 frost and biting winds following so sharply 

 upon open weather. The wet and compara- 

 tively mild weather experienced until quite 

 recently caused the annuals to grow freely, 

 but the growth was soft, and not of that hardy 

 sturdy nature which drier and colder condi- 

 tions would have induced, consequently the 

 plants have been unable to stand the severity 

 of the past week. There will certainly be 

 large losses among annuals and among win- 

 ter greenstuffs as the result of the wintry 

 weather we have had. Sow more annuals 

 in a warm greenhouse at the end of February 

 or in March to make good the losses experi- 

 enced. 



GARDENERS' BENEFIT SOCIETY IN 

 THE NORTH.— M. E. S., Carlisle,— I be- 

 lieve there is a gardeners' benefit society, 

 with headquarters in the North of England; 

 if I am right can you tell me its name, and 

 the address of its secretary r — The society to 

 which you refer is now known a.s the Pro- 

 fessional Gardeners' Lodge, and is l)ranch 

 No. 6,776 of the Grand United Order of 

 Oddfellow-s. The registered office is Green 

 Dragon Hotel, Leeds, and the secretary is 

 Mr. George Carver, The Gardens, The 

 Grange, Scarcroft, near Leeds- 



BLACK DOTS ON BACK OF CYMBI- 

 DIUM LEAVES. — J. R. O., Sparkhill.— I 

 send two leaves of Cymbidium Lowianum 

 ^^■llicll have some blackish dots on the under 

 surface: what causes the spots, and is there 

 a remedy? I am a novitc at orchid growing. 

 — The small l)lackish spots on the cymbidium 

 leaves are am])le evidence of the ]^i\'-ence 

 of thrips. and some oT tlie~e liv:^ly little pi'sts 

 were found on the specimens ,->ent. It is ])ro- 

 bable that the atmospliere of the house has 

 been kept too dry fov some time, as this 

 state of affairs encouraoe- several i^ests, 



notably red spider and thrips. Thoroughly 



and carefully sponge every leaf with warm 



water containing a little iuvsecticide, and 



re|>eat the operation once a week for a little 

 while. Examine contiguous plaut-s, as they 



also may l>e infested; if they are, treat them 



similarly, otherwise the thrips will eat away 



the green leaf substance, and materially 



weaken the plants, 



MALCOLMIA OR MALCOMIA.— F. 

 Taunton. — We were discussing certain 



F., 

 an- 



nuals the other evening, with a numl>er of 

 catalogues before us, when a lynx-eyed mem- 

 l>er of tile party noticed that the popular 

 Virginian stock was variously listed as Mal- 

 colmia maritima and Malcomia maritima. 

 Garden works were referred to. but these did 

 not solve the question of which wa^^ the cor- 

 rect rendering of the generic title. We now 

 appeal to you, as we are sticklers for correct- 

 ness of nomenclature in this district? — Tliis 

 is something of a noser. Turning to Nichol- 

 son's Dictionary of Gardening, we find the 

 Virginian stock given as Malcolmia maritima. 

 and there is a note in parenthesis to the effect 

 that the genus was ** named alter William 

 Malcolm, a London nurseryman, who ])ub- 

 lished a Catalogue of Greenhouse Plants in 

 1771." This seemed to settle the matter in 

 I'avmir of Malcolmia. Turning to find the 

 author o\ the generic title, we found Mal- 

 colmia c redited to R. Brown and Malcomia 

 to Alton. Alton certainly u>v> 'Jalcomia in 

 his " Hortus Kewensis " mid hi- ^pi'lling and 

 title are used in the Kew llaiul List of Her- 

 baceous Plant>. Steude] ](i'(^feis Hi'own's 



Malcolmia to Ait on 's Malcomia. I mi if 

 priority counts for anything — and it is con- 

 sidered almost everything in botany — then 

 Malcomia must stand m the (oiiect 1itle 

 because Aiton was an authority l(m<^ hetore 



Rol>ert Brown. 



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 soil, and the amount to aiiplyr— lM)r sui)i)ly- 

 ing phosphates to the soil i)asic c-lag is a 

 popular fertiliser, and it i.s the best for heavy 

 vsoils; this is best applied in autumn at the 



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