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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



November 23, 1912. 



experimenting with potato-es for several 

 year.s, and he has shown, in the "Journal" 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society, that, in 

 1909 and 1910, when disease was exception- 

 ally prevalent, one-fourth of the seedlings of 

 S. etuberosum were unaffected by disease, 

 while the remainder perished. From these 

 immune individuals numerous cros&?K have 



be' 



It is 



hoped that i-n the second-generation families 

 the recessive quality of immunity may segre- 

 gate out. Therefore, Dr. Salaman coLsiders 

 that a really immune potato, to which other 

 desirable qualities m^ay readily bo added, is 

 not an improbable feature of the future. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION IN ST. 

 PETERSBURa IN 1913.— A. A. G., Hull: 

 Can you giv? me any information concern- 

 ing the horticultural exhibition to be held 

 in St. Petersl)urg next year? — An interna- 

 tional horticultural exhibition will be opened 

 at St. Petersburg at the end of April, 1913. 

 It is being organised by the Russian Imperial 

 Horticultural Society. The exhibition will 

 comprise an agricultural isection in addition 

 to various floricultural and horticultural 

 sections. Intending foreign exhibitors must 

 give notice of their intention to exhibit to 



the Comite Executif de la Societe Im- 

 periale d'Horticulture de Russie, St. Peters- 

 bourg, Quai de la Cour, 32, before January 

 1, 1913. A copy of the regulations, pro- 

 gramme, and awards may be seen at the 

 office of the Board of Agriculture, 4, White- 

 hall Place, London S.W. 



BLACKENED CATTLKYA AND VANDA 

 LEAVES. — E., Darlington: Could you tell 

 me the cause of blackening in the leaves of 

 cattleyas and vandas, examples of which I 

 send your — There l< little df)ul)t but that the 

 evil is due to exces-ivf nici-tui.. in tlie pot- 

 ting compost, coupled with a stagnant atn^o- 

 sphere. a general rule, trouble among 



cattleyas is due to insufficient veutilatio.i 

 and ex£\>ss of moisture about the roots. Givv^ 

 wattT. stand the plants in a liglit posi- 

 tion ^ ventilate freely, having due regard to 

 the weather, and use a little extra fire-heat 

 to maintain the temperature. You Avill find 

 nnieli iielj) in our Orrliid Notes under "Work 

 for th? Week. 



DO ROSE CUTTINGS COME TRUE?— 

 Ignoramus, Enfield: If a cutting is taken 

 from a rose bush and rooted, will it pro- 

 duce the same sort of rose as its parent, or 

 will it have to be budded first? — A rose cut- 

 ting will, when rooted and grown, produce 

 precisely the same sort of roses as the plant 

 from which it was taken. As a rule roses 

 are propagated by budding, and the stocks 

 used are eeedling briar, cutting briar and 

 Manetti ; but sometimes own-root " roses 

 are offered for sale, and these are obtained 

 from cuttings. Thus, if vou root a cutting 

 of Mdme. Abel Chatenay or Mrs. John Laing 

 you will get. flowers of those varieties in due 

 course, without budding. Budding is the 

 quicker method of increase. 



FAILURE OF IVY-LEAVED PELARGO- 

 NIUMS.— H. T., Oxford: I am eluding a 

 specimen of ivy-leaved pelargonium Souv. de 

 Charles Turner, for examination, and should 

 be glad to have your opinion of it. We had 

 the house panted inside, as well as the stao-- 

 ing, in the summer of 1911, and subsequently 

 the pelargoniums lost every leaf. ^Ve cut 

 the plants back and removed them to another 

 house, and they then grew away well. Thi-s 

 summer I had all the plants removed from 

 the house painted last year, and had the 

 paint washed, and the ventilators and doors 

 left open for two months. In this hous-e we 

 have sonie good single ehrysanthemums and 

 Irimula Kewensis, flowering well but the 

 pelargoniums are going just the' same as 

 t^tore, the leaves shrivelling up and falling 

 He keep a fire going during damp and cold 

 weather, and leave a little air on at iiio-lif 

 Two gardener friends consider that '^the 

 trouble IS due to the odour from the paint. 

 Kindly give your opinion to one who has 

 takf^n tho -G.Mr for many years, and found 

 It most u.etnt— The trouble cannot he due 



would have been affected. The leaves show 

 no .^ignB of du^ase, but their app<^aranee 



suggests lack of light and excess of atmo- 

 spheric moisture. It may be that from 

 various local ea n-^es tlie stock has become 

 debilitated. Have you grown any other 

 pelargoniums in the same house, and, if so, 

 with what success P Further, at what period 

 of the year do the leaves commence to fall? 



NAMES OF PLANTS. 



J. A. 



S 



Bridgend. 

 L. L,, Buckingham. 



Naegelia zebrina. 

 -1- Vallisneria spera- 



lis; 2, a leaf of Gingko biloba. 



S. H. A., Devonport. — 1, Oncidium orni- 

 thoryncham; 2, O. pubes; 3^ O. bicallosiim. 



B. F., Oswestry.— 1, Struthiopteris ger- 

 manica: 2, Polypodium propinquum; 3, Vac. 

 cineum Vitis Idaea. 



E. J. W., Preston. — 1, Luciilia gratissima; 

 2, Cypripedium insigne Sanderae; 3, Maxil- 

 lana variabilis; 4, Aglaonema costata; 5, 

 Dracaena Baptisti. 



G. B., Bournemouth: 1, a fine form of 

 Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, probably the 

 variety Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild; 2, La- 

 portea moroides, the Poison Tree of Queens- 

 land — thanks for your prominent notification 

 of its stinging powers; we know the plant 

 quite well, and experienced its capabilities, 

 under cultivation, a score of years ago, but 

 if We had not known what to expect in the 

 box We might have had an unpleasant shock 



G. M. 

 N. 



NAMES OF FRUITS. 



■Kerry Pippin. 

 1, Bergamotte 



d'Es- 



Felixstowe.— 

 R., Petersfield. 

 pereu; 2, Alicante. 



H. S. Y., Tewkesbury. — 1, Margil • 

 Washington; 3, King of the Pippins ' "'^ 

 ru^' ^X'' ^^'^^^ding-— I, Court Peudu Plat; 2 



tV^^^^ King of the Pippins! 



T> F. Coggeshall.-l, Ribston Pippin; 2, 

 Beurre Clairgeau ; 3, Winter Nelis; 4 Catil 

 lar; 5. Tyler's Kernel. 



Craven Arms.— 1, Dnmelow's 

 >^H^d!ino;: -2 not recognised; 3, Dutch Mig- 

 i?"i'n(' ; 1. Kmile d'Heyst. 



N. R., Bickley. — 1, Roundwav Mao'num 

 Bonum; 2 Fearn's Pippin; 3/ WaWs 

 King; 4, Gascoigne's Scarlet 

 A ^' o- Coventry._l, Chelmsford Won- 

 der. 2, Golden Noble; 3, Beurre Supevfin- 

 4, Doyenne dn Comice : 5, out of character, 

 po:^.iblv Court Rendu Plat; 6, Uvedale's St 

 Germain. 



METEOROLOGICAL 



OBSERVATIONS. 



SOPTFTT'Q r'^.^n.v.^"^^^' HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY S GARDE^S at WISLET, SURREY 



Height above Sea-level, 150 feet 



TAKEN IX 



Date. 



1912. 

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OBITUARY. 



4^ 



was 



MR. JOHN KINNAIRD. 



There hag just passed away, at the com. 

 paratively early .age of 58 years, Mr. John 

 Kiniiaird, Burnieboozle, Aberdeen, an out- 

 standing personality in the market gardening 

 industry of the city of Aberdeen. The Kin- 

 nairde have for iseveral generations been con- 

 nected with the market gardening inditstry 

 of Aberdeen, but no member of the family 

 has left a better record of work well done 

 than Mr. John Kinnaird, Burnieboozle 

 which contains over a hundred acres^ is re- 

 cognised as a model market garden,, and the 

 excellent and practical manner in which the 

 grounds are laid out and tended earned for 

 Mr. Kinnaird the warm admiration of every 

 one of his professional brethren. He 

 eminently successful as a grower of vege- 

 tables and fruit, and, as our columns in past 

 years can testify, he invariably took a verv 

 prominent place in the pri&e list at the an- 

 nual shows of the 'Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Aberdeen. He is -survived by a 

 widow and a son and daughter. The son,. 

 Mr. John Kinnaird, jun., has for long been 

 associated with his father in the business, 

 and so the continuity of the Kinnairds as 

 Aberdeen market gardeners will be 

 served. 



MR. JOHX ELLIOTT BURTON. 



There passed awav at Twickenham, on 

 November 11^ Mr. John Elliott Burton, in. 

 his eightieth year. Mr. Burton was a native 

 of Flitwick, Beds, and had his early train- 

 ing in the Duke of Bedford's garden at Wo- 

 burn Abbey; from there he received an 

 appointment as head gardener to Lord John 

 Russell at Rodboro' Manor, Gloucestershire, 

 and later to Sir Edward Dean Paul, Bart., 

 of Cambridge House. Twickenham. The in- 

 terment took place at Twickenham Cemetery 

 on November 16, preceded bv service at St. 

 Stephen's Church. 



SIR THOS. SKEWES-COX. 



After a very brief illness, Sir llios. Skewes- 

 Cox died at Manor House, Petersham, Rich- 

 mond, a few days ago. Sir Thomas was a 

 solicitor, but in the Richmond district he 

 was well known for liin interest in horticul- 

 ture and the support he gave to the Rich- 

 mond Horticultural Society. 



pre- 



FORTHCOMING ENGAGEMENTS. 



M EDXEiSDAT, Xovemln i- 27.— Xatioritil Chrysantlie- 

 mum 8oc;-ety\< Annual J)inn<T and Prize Distri- 

 biiti-on at the Holborn IJr.staurant. a.t 6.4.3 p.m. 



^rj^Jr^^ ^^^''^^ ^^""^^'^ ^^^^ presiVk'. 



11 mi>AY. Df'opmber 3.--RoyaI Horticultural Society; 



i.oinmittee nu-r at 12 o'clock; Lrctnre at 3 p.m. 

 on * ' \ ("OT tat ion of the Islands of Ln.k c Mair^iore/'' 

 by mmv. Tziko.s St Lco-or ; Scientific Conmxittc^ 

 at 4 o'clock, 



iv^M?^^'^^^ H<:rrioi],!,tural A>sooiatio.n. 

 \\W)Xh>l)A^, 7)! (M'mber 4.-— Pcrpotual-flowcrinn' Car- 



Batjon Socirty's Winter Exliilntioii at tlic P<'.v:il 



Exhibition Hall. 



T^^.},,*^^^'^ ^ ' BfCM inbcr 5. — Linuean SoriHy. 

 ..SAII IM)AV, Dct'cnibfT 7.— French Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Londf)n 



CONTENTS, 



A Ph-a for IVniny in Pot 

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i'. i.r irr. . 



Jj'-'MTt Applr.s for the Xorth Country 



K-stutr Frulr Plantations 



t.xhibitu,,,,. and .)kvtinf?.s. 



KnipJiofias 



Xote of the AVe+^k 

 Obituary 



l?a>pb^'rrifs 



I? oya I Hort iouUura 1 Swic'ty 



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W illiain Crunii- s:l7 - \ pi le Arthur Turner, 

 : I'luin Kariv I'rniific. !»;mi : IMuni TreM- 

 <\rn\ !>0l ; CnlliM tion of C li r v.-i n t h-em u HIS at 

 K:iinbin -h Shnw. 'M\:\ ; Kir>t" Vvv/r Va.Si£ ot 

 Chry.-.;iurln niiirn.i ;it Hull 'M\7 . 



