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GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



March 



5, IS* 



Cool 1 reatment of Coelogyne cristata. 



leading parks there are reserve gardens or nurser.es, in which the bulbs ™. . - r- sj«c cnsiata.-Mr. W. n Atlf . — - 



that are to be effective in spring are propagated in an extensive manner. trar of the Bat^Ceme.ery sends us a photograph of « gro TfZ'^ 



In the Regent's Park, for instance, there is a large enclosed garden m examples of he Chatsworth.variety 0 f Ccelogyne cristata, to show L ' 

 which thousands of bulbs are annually grown for the necessary supply. 



Hyacinths, tulips, narcissi 



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and others are carefully lifted when 



this beautiful form succeeds under cool treatment 

 Atkinson sends us the following particulars : In votir "i^^EJ* 1 



" Work for the Week," Mr. Stafford gave some notes on CcewL 



I have always held that this is best 



" warm orchids." 



nary 

 e cristata 



and herewith I send a print from a photograph taken by^iT * °JJ? ^ 

 from my plants of the Chalsworth variety of C. cristata. I bought the **** 



the time to replant the beds with summer-flowering subjects 

 comes round; they are carefully taken to a room fitted up in 

 the wav of an ordinary fruit-room, but with movable trays forming 



he shelve, and in these travs the bulbs are carefully placed and variety or u. cristata. I bought the oriZJI 



the sneives, ana in uiebc t -i years ago, and at once placed it in a house amon? a fVu. „a . l,, congjm|^ 



covered with a layer of finely-sifted cinder ashes ; here they remain until and - n ^ , ^ £ be J *J ew odon togl OSSUffis , * 



the end of the summer with but little loss of vigour, being kept in semi- ^ ^ atrnrtnn ^ „ : „ f „ .J^IL gen ? ral assortment of other tli- 



darkness and cool. During the late summer months advantage is taken d 

 of leisure moments to go over the bulbs ; select and sort them. Those 



bloo 



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which are strong enough to flower are replanted in the parks, the offsets and a fi ve -and-a-half'inch pot, which stand in front of it * * 



are planted in beds in the reserve garden and grown on into size. This or two in coldt fogev wea ther. but not often. tk» ^ , mes lose »sp*e 



filled a ten-inch pan, and has also given me the plants occupying 

 and a five-and-a-half inch pot, which stand in ' " " 

 or two in cold, foggy weather, but not often. The appearance of the 'lan* &*. 



garden supplies practical illustration of the management of bulbs of an demonstrates that cool treatment agrees with this beautiful orchid 

 extremely interesting character, and as far as hyacinths and tulips are 

 concerned three years generally, but two in some cases, suffice them to 

 reach a blooming size and when it is considered that four thousand 

 bulbs of tulips are required to fill one of the largest raised circular beds, 

 some idea of the number required may be thus arrived at. The care 

 with which the rescne garden is managed is seen in the fact that it is 

 rarely a flower of another variety is found in a bed comprising one sort 

 only, and generally it is due to the sportiveness or the breaking into 

 some other form peculiar to the tulip. Unlike those of hyacinth and 

 the daffodil, the bulb of the tulip dies every year, but produces others 

 that perpetuate faithfully the parent variety. At taking-up time, the old 

 bulb is found as merely a few loose skins wrapped round the new, and 

 of the new progeny there may be two strong enough to flower with a few 

 small offsets, which require time to grow to a flowering size, and in the 

 reserve garden they are led on until large enough to produce an 

 inflorescence. 



Advice to Young Gardeners.— Mr. M. Todd, the genial presid 



Scottish Horticultural Association, has been giving some good advice to 

 gardeners. Mr. Todd pointed out that the young gardeners have the future hT* 



them and it is they who mast specially be looked to, to carry on the workd 



garden. At the present day every facility is offered to young men to enable°t£ 

 to reach a height of attainment quite impossible to the generation now ml 

 old. " See to it, then, young men," he said, " that you let not youroppaJH 

 pass by unheeded. 4 There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at 

 flood leads on to fortune.' That tide may pass when you are idling by. Lo^ 

 chance of thoroughly equipping yourselves in every department of your prole** 

 Above all things, make yourselves cultured men as well as competent garden®- 

 men of high character as well as of high attainments ; men of wide ge&enl 

 knowledge and intelligence ; masters, if you can, of some one branch of gardet 

 but with a wide knowledge of all departments. To know everything about me* 

 thing is a very excellent thing, but to know a good deal about everything is q| 

 better. 



Specialists are eminently valuable, but even more so are all-rou 



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your duty, ocouana nas long Deen iamea ior cne excellence ana intelligence 



every country where civilization has spread, there hue 

 Scotsmen been to the front as cultivators of the soil ; and traitors to your coeftn 



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San Jose Scale.-While in this country the possible introduction of this your "*JL Remember too, that your membership of this association bri* 

 destructive pest into the orchards and gardens of the United Kingdom is regarded res P on f lblht y- Its final success will be judged by what manner of men you pm 

 with supreme indifference, a considerable amount of activity is being evinced else- y curselves to be - B y y° ur works Y e sha11 « j ud g*d, *nd the association ti 

 where with a view to prevent infestation. The German Minister of Agriculture is have L laboured in vam if the comin g generation of gardeners be 

 taking active measures with regard to the possible infestation of fruit trees in ° h the paSt " Your countr y as wel1 as this assoclation calls Y™ toa high kbM 

 Germany by the ban Jose scale. A small committee of entomologists and horti 



culturists has been appointed to investigate the matter, and steps are being taken lts g arde ners. In 

 to render fruit-growers and other cultivators familiar with the appearance and the 



l.fchistory of the pest. In Ontario also fruit-growers are endeavouring to prevent of lhe worst description will ye be, if in >our hands its fair fame hi tarnished, 

 the importation of fresh fruits and nursery stock from the United States, on account 



of the risk of introducing the destructive scale into the fertile Canadian fruit region a large item of general interest that nothing could be more appropriate thutk 

 between the lakes. Within the past few days the New Jersey experiment station 

 has issued a bulletin, in which it is stated that all hope of exterminating the insect of the Royal Gardens, Kew, for the use of the Royal Commission of Inquiry,* 

 in that Atlantic State must now be abandoned. It is already well established 

 there in gardens and orchards— hedges, small fruits, and tree fruits all being 

 infested, ~~ 



of birds. Peaches m m m m 



years from the first appearance of the scale if the latter is allowed to pursue its 

 course unchecked. Thin-leafed varieties of plums appear to come next, then pears, 

 and finally apples. On the other hand, some varieties of cherries seem to be 

 almost exempt. The boundless reproductive powers of the insect and its incon- 



which he was attached as expert adviser in botanical and agricultural que«* 

 The publication is issued as the first of an additional series of the Kim BhB*** 

 From badly-infested orchards the pest is spreading through the agency its price is is. 6d. ; it is bound in stiff boards, contains a good mapofowW* 



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to all, and of great value to colonists. We thoroughly endorse the opiniot* 

 pressed in the preface that Dr. Morris's residence in the West Indies, his repaid 

 visits to them, and his intimate knowledge of their conditions have enabled h»* 



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spicuous nature render it especially dangerous, and the opinion is expressed that resources, which is certainly more complete than anything hitherto available. 



the San Jose or pernicious scale is the worst and most destructive insect pest that 

 has ever appeared in New Jersey. Unchecked, it will in time ruin any tree it 

 attacks, and will render the fruit unmarketable long before the tree itself dies. 

 In Ohio it has been found that, besides apples, plums, peaches, gooseberries, 

 currants, raspberries, and roses, the San Jose scale attacks the grape vine, the lime 

 tree, the elm, the walnut, the Lombardy poplar, the sweet chestnut, and the 

 guelder rose. The several species of the cotoncaster are also specially liable to 



attack from this scale In the State of Virginia, where the scale first appeared in H , 



1 89 J. it has not, through lack of systematic treatment, been thoroughly subjugated ings durin S the y ear are S iven > with the ful1 text of , pr f\ 



and further trouble is anticipated. In Kentucky there is a demand for legislation delivered b y Mr - M - Todd at the annual meeting in F ebruary last 



against the spread of the scale. A fact, about which more is becoming known actions include, as a matter of course, the report and balance-she< 



and should receive considerable attention in the future development of economic year ' and these > as stated in our re P ort of the annU ^ meeting ' % e ,! 



direct* 

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trouble to read the handy little volume. 



Scottish Horticultural Association.— The Transactions of tM» J 



ccssful society for the past year has been recently issued, and, as 



publication contains much to interest those engaged in the several bl **™\^ 

 horticulture. Abstracts of the several papers that were read at the montWT 



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entomology, is that insecticides appear to have different effects in different regions. 

 Thus, it is asserted that insects which succumb readily to kerosine in the Atlantic 

 States defy it absolutely in Colorado. Again, washes that easily destroy the San 

 Jose scale in California are ineffective in the Atlantic States, where this insect 

 appears to be materially altering its habits and peculiarities. 



A History of the London Parks has been written by Lieut. Colonel 

 J. J. Sexby, chief officer of the London County Council Parks Department, and 

 will be published, we are informed, by Mr. Elliot Stock in May. Colonel Sexby 

 has devoted a great deal of attention to the preparation of this work, in which he 

 will describe not only the leading features of the County Council's parks, but will 

 also recount their history and associations. He has been engaged on this impor- 

 tan work for several years, and has collected all local and other informal 

 *hich can possrbly be obtained on the subject. No one is better qualified to write 



I T?<1 p fn Park3 ' " dU " ng the P*** that CoIonel Sexb y »>« been the 

 head of the Parks Department of the County Council the area of the parks has 



been mcreasei by over 1,000 acres, and the special facilities for increasing recre" 



factory. The arrangements for the monthly meetings are as iouwwi : ^ 

 The Supply of Vegetables to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Markets, * 



o ^ . J. Alexander ; Ju<^ 



Cultivation of the Fuchsia "for Exhibition, Mr. A. Johnstone ; July* fa ^ 

 \Tr T M'inr.r,A . a . - tu„ r\,inVatir>n nf the Most Useful Orcm« 



Scarlett ; May 3, Bulb-growing in Lincolnshire, Mr 



Chrysanthemum for Cut Bloom and 



Flowers, Mr. Wm. Boyd; September 6, The History ana 

 Rose, with Hints on its Cultivation, Mr. T. Dale ; October 4. * 

 of the Press on Horticulture, Mr. A. S. Gait ; Novemne ^ ft 



Conservatory Decoration^^ ^ 



M'Donald ; December 6, The Arrangement of Hardy Plants in the ^ # 

 A. Wright ; and January 10, i8 9 9, Annual General Meeting, 

 occasion of the association attaining its majority wilUake pa- 

 Hotel, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, March 9, at seven o'clock. ^ rf g 



The History of the Zonal Pelargonium formed * e £u* * 



interesting lecture given by Mr. H. Cannell, on Friday last, ^ 

 lecturer dealt chiefly with the progress made in zonal P^° g viS #ja, * 



aeasuring nearly three inches across 



