jfOVBMBER 26, 1898. 



GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



76 5 



on the 19th inst. : Dianthus, mignonette, Lobelia cardinalis, blue lobelias 

 garden 0 ^ ^ erinus), gaillardias, scabious, pentstemons, stocks, tritorr.as, 



' vafie Loa4 nolvanthuses, pansies, auiiculas, Daphne Cneorum, rudbeckias, 

 vincas, ru&c-, r~* f — , 



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saluberrimum 



• oses m variety, campanulas, hepaticas, geraniums, antirrhinums, hyperi- THINGS are coming to a pretty pass. Amongst my voluminous corre- 



prir " 5 r a passiflora, Phlox D/ummondi, Primula Cashmeriana, Tropceolum spondence, no small portion of which is on gardening matters, there 



Terosum, Cyclamen hederifolium, and Anemone japonica. On the 5th inst. he is quite a chorus of complaints about the unexpected forms in which the 



Jlthered some very good flavoured fruits of Viscomtesse Hericart de Thury chrysanthemum rust is causing trouble. The principal grumblers just 



strawberries, and some roses of quite summer excellence from that superb variety Iately have been offidals connected with sho ^ Sj whose manifold dis- 



Augusti 



ine Gumoxsseau 



International Horticultural Exhibition.— A 



5t. Petersburg 



lement to the schedule of prizes cffercd for competition at the international 

 horticultural exhibition to be held at St. Petersburg in May next has been issued. 

 The supp^ ment i Ec1lU( ^ es several new classes for orchids, two classes for carnations, 



tractions have been materially increased by the reluctance of timid 

 growers, who have hitherto escaped the plague, to come forward, for 

 fear of their exhibits being contaminated by others from stricken 

 collections. One cautious spirit seems to have gone so far as to 

 demand a written undertaking, worded in awe - inspiring legal 



and a class for a collection of tea-scented and hybrid tea roses, and one for new phraseology, that if the disease should appear in his collection within 



roses 



six (6) months of the 



A Plant Protection Station has been established at Freihafen by the State shall be paid over to him by way of compensation. 



of Hamburg, and under the direction of Dr. C. Brick. Here shipments of living 

 plants from abroad will be examined for the purpose of preventing injurious insects 

 from enterirg the state. The station authorities will also undertake the inspection 

 of orchards and vineyards in the Hamburg district, overlook the schools of viti- 

 culture, andinvesiigate plant disease, with a view to successfully combating them. 



Commons Preservation Society.— Under the presidency of Mr. Shaw 



Lefevre the Executive Committee of this society met on Monday last, when it was 

 ated that two actions in which the society were interested had been satisfactorily 

 decided by the Court of Appeal. The first referred to a prosecution instituted by the 

 lord of the manor against a labourer for cutting underwood upon a turf fuel allotment 

 set out under an Enclosure Act, at Egloskerry, in Cornwall It had been held by 



I need not enlarge on the terrors of committeeship if this sort of 

 thing extends. They are quite formidable enough now, when the 

 rampaging of the go-ahead member, the prolixity of the argumentative 

 member, and the dismal forebodings of the pessimistic member are all 

 weighed up. But all this will be as nothing when writs and judgments 

 begin to circulate. There will be arguments a certiorari, habeas corpus, 

 and all sorts of other strange monstrosities. Recalcitrant treasurers will be 

 making up their balances in Holloway. I do not know what reply was 

 sent to the cautious spirit referred to. Perhaps the undertaking was 

 given. Or perhaps the committee offered to compromise by supplying a 

 quarantine station. But the incident is proof enough of the alarm which 



Hardbrediana Peteri has caused. Fortunately, blooms 



the Appeal Court that the lord of the manor had been fully compensated for all may be considered immune, so that exhibitors of cut flowers need have 

 his interests in the enclosed common by the allotment made to him, and that he no apprehensions. 



had no part or share in the fuel allotment, the soil of which was held to be vested 

 in the churchwardens and overseers of the parish. The second action was with 

 respect to Towyn Trewan Common at Llanfaelog, Anglesey, 1,300 acres in extent, 

 upon which it was sought to erect an explosives manufactory. An injunction, 

 confirmed by the Court of Appeal on Friday last, had now been obtained, together 

 with a declaration of the lights of the commoners, which would save the common 

 from the possibility of further encroachments. It was stated that the War Office 

 was purchasing Donyland Heath, near Colchester, for the purpose of a rifle range. 

 The society had appealed to the Department to make by-laws under the Military 

 Lands Act, 1892, so that when the land was not in actual use for military purposes 

 it should remain open to the public as heretofore, and they asked that a recreation 

 ground should be given to East Donyland. since the heath, an exceptionally 

 beautifully-wooded open space, was the only land in the district available for 

 purposes of recreation. Upon the motion of the chairman, seconded by Sir W. 

 Vincent, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. E. N. Buxton, one of the 

 earliest members of the society, for his recent munificent gift of an additional 

 twenty-eight acres of land at Yardley Hill, Epping Forest, to the Corporation of 

 London. The society is further increasing its usefulness by advising local authori- 

 ties and private individuals in upwards of fifty cases of encroachments upon 

 common land, open spaces, roadside wastes, and obstructions of rights of way in 

 different parts of the country. 



Chrysanthemum Shows at Public- houses. —A correspondent to a 



northern contemporary writes : N We are not ultra pious in Halifax, like Hudders- 

 field. We do allow our people to enjoy the benefits of the tram cn Sundays, 

 and save their legs, but still we are likely to earn a very unenviable reputation if 

 chrysanthemum shows are to be held in public-houses on the ' Sawbuth.' It 

 seems to me that the trade are getting t) desperate straits when the beauty of 

 nature is to be caged within the fjur walls of a liquor den to draw custcm on 

 the day of rest." 



Chrysanthemum Rust.— With lefcrence to this disease Mr. W. M. 



Cameron writes Any information respecting the chiysanthemum rust has been 

 wgerly sought after during the past two months in the Gardeners' Magazine by 

 fcwrly all Guernsey growers of the Autumn Queen. It has shown itself here for 

 the first time this year, and there are very few collections, if any, that have rot 

 °cen attacked throughout the island, whether large or small, grown in pots or 

 planted out. In some cases the stems are quite naked, and the rust has attacked 



cm as well. It has been so virulent in one or two instances that the foliage has 

 o«n absolutely destroyed in a month from the time it was first noticed, and the 

 ™vers, of course, are useless. The varieties most infected were The Queen, 

 r? u ^ nir de p etite Amie, Modesto, Admiral Sir T. Symonds, Niveus, Stresa, 



% dlle - Lucie Faure, Yanoma, Phoebus, and Miss Ethel Addison. Spraying with 



P^troleum-about a win eglassful to two gallons of water— has had but little effect, 

 anv i m checking the progress of the disease. Yet some of your correspondents 

 **y that they have got rid of it with a petroleum mixture, but a much weaker 

 t^d* h** l ^ aa a ^ 0ve " ^e P reva ihng opinion seems to be that it cannot be lilled, 

 Hasc C W ^ t0 Com ^ e disease is to use fungicides during the growing 

 ■ ccn » cither as a spray or a powdery dusting, as a preventive. At least, this 

 45 t :e ccnclusion arrived at ty the Guernsey Gardeners' Mutual Improvement 

 *«oc;ati cn at a meeting on the 8th inst. 



I have a nut for Mr. Massee to crack. The rust has appeared on 

 outdoor plants. I exceedingly regret that I am not permitted to give 

 particulars of the place, but on this point the victim is inexorable. He is 

 a nurseryman, and is very anxious that the fact of his having the disease 

 on his establishment shall not be advertised, for reasons that are easily 

 understood. Nevertheless, my statement is absolutely accurate. The 

 incident seems to me to be a very significant one. What, for instance, 

 about the overcrowding theory? The plants are dotted in a mixed 

 herbaceous border. I beg to direct Mr. Massee's careful attention to this 

 new phase. Readers will, I feel sure, be desirous of hearing whether 

 he is disposed to modify his previous opinion in view of this new factor. 

 In conversation with the grower I raised the question of overcrowding in 

 the early stages of growth, before the plants were put out, but this is 

 strenuously denied. 



I have been trying to get in a paragraph about the Crystal Palace 

 Fruit Show, but I fear it is rather belated. Nevertheless, it is by no 

 means out of season, inasmuch as it relates to the date of the exhibition. 

 While Peter and I were perambulating the Palace on the opening day 

 we were told by several of the principal exhibitors that the date was too 

 early for them. They would prefer it a fortnight or three weeks later — 

 the latter for choice. I do not know if this is the general opinion, but in 

 any case the point is worth ventilating. There may be reasons against it 

 which the management alone are aware of ; if so, the mention of them 

 would do no harm. It is not to be supposed that the R.H.S. can do as it 

 likes with a great place of public entertainment such as the Crystal 

 Palace. The latter has its other affairs to consider. 



Botany 



London 



remun payment to Her Majesty's Office of Works of 24s. a week for the 

 with ^ CraUon of a g^dener in one of the Royal parks for providing Board schools work. 

 *itk l f eClmens °f P^nts and flowers, with a view to teaching botany in accordance 

 Plmts C .?J! thod folI °wed in the Berlin elementary schools. We trust that British 

 Wll l i* those most extensively used and studied. 



I noticed a paragraph a few weeks ago from the pen of Mr. W. A. 

 Cook relating to Messrs. Carters' splendid new potato, Snowball. I say 

 from Mr. Cook, but I am trusting to memory. In any case I beg to add 

 a word by way of corroboration. Snowball has not only won a great 

 many prizes this year, but it is proving to be a great cropper and of good 

 flavour. I am the more disposed to refer to the variety because of the 

 fact that it is one which 1 had selected to put to the test the point 

 alluded to in the Magazine some time ago, namely, the property of 

 mixtures containing muriate of potash of causing waxiness. No such 

 difficulty has occurred. I am not by any means sure that the muriate is 

 the best form of potash, because, as I mentioned some time ago, I have 

 had some most excellent results frcm the sulphate, but I certainly cannot 

 trace waxiness to the muriate. 



In the issue of October 22 I observed an editorial reply to a question 

 about paraffin wash. With the advice to use the oil in the form of an 

 emulsion I cordially agree, but when I consider the proportions I am 

 induced to wonder which of three things is correct— (1) An error on the 

 part of Mr. Printer ; (2) excessive weakness of Maryland petroleum ; (3) 

 extreme tenderness of the Luxian trees. I see that the proportions 

 advised by the Experiment Station are, in the first place, half a pound of 

 soft soap a gallon of water, and two gallons of paraffin, the emulsion to 

 be subsequently diluted with ten to thirteen gallons of water. Our trees 

 won't stand anything like this. Perhaps we surface cultivate them too 

 much and certainly the digging atrocity is practised amongst them. I 

 find that a pint of petroleum (with a pound of soft soap made into an 

 emulsion) is quite enough for fifteen gallons of water. It seems weak 



~ :4U *—erican formula— but it does its 



LUX. 



[Not "the emulsion," Mr. "Lux," but " every gallon of the emulsion 



used should be dilnted with from ten to thirteen gallons of water," thus 

 making from thirty to thirty-nine gallons of wash.— Ed.] 



