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low as 40°. Yet these plants always looked the picture of health and 

 bore heavy crops of fine large claret-coloured fruits, that were highly 

 esteemed on the dessert table. Both the trees were planted in a bricked-in 

 enclosure, and required scarcely any attention beyond the usual watering 

 and syringing. Both of the varieties deserve wider cultivation, and there 

 are many conservatories, winter gardens, and similar structures containing 

 plants nothing like so handsome or useful as the above. During the past 

 year or two a large number of plants of Psidium Gnava have been sent 

 out to Fellows of the R.H.S. from seeds kindly supplied by Mr. Wilks 

 from fruits of his own growing. If a tithe of these plants are growing 

 well, this delicious fruit should be far better known in the near future. 

 A compost of three parts good fibrous loam, one part leaf-mould, with 

 sufficient sharp sand to keep the whole porous, suits the plants very 



To test the question whether seeds from diseased fruits of tomatoes 

 transmitted the disease to the plants raised from such seeds, Mr. G. 

 Massee sent seeds from fruits infested with almost every disease possible 

 for the tomato to have ; in fact, the fruits were a putrid mass of disease, and 

 when the seeds were washed out, instead of being a pale colour, they were 

 quite black. These were sown at Wisley in the usual way, and over 

 90 per cent, of the seeds germinated. The seedlings were rather weak as 

 compared with those from clean healthy fruit, but they gradually gained in 

 vigour, until they were quite as strong as other plants from seed obtained 

 from clean sources. Later on they were planted out in one of the span- 

 roofed houses at Wisley, where they made strong, sturdy growth, producing 

 plenty of flower trusses, which set freely, the fruit swelling to the normal 

 size, and the plants bearing a heavy crop. Needless to say, the plants 

 were watched daily for any indications of disease, but none appeared on 

 either foliage or fruit at any time from the germination to the finish of 

 the crop. This seems to prove that disease is not transmitted through 

 seeds from plants infected with fungoid or other diseases, but by 

 outside conditions, over which the grower may or may not have control. 

 Later on Mr. Massee will no doubt deal with this important subject much 

 more ably and fully, and his remarks will be full of interest to all tomato - 

 growers. 



well. 



Tomato Seeds from Diseased Fruits. 



Manure for Apple and Pear Trees. 



Recommended by Dr. Wagner, of Fellbrunnen, Osterode, Harz. 



