434 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Council has now been able to secure from Holland and to 
distribute a ton of these beans, but it does not seem at all generally 
known that haricots for winter use may be grown in this country 
with every hope of a good crop. 
They should be sown in fairly rich soil about the first or second 
week in May, unless in a district not subject to late frosts, when the 
end of April would ordinarily not be too soon. Draw a shallow drill 
about two inches deep with the corner of the hoe and place the seeds 
down flat in the trench at a foot distance one from the next, and the 
rows eighteen inches apart, or make a double row nine inches apart, 
alternating the beans, and leaving two feet before the next double 
row is planted. The only other point to observe is to keep the hoe 
going frequently between the rows. 
Remember that it is waste to use them as green pods. 
American Gooseberry Mildew. 
Experiments which have been conducted by Dr. Home during 
the last three years at Wisley on the American Gooseberry Mildew 
have been productive of striking results. By the use of a modified 
form of Burgundy mixture, an outbreak on the foliage and berries 
of over a hundred bushes, comprising several varieties of Gooseberry, 
exposed to infection, has been completely prevented. One or other 
of the following mixtures was used : — 
(i) Copper sulphate, 8iJ oz. ; washing soda, 91 J oz. ; soap, 100 oz. ; 
water, 100 gallons. (2) Copper sulphate, 40J oz. ; washing soda, 
45J oz. ; soap, 100 oz.; water, 100 gallons. 
The chemicals were dissolved separately, the solutions mixed 
when quite cold, and the soap added last. Both strengths proved 
effective. Spraying took place on May 30 at 6 p.m., when the bushes 
were just dry after gentle rain in the afternoon. The sprayed 
bushes, even when completely surrounded by infected ones, remained 
for long quite free from mildew, although they became infected later. 
Whereas all the berries on the sprayed bushes were absolutely free 
from mildew, many on the unsprayed bushes are heavily infected. 
In a further experiment all the bushes in a small plot adjacent 
were sprayed and remained for long free from mildew. 
Burgundy sprays leave a fine deposit on the berries, consisting 
of a mixture of the precipitates of copper carbonate and sodium 
sulphate, but nearly the whole of this deposit can be removed by a 
sharp rinsing in tap water. 
Spraying in July was also found to damage the fungus so severely 
that no living winter spores were found surviving in the following 
spring. 
