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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ January 31,1884. 
the woodwork of stages, in the dry crocks in flower pots, in the 
soil of Gloxinias and such-like plants that are wintered in the 
house, in bits of matting that some people leave enveloping 
the wires, and in the dry tendrils left in the same manner. But 
to the Vines. Those washed were quite as free from the pest 
the following year as those that were painted. There was, in 
truth, no insects left alive on the rods in either case; but a 
few found their way, as they usually do, from some obscure 
hiding place. 
Mix, say, two ounces of soft soap, Grishurst compound, or 
nicotine soap in a gallon of water, and apply this to the Vine 
rods at a temperature of 160° exactly the same as a groom would 
apply it to the very dirty spokes of a carriage wheel. If any 
insects or eggs are ieft it will be the fault of the workman. 
If your correspondent will try his clean system and my clean 
system on alternate Vines he will find the truth of what I have 
stated, and will not have much difficulty in determining which 
•method is the most agreeable and expeditiously applied.— 
Ipswich. 
ELECTION OF CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 
THE ELECTORS’ RETURNS. 
In performance of the promise in my last letter (page 61) I send the 
selections as returned to me by those who have taken part in this election, 
as they will undoubtedly possess considerable interest to manv growers. 
—G. Rudd. 
From Mr. J. Douglas, Great Gearies, Ilford, Essex. 
CARNATIONS. 
Scarlet Bizarres. 
Admiral Curzom (Easom) 
Fred odwell) 
Arthur Medhurst (Dodwell) 
George (Dodwell) 
Mars (Hextall) 
Robert Lord (Dodwell) 
Crimson Bizarres. 
E. S. Dodwell (Hewitt) 
Harrison Weir (Dodwell) 
Master Fred (Hewitt) 
Rifleman (Wood) 
Thomas Moore (Dodwell) 
J. D. Hextall (Simonite) 
Pink and Purple Bizarres. 
Falconbridge (May) 
Sarah Payne (Ward) 
Mrs. Barlow (Dodwell) 
William Skirving (Gorton) 
Squire Llewelyn (Dodwell) 
Squire Penson (Dodwell) 
Purple Flakes. 
James Douglas (Simonite) 
Mayor of Nottingham (Taylor) 
Earl of Stamford (Addis) 
Squire Meynell (Brabbin) 
Squire Whitbourn (Dodwell) 
Miss Nightingale (Sealey) 
Scarlet Flakes. 
Clipper (Fletcher) 
Sportsman (Hedderley) 
Henry Cannell (Dodwell) 
John Bayley (Dodwell) 
Annihilator (Jackson) 
Thomas Tomes (Dodwell) 
Bose Flakes. 
Jessica (Turner) 
James Merry weather (Wood) 
John Keet (Whitehead) 
Sybil (Holmes) 
Tim Bobbin (Gorton) 
Rob Roy (Gorton) 
PICOTEES. 
Heavy Red-edged. 
Epps (Addis) 
-. B. Bryant (Ingram) 
John Smith (Bower) 
Princess of Wales (Turner) 
Brunette (Kirtland) 
Mrs. Dodwell (Turner) 
Light Red-edged. 
Emily (Addis) 
Mrs. Bower (Bower) 
Thomas William (Flowdy) 
Violet Douglas (Simonite) 
Mrs. Gorton (Simonite) 
Clara (Bower). 
Heavy Purple-edged. 
Mrs. Chancellor (Turner) 
Sirs. Summers (Simonite) 
Muriel (Hewitt) 
Picco (Jacksou) 
Zerlina (Lord) 
Norfolk Beauty (Fellowes) 
Light Purple-edged. 
Clara Penson (Willmer) 
Her Majesty (Addis) 
Nymph (Lord) 
Baroness Burdett Coutts (Payne) 
Ann Lord (Lord) 
Jessica (Turner) 
Heavy Rose and Scarlet-edged. 
Constance Heron (Fellowes) 
Edith Dontbrain (Turner) 
Esther Minnie (Dodwell) 
Mrs. Payne (Payne) 
Royal Visit (Abercrombie) 
Fanny Helen (Niven) 
Light Rose-edged. 
Estelle (Fellowes) 
Mrs. Alcroft (Turner) 
Miss Gorton (Dodwell) 
Miss Wood (Wood) 
Evelyn (Fellowes) 
Ethel (Fellowes) 
From Mr. Charles Turner, Royal Nurseries, Slough. 
CARNATIONS. 
Scarlet Bizarres. 
Admiral Curzon (Easom) 
Arthur Medhurst (Dodwell) 
George (Dodwell) 
•James McIntosh (Dodwell) 
Master Stanley (Dodwell) 
Robert Lord (Dodwell) 
Crimson Bizarres. 
E. S. Dodwell (Hewitt) 
Harrison Weir (Dodwell) 
John Simonite (Simonite) 
Master Fred (Hewitt) 
Rifleman (Wood) 
Thomas Moore (Dodwell) 
Pink and Purple Bizarres. 
James Taylor (Gibbons) 
Sarah Payne (Ward) 
Squire Llewelyn (Dodwell) 
Squire Penson (Dodwell) 
Unexpected (Turner) 
William Skirvlng (Gorton) 
Purple Flakes. 
Dr. Foster (Foster) 
James Douglas (Simonite) 
Juno (Baildon) 
Mayor of Nottingham (Taylor) 
Squire Meynell (Brabbin) 
Earl of Stamford (Elliot) 
Scarlet Flakes. 
A. Holmes (Dodwell) 
Dan Godfrey (Holmes) 
Flirt (Abercrombie) 
Figaro (Abercrombie) 
James Cheetham (Chadwick) 
John Ball (Dodwell) 
Matador (Abercrombie) 
Scarlet Keet (Dodwell) 
Rose Flakes. 
Jessica (Turner) 
John Keet (Whitehead) 
Mrs. Matthews (Dodwell) 
Rob Roy (Gorton) 
Sibyl (Holmes) 
Tim Bobbin (Gorton) 
PICOTEES 
Heavy Red-edged. 
Dr. Abercombie (Fellowes) 
Dr. Epps 
Henry (Matthews) 
J. B. Bryant (Ingram) 
John Smith (Bower) 
Picturata (Fellowes) 
Heavy Purple-edged. 
Baroness Burdett Coutts (Payne) 
Claudia (Fellowes) 
Medina (Fellowes) 
Mrs. A. Chancellor (Turner) 
Muriel (Hewitt) 
Picco (Jackson) 
Princess Dagmar (Batten) 
Zerlina (Lord) 
Heavy Ro'e and Scarlet-edged. 
Constance Heron (Fellowes) 
Fanny Helen (Niven) 
Louisa (Addis) 
Miss Horner (Lord) 
Mrs. Payne (Fellowes) 
Royal Visit (Abercrombie) 
Light Red-edged. 
Mrs. Bower (Bower) 
Princess Mary (Fellowes) 
Thomas William (Flowdy) 
Toxopholite (Payne) 
Violet Douglas (Simonite) 
Emily (Addis) 
Light Purple-edged. 
Alice (Lord) 
Clara Penson (Willmer) 
Her Majesty (Addis) 
Mary (Simonite) 
Mrs. Tutton (Payne) 
Nymph (Lord) 
Light Rose and Scarlet-edged. 
Empress Eugenie (Kirtland) 
Estelle (Fellowes) 
Evelyn (Fellowes) 
Lady Carington (Abercrombie) 
DELPHINIUM NUDICAULE. 
A correspondent, on page 62, asks for information about this plant, 
and whether it is suitable for a summer bed. It is a plant I have grown 
regularly for several years, on rockeries and well-drained beds of made 
soil, where the climate is wet and the natural soil cold clay. Perhaps my 
remarks may not apply to the plant ■when grown in a dry climate and a 
warm soil. It is easily raised from seed under glass. If sown early and 
potted singly in May, the plants are fit to plant out by the end of June. 
This should be done without breaking the ball, as they transplant badly 
and are easily checked. They must also in all stages of growth, and at 
all seasons, be protected from slugs, where these vermin haunt, or they are 
sure to be found out and eaten down. The plants will flower the first 
year from August to the end of autumn. I have never tried lifting them 
to keep during winter, but believe that they will stand unharmed through 
any amount of cold they can experience in England. If they fail to 
appear the second spring the most likely cause of failure is slugs, which, 
when they have once found out the plant, are sure to stick to it till 
it is destroyed. Plants ought to be in flower by the end of May the 
second year, and if not allowed to get too dry they flower for three 
months. After this they seem to be done for. The plant is not by nature 
biennial, and if dug up after the second winter the rootstock, which is 
large and fleshy, seems sound, but in my experience it seldom breaks again, 
though protected from slugs by perforated zinc and soot. In this habit it 
resembles such plants as Platycodon and Adenophora, which form similar 
rootstocks, and in strong soils are equally shortlived. I should recommend 
your correspondent before he uses this as a bedding-out plant to try a 
clump of it—say a dozen plants—and see whether it is sufficiently trust¬ 
worthy in his soil. I find it capricious, and while some plants do well 
others under the same conditions fail. It is clear from what 1 have said 
that those who wish to keep it should raise plants from seed every year. 
It ripens seed fairly well, unless the summer is unusually wet.— 
C. Wolley Dod. 
SPOT ON MASDEVALLIAS. 
For some time past I have been considering and trying to gain 
information as to the cause of the black spot on the foliage of these 
plants which gives them any but a healthy or pleasing appearance. 
At first I was inclined to believe it was confined to the few plants I 
possessed and which had been purchased, but more plants were 
obtained from an entirely different source, and they were even worse 
than those previously procured. This disease was much more general 
than what I had really supposed, for I soon had opportunities of in¬ 
specting plants in various collections, and all had more or less a badly 
spotted appearance. I made many inquiries, but none of which 
resulted in information altogether satisfactory, and so I tried to find 
out if possible the real cause, thinking that by so doing it would be 
the first step in the right direction towards growing the plants with 
clean healthy foliage. 
I believe that this disease, for it is nothing else, is brought about 
in the first instance by improper treatment. The main cause is cold, 
combined with a close stagnant atmosphere. Not unfrequently these 
plants are subject to a much lower temperature than Odontoglossums, 
and these are often to be found when grown in any number, in a 
house with a northern aspect. Even in this position during the 
summer shade may be dispensed with if the house is low, but this 
depends upon the surroundings of the structure. The atmosphere of 
a house is this respect is very liable to become saturated and stagnant. 
This is not so liable to be the case during the summer when air can be 
freely admitted as is the case during the autumn, winter, and spring. 
I do not believe in structures with a northern aspect for cool Orchids, 
although they like shade—that is, the direct rays of the sun screened 
from them ; they like light, and every ray possible should be admitted 
to ripen and solidify their growth. The house in which the cool 
Orchids are grown at Drumlanrig has, I believe, a southern aspect, 
and is not heavily shaded, and probably there is not a sturdier healthier 
lot of plants to be found in Britain. 
