JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
March 3, 1881. ] 
Among the few that I have been enabled to grow of Mr. Kelway’s 
I found the following last season to give me fine blooms— Marci¬ 
anos, a brilliant orange red, with a suffusion of purple and car¬ 
mine stripes on the lower petals. Rev. II. II. D'Ombrain, cerise ; 
a large and beautifully formed flower, with a clear white throat 
of great substance. Claribel, a pure white, with a violet stripe 
on the lower divisions. Earl Russell, violet shaded with rose, 
with a dark violet stripe on the lower divisions. Jam's Kelivay, 
crimson edged with maroon, with a white line on each petal ; 
good form and stout in substance. Mrs. D 0 mb rain, white tinted 
with lilac rose. Dr. Woodford, salmon flaked with carmine, 
yellow spot on the lower petal; a fine flower. Egyptian King, a 
very remarkable flower, dark maroon in colour, shaded with deep 
brownish crimson ; somewhat in the style of Souchet. Africain, 
a very fine flower. These are, I am aware, but few out of the 
many remarkable flowers raised by Mr. Kelway ; but I have noted 
here only those which have bloomed in my own garden. There 
is no more lovely flower for autumn decoration than the Gladiolus, 
and despite its waywardness one cannot help wishing that we 
saw it oftener on the exhibition table ; but it does not come 
in until the London season is over, and hence it receives but scant 
recognition. We may, however, anticipate a good display of it 
at the Manchester Exhibition, where doubtless Mr. Kelway will 
come out in great force.—D., Deal. 
THE VEGETABLE SUPPLY. 
Being a grower of vegetables in four counties, and an amateur, 
not a professional, I send you some experience you may think 
worth while to insert in your Journal. 
I corroborate every word that has been written by the two 
market gardeners from Cheshire and Liverpool in your number of 
February 10th. I am perfectly certain, from a knowledge of many 
parts of England and its rural population, that before farmers are 
persuaded to turn to market gardening the present generation of 
mothers must themselves be taught the use of and methods of 
cooking vegetables, to teach the rising population in turn, the 
same as the French and other continental nations, and learn 
what an immense advantage to their households, however poor, 
it is in a sanitary point of view, as well as having good and 
nutritious food in the form of soups that all classes of the French 
consume every day both winter and summer made from Cabbage, 
Onions, Leeks, Gourds, See. This I have to teach to almost every 
English cook I get. When the population learn this desirable 
art of treating their families daily to a vegetable diet, it will 
probably pay those that understand vegetable production to go 
in for it on a larger scale than at present. Owing to the above 
facts, I am quite positive that in most parts vegetables are at 
present raised far beyond the requirements of the poorer classes, 
and hence the bad prices complained of everywhere, and the 
immense waste of vegetable produce, poor as that produce is 
generally, in every parish. Farmers are not likely to make profits 
in present bad seasons where professional and intelligent market 
gardeners are unable to keep large stocks of Broccoli and Cauli¬ 
flowers through these winters of severe and variable weather. If 
“ Wiltshire Rector ” and others would carry out this excellent 
idea of having the cottier population taught the use and cooking 
of vegetables in every parish of England, we might be sure of a 
vast decrease of illness, a far more healthy and thrifty people, 
and then it might pay to increase the growth of vegetables. I 
think farmers ought to think twice before becoming market 
gardeners.— Saxoring. 
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fungus. Rivers in his “Guide” says, “No cure has yet been 
found for this disease.” I have looked for some reply to “ D.’ 
Deal," with regard to this pest, but none has yet appeared. My 
soil and situation are both considered favourable to the Rose. I 
have tried picking off the affected leaves, but I soon found it 
impossible to cope with it in this way. I may say that last year 
it seemed checked by one or two liberal dustings with flowers of 
sulphur applied for mildew. I afterwards syringed the plants 
with a strong solution of soft soap at a rather high temperature. 
I cannot remember where I saw this recommended. The fungus 
did not spread to anything like the usual extent, although the dry 
weather we had is held to be inducive of this special plague, and 
I shall adopt the same treatment unless some of your readers can 
recommend a better. 
All Gladiolus growers must await with interest “ D., Deal's,” 
notes on his experience with these favourites, and, perhaps, some 
interchange of opinion as to varieties, See., may be of value before 
the planting season has arrived.—A Northern Amateur. 
CUTTING DOWN YOUNG VINES. 
Your correspondent Mr. Pettigrew has referred to this subject 
in terms that are sound and reasonable. There are, however, too 
few employers who are inclined to give their Vines such a chance 
as is there claimed for them. They generally expect to see the 
colour of their Grapes the second season. Two or three bunches 
to a Vine may safely be taken without much injury to the Vines 
if the following course is adopted :—Bend the rods down and peg 
them into the soil as shown in the accompanying figure. Rub off 
all the buds below b, except at a. Prune the cane back to the 
very best eyes, if they are half way up the rafters so much the 
better. Restrict the growth of the side shoots above b, so that the 
ROSES—HARD PRUNING—ORANGE FUNGUS. 
After the experience of last season, and the timely warning 
given by “ D., Deal," on page 68 of the Journal, I should expect 
every Rose-grower to be particularly careful when the season for 
pruning arrives. Those who, like myself, grow only a hundred or 
two, and who may be held to be less experienced, should especially 
take note. I did not commit the mistake of sparing the knife 
last spring. In fact, several who saw my work considered I had 
gone to the opposite extreme. I pruned many plants down to 
the surface, even below the surface of the ground, so that when 
finished some spaces seemed empty. I had, however, the satis¬ 
faction in due time of hearing some of these same friends exclaim, 
“ What fine wood you have 1” and I did not lose one plant, 
although they were only protected by a slight covering of leaves. 
This safeguard I have again employed, and I feel pretty confident 
that this year with better ripened wood and the removal of every 
inch of what is injured, my loss will trifling, notwithstanding the 
intense and protracted frosts we have had. 
My plants every year suffer in some degree from the orange 
prominent canes coming from a may have plenty of room. Leave 
two or three bunches on the supernumerary cane, allowing it to ex¬ 
tend to the top of the house, and in the third and fourth years take 
the main part of the crop off this cane, when it may be cut out al¬ 
together. By this plan you can get a better permanent cane, and I 
think this is best done by only allowing it to extend up the rafters 
C or 8 feet the first year, encouraging a good lateral growth at the 
base. Restrict it in a similar manner the second and third years, 
leaving but a limited number of bunches on it till the other rod 
is cut out, when it will generally be found to be in a good posi¬ 
tion as a permanent Vine. By pegging the cane into the soil it 
soon becomes rooted and in a measure self-supporting, and so 
there is less risk of the Vine being exhausted by bearing fruit the 
first and second years. It will be understood that all shoots must 
be kept pinched close on the temporary cane as the other advances 
up the roof.—R. Inglis. 
Chlorophyll. —Mr. W. Carter contributed the following re¬ 
marks to a recent issue of Nature —If Cress seeds are grown for 
