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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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to give his kindly greeting to all rosarians. “ Tell them,” he said, in 
his cheery way, 
“ If bullets and the gout 
But put the commodore about, 
that I hope to meet them again next year.” But it is not rosarians 
alone who will rejoice in his recovery. None know how kind and 
benevolent he and his good brother are (in Maidstone they are known 
as the Cheryble Brothers), and many will rejoice to think that, although 
the hand is still crippled, it is as open as ever, and that neither age nor 
illness has chilled his warm heart.—D., Deal. 
ROOF CLIMBERS. 
FUCHSIA PENDULA5 FLORA. 
Many species and varieties of Fuchsia are admirably adapted for 
training to the roofs of conservatories, and the one represented in fig. 56 
is especially good for that purpose. Its deep crimson-scarlet flowers are 
produced in loose pendulous clusters, and these are so numerous and 
Holborn, London. I planted it in an 8-inch pot in turfy loam, with one- 
fourth of drift sand, covering the bulb an inch deep. Up to 15 inches- 
high the stem is round, then it commences to flatten, and at 4 feet is 
1^ inch in diameter, with dense foliage ; it then divides into three parts, 
4 inches higher, and bears a monster truss of thirty-two handsome spotted 
flowers. I have it in a window adjoining the street, where numbers of 
passers-by stop to admire it, some thinking it artificial. I have taken 
five first prizes with it. The bulb cost me 2s. C>d., and it is my intention to- 
purchase half a dozen more with the object of endeavouring to grow them 
still more successfully.—T. Merricks, Stafford. 
[Our correspondent has been successful, but the stem of his Lily is 
fasciated, and he must not expect that all others he may purchase would 
be of a similar character.] 
THE PHYLLOXERA. 
“ A Vine-grower ” asks, on page 268, if I will say how and from 
whence I got the phylloxera at first. In reply, I beg to say that having 
66.—FUCHSIA PENDUL.BFLORA. 
continually produced that the plant is beautiful during a greater portion 
of the summer months. The length of the corolla tube gives a very dis¬ 
tinctive character to the flowers, and this Fuchsia is, considering all its 
characters, exceedingly attractive and useful. It requires no special 
treatment except that it seems to succeed in a higher temperature than 
most other species or varieties. Good substantial loam with a little well- 
decomposed manure, leaf soil, and sand suit it, and pruning will be 
needed occasionally to remove the weak and unripened wood. 
Fuchsia pendulteflora is a native of South America in common with 
the majority of its allies, and was introduced in 1879. F. corymbiflora 
is related to it, but has smaller flowers, and several other species with 
long tubular flowers, such as F. scrratifolia, are handsome plants for 
the roofs of houses. 
Lilium AURATUM. —Allow me to call the attention of your readers to 
the successful manner in which I have this year grown a plant of Lilium 
auratum from a bulb procured from Messrs. J. Carter & Co. of High 
had a Vine in a pot of the Strawberry Grape from a private garden some 
four or five years prior to discovering the insect in our new vineries in 
1879, and having traced the progress of the disease during the interval 
from the house in which that Vine was planted, I therefore may reason¬ 
ably assume that this was how we got the phylloxera at first. But failing 
to see in what w r ay my naming the place whence I obtained the supposed 
infected Vine could possibly assist in furthering the object in view—viz., 
the extirpation of the destructive pest, I would, for this reason, prefer to 
be silent on that point. 
The idea has just occurred to me, in connection with the stamping-out 
the phylloxera, of the advisability of appointing as an “ Inspector of 
Vine nurseries,” a man practically acquainted with the dreaded insect 
in its various stages of development, and whose duty it should be to 
visit all the nurseries in which Vines are grown for sale from about the 
middle to the end of August, for the purpose of examining the young 
Vines before being dispatched to various parts of the country, and with¬ 
out his “ certificate of health ” no firm be allowed to part with a Grape 
Vine ; also, in the event of detecting phylloxera on the Vines in any of 
the nurseries so visited, he should order and witness the destruction of 
the whole stock in hand. If this were done, and I see no reason why it 
should not be, phylloxera in this country would soon become a thing 
