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so much the better. Growers usually run over their plots before 
bedding and cut off the remaining runners to throw strength into 
the fruit. 
Early fruit is gathered in punnets, and sells readily ; but as 
soon as the glut comes it is picked into gallon baskets (6^ lbs.) 
and sent up to market without further disturbance. Punnets can 
be cheaply bought in the winter by the gross, and the gallon 
baskets are not expensive, 2s. 6d. or 3s. per dozen. The fruit will 
sell readily at the nearest town, but where the fields are of large 
size the produce is put on the rail to London, Glasgow, Edinburgh ; 
in fact, some of the best prices have this year been obtained in the 
two latter towns. The sale is practically certain, but great 
judgment is required in placing the fruit. The grower must 
know his man. 
Strawberry plants bear their maximum crop when three and 
four years old. After the fifth year they require lifting, as the 
fruit begins to get small. In setting out a piece of land it is there¬ 
fore necessary to arrange the beds in stages, so that they come in 
and go out of cultivation one after the other. When the crop is 
off rake up the bedding, and if only a few runners are required 
trim the plants with a hook, clear out the rubbish, and set the hoe 
to work. Old worn-out plants should be grubbed up and burnt 
and the ground dug for Potatoes, thus affording an opportunity of 
again getting the land into condition by liberal cultivation and 
plentiful supplies of rich manure. — Edward H. Smith, 
Warminster. 
BACTERIAL DISEASE IN TOMATOES. 
Each week since the appearance in the Journal of Horticulture of 
my first note respecting the above I have looked eagerly for some 
further communications throwing more light upon the subject. It 
appears, however, that none is forthcoming, and we must, for the 
present at least, be content with Mr. Abbey’s far-from-consoling 
assurance that there is no known remedy for the disease. 
A few days subsequently to the writing of my former note I paid a 
visit to a friend, who showed me several hundreds of Tomato plants 
that had succumbed to an attack of this disease, and although my 
losses have been trivial, I consider the matter of sufficient importance 
to warrant its being thoroughly investigated in hopes of eventually 
finding a cure, or better still, a preventive. That seems impossible 
without first discovering in what way the bacterial germs or spores are 
introduced. Mr. Abbey, in his exceedingly interesting communication, 
page 472, ad vises the avoidance of animal manures, with which advice I 
entirely concur. At the same time I wish to mention that in the house 
where the most stable manure was used this year I have not lost a 
plant, whilst last year, in the same house, when Thomson’s and silicate 
manures were used and no animal manure, I lost, as nearly as I recollect, 
seven or eight plants. 
Before reading Mr. Abbey’s report I felt fully convinced that the 
disease was not infectious, for on only one occasion have I had two 
plants in close proximity to each other die, although I have occasionally 
left an infested plant until it was quite withered. Allow me to add, 
this is simply my experience, and not intended to reflect suspicion of a 
doubt on Mr. Abbey’s statement. 
Turning to “ J. F. D.’s ” remarks on page 605, I wish to inform him 
that for eight years before coming to this place I had grown Tomatoes 
without being troubled with diseased plants or fruits, and probably felt 
quite as sceptical respecting their injurious effects as your correspondent 
appears to do. Subsequent experience has taught me to believe in and 
also to respect Tomato diseases, although of all they are subject to, I 
consider the one now under consideration the most to be dread^. 
As to procuring seed from one of the best houses in the trade, I agree 
with Mr. M’Dougall that the best results do not always follow even 
then. In my case the seeds, as before stated, were procured from a 
friend whose plants have never been troubled with bacterial disease, 
and only to a limited extent with any other. In conclusion I would 
like to ask Mr. Iggulden to give us his opinion on this subject, as I was 
informed a few days since that he is by no means a stranger to its 
effects, both on Tomatoes and Cucumbers.—C. Lock, Bristol. 
Dendrobium Hookerianum. 
AVhen well grown this is a beautiful Orchid, and it is sur¬ 
prising that one does not se) it more frequently in small as well 
as large collections. Some time since I saw sayeral fine plants 
with growths quite 3 '^eet in length, and these bore nnany flowers. 
The latter, as a lule, measure from 3 to 4 inches in diameter, and 
are of a deep rich yellow colour. The lip is velvety yellow, and 
there are two blotches of deep yellow in the throat. This noble 
Dendrobium is also, I believe, known as D. chrysotis, under which 
name it is sometimes figured. Perhaps an illustration of it would 
convey to your readers a better idea of this grand Orchid than will 
any description of mine.— Orchidist. 
[The accompanying engraving (fig. 8) depicts a bloom of 
Dendrobium Hookerianum.] 
CiRRHOPETALUM BrIENIANUM. 
This species was introduced from Borneo by Messrs. Linden, of 
L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, with whom it flowered in 
March, 1891, when it was sent to Kewfor determination. A plant 
from the same source flowered with Mr. James O’Brien, of Harrow- 
on-the-Hill, in the following October. It belongs, says the “ Kew 
Bulletin,” to the group having the dorsal sepal and petals ciliate or 
FIG. 8.—DENDROBIUM HOOKERIANUM. 
appendaged, and is allied to C. Makoyanum. The lateral sepals are 
light straw-colour, except a small portion near the base, which, as 
well as the greater part of the dorsal sepal, petals and lip, is very 
dark dull maroon. 
CCELOGYNE BORNEENSIS. 
According to the “Kew Bulletin” this species belongs to 
Lindley’s small section Flexuosm, and may be placed next to the 
Javan C. longifolia, Lindl, which has longer and narrower leaves, 
and the pseudo-bulb without a slender attenuated neck. It is a 
native of Borneo, whence it was introduced by Messrs. Linden, of 
L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, in whose^ collection it 
flowered last August. The flowers are whitish or light buff (this 
point remains doubtful owing to the flowers being somewhat 
withered), with red-brown reticulations on the side lobes of the 
lip, and some markings of similar colour on the front lobe. 
Stanhopea Lowi. 
This handsome Stanhopea is allied to S. eburnea, Lindl, and 
S. Reichenbachiana, Roezl, differing from the former in its globose 
hypochil and differently coloured flowers, and from tbe latter 
(known only from description) in having the mesochil solid, not 
deeply channelled, as Reichenbach twice distinctly states in his 
description. The character is an essential one in the genus, other¬ 
wise the distinctness of the present one might be doubted. 
S. Lowi was introduced from New Granada by Messrs. Hugh 
Low & Co., of Clapton, and flowered in their collection last 
December. The sepals and petals are of a creamy buff 
latter with numerous minute brown spots on the disc. The bp is 
ivory-white, the upper half of the hypochil with bai-ds of ^^1^ 
marcon, formed of numerous suffused spots with some scattered 
dots between them. The column is pale green, with^ ivory-white 
wings. The flowers exhale a powerful, almost Ntrcissus-like 
fragrance.— (“Kew Bulletin.”) 
