August 2,1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
107 
Another disease appeared in the middle of the plot on Friday last. 
It looks as if the plants had been sprinkled with boiling water. They 
had changed from a dark to a pale green, and for about three yards 
square the foliage was limpid and falling down. The tips of nearly all 
the shoots throughout the bed are touched. A bed of Windsor Castle 
Potatoes adjoining was badly attacked with the disease, and thinking it 
may be a fungus in the Onions I had them dressed at once with slaked 
lime, the only thing at hand. I now find in some gardens about a mile 
from here the cottagers’ plants are attacked in the same way, and they 
say that the disease has gone from the Potatoes to the Onions. It cer¬ 
tainly came very sudden. I will enclose a specimen of a diseased plant 
potting a score of one-year-old trees (maidens) of moderate growth 
drawn from the nursery quarters. They were potted in a mixture of 
good loam, pulverised manure, and road sand, and plunged in the open 
ground. In the following March (1892) they were pruned, leaving 
about 18 inches of the stem standing above the surface of the soil. Of 
course they did not flower, it was not intended they should, the object 
that year (1892) was to form the tree. This was successfully done, for 
in the autumn of that year the trees had each several branches regularly 
formed, and the wood well matured. In the following spring (1893) 
Fig. 16.—apricots in POTS AT WALTHAM CROSS. 
for your inspection, and probably you could throw some light on it.— 
0. Orchard, Bemhridge, I. W. 
[The Onions are attacked by the fungus known as Peronospora 
Schleideniana, particulars of which are given under “ Answers to 
Correspondents.”] _ 
APRICOTS IN POTS UNDER GLASS. 
About two years ago there was a discussion at one of the 
meetings at Chiswick on the fruiting of Apricots under glass, in which 
Dr. Hogg, the Rev. W. Wilks, and myself took part. It was stated by 
one of the speakers that while successful with all other fruits he could 
not get on with Apricots. I was for the moment surprised by this 
statement, but found it confirmed by others. With me there had been 
no diflSculty in the past. Peaches and Apricots in the same house 
fruiting equally well until the latter were crowded out by the growth 
of the Peaches, which were at the time more important. 
Late in the autumn of 1891 I renewed my stock of Apricots by 
they were again pruned, with the view of consolidating the form and 
constitution of the tree rather than for the production of fruit, although 
some good fruits were obtained. By the spring of 1891 when about to 
prune there were twenty sound healthy trees with an abundance of 
well matured fruiting wood. Little pruning was adopted this year, 
and now eighteen out of the twenty trees are carrying an abundance 
of ripe or ripening fruit. The trees were constantly out of doors in 
the summer and autumn and under glass in the winter and spring. 
Apricots in pots should not have much water except when leaves, 
shoots, and fruit are growing. A little, but only a little, water should 
be allowed to reach the expanded blossoms in the flowering season.— 
Wm. Paul, Paul's Nurseries, Waltham Cross. 
[As mentioned on page 78 of our last issue Messrs. W. Paul & Son 
exhibited at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, on the 
24th alt.. Apricot trees in pots similar to those represented in the 
illustration (fig. 16), which has been prepared from a photograph sent 
us by Mr. W. Paul.] 
