1 H £ COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Novembir 6, 1860. 
Any one who lost Willows from transplanting this season 
should learn some practical lessons on planting before another 
attempt of the kind. Unless the Willows were killed by the 
frost we can hardly conceive a condition in which they could die 
during a shower of nine months duration. Now and for the 
next month to come is the very best time to plant Willows. The 
Huntingdon Willow is, of course, the finest and best timber tree 
of all the race, and a match pair of it will look noble on your 
bank. Salix alba is the book name for it, and any nurseryman 
can supply you with this kind of Willow. The Napoleon 
Willow is the same as the common Weeping Willow along both 
sides of the Thames as you go to London; but if your bank were 
ours in that place and aspect we would not plant a Weeping 
Willow on it for half the value of Teddington. Nor would we 
plant two kinds of one family in that way. 
For a summer-seat of that size no plant is so good as the 
Japan Honeysuckle; it is all but evergreen, blooms all the 
summer and autumn, and never gets an insect on it. It goes by 
the names of Lonicera flexuosa, Caprifoliutn flexuosum, and two or 
three other names; but japonica is the best name, and flexuosum 
is the most general name for it in the London nurseries, and 
now is the time to plant it. If you should prefer a Yine, the 
Claret Grape is the best of them all for a summer-house. Ours 
is now richer in the leaf than the Virginian Creeper ; but till this 
season we did not know the Claret was the hardiest of all the 
Grapes in England. Our crop of it is very nearly ripe, while 
Miller’s and all the White kinds are as sour as Crabs. But the 
only use we ever made of the Claret Grape was to colour apple- 
tarts puddings and pies with it.} 
MILDEW on VINES and PEACHES—GISHURST 
COMPOUND. 
So much has been said from time to time since 1845 as to 
the cause of the mildew on various trees, Grape Vines, &c., more 
especially some sorts of our Beaches and Nectarines, that it has 
become like our Potato disease—one does not like to hear the 
very mention of the name. 
When I say since 1845, it must not be inferred that we had 
no mildew in our vineries and on our wall trees before the above 
date, but previous to that time it was what might very properly 
be called mildew, and we have the same sort of mildew now. 
But all the wet of this season has not produced that sort of 
mildew up to this time, not to any very great extent; but now 
is the season we must expect the mildew on all our soft-wooded 
plants, but not that sort of mildew we see on our Peaches and 
Nectarines. Continual dampness produces mildew, let the tem¬ 
perature be high or low ; buf how are we to reconcile ourselves 
to what is called the mildew in our vineries ? 
Let the external atmosphere be what it may, we can so re¬ 
gulate our houses that no continual dampness remain in them. 
The same treatment or thereabouts was carried out twenty years 
ago, and no one ever noticed then what is now called the 
mildew. We all have known some small gardens with a small 
greenhouse in them, with Vines and plants all together, but no 
mildew; but since 1845, when the Potato disease made its ap¬ 
pearance, it has, under the most skilful treatment, been seen 
more or less in a great many of our vineries and on our wall 
trees. 
I have some wall trees which for years have had the mildew 
or what I think must be quite a different thing. Be that as it 
may, all the dressings of the usual mixtures of soft soap, soot, &c., 
dusting with sulphur, and so forth, did not cure the disease. It 
certainly kept the disease in check, so that it made little progress 
during the season ; but in the spring, when the trees had made 
about six inches growth, it began to make its appearance, no 
matter how the season was ; and that is the case more or less 
every season since, more especially with the Vines at the time of 
stoning. 
This season I thought I would see what the Gishurst Com¬ 
pound would do. Early in the season in one vinery I syringed 
the whole of the Vines with the Compound in the mild form of 
two ounces to the gallon, and not the least sign of the disease 
has appeared. 
The Peach trees I allowed to grow until the disease was 
visible, I then syringed them with about three ounces to the 
gallon of soft water. In a few hours the disease had turned 
quite black. Since then the trees have made an excellent growth, 
and, considering the season, will ripen the wood tolerably well. 
Gardeners generally, especially the older portion of the craft, 
are very dubious as to whether the Compound is really what it is 
represented to be; but none can expect to know until they 
have given it a fair trial. My first trial was with a three-light 
frame of Verbenas. I at first felt anxious for a few horn’s to 
know if I had destroyed the plants as well as the fly, but they 
were all cured the first dressing. No second dose is necessary, if 
properly mixed in warm, soft water. I am trying it on some 
other things, including Potatoes. You may depend it is one of 
the greatest boons to the gardener for more purposes than de¬ 
stroying insects.—G. D., Hammersmith. 
DOES GAZANIA SPLENDENS DIFFER FROM 
GAZANIA RIGENSP 
I WAS much amused with the cleverness with which our friend 
Mr. Beaton turned the tables on the “ Young Gardener ” and 
others, by telling them they must have had splendens all the 
time and did not know it, though we do not agree in the morality 
of giving a well-known old plant a new name in order to make a 
demand for it in the market. The writer from Pilsby Nurseries, 
page 46, seems to be in this respect under a similar delusion. 
He owns that what he saw grown as splendens was nothing but 
rigens, and yet the same as his own splendens. 
A great gardener told me this season I had the rigens right 
enough, and he had the splendens, and it was so much better; 
and I begged him to take a bunch of mine home and contrast 
them with his, and he wrote me he was bound to say mine was 
the more splendid of the two. 
This season what for more than twenty years I have called 
rigens has received the name of splendens from scores of visitors, 
and I said nothing. Others have asked me the difference between 
rigens and splendens ; and having only one plant of the latter, 
so ca'led, I owned I could not tell. But some, like a lady visitor, 
were rather disappointed that after, through the representations 
of The Cottage Gardener, she purchased four dozen at 30#. 
per dozen, she could find no difference with splendens and that 
she had grown for years as rigens. 
I certainly never saw this Gazania, whatever its specific name, 
so fine before this season, damp and sunless as it was. In the 
dullest days the flowers would be pretty well expanded and a 
perfect carpet in quantity. I believe, therefore, that those who 
like things with fine names, and even new names, would, no 
doubt, be pleased with the flowers as well as Mr. Beaton and the 
Pilsby Nursery able correspondent. But that is not the matter 
in dispute, nor the part where the shoe pinches. The grievance, 
if grievance there be, is just this—that a plant, generally known 
over the country as Gazania rigens, through the recommendation 
of The Cottage Gardener, has been sold as Gazania splendens 
at 30v. per dozen, whilst the same thing might either be at home 
in abundance, or could be procured easily at from 4s. to 9 s. per 
dozen ! I believe that all the parties concerned acted bond fide 
—their name and reputation are a guarantee for that; but all 
the pleasant joking of Mr. Beaton, the poetry of the new name, 
and the thousand pounds it realised, do not quite reconcile a 
lady for the spending £6 for several dozen of a plant she already 
has in plenty. To remove all this “ being-done-for ” feeling, no 
one shall be more glad than myself to find that the varieties when 
grown together are really distinct, and the one so superior 
over the other. Meanwhile the discussion ought to show that 
authorities must be careful in their recommendation, otherwise 
confidence will be apt to be lessened. 1 am quite as likely to bo 
deceived as the rest, and perhaps more so. As stated above, I 
have a good-sized plant of splendens in a pot under glass; the 
flowers on this 24th of October are larger than those out of doors 
still in a bed, otherwise the markings, &c., are just the same. 
During August and September the plants in the beds, and which 
I have known as rigens, produced far larger flowers than the 
plant in tho pot. I feel unable to do more to dispel the mystery 
if there be one, but would like the varieties to be compared by a 
suitable authority.—R. E. 
I sent a note the other day on this subject. In that I ex¬ 
pressed a wish that flowers and leaves of all kinds of Gazania 
might be sent to the Editors in order to settle the disputed 
point. I help to do so, by sending four packets of leaves for 
your inspection. | 
The flowers of Nos. 2, 8, and 4 are so alike that it would be no 
