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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[February, 
short growths all over the plant, which at the 
blooming stage will amply repay all labour 
bestowed on them. 
We find that the older the plants, if in good 
health, and confined at the roots, the better 
they bloom, but it is always necessary to feed 
them well. If planted out, with plenty of 
room to run, in a short time they would, 
like Tea Roses treated in the same way, be 
always in bloom. We are now cutting (Janu¬ 
ary), or could cut if required, Tea Rose buds, 
every day, from plants trained at the back of 
the Vineries. 
If the blooms are wanted at any given time, 
they should not be put into too strong heat, 
as this makes them start into growth too 
quickly, and spoils the flowers.—A. Hender- 
son, Thoresby. 
ON LIFTING CAMELLIAS. 
AMELLIAS grown in pots require shifting 
in spring before growth begins, or after 
the buds are set, a good crop of flowers 
being the end in view, and each one 
adopting the plan that suits him best. A good 
return can be had from either plan of working. 
But it is to the lifting of Camellias that I wish 
to draw the attention of those who are in¬ 
terested in the subject. The planting them 
out is a common practice; the lifting of them 
not so common. In one case within my 
experience the plants were growing in a well- 
prepared border of loam, freely mixed with 
bones, along the hack of a lean-to late vinery. 
They had reached such dimensions that their 
removal was quite necessary; they were so 
close that on entering they presented to view 
a hedge-like appearance. It was to prevent 
the plants from becoming spoiled that their 
removal was decided upon. Their average 
height was nine feet, and their breadth as far 
as an ordinary man could extend his arms. 
Individually they might have been termed 
perfect specimens, and had they been allowed 
to remain they would have formed a perfect 
hedge in reality. But there was a circum¬ 
stance which would have prevented them from 
continuing as a good hedge for long, and that 
was, the border was only four feet wide and 
half that depth, conditions which would very 
soon have produced a stunted appearance. 
A supply of soil being got ready, and freely 
mixed with bones, similar to that in which 
the plants were growing, the boxes to contain 
the roots were carefully drained, and the front 
bricks being knocked down and wheeled 
outside, a man was placed on each side of the 
plant to work the soil away carefully, while 
the foreman held it by the stem and eased it 
out as it became looser in the bed. It was 
finally got out, with as much soil as possible, 
and lifted into the box, the fresh soil being 
worked amongst and around the roots care¬ 
fully, and the whole finished off with a good 
lifting rap on the floor to settle down the soil. 
The operation lasted three days, ten plants 
being lifted each day, besides other work. 
It may be said of these Camellias that to 
this day not a leaf or bud has dropped. The 
plants are flowering freely, and are evidently 
quite at home in their new quarters, where 
they have now been for about six months.— 
Northern. 
THE AMERICAN VINE MILDEW. 
E are not aware that this form of Vine 
Mildew has yet made its appearance 
in this country, but as it has been 
imported from North America where 
it is very destructive, and is spreading 
rapidly through the European vineyards— 
whence doubtless we received the Phylloxera— 
we cannot be too careful in watching for the 
first symptoms of its appearance, so as to be 
able to take immediate steps to resist its 
attacks, and if possible to prevent it from 
becoming established amongst us. 
In a recent number of the Garten-Zeitung 
(1883, pp. 11—18, with figs.), Professor 
Magnus, of Berlin, has given an account of 
the introduction and spread of the disease in 
Europe, and shows that it is due to the attacks 
of a microscopic fungus, the Peronospora 
viticola of Berkeley. Of this paper the follow¬ 
ing is an abstract. 
The presence of the Peronospora in the 
European vineyards, seems to have been first 
observed in France in 1877, on the numerous 
vines which, in consequence of their supposed 
phylloxera-resisting virtues, had been imported 
from America; in 1879 it was discovered in 
Upper Italy; in 1880 in Switzerland and 
Hungary, in Carniola and the South Tyrol, 
and in Lower Austria, causing much damage 
