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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[March, 
of the kingdom we are not inclined to with¬ 
draw any statement which we have previously 
made in favour of wiring, but would caution 
those who are strangers to its use to beware 
of allowing the bark of the shoots to rest on, 
or even to touch the wires. It is through the 
neglect of this precaution that so many trees 
have suffered. A twist of the tying material 
round the wire and the ties crossed like the 
figure 8, generally suffices to protect the young 
growths, but to prevent large permanent wood 
from cankering a piece of cloth wrapped round 
the wire may be necessary. 
When the shoots rest on rusty nails they 
invariably suffer from canker, but never so 
speedily or so severely as when resting on 
galvanised wires; and when outside, exposed 
to frost, under which conditions wall fruit-trees 
are always placed, they suffer more readily 
than if placed where frost does not reach them. 
During the past season we purposely left a 
number of young shoots of various kinds of 
stone fruits, which were not wanted, to be tied 
to the wires without protection from the 
matting or other material used, and in each 
case the gumming and death of the shoots 
warned us not to risk on the wires unpro¬ 
tected any growths which we valued. The 
placing of the wires away from the walls is an 
evil which will soon be resented by badly 
ripened wood and small crops of inferior fruit. 
The wires should fit closely^ to the walls by 
means of studs, but be just loose enough to 
allow tying to be performed.— M. Temple. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
Anniversary Meeting of the Royal 
Hoeticultueal Society was held on 
February 12, and showed that there had 
been satisfactory progress made during the 
year. The financial position of the Society had im¬ 
proved, the revenue of the year having sufficed 
to satisfy the debtor balance carried forward from 
the preceding one, and to give a considerable 
surplus (£1,864) after paying or providing for the 
payment of every liability to December 31 last. 
It was explained in the Report that the partial 
curtailment of their enjoyment of the gardens by 
the Pellows was necessitated by the holding of 
the Fisheries Exhibition, and was therefore unavoid¬ 
able, but it vvas believed that the gratification of 
the great majority of Fellows in the enjoyment 
of the large privileges which they enjoyed in 
connection with that Exhibition, afforded ample 
compensation. It was announced that arrange¬ 
ments had been made with the Executive Council of 
the Internationa] Health Exhibition by which 
Fellows should have substantially the,same pri¬ 
vileges as they enjoyed during the Fisheries 
Exhibition. 
— iFlE. Anthony "Wateebe’s sbow of 
Polyanthus Peimeoses was one of the pret¬ 
tiest features of the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s meeting on February 12. They were a 
truly beautiful lot, and comeatable by every one. 
The plants, as a rule, send up true Primrose flowers 
first; these are followed by umbels of flowers borne 
on stout stems that continue the bloom late into the 
spring. This is the habit of Mr. Waterer’s plants; 
they are robust-growing, free blooming, and early 
flowering; many of the blooms are of great size, and all 
are singularly beautiful, while as to variety of colour 
and marking scarcely two plants in the large col¬ 
lection had flowers of identical hues. This fine lot 
of beautiful flowers, all in 48-sized pots, had been 
lifted from the open ground but a few days pre¬ 
viously, and had been placed under glass to enable 
the blooms to be shown clean and fresh. The colours 
and markings were varied and beautiful beyond com¬ 
pare, and prettily set up behind an edging of hardy 
Heaths of various colours. 
— In aid of the Pension Augmentation Fund 
of the Gaedenees’ Royal Benevolent Insti¬ 
tution the Council of the Manchester Royal 
Botanical and Horticultural Society has generously 
granted permission for %fete to be held in their gar¬ 
den at Old Trafford during the ensuing summer, 
under the management of Mr. Bruce Findlay. 
Several noblemen and gentlemen in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Manchester have also promised as?istance, 
by allowing their grounds to be thrown open for the 
benefit of the Institution. 
— Che Faiey Apple makes a delightful 
pyramid tree, and, when not pruned, bears 
profusely. The fruit is particularly good when 
stewed in syrup.—G. B. 
— JpEOM the Eeviie Horticole we learn 
that the interesting Conifer Keteleeeia Foe- 
tunei has produced fertile cones in the nursery 
of MM. Bqvelli at Pallanza. The tree is about 
twenty-five years oil, and measures 14 metres in 
height by 2 metres in circumference; the spread of 
the branches is about 10 metres ; the bark is sponsjy, 
like that of the Cork tree. MM. Rovelli say that in 
none of its characters does it resemble the Silver 
Firs (Abies), nor the Hemlock Spruces (Tsuga), nor 
the Douglas Firs (Psuedo-Tsuga), except perhaps 
in the cones, which are somewhat like those of the 
Tsugas; but while the cones of the Tsugas are pen¬ 
dulous, those of the Keteleeria are erect. The tree 
has more of the appearance of Torreya or Podo- 
carpus Totara as to the foliage, but the habit is 
different, and much more slender. 
— In answering the question. Which aee 
THE Peimaey Coloues ? the Pottery Gazette 
remarks that “ the accepted theory of colour 
has at last found a disbeliever, and from having 
been considered an immutable fact it is now believed 
to be an unsound conclusion to hold that the three 
primary colours are red, yellow, and blue. The late 
Professor Maxwell has, we are told, proved beyond 
question that the essential primaries are red, gretn, 
and violet, so that a good many essays and elaborate 
works, as well as more numerous volumes of advice 
to painters, must be wrong from the very beginning. 
The admission of green into the notable trio is thus 
