August 1, 1891. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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the Highland Society in Scotland. He believed 
further experiments were also being made in Ireland. 
Until those experiments had been reported on, he 
would not be in a position to give a definite reply as 
to the best remedy for Potato blight in Ireland.” 
To enable growers to make investigations for them¬ 
selves the Royal Agricultural Society will shortly 
issue a sheet of coloured drawings showing good and 
diseased Potatos, with pieces of leaf indicating the 
disease in different stages of development. The 
letterpress gives a very clear account of the Potato 
disease, with brief hints for growers. The sheet is 
the work of Mr. Wm. Carruthers, F.R.S., Botanist to 
the Royal Agricultural Society. 
The Victoria R gia at Chatsworth. —Mr. A. 
Stansfield, writing about the late visit of Manchester 
horticulturists to Chatsworth, remarks that the 
chief glory of the gardens is the house for aquatics, 
or Victoria house, where the most magnificent of all 
aquatic plants, Victoria regia, makes her home, but, 
Chicago. This in the form of a magnificent monu¬ 
ment in bronze, which was on May 24 unveiled in 
the park, in the presence of all the people that could 
be packed in the space around the site of the statue 
for a long distance. The Linne monument is an 
exact model of the one erected in Stockholm, 
Sweden, from designs by C. J. Dufveman. It is 
designed to have four allegorical figures of the 
sciences, to be completed by 1891, and when finished 
will cost about 22,000 dols. The granite base and 
statue proper just dedicated cost 15,000 dols., all of 
which has been raised by the Swedish-Americans 
and their friends and presented to the Lincoln Park 
commission. The statue exhibits the world-famous 
Swede in the flowing cloak of the nobles of the 
period, book in arm, and a representation of the 
modest but beautiful little Alpine plant in hand, 
named Linnse borealis, that he requested be named 
after him, rather than showy exotic flowers, and one 
that is common in the northern mountains of his 
native home. The great botanist was born in 1707 
and died in 1778 .-—American Floyist, 
usual. Only two or three flowers on a plant of our 
early strawberries on south border were open, and 
they, and others that were partially so, were 
blackened by the frost. As we depend chiefly on 
one and two year old plants this crop seldom varies. 
Some of the Gooseberries and Currants not screened 
with leaves were killed, but for all that the crops 
are good.—IK. P. Roberts, The Gardens, Guerdon Hall, 
Preston. 
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NOTES FROM OAKWOOD. 
On my return from Scotland I looked round 
the garden at Oakwood to see what plants, 
killed or injured by the winter and spring, could be 
removed or cut in. I send a note on some of them, 
as perhaps some other garden owners may like to 
compare their experience with ours, 
From what I have seen and heard of gardens in 
usually not good climates I believe they have suffered 
The Gardener’s'Bothy at Ascott. 
like a great sulky beauty, never deigns to open her 
lustrous eyes to the vulgar—at any rate, by day. 
This queen of river flowers was first discovered by 
D’Orbigny so far back as 1828 in the Rio de la 
.Plata. It was met with the second time in British 
Guiana by Sir Robert Schomburgh. Strictly and 
botanically speaking, the plant should be classed as 
an Euryale; but Dr. Lindley named it after the 
Queen, Victoria regia ; and botanists have hitherto 
made no reclamation on behalf of strict science. We 
have seen no much healthier subject in this country 
than the Victoria at Chatsworth, though even this 
can give us but a feeble idea of what this glorious 
aquatic queen would show herself could she give an 
“ At Home!” On her giant, expanded leaves the 
long-legged river birds perch in multitudes watching 
for their prey ; and a full-grown man may without 
fear seat himself on a solitary leaf of a few days’ 
growth, even when the plant is grown under artificial 
Conditions. 
Chicago Honours the Father of Botany.— The 
memory of Karl Von Linne, generally known as 
Linnaeus the father of systematic botany, and one of 
the greatest naturalists the world has produced, is 
receiving appropriate honour in Lincoln Park, 
OUR FRUIT CROPS. 
The fruit crops in this garden are good, considering 
the frost we had on Whit Monday morning, when 
everything was white with frost, and flakes of ice 
might have been scraped from leaves and flowers, in 
consequence of a slight shower falling about six 
o’clock on Sunday evening, leaving everything wet. 
No fruit escaped entirely, and unexpanded Apple 
blossoms, that were showing colour, upon being cut 
open were found to be black in the centre. The 
Apple is a certain crop here, and would, no doubt, 
have been so heavy as to distress the trees had it 
not been for the frost. As it is, there is just as much, 
if not more, than the trees can carry. The cater¬ 
pillar is our greatest enemy here, and much fruit 
will yet drop from the effects of maggots. 
The Pear is not so certain as the Apple with us, 
and this year, after the most promising prospects, 
we have only very few. Plums do not bear well, 
but we have rather more than we have had some 
years, though we did not expect any; for these, 
like everything else, were either in flower or setting 
when the frost came. Sweet Cherries are the worst 
crop ever bad, but Mopeljo? are plentiful as 
less than those in warmer situations ; on the other 
hand, the same description of plants have in one 
garden been killed, hard hit in others, in the same 
locality, and wholly untouched in other parts, showing 
the effect of different situations. 
Among shrubs, Cistuses have suffered most. 
Happily we had struck cuttings of most of the 
species, so can make a fresh start. Among the 
species killed are Cistus monspeliensis, C. hirsutus, 
C. corbariensis, C. tauricus, C. lusitanicus, C. floren 
tinus, C. algarvensis, C. cyprius, C. creticus, 
C. ocymoides, C. cymosus, C. villosus, C. salvifolius, 
C. oculus, C. crispus, C. albicans, C. ladaniferus. 
Cistus formosus is killed in some situations, hard 
hit in others, uninjured in a recess on pur 
"mountain” side. The only Cistus which has 
proved perfectly hardy is C. laurifolius ; and as this 
has beautiful flowers and makes a fine shrub, I think 
it would be well that it should take the place of 
C. ladaniferus and C. cyprius when only few species 
are grown. 
Veronicas have also suffered much. V. parviflorus 
has been killed with us everywhere ; we grew it by 
scores, and had a low hedge of it. It bloomed quite 
into the winter, and was algo considered quite hardy, 
