May 8, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
663 
TO SUCCEED 
Yuti must start with good plants. All the following 
gurarantee Ai and good value. Cash returned 
if not satisfactory. 
BEGONE. 
io Grand New named singles, H.j.J. set for 1897. 
The best ever seen, 30s. 
12 Grand unnamed single kinds, 18s.; 6, 10s 
12 Very fine single unnamed kinds, 12s.; 6, 6s. 6d. 
12 Very good single unnamed kinds, 6s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
12 Fine mixed double and single for bedding, 3s. 
50, 10s.; 100, 16s. 
12 Grandest double kinds, 26s. ; 6, 14s. 
12 Very fine double kinds, 15s.; 6, 8s. 
12 Very good double kinds, 10s. ; 6, 5s 6i. 
12 Very good double mixed colours, 6s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
12 Grand New Japanese, 1897, to include Yellow 
Madame Carnot and Western King for 30s. 
6 To include the above two, 20s. Yellow 
Madame Carnot, separately, 10s. 6d. each. 
12 Very finest 1896 kinds, 7s 6d. 
12 Beautiful kinds, specially selected for cutting, 
4s. 
12 New Early Flowering Japanese for Pots or 
Garden, 7s. 6d. 
12 Good Early Flowering Japanese for Pots or 
Garden, 4s. 
12 Beautiful Early Flowering Pompons for the 
Garden, 4s. 
12 Beautiful single kinds. Ai for cuttings, 4s. 
DAHLIAS. 
12 Best Cactus kinds, 3s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 
12 Best Show and Fancy, 3s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 
12 Best Pompon, 3s. 6d. ; 6. 2S. 
12 Best Singles, 3s. 6d.; 6, 2s. 
FUCHSIAS. 
12 Finest double kinds, including Rose and White 
Phenomenal and Madame Carnot the giant 
white, 4s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single kinds, including Royal Purple 
and Princess May, the prettiest Fuchsia 
raised, 4s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
GLOXINIAS. 
6 Finest named kinds, 5s. ; 3, 3s. 
6 Finest spotted, 3s. ; 6 Finest Selfs, 3s. 
HELIOTROPIUM. 
6 Best named kinds, 2s. 6d. ; 3, is, 6d. 
PELARGONIUMS. 
12 Show and Decorative kinds, grand stuff in 5 
inch pots, 12s. (these will make a big display.) 
12 Grandest new SiDgle Zonals for 1897, including 
Mrs. W. Winn, the nearest Blue, 20s. ; 6, 
10s. 6d. 
12 Finest new Single Zonals, 1896, 10s. ; 6, 5s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1895, 6s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1894, 4s. ; 6 2s. 6d. 
6 Finest Single Zonals, Souv. de Mirande Type, 
including Mdme. J. Chretien, 3s. 
12 Finest Double Zonals selected from 1897, 1896, 
and 1895, to include Apple Blossom, Golden 
Gate, and Double H. Jacoby, 7s. 6d. ; 6, 4s. 
12 Very fine double Zonals, 4s. , 6, 2s. 6d. 
6 Grand New Double Ivies including Achieve¬ 
ment, cross between a Zonal and Ivy, and 
Mrs. C. Bick, magenta distinctly shaded blue, 
7s. 6d. 
12 Grand kinds, 4s.; 6, 2s. 6d. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS, 
12 Finest named kinds including Mrs. D. B. 
Crane, the Electric Blue, 6s.; 6, 3s. 6d. 
All Orders are Post or Package Free for Cash 
with Order. 
H. J. JONES, 
RYECROFT NURSERY, LEWISHAM. 
CHEALSia«? 
W&KLD-WIDE (\ERQWN- STAKING flOVELTIES 
^NEW CATALOGUE POST FREE3£? 
cj. 
O RCHIDS of the highest quality, every 
plant guaranteed true to name, from 2/6 each. Please 
send for free list.—P. McARTHUR, The London Nurseries. 
4, Malda Vale, London W. 
PLANT NOW! PLANT NOW! 
BARRS 
HARDY 
PERENNIALS. 
BARRS’ New Large Flowering 
Phloxes. 
A great advancement has been made during the last 
few 5 ears in this beautiful and useful family of hardy 
plants, the results being larger and bolder trusses, 
with individual flowers twice and thrice the size of 
those of the older kinds. New and striking colours 
of great beauty have also been added. The varieties 
offered below include the finest of the new intro¬ 
ductions and only the very best of the older kinds. 
During August and September these beautiful Phloxes 
are amongst the most decorative of garden plants. 
BARR & SONS’ SELECTIONS. 
25 in 25 Beautiful named vars., 10/6, 15/-, & 21/-. 
12 in 12 „ „ „ 6/-, 9/-, & 12/- 
6 in 6 „ „ „ 3/-, $/6, & 6/-. 
Choice mixed colours of Hardy Late Phloxes, in 
great variety of colour, for massing, etc., per doz. 
$16 ; per 100, 30/-. 
Barr’s Delphiniums, finest large-flowering 
varieties 12 fine named sorts, 7/6 and 10/6; 6 fine 
named sorts, 3/6 and 5/6; fine hybrids, mixed, per 
doz., 5/6. 
Send for Barr’s Descriptive Lists of the most 
beautiful PHLOXES, DELPHINIUMS, PENTSTE- 
MONS, and MICHAELMAS DAISIES, for present 
planting Free on application. 
Barr’s “ Rock-Garden”Collectionsof 
Hardy Plants, 12 distinct varieties, 5/6; 25 
distinct varieties, 10/6. 
& SONS, 
12, King Street, COYEST GARDEN, LONDON. 
Nurseries: LONG DITTON, SURREY. 
' Gardening >9 the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, MAY 8 th, 1897. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, May ioth.—Sale of ornamental plants and florists' 
flowers by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Tuesday, May nth —Royal Horticultural Society : meeting of 
committees at 12 o’clock. 
Wednesday. May 12th.—Tulip Show and Conference of the 
National Tulip Society at the Royal Botanic Society’s 
Gardens, Regent’s Park (2 days). 
Sale of Orchids at Croydon by Mr Henry Hill. 
Sale of Lilies and miscellaneous plants by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris. 
Friday, May 14th—Sale of imported and established 
Orchids, by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
XPERIMENTS ON FlNGER-AND-ToE. —The 
third annual report on field experiments 
carried out by Professors Douglas A. 
Gilchrist, B. Sc., and P. Hed worth 
Foulkes, B. Sc., under the auspices of the 
University Extension College, Reading, has 
just been issued. It embraces field experi¬ 
ments in Berkshire, Dorsetshire, Hamp¬ 
shire, and Oxfordshire, and gives articles 
on the manuring of crops, notes on manures, 
and a report on injurious insects. The 
experiments include those on pasture, 
results of rotation cropping, and the disease 
of Turnips, Cabbages, Cauliflowers, etc., 
known as Finger-and-toe or Anbury. The 
latter applies to garden as w.ell as field 
cultures. A set of experiments on Finger- 
and-toe disease on Swedes was carried out 
by Mr. E. G. Legg, at Melplash Court, 
Brideport. Six plots, each one-twentieth 
of an acre in area were set apart for the 
purpose of these experiments. The first 
received no dressing; the second had 
sulphate of copper applied to it at the rate 
of 2 cwt. per acre ; the third had bleaching 
powder, at the rate of 2 cwt. per acre ; the 
fourth had caustic lime at the rate of two 
tons ; the fifth had this proportion doubled ; 
and the sixth was diessed with gas lime at 
the rate of two tons per acre. 
Neither of the above dressings seemed to 
have much effect in increasing the total 
weight of crop. The lowest return in 
produce was at the rate of ry tons 10 cwt. 
per acre on the plot dressed with bleaching 
powder. The heaviest return was at the 
rate of 29 tons 1 cwt. 8 lbs. per acre on the 
plot dressed with gas lime. The latter 
should therefore be looked upon as a 
fertiliser as well as a fungicide when applied 
at the proper time of year, that is, when 
the ground is unoccupied by crops. It may 
here be stated that all the dressings were 
applied to the soil at the end of January, 
1896, so as to give them time to act upon 
the slime fungus (Plasmodiophora Bras- 
sicae) infesting the soil. They were 
covered to a depth of x or in. It is 
considered probable by the authors of the 
report that the remedy would be all the 
more efficacious if applied a year previous 
to the sowing of the Turnips, and proper 
precautions taken to have it properly and 
evenly distributed. In order to ensure this 
being accomplished, the dressings men¬ 
tioned above were all applied in a finely 
pulverised condition. The fungus is 
believed to be capable of existing in the 
soil for a number of years, and no doubt it 
would be able to find sustenance where 
such cruciferous field weeds as Charlock, 
Shepherd’s Purse, etc., were found to exist. 
For this reason farmers as well as gardeners 
should avoid growing any of the Brassica 
tribe on the same land for some years 
afterwards. This, of course, is difficult of 
accomplishment where ground for the 
various crops is scarce. Farmyard manure 
from cattle fed with Turnips, infested with 
Finger-and-toe, should not be used for 
Turnip crops, according to the advice here 
given. It is difficult, however, to make 
either gardeners or farmers attend to this 
simple requisition. 
Another method of ascertaining the value 
of the above dressings, was to count the 
number of diseased Turnips in each plot. 
The principal object of the experiments 
was to determine what effect the various 
reputed remedies had in checking the 
ravages of the disease. According to Dr. 
Somerville’s experiments at Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, sulphate of copper and bleaching 
powder were good remedies ; but the results 
at Melplash, which were carried out on a 
larger scale, did not corroborate his views, 
for these remedies were far less effective 
than gas lime. Where no dressing at all 
had been used, there were eighty-six 
diseased tubers ; and seventy-four and fifty- 
nine respectively, where sulphate of copper 
and bleaching powder had been used. In 
the plot dressed with gas lime there were 
forty-eighty diseased tubers; and thirty- 
three where caustic lime had been applied 
at the rate of four tons to the acre. 
Curiously enough, on the plot to which only 
half of the latter dressing had been given, 
the number of diseased tubers were reduced 
to twenty-seven. This might have been 
partly owing to a smaller quantity of 
disease germs in the soil, or other accidental 
circumstances difficult to detect ; but, all 
the same, we must conclude that caustic 
lime and gas lime were the more effective 
of the remedies used. The cost of the 
fungicides or remedies must also be taken 
into consideration ; for though the whole 
