October 8, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
A Blacksmith as a Fern Grower. 
The people of Linwcod, Paisley, are jubi¬ 
lant over the successes of the village black¬ 
smith. as a grower of Ferns, and his successes 
at the Paisley, Glasgow, and Edinburgh 
shows. The Paisley “ Daily Express ” quotes 
The Gardening World for its report on the 
British Ferns as shown by the Linwood black¬ 
smith at Paisley. We also had the pleasure 
of seeing those splendid Ferns at Edinburgh. 
We left two pteridologicai friendsi in the 
Waverley Market on the day of the show 
while we transacted some business, and aiter- 
wardsi went in quest of them, but after two 
or three rounds of the market almost gave 
up thei quest in despair, until we suddenly 
remembered their weakness for these beau¬ 
tiful Cryptograms, and in a trice found them 
deeply immured amongst the blacksmith’s 
Ferns. The specimen of Soolopendrium vul- 
gare erispum Robinsoni was indeed a unique 
specimen,, with broader end more fluted 
fronds than, the ordinary erispum, and the 
specimen, wasi of a size to make any pteri- 
dologist green with envy to possess: it. 
New Glasshouses at Frogmore. 
As previously indicated in Tiie Garden¬ 
ing World, the King has been carrying out 
many and great improvements in, the Royal 
Gardens: at Frogmore, Windsor. These are: 
now taking shape, the shabby-looking old 
fruit houses having been swept away and re^ 
placed by more: roomy bouses and more suit¬ 
able for fruit culture than the old buildings. 
This means progress, and' the King is deter¬ 
mined to be u,p, to date. Numerous span- 
roofed houses, have: been built and are to be 
connected at their northern ends: by means, of 
a. handsome: glass corridor, so that when the 
King or Queen desire to spend an horn - in 
the garden timing wet weather, they will be 
able: to inspect the occupants of every house 
without having continually to make their 
exit as in, the old detached houses. Provi¬ 
sion lias been made for the: cultivation, of 
0don toglossurns, Cattleyas, thousands of Be¬ 
gonias, Carnations'' in great variety, Azaleas 
and Poinsettias, so that a, display will be 
kept, up a,t> practically all seasons: of the year. 
Other subjects: which will receive ample 
attention will be Chinese Primulas, Cycla¬ 
men, and various useful plants grown either 
for the sake of their flowers or foliage. 
Grapes will be a, feature of the fruit, houses, 
and in the way of Tomatosi a very excellent 
one, is, Frogmore Prolific, raised in these 
gardens. 
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Wasps and Fruit. 
In most seasons the wasps commit greater 
or lesser depredations 1 amongst, soft-skinned 
fruit, but especially those of a pulpy char¬ 
acter. This: year, from accounts we have 
heard in Essex, Kent, Surrey, Devon and 
elsewhere, the wasps liavei been unusually 
troublesome. The season would seem to 
have been favourable to- their well-being, and 
judging by their work their excessive 
numbers have to be fed at great cost. In 
all probability the increase of gardens and 
orchards has enabled them to get more food 
than, in the early daysi of gardening in this 
country. Possibly, the destruction, of woods, 
where they frequently take up their quarters 1 , 
may have been responsible for their taking 
to gardens to: find food. Possibly, also, the 
changes that are continually going on in this 
country liavei diverted the wasps from their 
older instincts and caused them to feed, upon 
fruits instead of insect life, as: their friends, 
say they do. In siomei gardens they com¬ 
mence with the Gooseberries in August, and 
also takei to, the Plums. This year they have 
beien exceedingly troublesome to Apples, 
Plums and 1 Peaches. In, our experience the 
attack on Apples isi rather new, except the 
Apples happen to be injured by birds. It 
seemsi that wasps are capable of piercing the 
skin of Apples, even when previously quite 
sound, asi we have noted quite small begin¬ 
nings in, the: skin. When the hole is suffi¬ 
ciently large to' allow the: insect, to enter, the 
skin isi left alone, and the marauders apply 
themselves to the juicy flesh only. Extermi¬ 
nation is 1 a. very hard word as applied to, 
wasps, and it would require the concerted 
operation of everybody engaged in fruit cul¬ 
ture and others as well upon whose land the 
wasp® happened to, build before it is possible 
to' destroy all the nests that come under 
observation. 
Disappearing Gardens. 
Those who live on siea banks where the 
rocks consist, of hard stone have complained 
about the: difficulty of growing plants on, 
account of the strong gales of wind that fre¬ 
quently prevail, or on account of the salt 
spray during such storms 1 . Other people 
have difficulties of quite a different nature 
where the sea bank consists of chalk, clay 
or gravel formations. Mr. Rider Haggard 
has been lamenting the, loss sustained by 
people on the sea, bank at Pakefield, Lowes¬ 
toft, where the cliff is: rather rapidly crumb¬ 
ling away, especially during gales when the 
sea is running high, and especially during 
high tides. During the past month he 
visited one of these gardens, and found that 
the iron railings that fenced it were at last 
left dangling in the air over the edge of thr< 
cliff owing to the fall of material that: had 
recently taken place. A very fine house was 
built at the upper end of this garden, but the 
occupants have taken fright owing to the 
subterranean noises which they heard ivam- 
ing them of the slipping or crumbling of the 
cliff on which it has: been built. Unless con¬ 
certed action is taken by the Government 
and local authorities, it seems that many 
gardens: andl much more land is doomed to 
be swallowed up by the sea, at no, distant 
date along the eastern coasts of England, 
where the geological formation is relatively 
recent. 
