September 9, 1905. 
THE QARDENINO WORLD 
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pots or boxes in a porous soil, and keep close 
for a few days, after which plenty of air 
should be admitted. These will make good 
•plants by early spring. If treated in this 
way, well-branched spikes between 5 ft. and 
6 ft. in height are obtained, and a group in 
the border then makes a very pleasing dis¬ 
play. 
Miohaelmas Daisies. These are now 
coming into flower, and it should be seen that 
the growths are well supported, so that they 
will be able to withstand any autumn gales, 
which often cause much damage where they 
are insecurely tied. Fresh stakes should 
also be added if the growths are too thick to 
be well displayed. Keep a look-out for 
mildew, especially on the stems, which if 
allowed to spread greatly disfigures the 
plants. If the weather continues dry, good 
soakings of diluted manure and clean water 
should be given, which not only adds colour 
to the flowers, but also keeps the foliage in 
a green and healthy state. 
A. E. Thatcher. 
Aldenliam House Gardens, Elstree. 
Fruit Garden. 
Outdoors. 
Peaches. —Late varieties must be encour¬ 
aged by frequent applications of manurial 
water and free exposure of the fruit to all the 
sun possible, as colour adds to flavour in the 
majority of instances. Trees from which the 
crop has been gathered, if any way crowded 
should have all useless shoots cut out, as 
recently advocated for the Peach under glass, 
so that the summer sun may do its full share 
in ripening the remaining ones. Earwigs are 
numerous this season, and are being trapped 
with short pieces of Broad Bean stalks placed 
among the branches, and examined each morn¬ 
ing, while the syrup bottles are emptied of 
their contents once or twice weekly as occa¬ 
sion demands, and refilled with liquid, but the 
heavy rains of late have lessened the wasps. 
Do not neglect overhead syringings after the 
fruit has been gathered, especially on light 
gravelly soils, and September is often very 
hot and dry ; let us hope it will be the case 
this year, as it is a busy month with gar¬ 
deners and fruit-growers, many varieties of 
Apples requiring to be harvested towards 
Michaelmas Day, as well as early Pears. 
Filberts .—Those having bushes must keep 
a look out, or the crop will be lightened by 
squirrels, where such depredators exist, and 
it is few gardens that are free of them. There 
is but little to be done to keep them away ex¬ 
cept by shooting, while of late years we have 
been troubled with a small bird which clears 
out the kernel as neatly as the former does. 
Remove any suckers that may push up on 
trees that are not grown on the clean stem 
principle, and although the nuts are full it 
is too soon to gather them yet, unless they 
are eaten away quickly. Neither grass ' or 
weeds should be allowed to interfere with the 
welfare of the bushes, cutting or hoeing as the 
case may require. Walnuts promise a heavy 
crop, but the rooks get the majority of them 
from the trees long enough before they are 
fit, and the gun is the only thing that 
frightens them. 
Ir door?, 
Pines. —This is not a fruit that many ama- 
j teurs go in for. mostly on account of its 
laborious work, and the necessary amount of 
fire heat required throughout the greater part 
of the year. Much care is wanted by those in 
charge of the water-can, ripening fruit requir¬ 
ing no water the last fortnight ere it is fit to 
cut. Give swelling fruit before they take on 
colour liquid manure at each watering ; while 
those plants that have filled their pots 
with roots may be afforded a little weak stimu¬ 
lant now and again, but this time of year it 
is best to feed when the fruit shows. He- 
potting may still be done, but the sooner the 
better, and young stock may be increased by 
inserting suckers after trimming their ends 
as previously advised. The overhead syring¬ 
ing must be greatly lessened and a gentle 
heat maintained in the hot-water pipes from 
now. The weather has been dull and showery 
since the middle of August, which necessitated 
the use of fire heat. 
Late Urapes. —These require warm, bright 
weather for the next month to finish up 
satisfactory. Do not endeavour to hurry the 
ripening by closing early, but lesfcen the 
amount of ventilation towards 4 p.m., so that 
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the thermometer does not fall below 70 deg. 
while the sun skines on the structure, allow¬ 
ing a chink of air back and front throughout 
the night. Amateurs who grow a number of 
pot plants under their vines, and with much 
success, too, in many instances, must keep 
a watchful eye and see that mildew does not 
gain a footing, which greatly disfigures the 
grapes, and foliage as well, if allowed to go un¬ 
disturbed. Flowers of sulphur is the best cure, 
shaking a little over the affected parts, and 
painting the heating pipes, where such exist, 
when they are pretty hot, first removing 
tender plants should any be in the house, 
which must be closed for the night when carry¬ 
ing this out. Remove gradually any lateral 
growth, and should inside borders require 
watering choose a bright day, so that the 
ventilation can be free, and cover the border 
with dry litter. Outside borders should be 
afforded some protection from heavy rains, 
especially if mildew or s-hankingof the berries 
occur, which is more likely to happen in cold 
low-lying districts. James Mayne. 
Bicton Gardens, Devonshire. 
The Stove and Greenhouse. 
Arum Lilies.— These useful and popular 
plants now require potting up for winter and 
spring flowering. There are two distinct 
methods of treating the plants during sum¬ 
mer, both of which I have dwelt upon in pre¬ 
vious calendars. If retained in the jmts 
throughout and the corms duly ripened they 
will now be ready for potting up, whilst if 
they have been grown m open quarters the 
lifting may well be deferred for a week or two 
longer. Use a compost consisting of two parts 
fibrous loam to one each of leaf-soil and old 
mushroom-bed material, with sand and a 
sprinkling of bone-meal added. Shake out 
the dormant corms, and pull off with the hand 
all small side bulbs, repotting the large ones 
either singly into 32-sized pots, or three in a 
24-size. Large spathes are seldom so 
generally useful as are medium-sized ones, 
therefore I advise growing the plants in rather 
small pots, and when growth is active feed 
regularly with farmyard liquid manure. 
Primulas. —If not already done these 
should now be shifted on into their flowering 
pots, and accorded liberal treatment in order 
to promote abundant root action before 
winter. After this time the plants should be 
grown on shelves or stages in a cool green¬ 
house, or if heated pits are available they will 
answer well for a few weeks longer, as a little 
fire heat may be turned on at night with ad¬ 
vantage. Pinch out all flower spikes as they 
appear, until the plants become well re¬ 
established. Although Primulas do not like 
overhead syringing, they revel in a cool moist 
atmosphere until wanted to flower. 
Gloxinias. —Those plants that flowered 
early in summer should be induced to die 
down gradually by lessening the water supply 
and removing them to cooler quarters. When 
the foliage has quite decayed, lay the plants 
on their sides under the greenhouse stages. 
Amaryllis. —These bulbous plants require 
precisely the same treatment as the foregoing 
at this season. 
Heating Apparatus. - -Any repairs required 
to the boilers or hot water pipes should 
receive immediate attention, so that when 
the necessity arises for bringing them into 
daily use they will be in working order. To 
preserve the pipes and to give them a tidy 
appearance a coat of oil and lamp-black should 
be applied. K. M. 
Hardy Trees and Shrubs. 
Some Ornamental Nuts.— Although it 
cannot be claimed for the Nuts or Corylus 
that they are highly ornamental when in 
flower, yet when closely inspected there is 
a quiet beauty in them which cannot fail to 
interest the shrub lover. Several of the 
varieties, too, have highly ornamental or 
distinct foliage, and those mentioned below 
are all well worthy a place in any collection. 
The common Nut, C. Avellana, is much used 
for planting in -woods, etc., and when the 
male catskins are fully expanded in spring 
there are few native trees more beautiful. 
This answers well to cutting down when too 
large, which should be done during the win¬ 
ter. C. maxima purpurea is perhaps the 
most useful variety from a garden point of 
view, as it is one of the best purple-leaved 
shrubs we have. The leaves and fruits are 
a most intense purple colour, and for bed- 
