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October 21, 1905. 
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it would not be difficult to have a pond of the 
dimensions you mention cleaned out by hand. We 
should not advise you to have the Lilies in a shady 
situation, as the more fully exposed they are to 
the sunshine the better they will be. If the sub¬ 
soil is of a sandy or gravelly nature you would 
require 9 in. to 12 in. of good, well-worked, 
plastic clay to make a pond thoroughly water¬ 
tight. If, on the other hand, it is more inclined 
to be clayey it will be less difficult to stop leakage, 
and 6 in. might suffice. We should prefer to give 
it 9 in. at least; to work the clay before it is 
used, and to thoroughly ram it down before 
letting in the water. The clay should not be 
allowed to get dry before the water is let in, 
otherwise it will crack and allow the water to 
escape. 
Seleoted Lists of Fruit Trees. 
Will you kindly assist me in selecting the 
following fruit trees, all standards :—( 1 ) the six 
best kitchen Apples; (2) the six best dessert 
Apples; (3) the six best dessert Plums. 
(Anxious.) 
We have selected the trees you mention of 
first quality, and suitable for growing in the form 
of standards. They are arranged in alphabetical 
order with no relation to their absolute value, as 
that depends upon how they succeed in the district 
where they may happen to be planted. They are : 
Blenheim Orange, Bramley’s Seedling, Dumelow’s 
Seedling (better known as Wellington), Lane’s 
Prince Albert, Newton Wonder, and Warner’s 
King. The best six dessert Apples would be Al- 
lington Pippin, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Duchess’ 
Favourite, James Grieve, Lady Sudeley, and 
Ribston Pippin. All of these are great favourites 
for dessert purposes, and ripening at different 
times give a long succession. The six dessert 
Plums should include Coe’s Golden Drop, Dennis- 
ton’s Superb, Greengage, Late Orange, Oullin’s 
Golden Gage, and Victoria. Some people have a 
difficulty in fruiting the old Greengage regularly, 
so that you could substitute Jefferson for it, 
which is a very certain cropper. 
Potato Apples. 
Would you kindly tell me if Potato Apples 
can be brought to perfection. I never saw so 
many before. All my early Pota.tos were one 
mass of apples on the haulms. (C. Newcombe.) 
There is no reason why your Potato Apples 
should not come to perfection. A sufficient 
number might be left on the Potato haulm until 
the stems and leaves die away. The Apples can. 
then be placed in a slightly warm or merely 
sheltered place until they thoroughly ripen. They 
do not colour, nor do they become pulpy until on 
the borders of decay, when they can easily be 
squeezed up, and the seeds carefully washed in 
order to separate them from the pulp. They can 
then be dried and stored in a paper or cotton bag 
until spring, when they should be sown in boxes 
in a gentle heat or in cold frames, and finally trans¬ 
ferred to the open ground when the seedlings have 
attained some size. 
Transplanting Yellow Broom. 
What would be the best time to transplant a 
large Yellow Broom shrub? Could I take cuttings? 
Please insert in “Enquire Within.” (C. Mew- 
combe.) 
We have our doubts about the success of trans¬ 
planting very large specimens of Broom, owing to 
their deep rooting nature and holding but little 
soil. If it were possible to keep a good ball of 
soil about the roots, we have no doubt the. opera¬ 
tion could be. carried out with success. We 
should leave it until the end of March, when fresh 
growth is about to take place. Then lift it, keep¬ 
ing a ball of soil about the roots, if possible, and 
place it in the new hole prepared for it. Then 
cover up with some fresh soil, tread it down quite 
firmly and give a thorough watering. After the 
water has soaked away you could then fill up the 
hole nearly level with the surface, but leaving a 
shallow basin so that water might be given after¬ 
wards in dry weather, until the plant has taken, a 
good hold on the fresh soil. Syringe the plant 
occasionally in dry weather. You might take 
some cuttings at the present time, about 6 in. 
long, of the wood made during the past summer. 
Insert them very firmly in pots of sandy soil, and 
place the pots in a greenhouse from which frost is 
excluded. During the winter the cuttings should 
callus, and in March the pots might be placed in 
heat and the soil kept moist to urge the cuttings 
to make roots. The more usual plan with plants 
of this class is to take cuttings of the young and 
growing shoots during the summer months; these 
should be about 3 in. long, and taken off with a 
slight heel of the old wood. These should be in¬ 
serted in very sandy soil, or even in pure sand, 
watered, covered up with a bell-glass, and placed 
in a warm pit or greenhouse. It will take some 
little time to produce roots, and your chief care 
will be to see that the soil or sand does not get 
dry. 
American Blight on Apple Trees. 
Could you tell me if soot and lime would do 
our Apple trees good for blight by putting it 
round the stocks. They are in an awful state. 
(C. Newcombe.) 
If your trees are as you state, we are afraid 
soot and lime would only have a moderate effect 
upon the blight, as it hides in crevices under the 
bark, especially in winter. Your best plan would 
be to wait until the leaves drop and then syringe 
the trees with paraffin emulsion. This is made 
by dissolving about 2 lbs. of soap in a gallon of 
water, and then pouring this into two gallons of 
paraffin oil. This should then be violently 
stirred or churned, by means of the syringe, until 
the oil is combined with the soapy water. This 
mixture may be kept for some time until wanted, 
but when about to use it one pint will be suffi¬ 
cient for fifteen pints of clean water. You could 
syringe trees with this, directing the emulsion on 
to those parts where the blight is secreted. Pre¬ 
vious to syringing all the loose bark should be 
carefully removed by means of a knife. Possibly 
a second application in a fortnight’s time would be 
necessary. While the syringing is being done you 
could remove the soil from the top of the roots 
around the trunk, where the blight hides in quan¬ 
tity in winter upon the roots. Leaving this hole 
open you should pour in a good quantity of strong 
soap-suds, leaving it to soak away amongst the 
roots, so as to kill the insects lodging there for 
the winter. In the summer time it would be 
necessary to look over the trees for any traces 
of the blight, and to use a half-worn painter’s 
brush so as to scrub the affected places with 
paraffin emulsion. You must not syringe the trees 
while in leaf. Many remedies have been used,, 
but the above are simple and well worthy of a 
trial. 
White-Leaved. Shrub. 
Could you tell me the name of the Avhite- 
leaved shrub which is often planted near the sea¬ 
side? Is it hardy, and could I make use of it 
as a hedge plant? (C. W.) 
Several plants are to be found occasionally 
under the conditions you mention, but, in ail 
probability, if the plant was a broad-leaved one 
it was Atraplex Halimus. It is also known as 
the tree Purslane. It is usually quite hardy when 
grown in inland gardens, so that you need not 
fear to plant it. You describe the leaves as 
white, but we think that grey would more nearly 
describe them than white. The effect of plant¬ 
ing them at the seaside, and especially in dry 
situations, is to make the leaves whiter than they 
Avould be in more fertile soils in inland gardens. 
We should advise you, therefore, to select a 
rather poor and dry situation for the planting of 
the hedge, so that it might grow less rampantly 
and be Arbiter than in a rich soil. 
Names of Plants. 
(E. D.). 1 , Ginkgo biloba or Maidenhair Tree; 
2 , Cotoneaster Nummularia; 3, Crataegus Pyra- 
cantha; 4, Symphoricarpus racemosus; 5 , Cotone¬ 
aster microphylla.—(A. L.). 1 . Colchicum autum- 
nale; 2. Colchicum autumnale flore pleno; 3, 
Chrysanthemum uliginosum ; 4, Crocus speciosus ; 
5, Thymus Serpvllum citriodorus aureus; 6 , 
Euonymus japonicus variegatus.—(H. Hunter) l’ 
Polystichum Angulare; 2, Asplenium septentrio- 
nale; 3, Athyrium Filix-foemina var.; 4, 
Osmunda regalis cristata; 5, Lastrea Filix-mas 
paleacea cristata; 6 . Lastrea spinulosa.— 
(C. B. W.) 1, Pavetta borbonica; 2, Ruellia Por- 
tellae; 3, Nepeta Glechoma variegata; 4, C'ero- 
pegia Woodii.—(A. R. D.) 1, Rosmarinus offici¬ 
nalis; 2, Berberis Aquifolium; 3, Viburnum 
Tinus; 4, Veronica Traversii; 5, Passiflora 
caerulea. 
Trade Catalogues Received. 
F. C. Heinemann. Erfurt, Germany.—Special 
trade offer of novelties and specialities; also 
special trade offer of a novelty for 1906. 
Otto Ivatzenstein and Co,, 373-375, Broadwav, 
New York.—Tree and shrub seeds, roots, bulbs." ’ 
Harlan P. Kelsey, 6 . Beacon Street, Boston, 
Mass, U.S.A.—Wholesale price list of Rhododen¬ 
drons, Azaleas, trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, 
etc. 
Fruits to Name. 
(John McHardy) Apple Sops in Wine (certainly 
not Lady Sudeley).—(H. M. Fraser) Apple Ked- 
dleston Pippin. 
Contents of this Number.. 
Amateur’s letter to amateurs. 811 
Apple Bismarck.818 
Apple Bramley’s Seedling . ... 818 
Apples, six choice . 818 
Beetroots, lifting and storing . 815 
Carnations and Avireworms ... ... .. 820 
Dahlias, how to store . 820 
Diary of shows and meetings ... ... 824 
Dracaenas, stove ... ". 821 
Enquire within.'825 
Ferns, gold and silver . 820 
Flower ball, Japanese, how to make a . . 821 
Flower garden, the . 812 
Fruit, British-grown . 819 
Fruit garden .812 
Gardens, our northern ... ... ... 814 
Grape Alicante.818 
Hemerocallis, a new ... ... ... .. 821 
Herbaceous border, hardy ... ... . 813 
Holly hedge ... . . 820 
Insect life .814 
Kitchen garden 812 
Orchids for amateurs . 813 
Paths, edging for tar macadam ... ... 821 
Peach Princess of Wales . 818 
Pear Catillac ... ... ... ... ... 818 
Pear Doyenne du Comice . 818 
Peas and Raspberries from Bridehead . 823 
Poultry and Pets . 822 
Society doings . ... 823 
Stove and greenhouse, the . . ... 813 
Sweet Peas from Bathgate ... ... .. 823 
Trees and shrubs, hardy . 813 
United Horticultural Benefit and Provident 
Society 822 
Variety in the garden ... . .. 811 
Vegetables all the year round ... ... 815 
ILLUSTRATIONS, 
Apple Bismarck . 816 
Apple Bramley’s Seedling . . . 816 
Apples, six choice ... ... (see Supplement) 
Beetroot, how to dig .815 
Broccoli plant, a good ... ... ... 815 
Broccoli plant, a weakly . 815 
Flower ball, Iioav to make a Japanese 821 
Grape Alicante . ... 817 
Paths, edging for ... ... . ... 821 
Peach Princess of W’ales . 816 
Pear Catillac .817 
Pear Doyenne du Comice ... ... ... 816 
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