October 24, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
them ? I have a good pit which can be kept 
at a high temperature. What heat would 
you suggest? (J. S. Lang side, Glasgow.) 
To make certain of getting good plants to 
fruit during the winter and spring, it is 
advantageous to make three sowings at in¬ 
tervals between the end of August and the 
end of October. Your only chance now is 
to make two sowings of seeds, one at once 
and another by the first of November in 
order to get Cucumbers by the time you men¬ 
tion. 1 he seeds may be sown in a tempera¬ 
ture of 70 degs. as a minimum by night. 
After the plants have made some growth 
you could, of course, allow a rise of 5 degs. 
of heat during the day or io degs. with sun 
heat. It is necessary to be very careful 
with Cucumbers in winter. In dull, cold 
and wet weather you should not syringe the 
foliage, but sprinkle the floor and walls 
in order to get the necessary moisture. 
Irain the plants up to the roof and be very 
careful in heating, watering and airing the 
structure. Various composts have been em¬ 
ployed for Cucumbers, but you cannot im¬ 
prove upon good mellow loam, enriched with 
some well-decayed manure, but you can feed 
when watering is necessary, using liquid 
manure, guano or any of the good patented 
manures. 
FRUIT. 
3323. Treatment of Fruit Trees. 
I have a number of fruit trees, chiefly 
Apples, which were planted about eight 
years ago and have been neglected for the 
last three or four years. I have removed 
the grass, etc., for several feet round the 
trees and replaced it by a coating of man¬ 
ure. I intend giving another dressing qf 
manure in March. Will you kindly say if 
what I have done is correct ? Also, if the 
suggested operations appear to you to be 
best under the circumstances? (Hamp- 
tonian, Middlesex.) 
You have done wisely in removing the 
grass around the trees, provided you have 
lifted it about as far as the tree roots, or 
most of them, are likely to extend. We 
should then advise you to use a fork to loosen 
up the suface of the soil over the area from 
which you have removed the grass. The 
manure could then be applied not too deeply 
as it keeps the roots cold in winter. Then, 
when the weather is getting warm about 
June, you could apply another dressing suf¬ 
ficiently decayed to be of service in supply¬ 
ing nourishment to the roots. (See under 
“Garden Enemies” for your other ques¬ 
tion). 
3324. Apples for Name and Uses. 
As a constant reader of your valuable 
paper, might I ask if you would kindly 
give me the names of the enclosed Apples, 
their seasons and uses ? I have not num¬ 
bered them, but should recognise them by 
the three degrees of comparison, namely, 
positive, comparative and superlative. The 
trees were in the garden when I bought the 
place, so I have no knowledge of -what they 
are. (J. Baker Guy, Sussex.) 
According to your method of naming, 
positive was Yellow Ingestre, a dessert 
Apple in season during September and Oc¬ 
tober ; comparative was Pickering Seedling, 
dessert, January to March, but only' of 
second-rate quality; superlative was Brani- 
ley’s Seedling, cooking, January to March. 
3325. Pears and Apples with their 
Seasons. 
Will you kindly name the enclosed Pears 
and Apples and state when they should 
ripen ? Also, whether kitchen or dessert. 
(Reader, Beckenham, Kent.) 
The Pears were as follows :—1, Too much 
decayed for recognition; 2, Marie Louise 
d’Uccle, dessert, ripening in October; 3, 
Beurre Clairgeau, dessert, November, but 
not of best flavour; 4, Uvedale’s St. Ger¬ 
main, kitchen, January to May; 5, Louise 
Bonne of Jersey, dessert, October; 6, Beurre 
Diel, dessert, November and December; 7, 
Durondeau, dessert, October and November; 
8, Beurre Bachelier, dessert, December; 9, 
Knight’s Monarch, dessert, December to 
!• ebruary; 10, Broompark, dessert, Novem¬ 
ber and December; n, Duchess d’Angou- 
leme, dessert, October and November; 12, 
Swan’s Egg, dessert, October; 13, Beurre 
Hardy, dessert, October. The Apples 
are : —i) Nelson’s 'Codlin, kitchen, November 
and December; 2, Gold Medal, kitchen, Oc¬ 
tober and November ; 3, Claygate Pearmain, 
dessert, November to March; 4, Norfolk 
Beaufin, kitchen, December to July; 5, Cox’s 
Orange Pippin, dessert, November to Febru¬ 
ary ; 6, Ribston Pippin, dessert, October to 
May. 
GARDEN ENEMIES. 
33 26. Crease-Banding 1 Fruit Trees. 
I propose shortly putting on grease bands 
on my fruit trees, spraying the stems in 
January with caustic soda solution and 
afterwards spraying after the blossom falls 
with Paris green. I may mention that most 
of the trees bore fruit this summer, but it 
nearly all fell through the Codlin Moth, 
and also, no doubt, poorness of soil. (Hamp- 
tonian, Middlesex.) 
The Winter Moth (Cheimatobia brumata) 
commences to ascend the trees about the 
middle of October, so that you should com¬ 
mence to grease-band your trees at once. 
Probably you are uncertain whether you 
have got the Winter Moth or any of the 
others which succeed it. There are really 
three moths that requiie the trees to be 
grease-banded. First, the Winter Moth about 
the middle of October, then the Mottled 
Umber Moth from November to the end of 
December, and, lastly, a third moth which 
ascends the trees in March. You will be 
able to ascertain, however, if you have got 
the W inter Moth by the presence of wing¬ 
less, crawling, female moths on the grease- 
bands, or if you do not get any that moth 
may not be present in your orchard. To 
make certain that you have none of those 
three moths, it would be necessary to keep 
the grease-bands fresh until the end of 
(March. The caustic soda solution would 
serve to destroy moss and lichens, as wekl 
as eggs upon the trees. That could be done 
in January as you say. The Paris green 
is a suitable insecticide with which to com¬ 
bat the Codlin Moth during summer. Use 
it at the rate of 1 lb. to 200 gallons of water 
or at the rate of 1 oz. to 20 gallons of water. 
You should get the Paris green in the form 
of a paste, as it is very poisonous, but in the 
form of a paste does not fly about in the 
wind. You must not inhale it, hence the 
reason why we advocate the use of it in the 
form of a paste. You are quite right in 
commencing to spray just after the blossom 
falls and while the young fruit is still erect, 
k.s the eggs of the Codlin Moth are laid in 
the eye and the young caterpillar hatching 
out there commences to eat its way into the 
interior, but gets poisoned owing to the 
presence of Paris green. If you wait till the 
young fruits hang their heads downwards, the 
Paris green would not be so effective. There 
is more than one brood during the season, 
and if any of your fruits fall next year 
you should have them gathered up imme¬ 
diately and burned or completely destroyed 
to kill the grubs in them. At the same time, 
give the trees a smart shake and all worm- 
eaten fruits will drop. Gather them at once 
and destroy. It would be a good plan to 
put a band of hay, straw or cloth round the 
trunk of the trees in July, and the Codlin 
Moths, looking for a hiding-place, will crawl 
up the trunk of the tree, and lay up under 
these bands, which should be collected dur- 
ing September and burned to destroy the 
grubs or pupae laid up there. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
(W. H. G.. Lancs.) 1, Saxifraga trifur- 
cata; 2, not recognised; 3, Veronica Teu- 
crium dubia; 4, not recognised; 5, Sedum 
spunum; 6, Lupinus polyphyllus, probably. 
\ou should send flowers and leaves when 
in bloom as a piece of a leaf is not suffi¬ 
cient to identify many things. 
(J. Sturt) The large orange and cream 
flowers are Nemesia strumosa Suttoni; the 
small rose and yellow flowers are Gilia mi- 
crantha, often named Leptosiphon roseum 
(rose) and Leptosiphon aureum (yellow). 
(Tomas) 1, Veronica Reine des Blanches; 
2, Centaurea nigra. 
(T. Moss) 1, Cortaderia argentea; 2, 
Chrysanthemum uliginosum ; 3, Aster Novae- 
Angliae pulchellus; 4, Aster dracuncu- 
loides; 5, Erigeron speciosus. 
(M. C.) 1, Clematis Vitalba ; 2, Crataegus 
Pyracantha. 
NAME OF FRUIT. 
(M. V., Torquay) Apple Reinette Grise. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Wm. Lumley, Dawn Nurseries, Denville, 
Havant, Hants.-—List of Sweet Peas. 
Henry Drew, Longworth, Faringdcn, 
Berks. Catalogue of the Thames Valley 
Roses. 
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Good manures properly applied and at 
the right time are very effective, but there 
is also the question of the suitable or pro¬ 
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“Electroplasm” seems called upon to 
produce remarkable results, judging from 
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has obtained marvellous results in the 
cultivation of Tomatos by the use of 
“Electroplasm.” From a house 14 ft. by 
60 ft., say about 93 square yards, he cut 
four different kinds of saleable fruit 
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long distances to see .this house. The 
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other phases of intensive gardening have 
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profits reckoned without calculating the 
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