September 12, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
593 
rfiole has been shaken up in this way. It 
hould be kept as loose as possible with the 
bjeot of encouraging rapid fermentation, 
n the course of two or three days it will 
equire turning a second time. Proceed as 
tefore, only putting all the ranker and less 
otted material into the centre of the conical 
leap. Usually this second shaking up is 
|uite sufficient, and you can proceed to build 
ip the heat at the end of six or seven days. 
Tie manure should be shaken out so as to 
rake it blend uniformly in the new heap 
r bed. The bed should be 3 ft. wider and 
ft. longer than the frame or frames to be 
ut upon it. The sides should be as nearly 
erpend icular as possible. As the bed is 
eing made up, tread it down firmly and 
qually in all parts of the bed. This pre-‘ 
ents violent heating and tends to preserve 
:ie heat for a much longer period of time, 
'he frame may be put upon it at once, cover- 
ng it with a certain depth of soil according 
0 requirements. No doubt, after a day or 
wo the bed will be heating rather strongly 
nd moisture ascending. A little ventilation 
hould be given to let the vapour escape, 
'ou should have a thermometer in the frame 
3 ascertain when the manure is at the proper 
smperature for what you wish to put in the 
rame. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
210. Seed Pods of Honesty. 
Will you please tell me how the Honesty 
Lunaria) seed pods are blanched, as we got 
hem while in the shops? (J. Bryan, Wilts.) 
As a rule, it is unnecessary to blanch the 
ods of Honesty, as the whole pod is not 
ea.lly retained. If the plants were allowed 
3 grow until nearly mature the valves of 
he seed pod would then come away, leaving 
he frame-work or partition behind. It is 
his partition that presents the beautiful 
atiny or silky appearance. This, of course, 
5 the condition of them after the valves have 
een separated or have fallen away of their 
wn accord. What yow should do is to let 
hem ripen until the valves of the pod come 
way. If any blanching were necessary, 
hen that could be done with a solution of 
hloride of lime. We do not think this is 
ecessary, however, if you get the pods at the 
ighit stage of growth, so that the seed valves 
rill presently fall away. 
NAMES OF PLANTS . 
(R.L.) 1, Tilia petiolaris ; 2, Spiraea lind 
eyana; 3, Spiraea japonica W T atereri; 4 
Spiraea Douglasii; 5, Pieris floribunda. 
(T. Lock) 1, Campanula lactiflora; 2 
edum spectabile; 3, Eupatorium cannabi 
um; 4, Malva moschata alba; 5, Saponari; 
fficinalis flore pleno; 6, Helenium autumn 
le. 
(A.'S.J.) 1, Thymus Serpyllum lanugi 
osus; 2, Achillea tomentosa ; 3, Polygonun 
mne; 4, Mentha Requieni; 5, Origanun 
ulgare; 6, Linaria pallida;' 7, Linarfi 
ymbalaria. 
iE. D. Robson) 1, Phygelius capensis; 2 
oreopsis grandiflora; 3, Erigeron speci 
sus;- 4 , Eryngium planum; 5, Pentstemoi 
lartwegi. 
(Reader) 1, Campanula latifolia alba; 2 
occonia cordata; 3, F.pilobium angusti 
0 mm; 4, Lythrum Salicaria rosea ; ^ 
ox paniculata var. ; 6, Veronica virein 
T .P onar ^ a officinalis. 
(^.Williams) 1, Phvteuma orbiculare ; 2 
cabmsa arvensis; 3, Centaurea scabiosa 
■ Bartsia Odontrtes ; 5 . Erythraea Centaur 
™ ; 6 ’ Onobrychis viciaefolia. 
onia GUrney) Fatsia iaponica; 2, Be 
; racLrt? Siana / 3 ’ Orn itho g alum longi 
racteatum; 4 , Gasteria verrucosa. * 
■ l< 1 r > Roblnla vjscosa; 2, Rhus tv 
phina ; 3, Physostegia virginiana ; 4, Antir¬ 
rhinum Asarina; 5, Linaria pallida. 
(I., Somerset) The Roses are florists’ 
flowers, which we cannot undertake to name. 
(Tomas) The dark purple flower is Sedum 
Telephium; the pink one in the middle of 
your paper is Eupatorium cannabi num; the 
yellow one is Pulicaria dysenterica. You 
shoufd number specimens sent and retain a 
duplicate set of them. 
(G. Isaac) The three Dahlias you send us 
are decorative Dahlias, not Cactus Dahlias. 
We do not undertake to name them as they 
are florists’ flowers, that is, they have been 
improved by man and do not grow wild 
in any part of the world. 
NAMES OF FRUITS . 
(Hurstwaite Radcliffe) The red Apple is 
Mr. Gladstone; the other is Cellini. 
(J. J. Ellesmere, Shropshire) 1, Apple 
Irish Peach ; 2, Apple Beauty of Bath. 
(C. Etheiington) Apple King of the Pip¬ 
pins (Net in season till November).- 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
V\ ebb & Sons, Wordsley, Stourbridge.— 
Webb’s Bulb 'Catalogue, 2nd edition. 
Dobbie & Co., Seed Growers and Florists, 
Rothesay, N.B.—Autumn Catalogue. 
Dickson’s, Chester.—Choice Flowering 
Bulbs, &c. 
Y\ illiam Fell & Co. (Hexham) Limited, 
Hexham. — 'Bulbs for Autumn and Spring 
Planting. 
D. Stalker and Son, Balmoral House, 
Nairn, N.B. — Catalogue of Bulbs, Roots, 
etc., for Spring Flowering. 
Prank Dicks and Co., 6S, Deansgate, 
Manchester.—'Bulb List. 
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Green Fly, 
Of these tiny insect pests so well- 
known and well-detested by the gardener, 
a writer in the “-Daily Telegraph” ob¬ 
serves that they reproduce themselves— 
that is to say, propagate—with astounding 
rapidity. The great Linnaeus, a hundred 
and fifty years ago, came to the conclu¬ 
sion, from his observation of one kind or 
species, that in one year a single aphis 
would produce a quintillion of descen¬ 
dants. Without insisting upon the exact 
numbers in different kinds of aphides, we 
may say that that is a fair indication of 
the rate at which they produce young. 
No sooner does a mother aphis produce 
some thirty or forty young, than in a few 
hours or days, according to the warmth of 
the season and the abundance of' food, 
these young have grown to full size and 
themselves each produce the same num¬ 
ber of young, and so on through the sum¬ 
mer, and even into the autumn. Nine¬ 
teen rapidly-following generations have 
been counted in some kinds of the plant- 
lice. Hence it is no wonder that these 
little creatures increase exceedingly and 
cover the leaves and shoots on which they 
feed; no wonder that they furnish a plen¬ 
tiful nourishment for the ladybirds which 
prey on them. But the most curious 
thing is this, that these abundant and 
rapidlv-reproducing broods of aphis are 
all females, and that they do not lay eggs, 
but extrude their young in a more or less 
complete state of development, that is to 
sav they are viviparous. They are all 
females! It is onlv late in the season 
that males are prodticed ) 
Thousands of 
Pounds 
Thrown Away. 
Spend sixpence in buying 
Vi Cocoa, and medicine will 
be found unnecessary. 
The proper assimilation of the 
food they eat is of paramount im¬ 
portance to every man, woman and 
child. 
Dr. Tibbies’ Vi-Cocoa, taken 
regularly at breakfast and supper, 
will do more to assure this than 
aDyVnedicine ever invented. 
For Vi-Cocoa is not only self- 
digesting in itself, it also assists 
in the digestion of other foods. 
Though thousands of pounds are 
thrown away every year on drugs, 
they cannot replenish the ' system 
after the daily wasting of tissues. 
But Vi-Cocoa, which is neither a 
medicine nor a mere thirst-assuager, 
will do this when taken regularly. 
Dr. Tibbies’ Vi- 
Cocoa can be obtained 
everywhere for the 
small sum of sixpence 
per packet. \ ou can 
try it free of expense. 
Write to Vi-Cocoa, 12, Henry Street, 
London, W.C. for a dainty sample tin 
of Dr. Tibbies’ Vi-Cocoa free and 
post paid. It is a plain, honest, 
straightforward offer. It is done to 
introduce the merits of Vi-Cocoa into 
every home. 
Scaffold Poles round a house that is 
being built at Hadleigh, Essex, have 
taken root and are in leaf. 
Agrimony. 
Agrimony', the blooming of which be¬ 
wrays the coming autumn—for when the 
yellow flowerets reach the top of the 
spike the summer will be ended—ap¬ 
pears this year to be unusually abundant 
around London, especially upon the 
claydands of Essex. According to the 
old herbalists, Agrimony must be the 
most versatile of British plants. It is 
“good for them that have naughty 
livers,” as well as for “such as be bitten 
with serpents.” To stop haemorrhages 
an appalling prescription was “Agri¬ 
mony, pounded frogs, and human blood,” 
the last ingredient being delightfully 
homeopathic. The leaves are used in 
rural districts as a kind of tea, and by- 
American farmers to cure fever. The 
tiny flow-ers were once thought to cure 
cataract. From these beneficent quali¬ 
ties' Agrimony was at one time called 
“ philanthropos,” but old Gerarde, who 
considers himself a whale at derivations, 
savs that the name arose from the seeds 
clinging to the clothes of passers-by, as 
if through sheer love of mankind. 
