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THE GARDENING WORLD 
January 26, 1907. 
You have not told us what time you lifted 
them, nor the conditions of lifting. As far 
as we can guess, the only thing you can 
do now is to examine them to see whether 
the wood is alive and good, or otherwise. 
Trees that are dead should be dug up, and 
those that are partly alive should have all 
the dead wood cut out, and if they are going 
to live they will push into growth in spring. 
Trees that are ten years old should have 
been, lifted and transplanted about the be¬ 
ginning of November. It would even have 
been advantageous if you knew you were 
going to move to have root pruned the trees 
twelve months ahead, and by that means you 
would have got plenty of fibrous roots not 
far from the main stem of the tree. Trees 
that are actually dead may be replaced by 
young trees obtained from the nursery. It 
would be a good plan when getting trees to 
make certain that they are grafted upon 
the dwarfing stocks, as they produce more 
fibrous roots than Crab stocks, and are nearer 
the surface. They, therefore, lift better 
than those grafted on the Crab. Such trees 
also bear fruit while quite small. 
1475. Melons and Cucumbers. 
I should be obliged for any information 
re growing Melons. I wish to grow them 
either in a small house 8 ft. by 5 ft. with¬ 
out heat (very sunny), or one which is heated 
but not particularly sunny, or I could start 
in the latter and transfer to the former in 
June. I propose Hero of Lockinge and 
Triumph. I should like them to ripen in 
June. Can I grow Cucumbers in the same 
house? I did very well with them in the 
cold house last year. Of course, I should 
not hope to have a really good crop, but 
just a few for the house. (Ajax, Stafford¬ 
shire.) 
You can grow Cucumbers in the same 
house with Melons, but it is risky for the 
simple reason that Melons should be kept 
drier when ripening, with more ventilation 
than is given to Cucumbers. The latter 
should be shaded, while Melons do best in 
the full sun. You may raise the Melon 
seedlings in the warm house at present, but 
you could not expect to get Melons to ripen 
in June, if you do not transfer them to that 
house before that period. A better plan 
would be to raise the seedlings in the heated 
house, and when they are about ready to 
plant out you should make up a hot bed in 
the unheated house. You may surround this 
hot bed with a wall of loose bricks or with 
boards, for appearance sake. On the top 
of the bed you should place a hill of gcod 
soil in which to plant the Melons. To get 
them ripened in June, with your convenience, 
it is now high time to sow the seeds, and 
then transfer them to the hot bed as soon 
as they are large enough. 
GARDEN ENEMIES. 
1476. Blight on an Apple Tree. 
I am enclosing herewith a cutting from 
an Apple tree with what appears to be a 
blight upon it. Will you kindly let me know 
what it is, and what I should do to get 
rid of it? (E. J. E., Essex.)' 
The Apple shoot was very thickly covered 
with the eggs of some insect, but we do not 
recognise them in this stage. Your best plan 
would be to syringe the tree with paraffin 
emulsion or kerosene emulsion. It is made 
up by dissolving \ lb. of soap in 4 gallon 
of water. Add 2 gallons of kerosene oil 
or paraffin, and churn the mixture thor¬ 
oughly with the syringe until they form a 
thick, creamy liquid. The tree may be 
syringed with the emulsion after you have 
diluted it at the rate of one part of the 
emulsion to nine parts of water. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Barr and Sons, 11, 12 and 13, King Street, 
Covent Garden.—Barr’s Seed Guide. 
Stuart and Mein, Kelso, Scotland. Gar¬ 
dening Guide. 
Howden and Company, Inverness.— How- 
den’s Garden Seeds. 
William Deal, F.R.H.S., Kelvedon, Es¬ 
sex.—Seed Potatos of Proved Merit; also 
Deal’s “ Brooklands ” Specialities. 
B. S. Williams and Son, Victoria and 
Paradise Nurseries, Upper Holloway', Lon¬ 
don, N.—Seed Catalogue. 
Stewart and Co., 6, Melbourne Place, 
Edinburgh.—Stewart’s Stronghold Seeds. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
(A. Henley) Asparagus medeoloides (gener¬ 
ally named Smilax in gardens).—(C. B. G.) 
With the material to hand the tree is evi¬ 
dently Crataegus punctata xanthocarpa (the 
yellow-fruited variety from North America, 
and which has had various names m gar¬ 
dens). There are yellow, orange and white 
fruited varieties of the British Hawthorn, 
but the fruits of yours are .spotted with 
brown and of a different shape.—(C, W. 
Thomas) 1, Epiphvllum truncatum; 2, As- 
plenium bulbiferum fabianum; 3, Pteris 
Wknsettii; 4, Polypodium appendiculatum. 
—(H. Mason) 1, Aspidistra lurida; 2, Be¬ 
gonia metallica; 3, Begonia Rex var.; 4, 
Pelargonium denticulatum; 5, Pelargonium 
quercifolium.—(Interested) h, Vallota pur¬ 
purea; 2, Fuchsia macrostemma variegata. 
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