January 19, 19 °7 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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over it again could not overdo it unless there 
are injurious combinations of sulphur and 
iron amongst the material. If we had a 
ready means of getting rid of it we should 
not employ it on the garden, seeing that it 
is of no manurial value. We regard it only 
as useful in a mechanical way by making 
the soil more porous. 
1454. Clay and Chalk. 
My garden has rather a heavy top soil 
about i8in. deep, then clay about 2ft. deep, 
and underneath the clay, chalk. W 7 ould it be 
of any advantage to mix some of the chalk 
with 'the top soil, and if so mixed would it 
do good to the vegetables and kill wile- 
worms? (Amateur, Oxon.) 
Your soil is a very heavy one, but it is 
of a nature that can be made very fertile and 
durable for the raising of vegetable crops 
for many years. It would be highly advan¬ 
tageous to mix the top soil with chalk which 
would improve its condition both from a 
chemical and mechanical point of view,, and 
at the same time help to deepen the soil. 
Indeed, a little of the clay underneath the 
top i8in. of soil might be mixed with the 
latter from time to time, and this will 
greatly increase the root run for plants and 
the fertility of the soil. We cannot say that 
the chalk will kill or even injure the wire- 
worms. We believe they are quite plentiful 
everywhere whether the soil is of chalk or 
clay. It is simply a question of the.roots of 
grass and other vegetation being present that 
enables them to live. Some are of opinion 
that a crop of Mustard grown and then dug 
into the soil will kill or drive away wire- 
worms but we think this requires practical 
demonstration. A better plan is to fre¬ 
quently disturb the soil as often in summer 
and winter as you can. In winter this ex¬ 
poses the wireworms to birds, and about 
July and August, when the wirewOrms are 
passing into the pupa stage, the disturbance 
of the soil is very injurious to them. You 
can always trap them by means of pieces of 
Carrot or Potato buried in the soil near 
valuable plants. Bran and oatmeal in some¬ 
thing that just allows wireworms to get in¬ 
side will also attract them. If you recog¬ 
nise the bettles which hatch out from these 
wireworms it would be well to set about 
trapping them in summer by means of hand¬ 
fuls of Clover laid down here and there, c-r 
any other green food which attracts them. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Kelway and Soy, Langport, Somerset.— 
Kelway’s Manual. 
Hogg and Robertson, Ltd., 22, Mary 
Street, Dublin.—Garden Seeds. 
The Old Custom 
Was to buy seeds in shilling or half-crown packets 
but this 
Was ExtraYagant 
because much of She seed was wasted 
The New Custom 
James Walsh, Portadown, Ireland.— 
Walsh’s Garden Seeds. 
Robert Sydenham, Tenby Street, Birming¬ 
ham.—The Best Vegetable & Flower Seeds. 
John Forbes, Buccleuch Nurseries, Ha¬ 
wick, Scotland.—Catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds. 
Geo. Massey, Spalding.—Garden Seeds. 
S. F. Richmond, Chrysanthemum Nur¬ 
series, Ossett, Yorks.—Descriptive Cata¬ 
logue of Chrysanthemums. 
Fidler and Sons, Reading.—Catalogue of 
Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
Little and Ballantyne, Carlisle.—Gar¬ 
den Seeds. 
Agricultural and Horticultural Asso¬ 
ciation, Ltd., 92, Long Acre, London, W.C. 
—One and All Seeds. 
Dickinson and Sons, Springbank Road, 
Hither Green, Lewisham, London.—Seed 
Catalogue. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
(Matthew Brown) Odontoglossum luteo- 
purpureum sceptrum.—(R. L.) 1, Daphne 
Mezereum ; 2, Pernetiya mucronata.—(A. E. 
Stopford) 1, Cypripedium insigne; 2, Cy- 
pripedium leeanum ; 3, Cypripedium insigne 
Maulei.—(T. Bentley) 1, Asplenium fonta- 
num ; 2, Asplenium Trichomanes ; 3, Scolo- 
psndrium vulgare crispum ; 4, Cyrtomium 
falcatum ; 5, I.omaria ciliata; 6, Blechnum 
occidentale.—(A. C. Read) 1, Gasteria 
verrucosa; 2, Agave americana variegata; 
3, Zebrinia pendula ; 4, Ophiopogon Jaburan 
variegatus; 5, Coprosma baueriana varie¬ 
gata. 
Horticultural Societies’ 
Diary 
of Forthcoming Meetings. 
Abbreviations used. 
A.—Association 
Am.—Amateu s 
Chy.—Chrysanthemum 
c.m.—Committee meeting 
Cott.—Cottage or cottagers 
D.—District 
G.—Gardening or gardener 
Thus :—The Templeton G. Am. and Cott. M.I.H.3 
Gardeners, Amateurs’ and Cottagers’ Mutual Improve¬ 
ment’ Horticultural Society. 
NOTICE TO SECRETARIES. 
H.—Horticultural 
M.I.—Mutual Improve¬ 
ment 
m.m.—Monthly meeting 
S.—Society 
w.m.—Weekly meeting 
Will secretaries of horticultural societies 
kindly send us at their earliest convenience 
dates of shows and meetings to be held 
during iqoyl 
January. 
21st.—Horsforth G. M. I. S. (w.m.) ; 
Shirley, and D. G. and Am. A. 
22nd.—R. H. S. (Bi-m. Exhibition and 
Meeting.) 
23rd.—Harrietsham G. S. (m.m.) 
26th.—-Leeds Paxton S. (w.m.) ; Benfield- 
si’de and D. Sweet Pea S. (m.m.) 
A Tiny Plant.— One of the most 
diminutive of its class in the world is the 
Arctic Raspberry, which is so small that 
a six-ounce phial will hold it, stem, leaves 
and all. 
A Big Christmas Trek. — The biggest 
private Christmas tree ever seen in Eng¬ 
land was one which the Duke of Norfolk 
had cut from his own estate, and con¬ 
veyed, with much trouble, to Arundel 
Ca9tle. It stood 70 feet high, weighed 
nearly four tons, and bore on its branches 
presents to the value of ,£4,500. 
Plant Growing by Artificial Light. 
— Experiments, says a correspondent of 
the “ Morning Post,” have recently been 
made near Budapest, with the ! ’Kitson 
light in the cultivation of plants, and ex¬ 
traordinary results have been obtained. 
In a certain garden in Kobanya it was 
noticed that the flowers were much larger 
and better developed in one part than in 
the other, and investigation showed these 
were exposed directly to the rays of the 
“Kitson ” lamps, which are in use there. 
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