January 5, 1907. 
THE GARDENING WORLD . 
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chiefly consist of thinning the weak and use¬ 
less shoots where they happen to be crowded. 
The first crop produced will come from the 
upper portion of last year’s wood, but while 
these fruits are growing and ripening young 
shoots will again be produced, and these in 
their turn will begin to produce fruits at 
their base. During the course of our season 
the fruits on the lower part of the shoots 
should attain their full development and 
be gathered as the second crop: Some people 
stop the young shoots in order to make them 
ripen more of the second crop, but this should 
not be practised too severely as it would 
necessarily limit the bulk of the first crop 
next year. 
1405. Loganberry and Strawberry-Rasp¬ 
berry. 
Which do you consider the most profitable 
fruit to gtrow for making jam—the Logan¬ 
berry or the Strawberry-Raspberry ? I have 
seen fruits of them, but not plants in fruit. 
Which is the easiest to grow? The soil of 
the garden is light. (S. Stillman, Staffs.). 
Both of the fruits you mention are Bram¬ 
bles of fairly easy oulture, but the Logan¬ 
berry would bear by far the largest quan¬ 
tity and probably the most useful fruits of 
the two for preserving. It may be (trained 
much in the same way as the Raspberry, and 
probably, if you could train them over 
arches of wood or wire, they would be in 
their most 'natural position and ripen more 
fruits than if they were trained upright or 
if shortened to conform with stakes. After 
they are fully established they produce very 
long canes, which carry plenty of fruit. 
The Strawbaitry-Rasp berry is only 12 in. to 
18 in. high, and bears only a few fruits, 
sometimes only one on the top of each stem. 
1406. Fine Variety of Gooseberry. 
We are going to another house and the 
landlord says we must not remove the fruit 
bushes. I should mot trouble much about 
that, but there is one very fine variety of 
Gooseberry I would like to preserve, as I do 
not know the name and could not perhaps 
get it again. It bears a green hairy berry of 
medium size, fine flavour and bears well. 
Can you suggest the name or say what I 
should do? (S. W. R., Lincolnshire). 
Possibly the variety is what is known as 
Langley Green in some parts of the country 
or else Greengage. Your best plan would 
have been to have taken some ripe fruits or 
a fruiting spray to your nurseryman and 
asked him the name of it when in season. 
In the meantime the bushes you are leaving 
should want pruning and isurely you can 
use some of the cuttings to preserve the 
variety. 
1407. Fruit to Name. 
Will you kindly tell me the name of the 
enclosed Apple. (James Nicol, Yorkshire). 
The variety is Tower of Glarnis. 
SOILS AND MANURES. 
1408. Basic Slag and Moss. 
Can anyreader of The Gardening World 
inform me if basic slag is good for a lawn 
full of moss and Daisies? (Northern, 
Stirlingshire). 
Basic slag is very useful for a variety of 
soils, particularly those of peaty, clayey or 
sandy nature, as well as moorlands, wet 
meadows and marshy soils. It supplies 
manure that plants oan take up after a time 
when it becomes soluble, and grass en¬ 
couraged to grow by this means would out¬ 
grow the moss and Daisies. We presume 
that your soil is wet or else shaded by trees, 
otherwise moss would be less plentiful. If 
drainage is really necessary, this should be 
accomplished. At the same time basic slag 
can be used at the rate of 4^ cwt. per acre. 
When in the form of a very fine powder it 
contains from 14 to 20 per cent, of phos¬ 
phoric acid and lime. Besides being useful 
for lawns or pasture it is also useful for 
Potatos and various garden crops if sown on 
the soil in February. Besides basic slag you 
might also use a small spriuikling of nitrate 
of soda or sulphate of ammonia, which both 
contain an element of plant food which is 
usually rather scarce in soils. Thus, in 
conjunction with the basic slag, would en¬ 
courage a vigorous growth of the grass. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Webb and Sons, Wordsley, Stourbridge. 
—Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
Dickson, Brown and Tait, 43 and 45, 
Corporation Street, Manchester.—Garden 
Seeds. 
William Bull and Sons, Chelsea, London. 
•—Bull’s Catalogue of Seeds. 
John Peed and Son, West Norwood, 
London, S.E.—Peeds’ Seeds. 
James Carter and Co., High Holborn, 
London.—Garden and Lawns. 
Dicksons, Royal Seed Warehouses, 
Chester.—Garden Seeds, etc. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
(J. D.) 1, Jasminum nudiflorum; 2, Ligus- 
trum ovalifolium foliis aureis; 3, Euonymus 
japonicus aureus.—(G. C. Hedges) 1, Pavetta 
borbonica; 2, Elaeodendron orientale 
(usually named Aralia Chabrieri in gar¬ 
dens) ; 3, Aralia Veitchii elegantissima; 4, 
Oplismenus Burmani variegatus (usually 
named Panicum variegatum in gardens); 5, 
Scirpus cemuus (often named S. gracilis).— 
. (W. S. Western) 1, Cyrtomium falcatum 
caryotideum; 2, Cyrtomium falcatum; 3, 
Asplenium bulbiferum fabianum; 4, Asple- 
nium Belangeri; 5, ‘Pteris quadriaurita 
argyraea; 6, Adiantum Ghiesbreghtii.— 
(R. W.) i, Laurus nobilis; 2, Pernettya 
mucronata. 
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A Visit to . . . 
WINDLESTRAWLEE 
NURSERY. 
Some little time ago we visited the 
nurseries of Mr. .David W. Thomson, 113, 
George Street, Edinburgh. The prin¬ 
cipal and oldest nursery is Windlestraw- 
lee, situated in the Granton Road, and 
convenient of access either by train or by 
tram. The acreage of this nursery has 
just had an addition of four acres of new 
land added to it, and the ground is of the 
same fertile character as the rest of the 
nursery. 
Trees and shrubs are the principal 
feature of the nursery, seeing that forest 
trees are grown in quantity, as well as 
street and park trees, shrubbery, and fruit 
trees. Scotch Fir and Larch of one and 
two years old are grown by hundreds and 
thousands. Indeed, the transplanted 
Larch extends to over two millions. Other 
forest trees which we noted in quantity 
were seedling Beech, Spruce, and Pinus 
Laricio. Amongst ornamental subjects 
were five to six thousand Ivies in pots, 
Rhododendron ponticum, as well as 
named varieties, Spiraea, Philadelphus, 
flowering Currants, Mountain Ash, and 
the Japanese Larch. The latter is of 
an ornamental character, but it is grown 
here for forestry purposes. Fruit trees 
include some five thousand standard 
Apples, and good plantations of Boskoop 
Giant and Victoria Black Currants. 
The Boswall Road nurseries, belonging 
to the same firm, are now well stocked 
with a great variety of subjects, including 
Larch, Scotch Fir, Abies Douglasii, 
Hollies, English Yevy, Laurels, Cherries, 
Aucubas, Portugal Laurel, double pink 
and scarlet Thorns, the purple-leaved 
Plum, the Crab John Downie, beautifully 
coloured Euonymus radican.s, variegatus 
Bu'xus japonica aurea, and Cornus 
sibirica elegantissima. The latter is 
highly popular in the north, and is the 
silver-leaved form of the Siberian Dog¬ 
wood. Rosa rugosa is in favour, and 
several of the hybrids of it are also grown, 
including Mme. Georges Bruant, highly 
fragrant and beautiful in bud, and Sou¬ 
venir de Philemon Cochet, which has 
double white flowers slightly tinted with 
flesh colour in bud and highly fragrant. 
In the way of fruits, noteworthy Apples 
are Charles Ross, budded on the Para¬ 
dise, James Grieve, one of the best dessert 
Apples, Lord Grosvenor, and Norfolk 
Beauty, the latter being a new variety 7 
and of great promise. Cherries were also 
thriving well. 
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USEFUL INSECTS. 
A writer in “ Revue de l'Horticulture 
Beige,” with some assistance from M. 
Paul Noel, director of the National En¬ 
tomological Laboratory of Rouen, dis¬ 
cusses the utility of some of the earth 
beetles in the garden. Some of the earth 
beetles (Carabus) are natives to this coun¬ 
try, and are the friends of gardeners and 
gardens. The Golden Carabus (Carabus 
auratus), which every horticulturist has 
seen running over the soil, eats the larvae 
of cockchafers. The Harvest Carabus 
(C. monilis) eats slugs ; it is more elon¬ 
gated, and its brown wing cases are only 
slightly golden. The Wood Carabus (C. 
arvensis) feeds on earth worms; it is much 
smaller than the previous ones, and quite 
black. The Entrique Carabus (C. En- 
trichus) devours caterpillars and slugs; 
its reddish brown clothing covers a body 
as strong as that of the golden Carabus. 
Another Wood Carabus (C. catenulatus) 
eats slugs; smaller than the preceding, it 
yet resembles it, but its legs are more 
shining. The Black Carabus (C. nemo- 
ralis) attacks earth worms and slugs. 
Another golden Carabus (C. auronitens) 
is also their great enemy. The purple 
Carabus (C. purpurascens) eats cockcha¬ 
fers ; it is valuable. Its purple-black 
clothing makes it a beautiful insect. 
To this, it may be added that twenty 
species of Carabus are recorded as native 
to the British Isles, including a large 
number of the above-named. Some of 
them are common, others rare. Of those 
named. C. catenulatus, C. purpurascens, 
C. monilis, C. arvensis, C. nemoralis, and 
C. auratus are British, but C. auronitens 
doubtfully so. The most common of the 
British species is C. violaceus, a large 
and handsome beetle, frequently to be 
met with under stones and clods of earth. 
As they get their living on the earth they 
are fitted for running, and many of them 
cannot fly at all. They are not plant 
enemies, and should never be destroyed. 
