November 8, 19rvv. 
THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
845 
than this, namely, that the failure on the 
part of^the climbing ro^ to provide a full 
crop of*flowers during the past season was 
due mainly to neglect in checking the 
spread of the aphides early in the year, 
and so the pest crippled the growth of 
the plants 4or the whole season. This year 
I saw many climbing roses infeste<l with 
aphides that were sapping the life of the 
plant, and not a single remedy to cheek 
the progress of the fly had been attempted, 
on the weak plea that there was a bad 
attack and there was no use troubling 
further. My experience is that if the 
climbing roses are thoroughly syringed with 
an efficient insecticide directly the first 
aphides are seen, and again as a preven¬ 
tive in ten days’ time, they are kept quite 
clean for a considerable period, growth 
makes progress, and the flower buds 
develop fully. 
FRAGRANCE IN THE 
GARDEN. 
Few will quarrel with tlie assertion that 
fragrance in the garden is not so well ar¬ 
ranged for as in the old days, when various 
herbs, most of tliem with fragrant leafage, 
were considered as essential—as much for 
their sweetness as their economic value. In 
common fairness, how^ever, it must be 
allowed that this matter of fragrance in 
the garden is again receiving attention; 
in one direction it finds expression in an 
outcry against the multiplication of scent¬ 
less roses, sweet peas, and carnations, and 
in another direction we find sites in well- 
orderetl gardens devoted to hardy plants 
that yield sweet perfume through leaves 
or flowers, but especially through the 
former. 
With his usual originality, Sir Frank 
the day is also ma<le good use of, and 
sliould be borne in mind by every planter 
who walks in the garden at the cool of 
the evening. Alas! too many gardens now- 
a-<lnys lack “avreet siivour,” therefore, at 
this season of the year, when alterations 
and new plantings are !>cing carried out, 
the illustration of the fragrant garden at 
Friar Park may be left to point its own 
moral, “with all thy getting, gc»t sweet¬ 
ness.” C. H. C. 
PINUS ARMANDI. 
In general appearance this Chine.se 
spec'ies bears a striking rt'somblance to the 
Blue Pine of the Himalaya. Pinus cxcelsa, 
ami the Hickory Pine of Mexico, P. Aya- 
cahuite. But a close infiiKHTtioii wdll show 
that it is quite distinct from either sj>eoie6, 
both by reason of the curious kink at the 
the GABDEN of fragrance Ai rudAii 
Tlw> residenoe of Sir Frank Crisp. Bart. 
There are many insecticides now avail- 
‘^ble, but the one that I have found most 
efficient is known as Katakilla, at the rate 
til two ounces of the powder to three gallons 
soft cold water. I dissolve the powder 
in a little water, and then add the full 
quantity, keeping the whole well stirred, 
and applying it with an ordinary fine- 
nozzled syringe, thoroughly wetting the 
stems and foliage. This spraying is 
done in the evening, as then the 
liquid dries very slowly, and is, as 
^ ^consequence, more deadly in its effects 
®n the pests. 
I give my plants a thorough washing with 
cjoan water the following morning, to 
oloanse the foliage of dead insects. I may 
^d that this preparation leaves no sedi- 
lu^t on the leaves. p. Molyneux, 
Bishops Waltham. ^ 
► Bart., has a sun-dial garden, which 
^ “a garden of sweet scents and 
irs ” at Friar Park, Henley. Here, in 
it ’box-edged beds and beside paved 
ways old-fashioned herbs are asso- 
d with the best of modern fragrant 
bs Lavenders, thymes, sages, mints, 
borage, bergamot, sweet cicely, mar- 
n and many another plant that found 
iir with the housewife and the house- 
er a few generations ago, find a suit- 
home, and there are artemisias, pmks 
carnations, mimuluses and santolinas, 
Iruff and violets, phlbxes and gum cis- 
sweet briars and honeysuckles, and 
y another herb or shrub to add their 
m of form and colour to that of sweet- 
The knowledge that some plants and 
^rs diffuse their fragrance more readily 
tie evening Hian at pny other time of 
base of each leaf, and by its shorter, wider, 
and blunter co'ncs. Belonging to the five¬ 
leaved section of the genus, it promises to 
become quite as useful for decorative pur- 
poses as either of the better-known species, 
although the largest trees in this country 
are barely more than eighteen feet high. 
These are growing in the Arboretum at 
Kew, and were raised from seeds collected 
by Professor A. Henry, at Mengtze, in 
Yunnan, about 1877. They coned for the 
first time twelve years later, but so far no 
fertile seeds have been produced. 
In its native habitat it attains a height 
of 60ft., and is de-scribed as having smooth, 
greenish bark. The branchlets are smooth 
and glabrous, or sparingly clothed when 
young with small haire. The leaves are 
slender, glaucous, and four to six inches 
long, while the cones also are four to six 
inches long. W. D, 
