. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . s, theSwedish suffer least, being harder. How to best meet thisenemy is a difficult question ; the encouragement of the birdsnamed, or of others which may play a similar part, would notdo much good, for it is stated that their mining operations ex-pose the roots to the influence of rain and frost; and, more-over, so determined are they to get all they can, that theypierce the bulbs in search of more when they have exhaustedthe knobs. As prevention is better than cure, some plan mightbe devised for the assailing of the imago, w
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . s, theSwedish suffer least, being harder. How to best meet thisenemy is a difficult question ; the encouragement of the birdsnamed, or of others which may play a similar part, would notdo much good, for it is stated that their mining operations ex-pose the roots to the influence of rain and frost; and, more-over, so determined are they to get all they can, that theypierce the bulbs in search of more when they have exhaustedthe knobs. As prevention is better than cure, some plan mightbe devised for the assailing of the imago, which, probably doesits business in the early part of the autumn.—J. R. S. C. NEW DOUBLE WHITE has not the double Zinnia been more grown than it is ?During the hot summers of 1868 and 1870 it ought to have doneespecially well, and in the former year I saw it in the gardensof M. Souchet, at Fontainebleau, very fine indeed, while somefine stands were exhibited at the Metropolitan Floral SocietysShow at the Crystal Palace last September; still they ought. to be more grown than they are, and when well done thereare few flowers more effective. There have been atttmpts toprove that there are a dozen or more varieties of colour, butthis is not so, some three or four—scarlet, orange, purple, andlilac, being clearly marked. I have now to announce a noveltyin the way of a good double white. There is a dirty white in S2 JOUKNAL OF HOBTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENEE. [ January 19, 1871. commerce, but it is a vaut rien. This has been raised inAmerica, and the stock has passed into the hands of the firmof Carter & Co., of High Holborn. The figure which is heregiven will afiord some idea of the form and character of thisfine novelty, although, of course, no idea can be given of itspurity and elegance.—D., Deal. National Tolip Society.—At a meeting of the subscribersof the Society held at Cambridge last year, after the annualshow, it was resolved that the Exhibition for 1871 s
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