. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. er planting. Three yearsago I bought eighty plants of Mr. Walters, of MountRadford, Exeter, and splendid trees they were, butvery few were alive eight months after, and now Ihave not one—the roots of the .Manetti rotted thermometer here has fallen this winter once tozero (December 7), but many times it has registeredover 20 of frost. I may mention that the shrubs arevery much cut : common Laurel, Laurustinus, .SweetBays, and Magnolias, if not quite dead, are fearfullyinjured—the latter, I am
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. er planting. Three yearsago I bought eighty plants of Mr. Walters, of MountRadford, Exeter, and splendid trees they were, butvery few were alive eight months after, and now Ihave not one—the roots of the .Manetti rotted thermometer here has fallen this winter once tozero (December 7), but many times it has registeredover 20 of frost. I may mention that the shrubs arevery much cut : common Laurel, Laurustinus, .SweetBays, and Magnolias, if not quite dead, are fearfullyinjured—the latter, I am afraid, past recovery. Ithink wc shall find many exhibitors of Roses whenthe time comes round unable to show their usualthirty-six or twenty-four, but will have to be contentwith a modest twelve. Perhaps other growers ofRoses would give us an account of how their Rosesare looking. E, L F, Orchid Culture.—Is it good practice, as recom-mended byone writer, to maintain a feeding atmosphereby means of decaying cocoa-fibre or leaves amongstthe epiphytal kinds ? Decay and its accompanying. Fig. 43.—I. .ALCOCKIANA (EXCELSA ACICULARIS, HORT.). (see r. 212.) Rady, Marie Eaumann, Charles Lefcbvre, CheshuntHybrid, and all the Teas, although the latter werewell protected with .Spruce Fir boughs. I am muchsurprised to find Cheshunt Hybrid and Souvenirdun Ami dead, as last year, although my thermometeronly once reached <f, or 23 of frost, yet they stood itwithout flinching, and bloomed profusely in thesummer. I have lost als3 a great number of dwarfson the seedling Hrkr and most of the above-namedsorts, with the exception of the Teas, which were wellprotected. It is the practice of some rosarians withwhom I am acquamted to cut back their Rose treesas far as the frost has affected them, which is generallyto the snow line or to the place where the mulchingreaches. I cannot think that this is a good plan, forthis reason, that by cutting you expose the pith of thewood, and tht n shou
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