The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ants must be taken indoors for forthe winter in any case. C. arcturus is propa-gated by cuttings. Dracxnas: J. S. The insect sent is one of theweevils. Trap them and destroy them at not stick a pin through them while still alive,and send them in that condition through thepost. It would not be humane to treat a politicalprisoner in that way I Erratum.—At p. 182, col. A, at end of article on*Pine-apples, for GOa and 828, read 6-incb and8-inch. Hydrangeas: A. B. The statement in question isgenera
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ants must be taken indoors for forthe winter in any case. C. arcturus is propa-gated by cuttings. Dracxnas: J. S. The insect sent is one of theweevils. Trap them and destroy them at not stick a pin through them while still alive,and send them in that condition through thepost. It would not be humane to treat a politicalprisoner in that way I Erratum.—At p. 182, col. A, at end of article on*Pine-apples, for GOa and 828, read 6-incb and8-inch. Hydrangeas: A. B. The statement in question isgenerally credited, but we are not aware of anydefinite experiments in support of it. The saltsemployed are often given by florists to youngplants after they are struck, especially when theseare flowered in the first year. A common practicewith market growers. LvsECTs: H. B. The insects which have eatenthrough the underground portions of the stems ofthe Lily of the Valley are caterpillars of a moth(all dead, but evidently those of the small brownSwift moth). Sift the earth carefully where the. FiCi. 41.—THE SWIKT MOTH. drooping plants show the enemies to be at work,also water with gas-tar water mixed with soap-sudf,and put soot on the surface round the plants. W. Kerosene Emulsion : A. B. Prof. Rileys formulais as follows :—Kerosene, 2 gallons = 67 per cent.;common soap h lb., water 1 gaUon = 33 per the soap and water, and add it while boilingto the kerosene ; churn the mixture by a force-pump and spray-nozzle for five or ten 3 gallons of emulsion, so prepared, forms athick cream, to use which one part should bemixed with nine parts of cold water, and usedwith a spray-pump. Lastrea riLis mas: A. E. It is deciduous. Madeira Whortleberry: Peak. Vaccinium padi- folium, syn. V. maderense. Its fruits are pink and green coloured. Names ov Fruits: J. H. J. 28, Cellini; bS> Durae-lows Seedling; 78, Claygate Pearmain ; 1, Bed-fordshire Foundling ; 27, Yorkshire
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