The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . anding,but in many places they do well in the natural in sharp gritty land, where there is plenty ofmoisture, they grow freely, and are a grand sight thisyear, as one and all are laden with flowers, which therain came just in time to help the plants to expand,and the dull cool weather since has been much intheir favour, y. Shcppardy Woolvcrstotic Park. The Bloom of Hollies and of Haws.—Neversurely did these bloom with such profusion, givingpromise, as you say, of an abundance of berries forf
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . anding,but in many places they do well in the natural in sharp gritty land, where there is plenty ofmoisture, they grow freely, and are a grand sight thisyear, as one and all are laden with flowers, which therain came just in time to help the plants to expand,and the dull cool weather since has been much intheir favour, y. Shcppardy Woolvcrstotic Park. The Bloom of Hollies and of Haws.—Neversurely did these bloom with such profusion, givingpromise, as you say, of an abundance of berries forfood of birds and Christmas decoration. The flowerswere late as well as plentiful, and the welcome rainswill help set the fruit, provided the cold and the thermometer at freezing point on themorning of June S does not mar the promise of a fullharvest of berries, D. T. Fish. The Hollyhock Disease.—Will you please in-form me through your paper what is ailing the en-closed Hollyhock leaves ? I have not seen the disease ;is this it ? Edw. Jones, Pcnysloiic, Koss. [Yes, the. Fig. 145.—THE HOLLYHOCK DISEASE, true Hollyhock disease, Puccinea malvacearum (), which we illustrate with a view of putting othergrowers on their guard. Every affected leaf shouldbe picked off and burnt. Eds.] Hardy Kinds of Broccoli.—The exceptionallysevere winter we have so recently passed through hasshown in an unmistakable way how much the diflerentkinds ot Broccoli vary as regards hardiness, and I amglad to see that several correspondents are givingtheir experience respecting them, as what they saywill be a guide to many what sorts to plant in quan-tity. Like Mr. F. Jaques, I would add my testi-mony to the great merits of Model as a most reliablesort for standing severe frost, for while the ranks ofothers standing alongside and enjoying the same con-ditions have been thinned out to something like 90per cent, with us, very few of the Model were killed,and it was late in the fi
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