. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. e dormantbuds, , those budded last autumn, are dead, hardlya Tea has survived. Standards have fared nearly asbadly, and numbers of the dwarfs we have had to cutquite back to get any buds to start at all. The hotsun and cold winds of last week have told tales evenon those Roses we hoped had escaped ; branches arecontinually withering away, and necessitate the soaking of manure-water will be most beneficial. Ihope I am a false prophet, but I do not anticipate agood Rose year. E. L. F. The Hyacinth
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. e dormantbuds, , those budded last autumn, are dead, hardlya Tea has survived. Standards have fared nearly asbadly, and numbers of the dwarfs we have had to cutquite back to get any buds to start at all. The hotsun and cold winds of last week have told tales evenon those Roses we hoped had escaped ; branches arecontinually withering away, and necessitate the soaking of manure-water will be most beneficial. Ihope I am a false prophet, but I do not anticipate agood Rose year. E. L. F. The Hyacinth at Home. — I visited the bulbfarms about Haarlem on April 18 and following days,and saw the Gardeners Chronicle there of the 17th,in which, on p. 49S, your correspondent speaksfavourably, and justly so, of the appearance of Hya-cinths being better than last year. I smiply write incase many of your readers, like myself, might havebeen impressed by what is stated, that the generalfailure in this country in Hyacinths may be attributedto our own fault in growing them, but this is not so; and. Fip. 104.—A FROM BORDIGHERA. frequent use of the knife. Those trees that havestood the frost are breaking very unevenly, numbersof the young shoots are blind, and on the whole Inever remember seeing Roses look worse. I amafraid that however favourable the weather may be,that fine show blooms will be few and far between, atleast so far as this part of England is concerned. TheRoses that have survived the best are Marquis deCastellane, Madlle. Marie Cointet, La France,Madame V. Verdier, Baroness Rothschild, E. Morren,Dupuy Jamain, Abel Grand, Abel Carricre, & east winds have as usual brought thousands ofthe Rose maggots : these ought to be carefully soughtfor, and the leaf pinched between finger and this is not done every Rose attacked by these pestswill be injured, as they eat into the heart ol the youngRose-bud. If the weather continues dry, a good Mr. Krelage, who
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