HORTICULTURAL GLEANINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19964, 4 December 1926, Page 3

HORTICULTURAL GLEANINGS.

Tying Raspberry Canes to Wires.—What a tedious job this is when one tics each cane separately. The following method will be found to save hours of work: Get a ball of thread as used by saddlers, wind this on to a small or medium sized cotton reel. Then, having fastened the thread to the post at the end of the row, place your first cane against the wire and give , the thread a twist round the cane and wire; continue on in like manner all the way up the row It is advisable to knot the thread to the wire, say. every 20 canes, in case ot the thread breaking and so running loose all the length of the row. It is equally a saving of time when cutting away thcld canes the following year, • • • A Great Horticulturist.—Horticultural journals by a recent mail record the deatn of Mr T. W. Sanders, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., j who had held the position of editor of i Amateur Gardening for 39 years Mr Sanders was familiarly known as the grand old man of British horticultural journalist#, and his death a) the age of 70 is regarded as a great loss to British gardening. In newspaper notice? of his demise, it is mentioned that he was the author of nearly 40 volumes, all of which were written to help die small Hollyhock Rust.—The spore clusters of this fungus occur as hard brown warts on the underside of the leaves and as elongated streaks on the stems. The chief causes of the spread of this disease are the growing of hollyhocks for ioo lonp a neriod in the same situation and poor •oil Hollyhocks are “gross feeders. ’ and the soil in which they are crowing soon becomes impoverished. The hollyhock site should be changed e\erv few years and the soil well enriched. The plants should be treated as biennials All hollyhocks in f ected with hollyhock rust should _ be Hnrnt and the ground treated with lime, and you should avoid planting in the same nosition for several years. » » » * Genturies-olcl MulW-y Tree.—The venerable mulberrv tree which crows in the Cooper Public Park Flgin. (be capital of Moravland |« now for tlm first tmae for many vears, bearing a crop of fruit. Leading "ithoritie* estimate its ace to Vie several ' b.indrerls of years and suggest tb t it •mi=f have been planted bv some dignitary Klein Cathedral now a beautiful ruin, ‘n fbe davs when that fine pile was in its nri'tine clorv. Re that as it may. the t rro ’, fme. bealtbv annearancn says much for the favourable climate of Morayshire.

La Tosca: A Jewel Among Autumn Roses.—An Englishman justifiably sounds the praises of this fine rose, and declares that with all the glory of our modern highlv coloured roses of the pernettiana class, the rose-growing public retains its affection for this old but exquisite autumn rose. The colour of La Tosca is delicate blush, with quite a silvery sheen, and the form of the flower and habit of growth possess extreme elegance. La Tosca is a rose which should be but lightly pruned in spring, but it will in New Zealand benefit in an especial degree by being judiciously relieved of spent growth in January.