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Pippin, Sam Young, Golden Pippin, Court of Wick, Golden Harvej, 

 Reinette du Canada, Sturmer Pij^pin. 



Ttcelve hltclien ajyples — Hawthornden, Cox's Pomona, Emperor 

 Alexander, Blenheim Orange, Lord Suffield, Mere de Menage, 

 Dumelow's Seedling, Eymer, Bedfordshire Poundling, Northern 

 Greening, Baxter's Pearmain. 



Chereies.— May Duke, Elton, Black Tartarian, Late Duke, 

 Kentish, Morello. The two last are the best for culinary 

 purposes. 



Peaes. — Ticelve dessert pears — Doyenne d'Ete, Jargonelle, Bon 

 Chretien, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Marie Louise, Autumn JSTelis, 

 Glou Morceau, "Winter Nelis, Knight's Monarch, Josephine de 

 Malines, Easter Beurre, Madame Millet. 



Plums. — TiceJve dessert ])^uiiu — Green Gage, Early Favourite^ 

 De Montfort, Denuiston Superb, Kirkes, Jeftreson, Huling's Superb, 

 Purple Gage, Transparent Gage, Guthrie's Late Green, Reine 

 Claude de Bavay, Late Black Orleans. 



Six kitchen ])lums — Early Prolific, Prince of Wales, Victoria, 

 Diamond, Belle de Septembre, Autumn Beauty. 



I have arranged the above selections in the order of ripening, 

 thinkiug that plan preferable to an alphabetical arrangement ; 

 and it would be better to plant several of one kind, than to have 

 large collections, some of which are good in name only. But in the 

 above I have by no means exhausted the lists of good kinds, as there 

 are many more worth growing. 



ARCTOTIS GRANDIPLORA ARGEXTEA. 



IN" the spring of 1867 I got two small plants of this new 

 bedder. I kept them in the greenhouse, in six-inch 

 pots, till summer. In June, 1867, I put one plant in 

 a cold frame, and left the other in the house. In 

 October I took the plant which was in the frame, and 

 placed it in the greenhouse. In March, 1868, the plant which had 

 been kept in the cold frame during the previous summer looked 

 well, and many of the branches had made roots at their joints j the 

 other plant of Arctotis died. 



Last April I made several dozens of cuttings. Most of them had 

 roots to begin with, but all grew rapidly, and in the beginning of 

 May I had good-sized plants sufficient to fill a bed, and some to 

 spare. I planted them out. The old plant looked very bad at this 

 time ; I took it out of the pot, and put it in the open ground, where 

 it soon recovered, and now measures four feet across. It grew to 

 this size without care, for during the past scorching summer I never 

 even watered it. 



The Arctotis plants bedded out, although near a south wall, 

 exposed to the full blaze of the sun and never watered, did not 

 suffer, they never flagged ; in fact, water was so scarce that I had 



