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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



to be sent out by Messrs. Saltmarsk and Son, of Chelmsford. It is as 

 perfect a bedder as was ever seen, babit very dwarf, leaves dark green, 

 flowers profusely produced, and as good as those of Attraction. Ano- 

 ther is Bed Riding Hood, sent out by Mr. Hally, of Blackbeatb: It is 

 of almost diminutive growth, the leaf has a dull zone, the flowers 

 scarlet, the peculiar glitter of a mass of this will make it a favourite 

 wherever it is seen. The third of these is Beauty of Waltliam ("W". 

 Paul), a close habited, thrifty, neat growing bedder, with large trusses 

 of red scarlet flowers, which are produced so profusely as to completely 

 cover the plant all the summer long. The last is Lady Cowper, sent 

 out by Mr. E. P. Francis, of Hertford. It is of dwarf habit, compact, 

 and bushy, with small bright green leaves and light scarlet flowers. 



These are all that I can recommend as " indispensable." More 

 than a hundred seedling geraniums were brought forward last year, and 

 they were all good. But as good geraniums already abound, amateur cul- 

 tivators need only such novelties as are very distinctive, and also good. 



Since the above was written the Chronicle has proposed to call these 

 plants Garland Pelargoniums. The proposal will never be adopted 

 except perhaps by half a dozen mad people. S. II. 



A NEW INVENTION FOR ERUIT WALLS. 



No one can look on an old fruit wall 

 without a feeling of regret that the 

 common practice of nailing trees is so 

 terribly destructive. You see the 

 wall pitted all over with holes, as if 

 it had suffered from small-pox, and 

 you know that every year it must get 

 worse, and that as the holes deepen, 

 widen, and multiply, all the moths, 

 butterflies, eawflies, and other pests 

 that make havoc with garden pro- 

 luce have increased opportunities for 

 concealing their eggs where they will 

 be sure of warmth and shelter, and 

 the more sure, therefore, of per- 

 petuating their kinds for the per- 

 petual plague of the gardener and the 

 destruction of the best results of his 

 industry. Gardeners have, of course, 

 speculated on tbe possibility of over- 

 coming this evil in the culture of wall 

 fruits. Some have adopted the more 

 sensible system of nailing between the 

 bricks, and have patiently allowed 

 lookers-on addicted to the system of 

 nailing on the bricks only, to laugh 

 at them for their supposed folly. For 

 nailing between the bricks it is needful 

 the mortar should be good, which is 

 rarely the case ; but it will always be 

 worth while to prepare the wall in 

 the first instance, by means which 



every bricklayer understands, for 

 nailing between the courses, than to 

 nail on the bricks themselves, for the 

 simple reason that pointing repairs 

 the mortar completely, but to put a 

 new face on bricks that have literally 

 lost their surface is next to impossible, 

 and in any case the best that can be 

 done entails muck expense and 

 trouble. A still further advance in 

 the right direction is the use of 

 wires, which is more commonly 

 practised on the Continent than in 

 this country. In the " Garden 

 Oracle" of 1864 we recommended 

 the "eyelet wall nails " for this pur- 

 pose ; and they have, as we know, 

 been largely adopted, and the trees 

 have -been better trained by tying 

 them to trellises of galvanized wire 

 than by the old system of nails and 

 shreds. A still farther improvement 

 is the invention of Mr. Foxley, for 

 which he has taken out a patent. 

 By this invention the trees are tied 

 to the wall itself, and there is an end 

 of all need for repointing, all pitting 

 and punching the surface of the 

 bricks, and all nails, wires, laths, or 

 other complexities. " Foxley 's patent 

 beaded bricks " are furnished on the 

 face with stout beads, and these 



