AUGUST. 235 



" Yet with all these improvements, and no one can deny that they 

 are improvements, I miss the dense black and wire edge I so well 

 remember on Aker's Lord Brougham, Ibbot's Captain Dean Dundas, 

 and Keynes' Ne Plus Ultra : and while our growers are conning over 

 these few rambling and discursive remarks, I can only say, if they are 

 fortunate enough to produce a flower combining these qualifications, 

 with the present breadth of petal, fulness of flower, and smoothness of 

 edge, no one will be more ready and willing to chronicle their success, 

 and rejoice at their good fortune than 



^ "J. H. B. 



" I append a list of the best thirty-six Pinks cultivated by me in the 

 past season. 



New Criterion (Maclean). 

 Mrs. Norman (Norman). 

 James Hogg (Bragg). 

 Jolin Stevens (Looker). 

 Richard Andrews (Turner) 

 Elizabeth Gair (Lightbody). 



Criterion (Maclean). 



Jupiter (Bragg). 



Theresa (Marris). 



Mrs. Lewis (Keynes). 



Lord Cliarles Wellesley (Bragg). 



Fanny (Hardstone). 



Mr. Hobbs (Looker). 

 Koh-i-noor (Bragg). 

 Alarm (Elri(Ige). 

 Brunette (I\Laclean). 

 Criterion (Ellis). 

 Field Marshal (Hale) 



Colchester Cardinal (Norman). 



Hercules (Bragg). 



Ada (Read). 



Great Britain (V7ard). 



Juliet (Looker). 



Mr. Hoyle (Looker) . 



Duke of Devonshire (Turner). 

 Sarah (Turner). 

 Esther (Turner). 

 Sappbo (Colcutt). 

 Mrs. Wolfe (Keynes). 

 Favorite (Hudson). 



Adonis (Maclean). 

 Perfection (Turner). 

 Optima (Turner). 

 Louisa (Phillips). 

 Colchester Buck (Norman). 

 Titus (Edwards). 



" Our kind contributor, an amateur florist, has been no less happy 

 than just in his retrospective and recommendatory hints on Pinks. 

 [J.E.]" 



THE APPLE CROP OF 1856. 



The crop is this year a very thin one in Yorkshire, considerably below 

 the average. This is what I anticipated fi-om the very heavy crops of 

 last year, which not being thinned, robbed the trees of all their 

 nutritious matter, so that a season of rest is required to store up 

 sufficient for another heavy crop, to be followed by another season of 

 rest. To remedy this state of things, I have advocated a proper 

 system of culture, such as thinning of spurs, buds, fruit, _&c. Our 

 orchardists attribute the failure of their crop to our late spring frosts, 

 and not to their own mismanagement in letting the trees go unpruned 

 and uncared for, never thinning the fruit when the crop is very heavy. 

 In America they have their " bearing year " and season of rest in 

 neglected orchards, but they do not, as we do, attribute it to late spring 



