THE 



FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



THE EARLY ASCOT PEACH. 



WITH AN ILLUSTBATION. 



^ROM excellent samples communicated by the Eev. W. F. Radclyffe, the 

 accompanying illustration of this choice second-early Peach has been pre- 

 pared. It was raised a few years since by Mr. Standish, of the Eoyal Ascot 

 Nursery, and proves to be a variety worth introducing to general cultiva- 

 tion. Our note of Mr. Eadclyffe's fruit runs thus : — Fruit middle-size, roundish, 

 somewhat depressed, with a shallow suture. Skin flushed with bright red on 

 nearly all parts, suffused on the shady side with crimson, and on the exposed side 

 with a deeper blood-red, almost black. Flesh slightly tinted with red at the stone, 

 from which it parts freely, pale greenish straw-colour, with abundant juice, and an 

 excellent flavour, Mr. Eadclyffe reports that the tree is hardy, and a good setter, 

 and moreover suggests that its name ought to have been called Eoyal Ascot. 



This variety belongs to the section which bears small flowers, and has small 

 roundish reniform glands on its petioles. We learn from Mr. Standish that it 

 was raised from the Elruge Nectarine, fertilised either by the Noblesse or 

 Barrington Peach, no exact record of the cross having been kept. It may fairly 

 ))e given a place amongst meritorious novelties. — T. Mooee. 



NEW CARNATIONS. 



4b|T is very rarely, indeed, at the present day that one is able to introduce a 

 jjy list of new varieties of Cai'nations. So precarious are the seasons in regard 

 '^(S^ to saving seed, and so small is the number of those who take an interest in 

 ^S" raising seedlings, that the appearance of choice nev/ varieties has become a 

 rare occui'rence. Since, however, many of the fine old varieties have become scarce, 

 we may hope that some spirited growers of the Carnation may be induced to 

 try their hand at raising new meritorious varieties, so that this popular flower may 

 keep the high position in which it has always hitherto stood. The raising of any 

 new flowers, from seed, is a most interesting amusement. For a beginner to be 

 successful in his enterprise, it is very essential to have a few good, healthy, strong- 

 growing selected varieties of the very best kinds, choosing those that produce 

 but moderately full, or rather thin flowers, as these generally produce most 

 seed, and the newer the varieties selected the better, as recent seedlings of 

 all florists' flowers generally produce seed in greater abundance than the 

 3rd series. VI. B 



