36 THE FLORIST. 



yellow, the finest of this colour. To these, I think, may be added the 

 Red and White Antwerp, and a new American double bearing sort 

 called Caterina, which 1 introduced last year from Boston. This 

 produces fruit of the same size and quality as Fastolff, but which has 

 the advantage of yielding a second crop in September. 



As to the best manure for Raspberries, I think Peruvian guano to 

 be very good, but it should be applied in a liquid state, and only about 

 a handful in a bucket of water, well stirred twice, and then decanted. 

 My Fastolffs are now in their fourth year upon the same place, and may 

 with proper care continue very well for three or four more years. 

 Others I used to plant early about six inches deep and five feet apart 

 in rows, and as soon as the canes got strong I trained them to sticks 

 or poles placed in the middle of two, half the number of canes to the 

 left and half to the right, leaving the young shoots growing upright for 

 the following year. In spring, as soon as they show their first leaves, 

 I prune at three or four feet from the ground, according to the strength 

 of the canes. The double-bearing sorts are to be cut down much 

 shorter, in order to insure a good autumnal crop. All my Strawberries 

 are planted in rows four feet apart, and one-and-a-half in the line; in 

 this way they produce fruit in the highest degree of perfection. I let 

 them stand three years, at the expiration of which they are destroyed, 

 and renewed in rows in the centre of the old ones, thus continuing the 

 plantation in the same plot. 



Yours, dear Sir, 



Very respectfully, 



F. Gloede. 



I gave my Raspberries a leetle too much Peruvian, solid ; those, 

 however, which survived the shock have borne grandly this year, and 

 the canes are of extra strength. Monsieur F. G. has promised to come 

 and see the Rector of Rushton. I hope he will do so. — W. F. R. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 I remember once reading in your pages a rather satirical remark, 

 that horticulture was flourishing everywhere except at head quarters, 

 meaning, I suppose, by what followed, Chiswick. From all I hear of 

 that establishment at the present time I fear matters are not at all 

 satisfactory there now. I am told one-half the men have been dis- 

 charged, and that a gloomy uncertainty hangs over its paralysing 

 action, inducing a belief that its days are numbered. As you are 

 supposed to know something of state secrets, and if not a cabinet 

 minister, I dare say now and then get a peep behind the scenes, and 

 can see how the horticultural pendulum wags — or, like Mr. Wellington 

 Guernsey, may get hold of a stray dispatch — I hope you will say some- 

 thing about it, because I remember how hopefully you wrote a twelve- 

 month back pf the prospects of the society. How soon it was then 

 expected to emerge from beneath the clouds of adversity into the full 

 blaze of favour and patronage, and what a prosperous career of use- 

 fulness you marked out for it. Now, Mr. Editor, have your predictions 



