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THE FLORIST. 



require walls, and mostly south ones. The Seckel never ripens with me, the 

 first blossom perishing, the second producing deformed, small, useless trash. 



PLUMS. 



The Plums generally grown as standards are Winesour, Damsons, Orleans, 

 Reine Claude Violette, Fotheringham, Ickworth Lnperatrice, rarely Green- 

 gage. The new Plums, however, raised by Mr. C. Guthrie, Taybr.nk, 

 Dundee, are all hardy, and ripen well as standards, viz., Guthrie's New Apri- 

 cot Plum, Guthrie's Minette Plum, Guthrie's Taybank Plum ; and Guthrie's 

 Topaz and Lawson's Golden Gage are equally hardy, and are really good. 



CHERRIES. 



* This is uncertain. It ripens in great perfection at Lord Traquhair's, in Peeble- 

 shire, 700 feet above the sea, as open standards in a field, thought to have been brought 

 from France 100 years ago by a Catholic priest. Also at Preston Hall, 350 to 400 feet, 

 as standards, while it will not do so close to the sea in this neighbourhood. There are 

 evidently very many varieties of this excellent fruit, and bad ones are yearly imported 

 from the French nurseries. 



