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K D ; Eibston Pippin, D ; Ross Nonpareil/ D ; Royal Pearmain, K D ; Royal Russet, 

 K ; Scarlet Nonpareil, D ; Screveton Golden Pippin, D ; Spring Ribston, D ; Stam- 

 ford Pippin, D K ; Striped Beefing, K ; Sturmer Pippin, D ; Sweeny Nonpareil, 

 K ; Tulip I) ; Wlieeler's Russet, D ; Winter Colmar, K ; Winter Strawberry, K D ; 

 Winter Quoininja;, K D ; Wyken Pippin, D. 



Tears. — D'Avril, Bei-gamotte Esperen, Buerre Bretonneau, Buerre Gris d'Hiver, 

 Beurrc de Ranee, Bezi de Bretagne, Bezi de Caissoy, Bezi Goubault, Cassante de 

 Mars, Cbaumontel, Colmar, Easter Bergamot; Easter Beurre, Elisa d'Heyst, For- 

 tunee, K ; Groom's Princess Royal, Jean de Witte, Josepliine de Malines, Leon le 

 Clerc de Laval, K ; March Bergamot, Morel, Ne plus Meuris, Pengthley, Prince 

 Albert, Rameau, Spanish Boa Chretien, K; Uvedale's St. Geimaiu, K ; Van de 

 Weyer Bates, Verulam, K ; Winter Franc Real, K. 



*^* The above lists of apples and pears comprise good varieties, or varieties good 

 for the season, that may be in condition in the montli of March. As nearly all 

 kinds of apples and pears of the growth of 1865 ripened very much in advance of their 

 usual seasons, there are probably very few of either class of fruits in English fruit 

 stores available for either kitchen or table. Nevertlieless the lists may be useful 

 iu such an exceptional season, if only to indicate the varieties that ought or might be 

 fit for use. It woitld be rendering a most practical service to pomology, and would 

 therefore be mutuallj' beneficial it our fruit-growing readers would seud us a few 

 particulars of their present fruit stores, giving tlie names of such kinds as are still 

 good, and such also as were iu use last month. 



Grapes. — Of last year's crop there may yet be good bunches of Black St. Peter's, 

 Barbarossa, Black Hamburgh, and Lady Downe's Seedling. Where grapes are 

 forced, supplies may soon be expected of such varieties as Chasselas Musque, Muscat 

 Hamburgh, Purple Gonstautiue, Red Frontignan, and White Froutignan. 



GARDEN WOHK. 



Kitchen Garden. — Make new plantations of artichokes, rhubarb, horse-radish, 

 and cliives. Plant main crops of potatoes. Pot a few roots of mint, and put in 

 heat for salads and sauces. Continue to force rhubarb, seakale, and asparagus. 

 Get cucumber and melon plants forward. Top dress asparagus and seakale beds. 

 Sow main crops of peas, broad beans, savoys, parsnips, onions, cardoons, and spinach. 

 Sow also small j^ itches of cabbage-lettuce, radish, cauliflower, turnip, broccoli, leek, 

 and parsley; and in gentle heat, celery, lettuce, and cauliflower, 



Frtiit Garden. — Grafting should not be delayed, as the sap is now rising. Prun- 

 ing and cleaning ought to have been completed long ago. If not so, let your motto 

 be, "Better late than never." Burn all the prunings and clippings of trees, hedges, 

 etc., and use the ashes as a top dressing for quarters of bush fruits. 



Flower Garden. — Sow hardy annuals in the borders, and a pinch of each in pans 

 and pots. Strike chrysanthemums in Inat, for planting out in May. Get daliliasto 

 "work and take cuttings. Give plenty of air to auriculas, pansies, carnations, etc., 

 and water freely during bright weather. Give weak liquid manure once a week. 

 A mixture of guano and wood ashes is a good dressing for beds of roses that have 

 not been mulched. Lay it on two inches thick. Plant Dielytra spectabilis from 

 pots in rich deep loam. Finish planting rises. 



Stove and Greenhouse. — Plants in bloom must be kept cool to prolong their 

 beauty. Give liquid manure, clear and weak, to all plants swelling their bloom buds. 

 Continue to propagate bedding stock, and use a brisk heat to everything intended to 

 be propagated. Get fuchsias into growth by a gentle bottom-heat, and take cuttings 

 for summer and autumn flowering. 



Forcing-hoHse. — Start gesnerias, gloxinias, and achimenes, if not done already. 

 Greenliousc, 50 degrees night ; 60 to 65 degrees day. Pines swelling their fruit 

 should have plenty of manure water, and a bottom heat of 85 or 90 degrees. Vines 

 and peaches in bloom must not be syringed. Thin the bunches of vines that have 

 set fruit, and use the syringe freely. Sow tender annuals and place over a propa- 

 gating tank, or otherwise start in a moderate heat. . 



