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this should be the final one for the season, bearing in mind to top it 

 after it has recovered from the shift. 



When the proper time has arrived for housing all greenhouse 

 plants, should the plant in question be required to come into bloom 

 at an earlier period than the latter end of June or beginning of July, 

 make choice of a warm, sheltered part of the greenhouse for it in 

 winter, where it is away from all cold cutting winds when air is 

 given, and as close to the glass as possible, keeping the top lights 

 closed all the winter, and at the same time well exposing it to all the 

 sun it can have, which will ripen the wood more perfectly and for- 

 ward its blooming amazingly. Watering through the winter must be 

 attended to with care ; keep it in a moderate state, never allowing it 

 to get too dry, nor giving it an over supply at one time. 



Should it not be required to bloom before its usual time, it may 

 be placed in any light airy place in the greenhouse during winter. 

 A little weak manure water will be found of great benefit to this 

 plant, if judiciously given when it has arrived at its blooming season. 



Camden Nursery, Camberwell. William Barnes. 



THE STANWICK NECTARINE. 



There are few people, perhaps, in the horticultural world who have 

 not heard or read, within the last three years, something about the 

 Stanwick Nectarine, more especially when we recollect that it was 

 sent out under the auspices of a leading gardening journal, and with 

 such a high character of its merits, that but few who had the means 

 could refrain from buying it, although it was let out at an enormously 

 high price. Of that, however, few, I imagine, would have complained, 

 if the article itself had satisfied the expectations of its purchasers. It 

 has now been sufficiently proved, in several establishments, to enable 

 some of us who first bought it to offer an opinion of its merits — 

 myself being among the number. I propose, therefore, to give your 

 readers my experience of it, so far as I am at present acquainted. 



I have fruited it these last two seasons. Last year I fruited it 

 in a pot, in a peach-house without fire- heat (with the exception of a 

 few dull cold days in the spring and autumn, when a fire was put 

 on). I ought perhaps to state, that I fruited two plants under pre- 

 cisely similar conditions. It was very late in ripening, fully three 

 weeks, at least, later than an Elruge under the same circumstances. 

 The fruit commenced cracking four or five weeks previous to being 

 ripe ; and by the time it was ripe it was very much spoiled in ap- 

 pearance. In some cases it was split to the stone; in fact, it was 

 not in a state fit to send to table. The fruit was full-sized, and in 

 flavour rich and excellent, but rather dry. 



After gathering the fruit last season, — to give it, if possible, a 

 better trial, I planted both the trees out in the same house— a span 



