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treatment with those in private gardens, where they are very often 

 grown on heaps of rubbish or manure, growing luxuriantly and 

 fruiting but little. The above facts will, I trust, help to demonstrate 

 the correctness of the theory propounded by the above-mentioned 

 writers ; and I for one will, if it can be avoided, never attempt to 

 grow fruit-trees and vegetables together — nor, after seeing the many 

 healthy Standard trees heavily laden with fruit in the vicinity of 

 London, go in for any Pyramids, which, however shapely and well 

 managed, are seldom profitable. I think the Editor would have done 

 well to have mentioned the few varieties of Apples he finds so use- 

 ful in his district, as it is not yet too late to plant. Here the market- 

 growers confine themselves to a very few varieties — the majority 

 being kitchen-Apples, as one of the first questions usually addressed 

 to the salesman by the buyers is, " Will they cook ? " To the growers, 

 the other essentials are size, colour, and productiveness. One of the 

 best is Blenheim Orange ; other favourites are Bess Pool, Wellington, 

 Hawthornden, Hollandbury, Reinette de Canada, Warner's King, 

 King of the Pippins, and Hanwell Sowing. 



W. Iggulden. 

 Ousett Hall, Essex. 



[The varieties we referred to are : Lord Suffield, Stirling Castle, Round 

 Cat's Head, King of the Pippins, Blenheim Pippin, Croftanry, New Haw- 

 thornden, Keinette de Canada, George the Fourth. — Ed.] 



NOTES FROM THE PAPERS. 



The 'Garden,' speaking of the culture of that most beautiful and deservedly 

 popular flower the Bouvardia, in the London market gardens, says : — 



" Messrs Low & Co., of Clapton, are the largest cultivators of Bouvardias in 

 pots, and the way in which they grow them is as follows : In autumn old 

 plants which have done flowering are cut down nearly close to the pot, and 

 placed in a moderately cool dry temperature. After Christmas is over a little 

 more heat is given them, and they are frequently syringed overhead ; this has 

 the effect of starting into growth a number of shoots from the bases of the 

 plants. These, when sufficiently firm, are taken off, made into cuttings, in- 

 serted singly in 3-inch pots, and plunged in Cocoa-nut fibre on a gentle bottom- 

 heat. These cuttings, under favourable circumstances, soon strike root, when 

 they are potted in 5-inch and 6-inch pots in good fibrous loam and leaf-mould or 

 rotten manure. As they advance in growth they are subjected to a cooler and 

 more airy temperature than that in which they were struck, and when well 

 established all the light, air, and sunshine possible are admitted to them, and 

 they receive copious supplies of water at their roots. From these plants cut- 

 tings are taken with which to form a successional batch of plants ; they are 

 taken off when the plants have made three or four leaves, the two lower joints 

 only being left on the plants. From these joints strong shoots are soon 

 emitted ; these, when 4 or 5 inches long, are also stopped ; and this operation is 



