FOREIGN AND MISCELLAJVEOUS NOTICES. 



tarine, originally obtained from the same gen- 

 tlemen, the one having a sweet, the other a 

 bitter kernel. — Ibid., p. 25. 



Walbvrton Jldmirable Peach. — Raised near 

 Arundel, Sussex, and supposed to be a seed- 

 ling from the JCoblesse, which it much resem- 

 bles, but is more valuable in quality, in conse- 

 quence of its ripening from three weeks to a 

 month later, or about the same time as the late 

 Admirable Peach. Flesh melting, parting free- 

 ly from the stone; leaves serrated, glandless. 

 Ripe and in fine perfection this season, (1850,) 

 the first week iu October. — Rivers in Florist, 

 p. 11. 



Strawberries. — Of these. Keen's Seedling, 

 Princess Alice Maud, British Queen, Old Pine, 

 Comte de Paris, and Elton, are recommended 

 as the best by Mr. Whiting; and Black Prince, 

 Wilmot's Prince Arthur, Kitley's Goliah, and 

 Myatt's Surprise, as being worth atrial. — Flo- 

 rist, p. 9. 



Market Gardening. — The land can well sus- 

 tain so much cropping, on account of the heavy 

 dungings, trenchings. and hoeings, which it re- 

 ceives. If you ask a market gardener what is 

 to succeed this or that crop, the answer is 

 ' ' Don't know ; it depends upon what is ready 

 for planting." Continued trenching two spades 

 deep seems expensive ; but market gardeners 

 know that after an active crop the top soil for 

 several inches is quite exhausted, and hence the 

 reason for continued trenching, to bring up the 

 top soil that but a few months before had been 

 turned down, with a large proportion of dung 

 to enrich it, and fit it for active use along with 

 the half decayed manure. The laborers em- 

 ployed on 150 acres are seventy during winter, 

 and in summer about 150. The cost per acre 

 is from £9 to £10; the tithes being 10s. to 12s. 

 per acre. Some idea of the amount of labor 

 consumed on small matters will be conceived 

 when I state that the whole of the frames, 

 amounting to one thousand lights, and the hand 

 glasses, to four thousand, are repaired every 

 autumn. — Gard. Chron., p. 4. 



Dickson's Emperor Jpple. — Size large, form 

 irregular, slightly ribbed, color yellow, with 

 dashes of carmine red interspersed, as well as 

 with numeroxis minute specks of yellowish straw 

 color; the side most exposed to the sun colored 

 with a rich reddish brick color ; stalk unusual- 

 ly short for so large a fruit; indicating that it 

 will not be liable to be blown from the tree by 

 the wind, an important merit; eye very large, 

 irregular, and very deeply sunk, cavity for seeds 

 small; flesh yellowish white, juicy; flavor ex- 

 cellent, keeps till January; bears abundantly 

 as a standard, and is certainly one of the very 

 best apf)les in existence. It was raised at Sea- 

 clifFe Gardens, near Prestonkirk, Scotland, by 

 Mr. Arthur Calder, the gardener there. — N. 

 B. Jour, of Hort., p. 27. 



Grafting Cacti.— 'M.v. J. C. Bidwell, of Ti- 

 nana. New South Wales, recommends Cereus 

 triangularis as being a superior stock for graft- 

 ing the trailing kinds upon. He states it will 



No. VIII. 



bear great heat, considerable coolness, any 

 amount of wet above ground, and in rich soil 

 will make a shoot six feet from a cutting of six 

 inches in one season. " My advice to gardeners 

 iu England who wish to procure gigantic speci- 

 mens of slow-growing Cacti in a short space of 

 time, is to procure plants of C. triangularis, 

 plant them in any rich soil, give them plenty 

 of heat and water; when high enough, stop the 

 shoots, in order to make the angles thicker, 

 and graft at a time when the stock is attempt- 

 ing vigorously to sprout at every eye. A graft 

 of C. Mallisonii, three inches long, six months 

 after, has seventeen shoots all pushing at the 

 tips: eight of the largest are twelve to fifteen 

 inches long, and none of the rest less than six 

 inches." The original plant of C. Mallisonii, 

 growing in the same place in the same time, 

 barely replaced the shoot taken off to graft. — 

 Gard. Chron., p. 22. 



Oxalis Bowei, in the open garden. " The 

 earth was removed to the depth of two feet ; I 

 then introduced eight inches of drainage, lay- 

 ing on the top of it a layer of fresh turf, with 

 the view of preventing the soil falling into the 

 interstices. I then filled up the bed with equal 

 parts of well-rolled turfy loam and leaf-mould 

 intimately mixed together. In May I turned 

 out the plants, and placed them so that the 

 bulbs might be three inches below the surface. 

 Thus circumstanced, I have never found them 

 to receive any injury, with the exception of the 

 foliage being destroyed by frost. They flower 

 beautifully every autumn." — Ibid. p. 39. 



Nursery Reform. — Mr. Rivers, in the last 

 number of our excellent contemporary, the 

 Florist, has successfully stripped of its rags 

 one of the idols which the folly of collectors 

 has set up for the admiration of simple garde- 

 ners. " Nothing in floriculture," he says most 

 truly, " has marched so rapidly and steadily 

 onward as an improved and common-sense taste 

 for roses. It is only a few years since all the 

 gardening world used to talk of the 2000 vari- 

 eties of roses grown by the Messrs. Loddiges; 

 and happy was the amateur who could beat his 

 rival by a score or two of varieties ; I mean va- 

 rieties in name, and not in fact. In this we had, 

 with our usual national weakness, copied our 

 neighbors, the French, who will even now say 

 to their English visitors, 'Ah, Monsieur, have 

 you seen my new Rose? — la voila !' and then 

 you will have pointed out to you a seedling 

 from La Reine, with an accidental stripe on 

 eaeh petal; or a seedling from Madame Laffay, 

 with smaller flowers than its parent: then takes 

 place the following dialogue: 



" English Florist. These are of no use, Mon- 

 sieur; they are not distinct enough. 



" French Florist. Monsieur; distinct! they 

 are new. 



"E. F. New or old, they are of no use, I 

 tell you: have you a scarlet La Reine, or 

 low one, or a white Madame Laffay? 



" F. F. Monsieur, c'est impossible; but 



