IRISH GARDENING. 



The Planting Time. 



IT costs as much to plant and grow indifferent trees 

 as gfood ones, and yet ever}" season one sees people 

 planting- trees of poor quality from a doubtful 

 source, perhaps also pajing heavy carriage upon trees 

 from a long distance which have been a considerable 

 time out of the ground. Many of this journal's readers 

 will presently be extending or planting new orchards, re- 

 plenishing garden fruits, or planting ornamental shrubs, 

 roses, &c. It is all-important with trees which are to 

 be of many years standing that at the outset good 

 specimens be secured, true to name, and from a reliable 

 nursery. The attention of planters is directed to one of our 

 home nursery firms, Messrs. Watson & Sons, Clontarf 

 Nurseries, and 18 Nassau Street, Dublin. They have a 

 large stock of trees of all kinds in clean and healthy con- 

 dition, which planters who find time to call at the nurseries 

 (fifteen minutes' tram drive from Nelson's Pillar) may 

 see for themselves, and those who cannot convenientlj' 

 call should note that the Messrs. Watson attend person- 

 alh" to their clients' instructions by post or telephone. 



.\ visit to Messrs. Watson's Nurseries will convince 

 intending planters that there is no need to go else- 

 where for roses, fruit trees, or indeed most nursery 

 stock which formerh' was not to be obtained satis- 

 factorily in Ireland. Long-distance carriage is saved to 

 Messrs. Watson's patrons, and what is perhaps more 

 important with goods of a perishable nature, owing to 

 their nurseries being situated in the metropolis, the 

 most direct routes are available to the provinces, with 

 the result that the trees arrive in perfect condition, and 

 are replanted before they have the time to suffer. 

 Descriptive catalogues may be had free by post. 



Shows. 



Piltovvn and Suir Valley Fruit Show. 



The second annual show of the Piltown and Suir 

 Valley Fruit Grower's .Association was held last month 

 in the City Hall, and was a distinct success. The 

 excellent quality of the fruit in exhibition (and there 

 were 534 entries) bore unmistakable evidence as to the 

 suitability of the Piltown and Suir Vallej' districts to 

 produce apples of the highest quality. The report or 

 the judges (Messrs. D. Crombie, C. Longlej', and E. 

 Sutton) in the apple section (the most extensive by far 

 in the show) was as follows : — " The fruit of all classes 

 were exceptionally good and were well coloured. 

 Small holders' classes being a most creditable exhibit 

 all round. In the open classes for fruit packed for 

 market the packing was fair, but would require a little 

 more fastening of the fruit. Taken all round, a 

 remarkably good show." There were 39 classes for 

 apples, and 7 classes for jams, jellies, fruit pies, &c. 

 The decoration of the tables was entrusted to Xlessrs. 

 Fennessy & Sons, of the Waterford Nurseries, who had 

 also an attractive trade exhibit of fruit and flowers. Mr. 

 S. A. Jones, of the Gowran Nurseries, had a well-filled 

 stand of apples and pears, staging as manj- as 69 

 varieties of the former fruit. The arrangements of the 

 show were in the capable hands of Mr. A. G. Bower, 

 J. P., of Silverspring, the Hon. Secretary of the 

 -Association. 



is the gross return from an English 

 plot of land worked under the 

 by the use of Cloches or Bell-glasses 



£600 PER ACRE 



French method of intensive culture 



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