IRISH GARDENING. 



Trained Fruit Trees. 



IT is all important that trees which are to be of lonv; 

 staiuliiiif and to occupy valuable space on wall or 

 espalier should be obtained from a reliable nursery 

 where special attention is devoted to their culture, none 

 but well-formed trees despatched, and all guaranteed 

 true to name, as well as being really well packed for 

 transit. In trained trees one wants well-balanced 

 specimens, with good roots, and all growth clean and 

 healthy, showing genuine culture. These points are all 

 claimed to be fulfilled by the trees sent out by Messrs. 

 Watson & Sons, Clontarf Nurseries, Dublin. Summer 

 visitors to the nurseries remark upon the quantity of 

 healthy young trees undergoing training by skilled 

 hands, and the firm has certainly found that good trees 

 are their best advertisement, it usually being the case 

 that, when one garden in a district has been supplied 

 from Clontarf, orders shortly came along from neighbour- 

 ing gardens also. The soil of Messrs. W.\tson's grounds 

 seems to be admirably adapted to the production ot 

 fibrous roots, and in their Standard and Pyramid fruit 

 trees, as well as the trained shapes for wall culture, good 

 value is to be obtained. As regards packing, in their 

 catalogue (which is to be got by post for the asking) 

 Messrs. W.\t.son say they do not believe in growing 

 good stuff and spoiling it by lack of care when being 

 despatched ; they are gratified to find damage in transit 

 of the rarest occurrence under their up-to-date system 

 of making up the trees. 



The Drummond Benefit Association for Land 

 Stewards and Gardeners. 



Tm; annual meeting of the members of this associa- 

 tion was held at 58 Dawson Street, Mr. D. MacLeod 

 presiding. 



The eleventh annual report and balance sheet was 

 submitted and deemed highly satisfactory, the associa- 

 tion having attained to a still higher level financially, 

 and the membership now standing at 293. The 

 members' subscriptions, including dividends on invest- 

 ment and donations from Messrs. \V. Drumntond and 

 Sons, Ltd., amounted to ^302 19s. 8d. Of this amount 

 ^166 2S. 6d. was disbursed as follows :— .£70 in grants to 

 widows and orphans of deceased members and £,()6 2s. 6d. 

 to members while out of employment. The balance of 

 income, .£136 17s. 2d., has been added to the invesicd 

 funds of the association, now bringing same to tlie haml- 

 some total of iJi,9i8 ss. 4d. 



The chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, 

 referred to the benevolent character of the associati. 

 and as being one of mutual self-help. It had 

 steady and most gratifying progress since its inception, 

 and from its already strong financial position he firmly 

 believed that a future of great and ever-increasing use- 

 fulness was assured. He strongly urged that each one 

 should determine to secure at least one new member 

 during the ensuing year, and thus double their number 

 as well as their total subscriptions. The members and 

 committee could not but experience the truest gratifica- 

 tion that in extending practical sympathy and help to 

 the widow and orphan in their distress, as well as help- 

 ing their brethren when out of employment, they were 

 prosecuting one of the most beneficent of works in 

 which anv Ijodv of nu-n can be engaged. 



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This "Apparatus" 

 has obtained repute 

 both in Large and 

 Small Gardens. 



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