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most of the fruits :ire wanted to ripen in August, 

 some of the trees, according to the variety, 

 must be removed out of doors and the pots 

 pkmged two-thirds their depth in a bed ot 

 ashes, situated in a sunny, airy position. 

 Choose, if possible, a dull, but warm, day for 

 this removal. If the sun be very hot within 

 the next few days, partial shading during the 

 hottest part of the day must be attended to, 

 otherwise the foliage and fruits will burn, 

 unless they are gradually inured to the outside 

 conditions. See that the fruits are made secure 

 against high winds. With their transfer out 

 of doors, it will not be long before the fruits 

 possess a fine bloom and a highly-coloured 

 appearance. If everything has g-one on well 

 from the start, and every cultural detail care- 

 fully and duly performed, some fine quality and 

 beautifully-coloured fruits should now be the 

 pleasing results of all extra labour and care 

 bestowed upon them. .\mong the choicest 

 varieties of fruit the following are best adapted 

 for pot culture ;— .\pples — James Grieve, Lady 

 Sudeley, Rival, Ribston Pippin, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, King of the Tompkins County, Emperor 

 Alexander, Gascoigne's Scarlet Seedling, and 

 Peasgood's Nonsuch. Pears — Souvenir du Con- 

 gres, Mdme. Treyve, Marguerite Marillat, 

 Beurre Superfin, Conference, Pitmaston 

 Duchess, Doyenne du Comice, Durondeau and 

 Beurre Diel. Plums - Transparent Gage, 

 Oullins' Golden Gage, Jefferson, Kirke's Blue, 

 Coe's Golden Drop and Grand Duke. Cher- 

 ries—Early Rivers, Governor Wood, Geant 

 d'Heldefingen and Bigarreau Napoleon. 



Obituary. 



Wii regret to announce Ihe lamented death of William 

 Baylor Haitland, which took place at his residence on 

 September 15, at the age of 76 years. The deceased 

 was born at Mallow, Co. Cork, in 1836, and started in 

 business under his uncle, a seedsman in Cork. In 1878 

 W. B. Hartland commenced business on his own 

 account at Ard Cairn, Ballinlemple, and here he began 

 to collect and cultivale Daffodils and Tulips, and 

 endeavoured to draw the attention of the public to the 

 flowers. He published the first-known catalogue of 

 Daflodils in 1884, a copy of which may be seen in the 

 British Museum. The Cottage Tulips were Mr. Hart- 

 land's favourites, and ln' was instrumental in intro- 

 ducing many good varieties, such as The Fawn, Fairy 

 Queen, Royal Visit, Mrs. KeiglUly, Ixioides, &c. Mr. 

 Hartland was very enthusiastic and impulsive, of poetic 

 tendency, and full of ideas. He will be sadly missed 

 by liis friends and acquaintances. 



Boo; Deal. 



By A. E. MoERAN, Stillorgan. 



THIS is a subject of such fascination that 

 1 cannot resist the temptation to boldly 

 plunge into it, though feeling many 

 qualms that 1 shall but display an ignorance that 

 1 really keenly feel, and deplore ; my only safe- 

 guard being — 1 say it with the utmost humility 

 — that some of the readers of Irish G.\rdkning 

 may be even more ignorant than I am myselt of 

 the many problems stored for safe keeping in 

 those great national museums, our turf bogs. I 

 would like to vindicate myself by saying that my 

 ignorance is not the result of indifference. I have 

 tried to find books that would tell me of these 

 secrets but failed. Perhaps they exist, but 1 have 

 been unfortunate. .And I have gone to people 

 that I thought very wise (and who looked so 

 stupid that they must have been very wise 

 indeed), and I have said to them — •' Please, I 

 want you to tell me all about the bogs — how 

 old are they, and how old are the great treesdown 

 at the bottom of them ? .\nd why did the trees 

 die and the bog come to life and grow ? .\gain, 

 whv did the bog die and a new crop of trees 

 come to life six feet over the old forest floor, only 

 in turn to die and be swallowed up by more 

 bog ? The first six feet of bog could not grow 

 unless it was very wet and squidgy, and the 

 second crop of trees could not grow unless the 

 bog was quite dry and firm. What made it get 

 dry and firm and then get wet again ? And some- 

 times there is even a third crop of trees higher 

 up still. And how is it, if the bog grow over 

 the trees out of nothing at all eNcept just wet- 

 ness, that there is a million tons of firm dry 

 peat in that bog there ? Where did it come 

 from ? And how did the bog grow quick enough 

 to cover up the trees before they decayed ? 

 i'"or. look! on this bog deal stump just uncovered 

 the bark is fresh and red, and sticks tight to 

 the timber below it, which is as hard and 

 sound as if alive, while on that Scotch fir stand- 

 ing there, the very same kind of tree, and 

 which is only dead a year instead of a thousand 

 years, the dry, colourless bark flaps loosely 

 over sap wood that is already softening for 

 decay ? " .Ml these questions I asked the wise 

 men, and a great m;my more as well, but they 

 only blinked at me and said — " ^'es, yes, we will 

 tell vou some other day, but we are busy now — 

 run awa\- and pla\'," or words that came to very 



