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IRISH GARDENING. 



cutting hack young plants and inducing the 

 production of numerouf* shoots from the l)ase, 

 specimens suitahle for hedge planting could 

 easily be produced. 



It must be borne in mind that these plants 

 are only suggested as garden hedges, and not 

 For field work. Nurserymen having stocks of 

 these free -growing, easily-propagated new 

 slirubs might ti-y some of them as hedges for 

 dividing up their nursery quartei-s and for 

 forming small sheltered enclosures, where 

 many tender plants could he reared ; thus visi- 

 tors would have an oppoi-tunity of noting the 

 inerits of the various shrubs for hedge work. 

 What a "glorious sight a hedge of Rosa Moyesii 

 would be in early Jvme, and again later on 

 when the fruits develop; also some of the fine 

 pink forms of Kf)sa Davidii ('(luallx dccofative. 

 in fruit. 



As an enclosure to a heatli garden a tall form 

 of Erica mediter)-anea might appropi-iately bo 

 used, some of the foi-ms gi'owing quite five feet 

 Iiigh. 



There are endless Avays of breaking away 

 fi-om the beaten track in gardening; what is 

 uanted is less conventionality and mor-,! 

 (jriginalitv. 



B. 



Notes. 



Cotoneaster Franchetii. 



.VmoN'g the newer O)toneasters none is m())'e 

 generally useful than this. Latrl\ the fi'iiits 

 have been j)articularly atti'active, .ind tlic grace- 

 ful, si)reading habit of the bush is moi'i' pleas- 

 ing than the stifYer growth of C. Himonsii, an 

 ol(l favourite in gardens. The colour of the 

 Fruits varies to some extent, being generally 

 orange red, but in some plants the red is n)oi-e 

 pronounced. It is worth while raising seedlings 

 and s(decting the best of them, with the 

 brightest Fruits. Wheiv shiubs afe wanted in 

 <|uantity, .-dl will lie ii-rFnl, csiicciMllx wlin-c 

 sci'eens ai'e i-e(|uifc(l oi' iiiFoimal l)onndnr_\ lines. 

 J-Jeing evergreen, the f)lant is useful in many 

 ways. The leaves, up to an inch and a half long 

 and over halt an inch wide, are thi(d<ly fni'- 

 nished with a grey, felt\ co' ering on the imder- 

 surfijce. 



Like ('. Simonsii, this newer species is prone 

 to lose many of its leaves in exposed positions 

 or during a spell of exceptionally severe 

 weather, but generally it retains a much greater 

 f)roportion of them than C. Simonsii. whi(di 

 here at least is practically deciduous. 



J)fi;Li.v. 



Pyracantha crenulata var- yunnanense* 



Tins little-known ■-lu'ub is now in its winter 

 gai'b of bright crimson fruits, and wins the ad- 

 miration of every passer by. Although ([lute 

 hardy, it is as a wall plant that it shows its 

 gi'eatest beauty and usefulness. Of neat 

 grf)wth, tlowei'ing freely in spring, fruiting 

 freely in winter, and an evergreen, what more 

 could be desired in a plant for covering the 

 frf)nt of a house. Near the entrance to the 

 Botanic (lardens at (ihisnevin a plant may he 

 seen at present clothing part of the wall oF a 

 cottage belonging to that establishment, and 

 many ai'o the visitors who pause to look- at it. 

 On the same wall 1'. (lihsii is gi'owing, but 

 pales in compai'ison with ijininnnoisf , \\\o 

 fruits being smaller and oF a mucli less b)-illiant 

 colour. lioth, however, arc excellent wall 

 plants, and should be noted h> all who want 

 good things for house fronts nv similar posi- 

 tions. 



Pulping Fruit for Jam. 



jx the ■Iniinutl of llic lio'in] (»/' Aiiriridttirc For 

 ()ctol)er, 1918, there is a re])rint from the 

 XdfiouaJ Food Journal oF lltli September, 

 giving an account oF the worls' dotie in England 

 in dealing with lai-ge (piantities of Fruit. 



k'ai'lx in the sunnner oF I'M 7 it becaiiie 

 evident that the Fruit crop Foi- that year was 

 likely to be exceptionally large." Briefiy, it 

 was soon evi(h'nt that some means would have 

 to be devised to picvent loss, and several 

 s(diemes wei-e inaugurated tci prexcnt loss; 

 finally, pulping stations were estahlished lu'ar 

 many oF the big Fruit-growing ceiitrt's. and huge 

 (piantities of plums, damsons and apples were 

 pulpe(l. '{'he undertaking pro\c(| a financial 

 success, and " not only proNcd selF-suppoi'ting, 

 but. has shown a profit that gives a i^ood return 

 upon the capital involved; and the seheme has 

 Ikh'U so satisfactory to Frnit-grow ers that the 

 Ministiw is in almost daily receipt oF re(|iiests 

 t^o set up further stations in the Fruit-growing 

 districts. 



".\s evidence oF the promise oF pi'miancnce in 

 the new industry, it is enough tu add that {vr- 

 queiil application- have heeii made b\ Fi'uit- 

 growers and jam njanufacturers desircnis of pur- 

 (diasing the pulping stations and their plants."' 



Considering the possibilities of Ireland as a 

 fruit-growing c<juntry, it would seem woiHi 

 while fruit-growers and jam manufacturers on 

 this side giving sfjme attention to the question 

 of pulping stations in Ireland. 



