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IRISH GARDENING. 



The Planting Time. 



IT costs as much to plant and grow indifferent trees 

 as good ones, and yet every season we see people 

 planting trees of poor quality from a doubtful 

 source, perhaps also paying heavy carriage upon trees 

 from a long distance which have been a considerable 

 time out of the ground. Many of our readers will 

 presently be extending or planting new orchards, 

 replenishing- 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 

 g-ood specimens be secured, true to name, and from a 

 reliable nursery. We have no hesitation in directing 

 the attention of planters to one of our home nursery 

 firms, Messrs. Watson & Sons, Clontarf Nurseries, 

 and 1 8 Nassau Street, Dublin. They have a large 

 stock of trees of all kinds in clean and healthy condition 

 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 conveniently call 

 should note that the INIessrs. Watson attend personally 

 to their clients' instructions by post or telephone. 



A visit to Messrs. Watson's Nurseries will convince 

 intending planters that there is no need to cross the 

 Channel for roses, fruit trees, or indeed most nursery 

 stock, which formerly 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 had time to suffer. 

 Descriptive catalogues may be had free by post. 



Correspondence — continued. 



Local Shows. 



Sir, — May I venture to make a suggestion. I am 

 " on " the committee of a local societ}- that includes 

 horticulture amcmg its other activities, and I take a 

 very great interest in local effort and in local exhibi- 

 tions, but we are isolated, going our own way, and 

 hearing little about the methods of pi-ocedure in similar 

 societies. Now that a real Irish gardening- paper 

 seems to be established in our midst, it surely might 

 easih' be made an organ of inter-communication among- 

 the different kindred societies in this country. Perhaps 

 others have felt the same thing ; if so, and seeing this, 

 it might be productive of some good if (with your con- 

 sent) they would voice their ideas on a matter that 

 appears to me to be of much importance to the "Ad- 

 vancement of Horticulture," which is the sub-title of 

 your ever welcome little journal. " Provincial." 



A Practical Suggestion. 



Sir, — The apple, as all growers know, is a very vari- 

 able subject as to its suitability to soil, situation and 

 season. For example- — as has been demonstrated in 

 past seasons — some varieties do much better in dull 

 damp summers than in dry and sunshiny ones. I write 

 to suggest that a list of all kinds of apples that have 

 borne fruit freely in each county this year should be 

 compiled, and from it a pomological map of Ireland for 

 1908, so far as the apple is concerned, be prepared for 

 Ihe information of fruit growers. F. J. K. 





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