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IRISH GARDENING. 



News Note. 



The Dlblin Seed and Ntrsery Employees' Asso 

 CIATION have issued their prot^rainme fcir the Winter 

 Session. It includes an announcement of a course tif 

 six lectures at the Royal Colleg-e of Science, as follows : — 



1. The Advent of the Seedsman in Ag-riculture, and 



2. Some Grasses and Clovers, b\- Professor James 

 Wilson ; 3 and 4. The Plant in Health and Disease, by 

 Dr. Georg^e H. Pethybridg;e ; 5. The Physical Condition 

 of the Soil in its Relation to Agfriculture, by Mr. T. 

 Hallissy, B.A ; and 6. Weather in Relation to Veg-eta- 

 tion, by Mr. W. J. Lyons, B.A. A conversazic^ne and 

 exhibition of ornamental shrubs, &c. , will be held at 

 the Gresham Hotel on the 19th of the present month. 



Reports of Shows. 

 Royal Horticultural Society of England. 



P'ruit Show. 



Taking thing-s in g-eneral, what may be described as 

 a very fine show was held by the above society at Vincent 

 Square, Westminster, on October 15th and i6th ; it was 

 wella ttended and a g'reat success. 



Visitors this year missed the exhibits of fruit trees 

 g^rown in pots, which are usually such a feature at this 

 show. The apples and pears in g-eneral were scarcely 

 up to the averag^e in size, but the fruit were much more 

 hig-hly coloured, especially in the dessert apple classes. 



Pears showed up fairly well, but there was a poor dis- 

 play of late plums. Grapes were a very strong; lot, and 

 some very fine bunches were shown, but some of them 

 appeared to have too much bloom on them. 



There was a strong competition in the tables of fruit 

 for nurserymen, the premier prize, for the twenty-fourth 

 time, going-to Mr. G. Bunyard and Son, Maidstone, Kent, 

 with a very fine collection of apples and pears, very 

 well stag-ed. These included some of the newer apples, 

 such as Lord Castlereagh, Mrs. Phillimore, Coronation 

 Rival, Houblon, and Charles Ross. 



Messrs. H. Cannell and Son, Swanley, had a very 

 fine display, which consisted of 180 varieties of gfood 

 quality fruit. 



Mr. Seabrook, Chelmsford, Essex, was awarded a 

 silver medal for an excellent lot of very hig-hly coloured 

 fruit, which was chiefly the produce of cordon trained 

 trees. 



The collections open to amateurs, &c., contained the 

 best fruit exhibited, especially those of Lieut. -Colonel 

 Barton, Hunton, Kent, the varieties Warner's King;, 

 Peasg-ood's Nonsuch, Mere de Menag-e, Alfriston, 

 Bismarck, and Emperor Alexander, in the cooking-, and 

 Wealthy, C. Ross, Cox's Orang-e Pippin, King- of the 

 Pippin, Rival and American Mother having- been well 

 g-rown, and well deserved the award of the Hog-g- 

 medal. 



In the class for four cooking- and two dessert open to 

 Ireland, Mr. Blackmore, Garnarea, Piltown, was first 

 with very fine specimens. Mr. Broad, Aherne, Conna, 

 Co. Cork, was second, stag-ing- fine fruits of Rival and 

 Charles Ross. 



The single dishes of cooking apples were a little 

 below the averao-e in size but the dessert varieties were 



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