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in WBi-m water for half an hour aud then placing thorn for six or Bovon 

 honrs in salt and water. 



Mr. Wilson Sanndors romavlcod, that the frost of tlio prcvions niglit 

 had nearly stopped out-door gardcniup;. In Surrey the thermoinctor 

 had fallen 11' or I'i" below freezing point, and all the lialfhardy 

 bedding plants had been destroyed, but on hij^h and dry sitaatioua 

 the frost had been so much leas severe that even Dahlias had been 

 scarcely touched. He, thcrctovo, rcoomniended those who wanted to 

 preserve such plants to a late p;'riod, to choose for them sltnations as 

 high and as dry as possible, and thru the chances of Ivocpin^ up a late 

 display wonld bo mnch greater tlian if the plants wore otherwise placed. 

 After noticing the variegated Aralia Sieboldi as a very desirable 

 plant for winter decoration, as it had proved hardy at Battersca, Mr. 

 Sanndors referred to Ampelopsis Veitchii os a valuable addition to 

 hardy climbing plants, though he would not venturo to say that those 

 who had an affection for the old English Ivy, with its glossy leaves 

 and beautiful nnirlrings, wonld substitute the one for the other. The 

 leaves of the Claret Vino were thou pointed out as being very beauti- 

 ful in colour when dying-off, but I^Ir. Sauuders obseiTcd that those 

 of another Vine that had been sent home from Malaga, but of which 

 he did not then remember the name, were even more rcmarltable for 

 the beauty of their colours when dyiug-oif, being then yellow aud red. 



The proceedings closed with the announcement that the next meet- 

 ing would take place on tho 17th of November. 



JERSEY AUTUMNAL FRUIT SHOW. 



Wedxf.sday, October lith. was one of those sunny autumnal 

 days, so frequent at this season in favoured Ca'sarca, and on that day 

 at two o'clock was opened the Autumnal Kruit Show of the Koyal 

 Jersey Horticultural Society. Tho spacious saloons of tho Imperial 

 Hotel — which, by-the-byo, is admirably adapted for a show at this 

 season, were crowded with the dife of the Island, who thronged 

 aroand the tables covered with fruit of unnsual e.xcellence and beauty. 

 The tables for the fruit measured about loO feet in length, aud -1 feet 

 in width, literally covered with Pears, Apples, Grapes, Plums, Peaches, 

 &c.y and about 100 feet of table devoted to vegetables. What struck 

 me forcibly was the number of varieties and the correctness with which 

 they were named. 



I will first notice the Chaumontel Pears, for which the Island is so 

 jastly celebrated. There were four classes for these — sixes, twelves, 

 twenty-fives, and fifties, in all which classes the prizes were keenly 

 competed for. The first prize fifty were truly magnificent fruit, of 

 perfect shape, highly coloured, and of unusual size, as the weight — viz,, 

 (ilj lbs., demonstrates. Next came twelve Uvedale's St. Germain, 

 here labelled Belle de Jersey, weighing 26 lbs. ; twelve Pound Pears, 

 weighing 1.5 lbs. ; twelve Van Mons LCon le C'lerc, 10 lbs. 12 ozs. ; 

 twelve I3cniTc Clairgean, IG lbs. ; twelve Dnehesse d'Angonliime, 

 15 lbs. 3 ozs. ; six Marechal de Conr, C lbs. 21 ozs. 



The above are the few the crowded state of the rooms enabled me 

 to take note of the weight of, but there were fine specimens among 

 others of the following varieties : — De Tongres, an October fruit of 

 great beauty and first-rate flavour ; General Todtleben, good ; Marie 

 lioaise ; Beurrc d'Ai-emberg (strictly Glou Mori,*eau) ; Bergamotte de la 

 Pentecute, Passe Colmai-, Winter Nelis, Benrrc de Ranee, Crassaue, Pen- 

 gethley (February to March), Soldat Laboureur, Benrre Flon, very 

 large, resembling Duchesse d'Angonlcme ; Doyenne du Comice, very 

 large and first-rate ; Graoslin.good, but thick-skinned ; Spring Beurre, 

 Groom's Princess Koyal, Swan's Egg, Grosse Calebasse, Columbia, 

 lib. 4 ozs. each, a good December frnit ; Forelle, Benrre Gris de 

 liUeon, Terj fine ; Beurre Six, too green ; Beurre Did, fine ; Vanque- 

 lin, BeuiTe Bachelier, very large and first rate ; Colmar d'Aremberg, 

 large and fine, but second-rate, besides many others. 



One exhibitor showed a collection of sixty- seven varieties of Apples, 

 and sixty- four varieties of Pears. 



Apples were not unusually fine. The varieties most esteemed 

 soemed to be Old Pearmain, Cornish Gilliflower, Eibston Pippin, Non- 

 pareil, Golden Russet, Royal Russet, Hammond's Pippin, a Jersey- 

 raised variety ; Hooper's Seedling, also Jersey-raised ; Guernsey 

 Pippin, Guernsey-raised; Pigeounet, Golden Pippin, Conrt of Wick 

 and Lemon Pippin, much esteemed for culinary purposes on ac- 

 count of its long-keeping qualities. 



I have refrauied from giving your readers the names of the prize- 

 winners, as this would render my communication lengthy, aud tlicy 

 only possess a local interest ; but the grower of the fifty Chaumontels, 

 Mr. G. De Carteret, St. Peter's, and Mr. G. Thomas, the exhibitor of 

 the collection of Apples and Pears, deserve the distinction of being 

 named here. — Verit.is, Tiof Eaul:, Jtrscy. 



common for Pelargoniums to self-sow themsoWes in the open 



air hitborto. Wo are sorry to say that our i)Tevious oxperienoe 

 tends to prove that plants so raised will not be more hardy 

 thon seedlings cr cutting'^ of tho same kinds raised tinder glass, 

 and gradually liardcncd off. Little can be done to acclimatise 

 in this way, but the little is worth trying, and you may be more 

 successful than some.] 



SELF-SOWN FELARGONIUMS. 

 " A. K. C." wishes to know whether the seed of the Pelar- 

 gonium has been found to sow itself in the open ground, and 

 spring up like any common auiiual as it has done this year, 

 and whether such self-sown seeds are not likely to produce 

 more hardy plants than seeds sown under cover or than 

 cuttings ■> 



[This has been an uncommon year, and it has not been so 



POMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS. 



Nothing can show more plainly the climate that Ameeicak 

 A ppi.es enjoy than the effect, on some of tho choice varieties, of 

 the past hot summer. Newtown Pippins are clear and spotless. 

 Melon Apples are large and beautiful. Some little trees of this 

 kind, only 2 feet in height, on English Paradise stocks, are 

 staggering under a dozen each of very largo fruit. The Wash- 

 ington, a very large early autumn Apple, melting like a Peach, 

 so that the juice runs down the knife in cutting it, has also 

 been very fine. A dozen other kinds of the American race of 

 Apples have been equally fine. In ordinary seasons, unless in 

 gardens in the south of England, with warm soils and aspects, 

 these fine tender-fleshed Apples should be trained against walls 

 or grown in orchard houses. 



— — " JIy attention was drawn to the I.we Bl.ick Oeleans 

 Plum, a fine but neglected sort, by your mention of Sandalls 

 Plum, which seems to be of the same race, and ripens at the same 

 time — viz., about the middle of October. It is mentioned in the 

 Catalogue of the Horticultural Society, 1831, but not described. 

 It is round, sometimes a little inclining to oval, of a deep 

 purple, with yellow flesh, and very rich and good. It is not 

 such a wild grower as Sandalls, which forms a large tree, and 

 comes earlier into bearing. On tasting and comparing it with 

 the latter, it seemed a superior variety in size and flavour. Its 

 designation in the above catalogue is ' Orleans Late or Black.' 

 In the edition of the same catalogue for 184'2, it is described as 

 round, first quality, second size. — T. R." 



Heat is tho principal working agent in producing fruit 



as well as wood. We can approximate very nearly the amount 

 of heat required to produce any given variety of Apple. Nearly 

 all Apples blossom at or about the same time of the month in 

 corresponding latitudes. In the latitude of Boston, the average 

 season is near the 25th of May for the full blossom of the 

 Apple, with a mean temperature of .54.1° Fahrenheit. The 

 Early Harvest blossoms full on the 2.5th of May, having five 

 days to grow in the mouth of May. Five days multiplied by 

 54.1° is equal to 270.5° of heat. The mean heat of June is 

 62.8° X 30 days = 1,884°. Twenty-five days in July to its 

 ripening, with a mean heat of CO.i° ^ 1,726.5°. By this esti- 

 mate, we find that it requires about 270.5 + 1,884° -f 1,726.5° 

 = 3,834° of heat to ripen the Early Harvest. The Red As- 

 trachau and the Sweet Bough, ripening about twelve dayslatei', 

 require those twelve additional days of heat more than the 

 above variety, 69.1° of mean heat by twelve days -8'29.2-r 

 3,884° = 4,713.2° aggregrate amount of heat required to ripen 

 the Red Astiachan or Sweet Bough. The Porter ripens about 

 the 15th of September ; requires in May 270.5°, in June 1,884', 

 in July 2,170°, in August 2,04,8°, fifteen days in September 

 93.9° = 7,313° of heat to ripen after its time of blossoming. 



Those pretty fruits, PoMEGi!AN'ATE.=i, are this season 



ripening in the open air at Dropniore. When we were there a few 

 days ago our veteran friend,Mr. Frost, pointed out three beauti- 

 ful fruits of a fair average size, colouring well, and almost ripe, 

 growing on a fine old plant of the double scarlet variety against 

 a wall near one of the houses. This plant, Mr. Frost stated, 

 flowers most profusely every season, and nearly everyone knows 

 how handsome tho flower of the Pomegranate is, aud when 

 that is succeeded by the fruit, it is doubly interesting. There 

 is another plant, of the single variety, growing beside this one, 

 on which there are no fruits. It is somewhat singular, and it 

 has been observed before, that the double variety should be the 

 freest-fruiting. The fruits themselves are more ornamental 

 and curious than useful, more celebrated by their name in 

 biblical history than they are for their wonderfully fine qualities 

 as an edible fruit. Indeed, there is very little to eat about 

 •them, or rather in them ; the numerous seeds are very prettily 

 tinged with rose, and there is a slight but agreeably sweet per- 

 fume, but for taste, after sucking the seeds, there is a strange 

 disappointment, for there is nothing better than sugar and 

 water. Mr. Frost had also little half-standard plants of the 

 dwarf Pomegranate (Punica nana), flowering most profusely in 



