October 17, 1865. J 



JOUENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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cutters fitted to our machines never require to be taken out to 

 be either ground on ii stone or with emery. They are made 

 with steel on each side, and when they become blunt by run- 

 ning one -way round, all that is necessary to be done is to 

 reverse the cylinder end for end, which brings the opposite 

 edge of the cutter on to the bottom blade, and the machine 

 will then cut as well as when scut out from the manufactory. 

 This can continually be repeated when necessary, and can be 

 done in a very few minute.s by auy person using the machine. 

 Thomas Oueex it Son, Leeds, London, Lioer2>ool, uitd DiibHii. 



DUBLIN INT10UX.\TrONAL SHOW OF FRUITS 

 AND YEGETABI,KS. 



The Executive Committoo of the Dubliu Exliibitiou liaviiig made 

 nrrftugementa to hold au International Show of fruits, gourds, vegeta- 

 bles, cereals, and other agricultural produce, it was ojiened to the puh- 

 lic on Tuesday the 3rd iust.^auil, as a iirst eSort, was attended with 

 considerable success. 



The fruit was displayed on a nearly continuous Hue of tables, about 

 4J feet in breadth, and extending nearly the entire length of the 

 gi-eat southern trnnsejit ; the roots, cereals, and other agricultural 

 produce being disjdayed under the colonnade in the garden. 



With regard to the Show, it could scarcely be called international, 

 inasmuch as in the department we are about to notice there was only 

 one foreign exhibitor, M. Cappeuick, of Ghent, and three from Eng- 

 land, the principal being Mr. Clmrles Turner, of the Roy.il Nurseries, 

 Slough, near Winilsor ; T. W. Swannell, Ks.]., of Beilford, and another 

 whose name we did not ascertain. The display, therefore, was .almost 

 eutil-ely confined to Irish m'owers, who came out vciy creditably 

 indeed^ more especially in what may be strictly called the pomological 

 section. Even the Irish exhibitors appeared, wo regret to say, to be 

 almost altogether confined to parties resident in the metropolitan 

 county ; outside it the credit of Leiuster was only maintained by the 

 eountaes of Wicklow and King's County. The northern and western 

 provinces were entirely unrepresented, as far as we could see, and the 

 southern province by one only, Mr. Unthank, of Limeriol;, and by him 

 very creditably indeed. 



It is to be regretted that the provinces and the sister islands were 

 not more largely represented ; but. as previously obsei*ved in this 

 journal, we fear the mducements offered were not sufficiently liberal 

 to bring exhibitors from the other side, or even from any considerable 

 distance at home. 



Having said so much, we will now proceed to details, following the 

 arrangement of the schedule, beginning with collections, premising 

 that for the prizes offered for collections from hoi-ticultnral societies, 

 pubUc gardens, and the colonies there was no entiy. For collection 

 exhibited by a fruiterer, the only competitor was Mr. Lambe, of 

 Grafton Street. His collection was tine, varied, and extensive. 

 Among its more noticeable features were very excellent Queen Pines 

 and fruit of the Cactus, the latter ver^' large and fine, in this couutiy 

 a rather unfrequont addition to the dessert. He had also specimens 

 of Salway Peach. 



Of collections from private growers there were two — one from the 

 gardens of the Duke of Leinster, the other from those of Thos. Hutton, 

 Esq. The former deservedly obtained first honours ; Mr. Hutton 

 second. The collection from Carton comprised White Muscat, Bhxck 

 Hamburi^h, and Lady Do\nie"s Grapes, the latter very hue. Peaches 

 fChaucellor and Galande), Bro'mi Ischia Figs, Pears (Beurrc Bosc, 

 Marie Louise, Flemish Beauty, and Louise Bonne of Jersey), Plums 

 (Reine Claude and Coe's Golden Drop), Medlars, Citrous, very fine 

 Quinces, and Princess AUce Melon. 



In the class of twelve Dessert Pears there were five entries, the 

 first prize poiug to M. Cappenick, of Ghent, for a veiy fine lot, jnade 

 np of the following sorts : — Colmar d'Aremherg, Beurrc Diel. Poire 

 M. le Cure, Nouvelle Fulvie, Calebasse Bosc, fine, Beurrc de Ranee, 

 very large and fine, Beurre Clairgeau, a very handsome fruit, and 

 Dnehesse d'Angoulcme, extremely large and fine; the names of one or 

 two we could not come at. The second prize was awarded to a veiy 

 excellent collection from the gardens of the Chief Secretai-y, Pho?nix 

 Park. In this fine lot Beurrc Bosc was particularly fine, also a very 

 handsome light-coloured Pear, named Pius IX., said to be of gi-eat 

 merit. The manner in which the coUections from M. Cappenick and 

 Mr. M'Keill were named was particularly neat and satisfactory, as 

 was also that from the gardens of the Hon. Major Bur^', whose collec- 

 tion was next in merit. In his lot Calebasse Tougard was vei-y pretty ; 

 it was much paler, but still it looked very like Bon Chretien Foudaute. 

 He had also Williams's Bon Chretien, very fine, andBeuLrre Goubault 

 remarkable for its singularly mottled sui-face. 



In the class of six dishes there were three competitors, the Chief 

 Secretary taking the lead with very fine specimens of Beun-e Bosc, 

 Marie Louise, Lonise Bonne, Dnehesse d'Angouleme, and Gausel's 

 Bergamot. 



In the class of three dishes there were six or seven entries, the first 

 honours being deservedly won by Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal 

 Nurseries, Slough, near Windsor, with admirable specimens of Beurrc 

 Diel, Beni-re Clairgeau, and his famous British Queen, seen for the 

 -first time here on this occasion. 1 



In the class of Dessert Pears, single dish, there were eight com- 

 petitors, and here all of them and their varieties bad again to give 

 place to Mr. Turner and his Britisli (Jueeu. The second prize was 

 won by, we thiidt, Captain Slavely, of Croydon Park, with a fine dish 

 of Marie Ijouise. 



In Kitchen Pears, single dish of any kind, the first prize was 

 awarded to T. W. Swaunell, Esq., of Bedford, for Uvedalo's St. Ger- 

 maiu. weighing '.IJ llis. ; tlie second prize going to Mr. Unthank, of 

 Limerick, for the same variety, weight i*i lbs. 



In the class of the heaviest five Dessert Pears, Charles Cobbe, Esq., 

 sliowed a splendid and very handsome variety, Calebasse Grosse, 

 tliu five fruits weighing just so many pounds. None of the weights 

 mentioned above nearly approached that of the Uvedale's St. Germain 

 I'ears wo saw exhibited at the llotuuda some years since by Sir G. 

 Ilodson. 



In the cla.ss of Dessert Apples, twelve dishes, there were four 

 entries, the first prize going to the Chief Secretarv, M. Cappenick 

 being obliged to content himscdf with second. The first-prize lot was 

 made up of Gravenstein, King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, 

 lUbston Pippin, Red Astrachan, Rcinette du Canada, Pitraastou Non- 

 pareil. Braildick's Nonpareil, Hughes's Golden Pippin, Margil, and 

 Ross Nonpareil. M. Cappeuick's collection was made u\> of Court- 

 Pendu-1'lat. Reinette Blanche. Rcinrtte Grise, Calvillo Rouge, Calville 

 Blanche d'lliver, Pomme du Vin, Belle du Bois, and Graveustcin. It 

 would trench too much on our space to go into details of the minor 

 classes of dessert Apples, so we proceed to the classes of baking Apples, 

 merely mentioning that the first prize for the best dish, any variety, 

 was won by Mr. I'uruer, with Cox's Onrnge Pippin. 



Baking Ai>ples, twelve dishes, two or three competitors ; the Chief 

 Secretary was again first, with fine specimens of Echlinvale, Lord 

 Suifield, Red Streak, Tower of Glammis, Reinette du Canada, Striped 

 Beefing, Carlisle Codhn, Yorkshire Greening, Waltham Abbey Seed- 

 hng. Winter Codhn, and Bedfordshire Foundling. In the class of six 

 dishes the Chief Secretary was in the frout again, with sis of the 

 varieties mentioned above. In the class of three dishes, Hon. Major 

 Bury was first, with Catshead, Sauveur, and a variety whose name we 

 could not catch. 



The prize for the heaviest baking Apples was won by Mr. Barlow, with 

 Alfriston. Baking Apples, best single dish, the first prize in this class 

 was won by Charles Cobbe, Esq., D.L., with Catshead ; the second 

 prize going to Mr. Gough, the gardener at the Convent of St. Clare, 

 Harold's Cross, for the same variety. 



Messrs. Bridgeford & Son, Lower Sackville Street, and Spafield 

 Nurseries, Ball's Bridge, exhibited, not for competition, an exceedingly 

 large, weU-arrauged, and varied collection of Pears and Apples, 

 uumbei-ing over l(iO sorts, in itself a goodly show, which, no doubt, 

 was regarded, as it deserved to be. with gi-eat interest. 



Messrs. Edmondson & Co., of II), Dame Street, also had a most 

 extensive collection, including the siugiilar Bird's Nest and other 

 Gourds, the whole vei^ interesting, and, we may add. veryneatly set up. 



In the classes of Grapes, the Hon. Major Buiy had it nearly aU to 

 himself, the only other exhibitors being Mr. Cobbe and Mr. Hutton. 

 The first of these had a dish of Muscat, and the latter a White Grape, 

 not Muscat. The Muscats, both in the class of six bunches and of 

 three, sho\vn by the Hon. Major Bury, it is almost superfluous to say, 

 were very fine indeed, as the fame of his excellent gardener, Mr. 

 Roberts, "as a Gr.ape-grower, is now so well known. He took, as a 

 matter of course, lii'st prize in both classes. In the class of Muscats, 

 three bunches, Mr. Cobbe was second, with bunches that were well 

 handled, and did credit to his gardener, Mr. Helman, but they were 

 scarcely ripe. In the classes of Black Hamburgh there was no com- 

 petition, and Major Brnry took first prize with veiy fair bunches, but 

 nothing like those he exhibited on other occasions this year. In the 

 class of Black Grapes, any other variety, he was again first, \rith very 

 fine bunches, named Muscat Hamburgh, but certainly not in shape of 

 berry and other external points, what we know as the Muscat Ham- 

 burgh. We understand, however, they were from Vines not on their 

 oivn roots, but giafted on the Black Hamburgh. It is intiiesting if 

 this has such a marked effect in changing the normal character of a 

 variety, and we should like to know if the flavour, as well as the ap- 

 pearance, is more or less aff'ected by it. Of Plums, there were six or 

 seven dishes, the variety exhibited by all, with one exception, being 

 Coe's Golden Drop. Much the finest in appearance came from the 

 Chief Secretary's garden. 



In the class for miscellaneous matters, in which fruits elsewhere 

 provided for in the schedule, were not admissible, there were five 

 or six Melons, none of them looking of much merit, except a large 

 and handsome-looking Scarlet-fiesh, exhibited by Mr. Turner, called 

 the Hedsor Prize. Beyond appearance it did not seem to possess merit 

 as regards flavour. Specimens of Red-fleshed Abyssinian Melons were 

 exhibited in this section by Major Speedy, of the Royal Hibernian 

 School, Phwnix Park, which were bighlv commended by the Judges. 

 Peaches were shown by Mr. M'Neill, of 'the Chief Secretary's garden ; 

 and Mr. C. Turaer, of Slough. The former had a verj- fine dish of 

 Walburton Admu-able, and the latter a splendid dish of his famons 

 Salway Peach. This last is a magnificent fruit, and beautiful eveu to 

 look at, with its rich Apricot tint, of which the flesh, too, partakes ; no 

 garden should be without it. The Judges, to mark their approbation 

 in an especial way, accorded it the International Meilal. A dish of 

 very superior Morello Cherries, and another of Red Currants, were 



