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Holmes, bnt larger. These may by-and-by come into com- 

 merce, for at present they promise well. 



01 the new Roses of 1873 I saw but one in bloom — Captain 

 Christy, of which much has been said, and which will be to all 

 appearance a good addition. It is of a silvery peach colour, 

 of the shape and character of Victor Verdier. Neither here 

 nor elsewhere have I as yet seen any other of the new Roses, 

 and 60 can say nothing of their qualities. Of older Roses 

 Marie Van Houtte, Souvenir de Paul Neron, Comtesse de Na- 

 daillac, and Belle Lyonnaise, Teas, struck me as specially 

 good, and GapitaineLamure, Madame HippolyteJamaiu, Clovis, 

 and Prince Stirby as Roses I should like to add to my lists. 



There are a multitude of noteworthy things at Oheshuut, 

 but I have confined myself simply to the Roses ; but Straw- 

 berries, fruit trees, ornamental shrubs and trees are all well 

 and carefully done, and all will well repay a visit. — D., Deal. 



LATE STRAWBEEEIES. 



No fruit is more generally popular than the Strawberry : I 

 do not therefore doubt but that very many of your readers will 

 be glad to have light thrown upon various points about which 

 I want information. I hope that some one qualified to speak 

 on the subject will notice what I write. For one person who 

 can afford to grow Grapes a hundred can grow Strawberries, 

 and it must be a matter of interest to all such to hear how the 

 Strawberry season may be prolonged. I should be very glad 

 if some of your readers who grow many varieties would inform 

 us when they had their first and their last diah this season, 

 and the kinds which composed these dishes. I do not want 

 this information so much from men like Mr. Luckhurst, who 

 have all the resources of wealth at their disposal, who can 

 gather their first crop from artificially heated borders and 

 their last from plants that were forced in March, but from 

 those who have no assistance save from the open air and 

 natural soU. There must be some advance in the varieties. 

 It would be a great boon if those who have tried them would 

 tell us what kinds ripen well late in the season. I remember 

 about ten years ago, when I lived not twenty miles from my 

 present abode, I used to be pretty sure of a dish up to the 18th 

 of August of a kind called Nimrod. I cannot now hear of its 

 -existence — it seems to have vanished. 



My first ripe Strawberry this year was on the 29th May, 

 which is unusually early for this part of the world, and I had 

 a very large dish of Black Prince on June 10th. My last dish 

 "was of Oscar on August Ist. I shall have only a few poor 

 berries of the same kind now. Next year I shall have Elton 

 and Myatt's Eleanor, but I do not expect that they will be a 

 bit later. 



Cockscomb with me does not reach the great size described 

 by Mr. Radclyffe and other correspondents. It does not grow 

 even so large as British Queen, although the ground on which 

 it is grown is made as rich as manure can make it. I should 

 like to know what aspect suits this Strawberry best. Admiral 

 Dundas I have of an enormous size — nearly three times as 

 large as Cockscomb. Frogmore Late Pine is not a very late 

 irnit with me, not later than Cockscomb. 



Now if any of your correspondents will tell ua of new Straw- 

 berries which beat Black Prince for earliness and Oscar and 

 Elton for lateness, and give a more abundant crop than Oscar, 

 they wiU deserve and shall obtain my gratitude. — D. F. J. K. 



BEDDING GERANIUMS. 



I WISH to endorse what Mr. Pearson has said in your last 

 number with respect to Geraniums, and quite agree with him 

 that at all the principal horticultural shows, especially those 

 of the Royal Horticultural, Botanic, &a., the name of the 

 raiser ought to be appended ; and I also strongly deprecate the 

 custom of some nurserymen advertising new kinds of Geraniums 

 without giving the raiser's name, often endeavouring to take 

 credit to themselves. 



I may also say of Mr. Pearson's Geraniums what perhaps ho 

 does not like to say himself — that having now carefully tried 

 and tested different kinds of bedding Geraniums for many 

 jears, I have found more good ones amongst those of his 

 raising and sendiog-out than from any other raiser. For 

 instance, of eighteen kinds of pink Geraniums that I have 

 bedded-out in distinct beds this year twelve are his raising, 

 and of the twelve I shall only discard one. Nothing can sur- 

 pass the beauty of Mrs. Lowe, Amaranth, Florence Durand, 

 Mrs. Fytehe, Contessa Quarto, and Mrs. Holden. 



Moreover, in spite of the persistent attempt to cry down 

 bedding-out gardens and to praise everything that is a peren- 

 nial or an alpine, I shall bo much surprised if after a short 

 interval of untidy mixed borders and herbaceous quarters, Ac, 

 there is not a greater demand than ever for choice varieties 

 of bedding Geraniums. Certainly I never yet experienced a 

 season where quality is so entirely superior to quantity. How- 

 ever, I am anticipating somewhat some remarks I wish to 

 make later on in your Journal. So long as the great majority 

 of gardeners only propagate those sorts of strong-growing 

 Geraniums that they think will stand hard usage in winter, 

 keep them starved in cold pits without light or heat, and 

 think that the value of a gardener depends on the quantity of 

 plants grown instead of the quality, so long will bedding-out 

 be open to much criticism ; but it only a gardener will give as 

 much pains to make his garden not merely gay but interesting 

 and attractive as he does to get a succession of Grapes in his 

 vineries, then persons of good taste and judgment will no 

 longer have to complain of small and inferior plants, and 

 endless repetition of the same plants over and over again. 



I am called by some of my friends the champion of bedding- 

 out. Certainly this year's experience of my own garden has 

 more than ever confirmed my previous impressions, and has 

 helped to convince me more and more that perennials and 

 alpines, though good in their places, will not succeed in knock- 

 ing the wind out of the sails of their half-hardy brethren. 

 Take Geraniums, LobeUas, Ageratums, Verbenas out of our 

 gardens, and what should we be reduced to ? I have had my 

 perennial borders very gay with Sweet Wilhams, Antirrhinums, 

 Delphiniums, &e., but they are all things of the past now, and 

 their places cannot be filled ; and though Gladioli, Phloxes, 

 &a., may help to make the borders passable, yet the gaps and 

 barren places are legion. — C. P. P. 



DESTROYING WASPS. 

 Thixkixg the plan ot destroying wasps mentioned by Mr. 0. 

 Purrott to be simplicity itself, I went for the purpose of de- 

 stroying a nest when dark, with a lantern, and lit a squib about 

 G inches long. I then put a piece of clay in the hole, but on 

 attempting to dig the nest out I found myself in " less than 

 five minutes" about a mile away from the place, with a fearful 

 buzzing of wasps round me. I found this would not do. 

 Query: Are " C. P.'s" instructions sufficiently clear for ordinary 

 brains ? — Delta. 



Last evening in walking past the vinery, I observed wasps 

 issuing from a hole in the woodwork, and level with the garden 

 walk. Having obtained a thin stick, about 18 inches long, I 

 made a train of gunpowder and sulphur, which I wrapped 

 round the stick, I then shoved the train into the hole, and 

 stood ready with a turf, with which, as soon as I had fired 

 the train, I blocked up the hole. On examining the nest this 

 morning I found every wasp dead. A more easy, simple, safe, 

 and effective way I do not know. — Beta. 



THE GOLDEN PIPPIN APPLE. 



When and where the Golden Pippin was first discovered, are 

 now matters of uncertainty ; but all writers agree in ascribing 

 to it an English origin, some supposing it to have originated 

 at Parham Park, near Arundel in Sussex. Although it is not 

 recorded at so early a period as some others, there is no doubt 

 it is a very old variety. It is not, however, the " Golden 

 Pippin" of Parkinson, for he says "it is the greatest and best 

 of «ll sorts of Pippins." It was perhaps this circumstance 

 that led Mr. Knight to remark, that from the description Par- 

 kinson has given of the Apples cultivated in his time, it is 

 evident that those now known by the same names are dif- 

 ferent, and probably new varieties. But this is no evidence of 

 such being the case, for I find there were two sorts of Golden 

 Pippin, the " Great Goldiug," and the " Small Golding, or 

 Bayford," both of which are mentioned by Leonard Meager, 

 and there is no doubt the " Golden Pippin" of Parkinson was 

 the "Great Golding." Whether it was because it was little 

 known, or its qualities were unappreciated, that the writers of 

 the seventeenth century were so restrictive in their praises of 

 the Golden Pippin, it is difficult to say ; but true it is whilst 

 Pearmains, Red Streaks, Codlings, and Catsheads are so 

 highly spoken of, the Golden Pippin is but rarely noticed. 

 Ralph Austin calls it " a very speciall Apple and great bearer." 

 Evelyn certainly states that Lord Clarendon cultivated it, but 



