288 THE ¥EORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
SEPTEMBER EXHIBITIONS. 
4 anp 5.—LEA Bripce HorticutturaL Society.—Annual Exhibition. 
- 6.—Royat HorticutruraL Socrery.—fruit and Floral Committees, 11 
am.; General Meeting, 3 p.m. 
9.—Dunprr HorrticutturaL Society.—Jnternational Horticultural Exhi- 
bition. 
11.—Royat OxrorpsHIRE HorticutturaL Socrety.—Autumn Exhibition. 
12.—Lrer anp BuackHEatH HorticutturaL Socrery.— Autumn Show. 
12 anp 13.—GLascow AND WEsT oF ScoTLaAnpD Horticutturat Sociery.— 
Autumn Exhibition. 
13.—Royat CareponiaAN HorticuttuRay Society.—Autumn Hxhibition. 
14,—Kitmarnock HorricutturaAL Socrrry.—Autuwmn Exhibition. 
28.—Woonnore Cius Day, at Hereford. 
28 anp 29.—ALEXANDRA Patacre, Muswexti Hitu.—Jnternational Huhibition 
of Potatoes. Lor 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4 
G. G., jun., Stockport.—You will experience considerable difficulty in winter- 
ing the plants mentioned in your letter in windows facing the north. They no 
only require protection from frost, but, during the winter season, they require 4 
abundance of light. They ought also to enjoy all the advantages resulting from 
full exposure to the small amount of sunshine experienced during that dull season. 
If you make the attempt to preserve the plants in the windows, you must, early in 
September, place them in a sunny position, where they can remain until danger 
from frost is apprehended, and water them very sparingly. They should, indeed, 
have no more water than is really necessary to prevent the leaves flagging, and to 
ensure the thorough hardening of the growth by the time the plants are taken 
indoors. During the winter they must be kept as dry as possible, because of the 
risk of their damping off. Zonal pelargoniums should be kept quite dry, for they 
will take no harm if they do not receive a drop of water from October until the 
following March, provided the wood is rathor hard, 
Fern ror Vase.—. W.—As a companion plant to the one mentioned in 
your letter, we can recommend Davallia dissecta, a species of great beauty. 
Hepeges ror Suetter.—Badanloch, Sutherlandshire.—One of the very best 
plants for hedges for shelter is the American Arbor vitz, which is generally entered 
in the trade catalogues as Thuja occidentalis, It is comparatively cheap, very 
quick in growth, thoroughly hardy, and bears clipping well. Stout bushy plants, 
about three feet in height, and costing from 25s. to 30s. per hundred, will, if 
planted rather close together, soon form a hedge sufficiently dense to afford efficient 
shelter to the occupants of the intervening quarters from the roughest winds. 
When the hedges are formed the plants should all have the tops taken off to ° 
encourage the production of side-shoots, and to make them of the same height. 
Afterwards, the hedges will require an annual clipping to maintain a uniform height 
and thickness. The common Evergreen Privet also makes an excellent hedge, 
although not equal to one formed with the American Arbor vite. 
Pracu TreE.—G. P.—To successfully cultivate the peach tree out-of-doors, a 
wall haying a south, east, or west aspect is essential. The tree must be planted a 
few inches from the wall, and the branches trained to it. In training the trees, 
spread out the branches in the form of a fau, and nail them to the wall ata distance ° 
of about six inches apart. The fruit is produced on shoots of the previous season’s * 
growth, and at the winter pruning those shoots selected for fruit bearing must be 
shortened back to about one-third of their length only, and the remaining young 
shoots should be cut back to the first or second bud, for the purpose of furnishing 
a supply of young wood, to eventually take the place of that left for fruit- ~ 
bearing. In the course of the summer, all the new growths upon the bearing 
shoots must be removed with the exception of two to each shoot, one at the base ~ 
and one at the point, and these must be laid in their full length. 
Rosrs.—G. P.—Roses should not, as a rule, be pruned before the middle of 
March, because when pruned earlier there is a great risk of the young shoots being 
cut off by spring frosts. 
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