OcroseR 17, 1857.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRON 
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in extreme beauty, one which decorated my Orchid Another disease to which the Vine is subject 1s men- , on oe pre trees and in a soil that suits it; and 1 
October till February in large masses, was | tioned by the same author under the name of x kpaußBos, 
he di d ed b 
uit from the Horticultural Society’s ph 
from > ted 
the first plant to fail, but I did not then recognise | but this i is clearly the disease described by Dunal under eae just ustified the high encomiums passed upon it in 
ne ey A s Fruit Catalogue. As Im ibly be an 
c ing | the | a ey 
plant in too great ego and that the vital Manure and Potato Rot.—From observation and exhibito in a small way, a should feel npl ag be your 
T single dishes of Pears and 
were consequently removed to a p pr! house dency | of different kinds of manure to produce Potato | will be judged by flavour. The large collections, I 
plants s a $ ns, I pre- 
and lower temperature, receiving In eenhouse | rot is in independent of the poemon. ot nitrogen, phos- | sume, Arh 4 tasted, as they ino necessarily Ab 
treatment from July to Rear. goar ti the dostene- phorus, ars in them. Whateve ig tain several unripe sortg. J. B. Whiting.—tThe follow- 
tion of ts eeds, an aving a number of owth en dangers the soundness of 
mpo 
ing remarks on this subject have been received from 
the 
plants which made the house look gay through the oad is to oppaan $ the proper qua atity. Pie should Mr. M‘Ewen. “ Whet fairly answered the letter 
winter, I have now only a few spikes of flower, and fear | be varied acco: to the a ness ae the soil and 
Ishall soon lose these. If any insect enemy exists, it | dae for sere dine mo » from n 
her I 
its | of an ‘Occasional Exhibitor,’ at p. Sete hs it is not for me 
much as the writer of the letter to affirm. Notwith- 
: at all to |so 
is either a small species of scale, or a very minute =] 15 ap of iss to the one “At the comtnencement of méar a yag Mr. Whiting has I see nothing to 
bserv 
as said, 
rving the oe r mod I regret that Mr. Whiting at- 
ify. 
mpts cla that I lay poar stress upon the value 
bad. formerly received many | | tatoes of an allotment 
name I forget, but I see it occasionally, nan marata it | tenant rl the result. After. a crop of Wheat the land was | of size of] kitchen Ap = than my letter warran 
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ese were se peciooay Spread, 
ete of Barkeria ft Lindleyans but I do not cons Se it on | key being left 7 oe heaps a e parts receiv 
; and I 
[arga ea Ros and re A quantity of red and black ashes | cannot reconcile pa ap in favour of the y baad 
too | of moderate meg kitch en Apples and large desse 
ing | Pears, If it i Pe as he supposes, that the winning Tr 
am inclined to thin nly none. The whole was dug ay peak: th Potatoes in asea be a guide to purchasers of the most suitable 
assailin, he 
tabili 
is the law of ener animal life, g vege- | spring, be oracg iy 5 addition of manure. I was pr 
ese 
table life when fe rop was being raised, and observed a af 
Iam trying what up-rooting all my plants will do, Paces ‘equidistant te: the heaps the tubers 
sent sto then a su me Ft was right in advising the ‘ Occa- 
sional regen to exhibit the moderate sized Pear 
rst rate, and ra exclude a 
omega n new blocks, thinking it rycen miserably small, but sound. On approaching nearer E fav arite of Mr. Whiting’s, th the “ Beurré Diel, which he 
t 
reconnect 
that fu sa om the blocks may have affected the ihe ce! Mi of the. Boone which was known b 
the | pronounced ‘worthless.’ Supposing that an 
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ngoid | A large y 
plants, but I have partially tried this already with little colour of the soil, the Potatoes were much larger, |e exhibitor had E hibited the large kind as a choice sort, 
or no success. e labour under a great Sianna: m ut with traces of rot. mae the heaps had been the | why in that district it must -n disappointed the 
w natur: so than a 
i n v were cases 
flourish on living stems, though some species affect = si scanty, moderate, and exce: Every o 
I have e to grow living stems (principally | aha most bogniled hy ecu PA riad 
trees, 
sp. Ficus), on whieh to grow my Orchids, but hitherto | soil. After all, the coming season may nullify all his care. | o 
without aoe. An Ferien over the average moisture in the atmosphere | 
Java Hoyas have become parasitic with a | may cause a moderate quantity of manure to be injurious, 
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of | purchasers, much more arge kitchen Apple, 
ne | for that can be cooked. Bat ena are re first- rate kitchen 
the | Apples both in size and quality. The Alexander is one 
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pi do L tty wit which they never did in and a summer like the last may, on very dry soils, | Diel, pity not given it a second class ch 
anilla also flouri bu a e | 
i and | 4 au Re u 
roots nourish its advancing branches. This however raised at the rate of 250 bushels the acre, where | less pretentious sort, sbut is, if well wn, one of the 
exhi 
has. coe -_ e yappa symptoms of disease this in ordinary seasons there would have been 
an fi 
gro 
and most showy of Apples? It is, however, very 
diti 
a mass | 
for my vorpe ente which at | iS Sen Da besides quantity the power) ey rar: ees more sugar than most, and it is placed 
t impart its vi i 
present have some dozens o of pods upo: of the to imp its virtues rapi 
dy | first class in size and quality in the catalogue quoted. 
eaa oa 
The older varieties of Oncidium — as a hd to the plant i is sto i attended to gee i and well | As apeg the ‘Seckel Pear, it can be 
carthaginense, O. Lanceanu t ore | size, and 
: rotted ma early y growt and 
specially suffered with me, the two first in i hare 7 advanced the Potato is (c is + (caterse peri the less 
which I have almost lost, and at first attributed this to disease affects it. For reason ways use a com- | having will ad at alp give up “for t t 
growing the plants at a lower temperature and in a Pound of gti pam bh ge stano, mixing it well mA such as meses ~ beg Syrian, though half a he 
Ts 
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flourished with me. I now recognise in their decay the ™ the drill with the sets. P. 
same oer which has adidited plants of lower tempe- 
ratures, J. —From the tone of -~ of the Loa gh a by * 
Gardeners’ 
Occasional Exhibitor” at p. 662 o 
Cesotiele it meri seein t that ott m her som 
it times larger. ut detracting from the catalogue 
of the Society, W is aa fais to state that Beurré Diel was 
Horticultural Society's Fruit Show at Willis’s Rooms. second and third class at Arundel (S. ew as well as 
‘An at the East coast, as sated by an ‘ Occasional Exhibitor.’ 
same may be said of Beurré Bose and Duchesse 
d'Angoulême. I fian tasted those sorts good in other 
perso! 
Home Morrependenos rig’ Ss aa at the coming miio gag ace 2 fruit at | districts, but they never peak ae in ay an a er to the 
cul asse Col 
he Disease is t 
p. 694.)—I think Mr. Riley's & i ay is an instance | Societ ety that “kitchen Se and t able A 
of the danger of inferring a iar meaning in a word, shown in separate collections; and the answer sn 
different from its usual sense, to suit what we imagine Mr. MEwen to the „qu nestion ther ai nds to 
the 
by propriety of tap judges tasting the fruits which are in 
season; at any rate they have full power to do so if they 
nk both in le dishes, in 
the author must have meant to say. I have looked that notion. Now, in rtised schedule “of “the | thi Anaa collections and single 
ta Baeciolati for the senses of absumo, but can find none | Society, 1st, 2d, and 3d prizes n yA Sees for 
ish. I 
ons | order that 4 correct verdict kar Sja As to whether 
ut | the judges will take int 
collectio e gi 
consume, Y, les, 6 fru each ¢ ot witho ‘ the sorts best t adapted 
quoted from Pliny in which this word is used restricting the exhibitor to “either table or Kitchen | for supplying a saak ipaka, 8 table aa i the year,’ 
first is in Book II., c. 9, and relates to the | Varieties, and were I one of the judgesI should c a age ul | is a view upon which the schedule is silent, and must be 
ive the 
moon, to whose rays he attributes the power “humorem | give sk gw ab to those collections er (othe 
artly o; 
r left an open question. The only clause which treats on 
solvere atque etiam ayn: ts Solis radii absumant.” | brs of m d partly o 2 and it runs thus, ‘ Fruit is expected to be bcm | ripe as 
is i -circumstan es pido i of course, 
third i kV... wiles itors =f ivision of the | ; 
cause to which Timeeus attributes the rising of the Nile, than to collect together a great heap of fruit ; dd S io al aoe necessarily) most merit.” 
which i gins se k su it will h a he! Fruit Show at Willis’s Rooms.— me to thank 
is bj i 
leone... cum in eo tractu mbræ.” Mr, | exhibitors ae p: a selection of the best dessert and 
Riley. probably could not conceive mes the ‘ala could culin supplying a gentleman’s table in suc- 
and Mr. en for the attenti to 
uiry about the conditions on which merits of 
oy * 
destroy the Grape otherwise than by stifling it, and, | cession till the pi of the Apple season. The winning 
af ng i 
instead of strictly rendering the collections might then be safely taken as guides by those 
i fruits would be decided at the fo: rthcoming exhibition on 
the 24th inst. I may or may not be on exhibitor on 
passage 
“when something like cobwebs cover the fruit and who may wish to plant ese ees, but amongst the | that occasion ; I am, however, pleased tosee 
waste it up,” which gives in a few words de- | | nultiplictty of hey in caltiation ar are doubtful heh a is not to be mi deaa sacrificed to bulk, lest A ia te toe Gf 
i Althou certainl 
so curiously characteristic of the appearance | to choose. gh “pulk ” 
in | small fruits and good ones it may lead to the same result 
Scription 
of the- present disease, he has paraphrased it, kitchen Apples, I mak ee “vith Mr. M‘Ewen that | as the great summer Flower Shows have done with re- 
mto the version you. quote. Æ. V. N.—'The their comparative merit ought to be determined by this | gard to autumn and winter flowering plants, viz., their 
i ich i i e.f ere is ifference in 
> d is also v 
and its. i tends the | good, therefi t lone should mot be made th |i 
alee A cpa aap ge a p rag g e TY n deciding | “Tilseed” remy which the oil is obo eel Would you 
wn in 
paragraph 
very | newspapers, con gag a new 
S Gopartanelh of France, being the cake or pet the of 
Vi 
the is a mere gloss, and not founded | between competing nore we Aai to aa into con- | inform me. what Tilseed is, if i England 
past manos ich was by Theo- | sideration all their merits and demerits, and not foun 
a 
by any other name, as I hav many 
t and do ? 
not possessed by i ; . 
single prope i not know what it is? W. W. [This is no 
But supposing it to be the fact that he was our decision upon a rty. pores © thie pot Pay ws ge B E a e Va 
Possession of additional observations, the phrase is as | rule, then, the Seckel cannot be consi 
Aplicable to the work of the Vine moth, or of the Pear than the Beurré Diel or the Duchesse d'Angoulême. | sina sativa, aliàs Guizotia oleifera, of Botanists. The 
teigne rrap adh bes tg Arasa mould. Bose | Judging by flavour only, the Seckel inly stands | only other i Til we know of is a Laurel inhabiting the 
tter 
udging 
ouveau Cours complet first, but there are other points to be looked at, and 
by griculture, t. xiii., p. 507, 1809: “Its larvais known | of these size is of some importance, especially when Jerus alem Artichoke y) s.—Referri T ing to Mr. C athill’s 
; in . 
the Vi i the account at p. 694, I have since I’ came here in 1846 had 
eats into aiaga y vineworm. It | the yor gpa between gf peng slr » p. 65 bg ly et he 
the interior of the berry, and one to a well grown erusalem Artiche ower eo Boe ee 
Thaker by means of a silken gallery which it spins. | up into f a dozen specimens f | In the same interval I have once seen = in ~ bien 
berries thus at A ice, and what the other. Then, i e should look at t the Re Junction Station oa a fn 
they produce is of bad quality, being de in sugar,” respective periods of ripening. The Seckel comes into Railway, and previously to 1846 (1844 or 
The araneum peg tive o season believe), them er in the 
edigh im is used by tany- use at t eral su s— | 1845, I I saw in flow te 
fruit ; as,- ance, where he says that Thompson’s and y Louise Bonne, Weston, near at vi een w the 
of the Willow before maturity passes into a web, while the Duchesse d’Angouléme uscfully succeeds the Locksbrook to Newton Bridge t 
for inst ce— 
= b. he | from < € erges 
Mr, fdas T was certainly not ot justsBed in triail Marie Louise, and the Beurré Diel ripens a, later, road to Kelston and Bitton. George E. Frere, Eo 
tiful. Besides, I 
y 
“ stifles,” for Pliny’s “absumit” is a mere ren- when Pears are much less pleni 
tengo eat word “Biapeipe ” of Theophrastus, | tain that the latter is a good Pear. when 
Hall, Diss.——The Jerusalem Artichoke has flowered 
freely this season at Perdiswell and has attained the 
