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No. IX. for July, contains 

 55. The Imperatrice Plum. One of the best for keeping late in the 

 season ; begins to shrivel in October, but will keep, and the flavour improve, 

 till the middle of December. 



34. The Hawthornden Apple. " Reckoned, the best apple in Scotland [!], 

 but it is apt to canker in that country." 



35. The GanseVs Bergamot Pear. " Raised by a Lieutenant-General 

 Gansel, from seed of the Autumn Bergamot, at Donneland Hall, near Col- 

 chester, about the middle of the last century. It does not bear well as a 

 standard, but yields a tolerably certain crop on an east or south-east wall ; 

 in which situation it ripens well. In the middle of November it comes into 

 eating, and continues in perfection about a month. 



36. The Margil Apple. Excellent ; ranks near the Ribston Pippin ; long 

 known in the gardens of this country. 



No. X. for August, contains 



57. The Lemon Pippin Apple. A good hardy variety, coming into eating 

 in the end of October, and keeping till March or April. One of the most 

 valuable orchard fruits we possess. 



38. The White Imjoeratrice Plum. Handsome, useful, very different 

 from the common Imperatrice. It ripens on a west wall about the beginning 

 of September, but does not shrivel or keep well. 



59. The Golden Harvey Apple. " Perhaps the very best of all our 

 fruits;" a great bearer, ripening in December, and keeping till May. " Its 

 flavour is more rich and agreeable than that of any other variety of apple. 

 No garden, however small, should be without it. It is much esteemed as a 

 cider fruit, on account of the quantity of sugar it contains. The cider 

 made from it is very strong, but not rich ; for which reason it has acquired 

 the name of the Brandy Apple. The specific gravity of its juice is said, in 

 the Pomona Herefordiensis, to be 1085. 



40. White Nectarine. Ripens in August and September, and is remark- 

 able for its fine rich flavour and abundant juice. 



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No. VIII. for August, contains 

 A valuable paper, by W. Alton, Esq., on Moss as a cultivated Soil. 

 Di'aining is one of the first improvements in the culture of moss : " till 

 that be done, every attempt to render moss productive will only be labour 

 lost." But a great error may be committed in the manner of draining ; 

 and it is for the purpose of warning our readers against this error, that we 

 have directed their attention to this paper. " Wherever a spring rises in 

 or under the moss strata, the water must be carried off by an open or a 

 covered drain, as local circumstances may require." After an outlet is 

 made for the springs, all that is necessary is to form ridges and furrows, so 

 as to prevent water from standing on any part of the surface. " This is all 

 the draining that any moss whatever requires, merely what will draw off the 

 water from its surface ; and it is all the draining that can be made on moss 

 with effect. Some, perceiving that moss was wet and soft, have imagined 

 that these defects could be cured by more complete draining ; and, accord- 

 ingly, they have drained, under-drained, formed wedge drains, intersecting 

 each other at every few yards, some of them filled with wood, others with 

 stones, and some with sod ; while others have written fluently on the modes 

 of forming such drains. But the whole is so much labour thrown away, as 

 all draining, more than forming the ridges and furrows in the manner men- 



