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win Pippin (one of the most esteemed American apples) ; Nov. to March. 



12. Prince's St. Germain Pear (originated by intermixture between the old 

 French St. Germain and the St. Michael); Nov. to February. 



1828. 1. Yellow Rareripe Peach; August. 2. Green Catherine Free- 

 stone (not the English Catherine) ; New. 4. Esopus Spitzenburgh ; Nov. 

 to March. 5. Federal Pearmain ; Nov. to March. 6. Large Red and 

 Green Sweeting; Aug. to Sept. 7. American Nonpareil; Oct. to Nov. 

 8. Yellow Harvest (finest early apple) ; July. 9. M'Keen's small Russet- 

 ing; Jan. to April. 10. Red 'Baldwin (very fine); Nov. to March. 11. 

 American Wine ; Oct. to Feb. 12. Williams's Favourite; Jan. to April. 



13. Sine qua non ; July. 14. Moore's red Winter Sweeting; Dec. to June.. 

 15. Blood Apple; Nov. to March. 16. Large double Almond; rare. 17. 

 Pope's Scarlet Major Pear (beautiful) ; Sept. to Oct. 19. Many's Italian 

 Apricot (a Seedling from a stone received from Italy) ; New. 20. Bowne's 

 Imperial Russet (the largest of all Russets, and highly esteemed) ; Nov. to 

 April. 21. Duane's Purple Plum (monstrous) ; New. 22. Prince's Duke 

 Cherry (the largest of American cherries) ; June. 



Autumn, 1829, from the Albany Nursery, North America. 

 1. Pound Peach. (See Gard. Mag., Vol. III. p. 347.) 2. Washington 

 Plum ; August. 3. Seek no further Apple ; Oct. to Feb. 4. Green New- 

 town Pippin ; Nov. to May. 5. Yellow Newtown Pippin ; Nov. to May. 

 6. Moore's Apple (a fine winter fruit) ; Dec. to June. 7. Jonathan Apple ; 

 Dec. to March. 8. Cayuga Redstreak ; Dec. to March. 9. Beauty of the 

 West; Dec. to March. 10. Swaar (a favourite winter apple); Oct. to 

 May. 11. Ortley. (See Gard. Mag., Vol. III. p. 347.) 12. Vermont 

 Nonpareil; winter. 13. Straat (a very fine autumn apple) ; Sept. to Jan. 



14. Sapson Apple; Aug. to Oct. 15. Pomme Grise (a favourite Canada 

 apple, of a flattish form and russet colour, streaked beautifully with red, 

 and keeps till March). 1G. Fameuse (from Canada; a pretty large apple, 

 of a beautiful dark red, with a little yellow on the side from the sun) ; Nov. 

 to Feb. 17. Genessee Pear (a fine autumn variety) ; New. 18. Washing- 

 ton Pear ; Sept. to Oct. 



American Fall Pippin and Pound Apple from Ronalds and Sons. — 

 31. Saul. Pomological Garden, near Lancaster, June 1. 



Wired Walls for training Fruit Trees, (p. 229.) — Wherever there is a 

 free current of air between the shoots and the wall I entirely disapprove of 

 wiring, from two years' experience. The benefit of the wall is thereby con- 

 siderably lessened, and the flavour of the fruit often deteriorated. W. M. 

 may find the practice to succeed in some parts of South Britain, but never 

 in the North. I consider nailing, the culture being the same, the best 

 practice. W. M. is right in not wishing his trees to flower early in the 

 open air : to have fine fruit much depends on the strength of the anthers, 

 bursting and discharging plenty of pollen, with the vigorous state of the 

 stigmas to receive the same ; and this process is always best performed in a 

 high temperature. — James Housman. Toft, April 15. 



Erratum. — I find in copying my jaunt to the Lothians (p. 495.), Ormis- 

 ton Hall is twice spelled Arniston Hall. Your readers will be kind enough 

 to correct this error with the pen, writing Orm for Am. — A. Gorrie. 



Art. V. Queries and Answers. 



Insects on Young Peas. — I enclose you a few of a kind of insect which 

 appeared in great numbers, with the warm weather at the end of last March, 

 on some rows of peas of mine, about 2 in. high. The small and darkest- 

 coloured (fig. 117. a) are the males, the others (b) are the females. The 

 peas are now only fit to be dug in ; and I also send a few of them for your 



