vry 2, 1864] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 631 
of the eye, sh , onal.” We wish our Ro apa brethren every [ property destroyed by the phd rapid conflagration 
&c. Mr. fare dun above alluded ine are as fol- pact in any a sibl pt thev make to reorganise [or other losses of greater monetary PTS are e the 
lows :—“Some time ago I promised to jot down a few | a rea ally efficient and pracu H s pues and P oleetidla of Mr. Aag m 
notes concerning Pears that have ripened thorou, agh ly, d. Nort lorist? Guide h com . ually a cumulated =, the several y years in 
d it d series of portraits of our leading | nich his Tete hours y md 
gardens here. Peder: ving that succeeds well here, will, ae by that of Mr. C. Turner, of Slough, which was usefully €— to botan ical. pluie: as also importan 
I think, have an equal chance in the west of Scotland, | given in the m Number. The likeness, which i manuscripts yet unpublished. Under these painful 
ate to be alm ou a we ait" e, y photog raphy, is accompanied circumstances it is felt br cg botanical friends, » that 
clim goo 
have here, and your being carefully selected | a memoir which T * fast," and though highly com 
and thoroughly paces 3 a good deal tter lins our | plimentary is, tosay the least, in questionable t . We | be offer Lr ys er, in fo he Senet form of a 
cold wet clays. I d ow of anything, however, | can, ever, agree with the writer in his pe? ate — i the botanica DA ra towards : A acing 
more capricious than Pears. eaches - ager qp of the four-fold claim Mr. P ao has upon the | b s lost books. They b ust E a d tad t5 i 
a any other fruit, in a good. season, wili be | regard o nd * an exhibitor his is bota ill enter into this feeling ; ard t n hu ing 
ood here, but I have often ey dris ind oes a par . 9. Asa censor his decisions have | their individual subscriptions to h es dier they 
varieties of Pears very aed in one place, and quite | been ever nd as the righteous sentenc of an | will testify their appreciation of db a HN "d 
worthless at nda a short distance off, where the | maha judge; 3. Asa tradesman he is entir be disinterested | services ota mi otanis En an 
conditions did not appear to differ abati. It | depended on; and 4, a friend he is hearty, sincere, | 88SIst in enabling hi im ontinue the — d tur > 
plan w to me that, w where it could be done, the ae n, the generous | years. amount may serve to replace som 
ep ould be to plant a good many sort 8, and as sS 
abe. E have, however, found those 
in all places where I v with 
he past tdry — ^ ieh tad oat E damp 
Hacon’s 
them. 
soil, and I never tasted fi 
wh name | al 
Willi 
one lost [ner or other object, so that no botanist need 
other clai 
4 T^ E 
There are two 6 of Sweet William im in 
viz rain 
hand. 
unt?ss 
| the sleep centre more fa og tor con- 
5 
Ao ? 
Bours 
a si ze, 
. Hunt, of ai. combe, Bucks, the well-known 
Talip ip seid er, which are of a very fine form and varied in 
| colour, but without the. bti white 
» the Auricula-eyed, which 
o shades « man tagia 
ece 
excel 
aster, 
uary, better from à standard than a wall, 
, and 
Beurré d’Aremberg, D T, free bear 
large whi $ ls y attra her 
strain locas as the. Perfection Sweet ‘William, which 1 
centre, peculiar 
offer 
ferences, and for postal [cia T o than would be 
und elsewhere ey are kindly allowed to refer also 
Oliver, a = other 
good (à 
nated by M: 
Melville, 
excellent ; 
and good des musky m much liked by some 
e doi idi and h 
very free bearer. Louise — e (of Jersey), Octob 
ed — very good here in e senson. Marie 
ndards, 
sacrificing quality to sina; ; breeding am, | iostead of|g 
Edinboreli, but | sa 
enry ber, by w 
t | committee earnestly request other botani 
S the omit of botanical names thereto as 
erally and n usly as possible. The proper 
1 y 
fro 
ees, Glou Mo orem, 2 November 
racehorses; for the majority lately sent out are to my 
ide- | 
| taste r rough and AA Size seems to be the 
1 
and e er, genera Pl; good, though so 
does not ripen Mp here on standards. 
Diel, though not often her 
gd 
it and keeps go 
may sta’ or 
1860 and 1861, it was itor the e Apple that. we 
cor 
e is invaluable for fifte 
Sy des 
great, wide spreading crinoline 
rollas.” He r recommends them to “go back 
en years, od ae afresh with a em breed," such 
I i splendid ac caer of ry apa and the graceful 
g Charming. There is ran 
oe: A about uii tions of fl 
Us flow especially 
serial a sant monthly visitor in the home of a 
true floris 
Garden Memoranda. 
Mz. Satter’s Nursery, WILLIAM STREET, HAM- 
ear is pen nursery | 
MEN SMITH.—At no season of the 
As u al "the ottish aap contains several | without interest. Late in autumn there is the bate 
pd ii practical val WU Bie mbers ed us d exhibition of Chrysanthemum; it is well know 
nd good e of to contain one of the best „collecti 
Neapolitan Viol " re 
stove plants, early spring Pine aig Loop fort 
useful subjects in. w, st u the state of hortieulture| of which Mr. Sa Ru miubabie seleetio ; ani 
ctm observe with oe e flat near ali our tur the house wep with I — ne 
Scotch nobility and peaty are members of the n d nai pep. - aua. a prid ÉL 
alwa; 
imma Society; but it has 
regret to me that, 
with a few (erii 
| wardii, similar i 
| salmon, the one e differing a 
which this genus 
is divided. Among them ihe eoar are 
attention, viz., Mae. hes Titian, rosy salmon ; 
colour, but perhaps a shade pes H 
wit 
yen worth 
Amelina Griseau and Mr. Lierval, sont flushed 
little 
support of some ‘on for m y years 
be more than a name, and - Eu the gros rhe 
am tempted wae an effort s 
ov works i p qr the old “Caledonian Society ^h 
ortieultural Society of yd d 
health a 
amt ns and astitoorste connections M the form 
salmon red; both French and E ies 
imson with a p in of bloom 
Fiacre, salm 
fine Ea ed bedding purposes ; 
flushed with salmon; $ Gybuten 
into operation, not eM having a garden | as for- 
nt of horti 
Paulin ne Gaspard, rose. These ar excellent varieties 
Soret f being added to any volletion, each head o 
in every deparim ultu 
Certain means of Friktering — any gl "it horti | 
b 
“OF the an produced | by the Pæonies while 
ou - Edinbo h, 
has = 
inúe ule is an effo 
a 
n, and our la an propri 
1 such uu if oon 
ds to wiljecks of of merit as they ds in 
ot be ct o our national M 
shee are given at sh 
m England as York, Bishop 
= 
rt is made now 
Ft 1 
exeep 
ist amongst those who "ought 
teeta oe efficient socie ty. 
inter 
a true desire to promote 
of rural that is 
greater mpanportance, may may lead all 
over any difficulties th, 
one society that shall r4 worth ag 3 
` smooth 
— 
ers to 
day 
pulos to to oar were Me jii by in. the tro fin fimilis 
barely escaping with t . The 
of being celled ins 
Beda in — high te 
vnd -— and 
lasting as apo do for several weeks $o oget a fo A 
y, just before the usual bedding 
from pure 
Lis some de yellows, 
andsome; but in masses duy ds 
Libr. Th 
Subscription ^e" Mr. Baker's “a é| 
| following srt as been addressed to the Botanists | 
of Great 
W. W. Newbould, EN 
On the 
e Abd ers, Rev. 
his 
amount D 
o» a Lnd Le of infor- | 
Auriculas and ip which pe Make cad little | u 
* 
: — then all 
bs ge om Treland de a pts cotisiáf- | T 
n:— Luar, 
nes S bene 7 ‘the fang dra dwelling È houses i ig i 
them pe oy it. in some degree trust to the kind 
r parties, even in PDI making 
this Tircular a its purpose generally kno Sub- 
scriptions by cheque or poc -office sila? Vil he Teisivad 
Post-office orders should be 
me, at 
ums 
tath] ps. 
nder 15 
Ir 1839, 
during a 
where the bran ches diver 
e feet downwards, 
but sa Magn o together. 
a bro ad hoo wp 
The tree being : a favourite 
made to bind it tog ether, 
a )p od ut 2 
+ the limit, o vb don 
t round it wiet, i Wight by à 
n to sink nto the bark, 
brought o retogether. At the fee ro ; 
w chop A formed Y fel very doubifal Faget i 
of it; one owever, that went a great way to 
exact 
x 
dispel this idea in the e M Was ; the close and 
fit of the two sides, and ight manner in which 
in|they were 
B 
he acti ught AS. gy and made me 
think the eet in question v would. be rt-lived one. 
Many years afterwards I happe T^ be in the same 
district, I M puces he the tree 4. visited dandas and ond 
t not onl but the ir 
i t half a a inc or or $o 
m 
pes 
no doubt is entirely pray J. L 
comeqpentiy lost sight s ‘ba 
— of the circumstance, 
intentions, it 
and ve, howi 
by 
— 
foundland a ases iita te, ‘Sarracenia purpurea, 
et hick b them two n — common iag 
s On a Ap y rn rt of his "Property zia e the p 
nb ut the plan had 
Serisi Tests Ponte one of is Longa 
tis w 
ing na wally m 
vse Ha pred on the dn of its a by frosts ; 
besides, the foliage gets browned from some cause, 
