136 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 6, 1964, 
any Rose is to keep = roots dry. | of the world at this period, amongst a people whom we | and notes the first, Diu dinge I did after coming here 
Iti is wet that giv rost pow n at wh pid e accustomed to consider eoru. iA ae ed f p this s part of - E ai and to 
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af power. Ifi 
ties on Manetti winter perfectly well in the baskets in Howth had up notice boards also in his garden f g li woollen ; this I haye 
which they are sent, by filling the baskets with dry | guidance of the public. But ie was evidently do at intervals of 2 or n p and the 
leaves, and closing the tented matting around | that human nature is not quite so bad as some ‘would soli is now as light and fiable as a mole hill, and a 
them in severe weather. About 50 plants of|have us believe, that there is a chord in the lowest | trees and bushes grow and bear fre eely. For 
Mr. an e aul, and John Hopper, are| mind which will vibrate if it is properly struck, and | vegetables, I wid not recommend it to $ 
now so treated, and are quita healthy. Others are d in short, as we curselves say, “there is honour | used alone; its slow decomposition prevents it from 
planted out in y eccl frames, d with dry mong thieves.” His garden notices were therefore| doing much good the first year after its application, 
leaves upon their roots. These also are very healthy. ved different from o ours. Here is one or two of them | But I find that when mixed wit farm-yar] 
The should never be closed ti “I ! 
me h ed|dung to e 8 
wenther. The former is quite as good, if not|todelighttl ll visitors; a great deal has been | of d fe -— iy some purposes I mite ever used, 
etter ing i i st of this king 
t, as the pla nk e e grown my ery 
are kept more dormant. Your Correspondent will do | rey is now ue to yield some return. Those stent with i little p when it is in a state 
well to try both plans. Keep water from them in| who come here to saunter about are earnestly prayed Tin fermentation. I also grow my Potatos jy 
either case. The earth needs to be only moderately | not to pae the fruit or [flowers, in order that the | the same mixture, with the re of the salt, ani 
moist. If“ A. B.” leaves his plants i» loco, he must | beauty of the plac sem bd e preserved. We beg persons | I can say that for size and quality I have ra rarely 
give them a omen of leaves or T — |w who understand this notice to excuse it." On a Lee- | seen finer; I,have had many tubers of Haigh s Seedli 
over the surface. Ever "s ee on its which w or i i 
or on other stocks, in no o red; and I have pe | nn d whose branches were loaded with bunches of | from Ẹ to 14 Ib. in weight, with a skin as smooth æ 
scarcely anything. ‘Once jig ed things in winter r i fol | that of the tinest Apple. With regard to the effect of 
* dry ” as you can. W. F. ° Radeluffe, Rushton. notions * Ramblers here mil LA go ae the i materi "no fone ers I am unable to speak, 3 I 
nfall at Dorward 's Hall, Witham, in 1863:— | fruit of this tree” Another requests | have made no e ents with it on them; butt 
foliage of one of Dy Vines where I have used it freely i 
the border is so striking as to elicit peruse, g^ from 
- Thom mson, TAR ear Leeds, 
Spa. = Vi ve received from end, an extensm 
May I -. 0.78 | November ae i) 1.98 dide E own with "he losing names "my cri) bs 
düha "3. x ....&17 | Deoeriber decane 73 the quf were made to P that they were jtévitad, hat first-olas orts,” which may apply y to ih 5 piri 
TS ae ES arden was kept u for their en joyment, and tha hat | th e world Tat Im much fe ca tha at if grown i n this un many 
9 hie Md oft em- perhaps a QNS e i ns or iot ing ;" anf 
Dizo uard it from deg Nec in any way by the |i is yen ces foem mn Toni oct ha a ods E Vines 
ainfall at Dorward's en Witham, for 14 years, in disposed. This a, | Nevertheless s one "does ‘not li like to commit folis flames soris 
Dew 1850 £o 1863 — «B eu t is probable t the on red had been in existence for | ed des consideration. P B you 2 ea or rand 
a p^ time previous to the date of. my visit to that | your Gra grow ing correspon me whet 
m ag EV . 113 25 k cab ie — E 1] a bong i I Pl not venture to say th at the Chinese | Ue verá € d ERU be —— dem 
3884: 9d Age vo BM. D eso : i 25.98 custom I have described has had any effect upon those | Bebas, Tintella, Cagalonas, Grasse j jet egra, oe m. Pg, Vaca, 
1853 .. T $«029:20 S -o v. 4. 18.83 who frame the notices which we now see in our English | Mollares, Rabuas, Ehi ipre Gerdo, Chipre bm E 
1854 .. m .. 15.48 | Hor wa " -. 21.28, gardens, but a change for the better has certainly taken | Mantuas de la — Garias, De Rey, Cura: e 
2 | i i lluded. W. 
: ns. | those who chew Betel N = v ru outside the! railings.” 
January œo +2 se zn S pee adeo sh fa The notices were all of t character as thos se I 
h | Lubenes, Listane: Aem and Benitos, "pem 
— | place since the time to which I have alluded. hat |in which we expected to o find an account d ind ines says 
i i nothing about mee es so we are obliged to place the letter in 
ers.] 
Average per ur - 
14 years 20.66 
ia zon. arden ei 
ahora coccinea.—That the flowering of this | “ Visitors are ie ai not to n = ary of us cieties, 
hat tied there "mif" bà no doubt; plants." ‘As these gardens are instruction and ROYAL HORTICULTURAL : Heg 29 (Fruit Committe). 
therefore i in a adition to the places named at p. 80, in jose smoking Sale sports m HA are forbidden.” | _ Seyeral prizes were awarded on this occasion, bith 
which ence is reported to have taken place, | At Battersea Park we read that “ visitors are requ ested for hardy and tender fruit. Of Adams’ Pearmain 
Imay erii be allowed to say c it was flowered | hot to walk on ihe Grass on this side of the Park." | M, Spivey, Hallingbury Place, Bishop's Stortford, wis 
in 1845 by Mr. Sealby, Gardener to Edward R. And in the training schoo sa e South Kensington there the only exhibitor; but instead of the variety indicated 
Roberts, Esq., Fort Hill, near Barnstaple, Devonshire, | is à notice ie Be tha ts E eee of Pe sc hool he furnished a dish of Pearson’s Plate. Mr. Spivey 
and I believe either €" since that date. | Property is ” this is “By | was also the only exhibitor in the class of Margi 
€— certain, but I have reason to believe | order of the em of the Com matted of Council - Apples, which, though good looking externally, on 
Lm as also flowered about 14 or 15 years ago, in | Education. i open 
the Moan I Radford Nursery, near Exeter. Mr. Sealby whic 
Sn a Mr. 
sudden exposures to heat and cold. x Cole Meade, change. which has ear place, The examples given | Mr, Snow received a second | prize for om dsome fruit of 
Notices to the Public in Englis Sentara inese mark for polite- Desc cie Es oe Pears, The best dish of New 
ago I sent to this Journal m doti ness, but they are probably as near as could be expected | Black Hambur urgh Grapes came from Mr. um: gr. tothe 
gardens which I had an Ws enr of vi visiting during from us “outer barbarians!” 7 ese little matters, Pol P ariel Cobham Hall, Kent ; and Mr. Pears, 
myi travels in MÀ. nd amongst th although at first sight apparently insignificant in them- | gr. toL kaon Ma 
e belonged to — the great s meri sasha: of selves, tend to show that inh es i —— to — a prize. Me Ba Pr inches were large, well coloured, and 
Canton, well Nase connection with the once _ oe of the working c t excellent. r. Tillery, of Welbeck, sent bunches of 
celebrated compound called * Howqua's mixture.” In| h iwi ered that they a are not quite so bad. | Black Aliens, Black Tripoli, and a seedling from 
this garden there were many things well worthy of | 33 ha em to be, and Eoy A. s possible Barbar e with the new pr Hamburgi - 
notice, and altogether it was a very pretty place. | to trust them to iL in gardens, amongs à rees and 7 The Black Tripoli Bes is the same as Frankenthdl, 
Roses, cultivated in pots and covered with — were | green Grass and flowers, under tel: restrictions of a i y fleshy, and ack mera tbe 
there in abu and this too at a ti 1 uch a| very gentle kind. ng in addition to this .we have flavour was sweet seca d dub The 
thing was iti dured impossible cA practical “gardeners also learned a little more of human n ature. d | was a little but not much shrivelled, m ‘the one 
in England, Orange trees also some of isa curious thing tha i eere persons in the world em ood. The Barbarossa seedling was stated to be better 
them of a goodly size, and others e y : “foot or two | particularly anxious anything which they are in favour than the Alicante. The Committee was 0 
feet in height, bat all equally under the control of the | desired to leave sino “rel a child he may eat of all | opinion that, notwithstanding the sugary flavour of the 
gardener, and loaded with delicious fruit. In England the fruits of the garden except one—the sourest per- | Black Tripoli, the sorts in question did not possess 
we have overcome our difficulties as regards pot Roses, | haps of them all— and e will not rest until he has the fresh vinous flavour of the new Hamburgis, 
nd some day soon we hope ful in | tasted the Pme fruit. And so it is with children Mr, Fleming, of Cliveden, sent mice bunches o 
n St. ter’ 
o ly su 
range. Many other kinds of plants | of 1 gr 4 
ecount of the beauty of their foliage, | Wife until the preset day. But there is also a — Sanders, > gn ir Henry Meux n Theobald's Parky 
flowers, or fruit, were also cultivated in this garden. | part of human nature to be worked em. part s Apa bunch E Lady D. Mire Euer which 
These, with the mi paved walks, ornamental dwarf oo Au ero Sig ae T being. s xin ^ under va ded a Certificate oF pue 
walls, halls, summer houses, es, and small lakes or | 5' workei on by ihe a n dea us Willis, Hollow „exhibi oyal Vine; 
fish ponds for gold and silver fish, had a very pretty | with the working classes, in shed eee which w ory ex ed theRoya need a 
‘Appearance, and were very enjoyable. But it is to the = ir concerned, t oug ‘be "Brie ME Spive furnished 33 varieties of Applesal 
publie notice boards observed in this garden, which I | kept in view. The better feel — gs of their nature ought | correctly named, except one called Winter Pearmain 
perse pipere to which I wish to draw im ae T pus "As and they er pm = to be green Apple, which could not be identified. For th 
the present occasion.  Howqua, like Ww aiam collection a Certificate of Commendation was awarded, 
true English ———— was quite willing that those e are going upon this tack now, and a apparent with | . Rivers sent speci in, Ladies” 
ents and | Jururies which he had created for | the most satisfactory results, Toig T n h gates Sweeting, Jonathan, and Melon Apples, all America? 
himself, shou der certain restrictions, p^ "ejjel of our great National Garden at "se aim: udly | sorts, oun at Sawbridie ote Phe same exhibitor 
by the publie, a id it was therefore easy for any one to | the people flock into their aan for they feel that it Ec 
obtain is garden. The peopie of Canton | is 4 kind of freehold which they can en joy freely, an Apple, a ver i 
were en ^ p avail themselves of his liberality. | Which they are bound in honour to protect. That they useful Dr. Sanke of Hanwell, exhibited a 
ing high days and holidays they used to go there ae. — well, em that little damage is ever | kitchen rer y ‘anwell, the same 
d to 
i y P e, accompani some of ul 
in great numbers, and to their credit, - = -n they done e plants, is satisfe ily shown in Sir Wm, |; s Per Y of. | 
were as well behaved aa ide crowds ar rho s reports. Robert Fortu = that thong y x Apple ihe fact? of its t cing of * 
Our great National Garden at Kew. pM thee nig Refuse.—In reply to Mr. oe request [mé sh eolour when cooked detracted from its ne 
days of which I write, the working classes in this (ep. sada I Lean say that from my own experience of | The Rev. Mr. ‘Alleyne, of Rickma h, sent three. 
country. ed upon as wild and mischievous in manure, I am ied de consider it | sorts o ing Apples, ka Mr. Turner, S Slough, à fie 
their habits, and were not considered fit to be trusted valuable for nursery an and market garden requirements; | large ending" ‘kitchen Apple raised by Mr. "s 
public gardens. If admitted at all they were | where the sii is of a heavy nature, a liberal application | Roun p 
iderfu 
" last was 
80 many thieves, and the stoves and | of it will soon effect a wonderful change in its tertur pen he eae à vines. + Certificate, which 
were care! erally kept under lock -— ve | and temperature; e. On thi theotherhand, however, » where the was avard ed it. "Mr. Rivera vet angie rine Oranges, 
“notice ” boards o ays wer "eig ble to S 
eed. To be given into custody, to be fined | sparingly, and pi ncipally as a topd ressing, asit decom. | hi high [p foal it is pee emer uum the 
ur of law, was to bé the fate « rect ieee’ be sb rd iere ^ = fy kit more i idly on at ein than paesa iM Goes ese Egg Ora b,l ere not 
i E the: w fender ins soil. My kitchen gendi o one adf eke hazel loo; d Mr. John fe rbes, gr. to J. C. no 
or touch the half stiff hea eavy clay. The last nam di 
a notices ike at he other end found principally covered with fruit named porti ton | ows Col, ere, went a os i ak à Cae 
