$ 
1 
t 
DECEMBER 3, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
1157 
that many kinds of Pears whose usual season is 
December, amt this season in November, and ks | 
for the most part of excellent flavour. Alexan 
Lambré, one of the hardiest and most prolific Pears 
profit to their trainers? Aga 
ir Lord Birmingham meos on D EN 
guinea ‘cup won many by thi 
| Captain x mde s ees 
shee 
with russet were serii but those of a fine clear 
yellow were no tn early so 
: 
go 
J 
Home Correspondenc 
The perna joe Later ove 
Joseph Pax — 
glad to D oe y arks (p. 1106), o 
gramme of the Bortieultural Society for next year, 
that we are likely (?) to escape the biw nderi ering 
r 
to the cattle and shep have we not o 
E like Lo: rds Fev rsham , and Phase aa 
Ge rea th wl 
pee the imong, D M e; my s 
Fie a most un feature—com:; 
early in Nove ad are now past E thoir godess 
No EON. on more ricious than ell 
known sort; five poo to the east of this s e d i 
ments cof which we may be sure qa are not a] Tittle 
Beo, „But had the Metropolitan F Floral 
Shows; but I a 
Nibitions pts been p nni Est ho es ne regards 
exhibitor rs that ue is a very i inconvenient one, a great 
„houses in order, Last vear the exhibitors petitioned 
niy. 
a ite one of the most | 
predio bulls, groo omed thon, 
pri 
of Wil 3 m 
Shows at the Regent’s Par! 
J 
Tot ue ” them, 
po rb E I up into qian put tin such 
R yal Botanic Society, Mi its usual 
peat for the pee wi ishes of the exhibitors, and 
easily b ee B how ma 
“bale hae noblemen yopi have d. at the trouble 
T. trust, therefore, that every exhibitor will set his face 
AF orm Saturday shows at the -Hortiegteral y. 
ight be used against Sat 
exhibitions. One is the labour whi ch if it involves on the 
Sabbath. Another is, > that most of our 
employers are at 
ally TH r esta- 
blishment to bei in orders ; ; but after (as is the case with 
p the 
etting home again with our plants 
til 1 or 2 o lock on Len morning, we do not feel 
ee eat dene and Tata ears known, has bedh ow let us scan the 
this season of high excellence even in the peti entis f the v t Crystal i2 Poultry S ins We any argumonts m 
] on by a Reverend Amate inde] | behold the Countess of i ae taking 1st prize for | 
lener near Newar — —— a Pear well adapted to | some beautiful Cochins, and Lady Elizabeth Hauton, | 
e Midland coun oo e, melting, and we the same for a pen of magnificent geese But why 
Ranking with this i in bs were AV. hardihood of the | was not the Crystal Palace Floral prize card. custom | 
tree anf its free-growing natu n the Quin ce, is | followed ben being 
PRISDU du apes ke the fe mo it is lar fra » | and Betsy B: n, thei titl 
as a russe ty. t, and is spei rich, and ex cellent. | And lastly, lot: us consider this s 1 lied 
the Pain rom lar and g to floral pr ns, Zr carried — 
ont e uince, 
daylight, so as to get 
Lud 
result 
said (s aR “ Gossip of the Ra one " "902, 
rd a A e e for 
General Todleben, a new mw proves to uA 
hardy free-gro wing tree on the "Quince Stock; ite fruit, 
large, pyriform, and of a bright Jeno was pavor 
and good, but with no Pomar] kablo d din all 
late autumn Pears then not o! 
icate i b Ppa fea should be 
double-grafted on some robust-growing sort ou the 
Quince, such T telis de la Cour or Beurré 
d'Amanlis. 
, Í have thus far described a few of the most popular 
inds of summer and autumn Pears, and I hope to be 
able some day to do the same an our winter an 
ae Pears, wich up to this time look fine and pro- 
i es gale | the 
|t 
| 
7 AGUNT gto ard BE AWARDED? 
esum 
in trim by a s respectable oy If, moreover, Sir Joseph 
on’s k nts from 
. 95 52) to be E absurd to awa Pars sley to| Paxton’s remarks in reference to establishme 
Lady M ary Vyner, 2 for Carrots to the Bishop of henon MM — aan havin am only m 0 
w 
Ripon.” ie. would it not be stil more fears 
ald | 
name as the prize takers Messrs. Jones and Robinson, eng that none of this time five be "lost, but 
ur | their respective head pole tat seeing that the said |t that we should make the best yn Wwyet- uld with our 
Messrs. Jones and Robinson had no t bloom when we had got it, f Sir J ipie 
h less— 
n the system of “Palmam qui meruit 
ferat," and ri I pma y the ym on whi ich 
whole 
cra importa 
exhibi ha 
question by reply yin g 
to it. only r reason I can 
Jemmy 
4 
41 
M 
LE 
SERE 
BÉ 
BS 3 
FEES S 
© 
[1 
£, 
=i 
er 
their behalf ; ; for under the should 
fin 
re UERTO 
tem 
d gentlemen taking much more interest iod delight | 
the cultivation of flowers and a a community hie | 
on predominates; and from the A" observat/ons cn 
ee osep 
never practised 
He might 
es 
à hg subject I have ANDR getan bed exhibitors, I think 
from "m Sir Joseph 
has written about E 
namely, growing Mp "o for exhibitions 
as well write dow. wn exhibitions altogether a 
upon which alone pune 
any other Class of show 
1 
po Fle 
to the} renes d of the employ NT 
consider the custom highly i Sa i bea in 
general, to floral exhibitions, I 
am 
with a 
te 1 
i E 
mp loyed, which could not but 
well Lise of the latter. Florist. 
_ The spirit of emulation is. well kn to b 
y persons coming forward in roti ae uber 
Ein k 
wise would im kr from so an" Now this spirit, 
which wi o advantageousl y in othe 
d to excel at any cos! 
or money, does not obtain : in the case of fone toéte 
under the present meer rem rp oa Should a 
ae at his command happen 
cs for any flower—say the 
strikin avery 
= ag growing a with large « ob! Gee cena 
here 'from 12 to a Dons in circumference, and 
with lea: from the crown from 3 to : tin 
height, an $ as much j Gin PLUR idth : spring, 
when the plants show signs. of growth they etd be 
dy 
Rose, ha Mens to nus the eget 
HK ng off from the „ball all bad soil and 
mam 
r ould boa 
a miscellaneous i vi ut det his 
i UN ask Sir d how he would 
AE 
flow sae S: T o 
ed as to prevent pec ly The same rena 
Roses and | 
y 
hom er 
but iP th that plant were taken to “win the A 
odds* would be "ge the y pud a backed fora winner, 
ond 3 por me, it would never e pnt: wt. 
I ca a assert that I should not like 
of his fa vourite, and has it cultiva der hi 
e 431 
t unequ 
to ‘meet m my employer the mor A a show if I had 
l any damag eable pla an age un; d. training,’ 
Il of his fancy, he visits the grea goi se shows, and 
ob 
moder: Good fibro 
e if it re be RAE the pont, ri a wood Where 
e says was 
a vay ne pei London garden, while the plants were 
n the stakes, I can assure him tliat i 
Sees stands obtaining first honours very inferior t gone to *w 
what he thinks he could himself exhibit ubi 80 deter- | posed. is s preferable. It should be used i in small pieces, the gardener had only "e or eight meae left, the 
inines the next season to enter ere a | all the finesoil b full of €t a good m ears P 
difficulty meets him which he cannot surmount. He fibre e, and a few broken potsherds being then mixed | would not do for the present day, or there would not 
notices the prizes are awarded to th d | be many stakes won. I “could give some very different 
not to the masters with a few exceptions, print "re otted, the coldest end of the 
M Hedge, Hole, clyffe, &c., and he | house is po table place for the plan zy Water must time. Let it first of all be understood that the gaudens 
would haye to compe ith persons who, thought be. given sparingly at first, and must be k plants are grown are not alw 
highly respectable, still were not his equals in fi _the young growth. When it is requi , the | largest, or those where assistance is the most ae 
position, but the " m of h idar | for supplying it. They ad yy houses of the most convenient class ; neither are 
blanket is thus upon his new-born zeal,|soon emit roots from the young growth, then |the ‘spasmodic "e which Sir Joseph thinks 
and his Roses gia. to privacy El repos Bat | water moy be pides accordingly. It is Cina thew necessary for plan gro iog, always made in our 
mark the rn emn _Deprived of “att incentive his | young sh that the flow id brary yers, tiza as few gentlemen really encourage 
fanc: wane 
fond, Eo his E^ favo, he can no Habe be termed | be tw 
-“ florist." re he mene the Lente the 
dudo, the the Florist, & the contributions 
Radel; : 
oots 
ough still | and = the pseu 
wer spikes ee thro rown 
ther 
nobus are strong, 
pikes, from a 
By Hes e tbe € growths have formed bulbs, 
are 
I 
gs 
He 
vage um of ba etie that 
ener aw m his general 
the shows take the 
garden duti 
[Pera epa ep the onght to be full of} compelled to 
operon t should 
3, "a SN z s 
ERAN br var Fee pg and should mee 9 es euer b 
he at one time so aras purchased. raiure being high, say from 90° to 95°, the bulbs will | seven 
turned to the sere and yellow leaf, and | swell swell rapidly and by oie = of October or — i possibl, 
timely end, and he they o "Cat V Hero dapi o m continuous shi ving et tf is 
itement and therefore | plants must be reat to go to rest gradually would be prohibited from showing altogether. po aeri 
_ | may be eain to ma coldest end of the East om | it not feasible rne erus og 
ider 1 ery little wat "wd given through rived ix rfeit or damp lic i exhibitions 
e, e aminsements to nich winter, "m just bi sir keep the bulbs further to differ with Sir mei when he si 
gentlemen ene their attention. take racing to | shrivelling. at gardeners w w are neglectful of having 
begin with—on the principle in question the 1863} When well grown, , this is a very a — plants in bloom at other tim those in which the 
r and Doncaster have been | I have exhibited it many times at the au ws.|shows are held. 1f he were to make periodical visits 
awarded to tent St. Vincent and Mr. Naylor, but to Ze ct oe of sore r spikes Lev a to the best and most — — establishments 
the persons who trained Lord Clifden and Maccaroni | a! plant w f d the asserted “ nthe” arth of flowers, 
for their discidium But under this rule how long Pal to five toon i in height, The flowers are yellowish- hemos - find the nce d whence plants 
do w vem ae pose vonc those im ed en remain on the white, with a peculiar fragrance, and they last for six to contrast favourably with those which do 
turf? d they be satisfied th the privil ugust not show ne T — be ra comp te quen E 
iper in e e natural time of flowering. Thos. Brown, Exotic|showing for gardeners to be taking their plants 
of erg vM aa x dpi i px ex xhibitions all the year round. Speaking plainly, no 
expenses, and leave the honour 
e Nursery, Tooting. 
