44—1850.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, 693 
L felt) drainage ; for the temperature of the’ ick Phm is really pood. The Presoce de Tour 
- a 1 indeed, I confess I felt 8 for the — = ha: Kirk's Plum is really good. recoce de Tours, 
such, w in their company. The lady I have soil w as th As folly goes ont, one Of our least hardy — k — some pleasant 
ae Pemas I n. og — air, “heated | by rhea iin, wists’ i planted 
She eviden er “soul,” for she listened | will take i place. We shall findthese ia, by my great grandf ather, used in my boyhood to bear 
attentively, aint, r fet add amet to my two points fully established as neces- once in four or five years a tolerably good crop, 
little 4 throughout; becoming ever. nt more | sary, if we apply to, our test, the worth ering to send et; 1 
peor phn ted. tween myself — y readers, | nature of those circumstances under only a very thin sprinkling. In of 
I could * 5 found it in my very heart to have given which the Vine otter fi es, 2 searcity we, the boys, had the wapa aed of shaking the 
cimen u one of mg choicest | we before sta that it loves to grow trees and appropriating tbe Plums to 
it been comme il faut on so short int- | on the eia aee of mountains ; * jolly ” seasons they were, — toe came ! 
ance ut as it was not, I merely gave an ex- |i rocky districts, the This Plum is indeed only fit for a wall. Early 
fs ite — ook, signifying A would if I dared, My look | cultivators * * the habit carry- Prolific, mentioned at p. 663, raised from it 
tood; my wish ha Pd comprehended. | ing up soil baskets in which with smooth instead of downy shoots as that has, and 
ree: pied pry ratified the fact. t me add, I have to plant the young Vine; so that with blossoms so hardy as to with nine degrees of 
never seen her it cannot strike p on account frost on the 3d of last May, which killed thing 
“Is it possible, mused I, after my visitors had of the underlying rock; and besides, fruit. The Its 
departed, “that such people as orgi can be fond of drainage is very rapid. No I fruit is perhaps a little longer than f its parent, 
birds ? On can mer pl ag eran de am vinced, will be found in which it is more juicy, risk in flavour; in shape and 
the finer feelings of our mature? If so, tis passing there is not a sufficient amount of solar ppearance much like it. It a Precoce de 
strange.” But now for my return-visit to ‘the west- end | heat to ripen Grapes, if we could over- Tours hardenized. should not we gardeners 
eror. come the bad effect of the cold winds make a word? There is the 
I paid my visit late in the autumn. Sir John and rain. same like the abo wW co the 
Shoulder-knot, in the absence of pi family, ; ushered — ͤ ä — e : both have been in being nearly 20 years, 
me into an e — 3; and on e Early Favourite. downy sh is 
presenting my card of entrée, the —.— was thrown eee e JORDENS OF ee ul, a trifle earlier, of higher flavour, but 88 
up, disclosing a very pretty romantic village, con- the Lond ene e eas * B. W.“ should tell us where he lives, and whether he culs 
structed just in the manner already detailed. My Hin of & vA : a j tivates the Plums he m as stand or against 
yegone days were ous, for during a recent | ; 
on what I saw, shall be brief, stroll f leravia to Tennie bir ih f | Walls, as such information satisfies rs and prevents 
> 75 g only et nia n . tir 1 ad thee co many enquiries. Your has omitted to 
0 eture ously turn 
— iy 6 81 r en 3 — = feature in in the street scenery of the great metro- mention * 8 N N eee late Plums, 
refit), bargaining fo 
pied whose fato, alas ! ! might too surely be foretold. 
e introduced pisode 
an 
riod 
plied the Qui capii 
ike facii. William Kidd, Net. vad, Hammersmith. 
THE 8 OF THE VINE A N 
TU T p cu LTURE OF SOEN 
OR, 9 9 . RDS KILLED WITH 
OR Ci 
No. II.— How best to fasten fruit trees 
wall ; i 
ur and 
money in the en 
Let af industrious and impro 
— 4 poi 
Qo. 2. 1), 0 over the wall wall, at 33 
and 1 foot from 
ving 
> the fbn or old ways 
wire 
of 
cach 
= end. 
can be d either in an u 
position, or „ 
No harbour, no 
How 65 su td supply ‘the want of heat to 
8 * 
next place, we have ew 
the heat that is 
and a 2 A a 
is 
in the counts y all his life, and formed his 
the soot-loaded 
ntally rumin 
amount of gratification which their owners must Fase 
from th session of su 
fy the 8 
estrian. 
There is one circumstance upon which I must beg to 
become critical. I know I touch upon a delicate point, 
yet I feel assured that those numerous window gar- 
read the Gardeners’ Chroni ole will take the 
account for a seeming anomaly in this respect, which I 
observed at a mansion, Fy thik in 1 Belgrave-square. 
f: 
ae rom a 
Plum of cre q quality and most profi 
stan 
Peach Stocks About 10 years ago I planted, by 
r dle of a small pit, and trained it right and left to a 
a foot from 
i a variety, and ome s we f opua appears 
ee this effect to a ce 
not, indeed, 
by the stock communicatin tas the ato scion any of of * own 
power of resisting cold, but t by the stock being better 
miled -to Si en, Acme re than that from 
which the scion quently requiring a 
er bottom-heat to arouse its excitability.” Mr. 
en. Knight, indeed, A . the root 
ea- | which Nature gives to seedling plant must be well, 
Z if esi best, calculated to support it ;” as it bit e under 
t circumstances in which the first crea ted, 
but without this addition, The paragraph in inverted 
commas is specious only, not just. Probably ia Persia, 
the native ede the Peach, that s its wild 
the 
3 tock for the former es 
ing the 2 “at E 22 . 
rats; no rats, no į 
cats. 
13 E N 
uso 
1 11 
all the pride of newly cal odred 3 red pots, and in that 
a > 3 
4} 212. 4 n 
extensive ord as there 
9 d Winchester jail! 
Home Co ndence 
Plums.—I ayt long been a cultivator of ‘fruits, and 
ve seen 
S, 
immediately above them some neatly execu in 
imitation of stone, were the f some plants | of Perala, the P 105 on whieh T 1 E * 
se 22 Ar e ‘cig a m winter sleep, by an amount of 
contrast was so ked not but pause to : : : 
— the one, and to notice how maps other ga 8 nee 3 ger de py = 
suffered by the comparison. George Lovell. ough there may be a few healthy trees in this 
country wi it is perfectly 
TRADE MEMORANDA. n ‘eet 
Mr. WILLIAx B of Stockbridge, has just planted have failed; whi the of F 
favoured Mr. Le N Colnbrook, with an | and Ne it is the stock on which most of all the old old 
l e been budded.” The above quotation is suffi- 
ats eae what stock a h prefer, and 
hat stock a n should reject. W. Brown, 
Merevale Hall. 
erpool Parks.—In justice to Mr. Milner, by whom 
Mr. Paxton’ plans for the Princes — 2 
Were he leading 
article of ] of — week’s Chronicle, Siino op superintend- 
D Rd received fruit of the | 
Reine Claude de kie è 
rance : 
2 
—— 
at the stalk, it is b 
our seasons, f 
{and when fll xipo and slightly shriveled hand, he sends a list of 
rimfull 
| by“ suckling,” “ hay seeds,” 
ascribed to me, 
ward Kemp, 
Names of Seeds.—I have been a ee struck 
by the letter correspondent “ D., Woolwi 
on the subject of Grass seeds (p. 684, cy 3 which Ba 
complains that he cannot understand t atin names 
of recom: pe the other 
e does under- 
stand, some of which it is probable that we all apply 
similar manner, red and white Clover, 
ina J» s 
and Rye-grass; but what does he mean 
4 and “ Cock-grass ?” Surely 
he séientifi 
