s62 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, [No 
artificially if any one will try the experiment. 
VEMBE 
I was , Secondly, in concluding your paragraphs on the carrion, | ep0%6 of the Gaara R 27, 1858, 
much more surprised p see it upon a true Pinus than borders at Raby, you remark tha at “his Grace is not that You are una “04 rait Show w held on We 
n in fror : $ Vow | judges in + then o ont 
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a soft-wooded, smooth-barked Picea. It is rather | likely to 
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single instance of it. J. Rogers. 
Our reason for e eeri resinous trees was è 
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hav e freq uentiy ue. $ : 
k a the Vine had travelled as much as possible 
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a ne “hee ip brickwori rk of the houses, but some roots| mer 
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Golden Yews.—I enclose Ay aA of what we have 
here fi olden Yews. Is it the same sort that has of course 
ew 
a onr Uur p y | and 
not in such good health as they 0g ae A ee ye ius h 
fetal inh oe cimen No. te al h | watery, and pAg i and what Grapes produced | 
loam on a subsoil of white hae intermixed w ith peed were half sha nke ed. LANO TE does thi ee to 
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blighted, and look very bers Where not so much | roots in 
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become quite green, or nearly gridir ‘on. My ov g 
s0, , and lose their golden appearance altoge ther. Speci- a rie se ‘re iordar alot Sntirily above the katig 
men No. 2 grows in a rather r light loam piar ona the ounding und, i concrete the bo bide 
sandy. or gravelly subsoil ; it PE ke a di fuse grit and ro es ompos ost— 
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on ong fruit ng Da was either 
vi slight notice in our last of 
Bon me beautif ful outdoor Grapes 
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No. 1 s to be gt genuine Geldon. | rain in winter, and well Siia with somethi 
Yew. Weare rae to Aan the cause of its un- | good in summer, I would r ead me e 
healthiness. Look to the roots. manent result ae satisfactory, es; but 
ee at eed. a have sent you a little Aquatic | warmed border etter. man ` may mismana; mi 
which has got very troublesome in the fens of Norfolk, — as he na mismana’ ge an anything else. Had 
Cambridge, and Suffolk. It is in almost every pond |s — Sy from warmed borders at Denbies, at 
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e| also sent Apple, about 
called Seek 
be iy that eerily it is 
is a good-looking dessert 
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and ditch. It is only four or five — since it fi St. ee s Hall 
d it gets wor: er Growi loyer built me a sma a We ma 
every om It has become so thick th. at Št. chokes in danh house in aT. ee is is 1B feet long an 9 feet 
water courses, stopping the water from getting to the Mi the pit inside i is 11 feet long, and 4 fee wide, 
engine or mills; and if cleared out it is as bad again in | and the house is heated by hot water. I plan ated six 
two or t ri weeks as it T Ee men dhe 4 they Cucumber plants « on the 3rd of hg ae 1858, and cut | 
$ F D 
it in thes 
some of them are above a a ty wie old. This trouble- 30th of July I cut 252 Cucumbers, measuring 
alto- Har 
the 357 feet 6 wee Han à rh one heard o of more 
ace? J. C. 
or American Thyme, as they thnk 4 “igo came being cut i in the sa same time and sp 
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from America. It looks something 
water, and one fond of Aquatics Aor think “tt very| Large Myrtles. —It is pr etty generally oro that 
retty.; but it is not consider ed so by far rmers. „An nd i My: rtles stand the w rye rin the Isle of Wight without 
am sure if any one was rather surprised a few 
they would Resaxsuonedin eset friend. N. Cole, | days ago when at ‘ales near Ryde, the seat of 
42, Abbey Road, St. John’s s$ Wood, Nove mber 23. [The — Hyde, Esq., „to bat 8 pe lawn dotted over om some fine p 
plai q ean and as much in | Farft 
alsinastrum. } diameter ; they were rg ines years ago. i s 
orthamptonshire Fruit.—Your most high, sapient, another place in the island is a ine specimen of oct worthy of attention. They 
and ever to be honoured Apfel Gesells or at any | mærops excelsa and two of the New Zealand Dracwna | grown and flowered, 
rate your Hoch Wolhlgeborn : certain | indivisa, the e former nearly 10 fest:in height, wholly u un- 
fruits as Ta good for Northamptonshire Pow, = ae protected. J. W. L. ARA 
to know whether the enclosed Marie Louise, E 
Morceau 
LINNE. 18.— 
Ova; Grah a = 
iena A = au, are “good for wasn: i tí g 
amptonshire,” and being good for that ilk are the Sactett ete Mr. Barter, now 
good in the abstract? The Northamptonshire da Be ; penance ji d 
is up I can tell you. TheApple is a true English Crab, HORTICULTURAL : Sr. r TAME s Harr. — SUPPLE- the Society of a a 
growing wild in a cover here all among the pheasants, | mentary Report.—We h nih | Peng in 
2 K C E no ~~ specimens in St. James’s | the Award of the es ba the Society’s late Exhibi- | Dr. Alexander, and twit nthe ho assistance of Mr. D. Oire, 
all. The Marie Louise was larger than any there. | tion, of Aan ared in our spare. i 
So ae ‘or North inipon. Is Is not Lois Weedon columns of las wank h pe of the Ist prize for | rangement w 
in nar mshire? The re io d llections of “ruit exhibited’ by Fruiterers only | of Smith, this} 
z need o ane “pu wes up sharp” if >it they meant what having ‘been gained by Mr. Lewis Solomon, it should | ing to 
ey ae ye have meant. ] have been by Messrs. Webber, whose peA E isted | many series of speci! 
Eug n= Fog ig Prot: the Fete of the late altogether of ho jome-grown fruit in aeccordan bees Society’s Transacti 
meeting of the Horticultural Socie z bedule, which stated “t . The following p: 
Hall, it appears tha for the last rts prin we have | all fruit oe be h rn see except such as en- | tion of the Beni 
be ; sagem the impression or rather misapprehension | tioned as ign « lomon’s collection boro Under the head of 
bo at the ‘eras ree of. this delicious berry is black. almost entirely composed of foreign fruit was dis- eaa imal mEnE nee 
bk, your Volum * 854, p. 644, it is said to be “jet | qualified. order to mark the high = that les. bear 
But i old ask, it on the camry bad of Messrs. Veitch. | was maralia of its wrest: oo ence an extra pen e ite or hing towards the nE A 
ut I would ask, if a pima ie “= as a Myrt var : ual in ee to the first has been adju ering his “ Han oe 
m colouring proper! n additio: 
ka can there be a red Ear a black fruited variety ? must also be ped eae a Sanaa cet os Hi t 
woare portes besides Ugni is I find in cultivation,| For other kinds of of Back rar besides Hamburghs, 
the eI oc out by the same firm; this has | a Ist Certifica to Mr. paaa F. H.S., | ap! 
knina Sh "ae, and is about as hardy and pro- Stratford-on-Avon, f for the Champion po 
aaa x mation ow sana berries of this species are jet or collections of 8 sorts of Pears, the fi prize was 
barer ia eva e sam and size as those of Ugni; Frere Mr. Carmichael, gr. to ae Countess 
tote s free A in the shape of small plants in pots| Dunmore, Dunmore arae Stirling, N.B., instead of to 
a sas iben in E po r is by | Mr. Park, as stated in the list of ell le gen ie 
gni, and like| For Pl i 
re 3 r a “fruit is very attractive to bi d to M me ‘Pees ark pert open Mace Es. both, consist of two or more 
Berries. s of bot kin ds being rap idly sipped of their Mr. ett F. H. ré instead of extra prizes, as formerly eaved purple Loosestrife; <7 a 
ne species for Y ur | meni ne natural geo ing gS Scurvy- 
pied and voor not last eyes 2 ei had t it as 
; o Mr. “Bum rs, gr. to A. Mongredien, F.H S» 
acne rned prizes apparently ustly wi thheld’? Forest Hill, =e and sr sliem Eg» to Mrs. en 
gni grown as a small pea Si very pretty and | Barchard, F.H.S., Putn: : 
usefal plant for drawing-room Pelar i ; in suc h a| For Mi sella Artes, cei prize to Messrs. E. 
in enderso ton. Ñ 
mits a powerful perfume resembling that | G 
Wellin n rsery, St. Jol 
of the sha Te A Sth i e saw the for a wart neous pe e eae Plants; do. tot 
iginally sen oa — In | Mr. J. H. Bird, F.H.S., Stoke Newington, for ent Chry- 
ge will not a anthemums ; do. to Mr. Oubrid . : 
Reno d a where Vine | cut santhe: i Mr. Bird, 
Seo things. siak aS ser sing artlo Nov 18, | FILS, Stoke Noriah; o: aeii he | next 
zs forcibly cannot refrain | mum ; do. to Messrs. Spary bell, Queen’ he. proposed was 
aiim whe i Firstly, your Suffolk corre- Genperien, ae for ies cranes as roseum; 24 he et J 
oe Ses oo s “what he can do with his Apple| Certificate to Mr. Morgan, Lincoln’ >e-Inm- Fields, nga woreda s ell-kr 
T know thet north at UNE ones, as from experience | Chrysanthemum. plant ; do. to Messrs. Hooper & Co., | where or too absurà to be 
ük m scientific — — po mam | — Garden, for bouquets of dried — instead of | —_ ae Apple 
; penji their enfeebled t e influence of | to Hooper, of B: h. ree 
phe arhey have got down into the subsoil, and | With seapect to the award for Sewell Pears wohave | the Jance 
effectually generate them | received the Silicinting letter :—*“ I observe by your] common par 
