THE 
up in | about five we eeks | 
sai erry last 
sown. While 
v 
jec 
Fe whole of which came & 
Le age € plants blossom 
the se 
Orang ages,’ 
* as ugha isa 
espe 
n of their nuptials. 
GARDENERS' 5 
C 
ER 39 
thri 
notes, which will be welcome to some of our 
> regard the . Fruit as 
arity of Sha ddock. We unable to say whi ch con- 
ure is right. wee being as 
re 
uch ene about | 
T rj Ap 
to +} 
yples.—The seedling from Mr. Oat 
about the ** Go olden weh 
the Hesperides un Juno gave to J setas on the 
ls. B. 
Fungi attacking easi i Se 1856 I purchased 
a few dozens of silkworms in Cov 1 market of 
i ce ai oC iere Romford, where 
d. 
last | la 
ur (the 
I had 
other, a 
chie iefly a 
two very large fruitful Black Mulberry trees. The 
k 
pale Y ur or 
depressed i 
of their arte, py inter 
to the "Right Hon. Lord Leigh, Stoneleigh n 
wever, submitted tothe judgme 
which is as in OWS ; 
s of a conical shape 
large, flat, and 
centre, and the scales cover one- third 
mediate space between He 
ridges round the feat he flesh 
Kenilworth, v as, hov 
a . the report o ;— 
fruit we igh s 3i Ibs. and 
3 
un 
wger worms soon became sick, 
instond of aro de their bodies were 
f flui sitüation hene very 
ulberries in 
yellow and 
and tender r, very juicy and free rsen 
e, brisk, "sweet, and well "favoured. A better late 
red v veiy 
ul or 
e to 
when t 
led. 
ri pe 
sacked betore ‘they fell 
osphere of an de 
“ Mus ap 
Mr. t we objec 
were excellent . 
were 1 handsom 
s|were large, of 
st 
uj 
"Aj 
Grapes 
exhibited 
rato! ects np Siva admiration, 2 
of first-r T 
me, and well se y 
fine amber 8 and almost as 
if they b st in sam 
ere large, 
a 
P ex in wal from 
1859 now before me. 4 
s [Re seed i is very de 
them, and 
learnt and saw 
had been 
mould. | 
y 
Their flavour wag rich, and 
ee our own report 
d in answer EN 
that tho: 
taken were quite 8 ten well. 
riment had I n 
| of last year 
uld 
t had to leave |a 
the south, as I was desirous of avo oidin ng the cause of | m 
repor 
of M Crawshay were longer and 
in the af nehes, less shouldered, 
ured. 
rs Those 
in 
cond. 
struck Scarlet Gera 
illness, 
Autumn and Spri TM s 
i d ants of scarlet Geam may be r bag for about 33 hours, and then having given 7 — The fiot prize ee. been wo 
btain i b pagating them in March, but if cuttings thas. ub leaves, of me they ate rather 3 Newton, ‘gardener to G. J. Graham, Esq., of Enfield 
tember or October are eapey well while they w would hav een accustomed to rather dry | Chase, se fruit has, for two successive seaso 
zed they will be by far the best at pl Garden. W. Wooler, possessed extraordinary beauty, we have the following 
; if however the spring-struck cuttings are grown Choice of trees for planting in a very gravelly situ- useful account of the circumstances under which it was 
dee thumb pot o only is devoted to the autumn- ation. ould some of your readers skilled in arbori- produced. “In | Newton sched e it was stated 
nes ing-out time, sa middle of c IUE say , and if so, which of the trees | that the locality is orth Middlesex, sheltered 
y, then the spring stock will have the advantage, | recently recommended to be planted i roads | the aca by Lime trees, he eas T vpn 
if the latter are t rned out of h pots it is|at Kensington Gore would thrive in > ? Oxford, from south by. bg agree est by 
dent that the of these are in a much better where the soil is for many feet thoroughly iin. The s is turfy loam 1 bot deep; "subsoil 
dition to take hold of the new " than those that ined gravel, with only a very Am face of mould? ow clay, W 
ramped in thumb pots during a period of | The ade of St. Jo hhn’s College are desirous of the south 1 foot in 50. ‘The Sita all grow 
x or seven months. Under these iive PETAR after | having the b i ndard trees, se are of middle à pen aped y. 
struck stock is turned out, they start into na be zer inthe pages of the TE) Chronicle. | ài eyes E on Crab stocks. The orchard is 
and more vigorously than the|J. O. W. M x eii h Grass, and was manured wi "16 car art- 
; but t bear in d that if the 10 p ds " as e to Tm d i ph and eins Sud was 
be well treated they will be in beauty a month i: it ad —— p. e cross branches are 
pring-struck cuttings. It is also much Notices of Books nd |p ery tw. 
t to have autumn stock the bus dir 
S Horticultural Society KA 15 vin 
In those Pages w 
Reports of thej 
e Great Fruit Show 
mes. s Hall, Piccadily, 8vo. 
xs ety, upon application. 
ruit C E. 
official | 
fir BERA an 
wor thy 
e latter end of 
may be p red situa 
d | tho 1 5 turned out, protecting pae 
hier p^ or any o other material that ‘vill 
m for 
pice 
R ing barren Fruit eas 
lot some 10 years rige: charge 
rren E. Pear em with img pus full of cai 
dap» — 
Rende 
"esa its 
ne iR last a 
ecte ARE 
. la 
the first we de 
ea 
pns “planted at the sa same time, and “side by side. 
+ 
apart in 
in the 
f what t the erm found od Lund: 
ted 
* € or a HM v Australian 
Seaw W. H. Harvey, M. D. Vol. I. 8vo. 
tab. ate e 185 
e plan of this admir: rable work is precisely that of 2 
| Phycologia Britannica, which has done so much m 
merely to advan nce the Snorage of seaweeds, bat to 
m 
and aide exhibited in 
The inform 8. 5 * col- 
try 
and 
hour 
It 
n, who have found in it a relie f from care 
anxiety, and a pleasing employment of many an 
proves a 
ecom 
195 — 
e following 
| may seem at first 
sight a hopeless pus io bring out a work 
nature can only 
like - aree which from its 
a growing 
circulation. There i da «onse 
t en 
to 5 155 Sat og p three 
- from whole lante 
ad then cis about 1 lb. 
ach. ained from cut | 
redundant Brownie 
splendid ks on 
ealand, Tasmania, M ot a r southern ides ea 
have been tei by Dr. Hooker un uspices 
and while the mee authorities 
and ha 
gro 
pity coat of hot-bed ma nure; th ey were oe 1 foot | 
|the demands of pia colonists themselves are pressing 
ive a certain degree of encouragement to 
the r 
* 2k feet between 
be: egan to gro ow, | 
ows) When they 
Ag ro 
es first grafted ha 
re fruit freely on the seco 
uce became direc, te allude to this to 
w that it would have been a mistake where there i isa 
9 . "e 1 they 
ond year’s growth, and the 
I had thon. po with Pea- Ty but for thes 
pla n got and I then 
between the two rows some Fir-poles, to 
clung, as the pon 
pia 
| round the ad in the sam 
| Bop The foliage of the plant i is por 8 
f u^ 
had tiie 
uh the 
UE 2 the shoots twist 
as those of 
nts soo t too strong, 
ants soon clung, as 
the 
and 
tho ough The m» 
e bl oom, 
planted young ones. In the lat 
al bave had to wait long and [apem n 25 
A eee will inu ger in 
een inserted in branches. I 
- Last 
very 
ere very fine; i the eds weigh 
he above mode of nir ze 
o 
Oo» 
E 
position, 
to light, when ba then nif left to 0 trail on the damp | 
soil ; and will conseq 
wor Y sid ch c 
e the | 
ed | ho 
ntly better elaborate. sap for the W. 
n at the best mee M expected to pay 
of emolument. It is 
in addition 
wants of the especial student Y. this p tractive 
branch of botany, pen will be consi Mi: from 
those persons who ar eady in possession of the 
Histor e 3 N An aequ: —— o with the 
of t wn coasts will, it is thought, excite their 
of another hem isphere, and, as 
a 
curiosi! 
me work is Ped 
which they are so well aeq ^r 
doubt that many a copy will be taken by 
are not professed Algologists, but who love to know a 
little of Nature in ae more elegant forms. It is 
ork which can nev: er be taken up without 1 
rufen wil not prove a loss to 
Try. 
to every one here a Pers $ 
à wall — eee a compact little em ai in 
I would feel antes ed | € 
: orbidden 
: de gig me the me the nani name ot the frui 
3 r the of Pomel ce 
E e ERR t| 
) du the responses m 
mittee w 
we sincerely hope 
th Haut th. 
ion rof d 
1 Mr. 
. 
ty of fruit 
E 
4 last November i n a pea hd, 
d of art articles there produced. The autho: 
F| Ho d p oore and 
2 ere fae e "the reporter, e ig the quanti 
exhib was found im 
Notwi 
t | to pice hole of it morire 
mselves 
impossible | sphere in search ¢ of Aige. 
hstanding | tiga’ 
We must now say a a words of the work itself 
and of the circumstances gave rise to it. At 
the solieitations of ed scientific men, Dr, 
| undertook in 1853 an to the southern hemi- 
He had already fully inves- 
it was matter of interest 
able to institute a strict 
and the of more 
ted th 
to be 
to himself and c 
is e em 
that the reporters applied the most assiduously | 
UA k for Whole days, no ti 
upon ie ecl f the and 
pee de merits of the Apples, and KA they 
were obliged to be passed over. The reporters regret 
made to t the schedules issued | by t the 
so few. 
| souther gi assisted in the object by the 
Uni 1 oo eg an Society of Dublin, and a very 
| numerous body of Algologists engaged to take speci- 
mens t towards the  paym ment of the heavy expenses in- 
was SA 
4 anh 
etin 1 respecting the clima! 
. | Report; and, where suc! 
seen how sae iene it mk 3 oe ute if st infor- | 
been 
he pon where 
ere grown, 
eg 
were produced. Sock were 
n given in every instan 
ni 
te, soil, Dr. r^ y 
the W fruits resources on hi 
under which they - 
Let 
Lx 
arvey was not however left per tag ode to his own 
of his labours, 
without i it Ae umen s wj 
e of the French. As to what is really | w 
we we are not 5 
subjects of antiquity to give 
1 observe that Dr. 
: class o ictions, con- 
kult in question to be a rariety of Ci 
Citron j While MM. Risso and Poiteau, i 
work. * Histoire Nat des | 
away on our gardening lends We aos two or 
consi isting 0! upwards 
| prising 600 species of 1 EY is not ratam ind 
