June 4, 1859. ] 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRIC i 
a GAZETTE, 
10. On a long table in different coupartmtnts | Was] Some fiue specimens of dried and bottled ! the base, not Jonge zer than — 
displayed a splendid series of “collections of fruits,” | jams were shown. The firs ab prize was affix xed toa the bristle keel; M. however, become much rarer 
— exquisite mens of many choice varieties. | bottle of very fine Oliv the middle of the bristles, where th ney pra 
The show of Grapes, t h table, was wax was very pure and some- | disappear. am 
I consequently under E necessity of 
be lieving that Mr. Lobb has „not correctly Dm the 
and yeh to anything we had e see. | wh 1 Silk was fine and glossy, showi ing that 
From the tables it was evident that some of me ag South Aust 
successful cultivators of the Vine on Gawler Plai re | The Mulb — ‘Gide here bet most 
German colonis ere were not-many exhibitors of is only 1 the pe of labour, we — which sto — elk. 
vegetables, but s to wines the judges reported as follows 
bags of capital Pota e There were a few bra h r^ ge sus of Nos. 1, 2, and 4, which 
um and Damson trees suspended over the table are dec ly es, whose qualities are in the 
so thickly studded with fruit as to excite general notice | — mentioned, row Cresc of t mples | t 
and admiration; as also did four large glasses filled with | exhibi Fs " net ang off from x — — 
honeycombs. Amon e varions articles exhibit. hic No. he and A 0. c also a good w 
rved especial mention was — 427 ction of 15 bottles of The vidis vices ‘os a polis were — €— than 
South Australian preserve The — mans — White of previous year —No. 5 (first 
nearly every variety of fruit which the out of condition. second 
house Ther ea few —— ets of 
flowers on the table, but they appeared to have -— en 
dijinporiei, 2 had no claim to notice. — 
cipal subjects of exhibition were Grapes, Apples, 
Plums, Peaches, Lemons, ins, Melons, me 
well as Farm — Dairy produce. On the Wines the 
* We ider 
ze) sa imple decidedly o No. 10 
| Prize) very little inferior to No. 5, condition excellent. 
XHIBITION OF THE VINTAGERS’ 
N. narium ttle- 
Se ther samples of wine exhibited, but not for competi- | 
n, whic h the judges entertained a favourable 
j| pins Th as also a fair — of 3 spirits, 
TA A E 
paper on the mites infesti ing the bodies ario 
animals, and can assure Mr. Lobb uk the Charch Mite 
has with that of the horse’s hoof, 
ing f 
the 2 cursor, of Ge 
[dependent of eu 
nce bet 
| diff 
e | Colches mde 
ed f 
the bee in New College Chapel. Oxford. 
Ta 
Tiley "E Magnet” PF a: 
our —— 
ju that | ment of T. is rendering itaelf cs or the | Mm graph from Messrs. H. G. H 
they fully substantiate t characte Australian | production of wine. This township i situated about | n, di ing all LR Ur of this 9 
wines are gradually establishing for themselves. There | 15 miles north- east of Gawler, and "between that town | w a find on referring | to my advertisement that their 
were five samples p one gallon each exhibited; one of bio but 
red and four of si wine. No.1 — we | continuing to run throughout the year adds much to | that of their traveller, Mr. Edwards, he first 
consider entitled to ow prize, being an extremely | the — of this T — of Vineyards and gardens. bloom as it opened on the seedling ant, re being in 
easant and wine. No. 4 (Tokayer) we| The name is not, e, eins, but a Bath at the time. He offered to buy the Verbena of 
— [We 4 — ou 
hes ves speak to thei injury done to Australian wine x 
the bad os of corks. A case from the late Sir 
Thom 1 de i voyage to 
this circumstance. Ep. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SOUTH AUSTRALI L AND HORTICUL- | fin 
TURAL SOCIETY.— exhibition took place o: 
"Thursday, Feb. 17, and the distribution of the produc- 
tions kafi - ege 6 ion ast ly superior to that 
of former o longer exhibited in 
jushiak p repe ifferent i 
ich sometimes caused C erries and Cucumbers, 
any- suppos 
native ye appellatio on ot the ancient lords of the soil 
a has 
n that racte 
them. Whether P js attributable 6. the soil or 
season be a matter for 
waters that ski rt the place the 
yea "n A 
diately ordered six plants, which =: in due 
t a week after 
ago, — "the exhibition now under notice is the third 
that has been held, but the first including a show of 
colonial wines. The Melons were very 
served in particular a pie Melon, grown by Mr. Alden- 
hoven, J.P., of — — huge dimensions and in 
con ndition. s) p oni 
fine. We ob- | o: 
that they wrote and denied all knowledge — — —— 
I sup; - . ! rei 
rdered the 
4, Abbey Totes 
ley, 
[We do not see that 
Mr. Tiley has m. 
e any use of the name of Mess rs. 
ALI ie said was that the traveller to 
e On ing severa 
were struck with the Ta idity t 
the investigation of 
those — pond — interested. Three monster 
Pumpkins were prominent, being each about 18 inches 
diameter. The Cucumbers were firm and well grown 
had been raised 
ae y congregated; but it 
assified. The emu had 2 own proper Joca dee 
2 theirs, the Plums The oF 
— the oaks of all our —.— 2 the hottest | 
ä of a iaga dis KN of flowers, 
-— de few “that orw: were ch — 
vie 
Among those dms 
collection of Caeti and "Cerei, 100 pots in all, from the 
Botanical Garden, and a handsome collection of mix siio 
plants, principally Fuchsias, 52 pots in all, from Mr. 
mature. 
n for competi ions was a splendid | i 
- 
vised | 1 
6 roved of it. 
e care of your eee —I enclose for your in- 
— a reply from a Mr. D ^r rape to an — e- 
ment of me which a — x your columns, and 
which I believe to bea d ie position. I shall 
therefore be — obliged i 11 5 — <p favour me with 
your op inion of the matter, You wil —.— th nt the 
ve 
letter I 
sandy soil, w or to samples w 
—— examin ined i in p M jua of the col 
erma! 
ly ri 
| placed. 
plete stam 
a a little der — arl ere a j should oe — 
Sg uit ne 
rg fine 
ag — fruit; Ribstone Pippin— —ihis was 
J. R. Smith, of Norwood. E were but es bou- 
quets richness freshness 
flowers 
40 — First came white 
bunchesof a 
$ to (p bs. 
en came the table 
bunches of which were, in the main, not 
berries, I ho owever, s exhibit 
— 
general much larger. Among 
of the | fine fruit; 
nearly double the size of 2 great American —— of 
export, and resembled ii domly, = à the exception 
in most fruits of this kind in Aus- 
; table fruit of 
the | Golden Pippin a table 
or kitchen ; Margaret, seb, m very variable 
t — for pesto * “Prolife, 
x larg d Margil, m hy -sized, not — inter 
ficent cl The wine aig were 2 (indeed pod — an old and we ell-known favourite, vey nt. 
the show w. early for all tl I 
were too late for the show), but there were seven col- |a misnomer and more ' like a Russet. The Pears were 
lections, numbering many varieties s some shown in | good but limited in quantity. Of Grapes there 
each i 
the naked ive. others hanging e Vine, and all 
appeared d those who bare! visited our recent country 
In the 
to be very — what you do with people e write 
to you in the style of this Davison. 
—— at the place in Beech 
I believe re er the 
bottom. sine “leaning — t, the fish have not madet their 
ap I ought to mention drain the 
h run into the water, which is I think the cause of 
the bottom being so foul. Is there — remedy for the 
evil just. — of, or what — he best — of 
ow ing ‘to our no ot possessing the xai sorts or varieties | 
of Grape. There was a poor display of Citrons, Peaches 
great variety, among UL were eo! ' fine Sweetwater, 
excellent Black Hamburgh, splendid Damascus and 
We are now trying seythes 
together, and Maier a ring on each — to which eem 
are attached. They are then chew — Les water 
a re the season being prin-| Black Prince, as large as bo et Plums, an ip Pineau | from a boat, and worked by tw an rowing. 
cipally over for them, and the supply of Nectarines was Rouge, a beautiful close tered fruit f very fine | The — — soak 3 feet long, 14 are 1 believe river 
very m ut the accumulation of Apples—sort | flavour. The * fo the spec making in all 9 -— n length. The floatin 
upon sort, and coll nu 8 kitchen and | the exhibitors i ery c = ean ‘and creditable style. | surface material is raked in a bóske ote z2 
2 „ late and early, from hill plain—was | One of the "most intersting departments ( of the near one, our mode £ clea eaning the 
ing, and must have fairly bewildered the judges. 1 Figs surface from weeds will i probably — but = will 
Many of the jm 4 wid eels ue e fro m I Ib. t dried Apples of tion and flavour, dried | never be able to mags — pei bottom of the pond 
2 Ibs. each, and e been nearly 14 foot — i Apri c dried Peaches of pm ior|or the water c 2 we your fish — until 
cumference. ere - Ribstone Pippins finer | quality, very fine colonial Raisins and Zante Currants, m prevent all m running 
than any "we pon saw in England; and — s the ]— d clear condition of which contrasted into it.]——We = here in the middle of some orna- 
Which, for size, excelled any we ever with the usual dirty state of the imported | me ental unds a pond that has been made some 
Lisbon, ed as that place is for — o» ati til this spring has always — very clear; 
to ection. A magnificent collection of o mich — were afte — — The report far it has become very foul from the Cet ofa 
Pears, numberin, ieties, took the first of t e ju is, how eagre that we can slimy sort of vegetable matter of a brownis! 
prize for that fruit, but many of these were far Phe cde — of it ps that they awarded eight | colour rising in flakes from the bottom, and on d : 
9 ived at ity. The collection of|prizes, and that they were of opinion Seb the new | the surface floats upon the top. We have cleaned it off ie 
Plums which took the first prize contained 35 varieties. | wines show dis very marked improvement upon those but the next day it is as bad as ever. 
There were of the Strawberry, Raspberry, | of older vi 
black leen ulberry, een 
=F Figs. A few Water Melons of pro- orrespondence. 
poi E weed exhi 3 es and -— odi of — olehester Church Mite.—Mr. Lobb ae . in 
were a : 
5 hearty and wal bat the Cucumbers ha —.— Rm M. diee Unt TUIS wienn -— 
Lee Beans|specimen, I beg to state that they were made from | whether 
MY » green, and 3 "tho 4 25 roe several livi ving. — examined under a stro 
2 2 ere was a m of achromatie m ave also examined Mr. sent is a 
S “pc Aud benckifall gm n urnips, m mi Los drawing rof the insect which de haa béte 16 
Reus 
send me, and I find it represents the vanni n 
ne oue eot the mite, the — legs, an 
| — 
; asg xpect that nd ain win e 
3 colony. The Rhubarb was in excellen t stalk, oc thi th 
. that which gained the favourable 
opinion o of thej eae 
th nig 22825 g the — get a good dressing of 
(satan ind oe ten d d 
