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Aprit 27, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
527 
Society doing that it cannot help to protect a beau- 
tiful hardy wild ave wer from this form of extermi- 
nation at the hands of dealers! As to ‘cultivating it, 
the best form of ih culture is found in sowing seed 
in enclosed woods and prote 
and hoe are their abomination, whilst they like shade 
and to be let rigidly alone, 4. 
THE Aste OF THE APPLE AND PEAR 
e but a few Apple and Pear trees, 
ibe aati promise 
ood and fruiting spure, Lord Suffield, the 
s King, in particular, 
are unusually promising; Cox’s Orange Pippin, 
Cellini, and Hawthornden follow suit, Jargonelle 
Fid. 75 —A FLOWER, NATURAL 
WHITE, FLUSHED WITH RICH PUR 
Pears, which I havs, had in bloom at the end of 
profuse crop. From what I see and hear, the promise 
eras 
of crops ia good all round, R, Dean 
PINE-APPLE GROWING.—I very much regret the 
comparative discontinuance of Pine-apple growing 
in thie try; for I firmly believe that with 
auitable houses and pits they ar rly so 
expensive to gro many persons I r. 
ng 
Q xen Pine-apples’ from weight, an 
ooth — from ot an ib, feri over, which 
5 
were produced at a cost not 30 very great when 
all things were considered; besides, what fruit can 
with the best Sp English hot-house 
I wish Mr. Ward, and a few more capable 
growers some try and revive * A is, I fear, a fast 
decaying art in this country. J. Shaw, Deepdene, 
Dorking, 
THE FLOWERING OF LATE VARIETIES OF 
0 
has never o 
the tree was planted, W, A. Cook, Compton Basset, 
SHELTER IN GARDENING.—The value of shelter 
in gardening (no protection other than the situation), 
„ SIZE, OF MAGNOLIA eS Ss x 
LE, 
(SEE p. 516.) 
although * re by our beat esr pe 
think, 3 ised a 
0 
the late severe winter, none p 
spicuous than the value of shelter, and the evidence 
afforded in favour of it offere 
— last eee may, I think, prove of interest 
to the readers a = i h 
nursery vecupie — 
the top of a hill, i the longer * slopi nd 
pping Forest, eleven 
N. W. Isis on the bor EE 
miles east 0 * Te is open to the S. and S. W., 
and sheltered on other sides by the forest and village 
— ae Open e f means, I appre- 
d, goin o bed warm aud dry y the influence of 
— suing sei and this — operates favour- 
ably. Many of our most valuable evergreens have 
e 
— — could have added many more i 
5 decora (Vilmorin- ere See aurea 
ann 
98 eee — glauca 
oran p Cedrus deodara 
” ” tica 
- Tusttanien azorica Abies grandis 
Thujop Thuya <n owii 
japonica) „ concolor violacea 
4 borealis variegata * insapo 
( Cupressus en 12 
95 aes is) 
Picea aj —— pma iridis 
„ pungen Awiobs jupeles 
07 Douglas glauca vera 
Retinospora (cupressus) Araucaria imbricata 
squarrosa Thuia 1 
51 plumosa aurea Ligustrum coriaceum 
* ericoides Viburnum Tinus 
ji filifera 2 japonica 
sù plumoea Three Dwarf Roses 
The only evergreens grown in this n 
appe lled to the ground are Sweet t Baya, Vero" 
bject in establishing this — 
ave a ae against severe 4 8, — 
ed a 
uc 
more or less browned in places, e wood 
apparently — 4 moe Wm, Paul, "Pout — 
Waltham Cross 
SPINACH BEET. mt bave (like W. G,“ p. 495), 
Ia season w 
ià is a * substitute, and one that is much li 
W, A, Cook. 
IS WICK VEGETABLE bps eie Royal Hor- 
ing 
1 Society, accord 4 mp (see last 
mas issue), ia to be oo in the unfor- 
tunate and deplorable „ "which it finds 
itself tives the Chiswick vegetable show an d schedule, 
nnot unde d e neil ba 
been thinking about ia Hot calling in the aid 
Be : Mat be He really h and beautiſu 
* would t 
doei not want, 
wiil be sustained and comfo y the thought that 
it is now at work drawing ul gulations 
8 
me is, this show was no ferred until 
“A D. “s * padi in this direction had ended. Indeed, 
ven now I shall not be eurpri the council 
to another year, in order to 
avail itself of the aid of “A, D.” in schedule- 
making. Kitchen Gardener, 
PRUNUS PISSARD!.—This shrub, with its purple 
leaves juat unfolding, and its delicate white blossome, 
Rae object now in the shrubbery, W, 4. 
THE WINTER 80 DEVON.— What a trying et 
that was which we have experienced, an w de- 
structive to 3 every kind of sbrub, he 38 
Laurel and Rhodode bee 288 m being greatly 
irjared, even more bride. a 
Portugal Laurels, Sweet Bay, cal, 
&c, are brown | they ba 
by fire, I notice that ee and” Az 
with and some Yews 
amongst the best things at : present in the beds 45 
borders, I, of course, refer to evergreens. W. S. 
TA EUSPENSA. This 7 is jas: 
finely “tower, forming 8 picture of m 
trained on ; 
southern 7 al. it ie decree month later 
las t N V. 4 l s 
pron, b ms 
