Jury 27, 1895.] 
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Mica together with the kn healthy crown of 
s, have а total height of 25 ao p ЫРЫ 
mR a beautiful Fern, ak 10 feet 
wo admirable specimen — probabi y —— 
с fro he Sandwich Islands, have a 
rachis covered eet а thick brown tomentum, and 
height. 
of the plants on the floor of the 
consist of pune Eier specimens of 
диа lurida, greenhouse Ferns, Aralias, &c. 
Hidden from view at the е of the i are glass 
frames filled with Trichomanes and Todeas, including 
. Moorei, named after Moore of the Sydney Botanic 
Gardens; a very attractive filmy from 
d; also T. —— an introduction of Mr. 
Bull's twenty-five year Those pe 
ancient specimen of C amia fusco-viridis, a 
Mexican species introduced about twenty years 
ago. 
mountains and on the banks of the pue had an 
attraction for me. It untain- 
side 
Drosera —— and D. longifolia, which I ере 
rowing r with beautiful coloured clum 
sphagou Barnard, Mostyn Най — 
Mostyn, 
RASPBERRIES, — Although the soil of Dover 
House 22 is light and susceptible to — 
et mus cLeod have the highest comm 
tion for the * crop of superlative Ra spberry 
which I saw there a few days since, The 
rows of plants running across ad gar — square, 
f an 
re all trained to wire — they we 
average fro to 7 i ight, the — iu 
been only slightly — 4 nd th ung e: 
very fine fruit des ttom, Superlat 
is во superb , that it is quite displacing all 
others where cativation is good. As the soil at Dover 
House is naturally во light and porous, as to render 
Raspberries fruit'ul, it is the rule to fork out a 
Fic. 21.—susHES OF THE SPINELESS GOOSEBERRY, 
А SEINS NEN ЧООВЕВЕВВҮ. 
аа 20, 2D, were iple by MM, D "X 
Caen, before the t Committee on Tuesday 
They are spineless ee obtaine d from Е — 
first spineless Goose 
orti 
upon Ribes aureum, but the scions soon become free, 
The © tomos det of spineless Gooseberries 
need no pointing оп 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
DROSERAS IN SCOTLAND.—Mr. Kelly’s note on 
re Sundew (p. 74) reminds me of the time I was at 
wee: Loch к Ом аса being then with 
late Lady Brassey. As it wi visit 
the Highlands, the different "Ау growing on the 
— —— on either i of the row of planta, 
ee hal ed 
re during the summer ke 
— aue а m: а finer crop 
sample of fra and ample 
afforded cae et traning would be 
amply repaid if it were adopte culture. 
ne row of plants as Сее а at 1 MON would 
give as much of fruit, and ce finer and cleaner 
can 
grown in ket e 
fairly stiff and holding soi 
bined with the highest culture, even greater сг 
may be f: far, the very best of fruit culture 
seems to exist chiefly in private gardens, A. D. 
МОМА'8 PRIDE POTATO.—Allow me to add 
has 
my mite of information to what 
in t pages Mona's Pride. It is now, 
I think, ү, thirty years ago w 
is vari tato for the first time. The 
P а з. nice oat — lot of tubers, on arrival 
the seryman е anted оп а west 
— in — good eis in on the 
South Coast, and the crop was набу to dig nearly as 
early as the Ashleaf Kidney, The haulm, being 
smaller and weaker than that of the true Ashleaf, 
the erop, 1 và be correct, 
in point of 
1 ; 
verdict differs 
best variety that have, I wonder if their's is 
rue e, or & variety that merely 
esemblance to that much vau Potato. 
The tuber of the ety of Mona’s Pride is very 
uch shorter in its longer diamete e e 
py. about the eye, as is — alw 
the Ashleaf Kidney. ith re 
of dida varieties of Potato for — cropping, it may 
not be without use to mention the practice of the 
Parisian enpa. 
upperm ed 
them — а 7 trotte prodf vm ир 1 are — . 
When the time for planting i open ground 
arrives (Арш), ну. ге * — with the 
tubers the ground to be planted, 
and the tubera are ыш om them опе by one 
n the holes or furrows mai 
gained the lst prize at the 
and Liverpool Agric ud Societ, held at Birken- 
ead in October. and the Ist prize e 
County Kildare Horticultural Exhibition same year. 
16 p raised by Mr, Rutledge, Douglas, Isle of Man. 
F. M. F. 
——— Referring to some criticisms, а few weeks 
ago, on my reference to the quality of the old Узын 
Pride Potato, there must, of course, be local varia- 
tions. I only called eer to a variety which, in 
this дее, ee to be the best of all the earlies, 
3 and quality. 7. Hacker, Grappenhall, 
ire. 
GENTIANA PHLOGIFOLIA.— This is a plant to be 
one of the few 
recommended to gardeners as be 
Gentians which are both (ер э Йөз and easily 
cultivated, It ia a nati i oun- 
ns, and owes its name to the supposed 
blance of its narro ео lea those 
e of the h us Phloxes. It is perennial 
and long-lived. A plant which has remained six or 
umbels, so that 
forty flowers nes buds. "Ihe 
flowers are bright blue, nearly as as those of 
G. septemfida, but the меш з are less — C. Wolley 
Ded, Edge Hall, Майра 
AND BLACK CURRANTS.— As а 
here 
+ lb. weight each, a record not easy to 
of Cornwall, and yet 
like weeds Е 
What а popularly known as the "bob" in b 
Currants has been a pest 
have moe ni meis all our trees, 
from the 1 districta; after all the 
ae gpd m now hear of — * it is dis- 
chin рап el oria he рен Шу dying out? 
[We fear not.] 
THE WATERING OF bod eli oir Wd Vo 
DING —From er every quarter the cry grows 
iars die. And it is not rag or 
e 
season, ost 
strongest, and phrase being interpreted 
means the ooded and the fullest of crude 
sap. 
Е 
en down, severely injured, or kille 
The majority of Briars are excepti 
