Aveust 3, 1895.] 
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with glossy ow rige egg-shaped fruits, about 
2 inches long. fleshy, and not unpalat- 
а) I have e worse Apples, but they were 
ry bad ones. The flowers are even more orna- 
an than the fruits, — large brush-like clusters 
stamens, of a rich crimson colour, being the chief 
attraction, W. W. 
POTATO-DIGGING IN IRELAND. 
Wuitst near Tipperary in 1892, Mr. W. G. Smith 
otatos, viz., а swampy bog. he plant in flower in 
the pe : 2 —— On the 5 
are rolls o the sition where 
attempt was беа ay jadi Potatos. The stump in — 
P 
п rags, 
and both were helpless and hopeless. In travelling 
made a practice of cutting everything Her have in 
bloom—good, bad, and ar; fferent. It т as pitiable 
to see 8 ttle pedet: f- 
culus ж ыы a foreground to an exhibit, 
avolonad 
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eR 
being asked or, Lr these should consist of the best 
hus put to th 
bunc n, the exhibitor should be required 
to effectively display есер їп such a manner that 
the individuality of e t be —— out. 
where sev aveial Varieties of one species are 
shown, or different specie! one genus, graa should 
be placed i in Jakta oia for the purposes of com- 
parison. This would make the Temple Show more 
Fic, 27.—P0TATO DIGGING IN TIPPERARY, 
by rail across Ireland, many scenes agreeing with 
this may be seen, from the carriage windows. It is 
little use telling such “ cultivators” that the Potato 
disease is caused by a Phytophthora, which repro- 
i t 
ай-йа in the best methods of growing and 
storing Potatos, Our Special Correspondent, 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE TEMPLE nei oe r editorial remark 
n page 654 of the last — in reference бо 
ече collections of ect ceous р at ve 
pace as again as 
is actual room Ai and the фе is RI 
whilst the naming generally is so faulty, that it 
— ла m who — — certain ject 
bod are far too many 
онин s ig it do — seen) as "it бечо 
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than it is аб present—a means of education. І 
thought Messrs. Kelway & —— method of showing 
nies of great improvement 
ited as at the 2 tals of one 
flower largely overlapping those of another —the con- 
fusion was great. Surely blooms of 1 
would be much more e — ely staged bold 
bunches, eo mhn as at present, dotted — poen 
b with the ntmost regularity. 'Then, 
the collections o of "Begonias were too crowded ; ons 
vari 
eti 
suffer by contact with inferior ones—and a crowd of 
pla but little 
nts in "gd or methodical 
arrangement; and grow in extent 
than diminish, and as not well 
ore abies 
undergo expansion, evil is Tikely to pon „ Ошу 
let the novelty of the —— те Show wear 
as wi ew years, and then, if 
the M— methods of “exhibiting continue, com 
heard of f their samen: monotony, 
the council consists, there i н апу pe of originality 
or 88 for Алыс ка imparting some better 
^ T2 lw v the Temple Gardens. 
TO DUKE OF YORK,—I saw this last y, 
dii: igit it would Me a valuable addition to 
our market varieties, and such it has proved itself 
It is a profuse win, some of the trusses 
producing from seven to nine full - si Tomatos. 
t is very firm and solid, with flesh of good flavour 
and unusual depth, and very little se е, 
stag growth, pte fro 
mi cuttings; in fact, Mr, Ryder 
gets ee, crops from cuttings ien fro 
raised from . Amongst other LM 
eropping eo with no signs of dise 
to test ace eropping — 
s To 
stops them on the single 
stem right rm the — T inion , The Gardens, 
Beechwo ough, Ki 
DENERS CHARACTERS,—Iam glad“ Н. М.О 
is bolitik attention (through your issue for July 13) 
to one of the moat 
dealt = effectively їп the House of Commons, 
Inter 
HARDY-FRUIT PROSPECTS.—I thi 
shall "be eignen Vae a very fine fruit ка The 
scarcest pples in T: upon 
tre б. pr ry thin, notably peak tory and 
nm Pippins, ‘Wellingtons, amongs most 
seful varieties we f Lord Derby, 
r's King, and some smaller varieties are net 
with fruit. Pear-trees 
the walls; have had to thin rhed especially Pit- 
maston ess Marie Louise, 
Bonne, Knight's Monarch, Defense du Comice, and 
nk we 
niy 
May and «its June, init it practically did good pem 
on vm days, and the whole was under three- quarters 
nch, W. A, Cook, Compton Basset, in June, 
PLANT = шинен ешт” e шеп v ‘geen in 
their time to promote hig artistic 
taste in relation to plant decoration than did the 
of an 
late John Wills. It is perhaps p to say о 
some of those beautiful effi dá in days past at 
South nsin that revelat 
Wills Пе of 
plant ; very likely, had he not done 
would, but at least he the 
pioneer, and immediately he found myriads of dis- 
cip not convert on m 
their heavy ethods, "Twenty years of 
in plan 
ning, 
there are so many Vea — eners & 2 
who 2 no more 
tyro. Try all they may, they produce a jumble, or a 
mere stiff, formal bank of plants or flowers, and no 
m i ption of & 
plant group. If = arcu of tropical life, уа 
its overhanging Palms and Ferns, and beneath 
