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THE GARDENERS’ 
Nuts are very 
Chas, Herrin, 
somewhat from the dry weather. 
plentiful throughout this district. 
Dropmore, Ti 
—— Piums and Apples a very heavy crop, trees 
clean and healthy, Among early Apples чүү, 
freely are Irish Peach, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Soffi 
and Seaton House. Among Strawberries, a 
Sovereign, British Queen, к” s Latest of All, 
and Waterloo have кет ery fine. J. Smith, 
Моман; Leighton Buz 
Apples Lord Suficld, Lord Derby, King 
of the Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, and Blenheim 
Orange аге very good here; in fact, the Apple 
crop is decidedly a d one, The following 
varieties of Pears are carrying good c 
Com e Lamey, Pitmaston Duchess, 
DA Vicar of Winkfield, Black Worcester, 
Louise, Easter Beurré, Louise Bonne of 
3 Glou Morceau, and Doyenné de Comice. 
F. Capp, Wexham Park Gardens, Slough. 
— 
ples are very good crops, more 
especially the . useful varieties: Lord 
Saffield, Lord Grosvenor, Grenadier, Hawthornden, 
Cellini, &c., which are overloaded with fruit. Pears 
are very 500 crops, too, Marie Louise, both on the 
walls and in the open, being full of fruit, Victoria 
Plums are so heavily loaded with fruit that the 
branches require support, other kinds fair, Robt, 
Mac Kellar, Hall Gardens Fre 
— With the exception o cots, which are 
almost a failure here, the nites crop is a most satis- 
are a very full crop, the fruit 
remarkably clean, and the free f blight, 
Plums and D are a full crop, in some 
cases, trees of the latter have suffered a eal 
as well, m а very heavy crop, 
and of excellent quality. With: „R Sovereign 
has established its claim as a first-class second early 
variety for pots, as well as outside. Cherries aud 
small bush fruits are an abundant crop, Old brakes 
of Raspberries suffered somewhat severely from the 
frost, € younger brakes have cares enormous 
out of a number of varieties, I find 
Superlativo thë best. NM. F. Багы, Eaton Най 
Gardens 
DERBYSHIRE, —Apples and Pears, favoured with 
ilice: bl 
them considerably, and advantageously. Pears, how- 
ever, are still a very heavy crop, particularly such 
varieties as Jargonelle, Beurré de Capiaumont, Easter 
Beurré, Vicar of Winkfield, Williams’ Bon Chrétien, 
&c. Our heaviest crop of Apples are Gravenstein, 
Keswick Codlin ‚ Em mperor Alexander, reese and 
ing. Our n newly-mad rry 
-- The season is one of the most 
fruitful we have had for many years, both in gardens 
and consi as of dry weather 
dry 
are wonderfully free 
from insect pests, J. Т Sudbury Hall, Derby, 
LzicgsrERSHIBRE,— The Apple crop on standard 
Pippin, Wellington, 
Queen Caroline, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Kentish 
Lord Suffield, and Pike's Pearmain. 
; Irish 
ге, Dens Manor Park ro bor 
nd severe attacks of insects last season, which 
Pears set well, but 
causes, All bushes y, 
Gooseberries were severely attacked by caterpillar 
during the late dry hot weather. . Divers, 
Belvoir Castle Canton), Grantham, 
The crop of Apples this year is particularly 
good, pyramid trees on Paradise stocks being heavily 
laden, > require severe thinning. Bismarck, Seaton 
House, Lord Grosvenor, Stirling Castle, Frogmore 
Prolific, Prince Albert, Cox’s Pomona, Potts’ Seed- 
ing, Warner’s King, Tyler’s Kernel, and The Que 8 
i о 
d 
Ecklinville Seedling, Viii Caroline, Winter Haw- 
thornden, and Bramley’s Seedling are the best, 
lls, Marie Louise, Passe 
i 
Louise Bonne are the most productive, Raspberries, 
Gooseberries, and Red Currants are abundant 
Strawberries have been à phenomenal crop, but the 
bulk were soon over, owing to the drought. All 
fruit trees are clean and in good condition. Dani, 
Roberts, Prestwold juan Loughboro’, 
Ox ве. — The unripened shoots on 
lower parts at Peach а were "ym by frost, bt 
the crop nevertheless is a good o Amsden 
June, Alexander, and Waterloo Podio were — 
on July 24. Strawberry President was particularly 
abundant and fine. Fruit trees of all kinds have kept 
remarkably clean this year. G. Stenton, Park Place 
G , Henley- 
—— Fruit trees this year are, on the whole, 
almost free from green- fly, the severe winter 
probably having destroyed their eggs. Considering 
how scarce Apples were last year, it is remarkable 
that we should have another bad year following, for 
although early vareties are plentiful enough, р“ 
later deficient, 
and main croppers 
trees had scarcely any blosso е 
wet summer had most to do with this failure. 4, J, 
Long, Wy fold Court. 
re Se full thee though partial in 
places, some trees loaded and others bare, many fall- 
ing through drought, Pun are thin and small, 
amson tr 
Ln 
304, and for June, 24, 
these figures speak conclusively as to the drought. 
A. S, Kemp, Broadway, PR 
-—— — this district Apricots the only fruits 
that are a partial failure, which: considering the crops 
of the past two years is not surprising. Applesarea 
heavy crop, and the trees very healthy. 
varieties are grown, and all are 
hai of unusual severity 
neighbourhood on July 21, damaging the Apple crop 
badly, cutting and bruising the fruit, Pears area 
good crop, Marie i last season 
Cro . 
Plums have not required so much аршы ад but = 
trees have a full crop. Small fruits have been abun- 
dant and good, but caterpillars have been bad on 
сосе -— Currants on north walls, Straw- 
very plentiful, аба 
President, and Waterloo, аге the varieties 2 
best and keep up a long succession, This season 
se ~~ discarding Sir Harry, Lord Napier, Vicom- 
éricart de Thury, Elton Pj 
8, Backhouse, Onslow Gardens, 8% — Fag Serling. 
STAFFORDSHIRE, —The Apple ч 
is the best we have had for som ages 
as Keswick, Lord Suffield, ‚ Cellin 
Pippin, Small’s Admirable, and Stirling Cy Castle i 
so loaded with fruit, it would alm ч 
ears аге а good average crop pat 
good in quality ; the same may be sa зине 
Cherries have also been very good: and S rries 
excellent both in erop and quantity, Noble, thet has 
the character of being deficient in flavour, has been 
very good this year, could not wish for better flavoured 
се 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avavsr 24, 1895, 
fruit, Gooseberries and all kinds of Currants have 
been . and good. John Wallis, Keele Gardens, 
—— It is the first time I have beck able to gin 
with fruit, ihe from blight, and where proper кес 
has been done a good harvest may be looked 
in many cases iet dwarfed, moss-covered, and p. 
bound Apple trees, that have been struggling fo 
existence for years past, are wreathed with smi 
fruit this year. Pears on wall are good average 
and quality, standards are remarkably healthy aj 
Cherries, small fruits, and Strawberries (unda 
good cultivation), have been all that could be desired, 
ome of the causes of part failure other years hay 
been caused by late spring frost. I must also aii 
that birds have been responsible for a great deal by 
taking the buds in winter and spring, the frost sine 
winter has greatly reduced their number—less buit 
were taken this year than usual, H. G. Wilks, Sanda 
Hall Gardens, near Stone. 
Un 
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— 
WanzwicksHIRE.— The wealth of p on all 
fruit trees and bushes, except Apricots, has 
than fulfilled expectations, for the 5 of fruit 
matured and maturing has not been equalled for many 
years. Apples of most varieties usually grown an 
almost breaking the trees, Plums also requiring tobe 
propped up. The drought of May and une told on 
the size of Strawberries, but the quantity ам quality 
quite compensated for that. А. D. Christie, Nag 
Gardens, 
C То be continued.) 
ROOT PROPAGATION OF SHOW 
AND FANCY PELARGONIUMS. 
A caPrrAL method of propagation, but one that ii 
not much known, is by means of root-cuttings. М 
soon as the flowering season is past—say, in Jaly o 
August, the plants are turned out of their pote, the 
stronger roots cut off, the whole of the soil shaken 
clean off, and the root-mass washed in water 
make them clean. After this is done the ps 
should be repotted in fresh soil, By this | 
the gardener is rewarded by a number of fine lp 
roots, which can be removed without inflicting thè 
least injury tothe plants. The stro nger roots shonli 
be placed in cutting-pots, the thicker 3 к 
appea ring above the surface of the 
f soil for the cuttings consists of к 
Ө hot-bed manure, The cuttings should be lightly 
d-in fte 
мэ 
- 
red-in, and afterwards occasionally an 
Of course, they must at res e put into з frame, 
kept close, and shaded, but as soon owth spot 
ample ventilation must be afforded. Shoots на 
urteen days, and as a rule several je 
appear on each piece of root. eee may b 
0! 
have reached a desirable length, the р her incra 
LILIUM PARRYL Y 
Ат one of the Tecent meetings of the 
cultural Soci imens 
named citron-yellow, fragrant L 
were shown by Messrs. Wallace 
Parryi, Watson, Bot 
* Lilium 
(1880), p. 165. Elwes’ , genus 
sma! 
ical Calendar, j 
1880), 
Lilium ( eos 
about an 
brown: 
nearly 2 soe rare by 
A t. 5, 2 and ina 
in 
by Dr. O. C. сна па me ee 
