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THE GARDENERS’ 
Mowmourusutre.—Strawberries were a good crop 
and of ам quality. = -— - all kinds were 
remarkably good in every way. ms аге а goo 
average pulus Victoria, dinis samme Gage, 
Kirke’s, Jefferson’ ^ and à Coe' s Golden Drop are heavy 
Pears the best crops being 
excepting Mari ouise, are thin; the crops on 
pyramid trees are also partial. Cherriez good 
particularly May Dake and Morellos. Apples 
ere no 
generally have suffered from caterpillara w 
means have been adopted Pa pr them. Amongst 
—The Q 
Gascoigne’s Seedling, 
Albert, Sandringham, Schoolmaster, Tyler’s Kernel, 
Warner's King, Cellini, Brownlee’s Russet, ox's 
Orange Pippin, King of the Рїорїпа, and Worceater 
Pearmain, Thomas Coomber, The Hendre Gardens, 
* na 
Monmouth, 
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of “plight among the fruit crops M. Apples 
and Pears are good in various localities, whilst in 
кышу quid are adr any, but on the whole an 
be secured. Small fruits ar 
plentifal а ad clean. John Lockyer, Pontypool Park 
Gardens, 
нїв®,—1Ї never have seen a better crop 
of fruit all pie than this year, The spring was 
most favourable, not imd any late spring frost, 
weather, which has had 
I never remarked 
Apples getting ags colour as early as they did this 
grand, James Crook, 
Abbey, 
Wi SHIRE, — A very satisfactory hardy 
fruit season, taken collectively, the trees being both 
clean and ‘healthy, ce Ged winter-moth larvæ 
having given very 1 e trouble. Apples of all 
kinds are heavy, ros eet 
А! ly, t uality is very 
good, Raspberry canes were injured by the severity 
of the frost in January. Pears are a very thin crop, 
although the trees gave an abundance of strong, 
The fruit apparently set well, but 
tance to fruit growers as well aa 
to ourselves. William Crump, Madresfield 
Mal 
—— The Apple cropis a good one, and the trees 
cl of caterpillars than 
year ; but on the walls there are large crops of fine 
Plums and ла ае 
‘crops. Cherries have b 
gathering good- 
coloured examples of Early Alexander Peach on 
Jaly 13. Strawberries, Currants, and all bush 
fruits, er the exception perhaps of Raspberries 
were & Walnuts, and the common Ter 
nuts шы. plentifal. Fruit trees of all kinds 
are this year remarkably free from aphis or 
any other insect peats, John Austen, Witley Court 
Gardens, Stourport, 
very promising, 
йод the step wins a sre oie ET. 
Crdsswood Park, Abèrfitwith, 
Рехвіонѕніве,— Apples es had an excellent er 
much of it m 
the late rains. orm were upe сгоре, and "y? go = 
flavour. ts are — i thin, Strawberries 
; Noble has done —— 
being early and large ; Sir Joseph, very fine; 
Dr. Morére, a French Strawberry, ‘of excellent 
merit for ur 
uskin was very "aan 
cepting President, which we shall now discard. 
Victoria class of Plums are heavy crops, but Gages 
are thin; Damsons excellent. Birds have been 
leas troublesome than for years, The Jong frost has 
done good service in clearing away much of the 
American blight. Frost cleared off all weak fruit 
trees and bushes, Р. Middleton, Wynnstay Gardens, 
Ruabon. 
GrAMOoRGANSHIRE. — Apples and Pears are 
Aeon crop in this district, In the gardens here 
the trees have had to ba propped up to keep the 
branches from TM broken by the great weight of 
fruit, Plume are an average crop, and the trees 
are freer from pam ын usual, notwithstanding 
the long-continued drought we experienced during 
early summer in this locality. Strawberries were 
ery good considering the dryness of the season, 
A, Фин. и Gardens, Cardiff. 
are an exceptionally heavy crop, and 
а varieties 
wished, Plums are quite an average crop, and 
ies I never remember being so 
pleatifal. АП small-fruits have been very plentifal, 
with the exception of Gooseberries, these have been 
quite & aei in some gardens, R. Milner, Penrice 
Castle, Swa 
8 heavy crop of Plums 
Gooseberries, and Apples, All fruits are clean and 
healthy and abundant, with the exception of, 
Apricots. John Lambert, Powis Castle, 
Ркмввокквнївк.—Арр1ев are a very heavy crop 
the weather being fine and dry when the trees were 
in bloom, Pears are a very light pe the trees 
having been fruiting freely this past two seasons, 
they appear to be exbausted to some extent. 
Plums, especially Victoria, Jefferson's, Prince Eagle 
bert, and Damsons are a good cr op. fruits 
were all good, with, strange to зау, the жар of 
Gooseberries, which were rather a light crop, Rasp- 
berries were very good, 8 
injured by the winter's frost. Geo, Griffin, Slebeck 
Park, Haverfordwest, 
IRELAND, 
Co. Dupuix.—Apples and Pears are a light cro 
— quality. Peaches and N bd 
good erop better than they have been for 
some years, Cherries very good. Small-fruit of all 
sorts heavy се good, except Black Currants, which 
were а small crop, and poor in quali 
Vice- Regal Gardens, Dublin, 8 
Kxakr.— Apples promise an E crop. Pears 
are rather thin ; there was plenty of bloom, but a cold 
east wind blew most g^ "hes time they were in flower, 
Plums are good. , Carrant, and Rasp- 
Vitry diobe cete н | o ive Dii di abii- 
CHRONICLE. 
(Szrrzmzer 7, 1895, 
dant crop of Strawberries. Geo. М, Breeze Kenma. 
Gardens, Killarney. | SAMS 
K ве. — The fruit crops, excepting amall fruits, 
are much pes average. The blossom was abun, 
and appeared strong, and bee ee. the light crop is 
the effect ofimperfectly-ripened w Iam 
to think that the Apple trees baies not re covered from 
the effects of the beavy crops they carried two years 
ago. The fruit of Apples and Pears are small, and 
require more heat. J. Wyke, Bishop's Court, Straffan, 
ith the exception of Apricots, all fruits arẹ 
plentifal . of extra good quality, and, owing t; 
our strong-holding soil, we had no necessity to water, 
which, as a rule, does more harm than 
— 
y cr 
crop I һал ever seen, 
good, and lasted over 
dry season. Fruit trees of all kinds are 2 
and clean, Frederick Bedford, Straffan H. 
Kino’s County.—The fruit ar DE are 
good in ире district, Owing to e winter the 
trees were a month later than чаа” іп expanding 
their blossoms, consequently they escaped the spring 
frosts which so often destroy our fruit crops, anda 
good set was the result. Pears are the only ехсер- 
tion here, they being but a very indifferent crop, and 
small and late, T. L. Hart, Birr Castle Gardens, 
Parsonstown, 
Loncrorp.—The fruit crop has been on the whole 
very the 
Strawberries so goo 
Ваай fruits also very fine. J. Rafferty, Castle Forbs, 
ngfi 
Co. WaTERFORD,— Apples are very good this year, 
bo y and late Meere Annie Elizabeth it 
loade fruit ; ety never fails here, 
Hollandbury also bears well, “ae is a noble-looking 
fruit. Strawberries ‘never did so well with шем 
thie year. ingleton, Curraghmore, Portu, 
Ireland, 
Wicktow.—I have visited a good many of the 
leading ак in this county, and in almost every 
place І saw a capital crop of buch - fruit, Applen 
Pears, and Strawberries; but Apricots are Vel] 
scarce, Levi Childs, Kilruddery Gardens, Bray. 
CHANNEL ISLANDS. 
Jensey,—Plums, which promised well, have beet 
абс 1 by the drought, and are a light crop. The 
yield of Strawberries was poor on light soils, bat 
abundant on the heavy land. ig trees 
destroyed by last winter's frost, but those that sur 
viv-d have generally an abundant crop. 
GusgNsEY.—Apples have по doubt benefited 7 by 
the abnormally light crops 8 trees carried luf 
year. Pears also are good. Stone fruits, 1 7975 
piri from success, probably e want of 
e in last season's wood - gro 
were a great success, 
Wok * have been e 
westh 
ordinary long frost we had last 
Smithson, Caledonia Nursery, ceri i 
Iste or Max.— With а few exceptions, the бон 
апа Кы. crops in this district are very Poor. 
berries, Raspberries, and Currants were Very 
and of fine quality, Strawberries 
soon over, owing to the long ea 
James Murphy, Cronkbourne Gardens, 
bat 
Isle of Mam 
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Naples, being sent i balk t м 
ut the packed in Баб s i 
sedit 2 are used а good deal in — 
are said to be an excellent horse · food. 
are described as being of t wo ki 
tively the ^ Honey. Carob " and th 
the former being the acarcer of the 
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