SEPTEMBER 14, 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
293 
A well-known firm is that of BarrET FRÈRES, at 
Troyes. There we admired a d collection of 
Pear and Apple trees, ee were particularly inter- 
i ces d for the cultivation 
chalky soil of Champagne. 
rie plants of — Oxyacantha are obtained 
growing in such soil as Pear trees would never t 
upon. үр чәч o sachalinense is а extensively 
grown; it meh. n been utilised for n food, 
and M. Bal told me that the flavour es "boiled 
1 was much like that of Spinach. 
Our visit to Troyes took place on July 28 last, and 
we were astonished to see on the walls some beautiful 
Clapton, had Dendrobium speciosissimum, but the 
flowers were not in sufficiently good order to be 
appreciate 
At the VzcETABLE Сомміттев a fine batch of 
twenty-five унчу varieties of Cucumber was staged 
by М. Vilm and the floral committee voted a 
First-class Certificate to Tillandsia Sieboldiana, & 
beautiful and rare Mexican plant, seme known in 
cultivation, and cha iem rised by vermilion - red 
floral bracts, perpendicular to the spike, ME W 
M. Truffaut of таа. pede Truffaut 
A FINE VINE. 
Tue following details respecting a Black Ham- 
burgh Vine in these gardens may be of interest to 
some of your readers (dg. 52). The Vine is twenty-five 
years old, and stands in the centre of a house 54 feet 
long by 13 feet wide, which it completely covers 
Fic. 52,—v1NE AT HACKTHORN HALL, LINCOLN, 
ripe Nectarines, We soon learned that the fruit was 
а quite new variety raised from seed by Mr. Lucien 
Baltet, who has given it his own name. This Nec- 
tarine, which is of a fine deep zolour, is a seedling of 
the Précoce of Croncels, which directly resulted ym 
а seedling of Amsden Peach. een eurious fact 
е being — 
borne out. We found the 
of delicious flavour, and so also thought the members 
of the re it Co mmittee at the last meeting of the 
es 
TTLEYA — 
а; shown to 
lately, 
А, — eec ery good 
RCHID (Paris) 
was a hybrid between Cattleya — and 
This Lzlio-Cattleya, named L.- C. 
п, garde ener at 
— flower is rather tee than that of C. bicolor; 
the divisions are of & my-rose colour, the lip 
presenting an unu . — middle lobe of a dall 
magenta colour. 
. The upright meme is cylin- 
drical, with two leaves; the variety seems free- 
growing; it was first sown in 1890, Mr, Low, of 
It aprings from a single upright stem, the girth of 
which is 1 foot, and which sends out two horizontal 
branches in opposite directions. From these descend 
ten smaller branches, which follow the slope of the 
roof. The Vine is always very clean and healthy, 
90 bunches of well-coloured 
Grapes. 
many larger Vines in private gardens. E. W, Cracroft, 
Hackthorn Най, Lincoln, 
NOTES ON EI CHERRY 
Ѕегром is the crop T — e in а 
private garden larger than necessary, е being во 
many ways in which the fruit can be 
not use the fruit for dessert d in this country, 
but I believe it is so used in southern Europe, ап 
to full su hange 
— I think it was Mr. Knight (when at — 
Castle Gardens), who wrote of them, testifying to 
their excellence when cultivated under glass. I 
have grown th imi 
orchard-houses, but could easily appreciate the fine 
flavour which the fruit would attain when grown in 
warmth and given abundance of air. 
south wall, the improvement of fi 
compared with that of fruit from a northerly 
In size the Morello Cherries I have seen in Wiltshire 
and around Bath were finer than I have seen any- 
required pruning, though in hot, dry quarters, баба 
the summer months, the foliage a; ays — 
healthy, and the fruit was very dar colou 
On a south-east wall, where * soil about the 
roots of Morello Cherries is composed of бош * 
med as 
the crop required to be thinned. It is of great 
moment to cultivate the trees so that little pruning 
is neceseary, and the natural spurs and short ah 
then formed render the trees safe from canker. 
a north wall, and one due east, we do not always ^ 
heavy crops, and the fruit is more acid than on the 
trees facing south-east, smi year many of the trees, 
of the continuous late 
frost), were left unti 
These mostly set — crops of fruit; but we n 
ad so much with grubs, 
Cherries close to walls, in positions where sun had 
uld prefer allowing the wood to 
w endi sf an attention to 
keeping the roots in very firm soil, Mar plenty of 
lime in it, the growths would be short and fruitf 
An object-lesson on the good — of Morello 
Cherries I once had at the Royal Gardens, Windsor, 
r. Rose, 
own in quantity on standard bush-trees in 
some pi vil those fruited on such in Scotland are 
very poor, M, Temple, Carron, А 
PLANT NOTES. 
c VARIETIES OF CANNA. 
s fall of these plants at the Royal Hor- 
— Society’ s Gardens, Chiswick, аге now d 
ab 
ment, and 
to flower them perfectly in this country. If n 
else was to seen at these gardens, the no 
alone would be worth a visit; but I noted many 
interesting and instructive t hings in the brief 
time Ё туа 
Qisdidul a NM 
with me at Belvoir, although it is growing + а shel- 
tered position, Such a beautiful plant is well worthy 
ofa place under glass, where space admits of it, and 
if specimen plants were in n fashion, it would Зы a 
ood thing for exhibition purposes, W. H. Divers, 
Belvoir Castle Gardens, Grantham. 
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