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Остовев 26, 1895.) 
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would find it . to alter their diet; " 
the question is, if are wise and wish 
keep in meo, health 22 fit at all times, mim 
it oni be advisable to consume more 
live more in accord- 
— — 
gh temperature like th 
I rejoice to see fruit and vegetables 
re and more used as food. 
Cannell, Swanley, 
PACKING COMPETITION AT THE CRYSTAL 
PALACE SHOW.—The arrangements for the jadging 
in this very important competition need a little 
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кану obliged to market a great deal, had to send 
every box separate, what a great addition to their 
Jabour of packing would эд a aused, besides greater 
cost, in transit, Frank Harris, Eastnor Castle Gardens, 
PRICES OF APPLES. TN the able prize essay on 
fruit reported in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, р. 432, 
ions are given, Ecklinville. which 
the list, fetching from £12 to £22 per ton; 
Warner’s King, £16 per ton; Co 
Orange Pippin, King of the Pippins, Lord Suff ld, 
main £26, that Cox 's Orange Pippins, the next 
best to the Ribetov, only made £16 
numbers of Ribston Pippins grown and 
the robust health of the trees generally on Paradise 
stocks, English-grown Ribstons are still so scarce as 
not to have their value in bul in our latest 
priza-essaye? Thi he mo ising, as we are 
all agreed that the Ribston 8 "atili the Qaeen 
all onr Englieh or any other de 
ocks on goo 
soils, with judicious root-pruning. I have recently seen 
some Ribaton trees in Sussex, over a hundred years 
Fic. 86.—CHRYSANTHEMUM BOULE D'OR '05, (SEE Р, 498,) 
revision. In the first iis t I thiuk à leading. sales- 
man or two would make very co 
dinary parcels, an е company’s label to 
that effect. I myself, with others who sent samples 
for r cards marked, 
that a fault? and if 80, 
boxes tied together." Is 
why? 15 all gardeners who, like myself, are unfor- · 
while 3 
e Ul 
e 
Pott's Seng, Yorkshire — Med Castle, 
Tower of Glamis, and Dum 
statement as aier- 
with a little father explanation. 
mean that the last nine sorts named were sold at 
he same price as Warner's King, viz., £16 per ton. 
h 
ow's Seedling. The 
g 
It can hardly 
it mean that »" valu essert 
oubtless, variis : e 
ton is а high price for such a decidedly inferior 
ge — ar impossible he able 
have w convey ш ш 
presaion 
* £22, Worcester Pear - 
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ted every winter ; and we have plenty of samples 
everywhere of the "oh tenacity with which the 
ibston Pippins cling to life, when crip ith 
canker, an moth merican blight. 
ese 
our modes of culture, or of our climate or the 
constitution of the variety ? D, Т, F, 
CRAB FOR THE GARDEN AND ON Е 
TABLE.—I am very glad to aee Mr. Harrison оке 
rousing article about Crabs, It would be alm 
