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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Остовкв 26, 1895, 
plant Crabs in greater variety. 
There is no fear of 
} There are many of them very much overdone 
with evergreens ; — now is the time, or it will soon 
be here, to take and uproot some of the latter 
br e 8 and plant Crabs in 
their stead, if no other places can be found for them. 
For grace, beauty, brilliancy of flower, fruit, foliage, we 
have nothing to rival, and few to equal, Crabs, The 
ary much in their views of the most 
or procuring artistic 
effect “ convenience, ell, it is not of vital 
t, here the m of variety may be 
indulged to the full without t injury to е artlatie 
effect or eating qualities of aweet Crabs, 
CRAB APPLES FOR GARDEN DECORAT 
Why should not some of the handsome 8 
forms of Pyrus malus, which are denominated Crab 
Apples, find a place among the 1 trees in 
the sh ery border, where they but rarely 
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в beautiful bloo it is also a free bearer. To 
auit the re dirus of planters, Саде are worked # 
nursery phrase—both as bushes and 
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unless the position is better suited for a standar 
tree, In either form се эмин һап е objects ; 
and while a sunny position is probably n 
cause a fine colour to arbe dd Нә fred it 
Jet noticeable af the Lowield Nurseries that buah 
by the growth of 
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bore crops of Be eie fait. 
T METROPOLITAN AND LARQE PRO- 
VINCIAL e depart rg EXHIBITIONS.— The sug- 
positions are selected as 
elsi ың aio а, they are liable to 
EI. in each award.” Mark the wan 
selected from notable notable positions, and 
takes,” ex Rar suggested 
rightly во, are са she er а » e. Gardeners’ 
which carries its own condemnatio 
to show the pap high, though delusive, черет 
"pM" ideal exp 
selected to make the awards, Suppo 
committee of horticultural societies were to act upon 
"E cri aie the jadges selected from 
“ notable positions — the iones under the 
Beer "indicated above would assuredly not be 
forthcoming, and infallible expert would alone 
ave to award the prizes, The united judgment of two 
or more practical me ' thinks might 
wrong, and that o the expert must 
exhibitors, and com eemen who have not, in 
his opinion, айт his ideal way of jadging. 
exhibiting, 5 managing horticultural showa? Fiat 
Justitia, ruat celum, 
EARLY FIGS IN POTS, 
Tue cultivation of pot-grown Figsie, I am glad to 
remark, on the increase in this country, and those 
who have seen the excellent erbe at the Royal 
i ns at Chiswick would 
y present concern is, however, with forced Figs 
2 oni in March and onwards, which is earlier 
the year than the Chiswick Figa IE fruit, and, 
bend early, they cannot be compared w 
h th 
regards fine flavour. Many of the abies grown 
at wick are not suitable for hard forcing, though 
season, The he great 
excellent at a 
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obtained at a time when other gne fruits are not 
too plentiful ; rcing is easily 
if any, are 
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e same 
— holds good of the large permanent trees 
which are hard forced; and my experienee is, that 
there is less dropping with pot-grown Fig trees if 
the treatment afforded is the proper one, Again, 
upon the variety, 
le to it than others, and these 
should be avoided, as when the first crop is lost 
another early crop is out of the question 
Mr, Barron, in his excellent report on the Figs at 
Chiswick a up years ago, gave a i of some aixty- 
six distinct varieties, чаа Й 
ciently ah as yet in 
наб shoots, во as to 
555 carried out in ee ee 
houses, Such planta are less subject to fruit drop- 
ping than strong grow It is — what & 
nice lot of fruit a well-managed plant growing in а 
10 or 12-inch pot will produce if 2 — of 
the wood has been good, and du plies of 
nutriment and water have been afforded at the 
right time, any excess of either causing badly- 
flavoured fruit and fruit-dropping. The regularly- 
forced pot trees fruit so readily, that I look upon them 
as being the moat reliable of early aupplies, е 
the last few years there have been some valuable 
additions to early varieties, viz., St. John’s, Pingo de 
чч. and Violette Sepor. Many other varieties 
bear forcing well, but they do not fruit in a short 
space of time; as, take for instance, the and 
second is no essen 
fruits in March if the А Py — 
of November, which — of slow forcing from the 
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start. Both varieties are noted for good 
not shedding the pert fruits i in the dull erat кк. "i 
opinion that the best use is made of Ne 
growing it specially for lat 
is a valuable Fig for very early forcing, if given pia 
i i ow at top yon "s 
free enough as an early Mgr though later ont 
allthat one could wish. The best 
luable variety; 
= it will not — ue W wy like St. John aud 
Mel. all white and black Ischin 
pits well, butthe dem variety is di more delicious, 
hite Marseilles is a well-known variety, 
good for permanent trees, or for growing in restricted 
fresh leaves, in low pits, close to the glass, and to 
force slowly. е obtain from e trees fruite in 
e month of March, та t advise the hard 
forcing of Figs, and if fruit 4 “a wanted till April, 
the month of December will be t € Pies 
as the crop of frait will then be 
larger, and of 8 quality. 
, bia to carry late crops, м 
— will do if - he be not lightened of the fruits 
that set. The trees here are p cool 
vit 
s the m ripening of the 
th 
house after the hes is over till September, whet 
they are turned out of their pots an ma r. 
portion of the old roots, repotted, an 
heavy rains, but stood in the open к n in the 
forcing-pit, The potting compost co 
loam, old mortar or plaster, and em A fer 
Fig cuttings are struck yearly, and the planta gros? 
0 to be dit 
carded, because too larg 
their * forcing stages but little moi 
roots is required; and pinching at the fourth pat 
important as growth proceeds, to assist the 
settling. ©, Wythes, 
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NURSERY N NOTES. 
CANNAS AT PAUL & UL & BONS CHESHUNT. 
Canna indica of the botanists is ПО” ‘= 
popular ope in our gardens, and W „мей ИШ 
it the less is an old plant. John gie 
says, 1596, “ it in his | 
divers times, but it never came to flo on 
that it must be set or sown in & e 
or in а bed made of meet y єй 
Cacumbers and Musk-Melons are.” 
more successful later, and Moved. it eins 
stove or hothouse 
neither ho 
Miller's time it bo 
ways flowered 
neither Miller nor хед ug "CEA 
for „W 
битте 
WA 1 
C. i, lutea, C. glauca, an 
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