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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
Deux Ans, and Lady Henniker are all good market 
e Sma also Wellington, Gooseberry - Apple (not 
Pippin, the two being quite distinct), and Northern 
reening are excellent for late use. 
many other good sumar varieties, but I 
mention table hereabouts. вве 
TE Ке of Сохт DING Kerry, Ribston 
Pippine, and King of the argh this year the 
latter has pror uM m. p clear—all points 
considered, t pple at one of the best. 
Blenheim, either i . or cooking, is probab 
the best all- round Apple grown, and full - ap trees 
fruit. abundantly ; this last always sells readily at 
good pr rices. Worcester аа Аена рад 2 
TO quality, y, puts o high colour, and c 
into. и аб а time e ба, T of us best 4 qualitr 
are u The tree bears well, and it is a variety 
well nm growing. 
ygate’s Pearmain is of fine quality; Cornish 
‘Gillitower, although поб a pretty-shaped fruit and 
bott's Pearmain, Brownlee's Russet, and 
Cail Houge I T are all goo 
4 үйө Pape STANDARD TRE ES. 
hin‘ is pem done after the — are e but 
rformed = fter the 
f the old 
limbs. early, and before the leaven fall, “decaying 
thin i is the most important item, but if the heads are 
more 
apt to away dering high winds when — cropped, 
and the fruits some judg- 
‘branch thing 
Pippins I ever sa IN. 
fruit garden this year, where it was evident that 
praning‘saw is not spared, Б — limbs being com- 
pletely loaded with fruits from top to bottom, and 
eee no rough Е winds were experienced 
this seas bring down the crop and bruise those 
that erer. on che pone H, Markham, Mereworth 
m nth. aime 
| THe Bute GARDEN. 
: IRIS EKZEMPFERI, 
“THE “rarity of these. beautiful Japanese Iris in 
> private d for, unless 
be » thought: that a pond or stream or lake are abso- 
utely needed for their successful cultivation. It is 
almost im уйй» 4o realise the beauty of a fine 
group ‘of these hardy . and were they grown in 
rtainly be 
ven in 
which — = Аз - found, it is 
measure of suc is obtained, 
. Pant 1 not ce 
> 
them better in richly-manured in the - 
‘Bourhood of Éahipeon than others — at the 
water s edge. Moisture ia necessary, a о is an 
open vegetable soil, or a soil largely medien of 
Jéaf-&oil and He with & good quantity of decayed 
manare, Any amateur who feels so inclined may 
grow these delightfal subjects in the most satis- 
pting 
a comparatively loose state. Іа finishing off the 
bed, allow the surface to be 3 or 4 inches lower than 
the surrounding level of the soil, so that it can be 
Кын an with water in dry weather in the growing 
ason. In gardens where the soil is strong, and c 
subsoil is gravelly or sandy, a similar AS 
wil be needed; but in this case I would advise 
lining the bottom with clayey soil, во as (x retain 
the moisture. What these delight in is an unlimited 
aupply of vegetable beis below, and plenty of * 
ture afforded from April to September. What they 
dislike is stagnant moisture throughout the Wink 
insu 
and they a 
flowering, in any 
the roots, а marked SUE Rip will воо 
If only a dozen plants be obtained, they well ру 
оре This Iris is 85 no means fastidious as 
to the season to plant; but preference should be given 
to the "mn as aid ERI them to make fresh 
roots by t pring. J. 
THE WEEK’s WORK. 
FRUITS кантат GLASS. 
Hy RICHARD PARKER, r, Goodwood, Chichester. 
PREPARING FOR FORCING.—The houses or pits 
in which — ee anang will be done са now 
е — in readine aning the wood-w 
glass, and Hie tt э the alis If Á iP 
— of aes oleum. be used in the nee: it 
& good of ыр. When the 
will prove 
work of house- ече is thoroughly done at this 
season, much labour in cleaning the plants later 
is avoided. A large heap of stable-litter and Oak 
eech leaves should be prepared in some shel- 
tered corner where the wind will not reach it, and be 
well mixed and turned over several times 3 = 0 
fit it for EO into the ^ &c., y be 
irable mild hotbed” for 
hastening the flowering of — їз, an d adding warmth 
under с cover, in * for top-dressing 
15 
ing set in, the plants in pots should fort 
rawber "y 
than frost, no water should be allowed to соне about 
the pots. Ido not adv e placing the plan 
as the soil is P^ to 5 
too dry, causing the Note cr crown to lose 
plumpness, Frames and pits form a better iiie 
if the pots can be plunged ыт together ae to their 
rims in beds of fine coal-a r tree The 
ould have ы toate sapec by phos, 
E which has e brown should beretained, 
as it а ба for the crown 8 was 
bilei tated, those plants which are to be forced 
early should be plunged in rit &c., in pits, and the 
lights should be only placed o 
weather. Allk 
this time be plunged 
their roots lovin aa, 
froat. 
in some other manner from 
THE OTHER FRUIT- HOUSES.—Continue to stow 
all the Peach- -houses and vineries, except 
ng those containi rapes, care 
taken to py the water in the heating-apparatus 
from baing froz 
PINE-APPLES, non Pines, to bet n Ma 
and onwards, should now have the am 
may be car 
urs daily during mild 
; when the inside temperature to 
mperature should not 
gree ч heat 
сч preferable to the excessive use of the hot- 
ater pipes. Thick blinds veri the purpose very 
[Ко+кмвкв. 2, 1895, 
satisfactorily, although Frigi Domo and 
ofuse. Inthe fruiting-house, a brisk molt wa ae 
чачат moistened instead, A — ГЕ 
between the plants t 9 
Ven line pm should be 1 2 
n be m, as draughta of cold 
PLANTS UNDER GLASS. 
ie H. SMITH, Gardener, West M 
EROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS.— These plants 
will * most gardens, be ары their 1 and should 
be gradually dried off, for which purpose the pots 
containing them may eneath the 
house stage. W they are completely died down, 
shake all of the old soil from them, and keep themin 
e winter in shallow boxes filled with cocoa-nut 
designated, in case it sho 
hotbed-frame, and the plants placed else 
to the eed Xn suit them admirably, All flowers _ 
i m these young plants as fast - 
they appear on X 
ACHIM dud RA latest — of these tuberous: I 
ually dried off, and 
or inthe 
ry peaty soil or silver s 
Achimenes should not 
the tubers are then liable to shrive 
DEUTZIA GRACILIS,— Plants Е have grown 
mined as to 
close together if frame accommodation 
plants will : require little or no water until 
into the forci 
en last into the forcing-house, as the 
-A stand hard forcing better than they. 
OPERATIONS.—N0 
all plants which 
time should now be lost is tee js 
have been standin pate e into the eenhousely 
a: or igh —.— 
place, on October 26, the thermome ats 
10° of frost,and the 8 s wm 85 msa 
was very necessa ir sh ad 
frames as soon as the rime is 11 к: he glass. 
THE ORCHID HOUSES. | 
By W. Н. Warre, Orchid Grower Loue 
HABENARIAS.— The species, Habenaria its pare 
Н. rhodochila, Н, Susannæ, tion heit — 
ety nivosa, are well worthy of attenti atime 
dn presenting а gay appearance н) flowers in 
when there ere is в comparative absens ee ot their 
the — houses. Where onvenien ы deserve t0 
culture exists, they ie Ri h 
