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pink, long drooping outer petals, ſorming a very deep 
flower. Wilfrid H. Godfrey, a very distinct variety, 
canary-yellow, reverse straw e „ the florets 
curling at the tips, which lends a charming effect 
r ryce, & very handsome variety, soft rose- 
pink, broad füorets, bloom of good substance and 
orm, 
arge variety is grown for decoration in 
other houses, besides seedlings in various stages, 
Pini of his own and other noted raisers. Mr. God- 
y has special arrangements in ‚уте houses made for 
de perfecting and maturing the seed of the flowers 
чодар for this анир а experiment having 
been attended unt of success, 
Faser куам were full S uude of his famed 
varieties, showing immense quantities of flower-buds, 
D, С, Рошей, 
AT THE Басат NURSERY, 
At this nursery, in Hither Green, just outside 
Lewisham, iks оа * Chrysanthemums is as 
interesting as ever; indeed, Mr. Н, J. Jones has 
pursued the cultivation um raising of Chrysanthe- 
mums with such thoroughness since he commenced 
'own seedlings 
Most, but not all, of those we can now notice iubes 
to the last-named class. 
Additions to the in section are always more 
, because rarer, than those of the other 
C rat, we have 
a very large bloom with plenty of florets, and excel- 
lent in colour, being bright golden-yellow; but from 
present indications, the flowers will require con- 
siderable dressing before they tre staged as exhi- 
bition blooms, D. В, Cran 
e than the other, for they make as 
pei bloom ms as any incurved flower 
ге, loped. Mrs, G. H. 
is a yellow and bronzy-coloured flower, an 
i 
been named Mrs.C. J. Mills; when first opening, trees 
coming pure white— 
one, Miss alker is 
white one, similar in build to the Meg 
Merrilies type. Duchess of Fife ig another white 
—— a t 
When speaking of incurved varieties, we should 
have mentioned Mr. which will, no 
. Gover is one of the fantastical varieties, has 
very irregular florets, red with buff d and will 
make a large flower, rson in size 
reminds one of Etoile de Lyon, but, we чае lacks 
refinem ent, 
of Mr. Р. Mariton, a hairy French 
variety: colour, chestnut ; likely to be a good thing. 
many new and interesting goers in 
are able to noti 
re 
this collection, that we but a 
ortion, nor can remark upon many о year's 
Зе" се new ones from other raisers. First- 
of such sterling varieties - iral 
esci (Calvat), Jao, . (Cannell : 
ewkes (American), M E. S. Hills, Matual Friend 
(a capital white one) Maile Paul de Croy, and In- 
flowered variety, Descartes, we have yet seen. 
must conclude, however, after mentioning an in- 
curved Japanese — ae ady Playfair, from the 
same Ameri та АН the 
bloom is вА ч клды 1 its delicate tint. P. 
NURSERY NOTES, 
THE ALLINGTON NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE, 
Ir clean land, Aretini б\н tilled, with half-a- 
foot of absolute rface through 
constant wor ie iae stocked from centre to cir- 
cumference with healthy young trees, are indications 
ement, then Messrs, Geo. B. 
manag 
Co. are entitled to congratulation. The fight of 
trees versus weeds, has not been left without the 
evident interference of the cultivator in favour of the 
€ that will pay him, or which at any rate, is more 
likely than the other to do 
beenden an e 
been said and w 
and гч Miu consum 
hundreds of acres of good land 
in many cases they are 
doubly worthless, because the varieties they repre- 
sent have been superseded by better and more useful 
sorts, On the other hand, there are thousands and 
edit of young trees of the best varieties in the 
nurseries, which would yield а profit to the cultiva- 
tor if they were planted in the place of these moss 
grown antiquities, that furnish arguments of а kind 
every year to persons seeking to throw cold water 
on the fruit-growing movement, Fortunately, this 
is not the case Gardeners 
at good crops of 
fruit of first-class quality may be rll for only on 
trees о age, and that if its are to 
be worth anything, possible must 
be planted ; hence as arisen from gardeners 
a satisfactory demand for these, 
ach remarks as the above are quite d propos of our 
visit to Maidstone in early Oc ctober, inasmuch as the 
** quantity of fruit trees there forcibly reminded us 
of such 
the best varieties 
to all concerned, if they с 
convinced of their opportunities ! 
Perhaps few localities have had a 
1 
of rain duri м — 
e to 
light. x Have you done any watering?” we ventured 
0,” was the reply, not any, it would be 
impracticable ona large scale, and I think the system 
results in more harm than good" Hoy 
soil, are the “н causes of the abu 
soil must nevertheless be very exceptional, betan 
while it is ин, light and conducive to rote 
formation, it wa sufficien th and 23 
tity. Nor did Lane's Prince 
was fruiting in the same 
8 
8 especially во, where indeed it is м. 
Som 
which many dis we have а тиу 
high opinion. marck, eu M apple 
—was bearing Шин but it is seldom it dow 
not, and we have an idea that plan 
noticed again and 
8 0 ed the fruit when cooked, it 
also of first-rate quality. appearance the App! 
is certainly , and in addition to other ad 
и 
le 
М. 
it possesses, the fruit моб well upon the trees, anù 
may be harvested later than many varieties, We 
next passa ана 106 оѓ Рана Cherry-trees, pretty _ 
specimens, and in robust health, capital trees forthe 
i 
were only four years old, and the msjority of 
hem have large ds that suggest 
half-a-dozen years, она: the different varieties 
va in their growt urse, 
co 1 
trees are budded or ам low down, and the stem 
is formed by the scion, not the stock, hence the 
course, the v. ted hese are 
those of sterling pr жеч useful for market, We | 
noticed а few of them, namely, Ecklinvill 
Golden Spire, Now Hawthornden, the Quen it 
of the best flavoured of culinary varieties; Beauty 
of Bath, Beauty of Kent, Peaegood's N er Coad 
Apple, sent out by — Pearson & Sons, 1 
was the result. of T" ‘ 
Maidstone, were sufficient evidence of its 
qualities, and of the excellent character of the ff 
sing on to one of the slopes—which are cem je 
in Mr. Bunyard's ground—we were com me 
pause to inquire the name of the Apple is Gut 
such an effect in one of the hollows. 1 
coigne's Scarlet ling again,” sai 
was another batch of this excellent A : 
without doubt, it furnished the 
effect to be seen in the nursery. 
time to linger in such a nursery, and 
asting. 
the quality is paepe — it crops very 
fruit is only of m їп 
with a few red bl Кы, 
