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М№оуемвев 9, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 555 
I may inform Mr. Harrie that the Peaches in 
the р ets dene in moss, would have failed lí 
receive an award others complied with the 
Кыа, as ү one, & un good box, there was one 
bad fruit. o ma ve been wrong in our deci- 
sion, but we эө pm is а much neater material 
for packing didi fruits than common mose, Оле 
f the Judges, 
OUR BEST AND THE MOST POPULAR VARIE- 
F —— —One of the most pleasing 
recent great fruit show of the Royal 
H. — Society at the Crystal Palace was the 
extreme popularity of our two best dessert Apples, 
The only two that exceeded a hundred dis е 
Cox’s Orange Pippinand the R Th 
quarter of a century, and especially in the latter 
ortion of it, King of the 7 gem rae т = " 
atoutly for a supremacy that it see 
attained at one time, and staged — eight 
Golden Reinette among the an dishes, Can it 
be that the Ribston Pippin s valued at 122 
9 1 against eibi: of ois. rn бб Apples? 
UITING OF MUSA CAVENDISHI!.—I have bee 
si abel told that this could only be денй re 
by planting out; but 
pound, and the bunch was cut ав 800 
ers were short, eee LI 
Fie, 97.—TBE LADY MELON, (skE Р. 554.) 
by not a few is highly prized for eatin well as 
for cooking. The number of dishes gen fell from 
the seventies to thirties, thr such ав 
Warners King, Cox's Po Saw Suffield, 
Emperor Alexander, 50; r Pearmain, 
Prince Albert. Bismarck, Blenheim range, 32; 
ri 
Wellington, 29. Fro 
sank to the tens, through s 
such vary 80 
Tower of Glamis, — Mash 
d Grosvenor, 
— — 
arib; e. © of the 200 varie- 
i 2000 dishes, — tris 
eties were shown in quantities ranging n 
dishes to over a hundred dishes of one sort; — 
single dishes; and will s e not & few 
growers to find Golden Pippin, Golden Russet, ап 
If placed in а warm-house i in any corner, or under 
mon makes 
exceedingly queues and — — for an 
entrance-hall during the ап 
Fletcher, Grappenhall, бый. - дие correspondent’ 
bunch w ort ry small one, and did not weigh so 
n: as the в. of a bunch of a — Маа, 
ich gardeners usually cut off because it seldo 
tani fruit of ойун € Ер. 
ORELLO CHERRY-TREES АТ SCONE PALACE 
GARDENS, —.— — igen reference to the 
above, Mr. War Mr, Fish — — егыл 
d hear that the "splendidiy-érained tr c 
any years айогпе north = of the south 
kitchen garden here, — which they and so many 
wW. 
dition, it was taken out and a young tree put 
memp he wall at present м farnished with 
clean healthy trees which bear abundant crops o 
xcellent fruit e ye With or two exoep 
tions, they were all planted before ame e; 
how long before I am unable to find out, but the 
at present appear to be about twenty-five years old, 
and as — ^ sre in excellent health, "This 
ear the was exceptionally heavy, and the 
quality of the fruit above the average. 
Mr. Fish, t 
САБ rA in height, but 3 feet 
added to = western half when the large cw 
b rd 
es & low-lying situation, the southern portion 
having a decid ope towards t rth. The soil 
is a heavy retentive loam, es to 2 feet 
depth. In this soil and sit it trees and 
hes i ing blossom in spring, 
which, in our somewhat c my = 
my opin ion, rather an advantage. The 
which is ver pesca a , consists of old- саи 
or rubble drains, about 24 to 3 feet de 
e ye al of foliage —— e 
чөн crop of fine strong blooms annually. With 
daring the summer months; but 
for the sake of the Lilies than for the Cherries, We 
to see where the 
е no doubt they have penetrated 
produce annually, thev — to like it, We — 
let well alone. A, McKi 
OYCOT Шы INOUSTRY.— When, 
^ purus ars since, the late Dr. Ba 
some score 
11 and his compatriots 
adventured into уса north of France from Hereford, 
taking with them the finest specimens of Apples and 
ears, ап cyder perry eue fro 
English orchards, they left behind them 
industry, and showed our French friends 4 very 
both directions — 
ture of 
possible to bring 
tired or thirsty souls, an 
time, not the demand or the liking for, but tb 
ав being well 
latter, an industry not at all contemplated b 
caterers for refreshmente. And so it has — 
eat mass of our 
ol е modern public-houses are in 
the hands of — and distillers — are, as it is 
said, "tied - houses" — and they wi 
Only what they make and supply 
er 
been doing what it can to make things smooth 
for the trade,” а n their gratitude they 
shut ou 1 mpetition, It 
ot for — the way to а remedy 
withou ; we it ia 
worse than “hard” "heb ue promising a field for 
well-doing by occupiers T "he — should be 
Rt "ug ed for the sake of such a questionable 
substitu 
8 PERFUME.—In vur Round my Garden, 
by A au ge transla! — by Rev. J. G. Wood, 
the 4 is told that “the Violet alone refuses to 
separate its odour from itself; it is to be met with 
every returning sprin g compels u ; 
the insufficienc I would like to know if this ів 
ai sem case, or if the difficulty has ms overcome ? 
William Cuthbertson, Rothesay. 
