М№отемвев 30, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
653 
of crops of emm Runners which, during the past 
summer, did not pay for the ме and sticking, at 
from 14. to 2d, n from twenty to 
thirty long rows of tall Peasand — in gardens, 
ave cost nearly 20s. per row to stick —a 
um that would have supplied the Peas. J. S. V. 
[Онг usual cute correspondent seems to have missed 
the point in this case; for it is ecause it is a 
inary type, we must sow ouc 
— — the middle or al of April till the ке» 
a moot question if D Ranner 
as а forcer. 
3 
neert no further correspondenca on this 
ре а J 
ROSA RUGOSA FOR GAME COVERT.—Daring 
the past two winters we have planted small patches 
— 
APPLES: THE TRUTH ABOUT PRICES—RIBSTON 
X'8 ORANGE PIPPIN.—I heartily thank the 
essayist for his obligin ng reply to my inquiry as to 
the low-placed price occupied by these two finest 
of our dessert Apples. I had the moat perfect faith 
in his quotations, and had a 
profitable market Apples. Meanwhile, ! however, it is 
of this able — that he has never yet been able 
n his Ribstons, either on the Para- 
dise or free — "| had hoped that the Paradise stock 
root-pruning improved culture and training would 
N 
Fro. 108,—THE OLDER RANGE OF GLASSHOUSES AT MR, WHITELEY'S ESTABLISHMENT, HILLINGDON, 
(sex Р, 651.) 
of the — charming species of Rose, with 
& view to testi = as a suitable plant for game 
coverta, voie is satisfactory, Rabbits 
have not — any а, 
though, they are not "ey numerous the 
h ва rugosa are planted; “ull, they have 
injared Laurels and Berberis ert near to them. 
Will those of your correspondents who may bave 
tried met here rabbits "id plentiful 
T say if с тод ія satiafac n our 
і 
ust imagine s of it in flower in July in 
theopen gladesof woods int 8 or in ee 
h ite lar 
es, as they would add 
aving been used for this 
A oo it may have been, H. J. C., Grimston, 
have t has, the cultivation of Ribaton 
Je e MR and likewise profitable 
ensure the latte т, ore elastic “iist of 
da and market prices may have to be formulated 
and established, This may be difficult, but ought 
not to bə im it was chiefly with a 
view of directing the attention of auch able growers 
and capable business gentlemen as those essayists, to 
the national impo — nce of revising our Apple prices 
on some stan f quality, — than the e: 
ments of colour s the w «м or size, that i 
e * 
that our 
Hamburghs. 
five ne the price of Hamburghs, their place and 
presence in one - Y and on "onde es are 
be held to be 
abi Cox's Orange Pippin ана ib the 
price that Peasgood's Nonsuch and Warner's King, 
we should nolonger have our market 
will assume that the Apple 
on all sites and ton the — eti their e 
or cooking. 1п any attempt to et rices 
trolled by quality, I thought it wise not to have the 
issue confused through comparison of the merits of 
contending varieties. D. 7. F, 
THE JUDGING OF VEGETABLES AT SHOWS. 
Mh henge sadly to want a national code of rales for 
АГ; „р 
ing. 
Попасна Society, for example, compile such а 
code? Ita ach vegetable in the order of its 
utility, а d state number of mar given it, 
allowing for quality, cleanliness, staging, &c. If 
ch ld be of the 
greatest service to judges, particularly as in в case I 
have in my mind, where the Judge was & traveller 
l be greatly pleased 
h а code is available, and that I have 
overlooked it. “7. Н, Patter. 
VALE OF CLEVELAND AND SHARPE'S VICTOR 
pronouncing it to be identical in every respect with 
the yellow-fleshed Sharpe's Victor, and this « opinion 
to 
Shar e's Victor, when it ared, was in eve 
tato. Admitting this 
t is quite — Arg that to the late Mr. 
Geo t be — the honour of having first raised 
— distinct type otato, which possesses all the 
qualities of the variety now so well known in 
the characteristics of which are identical, 
& from entirely different. фин {в, 
should E become the fortunate nate possessors of 
both; for there can be no doubt that amongst Е 
very сока varieties of Potatos, Vale of Cleve- 
land an ee — s Victor probably have no rival, 
hnson d den; Bost 
ith reference to Mr. D. T. Fish’s letter in 
your columns recently, allow me to say that = 
confusion referred to appears arise owing t 
the variety of the Potato introduced phv still Жм 
е паше о ert Victor, which has = white 
flesh, being confused with Vic Е better known as 
Sharpe's Victor, which has a yellow flesh. Cultivator, 
PEACHES AND NECTARINES,—I can fully dte 
the sound 
ments of the trees, and that healthy kindly-growing 
trees, true to name, are obtained and duly planted in 
good-sized well-drained holes, using arn fertile 
loam as а rooting medium. The observance of the 
above simple but most important points is absolutely 
in many placer, at aire 
after — —that i is, 
from that time. This » ow it ія done, In the 
ordinary way, the trees are planted as soon as they 
