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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Мо+кмвев 30, 1895, 
мт, sen received from the nursery oe the fall of 
—say, towards the end о mber. The 
February, аа soon 
the unpruned кой CHE Hie gro 
them to the wall with n ails kert аһ 
g 
leaving sufficient "t. in the latte 
me 
ev 
Em 
a few years ago and treated 
m — above, have completely furnished 
the trellis “axed to one of our highest (12 feet) walls 
at the u 
what 
Peac 
a 
h " e from the 
бе 
dozen fruits as the Y 
£10 8s 
ectari 
walls having south, west, and east aspects I h 
most conclusive evidence, the only е, ‘being 
the same variety planted in 
g 
ruit being unusually large, of handsome 
beni — lias quality, and very early in ripening. 
Inconclasion, І may say thatthe present is a good time 
for traneplanting young trees whic һ have been grown 
for a year or 
manent trees which have not quite furnished their 
allotted space; lifting them with good balls, they 
experience little, if any, check in being ane nee 
— their permanen 
TIMBER v. саме -1 am 8 puzzled by Mr. 
. Foote's practical 
technical knowledge, ыч to learn that do 
mot want the latter, I thought * 
sisted of the ат ы tt 
the arts and crafts, and constituted. inte pee ge prac- 
tice as opposed — “ 5 of thumb; and I must say I 
never met wit em ча would not have 
preferred a — а дў forester or ести 
to one of the misnamed “practical” ty s 
I have just been making a trout-stair m this prin- 
cascade. 
their business,asa matter of course 
needed among owners of аме із а better. pens of 
managing their game in conjunction with their woods. 
un and fewer 
pheasants, and if a rabbit or two i 
popping up between the pheasants, sport 
keepers will not kill rabbits unless force 
some one who can step in and take the duty off their 
hands, and that does the ke einess. Then your 
keeper will гиа man with а gun 
og, and ferrets has ere authori 0 
fair covert with a sufficient s 
to begin with, I would 2 2 with well- regulated 
or estate 2 wild 
ly in one year. But what ів done ? 
la — € 
perhaps every season, and as many to 
put under hens ; and at the shooting season about one 
or two bir E eggs bought 
11 to the gun, and often not во many, so great is 
the mortality. I know of the record on a number of 
estates, an is statemen 
Rabbits have to be preserved N make up for the 
pheasants, and the woods have to be kept quite — 
these, and woodmen banishod for the greate: 
part of the in order not to-disturb the . 
f gentlemen would put down stock for wild-nesting 
in the first instance, and simply let their keepers 
w game d expected, and the 
by s 
—— * of sport, and also timber. My advice to 
ecure — like the above 
permit, and to 
philosophic "А always taking good care to 
me ds be easily seen by t those who have to 
sent in 1 the game ner A correct debtor 
and creditor account against the keeper i is one of the 
best me 
ame-keepers, I contend, ehon 
control of the forester, S., Wo 
PACKING COMPETITION AT CRYSTAL PALACE 
HOW. — I was 
d bə under the 
ods, 
mu 
d I quite e 
says * e the judging being intrusted to Covent 
arden salesmen—one would be enough. I di 
attend at the Palace this year, but what I saw in 
894 convinced 
„says, he and his colleague found but slight 
advance over ear, may conclude t 
w I saw year was simply repeated. In the 
month of August was in Covent Garden 
market, and at the stall of one of the leading salea- 
men I was —— at the Peaches offered for 
sale, packed in ass of cotton-wadding, some 
over-ripe, and RTT clinging to the bruised 
man's foreman, 
ell stuff like this." 
with admiring eyes upon 
any o sory — which was packed in either of those 
m ү 
and they are certainly very elastic, i in fact, too m 
80, and there is an odour on 
packed with them that is not at all & pg 80 
growers use for packing Peaches, finely c white 
tissue paper, which can be bought for £1 175. 64 
cwt., and 4 ozs. will back а bo 
8 i 
with the right 
у round the stal stalk-half 
sufficient to keep it clear of the 
ы packing ting ip When f 
eie pa ve mae E E 0 
the fruit ў should the box be too 
ge and ema Pics 
season, t awayin one 
being 333 dozens, and the largest number in 
one day 131 dozens. Wm. Armstrong, Toddington 
Orchard Co 
SOCIETIES. 
E HORTICULTURAL. 
Novemser 26,—The usual оңа ego 
the Society, was held in — Drill Hall, 
Street, beoe rere on Tue 
resting exhi ss s — = eit the hall wat 
less full than 8 revio ons, Chrys. 
themums — constituted one of Күсе ore important 
items, and there were several novelties r 
the committee. Orchi ous, neither 
collection 
sday last, when an е 
were not numer 
were fruit exhibits, but there was a large " 
of Apples and Pears, aud another of vegetables 
Floral Committee. Ei 
Present: W. Marshall, Esq, in the chair; si 
Most "у Taner, Jas. ker, H 
„Кай 
E. Pear Ed. Bee 
mue Geo. "Gordo C. Blick, and Rev. 
Engleheart 
A group of Rose trees in eee са he e ana 
M, PAUL & SON, m Cro i 
. b.. 
m free ff ed rays were 
Some ү very ir ower end чв 
W. 5 ; 
bloom is white, with lem on flush, but in the bad orit 
— tint of fresh salmon or pink (Silver si 
Messr . Larne ons, Forest Hill, — 
exhibited a plant of Draceena lenti gc ion 
* ot good we Iso Calamus Oh ds 
Jas & Sons, Royal Eos Nurse gr 
lilia exhibited their Javanico-Jasmi m hy p^ 
but on the present oc 
bl 
plant * flower of Begonia X Mrs мее 
figure y of a similar 8 strai 
w. Mas 
From the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Mr. Y ( Min . 
sent foliage and flowers of Sphseralcea umbell 155 fovet 
ata), a stove voa i plant with uo 
bright violet ; nativ exico. gtanmore [d 
Н. GUNLING rrow Weald Hor opt 
Mr. Rapley) showed & plant of the very old campa ; 
lata, а herbaceous pe not ae 
flowers of a orange purple E. 
interesti t€ ate uently met wi T | 
sting, and п саный у өй п one n | 
Trent, sent eut — — de ns, 
A han e Begonia in — у» 
BENN OE, Esq. Holmewood, 
seedling f B. Froebeli, and named B. 
eav ere neari acr 
bearing upwards ot $ hirty flowers m tinent que. 
pubescent outside and full, bright scarl 
