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— 
the ваше exhibition, a crowning fruit of a dish of 
Peasgood Nonsuch weighed exactly 22 oz. when 
gathered, while a similar fruit of Jubilee turned the 
icale at 17 cz. Admittiog that the year has been 
оные {ог fr vit crops, one cannot help but notice 
Crimson Queening being фе Phe worthy of note 
| on this account. The last named Apple is deep 
; crimson in colour, and, ав пее? vs with the fruits 
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be grown so satisfactorily, as can the varieties named 
їп the open quarters. It is said to require a wall to 
grow it to perfection—by no means а recommenda- 
tion for it, when one sees it side by side with the 
brilliant Bienheim Orange Pippins grown in Mr, 
Taylers nursery, Reinette du Canada is highly 
spoken of, and the fruits fully endorse the high 
encomiums passed upon it, It ia perhaps the largest 
dessert Apple, and valuable also as a late kitchen fruit; 
good till Christmas; the flesh is sweet, requiring 
little or во адаы whe 
Space, however, will not permit of a lengthy enu- 
meration ма varieties, suffice say that all the 
leading kinds are represented in з fruitful ot 
Particularly noteworthy is the small size of the tree 
that have borne the enna nae and tates 
M alluded to of Bis lenheim Orange, 
s Noneuch, and others; and this, with the 
For 
_ Yarieties this is eqaally true, To amateurs with only 
asmall area, these bush trees, fruitful - the year 
of planting, and occupying such little room, are 
great acquisitions, being readily Em ышы, 
d. 
and the fruit gathered or examine 
market growers are planting the Apple in 
of all kinds in variety,trained trees in abundance, 
Figs, a ape-vines, and the like, are = grown to 
7 are alike 
* sao for their clean J ОМА апі 
general appearance 
Rowe ÜORRESPONDENOE. 
THE APPLE TREE IN SHRUBBERIES. — At 
9. 620, Edi rn “D. L. M." inquires, * 
*hould he strongest and diest of our 
ar 
eee be punte d in kn shrubbery, for nothing 
better in the spring, or could be more useful 
t % 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
719 
full of Laurels, with hungry Poplars ст, апа 
with other s ees equally ornamental o useful, 
I believe, in this 
t, viz, the in red beau and 
utility combined, Mrs. Fitzwygram gladly m her 
permission to plant more of them, and as other trees 
OK and Apple 
that is by no 
roves 8 to 
the owner and helpful to the € arden 
pin ry should поб be all A 
— а е maas of 
various „рк as Lau and dingy and rusty 
Conifers. What i нете i needed is, that a much 
larger — ntage of beautiful deciduous flowering 
trees and shrubs should enter into the composition of 
the shrubbery Thon: is the case S к nt. J. [With 
which opinion we cordially agre 
NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY.— What 
is really wanted is some information about “ the 
suitable hall in a central "pon. available for the 
exhibitions of the above Soci to eer 
о years ago a special " gub-comm ittee w 
ue to visit Suitable juice within а radius of 
& mile of estminster Aquarium, and found 
nothing that would afford half the space for _ataging 
and locomotion as that afforded on the floor of the 
quarium bui'd ing ; while Me izeni asked D. such 
places as the Q ieen's Hall i ething almoat 22 
оце, Complaints of the nnanitability o fthe Aquari 
appear as regularly eve 8 does the sire 
day, but no alternative P aes fun suggeste I 
sure, fro hat I kno the committee, they will 
readi consider any proposal of а practical 
and suitable nature, if placed before the 
4e fact is perhaps overlooked b; à 
hrysanthemum 
Aquarium, just as the Cattle Show is with the 
Agricultural Hall, and is annually looked for as a 
santhe- 
He. ува! 
на Бле it would not 
folio = ; the November show there would be 
discontinued; the managers of 4 building are keen 
business men, and know the value of such an 
exhibition, and would, no — hold one, and they 
would do it on & scale that wou 
ing the National Chrysan 
о elsewhere, a e the subsidy 
from x аны Doreen ny. This s is an aspect of the 
question that I have no doubt is duly ся sidered by 
че ион, but it is probably one which has n 
“ Мат,” aud those who sympathise with € 
О, ine is E certain—that, jadging from the 
е ас the annual dae association with 
yal Aquarium does not prevent the rapid 
queen on the part of the Society. Another 
the Aquarium, 
correspondent, ' Mum Gardene 
Chronicle " 684 brings forth the old 95 etion visé 
more anent the holding of the autumn exhibition in 
ат Royal Aquarium, He finds ali the fault 
macinable, уче he ends there, leaving to 
ait fliculty o iv 
oes 
half 2 the agr that əyal Aquarium is 
central, as it is visitors — exhibitors alike, and 
the ае are а entitled to some amount of con- 
sideration. “Mam” appears not = know that the 
vint of St, Stephen's Hall will be devoted to exhibi- 
tion purposes next year, and this даш 1 makean 
ce to the sho 
nagement may have in con- 
templation? Perhaps "Mum ” will sa 
a site as he has in his “mind’s eye 
found. 
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’ в сом. 
in the 
actions o th these committees, unless it be those of 
which have а general interest, 
the reports are far too mengapa asarule, Could 
ider interest arouse gafew 5 
(with fall powers), which would sit periodically at a 
few centres in the provinces in England, Scotland, 
and Ireland, en rapport, o course, with the London 
Centrai? I merely throw ont the idea, and the plan 
need hans very little if each committee paid its own 
aim e scheme by 
which the Royal ought — * 
till now I am not exagger 
actions on a liberal de F ach is weak, J 8, 
CRABS IN THE GARDEN. — Some of your corres- 
pondents have recently been — metn to — 
varieties of the сга as ornamenta 
one L trees, say for an A ea меде — 
Pyrus Malus floribunda is a most de a гу 
га ‘the purpose. I have enclosed some fruits of th: 
same, R. еш Our rh since kindly 
sent several поо ot this variety loaded with the 
fruits, which are yellow in colour, and the size of 
those of the White horn. En.) 
GERBERA J 3 —A goo 
od specimen of Ger- 
bera Jamesoni has don 
for several years оца it has had no assistance at 
all from hot-water pipee. I think the plant is cer- 
tainly larger than th r. ch in the Botanie 
Garden at veras though the latter is the more 
flori‘erous of t 
the top and — kno 
my circumstances were like those of Mr, Lynch 
a Cambridge, I honid follow his plan, which I know 
H has the айу 
ee — егор off Bowers than I 
proxi a to th 
enemy of tree of DUM 
anxious eir ku if posible. Ag 
bearing on thie subject, I m ere mention a 
remark I have ured to owners P estates and others 
r man hm past, viz, "feeding rabbits on 
ank ot England 
covert are the least inj ired by them. 
osa rugosa fairly comparable as to its spines with 
ild Doz Ross. І hope 
for both mau and bas 
large plantations of the Dog Ro:e for covert. Rho- 
odendr ron ponticum, is а well- known | cov rt plant, 
mainly from 
urp Inm ses, it m rely existe, 
t^ Mr. a, I may mention, that wi glish 
ws, Ha d, worth broad-leaved, and the ordinary 
8, 
ree Вох, are the only evergr ens free from injury. 
Amorg t deciduous shrnbs. Syingas in variety, 
flowering Cutrants ditto, Р. riian L lees, Dog-wood, 
injared. The latter 
hed by rabbits, even in 
е hardes winter, and where zh are cd numerous. 
Н. J. С, Grimston Gardens, Талса. ce 
RABBIT- PROOF PLANTS.—Mr. Pope (р. 685) asks 
for the names of these, and I ker sending а note 
on the subj e; some time ago. As last wi 
exceptionally severe, with the ground covered b; snow 
for several weeks, and the woods unfortunately fall of 
