746 THE GARDENERS’ 
taking the 181 prize for culinary Pears (fig. 126). 
It is a remarkable fact that for nine years іп succes- 
sion, this tree has produced the 1st prize dish of 
Catillac at the Exeter show. Last year the weight 
of the five fruits shown was 8 lb. 12 «z , «nd the year 
before almost the same. /са 
PLANT PORTRAITS. 
ALLAMANDA VIOLACEA, Aue de UHorticutu-e B lge, 
December, 
ARCTOSTAPHYLOS DIVERSIFOLIA, 
ember. 
Meehins’ MoH, 
ASPIDIUM MARGINALE, Me — M mthly, December. 
and Fo 
r7. 
CHR им 18 Lucien CHAURE, ee 
‘co ‘eon 
818 Боа (Schweinfurti), Gaitenflora, 
FOTHERGILLA GARDNERI, Garden and Forest, November 6. 
„кык EN hort. Linden (dwarf Peruvian Tree 
ern), Lindenia 
rose Winiows (3alix alba s lucida and $. nigra x 
alba), Garden and Forest, Ао tober 2: 
апі y» st, 
OSSUM «кашы, Кеки: x Г Horticw ure 
PHYLLOCACTUS 3 HILDMANNI X, hort. (1 hybrid between P 
Wrayi and P. crenatus, co'our yeilowish), Garten/lora, t. 1421. 
opt e KERMESISUS, hort. (colour carmine), Gar- 
cca pede Garden and Forest, October 18. 
ONION HIGHCLERE TANKARD. 
Tue Onion Highclere Tankard (fg. 127, оп p 747) 
is the result of a crosa between Ailea Craig and Pines- 
field, the latter being the seed-bearing parent ; my 
idea being to combine size and better-keeping quali- 
ties, many of the larger varieties of Onion being some- 
what deficient in this latter respect, The seed of the 
Onion mentioned above 
| was sown early in Fe 
and grown on for a time in a little hea’, the plants 
being pricked cff into boxes when Jarge e 
Water was given to each 
plant singly with a spout-can, and the Datch- hoe used 
to loosen the soil as soon as possible afterwards; no 
more water was | afforded them, and about the middle 
nehrao m dun 
was applied to check evaporation from the soil. 
at th. 
know “why and how” will 
feel an interest in speculating as to the why and 
wherefore of this shape, Ep | 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE, 
A BRITISH FERNERY. Жар it is quite anes: 
in or near се of labour, to 
ther a decent ve colle „ . 
natire ‘Ferns without the aid of artificial means, 
it follows t & some kind is, abso- 
lutely, a sine quá non. Toe form that house shall 
LE beat way to go to work 
it is, per next im t 
that question bas been very carefully and satisfactorily 
. Chas, T. Druery, Personally, I a 
under an obligation to him for the details therein 
supplied, although I cannot зон bring 
little fe ernery into a semblance its more mag- 
posegu — а at, perhaps, ia h hardly neces- 
Lu matt 
is g. Having, fixed n th 
, moat 
: ш» spot, according to the exigencies of 
© come d the capacities of the purse, 
. ‘he next thing to ded go in sear f 
pair rur i h we have у = 
po "a be plenty of disappointments in store 
es жоне „а s ann quest, neverthe- 
Vua cre dne 8 e ol and the 
one's inability. to record а баб x ‘Since a ad- 
to North Wales and South Dorset. In the former 
pla ce, I hunted high and low, mountain and moor, 
сЕ, but I could nos find a variety worth 
recording. The common Polypody (сорой vul- 
butther 
was no trace of the Welsh ore (E. cambricum 
io Parsley Fern (Allosorus — disputed with 
anker weeds” the right to occupy whole acres of 
о 
е 
was also there, atunted and a 
that was bs due to elevation and exposure, for in the 
valleys nestling beside e quiet pool, its pir 
fronds attained the length of fully 3 feet. 7 poin 
numbers then, the normal forms were ad fitum, 
i es were, unfortunately, ' 
absence.” And so with some ori 
he ordinary n-hunt 2 S will have o be 
content with wire the more-highly сары 
= crook, they m 
out, and this 
construction of the house. If the 
nd жч pee will e. constant нын 
hey be planted out la а коой 
чаў of aaa toil, they will not only give 
will p largely dependent upon the 
h If t src 
infinitely less trouble, but will remain in fin 
condition over а longer As ance, I 
may mention Athyrium f.-f. Elworthii, which per 
siatz, with me, three or four weeks af aplicate 
g 
(Є lese, 8 after their „progenitors have gone to 
өг October; di. fot — Lee es for another 
whereas A. f.-f. plumosum Drueryii Lee 
till Christmas, s and a0 with Osmunda аап nd cod wien. ея, 
us- 
tris is ‘practi ically evergreen. ot course, т r to 
plants under glasr, and I agree 
less E вда) heat the 8 All I aim 
at is the exclusion of frosf, 2 for m purpose 1 
ght 
— 
use, in severe 
water oil-stove. Thus I am enabled to preserve the 
fronds of the evergreen species and varieties all 
alepa Ferns, 
a far better collection. My reply ir,“ True; but 
thon ab е not mine: these are.” i 
tax deti: butsomehow or other o 
а falls) ie | is always running after “© good things; 
and Mr. Druery refers me to ings when 
he suggests a perusal of his article for 1 27, 1892. 
Mr ery may be pleased to learn that the accom- 
ame on не wall of my 
sitting-room, and often inspires me to higher aims. 
©. B. Green, Myrtle Road, Acton, W. 
ATTLEYA BOWRINGIANA —For the information 
of your correspondents who have written about this 
species of Cal mentioned that 
recently а plant here 8 a spike with twenty- 
hink that there is anything 
remarkable about this, ч seven plants of this species 
are nearly the total number of our Cattleya plants, 
and the plant i in question has been here seven or eight 
years, i and subj jected to a temperature: sg, ate 
Cattle ears 
о I had some experience amongst this genus, vu 
judging from observations made at that tim 
believe C. Bsa kang to be an essily- cultivated 
species, It undoubtedly has а constitution, 
Thomas Coomber, The Hendre Gardens, 
une Oh ONIONS.—The fine collection of home- 
wn Onions exhibited at the Drill Hall on the 
Toth | inst, by ы W. e of 1 Castle 
Gardens, - of the best of its kind ever 
fro ivate isa "There was fur- 
nished pees бо evidence of the remarkable effects 
hi bulbs as compared with 
| er 
diverse conditions, were shown, The 2 
CHRONICLE. 
|Decemper 21, 1895, 
mer in frames, and when 
planting into well- prepared C much more thinly 
n usual outdoors in Aor or sowiag seed in 
shallow drills on soil diac as usual for Oaionr, 
and in the open in the month of March, giving, 
yearly а 
whether 2 splendid bulbs as those shown from 
Highclere, Hack wood, &c., would not pay to produce 
ав а purely market product. 
e and flavour they are to any 
d or otherwise, a great demand 
Unions are praise eworthy, and for certain culinary 
dishes usefu', but in general use in the househol¢, 
they are wasteful to a degree, 
BARRON NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL 
n 
me E — и: ovincial ro ает societies 
be requested t ke some contributio 
pont -= the national testimonial now 8 course of 
formation for Mr. It is not so much the 
amount, as the уго extended nature of the 
intct that is m in а case of m oca 
Som re a that it should be really 
l, as a genial e pater d of Fer pna ue in for 
one of the moat „ reapected 
B 
. | 
al 
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2 1 
mittee is = Masters, F.R.S., the Hon. Treasurer іе 
H. J. Veitch, Esq , а L.S af all subscriptions, &c., 
should be pede to t e Hon. Sec cretary, B. Wynne, 
q, ne's 1. ‘Strand, London, W.C. F. W. 
Burbidge. 
APPLE NEWTON WONDER.—In answer to Mr. 
Н. Markham’s letter ia the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
Messrs. 
that with regard to 
ighly spoken of sty is an 
rote expressing t 
tree; but I declined: 8 n. this. Then they inquired 
trees, which I did; and 
h of fruit, which they sent or 
d with your remarks on p. 683, respect- 
forcibly endorse th marks th ade at the 
eeting of the Royal Horticultural Society The 
“im rseradi s £C flavour, 
and may be generally by its special manner 
i he home- 
of growth, which is very different from the 
one year's growth, while the Datch 
that is, small roo 
with the spade, and has n 
stick, The sale by the walter or greengrocers of 
