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The Pitmaston Orange Nectarine,said to have been 
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but woe betide the luck] mem | 
| being an Eria or esr йш DL ras pected TE 
if е from th. 
the package с ree itte | 
and as it happens that I was атара occupied in t 
it | same month ofl 832 ist 80у it has осе ы 
é| as contrasted with my r more recent visit, may E Sered 
d 
Че, а: 
hear 
heres m 
ock, 
th: 
e was, apos 
of seedlings, viz., я 
large crimson Peach of a most excellent flavou ur. Ihav 
i ї 
may not date quite so far back as my o an 
At е time to A I refer London had not m 
s, the im. 
т, one | 
сы ecome, wha t now 
ve 
lings above raentioned. They have де all borne frat, | 
uality 
all of the same colour and q s the Pitmaston 
Orange, varying slightly in size. Erom the Peach аа 
rnold Harrison Е 
К It was 
Lord Fitzwilliam, M. | 
i 9f tà, 
Aigburth | near Liverpool), onths Merval to Ped es Duke of Donat 
Bateman, M 
with its кеша origin, now about seven ео 0] 
have eedlings If th 
pr оазе qx ana 
pe 2 Bi. тией.) 
А аазы great force, Nor was the then superiority | 
of the northern pow ы all difficult t if i 
be borne in mind Lr eco far liba. of the 
species. at that nd in — tives of 
or of our West Indian o: So 
= 
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS, 
ington, a clin 
a seedling pro зр late num 
Ponchos, экз ii ам better iban Э te Adm олем 
each. Тһе Fairchild's Ear ly 
Mie, one 
h 
со заң with all of which Liverpool was in 
communication. But when these ready sources of 
supply had been exhausted, or at ul дулу ag Сет 
o send over an ythin ing new— the m 
may be more will 1 
will be mu hr 
11 
som varieties, and very 
tree when covered with its еу golden fruit, repro- 
duces mot sims the least variation either in leaves, 
frui ait, o 
be maintained, ind та belt t which M 
R. Harrison loved so m од passed € the jose] 
“ the Messrs. L oddiges, re it remained until it was | 
ized нее Mr. ораи здо has. held it now for 20 years, 
ma 
üy ma seti ifwe c buf 
well, ms in little vilagos pb. 
where е ac tual flower scare 
me in userni, 
raised e унаа Sean d at firs st 
think 
impart to 
e asian: flavour. 
the Violette Hátiv 
К ады partaking of granon qualities of both To 
From the me: we ised I rais several 
seedlings оп 
Беэ" 
some other sort its 2а han and 
3 we: fe vx aga 
third year, 1861, this н ад tree, which I 
lad. watched with a parents eye, bore some 10 o or 12 
Every one knows 'of ‹ course how to form devices 
Ыр ornaments of red borra forming them i m 
masses or mounting them into nar, spra; 
E its littla ie iode Y ч чыш prece as | 
affecting both plants, and places, and men—bave 
| come » to pass s since 1832! Of the men—the Эчү of gum or wires; but for the wreaths Г 
Tan Y alon | festoons of Ivy t racti 
remains. I tox him working h ard in Nove к hatIm 
18 892; he was ep as harder still in pole 1901; 
and he must w 
1892, i 
rld seems 
oliæ Orchi- 
а,” firs t of all Professor r Reichenbach » ies ed | 
rk vor i in the same field, but h 
tions to Orch id ology are scatte Бао —— 
meeting of the Fruit есета at South posee 
early i in September for 
ine to th 
к йо; 
a fortnight |Ì 
а difieu t to placo. А fruits before it 
5 
а о 
ade o "xul publications as to ie 
| praticati inaccessible i in this cou Dany er cept to purely und. This struck me 
scientific Meanwhile mo дрон. vocabulary Mai much in seeing a large sere ееп thus decorated, т 
в taking gr E ie ъа harm day by owers scattered ree i vag ле, at ali-h 
fi „Аш mong those. with whom I was as Thrown i s contact in of them put in Kid ы s, sparkled in all directions, 
| 
in 
over, 16 is always шо | 
ta th *5 th 6 4 
| 
| 
x and named the Victoria Nectarine. "Y: 
having th 
lt is a v perfect 
the паше! In making up devices, secondly, it is such an especial 
| ы A o. Loddiges necessarily oconpies pe foremost | point to De he e shape M. indicated underneath the 
pia ace. let 
and leaves of the Stanwick, the male paren with 
the small ce Aen at stone, and s in 
ОЁ. its female eph e Violette Hâtive. er 
cross-bred m но ше 
Cis devotion to Orchids and humming.-birds | flowers, in something he same colour. 
as intense, but though he loved d ix s beyond the | devices, stars, anything that it may be, remain thus 
| орай yet I doubt чөй: any othe ever loved | distinct чів nt at the same time lessening the beauty 
the plants th emselves o Ne mei i of the flow I remember speci peu pec e 
rau edis n, а 1 found h 
tarine and the. са the former 
bore fruit for the first time the pete 
ur is greenish white 
me by ne ө the meh nb еи 
pomologists v9: called. upon me during E hibition 
time last summer, that an странац at Vienna 
h die ome de 
t 
is 
which he was 
is 
reign publication, or | 
ran 
him on beautiful 1 star i in flowers, The form 
occasion y first qium (No ov. 288 832), with а ed each alternate ray being E 
ME of petas stenochilum m, fi кш 
with а а sharp penknife, the outer Dice. of each 
| calculated on the E and a de! 
bein e shape of each by. m 
wool, and 
ids, which as ith a | € 
| rq d themselves, but were arranged in the great 
, many of 
The бишей e especially, for any such devices 
them dsl mined ; y few n flower, | i£. le iod hav piece of cotton wool equ 
If i p ien DO, CLE aide сіі, receive round piece sh iud Us 
| Cym inense, Ea pios ndrum uc hleatum 
two, I hall have ex! 
ach se ama y 
ad rais ge ids betwe 
Nectarin a pia Жав oreo Е the 
d last 
list ! Bai. the procoding s summer had brought 
some remarkable 
is scarce 
on dit нен - attention, for I eds observ 
winter, when 
shed their leaves, a very remarkable treo, а seedling | 
raised fro їй mes Newin Nectarine, with the dark | 
она об ОЁ the Apri es во ав to be taken for an 
Apricot tree ^ a short em A This at this 
moment the same peculiar arance, but on looking | 
2 it parent 7 the silvery crow buds of the Peach are 
observed t hat I have in this I fear too 
igin of my s mers ings, 
from "- dió 
SP een 
шорт, and Суспосћ 
the 
ful fo 
| perpetual excitement. 
| there 
h 
llous as those with wid m we 
in the genera Coryanthes, Stanhopea, | n design-doing, a point 
| that any Дш» Now 
and 
remain to be Sonta ! At all events | | is worth ү marking Жүлүн Ms T 
e presen 
E remis s still 
e fruit seaso; 
what woul 1 whit 
S at „Опе 
1 вау, bearing а 
Жанн» 1857. 2 
new 
many ime) Ax of eris в fruit trees I possess, | P 
and my interest in them neve 
I have thus e m a senses e my колоч їп 
raising seedling fruits; if I have not carrie d the sub- 
ject toa satiating length, I will dice 2 a 
my experiments with seedling Apples, Р! 
Strawberries, Raspberries, and Currants, 
relation of 
lums, Cherries, 
ts. Thos. Rivers. 
DIES ORCHIDIANÆ.—No. 1. 
principal coll 
у вай а абуне роко lh Й of Charin жр 
ibo facility w with Mika 
racti d eye will m tm strang 
genera. e package 
| at once d nced to 
carried off a piece of this Z 
ЕА. piece that bore the flower. 
mo es' drawing wi 
ME ; it was th 
pike from which Mr. 
an nu 
it 
now deb meet with 
ke reos have, however, seen а 
th. ill а ag E ish шы 
ey will perhaps y furnish gr 
ng t i" EM paeudo-species Z. steno; орө- ША 
1 manher, because the things C во common 
Faili: 
talum will have to be cai 
