THE 
AUGUST I4, 1875.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
203 
Home Correspondence, 
Potato Crop,—Potatos are decaying very 
“The crop raised from home-saved seed of the 
American varieties—Early Rose, Lat shoe 
Beauty, Early Dimmick, Early Go den ch, Sno wflak 
&c.—were early in the season attacked and нын, 
destroyed by the E: spores of the P Mio 
The d n 
о per cent. of the 
tuber: e uch earlier in its sees 
this season, ati unusually deter СТЕ P, Dar 
Chiswick. 
—— I think this is the worst season for Potatos 
remembe ase has already made 
fearful ravages in the early sorts, which I consider 
Шы best Med As ES ; and we ha т hot dr 
its progress, there w very few 
ather there will b 
of. the е ы lef for storing in this КАА бу 
A.P Ayson, Oxton House, August Д. 
eather in North Notts.—On the 
thunderstorm in t ed R tin 
after — the р at 9 A.M., and there eg in 
six 2.32 inc ne rly an inch of th 
hou s, and 
quantity fell in half rr hour between the hours of: : 
EC 3, о СЕ Altogether the rainfall for the month 
his date is 2.73 inches, and I fear the 
Pointo boli wil now run riot from the thorough 
soaking the grou . The temperature, 
. likewise, since the hea n, has risen, the atmo- 
ege being A. ЗР sultry, and favourable for 
velopmen spread of fungus, 
5 detecte d tue poe: in the garden here las 
ў a plot of the Rector of Woo йб 
Ро! tos, and on g a quanti 7 
of the tubers showed unmistakable signs of the 
spots made the Peronospora. William Tilley, 
August 9. 
Hale’s Early Peach.—Having read rel Bréhaut's 
remarks on very early Peaches, at p. 132, allow me 
to state that 1 gathered quite ripe dd beautifully 
coloured fruit of Hale's Early on August 6. The tree 
Peach, and Ia all who have not got it to obtain 
it forthwith. Thomas Pitt, Bury Hill-Gardens, — 
ing. 
men of this or р nurserymen of 
Haarlem to н their catalogues to gentlemen and 
their g in England, ай, and Scotland, 
soliciting vident And not only that » but I fin d 
th mar 
ve nselfish.” t may e : e 
novelties of the season, the representati an ‹ 
upon **Messrs. Fearnought & Son"—gentlemen doing а 
ow 
|n , after which it may be presumed he get 
an order, and forthwith takes departure, perhaps 
with th oke of business he has just 
earnought & 
tion of goods as those he has just booked orders for, 
thereby leaving Messrs. F, & Suet rid of their 
oods as best they may. But T о doing in what 
position I docs he (the representative 1 man) A not 
only the nurserymen of the district, but his em- 
ployers also? , the first thing the aggrieved 
nurserymen w f doi e news 
= in like manner let our Dutch friends look to what 
they are about, or else they might some day find them- 
selves placed in a similar position, H. W, W, 
Salisbury. 
Masters’ Prolific Cucumber. — Well-grow 
this Cucumber are isferiót. to no ode 
m, I have just 
Wi new vinery at 
Feltham the best stock of it probably existing. The 
pans are trained up pea-sticks agains: the back wall 
o a hei "P b usd and fruit most abundantly. 
The fruit average 12 i 
in in diameter, and hav 
er I have m et with. It isa 
o maintain a Mii E su 
r 
n Masters’ Prolific is highly esteemed by 
hae н know its merits. Mr. e has had his 
stock for several years, having kept P. ie from year 
to year by means of cuttings. Alex. Dean 
Judging at Flower Shows.—Is it usual at 
horticultural shows to allow the judges the discre- 
tion to refuse ed reduce) a prize to the best or on ly 
exhibitor d of in d i 
ve my own opin 
A prize Men jen absolute merit, 
never mean *'bad, but the best." On 
the other hand, if D i is offence to the professional 
the show tent ext occasion are likely to ex- 
vacuoles. | М 
rule, and its en- 
edens an exhibitions. 
r, the father of the 
ond uk without being 
ex ‘enquire, as 
to the ен oF Seriem. yu there be any 
thod of performing it? ere is 
ich is convenient when 
o Thus 
for reducing Jones to the se 
epe 
о 
Вг rown's _be ter than 
Again, the boxes of 
fne 
one positively bad. 
Pantin Nos ^ to consist of six bad six g 
а ten and that the other dozen are not exactly good 
is ion to be worked out 
or bad— 
icto from those items? РЕМ aps such а a a 
might be aided by a scale of points or aperi ue w- 
ng so many for no o many good | culti- 
vation, and for other qualities which w vould affect the 
judges estimate—as beauty or ularity, | size of 
pec , maturity, conformity a ts’ flower) 
to the conventional standard ‘ cale 
merit might aid the judge in deciding a closely con- 
ested prize, but whether it would be nable t: 
require him or them to set out the grounds of the 
judgment is quite another matt ower of 
choosing rightly and a of giving good reason for the 
choice are not ben rusted by Nature to the same 
individual 7. 7% 
Duke of Buccleuch Grape.—I am die to see 
account of this a. Wich as that given d 
toke Rochford. ith me the 
and berry appear to present too close 
n M men 
e I have 
abis season made ov vis 
has ough. 
may add that I have not a Vine of = Golde n Champion 
n di 
otherwise : and if it should turn out all that your cor- 
фазай says of it, it will supply a want much felt 
among white Grapes, as we have nothing part нау 
good or те that will grow іп a cool ho nd 
ripen with Hamburghs. There are so few 
good and distinct that one 
mesi 
ripens early, and finishes with a beautiful bloom, while 
the flavour i is all that can be desired. $. Sheppard. 
S awdust for Walks. n the extensive wild 
sition from 5700! awns, bright, 
rilliant | ivit on the 
hen the sheds a tr t, and qui and 
olitude are most appreciated. e are firm 
the tread ; the sawdust s becomes 
ow, Ee these 
ntly in the wood н the Pine 
In -= 
gardens, there are man 
walks, through which, during thè summer m 
is most delightful to ramble, and with it the аы 
excitement of getting los iliar with 
t arious outlets. C. еу commandingly 
situated, I enjoys some charm iews—one espe- 
P 
ci een through an archway of trees, of the fine 
seaport of dcn ton, some five miles distant, is 
ruly gra: e Naval Hospital at Netley is 
in seen dinh: Él fine vis 
Cryptomeria ато einem enclosed fruit cones 
ung tree which I had planted 
ago, in a rather elevated and sheltered 
corner in $e dee ve here. ese are ving 
e on looking over them a few days 
, І was чей to fin a: covered with 
pret mostly in the same st 
sent with the young grow 
va гоме, similar to a Pine- appie 
tree of t 
pe a ly f ber of 
cones regularly for a number of seasons pest withodt 
— cer кч tendency to mak 
peci 
ich has been 
produ . Fohn Webster, Gordon 
peii pet 9. 
very Fine Tulip Tree, —I have a Tulip tree 
in dd grounds cy which I consider a very fine 
specimen, and shall be glad to know, h the 
medium of your paper, whether there are many Tulip 
trees in xceed size. Mine - 
has been car is a pd 
inches over 75 fet. Its d A at ei ; 
6 inches from the { 
will be acceptable. уук ro pen | nidis dd, 
Trefnant, Rhyl, 
Reminiscence of John Standish—I was 
ceedingly sorry to read the account of the death, кт а 
comparatively early age, of this well-known, kind- 
hearted, most en i i I 
he had long wis 
duce a sing 
well known, 
was the means of introducing many valuable plants. 
In manner he was offhand and genial, with a pleasing, 
ression of coun odere which seemed 
of hish and 
ase 
Horticulture may be sai ing, and 
he name of be very soon for- 
John Standish will not 
gotten, P, Grieve. 
Гам? 
same breath, T When T first ae Ince li — 
