THE «GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[AVGUST 28, 1875. 
20 feet ; but В is of slow growth, as are most trees of 
irregular grow г we can call to mind at the pre- 
sent moment, native of North China, and 
recently a closely allied tree, енды sg sorbifolia, 
has been е m the same regio This has 
leaves mbling thom of the Монда Ash, and 
white oven with a purple eye. 
OF RUBUS DISCOLOR, with 
very n s narrow rose-pink Lus etals. zw foliage 
of this mde d is very handsome, bein a dark 
green above, and light, almost credis сб v beneath: 
Trained up a stake, or allowed to ramble over other 
ith its long spikes of flow 
thing is Ais А called Rubus безда flore-roseo- 
pleno. 
—— The following CACTI are reported as — in 
Ghent, арн, and sho у — prove so in 
this country : — Opu Rafi i 
ie viriditlora 
— origin of that finely Lang and useful 
decorative гз SUNRAY, which is believed b 
many to have originated as a sport, dp that it was 
dling. was raised from the variegated Cloth 
of Gold, fertilised wi ue ingle Fuchsia 
a white tube and sepals an 
a promise of variegat xà e 
he following 
plant back to this cin 
spring it broke into the be ашай алой form it 
has never lost. d i blooming "ars 
very promising hybrids o obtained rae F. mos А 
orymb thers, some of which will no dubi 
be heard of in course of tim 
—— We never saw the MOUNTAIN ASH m 
beautiful than it is this season, never so heavily Ка 
with its large xd nf scarlet fru is a hand- 
epee It 
_of the gu. in eme and in 
This its congener the 
gan 
White B should not be ains in formi 
orname plantation, especially as 
succeed on a great variety of soi 
MR. FRASER'S NURSERY. 
Mr. JoHN FRASER's extensive nursery at Leyton 
supplemented by some 70 or 80 acres of forest land й 
stock is grown in large quantities. 
with extensive breaks, embracing quarter after 
quarter, of а different Кау fruit trees, as Apples, 
Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, and Nectarines, 
&e. 5 quantities o of the more useful forest and orna- 
mental trees and once c ua and other 
t b nd flourish- 
ing admirably ; ; Roses, standard, gee "worked, and 
on their own bottoms, in pin: ers in pots, ed 
thousands ; Ivies in pots, a e and choi 
collection ; besides the various oder descriptions of 
establishments 
stock whi chs are looked for 
just grown up to blooming si 
Lapageria, bearing its curious oblong nipple- 
inted fruits by the score ; in another a good gen 
hs ; sadin another quite a “itle 
variegated variety of Daphne 
antisima, and which was certificated 
Our object in visiting t this nursery was, however, not 
so much with the view 
foregoing, important as 07 are from the commercial 
point of view, but knowing Mr. Fraser to be a grower 
Con 
ental nov метр а. Ње hardier classes of 
егэ, such as Phloxes, Pentstemons, &c. 
without regard to their ia eo ie y we will here 
record the names of such sorts Ei “рсы to us 
specially worthy of commen: 
Sede ыа were katy ibt did brilliant sorts, | 
namely, Coccinea, a bright but dark Sage eg men 
White чын, the best of the whites in the ssata 
sec otti, lilac with white Nee very distinct ; 
Lothair, light олт scarlet with dark eye ; Madame 
i i k eye; Madame A 
. Guldens ro 
Мааа edi Saison, white with purple eye ; 
Coquette du P ui white X bright 
and crimson fa 
Рейн we specially noted Vicimf de Nadail- 
lac, a scarlet semi-nosegay, with very large trusses ; 
and Auguste з a fine rosy pin 
Ve e seldom meet with now in bed- 
i Mr. m 
might any other ** unprotected” object, кн our atten- 
tion n was arly oe: id some irieties, 
Some of the most сс ссе 
such as our varie , but w 
many of them ы w seem t "IS fact which may, 
erhaps, account for the Е neglect into which 
they have 
a trial as 
of them are the following, which are wo 
bedding plants : — von Bookheim, 
scarlet; Rudolph Brandt, purple, with white eye, 
somewhat recalling the fine old bedd plant of 
yore, Lantana — Moritz Schulz, deep claret, 
with small white eye aron v ich 
violet ; Ров rtner Nonii, rosy pink, pale scarlet eye ; 
Baronin von Paussinger, with crimson eye ; - 
mel 
deep écarlet with pea k eye; maroon with 
white eye ; Gruss van Strassburg, o Me ча with 
large white eye ; sni, finally, an nn ish sort called 
y of Lorne, blus h with an amber-tin eye. 
Two new Meliutiopes in the collection entirely 
supersede all others which under 
u KEL in advance of a any 
other sort. Itis strong-growing, of — habit, with 
flowers which o a lilac 
French wie > that it 
belongs to the light-coloured series ; these corym 
inches across, "with an angular 
wers being aer and - 
EE 
ü 
abund: 
spreading 
— эсе moderate-sized 
It 
y produced, in 
KNIPHOFIA MACOWANI. 
WE are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Green, the 
Botanical Nursery, Holmesdale Road, Reigate, for 
the opportunity of figuring this M addition to 
the genus Kniphofia, The AU 
by Mr. Green from. 
W. W. Saunders, Esq., ‘yy Me. м . It sub- 
flowered in Mr. Green's m the first 
time in England in September last, and on the follow- 
ing 7th of October it was shown before the loral 
Crinia and gained nag жр, esate — "e body 
could a to it—a First-class Certifica It has 
also been figured in the em nidi Magasin tab. 
6167, from whence we extract e following aom 
tion, Ps the pen of Dr. Hoo 
Stem as "d as the thumb at 
stout fibres. 
rare prre Da 
strongly toothed, o flattish. Sca 
Me or longer, sle 
Asa low. grotri lant for the front portion of a 
N perdes, or E t-culture, this dwarf-habited 
ле җе ome Cie ak someon. 
is the best at the dark-coloured varieties., 
auk 59) was raised 
South Africa to 
Foreign Correspondence, 
.—In a report on the 
fs Jive t Bidwell 
ALEARIC ISLANDS 
gives an intere 
the pon of the gers for the extraction of the oil, 
from which e follo we. pos It 
eems that very itn: i p Oliv e produced i 
the Island of Minorca. In the i icts of Inca an 
ma, however, the largest results are obtained. In 
the latter about one in e r f land 
under cultivation is dev e grow e 
manufacture oil, therefore, in these islands is of 
great importance, an 
— ed. Inall A where the grou eath 
e Olive trees is capable of cultivation, - pim 
is ылу do followed. 
ive p originally grows — = s moun- 
e islands as a shrub, a fruit 
ion 
lan d that the art of grafting 
"a islan = rs by the C 
By the а owever, of so 
mous and ancient. looking С Olive trees anh sees now in 
pted to believe that their 
answer 
time of the Flood.’ 
never ма two alike. Almost all 
me most — —— a 
rent open and torn into half a 
while i 
proportions which remin 
than once La tg ` 
= -— f which would -o r 
2 arms of half-a- eat m. to encircle ; ile 
one doubts, from the wild growth of these trunks, 
whether the branches proceed from. one tree p y 
two or three congregáied, {орешек 
Тһе finest virgin o in commerce is pressed 
ut the aid of 
o 
of heat and ot eg pressure. e 
oil а а e Balearic Islands is: iiam nt, be 
the very insignificant. les show 
the International Exhibition at Vienna | pus. priz ж. 
oil i t often 
exercised. All the oil that can be s Squee ЕЕ out of 
g о 
oil for the soap boilers. uit, whether ripe, 
over-ripe, half green, or wholly rotten, Or: Ма усе it 
may have been knocked down by the beater 
d 
t crushing, apparently 
taining a good deal of oil, is used for keeping up the 
fires for boiling the water. More magnificent Olive 
trees, or a finer kind "Of fruit than those grown 5 these 
probably nowhere to be found, 
Er acrid in 
to that of c a 
of 1874 was a i very inferior ) 
lity and quantity, and the oil oft this season 
t has been for many years past. 
nud qu qua 
is dearer than it 
THE FARM. 
POULTRY: GEESE, —The management of geese for 
some care, is such a disagreeable and vociferous inmate _ 
as sometimes to be almost intolerable, 
Where the object is merely to secure a few birds as 
an occasional variety for the home table, the hints- 
a ded to be ironically conveyed in the P 
old adage are worth bearing in mind— 1 
He а Candlemas Day, ae housewives’ ae lay i gd 
At St. Valentine, your geese lay, and mine: 
it is not 
ains to poultry-keepers, i 
sitting hoc take phos jute ө 
of the goose 
NIE IP PALEIS 
S 
ee 
EC asc tage fep. 
as, besides other reasons which will suggest ЕЕ Es 
