400 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
THE EDINBURGH MONSTER 
GRAP 
DONE: are able to publish to-day illustrations, preriased 
exhibited at the recent ре Fruit Show i in 
Edinburgh, and of which m s made in our 
report of the show, published at p. 
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b 
Dalkeith. This was a bands mely 
ch, the berries cl еж and solidly packed 
so that the shoulders stood out firmly in all die 
а e bloom w: fect. It was, in fact, s in 
first-rate condition, and w ry properly awarded 
Ist prize in the class for the heaviest b [o 
white Grapes, and received besides the Veitch Medal 
most meritorious bunch of white 
P 
pes, not being Mus roduced in the show. 
Its weight was 26 lb. 4 oz., which it maintained within 
ce or two when weighed in the exhibition 
room, 
Fig. 86 shows the rival "— shown by Mr, 
ohn Jardi kj; of Arkleton, 
avelled badly, and was much 
weight, when tested in the exhibition: room, was 
lb. 15 oz. 
It is no little credit to the of Scotland to 
have thus produced the tw: nches of Grapes 
upon vios and truly ж га: уы feris hed by this 
show in es that is, in the matter of 
d in no way behind the South, 
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Home Correspondence, 
would 
feel greatly obliged if I would give it a fair trial, and 
my opinion of the variety in regard to its 
1 of the vari 
ently dwarf in the foliage for forcing purposes. І 
shook it excellent, however for early border work, 
Mr. А t much disappointed at 
my not being able, even d а second year's trial, to 
vise it as a sort peculi apted for frame culture. 
Т found no diffi ommending i - 
lent early variety, and I believe my verdict gave 
it an extensive fillip for S ve or 
six years aft heard of a sort, in my corre- 
wi otato friend near Aberdeen, named 
Smith's Early, as being synonymous with s 
‚ and now I learn for first 
aeg. о, and it is EDU: in the 
NS Hogg’s C: Early made itself арии 
2t ui) to have got ed on the head 
it been an imposter? Long live one and both, if 
sam e two 
dispel irritation in matter o anent 
Potatos, I will, with your em vri a — 
two in point, P fifteen 
cross means | 
eM Red Regeas ent а ене agen, ae an immense 
cropper, called the American Black Kidney. I was 
oft the Vegetable Committee in 1874, and, conse- 
i Nati did not attend the tria ls, ^ Mr. Alex 
Dean wrote me to say that “а Potato had gained 
a certificate which he thought very much т resembled a 
ing of mine the Purple 
t to i for a few tubers 
Mr. 
years’ trials, as being too large and ill-flavoured for 
my purpose ; and I also suddenly took a dislike to 
sent for 2, оріп By some chance, 
ү re ye Blush i inks a cottager’s hands, at old 
ock, and he, finding that it suited his stone 
prahy allotment, „has —Ó it amongst his 
a local standing. 
the Cricket Ball. I keep it for its shape on 
another Potato friend here has accidentally 
it it by some private peculiarities it possesses, and whic 
are its — according to i tt Cocker," Neither this 
me зр Blush аг re than Moor nas. - 
qe en "ml el sorry n 
that 1 nodi their brothers. Moral If Smith's 
Hogg's d Early, allow 
ime: y with ei 
or both. In my cases I shall certainly not question 
Mr. Biani, к Dame Nature. I see in your 
nquirer ” for a “ book on 
"I fear such is not at present to be found. 
I heartily wish such a work could have had five- 
I suppose, though, it will be 
ge of the noble 
tuber after some of us old stagers are » for may I 
just hint that some of our young men are MCN 
from the old ones’ shoulders. It always must be 
but I pray the ers to give just a ** leetle? » 
acknowledgment to ege seniors. Should *' Enquirer” 
not be conversant with them he may find some 
chapters going into the pith of Potato cultivation 
in Nos. 6 and 13 of the Gardeners’ Chronicle for diio, 
and in Nos. JA 164, &c., ite the Journa 
UAL Of о before my 
tato, but in 
we know of no one better acquainted with the 
subject than Mr. че с Verbum sap, Eps.] 
's G uses,—I have 
aaiue 1o ico AME the lead- 
сези 
| aia ta thetende ase likely io to take this matter up, 
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our 
I was led to think that some action was et gr 
as from the correspondence published in 
раан do the same it would be a very small matter, 
e been a sufferer for many years, my rateable 
sim ing trebled owing to the extension 
er the Local 
- 
value in the former being only one-half of the latter. 
I have tried to reason the matt overseers 
time after time, to no purpose ; an 
fore 
Guardians, would be like fighting with the 
What I should like | > see is m three of the leading 
tradesmen in the metropolis to form a committee 
appeal to Mer brethren throughout the country for 
I feel X RON qe they would not appeal in 
Royal Caledonian Horticultural Mao 
In your article on "t Society in your last n 
youstate mination of the old К 
onian Horticultural "Societ у, 
апа тесе all the 
j i 
Caledonian Horticultural Society did. not :come to a 
termination ; they disposed of their garden to Govern. 
ment, but continued as a society, and in 1866 they 
Fic, 85.—RAISIN DE CALABRE: WEIGHT, 26 LB. 4 02. 
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elected the members of the быра Horticultural 4 
thus infusiag fresh oed 
th 1g 
amateurs, four nurserymen, and four garden 
E Secretary, 4, pity ym Place, 
деш. fulva,—I ‘enclose. а few spenta of 
sy interesting as giving a new locality to a pir 
rare naturalised American plant. A few specimens 06 
now growing vigorously ир what more 
from Isleworth, at the water level, in a stream 
the Yeddingbrook [It has Е ade for years. 
and a e number pote by on sides 
stagnant water, "А 
ing in this case 
MAE A as qs M the idea of the seed 
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ginate, entire, 
spr EA e 
Joints and ovate-serrate te leaves; and its orange. 
e the карие, where they are all Por lag Law | 
wind, 
into 
ohn 
“Edinburgh | 
which may 
a mile 
of some — 
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