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Early Louise, the best very early Peach, and ended | inthe public esteem, I would advise them to endeavour | varieties well known, and should receive just awards ; 
November I with fine specimens of rd Palmerston in the future to secure better reports of their exhibi- | whilst such varieties of the latter as Winter lis, 
ind the Princess of Wales, out-of-doors ; and with tions in the daily papers. saying, | Beurré Diel, Uvedale's St. Germain, Louise Bonne of 
the Golden Eagle under glass, without fire-heat, I es Ads _to do a thing,” better exemplified than y, are also equally well known. If separate 
am sure that I ress_ th itude of the who hich our metropolitan papers present | prizes are offered for any of these varieties, and are 
pomological world to Mr. Rivers for this great exten- their readers with reports of the South Kensington a =, there is not only an error іп judg- 
sion of the season of the two noblest of the out-of- | show: e writer, invariably ignorant of all tha pues but а want of kno owledge, and this error did 
door’s fruits. The spring was very bad here, but the peritis to horticulture, takes a flying view through | occur at the meeting on the 1 oth i ins t. No doubt you 
trees, I h v done vell for me. The Royal | the show, and dotting down here and there something will fir n ubi a ME Mem . 
ge, much given to mildew under glass, but not | or other that might strike his fancy, proceeds to write | judges had o than time d permit, and 
out-of-doors, is my main dependence. Taking the | his short and insignificant paragraph, and in it will had this DAT dera e the error, E. cem Rally, 
three aspects of south-east and west, it is the surest | certain to m E prominent something that is i 
card. It has one of the greatest virtues in the near- | technical point of view comparatively valueless, whilst 
ness of leaf to leaf. It is, moreover, a good setter | the great bern of the show are left unnoticed. As Parasitic Fungus on Pears, 25 — Тһе parasitic 
under difficult circumstances, "The following also are | a result, that portion of the public who are really | fungus alluded to by Mr. Andrew Murray at the 
etters :—Orange Nectarine, Pine-apple Nectar- | lovers of horticulture at once conclude t e the exhi- | meeting of the зра Committee € on the roth inst., 
ine; the finest of all Peaches—Noblesse, Royal | bition is altogether valueless, and not worthy a visit, | as having infested P. is doubtless the same as has 
George, Early Louise, Bellegarde, Dr. Hogg, Early | whilst—as was the case with the show on the roth— infested man A ples fe especially where grown 
Alfred, Grosse Mignonne, Barrington, Nectarine | it might really be a dis isplay sd horticultural vf sein of upon cold т The fungus appears as a brown 
Peach, the best late Peach that will ripen out-of- | an almost unrivalled charact shows of | rust in spots skin of the fruit, and gradually 
loors ; Princess of Wales, and Lord Palmerston, Th July 2 inst. plainl y OW | extends itself. эў: 20 э: the whole surface, аав 
last have the finest flowers о are the | small is the interest felt in the South Kensington sh ing t and either inducing early decay or else 
arges handsomest of any Peaches, І sent to the | by t t London To hope that better | cracking, caused no d ure in its to 
bazaar at Bridport fifteen Peaches, o ngton, | things would result under the present plan of reportin produce growth, which is impeded by the tightly set 
Prin f Wales, Lord merston, a e | isou h n. I heard not 1 ce of one in c ne variety as the Alfriston, that in 
Peach. Iam told that the ‘‘sweet ladies” bless ell-known reporter, who, having been carefully | previous years produced fine healthy has d 
1 specimens of the of Wales | coached up in the then show, went away suffering a | th se had all its fruit rendered useless, It 
IO sent so é | complete collapse of memory, as no mention of the | would be intere esting to s parasite 
Hardy being the cynosure—a mo mirable Pear on | show appeared in his paper on the мр or subsequent | may be identical with the brown rust that Pega 
Quince stock. Owing to the cold, wet M NE and i od at the Council should do, is to engage | attacks Grapes, producing exactly similar results, 
sunless autumn, the established Peach and Nectarine | the services of some really competent and able horti- s ea in all cases it is induced by detective root 
trees have made but little fruit-bearing wood ; but alot | cultural titer to act as its own reporter, care being | actio 3D. 
БІС, I37.— THE MANGOSTEEN—GARCINIA MANGOSTANA, 
of т and root-pruned nes have made famous | taken by arrangement beforehand with the editors TR Rolling Wet Lawns.—Allow me again to ask a 
; ertain circum- | the half-dozen metropolitan dailies that space to question that I addressed to your journal two or three 
ctos een ^ OE Tenover” p fo ing. | extent of at least half a column was mated when | years ago — Does rolling a well-drained — = 
Wood of the size of а slate-pencil, well ripened, is | requisite, and without doubt rs an arr ee porous soil accelerate the ж нә M - 
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d i n—theSnow | tive style, might be furnished i in lime е admit of "halt overthem, After a night's heavy rain 1 
1 ates wens eden n wie ln: роу а oben copies being prepared in the Society's office, | slop. The gardeners wait till the water has в: мя 
сад « Stump the World," which is not to be com- үү Фа next morning the great world of readers of | below the ao e, and then r a wi 2 : d Я 
pated with the Nectarine Peach. а — to the daily papers "dd know how the science of | roller, and in an hour or two акар ry. Yes POM 
lden-flesh Peaches, the Golden Frogm s the aac a was progressing at South еч Bt for instance, ems a rainfall o Pog sa ge | «^ 
est and thie: ; but neither the golden nor | In the provinces a terrible hash is sometimes made of | the day before, and „12 inch that — was 
lemon.fleshed are so good as as the other colours of | a flower show report, but equally often the report 2 M — that у oe Ое coats — 
flesh, Noblesse and Grosse Mignonne, in my opinio well done, ae the local papers show a r might have played a game of croq cnini dna ү 
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are still the best ; their season being "in their favour. | interest in all 1 matters. In special cases, how- | injury to | 
i i t to; to employ a professional writer, | appears to me water must. ezed out — 
аааз n gr chert ensam абв to er ct uim the. och Ja "invariably well done. | below, and Y - way into ue pem. as when m 
Рт — Poe of Peaches and cabins i ге to — A, шй E mr ai v Pim canes to m get a awn 
b Vor Фе чейн.) кең” А i ds,—There can be no doubt that | ready for a garden party after a nigh 
=н Dun Asc Cd ME mes ord каш рет» to certain specified varieties a bring my experience, local and small as it is, to the 
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: George Noblesse, Bellegerde "Barrio. and Nec- cerca, P e^ of the most difficult things judges have | notice of your readers. P., Halse, near Taunton, 
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tarine Peach You cannot burn your fingers, Wal- | to contend with at the present day, yet there ar ed 
. burton : 1 th Potatos Rooks and W. у means an 
г Map ные is толош, but а shy ч —— а amie y? T aim 4 M, the | uncommon ching for rooks to take Walnuts from the 
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C e, dra Noblesse, Mr. | can troy the whole crop. Here we 
| : "up R d Purple Ashleaf, | trees—to, in fact, destroy the w р 
Lord Napi ame Beatrice, Tippicanoe, Sno vt So A Mar ike, the Y pe d offered for these, ve an especial illustration of the fact annually ; the 
PERR Radel og re ee ra чи gael nd were awarded to other varieties, there is not only | same may be considered more or h n tice 
= e ee an error in judgment, but t — pegs ант de morae Lo ed with the practice ben 
Г Reports of th R Itural Society’s | same remarks apply to Apples Me cH] Uo nM PR LE Т wind _ 
Shows. — ожор Foroen y varieties of the former as Wellington, Hawthornden, чата have attained to consistency. i. 
Society a we aly denvous agit ш a vim Ribston, Quarrenden, King of the Pippins, &c., are | the trees here one day this. p resent autumn, upon 
