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THE*GARDENERS CHRONICLE, 
[DECEMBER 4, 1875. ' 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS, 1876. 
JAN 
Horticultural Society. Б. h Kensington, 
19.—Ro: Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, and Scientific Committees: 
16. — Royal Horti сша! 1 Society, South » Keosiogign, Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, a 
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al Horticultural Pisa South Kensington. Meeting 
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15 sad 16. — Leeds Horticultural Sosy Spring S 
29.—Royal B Park). з-у д 
5.—Royal gp cs apne Боду, “South Kensington. Meeting 
of Fruit, $ 
Meeting 
19.—Royal Нола! оону ‚ South Kensington, 
of Fruit, 
Es pu Seien "eie LS es Spring Show. 
—Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. Spring Show. 
May. 
—Royal енеге) Society, : South Kensington. 
of Fruit, Floral, 
17.—Royal Масаба Society, | South Kensington. 
of Fruit, Floral, an i 
18.— Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. Second Spring 
Meeting 
Meeting 
Show. ou 
24.—Royal Botanic Society. _ Summer Exhibition. 
Horticultural Sec, S ‘South Kensington. 
Bie , Floral, and Scientific Committees. 
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5.—Royal Horticultural Society, > uth Kensington. Meeting 
of but Floral, and Scientific Committees, 
— Royal B ur ic Socie ded Evening Féte. 
i 'and A ез Rosarians’ Society. Exhibition 
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ie ihe orticultural Society, South Kensington, Meeting 
Roya Нон Floral, and Scientific Committee 
19 ud 20.—Ro yal Horticultural Society, Фи Kensington. 
Great Nosti: Show. 
Meeting 
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of Fruit and Floral Committees. g 
23.—Isle of Thanet Horticultural Society's Exhibition, 
31.—Royal Horücult tural Society. Аш 
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Meeting 
umn Show. 
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15.— Royal Horticultural Society, ‘South Kensington, Meeting 
of Fruit and Flora Дет! ET 
6.— Royal Horticultural Seda South Kensingto: etin 
of Fruit, Floral, and Scientific Gominsrtaag ^ Me § 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, |: 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1875. 
APRORYTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MONDAY, T Sale of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Rooms 
Ж » Sale of Poultry and P. 
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; Deis 36. "e t ай PIE. Instruments, at 
heit er n f Sale f Butch Babs, Conifers, Roses, ёс, 
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N?; ONE in the habit of seeing the 
numerous EXHIBITIONS OF HARDY 
FRUIT that now take place every autumn in 
different parts of the kingdom, and more espe- 
cially such a magnificent series of home-grown 
Apples and Pears as was produced at the 
Royal Horticultural Society's show at Kensing- 
/ ember то pem 11, could avoid 
eons, at Stevens! | 
ance, inasmuch as the highest coloured sorts 
are far from being the best or most useful, but 
generally the reverse. "The present season has 
undoubtedly been one of the most favourable to 
the Apple crop on record, so far as regards the 
greater part of the kingdom ; yet, in spite of 
and the markets of the 
large provincial iim and to base his conclu- 
sions upon the retail prices he would have to pay 
for even culinary Apples, he would undoubtedly 
form a very indifferent opinion as to the PN 
growing capabilities of the country. The 
sistent complaint of the growers, eM d 
with very great occasion, is t e prices 
they receive bear no comparison м, that which 
the consumers have to pay. This is a matter 
that under any circumstances will take time to 
remedy ; nevertheless the subject i is of consider- 
with the price in former years, 
Climate as well as habit, we are aware, has 
much to do with the nature of the food eaten by 
any people. We do not expect to see the ordi- 
nary labourers of this country, with the greater 
amount of toil they have to undergo in our 
much colder clime, dining off r raw frui t and 
bread as their. fello: south of 
populations of our large towns at the prices 
at which they ought to obtain them, and 
which would pay the grower provided he got 
Lar dud ach MM Wed be, mne more palat- 
abe and prbolceeme than the vast quantities 
| "Xe с 
Of course those who believe in carbine but 
beef and beer are not likely to be convinced 
that anything but these commodities would sus- 
tain them, but we venture to hint that if a 
portion of what goes to buy these articles were 
spent in wholesome cooked fruit, they would be 
both better i in health and physically as strong. 
if more were produced in plentiful seas 
they would not pay for the labour of gathering. 
and marketing; but this mode of reasoning 
comes from an imperfect view of the matter. If 
the produce were tenfold what it is, the retailers 
would proportionately increase in numbers, 
and, under = influence of : Competition would 
place ери исе in the of the consumer 
а А -% Ў i3 d : = 7 | 
Ra ridic ap ah е grown by millions of 
tons annually, at little cost in either labour or 
the ground occupied, is now little more used 
than as a luxury, wherein it might be made an 
important article of food. Apart from the ques- 
tion of remunerative orchard culture of Apples, 
there is scarcely a Pr to the quantity that 
might be grown: the place of mop- 
headed hedgerow iens. with their branches 
lopped up in a way that gives them the 
appearance of large-sized fly-flappers, simply 
to red thei verse * influences. oyer the cul- 
secure much higher prices, but are more go 
— ) Үб. 
There is plenty of room for trees, either for 
and which, for appearance sake alone, to uo 
nothing of their use, would be vastly superior to 
the useless pollards, miserable examples of 
what can be produced by the injudicious and 
unskilful use of the saw and hatchet, The plant. 
ing and after attention requisite to brin up 
hedgerow Apple trees to a bearing condition, 
would entail no great amount of expenditure 
in either money or labour, so far as the protec- 
tion of the trees from cattle, until they are 
large enough not to require it. This 
be done inexpensively by ne tying a 
few Thorns round the stem The prin. | 
cipal thing to be attended "n is, in the first - 
place, to select ist jii like Blenheim Pippin, 
that possess a strong, upright habit of gro wth, _ 
and that naturally attain a considerable size, 
with tall, clear stems, that 
allowed t 
attained ж-а height. Ifa | 
were to spring up, trees especially prepared i in [| 
this way would be quickly forthcoming. 
n cases where the land is held by ye m" 1 | 
tenure this, no doubt, would not un | 
deter tenants from planting fruit trees on a 
large scale, as по one is over-anxious to plant - 
that of which he is not reasonably insured o 
reaping the fruit. Consequently, where no 
leases exist, it is to the owners of land we must - 
look to provide the trees ; but were owners and | 
ally unsuited to the Apple, "where some one Or 
other of the many good useful varieties in exist- | 
ence would not succeed. Choice should be made 
rally useful, 
A word to those sen are engaged in the 
production of new varieties of this, the most 
useful of all fruits. We have already in n culti- 
vation too many sorts. When we find growers - 
for sale notifying that they possess ove 
a thousand kinds, it cannot be venient d 
that those who have not had ve considerable 
plant too many sorts, Any one W 
through Covent Garden at any Hine, from 
commencement of the season that the earliest 
varieties. Henc 
the way of new Apples shoul d possess, її 
tion to good quality ak the fri, long beeing 
capabilities, a чойе ition, 
robust habit of the tree, 
perty, which raisers have so far overlooked, 
their bloss late in spring 50 45 
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r Cu tothe сор escaping я 
