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DECEMBER 18, 1875.] 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
785 
— 
ot 
E i pot being ше a trifle off the ground, 
way for 
another season, and, when the Plants have ipn well 
с ad but two, and succ оша. years to four, 
n 8 or 10-inch 
50480! 
Blackberries іп autum sparr 
| pund. Thomas Gell, St. Lawrence, ие. Wi cht 
Horseradish,—There is in most po establish- 
ments a great demand for good Hor radish, and 
mu at би prami season, T "s is in may 
plac e obscure € corner wher 
n open s situation prepare a 
и а and deep digging ; 
rt, and from I2 to 
t 
m 
would take by the old method of planting RA. d 
I8 to 20 inches deep. The 
laced so near the surface of the ground, pase 
the full influence rot the sun-heat, and hence the rapid 
gowth. Henry Ellis, The Hollies, Timperley, 
Anthracite Coal.—Can any of your correspond- 
ts give i 
ets give me any inform of 
anthracite coal on boilers? I have lately com 
to use it, and find it a mg heat-producing and 
smok coal, have been told it acts injuriously 
he former i isa a dwarf co 
| ine cri dere та the latter à is a dwarf flat- чч 
| bluish gre with 
~ many who hav ve qud mete st gots named. 
Harrison & Sons, est [We leave Messrs. 
n to prove the difference (it any exists) between 
t eparate 
Im, and no онаа thereon. 
Early Vienna may also be included in the list of 
Snonyms, Eps. ] 
| Pruning. "eem чы the eid to my inquiries on 
| pruning "^ = h to know if the men 
| етей to rusted “with such wor 
tosay that all ae von 
| me at have been agre 
iris of t чоў years, so I leave it for you to judge 
| Whether и]! qune be trusted or not t 
Pmmning, Æ 
Po We, m кеч P oes ems 755), should be 
| Rost happy to learn how 
e, but although we 
| has been 
BRITISH GARDENERS.—XXXII. 
WILLIAM Сох. 
r. Cox, who is known in the ят world 
as A raiser of the well-abused Madr ourt 
Grape—a Grape which only needs to та dio roughly 
known to be better appreciated—has the 
being one of our be 
inspection of the gardens under his charge fully bear 
out this reputation, not in one, but at all points. 
rn, so we learn, in the year 1822, at 
in tn нь his father being then, and for 
mera years, in business there as a vise ка 
seedsm 
"Hs an early age," he writes, ‘ʻI had to take an 
active jest in the work, and learnt much of the routine 
of vegetable and hardy fruit culture, in which my 
father was Men considered a proficient. Living within 
a few m of the late Thomas Andrew Knight, 
Esa dase whom he was on terms ae intimacy, I had 
commit the sis of going with him to see 
that gentleman's garden, of hearing Mr. Knight 
describe the horticultural рте іп y he was 
then actively engaged, and which were 
world in the Zra~sactions of the олійна "Society 
А London of thzctime, I may date my aspirations 
o become a gardener from this early mis 
“In my nineteenth year I left home, and, after 
spending a few months in the nurseries at Worcester, 
as journeyman by the then gardener at 
ood prac- 
also held for ме years. 
time Mr inlay's successor left, after a short 
stay of only ж es weeks, and the situation being 
offered to me, I accepted it. Since that time I have 
ng 
fam 
consideration compatible with my positi 
** On the i the t Earl Beauchamp 
it was decided to —— etn alterations in 
the garden depart g 
very old, bal situated, and neal t the probable 
a 
eria, P vp. qim sm 
commenced in June, were sufficiently 
advanced to admit of all the fruit eee as also the 
me 
somes and carry ч 
This, thou a somewhat atdaous Md roles: task, 
rendered so much the more pleasant by the | 
confidence reposed in me by my noble employer, 
whom I am paid d not only for ре а 
encouragem ways received, but also 
many ie amm suggestions in carrying out ihe aed 
while in pro: gres 
he gardens a grounds here, ao received a 
very A notice from the Editors of the Gar 
deners’ Chronicle and others during the n few sani 
I have only to add that in the construction of the 
kitchen garden my ночиз вре object was to simplify all 
nomise labour. 
cr 
ply to meet all requirements. 
dens to which Mr. Cox refers in the p 
:—** I left Madresteld 
with t mpressi at =”: rdening in those of its 
Fui үт hose ы, was carried on in a thoroughly 
— manner. ere was a general excellence 
all departmen 
"The recently S ublished edition of Paxton’s Cot- 
tagers’ Calendar was thoroughly revised and brou 
ST sted t 
ence of се Garden Societies and the like, 
POTATOS. EROM es POUND 
IN the spring of the present year appeared the 
announcement that 1018 Ib. of Potatos had been 
grown from I lb, of seed in America. This statement 
was so much at variance with all our preconceived 
notions of Potato culture that it called forth expres- 
varieties by reporting such wonderful results. 
after the astonishing ве that have been grown 
in England from the same weight of seed, even the 
most doubting must now believe that the American 
Statement was not altogether a fabrication. Although 
not well spoken of by any, the Hooper Potato Com- 
petition has certainly done in ‘some ways, for 
it has 
holders of valuable vede to increase their stocks. 
To ráisers of seedlings it is also of considerable 
importance, for it will enable them to place their pro- 
liberal prizes they offered ; and, although those prizes 
have not been awarded for what they were offered, 
still the good the competition has done ought not in 
Eureka Potatos from i » of seed may Wm be termed 
a makeshift way, for kitchen garden here being a 
small one for the Lg gum of the house, I had not 
a plot of ground of sufficient size that I could devote 
entirely to the growth of them. I therefore deter- 
mined that they should in no way interfere with the 
arrangements I had made for the cropping of the 
ground, and by growing two crops at once, if my 
experiment with the Potatos failed, I should have 
no great loss to lament. I had a piece of ground, 
84 feet by 32, that had previously been occupied with 
Cauliflowers, and on which I intended to grow Celery, 
and it occurred to me that Celery and Potatos would 
се — 
парй eene I put about six cartloads of charcoal 
eer ive rubbish, and old mortar, and a liberal 
dressing of manure from hotbeds. The ground was 
then dori in the RÀ way, care —— 
as 
he spaces bet 
a slight dressing pa an old Mushroom gs and dug 
again, so as to thoroughly incorporate ure 
with the soil. The t : were tin 
he way, and when completed the tops of the 
ridges were exactly 2 feet wide. Th e eight 
and seven ridges, and on ese 
ridges I planted the pound of Eureka Potatos, 
that produced 10824 lb. The remaining ridge 
was planted — a portion of of Snow- 
Th 
on an old Pia border, which, 
