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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 18, 1874, 4 
It is one Z the wrinkled marrow 
ok ie n ordinary seasons averages about 3 feet in 
height. Tri is a fortnight edriier t than Ne Plus Ultra, a 
with _ well-filled pods, and, when 
of the greenest of all Peas 
p longer in use 
in this 
j name, 
than most oth Pes, partakin and in 
other no of the character of Ne Plus Ae: 
of its parents. e flavour is 
just ubit w “should be, having the givre 
tics of that of the best ed marrows, which 
so many of the new Peas are said g lack. We look 
y oo the Criterion as an acquisition, 
seatlings, all of good See RA 
and having, we ~— — Ne Plus Ultra 
we noted and very e Pea o of 
E 
2, 
R 
> 
ou 
Another taller 
eet high, is remarkable for its 
e to the very 
tips, and would, we think, under high culture, form a 
grand Pea for a "successional supply. 
- — We understand that the Royal Horticultural 
Society tering into gement with Messrs. 
PRINCE for establishing in the Royat HORTICU 
TURAL SOCIETY'S or Ae 
SKATING RINK. site for the ri 
selected which woul not ae with the ordinary 
enjoyment of t onfidently ex- 
ee that this importa ant additi ice ri ae Hiti 
of the gardens will lead toa very considerable increase 
of the Society’s funds. 
iise The forthcoming meeting of the BRITISH 
ASSOCIATION will be held at Belfast, i 
Wednesday, 19. ssor TYNDALL will 
preside. Professor HUXLEY and Sir JoHN LUB 
will deliver e tments of ZOOLOGY 
and BoTANY, in which it may be presumed 
read l be m: terest be presided over 
E 
and CUNNINGHAM will act 
r. PRESTWICH, the sewly-elecied Professor | 
of Geology i = the Universi ersity of. Oxford, ing 
cal evidence alone, procitas that j it is 
quite dete to construct a the 
sg bargat and leaves it to the civil P oo 
whether the attempt is worth the cost 
ah reference to the CoMET, now bs striking 
an object in our northern 
sky, it ma tated that 
it is supposed by some that a comet consists of carbon 
siecle a iwn of incandescence. sienai na that 
ed to be ore f meteor 
comet and a meteor is one is self 
Bee A UT EEA till it arrives within the 
— our atmosphere. So Mr. LOCKYER in 
—— In the very interesting Lower Grounds, sca 
Park, E Birmingham, where Mr. QUILTER’s most su 
~ cessful essa finds its tens of how: 
y in spring ening 
sands of admirers (we believe some 120,000 
were admitted between er 
ore a 
arching out 
fe little cones a the deepest green, ced 
_ two of the most charmingly effective „groups we have 
ever seen. ey are evidently capital subjects wd 
a or of in situati 
will thrive as well as they do in 
i ] OERS much to be recom- 
Soe FS era 
a Teo this season Cata 
RED VALERIAN (Centranths rubra), is Ae mee 
seen among the 
of plants growing on either side of 
Be iok aday, a 
The essays and addresses published by the 
essors o! of OWEN’ S COLLEGE, MANCHES M: 
sity of Manchester. We 
regret that there is no provision 
like OWEN’s COLLEGE seks > 
peripe. institute a 
research an 
public efforts are conc 
"e 
dissolves 5 jiis (about 
mateurs, Having kin 
th success, we advi 
— Ther 
than others, a tenden 
ustomed form. 
bat & mong the 
dition which we have 
ncy to 
fag 
precisely alike. 
of the City, and w 
wer: prizes 
judges (M 
Marchioness o Lorn 
ee which special advantag 
older zags ott principle 
applied in 
T & 
eey A. MOR 
Nursery, y, have 
Mr W. W, ia VERE of Exeter. 
special departme 
ction in vegetable physioloey,” & 
sie puritan so ineficiently provided for in this country. 
Germany has such institutions, we 
ral ; 
ten chemist at Mon 
mmunicate this 
many deviations from 
unsu ed 
the vast pair of Lge so orng is it 
enclosed. i consist of plani Ar 
ripe aig and Mr. A. F. 
will be distributed by H.R.H. 
M Duley: janet in a recent 
recommends 
observe, however, with 
n for separate instruc- 
peri- 
us es 
ae aeS than 
may say, by the 
Italy = Her are 
so far 
ir dead to 5 tie import- 
ogy: 
ance and progress of vepetable | physical 
treuil-sous- 
following method of 
the 
ERS fresh during by Seis He 
one-sixth of an ounce 
` sal 
coma oe it 
o adop 
e are certain plants which have, moe 
Sar away from their 
OVE is one of ies 
= usual er 
fot 
re replaced by i 
accompanying 
teh 
moment, Ga i which, indeed, varied in 
Fic. a attra Ce FOXGLOVE. 
individual flowers of the same cluster, no two being 
recisely al We are informed that the plant from 
which our illustration was taken was a seedling fi 
one which was similarly deformed. 
rom 
TY of LONDON FLOWER SHow will 
hr 
us open spaces still left i s the heart 
ence is quite 
fo ee 
and 
to be awarded by the 
BARRON), 
the Princess LOUISE, 
—— We have received from ALFRED SMITH 
>, Bath, a PATENT SIPHONIC oak Port, 
ver the 
of the aphan t bere 
t it can be used 
Tbk of 
the use ie rere: 
the K ates Portico 
of SALSIFY and of ScoRZONERA in summer as a 
Spinach, 
Sons, of the Torbay 
disposed 
of their business 
Es ioe ale Lea 
Home Correspondence, 
The Size of Peaches and Orchard- House 
but if the Peaches oe not had ea bee ee than the 
mee fruits, they too would hav 
e but a little more ‘than for a: 
erfecti he 
ot more t not half the expense 
“a trouble. Take Strawberries—they were ripe — 
in. the end of March, when Peaches 
oe but that was with fire-heat. 
At the time Mr. Paul writes, in the c 
house I had Knight’s Early Black Cherry, May Duk 
Aichi. iat ranpress Eugénie, ripe -most of them 
from the middle of May. Some 
hanging yet, Sd i 
ae been ripe eight w 
. Jargon indais next, 
Reinet tte ak "Canada (Apple), 9 TE in. circum- 
ference a resent time ; e it from 
I2 to I4 inches in circumference tise year’s fri 
in pore that the Peach cannot aspire to 
I sold Noblesse and Royal George in Liverpool fre 
i irth, 
p 
Be 
og 
=) 
tae) 
I0 n E e = in order: 
in the - Vi S sway—l 
not get any naa to bear like this. I fare plants 
in 12-inch pots, with upwards of Ta dozen frui E 
Joseph Murdoch, Trank Hall, St. Helen 
;, 
ond.—This weather makes every one lon ng A 
to have adip. Isend 
a 
Last Somerset. pn artist (see a sane page) 
me particulars rrespondent’s 
pairn The depth of ti the Pi at the dee 
is 5 feet. The poni a may be of any size, and the y 
tent suppo: n rods allow of the canvas“ 
being rolled up me ses Eps. ] E 
TE Moth (Cossus). —Your answer to a corre — 
t last week, instructin 
ans of a hoo 
milar 
pests h eal p rogresh the — 
difficulty ge ong pa for the hooked: -wire ri are 
The clear soil, &c. 
arow ay mh ons od then to eh x kind . basin a 
around the bole with clay, working it u und — 
to the assumed height of borers, and keeping ae i 
inlets to their holes open as a matter of course. a 
fill this basin with snap-seaiia arm —— it filled å fora 
ve 
few epeh ich will dr rown the inmates, I 
quently Rs ed oe +> yringi 
suds up their runs by m ade 
ofan ordina 
loney-de belie La me to offer my mph 
of this Shinde I have not time to look up and 
see wheth not tT am inv pirati 
one likely I am, for a a is 
so obvious that it must have oce o many 
befor e honey-dew is the jnica of the plant — 
exuding under the Ltn hee hot sun and 2 
