A Horticultural Heresy : 
pan ts of dr 
inde 
poi os a ONA too i 
ope i 
: =“ 3 ? 
146 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avucusr 1, 1874. 
scale the Broussonetia in the centre of Europe? Its 
the same as that of Mulberries ; the v vege- 
n also deserves attention, as has 
is always dar ofam 
substance, voile as the ro 
tI 
gent material—the sa f Dio &c. ? 
M. Bernardin’s Re Pht of the Vi ate Fy # ‘hibiti ton. 
Home Correspondence. 
Size of Fruits.— 
r appeare 
oniy apts ~ the points of the shoots which oaii 
be 
e spared ea and were cut away as they appeared, 
a pair : scissors some rapidly over veering This 
being our usual t su egulation, I find 
co 
strong liquid given. I 
unadvisedly, or everywhere—for ore where 
an fr a 
can -be hacer ses 
thant pened : 
overeropping of trees in 
ne great cause of fruit 
vour does not 
it this does gen 
: a: Thomas Dikit, Bia nnt Hoi a, 
[s 
: Ten m: if so, with what? Eps.] 
On the other 
ent kind, 
who 
nomenclatur i 
pedia of Gardening) $). says rar name jam 
n in Peas. —Last A i I saved some 
m 
colour. Could you possibly, in th 
number, inform as to the cause of 
this curious phenomenon? 4 Puzzled Po a iy 
specimen ? ld t have been 
Crystal Palace French Bean. —I have 
light soil in a very dry 
some kinds were ol ey 
attaining any size, Osborn’s cially. ji look 
jed this variety with asin favour, and shall grow it 
extensively another y The are Jong, nar- 
fiy. is a good 
‘and tender „and it 
kind, but ker hand, sy ai 
Its commo 
in France are Bacille, Caesar Fenouil de mer 
ag Fennel), Perce-pierre, 0 r Casse-pierre, the last 
muna from its ts growin a by i it 
rom t 
a sS in February. 
assign to it virtues of : differ- 
n names 
corruption of Sampier, and this again a corrup- 
tio the French name, Saint Pierre. He ver 
properly calls Salicornia herbacea, Marsh Samphir 
entions Golde hire, Inula crithmi 
hores, gene 
which is occasionally 
rought to Covent Garden market, 
had gy y. believed, been introduced iito the 
en 
—When at Heckfield a few da 
sincè I finas a Aa 
by Mr. Wildsmith; and of which too e n 
said. It is delicious in se ae elting, with a 
hin rind. It was not named then, but I gon the 
thin ri 
ee will or has passed into Messrs. Sutton & Sons’ 
hands. W. D 
of Pains and other Fruits,—I didn 
au 
“Sig 
sata erstand Mr. 
Siz 
ade to equal, if not surpass the Peach. By say 
time Mr. Paul refers to—the middle of June—the ey w 
beaten in the race to ripen the shad oes 
y Apples, Pears, Plums, Che ries, and Strawberries, 
although they had just the same treatment and house 
o growin. They will rs be ripe = ape son 
or six weeks My early house by the 
middle of May; it is acts ted entirely With Royal 
eorge and Noblesse h w off by 
G e, whic 
the middle of e 
d 
purposes. Bellegarde i is Ferida good 
it always swells off and colours 
I am 
oth 
esse, as ve grown these both 
early and late to that size here—a fact Toe be 
o seasons. I it that 
and y vay vigorous, but tha po 
each. We, like M 
many =n zen ey 
rs. We have an enormous coa on espaliers, 
Yoseph Mure The Gardens, frfa & Hall. 
t Mr. 
size of P 
is 
4 ihe four range . 
They were all pm off one tree—a small — 
second Peach-} E% w 
of last seas 
ea Balsa 
Myosotis diii have n been greatly 
dissatisfied with th 
With me here i 
al 
0 
— 
gR 
o 
EE 
+ 
HE 
5 
`~ 
f=] 
a raka ke onser- 
ae ara of which is ch ligh! 
in summer ; and in all these inst: g the last 
T have ngs T to secure two em 
bloo 
two 
worth looking at, so as bloom is concern 
ea out of bloom, whilst making growth, have b een 
t 
vi all patch, which has not been 
disturbed, looks as well as any I have seen, as if to 
ock my best efforts. Has London 
ch 
What says our 
ir.—I fully intended aban A to A. Forsyth at 
last week, but 
o th 
gt Sa 
(ag K 
Jo- | but also a a profound scholar, says in a note in his 
2 creek’ Testament to verse z &igdria, “Tulmudici | 
| Regent’s Park. Admitti ing that 
a 
ee Zonim,’ a degenerate Wheat, and which 
be reclaimed, ” © Genus ihe 
non erat abunde, verum degener, abat,” ‘quod - 
30, .§ ‘olvamt, the Rabbis s speak of itasa tree, § 
nigra; see Linnean Tran actions, xxii., p. 450: B 
beck, Flora Classic , P. 172.” The Maize cannot be the 
corn of a since (be eing an A plant) it 
as unknown to the Greek and Roman writers, and 
t z 
n rica, 
who very minute in describing the productions 
the countries ra visited, Bruce Mackey, Sita 
Oxo 
The Rose Display at the Regent’s Park — 
I note your article on Mr. Paul’s Rose Show — 
Mr. Paul for his c g arrangement of “th 
flowers, what would the effect ha ave been 
the thousands of plants supplied by Mr Wills, whi 
acted as so frame to the pi Roses 
You speak of the arrangement on gr ol 
the p How would the tent have looked without 
them? I think that r ills’ na should have 
been associated with that of M ’s in some way 
as having produced jointly one of = — — 
f floral displays the season. 
that Mr. Wills supplied the whole of the mae to. 
fill the lar arge tent on the occasion referii to. 
Visitor. 
displayed w S great, and ooms were most 
beilt ae beautiful ; the ee ne so far as 
juxtaposition of colour, was perfect; but 
were too many hard, crude the 
arrangement—not, perhaps, from any fault on Mr 
Paul’s part, but because the beds or banks on which 
the e arran 
‘flowers: wer ere very uneven, and the 
jars in which blooms laced could n 
kept upright. And then there were all the ugly 
jars to be wi no relief but the 
burnt t on h they were placed, slightly 
sprinkled over with sho have given that 
equired, every 
be 
ry 
and sinc owers = many of ~ i 5 e flor 
but these 
e tA 
supplied the occa- 
on f above eee to. Y. Wills, Royal Zane Tae 
Onslow Cresce 
"eta Daniel's Duke of einer 
and the uis of ne. 
orts of ‘iit Pineal Cominities of 
orti: Society, wing how ver 
i inii AR Deke or Eia 
that Daniel i 
