180 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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[Aucust 8, 1874. 
em i. certain sorts, equally good either as show 
sums up with these words, ‘‘and 
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and shape required there shuts out 
best sorts for garden d i T hows 
naged ge a 
as at present mai encourage breeding for shape 
and size, without any As Sesh to habit and constitution, 
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m arme, grows 
freely enough, but I h ften looked over hun- 
dreds of eget of this sort when in full bloom ‘before 
I could find one clean Sg satisfactory flower. isle 
mi nent for belied. ma: show a bloo: 
r blooms, but for the garden I prefer infinitely 
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thi glorious masses of reas me Plantier 
he production of “ts 
sens te bloo have aimed at one, is another 
matter ; a com son of the amateurs’ stands of p 
times, and of the last two or three years, not only at the 
metropolitan bat. Ses local Rose clubs and shows, prove 
o have troubled peered a EEY 
here and there fie examples have not taught i 
I am not sure that I understand this, but om it means 
that the exhibition of single flo ores and small groups 
the 
S Serv “‘high educational purposes” (?) of 
the florist, surely the exhibition of — will aly 
serve the “high educat ional purposes” of the 
scape gardener. It is amusing to & Mr. George 
Panl claimi fi hi coll the m 
eaching amateurs by exhibiting, and planing well 
an the ** proofs” SH that they ‘‘have not taught in 
Where are the oa? pomela 
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in the amateurs’ Coats due solely or principally to 
ng So pa I- thi 
owing, 
the s, the conversations he holds with 
his p s—amateurs, nurserym an 
npma count for thing. By look- 
some 
sta: oses he may learn h 
oa them, but cannot learn by that means how to 
grow them 
Paragraph Ly telli us that the writer and others 
~ could produce double and pic! the quantity of 
- flowers of which this garden w. - a8 
E D have not even er peda a like 
A . blooms might be cut 
almost any day in July rok vipi of Roses mer 
ing in my nurseries, — Sag in conclusion, 
I do not gri exhibitors apid or yon to depre 
cate their efforts. Honour should be wher: 
f these 
owing. 
' Waltha eae Crass, 
consciousness that I am ex- 
‘own ion ale Da but that of aye 
ose, ind me to ent 
idy ocated i in the eae < of 
‘hat tbe Rose has made the last t 
to attrib ch a eile deans 
the in the seed- 
aa Dier (good as ds oneg e ose te er 
aaea aa HE bas Deca 2 and Pp x 
mode of exhi add to the value of our | 
Eear that I conceive is in point? The 
visitors to a ay be prised under the 
a place 
see 
the hat can be exhibited for the 
‘Purpose (though they may never exhibit) a adding 
-any of your subscribers could “pai m me how the 
4 their olection, and those who are real con- 
isseurs. is quite zA that neither of the two 
latter aes would be nefite ae a 
to have Roses exhibited in the masses zos 
powers anality could never by taken into 
se, ount, to the beau sad of eo arrangement 
may look very handsome—I dar doe 
alitvo h ae I have seen ‘er Bou rei aes 
similarly managed 
ee that by daylight it would after 
looking at, while the amateur who would see 
pale mass of flowers huddled together could learn 
othing 3 and as e hr ing more natural than the 
resent system, it mply as sgnir to see 
20,000 Roses huddled together on the ground as 
see rejoice to think that the 
thing is impracticable ; sA societ; 
kage enough to tempt n 
er Rose shows are cee and t 
an poe fêle or something of that T kind, it could not 
be done. In the season there wer 
offered at one place a prize of £ 20, at another a silver 
cup and £10, at another £20, or seventy-two Roses, 
recy tes within 
ely to spoil 
‘aul aki of, 
memory does not dwell. = ue with much 
delight. D. Deal. 
Cucumis Anguria,—I should fe1 Ta obliged if 
fruit 
of Cucumis Anguria, me for 1870, 
p. 210, wi is said to ry ig prin Ni A ingredient 
in the Wes pickle, is pre sess 
several t of it, and they are now fruiting, but 
1g ignorant of the method of trea eating them, am 
anxious ~ obtain some particulars with regard t 
process, should esteem it a favour to be advised 
thereon. "H. W: c 
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of so many Potato plan er i am 
flowers nor fruit is a certain sign of an impaired con- Potatos mA Abel _ at wee 
stitution.” This sentiment was imp’ nme SEN hd gga: = arate 
long ago as in 1 en not a single me surprising y e plan je = more oom 
discover on any of the various old sorts of Potato 29 t baat ume a a B e 
grown by me at that period. However, on removing | P&4's to nave Be Bege Bre he 
Sha stds of somè Rack ws, for the p of | is “a step in ght direction to overcome 
taking up the crop, which was badly dise I diq | malady, and it strikes me that if the societies pea 
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find a solitary, half-ripened fruit, lying on the ground, ee eo ga shows for bunches i 
ched from the stalk. This I kept until the seed | PET"!ES, Just 1n the same mann d 
tured, a ase. of Tomatos, an would be attended with "o E aier “o 
sowed it the following year. Several plants were = ean Abiienteust oa i z å; sak ó 
ised from it, and I continued the propagation, from ne l . ree i skend ce age et fromi 
the tubers produced, for r two after; but as | t ai 2 HA eee . 
lie ete te Loe ted; most likely competitor, guaranteed to be of his A pig 
owing to the eona of the mas I Sesoutinnes for trial at C oe anywhere else = pete 
their cultivation. my the —— to ecided, as in = present ¢ l 
ditian eee igation iat Tiot Ehaã:d 1877, or, better y in 1887—it- would, in my: 
ne — raising of : pe nly far nie conducive to 
until 1870, wa it being a favourable for the | Success, but given mach less trouble. 7. Z. , 
Potato crop, I found among the old varieties, a con- i 
mare number of berri es, adhering to the stalks, in Peaches. —I have Mr. Rivers’ three early Peaches _ 
decal is: induced: me: | DAN Rivers, Early Beatrice, and Early Louise. gi 
again to try my seed system, so I accordingly sowed | T all out-of-doo aa: d et oe ult eko g 
f ith placed oe h pin fon wall, ced the fowl on Prod ers ath oinik" re 
arch ransfe > ar. ve R 
E Be eat a ereoped, si poe pd tg _ has blossomed abundantly, has never a "one fruit. 
ici were WR dolant a kari Deia as three and set one 
first , inoran a p r | fruit this year, small, and ripe July 19. The Early ee 
foot from a Pant t to Sit iy — disturb- has here three yea ge ete r 
ing the roots. By this treatment he mbes p last year, and also this SA it was ripe Ti ly 23- 
attained a good size for the, table oe Git Ihave no doubt, therefore, for out-of-doors it is the 
bomini in ao behold ; but only Ey few | best by far of the three. The frait is very handpotip 
retained’a likeness to parent q being vour. delici I recommend seni 
i cece others ihe parent is agrees what my friend and correspondent, - 
meri of Tue Mr. Kaane told me some years back Theatr i w 
was < Peaches and -Nectarines, both indoors and erg ick ir 
state; but nearly aeg: L have had for six or sea Jea cs aid 
black spots on their foliage till a fortnight or three ing, so watt was spring. Ihave _ 
weeks after the old varieties had suceutsbed. te the | good crops on the east and west, as well as on the 
d whether or not it was ugl iSi south walls, W. Pegada T Doiie. ca z 
from the. , appeared at all, cap { aae 
to say. The best of the tubers ol Dipl luti 
in 1871 were planted out in gi in the usual way, mending this (p. 111) you state ` that it aly es 
the from these—being use treatment. Will soa 
—was , the oats acetone content. eae 
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