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GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 203 
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swelled after the early ones had been destroyed. 
— where they were well managed last year are 
u ing and 
i s af early Apples, ra as s a E arly Har- 
xe , Qua ade A &e, b f Co a ins, eh 
ears, again, are more toa upon such old 
as Beurré Rance, Chaumontel, Catillac, &c. 
William ite Halenine, Ess 
ais The tis hee Trogi season I ever knew. 
In spring our riciepeet ere great ; Pears, Apples, 
lums, an and Cherries, pera looked bett ter, and were 
_ many trees that were covered with bloom not pra fruit 
= wasset. Of Apricots, where protected, we have an 
abundant crop, but — not protecte ted t they nt a 
are. Peaches and Nectarines oe e fair crop where 
protected, a failure PEE DIS otected. D. Lumsden, 
Biaxin Hail, Sleaford, Lincoln. 
—— I covered our Peach, Nectarine, and Apric 
_ trees with old fishing-nets, in two thi cknesses, o 
ey i asa kieg state they are very useful for tarts, 
they are also good for the same pur- 
pose, sides pee used for atone “i ard as to pre- 
‘serve. the den where old- 
established Peach trees cover the wale “ crop is 
very heavy indeed, fishing-nets karia bee i here 
Ha. 07; 
vrfar. 
—— All fruit crops nienti in this part from early 
wing frosts and from late frosts in May and June. 
eaches and Nectarines were very much c a i frost, 
and the trees much blighted owing to Sid nights and 
All the first blossom on Deed was 
> 
—— Apricots are an average crop, though small 
some extent, in consequence of he dryness of t the 
and partly from the usual austin of always 
i è peg ty are set. This isan 
e most favoured so 
Kempster 
adc! 
S a vee and | Frogmore Late Pine are my favourite 
unately pe up the Knight’s Elton 
oho that the Frogmore Late Pine would 
>a good ssi; ; I find that I must institute 
discarded one again—the Frogmore Late Pine 
displ: % erv 
are bearing a good crop, but my Muscadines are 
meds failure this year ; 1860 and t 
t 
the Grape on the peek walls have A na 
Fenn, Woodstock, Ox 
parade Bigs 
pe Se ae 
but the iss ie g isa a: pea if it as well 
as the fruit after they were set 
Victoria being the 
a Castle, Per 
n this pa 
Aaa ame such a 
Between wold Might, [rosty mornings, ‘drought, 
and Saanaa nic ine, the 
has been consu 
bee Se has visita us 
ed to 
powder. 
mora for yh Serpent 
ed 
Tovtorth Gloucestershire 
resting to thas 
Hawthornden 
c 
trees bear in an 
and they tyra i iy have borne fae ot aa 
the fruit 
high co 
‘ae 
and oat but not a hen The same re 
apply to em T of other dea here ieee 
e the 
feat in "Mar an e had mri ins 
e G a? pe Lower p eaa Pork, Stratfor ihi. 
Avo 
hitchen garden i in general, it sone 
for successiona ` T gore 
and even som 
F. Miller, kenber, Netis 
A 
“none 
winds ; trees 4 
another re ess Bred Aa, die cui 
Park i neg 
ve eat t crops upon our walls soa og are 
Peaches, Nectarines Cherrie S, 
ix 
following ri 
er place were made git 
“ ROXMURGH.— Apia 
fair 
fen only ky south and 
ard $3 
mall fruits 
yoy none. or Tarii, Pan Gai aa 
| ee or glabrous state of the bu ee 
lose or glabrous fil 8c. 
iall Gre Ga age pelts 
frie not one half T —_ 
ne ee ee * “Nats 
be. 
ooseberries, Raspberries, and Strawberries : a very 
a= crop. Figs and Nuts: almost a failure, 
G. A. Sims, The Gardens, Holmewood. 
Hotices of Hooks, 
THE current nego of the Geographic 
“sine contains a warm appeal on behalf of a Cane. 
ron Ex 
other articles, including a summary of the voyage of 
im jon ger from t ape de Verde Island west 
zilian coast, and thence again east 
to sg c p g o e way at various little- 
known At Inaccessible Island, a sho 
istance from Tristan da Cunha, and about midway 
between the south-eastern coast o Ame 
od 
a food, and some Potatos 
and seeds which they had brought with them yielded 
vegetable pors The reinaan p by th 
n were naturally grea one ey had 
aa their last Potato ae the next aay og fnale 
pe and commenced to lay their eggs, 
which afforded them a 5 aap ly of food, The male 
penguin it appears arrives before the females and 
prepares the nests for the latter, who, on arrival, at 
once commence laying. Having embarked the two 
Germans and their little ae a the ‘ae a 
distant 
mercifully, and their beaks being sharp and strong, it re- 
quired good boots to protect a b, mind rom their age ee 
that of a pig being killed and a kid that had lost its 
ening. : 
they had to stop to ki ck the virds. It 
mpossible to estimate the number of birds, as, 
tbokiig down from the su pri of - of the outlying 
islets, every square foot of gro med to have os 
penguin, There must have tice waiens of them. 
the evening all returned to the ship ere ty disgusted 
with their day’s experience of penguin life.’ 
The Sixth Annual rari on the Noxious, 
Fadda, and other salie nsects of the State of Missouri, — 
by Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist, is a í 
ment i and one 
isso valuable, that we its length ‘ 
aah oe our extracting it sais in hi oh present issue, 
shall, however, from time to time, ve other 
o 
ee and to show the immense benefit that a 
of s cience re mord on his fellows xi asat z 
ofa st like this, the e a of 
oe on 
had to be pw 
— a iat woes ery ourna a oc tn a 
Society just issued (botani a 
or | Socia just on a new African genus iepr ostemaceze, 
_ A. Weddell, M.D. ; and the other an import- _ 
ant and valuable paper on "the genera and species >i 
Tulipez, " Mr. J. G. Baker. The six genera mono- 
na ed are all of interest to horticulturists, and 
include Lilium, o of whic 
in 
presence or absence of a distinct sty 
