AUGUST 15, 1874.] THE 
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1874. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Aug. 17— Hunslet Great Floral Show 
Aug. 18— Shine e Horticultural Society's Show. 
rR roar at oe Meeting Ma 
and F a ipare tee, å 
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: Keevil Cis} Horticult ai Society’s Show. 
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 19- oe tie Society’ gs Show 
— a cultural Society’s Ex- 
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a Deal and W faker’ ia dou 
è eal an er Horticultu iety’s 
Taurspay, Aug. 20- A 
Ae elordwat Horticultural Society’s 
L Rea eog Horticultural Society’s Show. 
i Horticultural Society's Show (two 
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Aug, 214 Eastbourne Horticult sa Society’s Show. 
Sale of several Collections of Natural His- 
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details with which they furnish us ma 
be taken to fairly ch sar the fruit 
F of the current year. In general terms 
wt may be thus summed u up oe ah 
n posila w ba time sie 
eri were soon over. Cherries fur- 
= average ‘Supply, ar Morellos were 
i and Nectarines, s 
scanty, Small 
e A sa fairly well, and in places = 
fruits, including Raspberries and white and red 
Currants, have been plentiful ; but black Currants 
have been deficient, and the bushes have suffered 
severely from insects. Nuts of all kinds are 
below the average. Looking back „to the 
heat, during which fruit trees made great pro- 
gress. In May, and even in June, late frosts 
occurred, which did much damage to some 
things, but which left others unaffected, pro- 
bably because the fruit was well set before it 
occurred. We had no monopoly of these late 
pem for in the middle of May, in the Vine 
growing districts of Burgundy, the Vines were 
especially the white Mulberry, there grown for 
the sake of or leaves, used as food for silk- 
worms. Later on in the season, the drought 
that prevailed senceally throughout the country 
effected much mischief. On the whole, the 
fruit harvest may be pronounced T over 
average. Itis, however, much to be etted 
= fruit culture is not more Cecair as 
n this country, where numberless waste 
rts adil be turned to good account in this 
way. The scarcity and high price of fruit in 
towns is really a reflection upon our cultivators, 
though it is probable they are not so much to 
blame in the matter as the salesmen and the 
dealers. In any case we must to a large extent 
be dependent on the Continent for our supplies, 
and this leads us to comment on the want o 
loading of the trucks in the South of France 
with small wooden baskets of Cherries, to travel 
with them to Paris, and thence vid Boulogn ne * 
London. How many times the baskets wer 
tossed about from hand to hand in their arial 
changes of carriage we should not like to say. 
What we saw on Boulogne quay may serve as 
a sample. On arrivingat the station the baskets 
a xt morning, sitting in our 
ame Pana piled up on a seg moeren 
on their ri i aid ent G . the 
fruit sattains such rough treatment on so SE 
a journey is matter for surprise ; and that mu 
= it is quite unnecessary is shown by the ahem 
nce of crates and cranes which might have 
peci utilised, but were not. 
* Of the kinds most generally adapted v8 cul- 
tivation in different scaling: information, for 
which we pane find space in card “pres ent 
number, will be given in our next issu 
THE POTATO CROP, of which, through the 
courtesy of our correspondents ee the 
length and breadth of the kin 
enabled to furnish a detailed report, affords 
matter for congratulation. There appears to 
be a good average crop, and very little disease, 
The tubers are often small, and in some cases 
are “grown out or super-tuberated,” but taken 
a whole the crop is a good one, especially in 
land. Some of our correspondents kindly 
ats us with their opinions as to the most 
suitable varieties for their respective localities— 
information which, we are sure, will be rea 
with — 
oO 
— WE learn that Lord Eien oh oe referee 
who jo “kindly undertook to reer matters 
lately in dispute at 
decided entirely i 
—— The approaching resignation of Dr. J. A 
Gray of his office of the ka er of the zoological 
departs of the British Museum is announced. It 
is difficult to over-estimate the value and number of 
the services rendered pA Boon L EEUE alike to 
botanical and zoological sc 
— According to cere vm seo a Maga- 
Mr. Cross, whose let be these co when 
collecti ting Cinchona seeds a: ew Gralla rv Mr. 
MARKHAM = "a opire by many of our 
readers, has r aib rama a An visit to South 
merica, and k MOA to publish an account of his 
wanderings. 
—— Mr. RILEY, in his a, aa aes for the year 1874, 
as State Entomologist of Missouri, elsewhere referred 
to, completes the istry of the Yucca MorH (Pro- 
u sella). time Mr. RILEY con- 
sidered that the rs ten sited its egg on the 
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flowers are ful ly opened and perfect during a single 
evening and night only, and ki is daig this, the first 
nig 
vules.. Mr, RILEY satisfied himself by experiment 
that no other insect but the Pronuba effects the fer- — 
tilisation, and w. of other insects is prevented 
no fruit is produced. 
—— We learn that the entries for the Great Inter- 
national Fruit and Flower show, to be held on 
B 
900 in number, an represent above 1300 p 
agp A of the largest ate pas nine dozen R 
and Grapes enough to go round the ey Pa the 
ingest oe . all that are ikg put in an a - 
rnish sufficient pad ai herie the 
pe p addition ta holding the large exhibition 
‘ground in the Botanic Gardens which the the North Py 
beer Morticaltural Society has hitherto found 
on A ined the 
pe aa nade t 
the Lisburn SEa 
ead of the price of admis- 
sion on the first day being fixed at half-a-guinea, as 
the case in other places where such exhi- 
Uas had been held, the man ngen Gite wisely 
rought down the amount e 5s. if bought on the day, 
. 6d. if purchased before Tuesday night next, Fine 
weather only seems to be now r Airi e the 
—what we hope it bene) abe 
means at a 
bak ‘ince ought to attend ‘his efforts, Itis to 
hoped t ea lees a ots fall will not entirely prevent 
o fulfil the office of teacher in 
the aistter ‘of Orchid R &e. 
e suspect there are so few of our readers 
— allies the beautiful ORCHIS MACULATA under 
cultivation, even in its ‘season of ti 
that were we to ask ‘ Have any of our readers’ 
to forsee?” T ET 
pains. Nevertheless, we understand that oie on bed 
at 
amenable t: 
o such treatment, that Messrs 
COCKER & Sons, of Aberdeen, force batches k = 
nually. This firm 
eenhouse, th i 
nisema A aidea tek tment being in all re. 
spects the same as for Hyacinths—and they meiit 
grow and flower quite as free pa 
—— Some experiments of an interesting nature 
e (says ae pom ia on Saturday last at 
wer the 
Godstone with the Rev. Dr. JONES patent for — 
rendering Woo n Incoknusr IBLE. Dr, JONES ren- 
wood , and also impervious 
uninflammable, 
deca ecay, by 
