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msidered, In S. 
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212 THE GARDENERS [AUGUST 15, 1874, 
] ict letter I promised, if | suggested ort thus altering the sense ; and then trundle a ball across, as do the older varieties? Q 
ag hing e os: s spem er a n idea as to | ar oo ed the chwarden-like indignati ion of weit it more commonly fo » 4S mine are, free ote is 
fase shows, discussed at a pleasant eer of —_— nden = "Tt was but the record of a passing | ing as Lamb’s Lettuce, only larger, andas shy fom. 
at Exeter. Before doing s be | thought. There is plenty o ae proper for o 1 a ssum 
n, 
irable, and if so, fect Bet at 
my o] limited to this 
audatory 
=" your 
of Mr. 
competition. 
The merest t 
iness, are necessary to produc 
es paas, and these alone are the means u 
obtain exhibition bloo Such pla: “ig we exhibitors 
grow and sell ia our customers, and a fourteen years’ 
ing now personally ) tells me such 
preciated. Appended i 
2, 
5 
a 
Be 
S 
F 
FS) 
arden 
cr nal the aeni 
patting fo ward of a tak aak to the writer. Is 
it intended to make me feel and ap may, 
Copperfield felt in Mr. Littimer’s presen 
young”? “D. of Deal’s” letter in vaio of 
existing arrangements seems too conservative. Whilst 
fully ea as the outcome « of 
past practical experience, y some improvem 
of details can be effected. Our at Exeter 
bore on this gs ee same ee Taa seems t 
have struck Mr. W. us, viz., the 
great gain in freshness and beilliancy. of Soa apd i in 
showing the true form of the variet jes, | whi ich would be 
ob 
I happened to mention the remark of one of our 
leading amateur ex wero when looking at some 
reen 4 and 8 o o'clock, at 
B 
( D. o 
looks — by candlelight 
he exhibitors who 
ry, Newark, 
ondon in time tting 
same morning? Could we of "peer Slough, 
home nties, reach the coun 
instead of ‘mutually 
churches. George Paul, Cheshun 
write a few lines as an praa? to 
"D a a a -en All 
attempts to arrange tic A quasi- 
pare „groups are ren fatal to having a 
judgment formed with regard to the merit 
of ar ‘diferent stands or collections - Roses, 
iateet no eas at present, 
when, as at Birmingham, ten age enter for 72’s 
or thirty for 12’s, &c. Paley ould be the — 
if ah were no limits 
at 
aein peru way but 
little wiser than I went. The object seemed tobe to fill 
the tent with Roses, but quality q 
For insta ance, in one separate bed there 
Rose de Roi in ae Bers. then 250 Gloire de Dijon 
ame number of Souvenir 
an edging, and abou 
de la Reine Angleterre 
to say anything against the attempt of OTE for 
effect for evening parties, ball-rooms, &c. hope 
the tim y be far 
o that the present plan can we 
improved on, C. P. P. 
American Blight.—I can sympathise with Mr. 
Davison in his trouble with the American blight. 
The espalier Apple trees here are more or less covered 
with it thi ar; last year there were but two or 
three cases. me the trees are, I fear, past 
n 
I am inclined to favour your corre- 
’s opinion, viz., that the dry season has had a 
do” a it. But p Sn 
ly my es inte or 
saat it, the a a arem os 
titi i 
senha state from blight and a ih some of the 
eer be a leaf on. Æ. Bayman, Holm- 
D orkin 
ees it comfort your correspondent, Mr. 
Davison: White Cross Nurseries, Seog oat to know 
that others are suffering like hi melt e have nt 
ar troubled with American nibs have this 
It attacks small as a large ` matte 
Erè drift of Te lanted e =e 
ag te much a We with 
Lightfoot Lubricating "il, $: kid er which 
is a thick green paraffin oil. F. Cheal & Sons, 
Lowfield ae” PCr awley, Sussex, [Dressing w with 
machine oil see o be a perfect remedy, and doe 
no injury to thet bak: Eps. ] 
pre Pear Rass de l’Assomption.—Can you 
y of your readers give their experience in the 
fruiting of ke Peat Beurre de I’ / ses t ? Itcameto 
eat flourish of trumpets ; but although I 
Have bad had it it sey or six years, I have not had a fruit from 
it—indeed, it won’t ripen its wood out-of-doors. The 
Souvenir du Congrés I first-rate, and deserving 
that has has been said in its praise. 7. G. 
tis aeres have to thank my 
to the flowerin; 
tetan 
heads level as a table, ad i 
mn are 
city of bloom: 
S a 
but happy circum- 
vith the glowing accounts I have 
al about it. . Willian Earley 
Lilium auratum.—I have at 
ave present in 
pees i these bulbs, a few of them Pa 
ear’s 
reason of the 
posi if of frequent occurrence, and are these routs 
worth propagating? Archibald Walker, Auchter- 
muchty, Fife. 
Glycyrrhiza glabra.—The rhe eee in 
(Liquorice plant) was never neg n Scot 
land until about ten eas en $ aove in my 
garden, and also at same time in eR 
Botanic m Edinburgh For the second time it 
is now in fine r in my garden. Perhaps of 
your readers ‘will ‘kindly — me if t 
often in Engla A 
W: 
At Chelsea it rarely fails to flower. Eps.] 
Reports of Societies. 
anchester Botanical and nenet E 
The “Nations 1 Carnation Society : gust 78. 
n extra meeting was held in E gardens at Old 
Trafford a n the inly ee a 
ted ara of giving opportuni ty for a ‘rew ento tl 
Lise the National Carnation Society, which, 
though Ù it tis Lee somewhat in a 
w years now likely to revive, and t 
its old wAY: chiefly through the active ai erai 
of the Rev. F. D. Wonner, : Kirkby Malzeard ee 
i t would seem ; 
t 
ra to resid n th wo coun 
hence we find the ikii belonging to 
The “tending among them were Mr. B. 
heffie as done 
e Carnation than pr 
events in Fie ort 
wick, ee 3 
Mr. Thos, 
Faisworth ; Mr, 
Gor toi Eccles; rt 
Todm one : and the itidefatigable: ai riria 
Fenai him About Ro blooms were 
staged, way, certainly nothing could 
and, 
be me benttifal “that the exkibitiegs the ee 
being, in ever 
did not appear ght for phar 
na Ante f oh wate given fo 
ranch A of twelve, six, and three, in the 
classes remier honours 
Mr. Simonile, Mr. Booth, Mr. Lord 
low. To the ~ on, to the intri 
of everything that was exhibited w: 
the absence tae f yellow w-grou 
suggest a l inquiry as to w 
receive relatively so smal 
ter e hands of cultivators, 
at could be learned on inquiry, ‘shit 
gress has made with ne pen by formet 
` attentio oncentrated upon 
them, to th 
of the yell bjectio 
are more tender, an , in unfa 
hat late and stirs in blooming, 
abeyance for oa = 
p 
white-ground rere but edict of Peis pomi 
o have been Get 
