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FUE 
GARDENERS 
GHRONICLE, 
[AUGUST 22, 1874, 
kind as possible be so placed.. The Cogs Risk an 
in rich unctuous loamy soils, and in - 
into inconceivably sm 
» square, 
planed, yet ye eai tubs, Evideni 
season. N 
tly aie were Eger 
wing 
young plants will keep in 
and ta 
&e W t grow over them, or 
ater ‘kinds of cepin plants ? 7 Villiam Earley. 
American Blight.—I observed in your paper of 
at» mei an article Sim Mr. Geo mes Re enc White 
ord, 
rsery, wher 
Appie tries being jakte Hap blight. 
affected !—thirt 
ossible vigor- 
ous healthy growth, to be the cni Trai for all 
ples or blight of any kind, 
a rst Show 
knowledge of the 
judge nor se ce I meee read with con- 
discussion 
siderable interest the - Rose shows 
going on i ew iitelligent minds will 
lispute the statement that ‘‘ controversy,” conduct 
in a spirit i fair-play, and with the 
esign of eliciting only the truth, is an important 
element in pr as w a proof of wholesome 
vitality in the topics concerning which it is carried o 
ust not, however, be one- , Nor must the real 
how 
points of the discussion be lost sight of. Neither of 
ese latter ate raat, in ae sya bl 
o be ved b 
h the presen 
i of showing although a je 
body of rosarians vnc yr armed circle of those 
interested in maintaini e system have long felt 
that the whole gaitas = Rose ‘shows 
reform. Nay, I venture to 
to cut 
from plan under glass, thus, to say the leas 
misleading t the pablie as to the iie character = the 
es presented to their vi It t be 
tien that, with trade e exhibitors, ‘en chief vase 
consists in Sier advertising value, as it is 
ba known that there are hosts of i ienced lov 
 Controversy.—As a rosarian | 
| the front trellis, all of w 
I must join issue. Does he mean to assert that 
such Rose firms as tho: 
o doubt the elgg A of plants mibjetiod to he 
cute of treatment he shadows forth, whic 
far more i ie e i 
rsery par. 
or less in danger, ill saapi to Rese 
f rem moval, aiid it is a sh even under the 
most favourable circumsta 
1 Rose show in 
be made in the 
AE just invested the m 
lings in a new set of th 
bling the med in which m r wares, 
or pastrycooks their pies dt which  ortentons 
outlay w e in vain were a ‘tee medium of dis- 
play introduced ; thus it i p S narrow sel interested 
considerations too often outweigh nec 
requi Sey on behalf of the publie — 
to ad a word or two with some other “ Volsci- 
ana” the Rose world, evidently “fttered ” 
your ERA ‘ editorial ” 
successful in 
not permi 
to ae upon the 
E 
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pE 
a 
a 
3 
eg 
ae 
a 
EH 
wish, 
eased to resume the subject er >  Fature 
D. Prior. [We are r readers 
will li Tike oo what can be sid on both idek of this 
questio: 
Reports of Societies.. 
Ro oyal e Aa ASi 
The J. Berke ley, when 
ards ide e by the Fruit Committee, 
ture. Messrs. H. Lan o 
white 2 Grape'y with a flav Bod r like 
that of honey, with a slight WAE t of em which 
was favourably r regarded. ith it a bunch of 
Mr. Pearson’s h brid d Ferdinand ae. Ta which 
e teten some, ko flavour being 
H- F r. Browne, to 
all Hal, Pietie Cult 
Commendation had been a arded fora 
and Nectarines, the ieiet in which was iso 
in the following note which acetenpaiisea th chim 
"í I herewith send for the i naaien, = the Fruit Com- 
eaches and N 
ined 
mittee a box of Pi es, not that they 
are of rdinary : pages sentient T 
moving large Peach and Ne rine trees. In this case 
| the trees were lifted in the middie of January last from 
the open wall, and transferred to a second early Peach 
house, three trees occ upying e Tack wall, and three 
l cover a space of 480 
superficial feet, whi ich will gi ve some idea of their si 
soil, and very light in texture, Iwas unable to to secure any 
ball of earth ess the 
carefully pre- 
y planted = good strong maiden 
eac 
ch Caseknife, 
white-seeded and 
> imes sold for it, 
vourable fc i 
W UA piiss lishing the results 
next 
Mr. Groom, gr. to the Earl of Str toke, Honam | in 
August 18.—Dr. Den ny 
M: 
ural 
box of Peaches i: 
Hall, " brought under the noti 
hich w 
white-fles 
of good qu 
same plant t has grown one of ne lb 
The flavour, remar 
elon, 
Alluding next to some subjects brought t the 
Floral Committee, Mr. Berkele 
from which ts name 
Decaisne had compared them to the 
which ornament the crown ei aspika barbi 
erum. With regard to gs of Vallota 
purpurea shown, he might 
to be gen 
in reapers vati 
been 
smaller form, figured i in the Botanic 
Mr. Worthin 
hands a drawing of the 
LORAL 
PF ls Paul & 
elegant form of the old ‘‘ perfumed Cherry,” with i 
Samuel Baker 
to the Earl of Stradbroke? F 
great size, Mr. resins m was very doub 
ality 
ob 
g 123 lb., 
a dar 
ce of the uie i * 
was grown 
tfal of its proving 
Heil was agrecabif — to find 
ey, was extremely 
bien Gnir than 
een tasted 
e, and it was a valde Melon 
to grow for pic-nics, being almost as juicy as a Water 
es 
er, and pre 
rom its 
rit of not 
y of the latter. ‘I 
7 the Annales 
erally known that ther 
‘on, Mest + purpurea majon, 
n the Botanical Maga 
a, Register 
on G. Smit 
llen grains of 
which are quite different from 
and i 
Commi TTEE.—Dr, 
imens of Cerasns S 
erasus Mahaleb 
lings of 
Mite, as an te did not 
swe and the 
ith had placed in his 
those of ordi- 
horn had said 
he rossed the plant and obtained 
gia but the results had ne to be proved. 
nny in 
Son, sare sans eight b 
e two 
which had- 
sia pro- 
the 
habit of the Kilmarnock Willow ; and Cornus’ 
arginata, a -edged variety, which has 
described as it to 
iene of Bout speciosa, a 
received from t 
green an 
Pea 
Tras 
a 
G 
cock, Esq., 
kii, 
eines 
Eeg, 
there were 
sacle coloured flowers on spike. 
wasacc Ikadi pre r 
fica! 
Plymou 
_ FRUIT Committez.—G. F. 
In the chair, Ss 
a nice collection of E opea S E 
Certi for the foll 
mouth, sent examples of their pe Ar 
thus Sapes which 
lasi and now ‘“‘ Commended for the 
was noticed in 
lue Ageratum, under the name of 
Wi a e specimen E 
ofthe ei u mal 1 Decabeloae aa 
lluded to s a another co 
E 
r. 
Bo Mus well Hill, cam = e 
the: ‘esi Cattleya Dowiana, 
five spikes, with two ee y ng and de 
srin” BI 
Mr. Sweeting, gr 
