AUGUST 22, 1874.] 
THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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i Park, gene agree examples of Venn’s 
Black Muscat Grape, which, it wi 
l n Messrs. H. Lane 
& Son sent specimens of Pearson’s Ferdinand de 
Lesseps Grape, and a seedling white variety with round 
“og _ r is alluded “ei in another 
arl 
ies o 
colum egr opsall 
Hull, o phe a kis of good Pein hes gps 
Nectarines gathered pa. r — last Fa pine y 
account tle ch will be e. arge w iie 
elon, grown from see ra tees, — from 
Africa b y Sir’ Samuel Baker, and which p 
M 
seedlin 
Cucumbers Land Aruah before the eansdnisien, Sit 
passed ov 
The Great apg noes Flower and ire 
Show at Belfast: Aug. 20 and 21.—We learn by 
ph as we are a to press that this pve has 
far surpassed the expectatio 
n, have never 
_ surpassed. 
won by Mr. Magee, gr. 
es 
eaviest bunch of white — 
s Seedling, weighing 15lb. Every depart 
of ihe show is well filled. 
Soe 
We eston-super-Mare a n e spp 
Orticultural: August Ther e few pais 
eral character and pps Fe hich a 
with a floral exhibition than the Paan 
k 
ut far in dis of many pen 
A 3 
pacious tents, which w crowded 
he afternoon. Th v8 ` 
has the effect of bringing on 
prizes offered h t the p 
pal growers in the west of the kingdom, on a n this 
he competition in the principal c 
the cl 
E 
zen spikes, the flowers 
3 a nice pare coccinea, aes the 
now seldom seen Clerodendro: 
n h the 
exhibits of this description sometimes seen would lead to 
the hin sve was the highest aim i 
tor Cut flower: 
season, coupled with the 
dry weather, they were not so good as 
otherwise they would have been. Da 
fine condition for so early in the 
Mr. Walker 
nies and well up. 
good; those from Messrs. Kelw Son (Ist) were 
eat Seg some = r seedlings being wonderfully 
ne. Verbenas ere remarkably well 
done. Ho ina: not individually large, but diaa 
Stove and greenhouse cut flowers, shown in bu 
this advan ason Sra ia at the majority of shows, 
with wivaiitage exten 
Fruit was shown erase ‘quantities and good con- 
dition, on ally Cherries, of bee ha 
ishes were exhibited of Mor 
rats hes & nd Nectarines were fiat in colo 
vegetables were — in 
be expected fro 
Correspondent. 
might 
he locality, very good. From a 
The People’s Garden, cei Oak Common, 
Willesden: August 1 i — Encouraged by the great 
i the ibina held on 
success which June 13, 
the board of directors of this place of popular resort 
a ae another Sadia on the ve date, an 
had a 
the went er was 
what of its roughness on the pore | day. Unfor- 
nue the permanent tent ether over- 
wded with exhibits, for the Frka of the wind on 
the previous day was of such a character that all 
ttempts to put up a se tent were rendered 
abortive. It was only by the regalia of 
nge- 
staged, but the 
vitable over-crowding detracted ak from the 
the grounds of 
People’s of the hill there 
is T ! aei fl ot seen from n 
at Wes n Rail way—looked very gay indeed, a 
capedally x va this true of some s of Petunias, that 
were erir mkd bright and P A under the mid- 
The soil on the exposed hillside is of a 
ay 
alae ais, which, when well worked, will be found 
i iti diffi- 
t ve gener usly nourishing qualities. The 
culty of gardening in such a place consists in getting 
tr plants to establish themselves ; but, once 
— they can eey fail to do well. It 
ould be stated, to the credit of Mr. Scrivener, the 
= g , that each time th 
garden is poet b more finished 
appearance ; but it requires a man energy 
amis ubted pluck to fice and resolutely overcome the 
poa difficulties on Old —— Commo scion 
ced and overcome by the present puede 
as a Eliro: of six, 
ish a 
Burley, of Bridgewater 
dactylifera, Cycas revoluta, Yucca aloifolia variegata, 
Phormium t Dicksonia antarctica, and I 
Acton, and oth Soi "nice Zonal lors 
goniums were ‘staged by one aitor ; and Mr. T: 
m Road, up of 
those nicely grown and col: gold and silver edged 
Tricolor Pelargoniums for which he is so famo 
were a few classes for cut flowers, but they 
were generally indifferent shows. Bouquets and 
nicely done ; athe some ee 
staged some Eg henas of Foster’s Seedling. 
Cucumbers ns were both plentifi 
ithstanding the 
prosa looks strong, clayey, and wet, it appears to 
get tab 
the practice of the directors to present a season ticket 
for the current year to each exhibitor at their shows. 
Th Villa Garen. 
Every villa ought to have its piece of Kir 
GARDEN, though it is ee a the juliet M now- 
a-days, in planning and laying ou to villa 
residences, to act as if the ick. garden was the 
main, and the kitchen garden the secondary, con- 
sideration. The garden ought to be the recreation 
ound of the house, and where there are children in 
e— 
han is ari imagined 
own sake, and for the sake of 
goniums, and other popular flowers. Hence, they 
villa residence mat pes 
and it may be taken, if not as 
type of what might be autocad | in cs autumn, 
An oblong piece of ground admits of three lines of 
pyramid fruit trees, six trees in a row. Cherries and 
Plums constitute the entire line—nice trees, in a good 
bearing state, 6 to 8 feet in mph by a corresponding 
Bi 
breadth. Ma uke, eau, and Late Heart 
Cherri t bore ae t k pea alternate Fie 
ngelina t, Jefferson’s, and Victoria Plums, 
all well cropped—the y all gathered, but 
a fine h lark, lusci Plum, any one 
might feel d to place on their table amid the 
essert. Je s Plum is very fine, a y 
y to ga The Cherries and Plums have been 
kept pretty in during the summer. 
had been kept shorten 
thumb to two or three ey: 
boon light, resting on ge ghar subsoil, the p 
mulched with cowdung early in the su hse 
A good layer, broken up into small pieces, was 
occasionally a 4-gallon can of water, in 
ee — a about } lb. of Fowler’s 
given to each 
Fae the pareseh Pet this little fruit garden 
should be proud of his Plums is no 
stra rival in appearan 
e of the centre line of siete ce comes in a row 
Apples and Pears ted alternately ; nice young 
ramids, just getting into a good ng co! i 
Of vis have oe Cellini Pippin, Hawthornden, 
Suffield, Cox’s Orange Pippin, s King, © 
and one other; of P Louise Bonn Jersey, 
Jersey Gratioli with meaz fine fruit, Bon Chiétien, 
ares y and o se pak flanks this 
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