270 LAE T 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[AVGUST 29, 1874. 
working rural life into our gardens, instead of, 
this 
which is a vital one to the ick stability and 
future prospects of  eeatate 
By no means the least successful part of the 
proceedings of the British Association at BEL- 
WER SHOW, held under the 
orth of I reland wide a ney 
G 
gra g to 
this exhibition, and we now supplement that 
notice by a more detailed account from our 
special correspondent. t own that on 
- the receipt of the telegram stating the weight of 
the bunch of Black Hambur 
by Mr. Hu 
at Lambton Castle, we suspected some error on 
the part of the telegraph clerk. It appears, 
however, that the figures were quite correct, 
and that a monster bunch Hii as 21 lb. 12 02 
was really shown. We believe nothing ap- 
proaching this has been shown in th e 
e Nice have 
¥ he. 
In 1858 it is re- 
the Xa iaie 
PAYNE, gr. to J. 
BEDELL, Esq., of Chelmsford, showed a bunch 
of the same variety weighing 8 Ib. 140z., but this 
poaae of four aise ‘all, 
Mr. 
f : Manin of i; 
in 1873 Mr. HUNTER showed at Mai 
-chester one bitch of Black Hamburgh bige 
ing 9} lb., and another weighing 13 Ib. 2 oz.— 
a eight thoroughly eclipsed by the 
monster shown at Belfast. The Manchestet 
show in September of last year was, it may b 
remembered, specially remarkable for the exhi- 
a pete Grapes, the weights being in many 
- Cases — € extra ordinary. 
'® 
interesting to know what cir- 
il or treatment ed 
on some inner cause TAN 
we are not able to fathom. The ee of all 
the other bunches on the cane—even were that 
tot ctised—would not very Materialy 
ncrea ise the size of the ean bunch. An 
mber of flowers are produced and 
ce, and removal of the 
not ir 
ee Well finished 
felt being: far more us 
alluding to. 
—A pe ae sends us t 
marks on the Pop 
Hi 
m phenomenal bunches as we have been | - 
any given shade by t the same name. Take, 
ptre č- t ica, PAXTON 
Ae case i I lately took a Dahlia to the 
Taunton flower show, and got thirty-two people to write 
on 
e down their opini unknown to the other. 
Th ese were, for maj nt ie mauve 5, pin uve 3, 
ink 3, dark pink 3, puce (flea colour !) 2, rose 1, 
solferino 2, prune 3, plum 1, violet 1, lilac I 
purple 1, I ha been informed that it is 
amaranth. Enclosed is a Dahlia from the same pla 
ERN 
ted refe: me object in imal, 
etable, and mineral kingdoms, would best answer 
the pu pos requ som SYME’S oe having been pub- 
he colours much 
very i less we 
canted foe! rs typical one. Mauve, so popular w 
per eae if it wer 
you hes Sonipetiint person ‘to undertake an 
ieee ig of the subject ?” 
We have received the asf from M. 
DECAISNE, the chef of the Jardi lantes :— 
‘* Lovers a E will Boab ate e pleased t 
Xantho ia 
to 
hear that eras sorbifolia introduced 
to the Paris kaa pi ich I have sent thi 
winter some seed Royal Gardens at Kew, has 
just podaced twenty iiis: which have furnished us 
th s ans of whic our 
=a : 
as classed in Chinese works among 
the edible trees ; but bei š 
M. GEOFROY, to whom T applied to obtain some in- 
formation on this subject, told me that the 
the seeds of Xanthoceras as 
ble ragus w 
ae that re inhabitants of the Celesti Epir are 
very particular, ooo as that they make their 
delicacies of the young stalks of t the Lucerne (Medicago 
ae : é 
sativa), ic p = as o Spi itho 
mentioning the pad use of Cedrela sinensis, the 
principal use of it to t EAR in our planta: 
— ere lately AR be at the last moment, 
from dang with a botanical friend, who has wreak 
his vengeance by siding us the following BILL 
Fa howing wha ‘*didn’t have for dinner !” 
when vegetable kingdom is a 
more Heath ‘hunting. -ground ” for eatables than the 
ngdom, we print it as 
if 
ot ask us again, if he 
come. We appreciate fully = 1e compliment paid us, 
„in the priority given to Flora 
sommé 
Champienns aux Fiets = Soles. 
ives aux Anc 
of Rhododendron in fu b a a are the 
the Castle, we 
e older, but scarcely so common or 
so pretty as a flowering plant, Veronica speciosa, 
e we may be excused 1 for calling attention toa 
emd by Her Grace g 
op pi ; 
| and against the system practised under 
stances we havenoright ordesiretodeclair 
who do not desire to see all 
— 
growing with the greatest luxuriance, 
ts broad, 
shining leaves render it a very handsom 
em ty € evergreen 
The 
RICCARTONI in ving 
pre Lao graeme: ‘Al al 
o 
E 
ah L 
fin 
gardens. 
lobo 
Sctsgunt and pretty a ram ist s ago, 
— Writing to the te on e 26th inst., 
hat Be a Says, TE well-known fact that 
UITOS have been Nase timer ty S ENGLAND 
(to his knowledge in London) since 1870. 
advise all who are aeea d by them at fp to plias 
near them a fresh piece of the en leavéd 
Pyrethrum [Golden Heverfew! so par: eiye 
garii as a border to flower-beds,” 
—— We are Slope to state that Professor 
REICHENBACH’S address for the next fortnight, is 
The Herbarium, Kew, 
The general Sei grain of the Potato Crop 
throughout IRELAN wonderfully age there 
eing as yet but aie little trace of the In 
several fields, however, in the county o 
tween Glenan and Ballycastle, we were sorry t: 
it m d havoc. The owners did see 
a Ri remarking that never since its 
of it 
first ieac ies the Potatos been so free from it, 
— Growers of SHOW Au 
terested to yaa thats E variety ca 
Eclipse has been i in cultivation 
pees may be in- 
and during that time has a o cut 
The ee? plant of it in in the co sow is believed to 
be of an gatledsidastic noa at Gras 
hice gee on THOMAS JEFFRE 
gentleman has a collection of- as varieties, in 
rate condition, which he grows for the pur 
them, never exhibitin 
€ n 
but well-kept garden contains. 
w shrubs are more attractive during t 
months of August and ro ber than the old 
GINIAN RASPBERRY— 
fl g 
foliage is pinnate a andsome, 
and the flowers white and r dah Rie the fruit black, 
not so large n R Try, a A 
ja eara Iti is perfe lly et andy, and in Mret’ ie 
nani propagated in ee nurseries, as 
with — be done agai 
—— The fol [owing paragraph, taken from the Sun 
newspap i June 6, 1794, may be of inter 
collectors of pa coca a about old and REMARKABLE 
TRE 
ene spring a maiden Oak tree was felled on í 
— called The Green, the pro ay of Mr. ADAMS, ž 
Reakto near T Tenburyin W A rcestershire, of ich 
ie bod i feet | 5 p 
A only measured—girth, 5 
453 feet ; contents 27 me the butt, 
neasured rough. ae apri 
— While those gardeners who can get m 
days’ grace at Ehi Seo are busy f picking up 
ve the various public and private establi sooo wat 
system he Duchess of 
LAND and Cimas of ayp and ably : 
out at Ma H by Mr. LAING, and at 
Amii i jecti 
borders i 
however, 
whe die ers of the old coat et 
s ea-coast 
ia 
lled Howard’s 
or wee thirty years, ; 
