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a 
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r “nds. 
4 Immor trade 
tor of Roses, and one who is 
uld on a o 
: ity 
des I beg t 
s against the one- d incorrect view 
meen by Mr. W..D. P 
a biti Will Mr, kin e m 
l n eof] 
-~ treatme D highly m 
tre or what? I hav eed- 
g e dor 
planted on land ra at crop 
; l only, and without a 
4 ticle manure om which I 
A -ii ari bloo which I have b so 
= taking prizes this s ill Mr. 
ent? M 
f Ros e 
EAT at ues exhibition t e: nea th — 
amount pes = the han 
his niiti -nine ga ou 
i red nota tare Bison in any season, even 
= ofthe best 
' hich purchase was made ” is quite 
ina Do we no 
i oses shown by ama 
4 nd sometimes even be 
; P e of treatme 
aoth í isappoint 
d ” to which Mr. 
hose ngs 
i r g 
ell underst 
constantly 
Saleen A ae eter Se ane eb Liem tiie A) SRS oe oes) 52 rine 
4 E 
$ oe PTE IRE wt A 
ee 
a 
i 
Á pa e And may I here add in refer 
: Ir. 
consequently var amateur or 
- - 
ory, near 
a very ? 
2 -k plant, 
_ Johnson’s 
Here he 
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CHRONICLE. 
275 
but doubts were hae ess as to whether the ie 
imate would be pea ow to a ng it to 
kt odha 
h 
quires o be stake 
4 or 5 feet in he ight. 
hich is said to be good, but this I my not yet trie 
F Grieve, Culford, Bury St. Edm 
ral Rose Exhibitors.—As a 
hibi oses, an anxious that 
controversy sho in a spirit of 
” and ‘‘ fair play,” aed ‘ib with the 
ign of eliciting the ‘‘truth,” I beg 
be carried 
oes the latter mean 
nching, or ? e plan 
i mant eyes this season, 
Mr. Prior’s remark 
grown under glass. 
quality of blooms are those cut fro 
ida y grow 
n this sesbinct éerininty, “a 
the same chance, i t 
cultivat tor of Roses. George Prince, 
**adventitious ” 
Oxford, 
Blackberries i z a Garden,—I last year ries 
out two = ng rows of Blackberries, treating 
somewhat like iv 
ires Saari 
utifal fruit, very 
ra te either ~ eat or cook, whi 
year is 
of the Imperial Crab—a most beauti it— 
ty have never Pe able to get before, now in 
ae Wedd # 
Pandanus longifolius Flowering at Low 
her. 
z _ There is at present in the conservatory here a ipint 
fonpif i I sh ry 
wer-s' „with a Lasi 
a Fete 1-shaped votre of light yellow 
flowers on the top. It was a sale at — 
head Pri verston, por inter. and see 
William Shand, Gres Leathe, 
_ The Dutch Way of Cutting A 
sparagus.—In 
Lives of the Poets (Swift) I find as Bias. 
became known to Ki illiam, who 
bled by 
way? The French use a pointed knife slightly 
curved, the saw part being curved the reverse way to 
betcha? i greatly p prefer our common market gardener’s 
fe. 
pi Potato Crop and the Disease.—As soo 
as the observations in the Gardeners’ Chro kid 
in reference to the su pertuberation of the Potato, | the 
vigorous growth of the haulm i 
in one or two cases of furthe 
I had i haulm of es. exitire “drop carefally frea 
with its roots, "N l little arpa containing 
the tu a undisturbe until the usual 
T I conclude cs 
ment, there is no danger of ogi ete Le mats 
from the tuber, or shall be glad of a onfirma- 
tion of that view which any of Goi Be ran may be 
able to afloed in your notices to correspondents. 
Charles Lawrence, Cirencester. 
Productive Apricot.—I send herewith a sketch of 
an Apricot tree (fig. 57), which has performed such a feat 
that, had I aa drep been a witness of it, I ai 
not have be uring the third week in 
ruary, 1873, ‘the tree was noe > ~ f Yeon mbes 
tion, upon an east-aspec dimensions of 
the tree gr Arsene 7 kat high, by about 8 feet 
ide. In ing it from one part rden t 
another, I scarcely need say, I had every possible 
trouble taken exhume each root whole, and to 
maintain iser a i t in its exe knowing well 
= say tely aged, Apricots 
e to The tr Ge soaked up and rep lanted has 
hoiii this passaas no less than 151 fruits ‘of the very 
FIG. 57.—PRODUCTIVE APRICOT. 
je which hive ripened well, and are of full 
pe ae ia lent flavour. I know of no extra aid that I 
li 
ort facts are, that in wages m 
planted Apiai i ree has born: 
‘more t 
Gardens, Valentines, Suly 23. 
Earley, The 
Myosotis dissitifiora, — I 
apologise to Mr. Earley for not answering his inquiri 
a table, and dense 
across i 
acrop of fruit, of the 
ve dozen, Wm. 
elect which he will have. I have always advocated 
o success, Tufts 
oot. 
m sparsely. ` 
and flower pea profusely. 
I will also admit that a , mass, or border of 
Myosotis dissitiflora, however well ans has not the 
pera A nor evenness of a simi is 
F 
° 
sheltering a 
and finally cake pe in blooming quarters 
middle of November or February 1. thin can 
promise sp shapes head and a profusion of bloo 
v make him love thia P orget-me-Not best of all for 
"Bat he fit; her beauties, 
this. pani a has "a a Sue a its caprices, likes 
and d thas lan pe a. apparent 
cause every whe E Ta flowers blush into purple when 
hit too hard by the frost, large tufts husband moisture 
ations, the 
to their destruction ; and in wet, low situ 
a 
anxious to g p some good p » Open to every 
e, for bedd Pelargoniums, subject only to the 
condition that the raiser’s nam hed to each 
a il friends as contri- 
Any co 
Putins to this object will be gladly a by me, 
es will be p ublished in a aise pers. We 
ared t fi 
o giv 
assistance will be Gioie Our object & is to gather 
together call the best varieties in the ent so that all 
may have an opportunity w. 
worth cultivation. ¥. 2. Pearson, Chi 
ropzolum speciosum,—At p. 197 you make 
Ro Royal pod gine an Society. — At the last 
meeti the Floral Committee at South re 
a A Trough forward a motion 
ard was e to any subject by the he Committee, 
that iE ey gio voted for it, and those who 
voted against it, should be recorded, 
his i 
bow tard GA witde Al 
ea 
p 
er 
ple involved in 
the objections to it were only two; one 
lant—a new w Orchid, for Err 
ae “habit of perambulatt 
instead of taking tieit seats at the 
Aed mareei mmittee-men in a AORE 
usiness-like i w these objections 
very easily « 
Ze 
