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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 26, 1874, 
APRICOTS. 
Tue varieties found most suitable in different 
counties are wot ka our ‘apspragciasoumine as ITE 
RERWICK. 
DEK WICK. 
and in most seasons ripens well. Peter pate pia 
2 f, 
M rpark surpasses all other varieties here. 
G Z, Mile, Wycombe Abbe ey. 
CARMARTH com a general complaint in 
neigh! hood tha DA jinan cots are hardly worth growin 
F: pani Dynevor Castle, ee tiidile: 
Herts.—Moorpark, Earl S E. Bennett, Hat- 
field House, 
KENT.—Moorpark and H rk are the best here. 
Thomas Woodford 1 Baste Park Paa gefen 
d do 
ns genera 
a good cr e never use any protection in spring- 
J: Pii, Ne Hail. 
Seger Om Fame, Kaisha, Moorpark, Early 
mskirk. William Smythe, The lindas 
NORTHAMPTON. —Moorpark, Shipley’s (one of the 
best), Kaisha, and Breda. 7. Worraker, Milton, Peter- 
— The Moorpark variety is the one most grown 
about } here. Fain x , Althorp Gardens. 
nero ~The Kaisha seldom fails, and the quality 
is far superior to ae other. This year it is bearin ry 
three e one of any other variety. D. T. Fish 
Hardwick. 
TH E FA ARM. 
T HE POTATO Crop.—As this important sop is 
now in in progress of. lifting, a few notes upon it m 
not be 
Having cisty noted the growth of different 
kinds at different periods, we may state that in no 
this year have we aa with disease in 
the early or young Potato crops ; such sorts 
Ashleaf and Walnutleaf kibesi favourites for 
t‘ new Potatos ”—have been unusually good in quality, 
owing to the drought of spring and ear 
summer, aT eae not large. 
y sorts, as the Alma, Milky-white, 
and Sven are a better crop, hae having grown 
tubers ; and wher 
final lifting exposes much less mischief from this cause 
than was at one time anticipated. Of this group it 
said that 
a far more consid e 
which will greatly influence ou 
As regards late Potato, we notice that such 
the Bountiful, Paterson’s Victoria, Silver- 
skin, Lady Abbess, &c., especially when planted 
=. are all more or less di 
crop. 
sorts as 
Kidney, which is estimated to have 20 per cent. 
"Oar general conclusion, Sat et early sorts of 
however suffering so 
to disease ; while the later ar 
or less diseased. The Paterson’s Victoria ood 
here i in vette was mg diseased in 1872, aar paan 
from 3, and now, in 1874, is very much 
y, with regard to our own crop of this year, we 
| absolutely free from disease, and we 
- themiselves 
eem it important 
We cannot 
conclude our notice of this crop anions a few words 
of advice as to its management. 
Potatos this r will want careful management, 
The large grower will perhaps do well to sell his crop 
oo 
° 
to the dealer, and avoid all jpe trouble. If, how- 
not advisa k j put 
doing so tbey will want to be o 
hr ado jt the plan of first 
—" to both light and air. 
damaged, or diseased tubers, are well roasted and 
boiled from time to time for the pigs ; and as pork is 
oid called 
n the tubers healt to chim Sp or. 
Thon gh vás eii put by Potatos for pie we by 
no means an oft Sa payga of i own seed. A 
sila Salter of sort of the greatest 
portance, and the good farmer ood gardener 
rs 
wil exercise judgment in selling, said buying fresh, or 
making exchanges with some trustworthy friend, 
Foreign Correspondence, 
Ace ICAL GARDENS: CALCUTTA.—The prospects 
the gardens contin’ aa ret to see, to be indefi-” 
tly comp ction of the E 
ees therein i in the -donti of 1864 and 1 = 
aal is now a want of shade in the garden, while the 
growth of the new plantations upon Dr. Anderson’ 
plan was seriously hindered in the last season by the 
almost unprecedented failure of the rains, 
essential to restore the shade t so ne 
tropical garden, for the ah = tos as and 
for the co 
gt 
perder tgs and to the crass of Orchids 
owering pl ra i 
eae shou id be done in the way of landscape-gardening 
by the outlay of a a little money for this purpose on the 
cite, is one which the local government has 
approved, 
Tu to its economic wW Us 
late the ‘Superintendent on the aun wish promises 
provinces, Four years were but twelve 
— of the weer e at the Colon aa gardens, a nd = 
n seven were di s Bag ges Fro 
that under the 
n of Dr. King’s wooo ge 
no difficulty Aiet ~ b Hieft o be ex 
p 
growth of rubber i 
Bengal, we sgaid an introduction by Dr. ie 
personally, on urope, of several 
plants of the Heves bratilienais, or Para Rubber tree, 
urious account which he has given of the 
e digenous Ficus elastica, 
invests the paea of other rubber-yielding trees 
ee eng mportan He has been asked also to 
er the acon’ ve attempting, if it has not 
o introduce the Gutta-percha 
tree of Guiana (Sapota ‘Malleri, Mimusops “osm 
_ Gaert.), and to report on ible 
is valuable the littoral tracts of eal 
tropical soil of Bengal. Agricultural Gazette of India, 
ANTIBES.—Were a native Australian to be 
suddenly set down i in Phe garden Th 
uret at 
had been 
Saak Adoriculeurad Sockeye. 
Antibes, he would 
apone to 5 thee N Srila hemisphere. The general 
lian continent as oh abai by travellers and 
plat sre hotograp Imost t 
ciduous tree in t arden is Sterculia plat: 
The following notes, mad ing a ver 
visit, w on well nigh bewildered by 
profusion and variety of novel forms, a 
ly note a very mo 
garden, will at any rate substantiate the above re- 
ark, First and foremost, by w 
y be mentioned that at the time of our 
owers and pe tinct 
looking foliage were pouoce remarkable. ; 
seg Prote ig in the 
H ca 
e best fro om a 
ri retinoides, which has muc appea 
Wee aS He llow. A. ireti b likewise 
fine spec 
The Eucalypti help to mer bi the Se ogee look.” 
Here is the t E. glob 3 we saw 
along the M editera shor The ra 
h T 
co; a. inalis is foun 
species in ‘this imation. 
may a e gleaned from t 
_— of Tillandsia dianthifolia simply suspended 
om the branches of an Aralia not only live but 
l 
E annua ey. 
tal shrubs Cassia Schultesii is decidedly 
f ornam 
one of the set beautiful, its rich s of yellow 
owers rendering it a most attractive subj Ov 
the front of = house Bougainvillea spectabilis was — 
in magnificent bloom, covering the wall up to the 
upper windows of the house with a sheet of rich 
ppm loured flowers. 
mong nifers, Cupressus macrocarpa 
splendidly. Resucaria Bidwillii, which with us ell 
of i conservatory, ees es in hen open 
` species which, a peer 
= fruited = the — ho 
de 1873, P. 361, 
ere ne ierre fruitin g plants 
ions, Besc! , and Yu 
were cely less remarkable than the succulents 
prone One plant of Yucca flifera was fully 12 feet 
cross. 
M. Thuret and his friend and aide-de-camp, M 
Born not o 
nly ar rdent horticulturists, but as 
ey 
, have ca 
ppreciation of his pia ei even of those who dis- 
pute his conclusions, 
pi) 
sa 
probably ae less than a quarter 
is entirely devoted to hybrid Cistuses 
ornet, e hist and | 
ose history an 
rded with scientific exactitude. 
aertne f 
value, alike to decorative one and to 
scientific eea of a garden conducted on such 
not easily over-estim: ated, and we trust 
Forestry. 
n the Transactions s th 
Gilchrist gives 
as his germ in as to the 
disposing of home-gro wn timber :— 
I, It is most 
is of a size and in a state to command the 
IN an interesting artic 
fig. 73) a 
R n4 
fo rth the warm 
ate that a large! piot of M. Thuret’s aan f : 
raised by | a 
eage is accurately a. 
_in general M. | 
se aes a 
