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always felt I was far too much neglected by 
powers met were, a 
tion that I and those who seek to improve m 
those who E — "e me ae pa to ‘ening | an 
i P 
against Sore of > fice unhappily with too 
much ap t cause. ee of this that the 
prizes offered for me in Wk e been reduc 
one-half? During the present year like sum of £4 w. 
offered as a ze tor twenty dishes of Potatos, aed 
the sum of £2 for lve dish m the fac 
being offered a gen 
offered for other vegetables. This harmony no longer 
exists. At the exhibition of fruit and vegetables to be 
vember 10, 
will i be large, ungainly, worthless fruit ; 
and the same sum is offered for a collection of twent 
dishes of myse stinct varieties. twenty dishes 
of Potatos a prize of 20s. is offered, the same is offered 
for twelve Onions, and in many classes for six fruits of 
Pears Apples, while three sticks of Celery get 
the sum of 15s. Such is my plaint. Am I not Ax 
wyured Potato? 
he Spruce Gall. —The Poe Spruce Fir, 
their congeners, <£., Abies P „ are 
y commonly distorted by a Aittle insect, which in 
ork of destruction uces a formation so like 
t of little sor as very kogunidiy to be mistaken 
FIG. 103.—SPRUCE-GAUL. 
forthem. They are, pen the work of the larv. 
deposited between the 
ese eggs is some- 
a coccus and an aphis, and inherits 
the destructive proclivities of xi. Rey a 
gists it is known as Chermes or Adelges A The 
history of the i is given in our ine ar 1852, 
and i earlier stages have been A e recently elucid- 
y rrespondent ‘‘O.,” at p. 635 of ou 
sa volume. for the pritat year. We call attention 
De and its work at the e presat time from 
"t 
: to a 
aa wri know is to cut awa 
infested 
and to take piit ar care 
in the spring = e nat to watch for the first symp- 
toms of the and especially for sts 
small white silky me v indicate the prese: 
ear these away a. 
redt do 
ing the , but coun 
Rael nn ae rreo omat of úi affected twigs. M 
Stachyurus-Nandina.—I have — rather scarce 
the Foueatcmon.—Is th the great value of the Fett 
autu oy sore 2 well known 
is no 
nd it was with heartfelt a i 
ot one of our 
of 
though they do not commence flowering so early as 
the old plants. (Cuttings planted in pots in 
the nning of September, and shut up in a cold 
mete na with shade from the sun, will strike without 
as half hard 
rdy 
slant Ab the less deem they receive being the better 
for them subsequently. The following selection = 
be found r: Dang one to commence with :— 
Villageois, Black T Monsieur 
Chabe all, tanstead Rival, Z ules 
Simon, Michel anaes, Majenta, White” Dot. 
iF E A 
Double Doors for Hothouses.—The sudden 
chills to which ag plants are expo 
the doo 
them their pa cold.” You e 
Orchid-ho so having r ay Bes peed 
with po should not double-doors, with 
standing-room be n vestibule 
given number of persons, 
could not pony be 
shut ? ss cann 
wes t idea ; but perhaps 
ne ots ae rears will apply the notion for the sake 
of the plants. W. 7. P. 
between them for any 
New Peaches at Heckfield.—When visiting 
Heckfield Place, the residence of that well-known 
patron of gardening Eversley, on two or three 
occasions during the summer, I had opportunities 
be paw e characteristics of a fe 
of the Mr. Ri W- 
bridgeworth. ey hav denominated a ‘‘ new 
race of early Peaches,” but some th ossess 
qualities of a striking character, that cannot fail 
Mr. 
t Heckfield, i is bape known 
elished ‘uit cultivator, a 
may re in an for th 
e 
have ts fully tested under an ample and 
intallioeint cute a culture. Early Louise ild- 
smith commends as the best of all the early Peaches, 
and ripened with him this season i intermediate 
house six weeks before Bellegarde and Royal George, 
growing in the same ; the flavour is perfect, 
use 
the fruit medium-sized ee bright oe in colour ; the 
size of the = Early Beatrice Mr. Wild- 
smith x ing too small and not so 
early as Early 1 inion: Early Rivers is much 
than Me st ca but not not nearly so early, stilla 
Mt Rai aE, of MA fine 
Ea a ritis prodee: splendid es fruit, very 
large, and of p w colour, 
rs’ new kinds, late, enormously lar 
arge, 
ure bearer, and not at all liable to 
Duri k in Septem 
ndly ripe in "pi late Peach-house at Heck- 
feld h truly courtly ao non hy the royal lady 
ption given "to them by 
and beautiful.” Magdala is 
now of a bright rose PME Mids boid 
has 
y habit of gon and te 
duces large delicate er ‘yoda 
also been discarded as 
be an excellent study of "Pea 
uses into an early Pea 
planted it with twelve remarkably fine 
leading variet His 
vey specimens. 
| any remarkable, 
double Be Begonias and Petaniss: 
pegs ams: Hericart de Thury Btrawpery. — 
indorse 
said of this variety in 
week’ s issue ; the only fault it has in these days is 
ral smallness of the fruit. the bs Sang 
wn, eens ing 
the insipidity of the former =i the acidity 
ought to have long 
wo 
. Napier, t 
of the latter o 
ro has proved 
bee fr injurious to it. 
; itis also 
rams considering the 
g 
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s 
tivation now, the c ae at which a few can be 
bought, and the aai ount of trouble cor 
sequent on growing the wberry, that gardeners 
o not generally try for themselves the so 
I have no 
e t the régime of Brag Stra 
e light 
Gilbert, of Burghley, on soil of an oppos 
can only have one opinion as to its peers tar is ver 
the old system. &. P. B. 
Cucumber oe cae seeing Cucumbers 
recommended or 
oe 
continuous res 
ting bs edie since fe till 
hou I hat the opinion of o 
ae with m Saki and therefore 
e 
hat 
he neither wants t experimenting on all 
bers in the seedsmen’s lists, nor to 
stantly buying the new sorts that are from t to 
time brought out. Æ. Morgan, The Gardens, Courty 
pa Crickhowell, 
rnum Awafurki. — Of all the brilliantly 
ema autumnal plants I have ever seen the plant — 
above-named is the finest. Some of its sits shots are 
Reports of Societies, 
Horticultural Exhibit in Paris. — The 
N soul Society of Horticulture of France has i 
its autumnal exhibition with uccess. 
held in the house and pana of the Society i in ‘the 
G 3 , and included flowers, 
Rue lle 
frui veg pens 
The exhibition, as was arranged wit 
taste, and the coup-d’evil was charming. The visitors 
bet two rows of flowers—Pe 4 
Clematises, Celosias, nias i i 
c.—to a covered court transformed into a seri g 
the arcade leading from it 
o the conservatory’ "e Palms, Ferns, and large- 
ed T e: 
flowers not include _ 
with the exception of the | 
The frui One grower showed 
than twice hat number 
any of~Pears 
he Pomme Ani, black ‘and 
striped, splendid valor Doyenné, Catillac 
Pears, and an immense Pear n 
vine, w arr Bi 2 1b. or a ee remarka 
its bad The and -perfection 
fruits were resi ldahdeg 
Of other m 
