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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
OCTOBER 24, | 
because there is so much uncertainty respecting aa 
native country of E the originals of our Pears 
Apples, notwithstanding that we coe apparently 
wild Apples and Pears in Our 
cies is called P. 
spe P. variolosa, and ‘ts aK Hee ex- 
hibit a t cy to diversity in form, from ovate 
lanceolate to pinnatifid. native of North- 
ere it grows to a moderate-sized atiy 
and furnishes a hard, durable timber, not 
destroyed by insects. This species is quite handy in 
England, and beats fruit, but its fruit has little to 
reco d it. shape it resem! l Pear, 
and in flavour it is nasty and hars t is never eaten 
until ially decayed, like a Medlar, and even then 
it is intel see unpalatable than the latter fruit. 
. Forestier. is a North American shrub of 
more patel | than horticultural interest. It has in- 
petalous flowers, an drupaceous 
g i “Ole eaceze. 
A A Holly with thick — oe m5 6 to 9 inches 
long, and beau ae eae 2 9 margin, should 
handsom: 
hat 
commoner, as ould F likely uk on the 
common Holly, we certainly hie a good appearance, 
To be continued.) 
sm Corsy. 
it, 
thi g 
the ts, well watered, 
A a Beech hedge. he conse- 
quence was they showed a magnificent bloom about 
tember. I thi h n th 
omy r P $ sent a few for your 
inspection, onaldson, p, Oci. 15. [Very 
good fruit indeed. Eps.] 
Prize Vineries.— Would any of your Grape grow- 
ing feideis be disposed to enter se lists for the best 
cropped vinery, To next Septem 
t the hi a gardenen, iji willing to sub- 
wards pA fand for the purpose, if all 
- te, or fT should happen 
Er He At alen Society wo would take 
area whe ct 
petitors to be allowed to ae + tote Hnida as 
they like ; but perhaps a class for i Mù scats an srie as 
for B Black Hamburghs ioil b be enough at first, York. 
Fruit Trees: “ Digging about them, and 
ly from 
imself used th 
the fruitless Fig tree to illus- 
hen He e 
Serge 
bore good results. In giving, therefore, a little ex. 
perience of such work, es pops nothing new will 
be advanced, but it m may se an encouragement to 
others to try ‘the diperinient | pie any fruitless trees they 
may have existing. e seaso: roto one 
rT to a to begin with an yr Peach 
trees for r 
few fruit t the tops of nytt eee: chy 
pant growth on re or less 
protruding onali. We op ts ott Aai of allt to remove 
all the ge e roots to some rapas R=: 
we began care to search for the ri We 
had to dig marge aig to follow up the rary easton 
rope-like roots which had gone in search of food. The 
` Toots were here and there send bundles 
nels aring rt val 
warty, sapp 
ugar gan at every few inches. pAn the small iai 
ould find—and they were not many—were care- 
fally preserved., “N ow the aes arose, what was to 
e done with such old trees with am r 
cri i. was previous y y hinted 
trees were to be forthco 
some skill was shown in betterliig the old on 
we resolved to cut away the worst of the oot alto- 
rai to ke e + 
ug dow 
and cleared out another i eo of old soil. This had 
incorporated into it decayed vegetable matter, which 
had generated fungus, some c x the soil being white 
ith i of the way altogether, 
to look Aei a a hs oil, Perm 
, or rather s 
back wui the old ps or some from 
heap, to make goo as 
said that we found ie 
as the border by this practice. 
been separately laid in pap piaba 
with aedi again, fillin the crevices sat the ba 
stem w. 
of where the surface of the o 
ial some of the oes of the old soi! at the top and 
smoothed it all o 
c 
nor should aR any the first ye a year or tw 
they began to have a very differen nt appearance, most 
n “becaine, healthy ; and fruitful ; a few, o ing 
old a 
IC 
barils ahem a short time had to be noria They 
be 
were said toh 
e Pear trees were next attended to, Cue bee and 
pee me - and ‘dun nging © with turf, becam 
general. We boldly went to work on Er 
siandards, Vine borders, Eri all had a turn, and with 
ft 
good results. a e treés been left to live out a 
mi iseriblë existétice, without an effort to improve 
them, I should not have held the situation long, nor 
ai su wing about aiid dunging” 
fruit parable of the fruitle 
tree, but we it. A. M. 
Large Gourd. a y at 
of 2 a large Gourd 
succe t way. a quarter of a ay 
oI a as foreman to this place, a er, a fancy 
to grow a large Gourd d the seed of ‘One 
C 
n April, and planted E out 
peee a hand-glass the third week a- May om- 
ost of half-deca aa leaves and i aveer way 
finely, ~~ I took good care to “set” th the first blob 
e it a long summer : fortunately it took all 
right, ar and T could soon see my Gourd was to be lar; 
was 
To 6 inches in circumference, and 
Peapod 164 lb. ublished an account of it in the 
Midland Plorist (j (jast poese then 
e ripps, nu seryman in this to wn, in w 
indow this ‘ ea aimant ” 
h th 
rs ug wint n 
ent will see that this Gourd was 45 lb. heavier wi 
ri wero at p. 465. F: Rust, Eridge Cas 
i riba p: er ate F.” says he has got 
American h weighs 119 Ib, į 
orm in s from {—4 inch in length, on 
short petioles e plant dense cushion-like 
tufts. The flowers are in the axils of the 
leaves and very inconspicuous, and it is to the 
al kepe pee ges Pest ee tae i 
size of a — 
orange-red colour. When the me oie 
undance, as on the specimen at Euh a ph ai 
with the dark green foliage, the Paai pres 
oe appearance, and is a 
a ckwor I nfi 
plu unged it 
and, without taking it out 
aferrird 'plante on the rockwork, 4 
New Zealand, and sonie of the Patika 
N, > 
Arlington Tomato. —This new Tomato j 
rongly recommen 
te are require 
Aberia; October 20. 
Tall Wallflower,—There is 
bunches a a rod, averaging 2 
and s 
regularly over the pie 
aunty . of strength ie to 
treatment they receive i 
Edinburg. 
Carpet Beds versus Pelargonium } 
October 1 I suggested to my emplo: 
d 
f the eae atiina al all flon 
tions; but it must nöt allowed tc 
er flo owes} at t such is the 
Down West, 
Fruiting of Hoya catnosa.—The 
the plant known under this name in 
rare 
probably not so 
imagined. 
Peaches and Nectarines.—I must 
my bag AE a aai bad wr pie 
print I 
“good crops 
instead of * Pitmaston Orange 
read ‘* Rivers’ Diab apait ” WE 
The Old Pink Celery. —At . 
made of 
Chiswick, I- 
old Pink Celery is among 
