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: ountry who may run up with a few dishes of fruit ised fr 
a x rai rom seed, which is sown about the middle of 
Home Correspondence may not object pi cate Be T ae a ; | February in heat. In due time they are potted off 
: e mus , 
he caged one e eatae = fear your cor- | im town over night to be ready for staging nex Aag a = 60's, and are placed in an intermediate 
T - over nig y aging next morn- | house near to the glass ; ric ee they are potted into 
| aie ry ‘temarks ing, I imagine that most of these country exhibitors | 32’s, and nie into 10-inc sin fer in ir whi È ii a i 
upon this Cnt for maine will kadaek some pers would prefer to return home the evening of the show fruit freely, and are graduall ore rs beef 
to give it a trial next season, but I anges a To plant exhibitors, and to many of those who ex- | ment, I visited Mr. Blair gree he the iddi fA 
i “Beware: don’t plant too largely,” for the chances — yen Ae two-days’ show is almost equi- | the plants were then in a coo shone cof Ange 
f are ten to one against it, nowhere seen it | Valent to doubling t eir expenses. Whether the shows i ; à pear 
, anything Pee wih! what vane orre spondent de- at South Kensington are patronised by the public in DRaa war eum ia À caches flint = 
* to be with him I sia Teluctantly, oa way a aud yon is rather a question for the | time—and by this means Mr. Dair asni te éd 
~ persuaded : ta tri in the , and the ouncil than for outsiders ; but it is certain that itis | them to the greater part of the a 
= results have been anything but Basra Aras In | Only the shows held during *‘ the season” that are at | winter, and it s 
= Victoria Park it was bedded rather freely, but proved all well patronised by visitors. Perhaps the shows | bute variety to i the dakota f Aiae wd te h a 
! an utter failure. At the time of my visi more ae be made more widely known than they are b welc 
t than ‘* Jack-in-G A ld ore extensive and judicious advertisi J 4 boia E TO eee 
ropriate name than ack-in-Green,” cou t vertising, or per- 
Se hee iven, for not a vestige of bl onld be aes the price of gem is too high. At any Old Mulberry,—A fine old Mulberry tree in my 
seen upon it. I inquire e same non-blooming | "ate there ie reason somewhere s to a horticul- ps succumbed to the gale on Wednesday last 
character had been maintained all.through the summer, tur: dinner, i it must be caiiad. that tey are seldom a post mortem Petrai rs revealed the fact that 
kad I ye old ; : was further informed appreciated i in Aia ondon, unless got up for some very = young branches had sent down roots some 14 feet 
that the whole stock was to be consigned to the | Specta! purpose. in length through the centre of the hollow trunk to 
rubbish heap. As a pot plant I must speak in its the groun ; imil é 
favour ; but when we _ possess such ahictics e Deodar in the i at Windsor.—The illus- | rence is not coud nen Willows. oe P erat 
L. pumila grandiflora L. Emperor William, our e | PerM (fg. tnd Slop sei ee i a Deodar, ea by 
: ajestyin the sat indsor. The elegance of 
Hareccnthe Hil. A be efi in bine. 2. Aorgumy | the: tree, as we ts general suitability for most Farley's fiers dence ss ae ‘cae I poe faa 
ta Notiù the re arke mode ty “'T. H. S.,” places in the aot, aira sufficient reasons for its | give him mgA rö se the ic really eat t 
at p. 530, respect nes > qualities of this Lobelia as a ty selceon of the Site and soil and a gedget in | pee (vegetables, In in taking ap a bed of 
bedding plant, I must say I have a very different steal m eps I noticed several that en below the surface, 
opinion of it. I do not “for one moment doubt his e can, however, be little doubt and upon examining them more re closely I found one 
word as to its being g ith him, but T must say it that was hollowed quite out from the bottom 
is the fi od account of it I have heard this season in the same manner the 
as a ing plant, and from what I seen of it pondent in last week’s issue I con- 
at different places I could not recom end it as such, fident that it was a mole, as there was one of their 
a used in ally. It would not do for carpet eey "IE, ach Beet that was m 
ng, as y t ge o form a e add that I h never noticed anyth f the ki 
each plant growing quite round, like a cricket ball ; before. Arthur “geo The Gardens, Castle Hill, 
and it lacks the same property, when planted in rows, Bletchingley. | etter on this subject from 
either for a ribbon or as an edging. Another Mr. Earley will be iaaeited shortly. Eps 
have never seen ywhere, in any quantity, 
large or small, where it has all been in flo Vicomtesse Héricart de Thury Strawberry. 
ts here and there very gay, the rest full of green —Whilst confirming all that has bee y your 
d so remaining for months. Ih it on correspondents, r, epey (p. 
light sand : od rich 1 ls, al YR Pe 499), od f ll f th 
n go oamy soils, also . . to e n ence oO 15 
without any artificial watering, but all with the same Strawberry, altogether demur to the opinion of 
result, As a EE plant I consider it a great acqui- eg sad as to the merits of Keens’ Se eiling, bys . 
sition. C. Æ, sipid. Surely "R 
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elargonium Society. —To Mr. Chitty’s 
ap suggestion, respecting the publication of a 
niums, divid equally. i into ae 
respective classes of ‘*‘ Flo: 
ay forms, to add another, which 1 by 
is, that the dona fide TAUPE i Aeta s given A i the occasional ten- 
each váfiety. Seeing that the Society makes msn of the blind, a fault easily 
it a stringent condition that the rais pees nie should oad by se aleting runners from the most rodie 
be given with each sort, and seeing also that there are tive — and ren g the plan —— japona 
numerous good kinds'in commerce, with the names ropos of “R. P. "Bs remarks as he sorts 
r of which ly n alf bet -= for priae localities and ask on append 
of the growers are acquainted, I think the Society ist, in the order of merit, of those which. do best on 
should assistance as possi n this a light a soil of this district :—President, 
Pe e if no priv n would Keens’ Seedling, Vicomtesse Héricart de Thury, John 
care = rk so invidious as the publi- Powell, Lucas, Sir i Penn, aa Queen, 
Mr. te selected lists of sorts, it might be done by IEEE Sa ae = d ore Late Pine. 
n Barron, of Chiswick, or through the instrumen- oe ‘ : 
tality of the Floral Can mittee, as they have had Fic. 114.—DEODAR PLANTED BY THE QUEEN. Climatal Changes.—The truth of Mr. M‘Nab's 
nearly every good variety in the kingdom submitted observations on the climate of past years ears appears to be 
— notice. The main a: I fear, would be | that the Deodar is destined to play a very important a confirmed in the present—the prolonged. 
_ to get any two authorities to agree as to which sorts = in the — not only as an ornamental but also summer, with even more than its former results, 
belonged to one section ant which to the bee ee | oo tke t stretching Out into assy pin ; yes ag ag I pw a 
reat _— gs here flowering for the secon time, 
Warner's King Appl me i i 
PP e versus Gloria = Large Pears,—From five pyrami idal trees that | and some which have flowered and fruited, flowering 
My experience of these Apples for more than twenty have been planted five wa I gathered prian fifty- | as profusely as at first. I may note the following :— 
es, t enables me to verify the editorial ie in | nine fruits, wee 63% lb., tne a 8 a Pernett ya candida (a poesia Campanula turbinata and others 
Eerde Chronicle, There ap beno | 144 sys Urea on wei ighin ng 1 lb, sgos name, I p pe iy ibe), and pae, of | Potentilla bicolor and others 
A ése are two dist. varieties, e may niia vedale’s kaim Y i i th the finest : ibe), and a} Dianthi, i, Various _ 
oor icra charset ts regard reat ae abroad than with us bat is Ha 
: a similar character in to large fruit i . Hayter, 
colour, but let them be minutely examined both as t ee jari of Shaftesbury, St. Gyles’ Salisbury. 
“ae ATE minutely € to arlof Sy 
: ines, the insertion of the stalk, its 
the 7 aa in the size of the and Vermont Beauty Potato.—In last week’s Gar- 
a is little difficulty in comi to a a: deners’ = ronicle Mr. : i asks those dis have k a a n 
amer’s King is of a more spreading habit, 1 grown this variety to give the sa Sees sod P ak ` : 
Subject to canker than Gloria i more | ence. I obtained 1 lb, of b ed them other Am rican ‘single and a toute, in Se Sveni Arenaria ienee 
productive. I have for several years past grown an sorts, last spring, ana divi m into as ‘many varieties uon n Rose from Persia, 
Apple named Nelson’s Glory, which approaches sets as I could, having nae Bg in each set. e _ tiana acaulis diete = 
nearer to Warner's King than Gloria Mundi, still it is | They were 3 vey Park r-looking Tot, P but liag deter. | ~Lthors Penton and i erpetual Raga a S: 
iI distinct and y so juicy. This kind, I believe, mined to make the best of them I had them planted cm sonic de la Malih 
Sometimes cu name of Nelson’ in a piece of land where Potato ot been planted Actza rubra? Aubrietia, various 
th P : 
These three kinds come into use about the for some years e. They were planted on April 16, ant capitatum, a neat ea ge eno a 
Same time, and unless for mere variety unnecessary about 18 inches apart; they grew strong, and the | saxi fraga canijo asin mip es 
He we tare so good an Apple as Warner’s King. | stems were from 5 to 6 feet long. Up to the end of „ japonica SEEN others Hutchinsia alpina, in con- 
Cramb, Tortworth. August I did not think there was anything under | Campanula jsophylla alba tinuation 
them, but to my surprise when they were lifted las „ coronata Helleborus vernalis 
Sela se mi promod Society's Fruit | week I Jad 2691b. of good Potatos and 8} Ib. ei, oa , various 
az 3 that the ent of | bad ones, making in all 2 Alb. ; twelve of these 
at experi ng 75 
oh fruit iy E Mesenber at South Ken- ed lb., and many of them were 
prvtesiehatetce baia wentis? Lest I may add that of the 
bination wers, it, ei ite as 
