TH 
” GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE, 
[NOVEMBER 21, 1874, 
There are now to be seen about 
d lot of ra 
an 
thousands in ee many of the better 
Abies, Plan: Thuja, Sgt 
trees and shru 
and I left the nursery we with plants of ali 
ides the seed-beds crowded with healthy 
In m ime I have been a = —, cul- 
yt 
tivator of a great Spas of plan vege- 
ui successful nba, at the 
wn the Provi- 
; the is en, an once, 
b. 
Sugarloaf from 6 to 9 Ib; 
8 to 11 lb., the P a ang (a bad keeper) to 9 1b., 
the Montserratt rm o 9 lb., the Old Globe to 
= lb., od Benien Globe to anas I0 lb., and the 
ntigua, ca, and several other varieties equally 
well ra aa “Th have also succeeded in raising some 
ing Pi aircon een the Enville and 
Black Jamaica, em not showing much 
improvement ; a yon "that comma more after D 
Jamaica, onger or gher in pips, w: 
though 
splendid winter- pE, me and fine-flavoured ie 
. Barnes — to have established the first, or 
a y Ro offered to give 
- possible way to start such a society 
for the Teat of the poor, wretchedly- ged 
neglect ooking villages ; but to my great asto e 
ment I ganan a flat denial, with the intimation that 
these folks knew too much already. 
“I was the eldest of five brothers, all of whom 
first 
ears dea 
T think I have entered and a i ip the m world poe 
young men as good practical eners than any other 
Sre the United EE Mr. J. ae who 
wed Sir ranea shatswe ega ae 5 
Baby 
>of 
me Snow, at Lord Morley’ S, en 
at Mr. Bass’s, Rangemore ; but I 
e, I hope, doing we Mr. 
was, we y oraaa one of the first to discover 
and his y 
istory articles for various publi- 
j many. papers on improved agriculture, 
retirement at Exmouth, 
So ~ oe za 
on eh 
rps 
koga to time the | heads of the men of a 
heir mark on our line; for, 
o have p 
beshies fostering brotherly love among the eld 
young men will be encour mulate their deeds, 
ead ivin 
or in your 
always be in safe keeping. In the fine old halls o 
ancient families we see oil paini up of the rin 
of the present owners, ” th ctures are rever- 
enced and looked up to with a kind of household 
— -a pardonable kind of pride ; but what 
Iw. Freee = is the motto attached to most 
old aii peenem 
«The deed ae vide their humble name.” 
pest in famed re, as it has risen from the ashes of 
ae | the cage conte there have been 
ing t ough thickets of 
at gatherings at came pen 
taught all of us to eA 3 our deeds, and begim 
We avi the models ea our betters on on the tables 
ivide the hon equally, and s 
ae Sarees to the REY cultivator of the epiphytal 
upon a Kidne 
Mr, Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, who have excelled i in 
many branches, and whose living likeness would be 
grateful to both the fruit grower and the florist, like 
whose crest adorns, or rather did once 
adorn, the market-place in my native village ; for it 
seems he could turn his hand to warfare at sea as well 
as on land, and had for his motto—Per mare et terras. 
t would be a great encouragement to many to know 
that their deeds would endure after them, and that 
en and women 
sixty or 
by adding the ancient custom of thankin 
and aa or what in his ate he ha 
an ona =a most of it the poet lays the obligation 
ona Tey, W who our pra :— 
” Dri weary pilgrim, drink and pray 
or the oe soul of Sybil Gray, 
* Who built ii cross and well,” 
soon ran 
we keep to 
it may be, rather than make ack lines for ourselves í 
and those are therefore to be thanked that have left us 
a eee pa ath, z and beaten it down be ore us. Monu- 
ments e the I 
efence of their country, an 
believe the inscriptions on tombsto: eemi 
abound and consorts are oeer but 
and praisew 
we have the authority of in saying that a 
the ably of ‘* a are yi found the 
aristocracy of the pe and good. w this is just 
we want, viz., the likenesses mdi lives of the 
what 
aristocracy of hortien inure When Cowper, the poet, 
looked upon the picture of his mother, he exclaimed, 
“ Blessed be the art rtalise.” The 
patrons of horticulture are, predpi speaking, the 
large la proprietors and the merchant princes, 
but I have y mi eareal John d, whi 
id singl what is usually done by societies, 
for he held horticultural exhibitions at his own cost, 
al merit with salvers of solid silver as 
tea- te George 
trial seedling Dahli 
half an acre at least, and his Tulip 
beds under an awning in a private garden at Isle- 
worth was the best display of flower that I 
have er seen, The reader will see that I am speak- 
ing of “the bubble reputation” before that bubble 
never more to be inflated. Horti ones 
en Peers E tithe 
amo’ 
x having 
"e n tossed u upon Fo orns, and at 
an trampled under her feet, he still held fast 
by horticathi, and died in harness. I beg you will 
; } ve the late Dr, 
e; whom I was ayain to pe my friend, the king 
of » for all the sheaves 
gardeners 
kom loyally to his sheaf, or = whom it may be 
re p 
of he soldier and sailor who have done oe of 
if w 
truly said that ‘‘he left ~ — of gai 
botan ists in tears, he n 
the Old ing and botany X 
see the merits of ern pasee on the same 
jects, where practical men have honestly vom out 
the problems for themselves, a not copied from 
authors of doubtful merit. And as 
plants h so ov ppa ni, the field has 
benefited by what it has borrowed fro ‘ 
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, —I shoul 
be informed by any of your peng if they 
iscus rosa-sinensis to fru is 
at any rate, Dr 
graphing the Tati Malvaceæ, was obliged 
d be glad to 
peo 
o describe 
them at second-hand, W. T, Thiselton DA Kew, 
—Will s 
e of your fruit come 
Large Pea i 
spondents kindly. = their opinions = to the rate 
flavour of Pears gro walls o 
experience is 
tandards? 
is but slight, ig I fount ‘Sool years 
that Marie Louise Pears, grown ona wall, were 
own on a south wall, lately sent to me, 
good in flavour as the same sort from a 
W, S. 
were nots 
a standard tre 
Earley’s November Plum,—In your report ofte 
Fruit Committee 
November 11, reference is 
is Se stat 
“sts 
of the Royal caps ra a 
made to this P 
to be a cross Baires Guthries r 
ite Bullace. If — statement is ee 
n raising a Plu 
arley I 
I believe to be identical with a re Baug ar 
Ilford for man 
of trees. I was struck with its large 
Messrs. Rivers of Sawbri no 
varie z in their list at that 
it any of the ses trees were cut u 
doz e h 
wers on Novemb 
the Jersey growers becom 
„size, bat 8 
Je 
dent that, as regards the aa and “mato ang ba 
fruit, they are in seer matter of 
favoured. Better 
the a that certainly 
eS O mporary I o 
graph of the wonderfully fine samples of 
Ops of * + 
seen 
Street, St. Helier’s, and 
New Street. Now, as it is evident 
xamples of home-grown} 
th ; 
