tHE 
NOVEMBER 28, 1874.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
691 
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Commendation ee ace Mr. Samuel Hooper, 
= hid : Mr.S. es oper. Chi r Sooly 
Qua Cucum crepe Wee Spar pe Prestwich 
ieee ‘(cut blooms): Mr. Peter Spence 
Serena ge, Miscellaneous plants: Mr. T. Studd, 
ee bane. 
: Che Villa Garden, 
Wail FRUIT TREES. —Some attention should be 
to these at this season of the year, The recent 
frosts have caused the trees to shed their leaves, and 
the first consideration should be the cutting out of any 
ld and over-grown wood that is of no real service. 
In Villa Gardens walls are generally built as dividing 
fines rather than for fruit neg and they are fre- 
han 6 feet in height 
Saat Wee S 
E quently too 
4 __ instead of 9 or 10 feet. 
get good and a fairly — supply of Peaches, 
Apricots, Pears, and Plum ma 5 or 6 feet wall, 
ifthe trees only receive he? perce attention. What 
ty done. It is no uncommon 
tly spurred 
ing to see trees 
been constan gn the 
dense 
ure mourning after the bad management of 
es, the result showing year in ‘the number of 
sto be seen not half covered, eae, that 
expected fi ri inary 
em fortuitous concourse a eae 
erous Class 
entail a heavy expense to fit up a few wal 
sthe tage of bringing the branches of the 
trees a little way further from the walls ; it saves a 
deal of tiresome labour in the way of nailing ; 
= k of pruning and nailing inp 
if it i 5 alik the 
with fruit-trees planted against them, and 
the and t narr 
order, 
ze are little 
But to return to the wall-trees, The plan that 
once prevailed among certain old-fashioned pert 
of withdrawing the nails from the fruit-trees, and 
allowing the branches to be blown and swayed about 
y the winds of winter, is Bebe we followed ; 
and as a clever gardener well rem “We strongly 
object to the =p of so ni snes ulling 
t of nails, not only because of the waste of time 
eat material, but because of the dakais of walls, 
and forming nests for insects.” In pruning, the object 
should be to leave just enough probable fruiting wood 
as to nicely clothe the trees, avoiding a crowded ap- 
pearance. Itisa great mistake to pap a tree by 
leaving too only experi- 
enced fruit clans that have the pater to thin 
judiciously at the proper season. On the part of 
cea cultivators there is always a great desire 
to get as as possible of fruit from a tree, 
Not tar since a neighbour, who loves his garden, 
e tous in asad plight, in consequence of having 
discovered traces of the American blight, or, as he 
ermed it, the white fungus, on one of his wall-trees, 
It was in a shady spot, out of the reach of the sun 
till it had attained the meridian, and it was spreading 
fast over the branches. SRT for the success o 
sae tried on the 
oil (the blight 
had mostly affected the main stems of ihe branches) — 
one or two applications of the paraffin soon cleared 
off the pest. In the case of the young wood, a 
2 
soap has proved efficaciou 
owever, cannot be kept on hand as can te insecti- 
cide ; and the villa gardener ought not to be without 
some vo the latter—it is so useful in many ways. 
Suckers from Peach trees often prove troublesome 
in small gardens, and itis an evil that must be patiently 
borne with. The only thing to be done is to carefully 
dig them up as deeply as possible. It is a great 
nuisance when they put in appearance in early 
summer, thrusting themselves up amid some favourite 
spring flowers. Plums are given to thrust up suckers 
also, and especially so when they make a strong 
are restricted to a smal 
o use, 
and pliable; a men F Sod aul there i is no waste 
about it. is enduring enough for the purpose, and 
a thin piece of it slightly page on strong enough 
to tie a stout branch firml phot’ toa 
THE FARM. 
M E Root 
p 
were Her Majesty the Qu een, and by His Royal 
Highness the Prince of Wales, though not for com- 
etition. ave, steward to orten, of 
Pinesworth Fa 
Mr. 
ing 162 Mr. 
with some weighing 140 lb, Int 
ts of Intermediate Mangel, Mr. 
mana i Warwick, bei 
ea 125 Ib. These latter were of the crop on 
the Leam Sewage Farm, which is declared to 
be the largest crop per acre ever grown 1 
far A silve 
Walt ter, of Tanke, Wokingham, for a 
colin ion o of Man gels, Swedes, 
aa 
n Engl 
gave an extra prize to Lord Warwick 
sewa 
Messrs, Suttons’ Roor SHOW AT rag lane : 
he! 
Nov. 21.—This show, which was Messrs, 
Sutton on their own premises on a m et day, was 
arket 
visited by. 3000 visitors, This annual displa: 
pn held = a quarter 4 ar on pice 
to irable proporti now a ect 
museum ofall ae of solid Saalai m on 
i 
Red Mangels, the heaviest root 
41 lb.—the Ist prize dozen weighed 319 Ib, ; 
Suttons’ ellow Globe Ma angel, 
ea root weighing 34 Ib. ; ay i entries of 
Suttons’ Yellow Intermediate Mangel, the heaviest 
root weighing 21 lb. ; thirty-six entries of Suttons’ 
Gold Tankard Mangel, the heaviest root weighi 
u! rial Green Globe Turnip, twenty- 
n Kohl Rabi—all these being 
shown in dozens, Besi man Globe, 
Tan , and Long Mangels were exhibited ; 
arge collections of Sw Cab otatos, and 
vegetables ; an nu 
cluding several kinds of competition for the 
silver cups offered. Atopetir it was a very remark- 
able display, Fog 
LEICESTER : Mov. 18.—We abridge the 
rom the Leicester an gto Ree the annual ex’ 
tion ion of roots fi of M 
Sons, Market P 
m 
agricultu urists in the midland srg and also from 
er a country. An extra Ist st pr ize wasawarded 
to the Earl of Warwick for ten Normanton Globe 
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very fine collection of Potatos is well worth seein, 
There are also fine specimens of Nuneham 
Onions, Leicester Red Cel White Turnips, bere 
rots, Ox Cabbage, and ET others, including several 
largs Gourds grown by Dr. Buck, County hiphen, 
e of which wae over 8o lb. 
mns. The Scofsman says of him: 
—" He% was Ta sixth baronet of Applegirth, but 
the heir of a family much more ancient than the 
baronetcy, which was created in 1672. 
resentative 
o in TS in 1800, and 
a daughter of Mr. Daniel 
Ta 1871 he married a second nan the 
of the Rev. W. S. Symonds, rector of P. 
Worcestershire, a distinguished geologist. Sir Wil- 
liam was educated at the University of Edinburgh, 
e evinced a decided taste for 
scientific se ee acai for meagre history in 
l its vari ches, thi taste ntained 
Sante His 
fore orms one of the finest and 
rier ke private collections i in Britain. He was as 
indefatigable as ans aut , and the list 
of his own works Bike which he edited shows 
eo of a 
eee of cattle plague 
oe? Commissioners miria ; 
fisheries in 1860, He prs 
mem 
sais 
coat branches a 
Association for the 
