pees 6. THE- | 6 GARDENERS’* CHRONICLE. 815 
y of sun: they will keep growing and flowering, | Mr, Goodacre’s collection of fruit having only a 2d $ 
sd will set every berry. As the pots fill with roots, prize. Many gardeners considered the Rivista 2 col- f orergn Correspondence 
‘ve manure-water two or three times a week, place lection, taking the ar anr year into consideration, f 
em into the conservatory about the last week in Sep- | we worthy of a Ist it an extraordinary high AGRI-HoRTICULTURAL GARDEN 
standard of quality is ist taken by the judges, they 7, 1874.—I you quote from the De/hi 
should show it through the judging by all means; | Gazette, in your issue of I0, some par 
; but who dohi understand six splendid home-grown 
ncerning the y tree seed. 
Black Jamaica Pines being 2d, and six Cayennes of | I have thought the cg tgs f few notes, taken from 
i i m i interest to your readers. 
awarded the medal placed at the disposal of the fruit | At the request of Major Beddome, Conservator of 
judges to the latter, if so good, as Z appears nothing Forests for the Madras 'p ‘residency, I opened the box 
_ pa growth was good enough to gain the | Of seeds, on their arrival in Madras from Honduras, 
dal—not even the Grapes, a meeer some èf our | on June 30, 1873. The box was filled prea. geua 
wel. known Grape growers exhibiting in their well- | the entire capsules, packed with charcoal ; 
known style? W. S. [The suggestion that the judges | a smaller box, about 9 inches square, ‘filled “with 
d should e: **kept away at staging time,” embodies | cleaned seeds, also packed with charcoal, These were 
The Pomona Palace Show.—Mr. Goodacre feels | a Most u tase E insinuation. We think Mr. Good- | very fresh and good, but the former, packed capsules 
oa s ed at the withholding —- Ist prize in the class | acre will sr ee without complaint to the | and were mouldy, and about 50 per cent. bad. 
r ten dishes of fruit, and asks the judges what more | decision of the “date Eps.] It has gone abroad, somehow, that the Madras 
vuld be expected for the first weckt in December, and Gaiden only received gocd seeds. In the interest of 
{| ee 
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7 3 am, Botanic Caii, Birming. 
ps 
Dotcisisr Deen kit ough Gene the experiment, and in justice to the officials er 
; > — Altho such ‘rapes distributed th I apr hati 
y hee Aea t d ach eit ved the | Raisin de Calabre an ah White Nice will not compare arare jas o unt for shake Pens gemi- 
am Fe E E aed t ne E T with nines foe, Bas ur, pee are fairly g en | nation in the fact that pereg were a poem ri 
al t been fairly dealt with, but allow me to E y 
grown as your c aeeeenaent » Mr. Johnstone, ies! 
him (as one of the judges) ‘that my opinion of his of an Indian a 
: d as th lendid in bunch, one hardly likes | oa seapea the i kill 
p 7 and as they are So splendid in bunch, one hardly likes | and perhaps a little more skilled attendance, 
ete ia bi he e ore Mie e he has to give them up. All late keeping Grapes are greatly Pee E one P c seed, one poe should be impressed 
; ST A DSa a S ee ’*_ | impr by the same treatment, ins of | upon all prasasta with pes agg experiments—that seeds 
for tore than teene ven Tho, | trying to retard, it will be found the best practice | should be sown as as possible after being 
aded that T Enew Sò oA fuit man i feci ‘e have the Vines at work as early as possible, so as opened. The Maho Fos y seeds under consi 
j the prize—a £10 prize—being well contested for | 1 Tt fe just the atthe well matured by the end of September. ve Rare: one mon pened previous to Peir 
De Gs: i wat 4 disgracd 1 te bu araara | SS assistance, and if they aré then pushed on by | lent of itself to, destroy al i 
er Si : 
let such a prize slip through for want of better lighting she fires early i Sn: the SAOTRORG IE N a well-known fact that most tropical 
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nsidered it our duty (in accord- how greatly it improves their flavour and es seeds retain "their vitality but a very short time when 
qualities. | Muscats even take ve east a couple exposed to the action of the atmosphere. Man 
with the rules of ed ays ed rahoi we rt months’ iene in this way to have t witha aa all a e- paine to be placed in soil at Papai or otherwise 
per eee eok a © 4 black G sa thin l i i £ 
ib Ff say tot atati ‘Tn the next class of six — alate black Grape I find nothi g equa! | they perish, A remarkable instance of this is Shorea 
shes, the fiuit was everything that could be wished for, 
Saleen 2s it is good at all points, large both in | robusta, also Artocarpus incisa, and even seeds grown 
Sane nd berry, and quite caiman for the a a tem eu. climate soon lose their vitality in a 
oth in size, rey, and competition, as also in the | perfect blue-black finish it puts on. Mrs, Pince and ropical climate; indeed m Lot. book . abounds 
ourt 
other classes—even Black Hamburghs were in as good rha xcel it fl cf - 
condition as if 7 a only been midsummer. It Madresfield Court may perhaps excel it in flavour, with notes on this subject, as I have nearly daily com 
y easy matter for judges if they ha paride lod oun At ore with it for keeping plaints aon imal ee to germinate, and as khave 
but size to oder i in fruit judging. I always EF 5 a ý most respectable firms, I came to the conclusion 
I matter as if the fruit was on the dessert- thi elsewhere 
table ready to eat—not what it has been, nor ae what Potting.—Good, careful potting is one of the | Something was wrong bape ed of of the fait 
it as the reason why some of the success nt growing, but Ra point © pia g : are 
es of Grepes o stand behind the | fortunately, it ft a very unworkmanlike | of seeds of inquiring as to MN spit ag Dog] bee 
te Were in better conditio manner, and is consequently attended with in- | preserved: in t of ten they en 
lle | a i treated as if they were a bundle of reports, viz. 
I may add that I coincide wiih Mr. Shuttleworth, KEET a ai bat T Bave sech BIE piini as pigeon-holed, a 
th: ou ways be us V 
i e r the te were more rigidly AREG 3 wo aaa Cin erarias, Primulas, Ae shade o equally as y digr ion ha the shee ect under i immediate 
A San È vote À 2. Helens. n run lab POCAPAN AREO PEROT t have. s 
E ——Asone of the Jodhaa at the poa viz., length of exposure rays opus aa 
‘feel bound to oly to Mr. Goodacre’s letter = ce treo as The Mahogany tree grows well and 
issue of December 12. He says the prize was well con- moisture Í from the fresh soil. The pots at all times | Madras. There are seven 
tested, and good collections — staged from various | should be well drained, and I prefer a mantle of | here about thirty or ety five years of age, as 
: is, four collectio moss over the crocks, as that keeps them clear until | can be ascertained from records, the largest ¢. which 
01 -and then inches 2 feet 
fi he | ar. fom the porni aai i bee TES co te eae 
one I copy from my pocket- | all danger of clogging is . I shall now venture a | from ground, is about 75 feet or in 
book notes I made on Mr. Goodacre’s collection, and | few per aa ula paints Wei in opposition to that | height—the smallest of the seven | in the 
nan rs. Detter fol 
La wee SETS TF silos ecto ota met 
your readers to judge for themselves if the generally followed. Most gardeners, doubtless, in 1871. They all flower wren age pba i sha saath of 
ction really deecved: a prize of £10. One Queen | their younger days have turned on to the rubbish | April. This is the. —. Ta maton 
in b., badly swollen, the pips being very | heap numbers of discarded plants, and in my experi- | The capsule ed í posers twelve of which 
1; one P ernambuco Pine, probably 4 lb.; in bad | ence I have found Arent ants, the roots of which had | grew, and they are p g 
tion, both the fruit and top being much dis- | neyer penetrated the soil of their final shift ; others, about M 
i es of nA res 24 lb. wee 
ras, 
ain, with the major of the soil untouched | | To return to the Honduras ik I sowed half of 
, but in berry ; i it were, the roots djoe — matted to the | the seeds immediately on receipt, of which about 
of Muscat of Tiedeadvia, a abours lb. each, fait The former was the result of too | 50 per Cent. grew. As this was sages pang oc Sep- 
, but rather shrunk and of bad colour; many shifts, or of improper workmanshsip, such | tember (one s i one which ex- 
PE ah i eann aare a potting when the ball e, z sae &c.; | perience m aa, is most destructive to young 
uneven paor unches | the latter of being over-shift oa young ogany 
very ayant; 41 yo very bad in pie ; onedish | these evils I recom cat the following, which I have | literally pect up. I sowed the other half of the the 
Glou Morceau Pears, small, and green-loo ooking ; one | seen practised with convincing results. Most plant seeds received on October 1; ot aaar. only about 
‘dish Gol uk of | gro} TAL aed and frequent shifts in order to- cent. ger although I bed. sarefaliy 
f be 
—es 
Hales Apples, em one Du 
ne Elvaston Late 
‘did not cut the Melons, but were well tabod t a — but p EEDE I find that the same, 
they were anything but ‘what Mr, Goodacre represents. | if n ot bater, En lts (hard wooded plants excepted) 
He asks, Shat morë could be expected for the first | may be obta et oy vet shift only, providing the soil 
— in December? I have seen very much better | used arson sien ia a quantity of either charcoal 
(iar Tei crocks, or broken bric o on’ things crushed vg 
L Ea ear, and that too for a prize 0 3- o show bones might be advantageous y given in propor- 
wu 4 nreasona ble some exhibitors = I may mention | tion to the size of shift. For Vines, Pines, Cucum- | growth, and the the leaves Leo mach. gs ohn 
that out of the fo three of them thought bers, &c., we use lumps of broken bricks as large as | Murray Henry, Superintendent. 
ought to “have been put kai John Potts, | hen’seggs, having them in a separate heap, and throw- 
a Hall. i ing them in as we fill in with soil. The use of them dove Application of Stage. —The question of 
— is to arrest the growth of the first vigorous roots, ification Seine, econom: 
. ide deer the ee yi pale i ie | ee using them to throw out a quantity of rootlets, and ee the sewage, continues to occupy atten- : 
“which hi afan we Se ne oar TE cannot thus utilise the whole of the soil. Plants to be ee | a tion in Paris. 
w Mr. Goodacre’s remark: pass without | on should never be allowed to become pot-bo 
_ Saying that I demur to them alogar. It would be nig i ag peat 
4 mae, argu th ht of his Jamaica | loosen rps po tting, and if possi pread y 
of the fine ete his gs but eee are | over the soil, which they soon take to, I have seen 
the above successfully practised with Vines, Pines, 
s for reasonable doubt in both cases, and I ake o iy Fetes, rag Hi 
“among the exhibitors. I can only say that I | las, Euphorbias, Poinsettias, and many other pianis T 
so few complaints at any large show | when turned out they see ees ope 
Where the competition | aa of compat gabe ee ag the plants isch 
Se Soper egg F. aoe sley. T a great amount of labour, kpe naie by ha many | to measure 
— There must be few who did -e share a above plants by hundreds, 
W. a Foreman. 
