892 THE GARDENERS’ enti AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Basrze 6, 1860. 
—— upon what to rely when weather more and esculentus are per- ÖR APES AND GRAPE GROWING. 
Ta path thing is this more striking than in the cro Now A, esculentus has not yet been found in the Grapes 
of gas that valuable fruit ot few exe | England g all, though it is said to be not uncom- wi the Gener te Horlealtar as oaei a 
proved | worthy of” their reputat ion. A sp rinkling mon in ee otland, and if so is we believe never | cya fouttel the namber ofa a jee 
is al there. It is moreover a very small species, | is which are really worth cultivating, or whi ich tan 
as stood ; Bullac ces, the hardiest of Plums as we — ait ies as a condiment in Germany than as | rank with, not to say supersede the ae kinds, 
many places eer Cor’s | an article of food, and is not to be compared with | As your reporter appears to have adopted the nomen- 
Golden Drop, Washington, and the Gages them- | many other species, as Ag. arvensis, or Ag. oreades, aoe of the “Fruit Committee, and as I feel con. 
pate whether Rn or Er ies of remain Tneurably for instance, in point of frequency of use. It | vinced: that in several cases they have either judged 
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observed again that ‘‘all Mushrooms that are f dalo 
in dark shady places of the different varieties, ao must pardon me w hile I 
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Påtiv etie bl t exe ‘en t| highly coloured or grow aa Ay pan 
nek “The wn been BL are generally poisonous, & s atement whichis a J 
muted bad. We do not at wh that Sor. havo variance ‘with the fact that some of the best species | TERE to cal in question the con- 
formed sugar like a Greengage, but they have] occur in woods, hat several of these are highly Tason Co men have no interest, except A epom 
proved good in a bad season as well as in a ra coloured, and especially that the most wholesome public, to serve in the judgment they promila“ 4 
one; in any season they a see ie first-rate |of all Fungi, the Be ee are mostly | when we consider how difficult it is to form an opinion 
kitchen sorts, and in warm mmers Bir | wresatats in total ake He speak: 
> . essert. of the Trufle as Morchella ca woe he |a man who daily observes oo progress of a Spee 
en s seen these Plums in the} ought to have said Morell, of a very fr uit from its first budding to ultin nate and complete 
grounds of Mr, Franors: DANCER of Turban | diffrent forman naturo. RAN iy ii : es 
marke’ J ever importa: orm a cor rrect estima! e as o its distinctive aracter 
‘ time when all others were utterly | far ie they indicate the necessity Snob e erci jand value. If, judging DA such premises I have 
unripe, or so. few and far between as scarcely to | our studies to the modicum of inform ation res e arrived ab a conclusion different to that of the Com- 
far dat a cone s , 
the leaves. There, stood sien ing a which Dr. Tayror has placed before u mittee, however re wks. it may be, it shows that 
upon rank Denver's Vict and MITCHELSON The especia. jal poin nt which we would direct Sa Sy he succes oF ve m own lants as premiated 
YC ch might be bett ter called Dakik s Torre) peter sa is the As ort drawn by the jury from |} ging by y st Ame r it 
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amson bevy with their branches bre: tatement that t e no satisfactory rules | will be « 
by the. ast profusion of their Bis § ack W or "distinguishing wholesome from poisonous | wes prove ta Gs ane ei 
k i se a The st tatement is true enough, but | course I a eaking of new things. Now, among 
don and nehes ter, and for a day |i t a like a would eee I Br pos ee ag k several sets of F Fancy 
without any perceptible mapa of the quantity. with wb to naan plan No person | Pel soap some 0! 
Denyer’s Victoria Plum nown abou ive any rule which shall "dntiaporh a aos some were crtifeate, ‘and others Trad labels of 
a don. It is ieee oblate tiit: in size tien paintings fruit in Solanads from one which is ation. But where are they now? Many of 
oe Magnum : m Bonu An an O eans; 0 of a reddish | wholesome, as for example the Brazilian Cherry > ai have fhe sabtor aoe R es ma 
mon colour ; Dr. "^ Tui men; b stubborn fa remains, the two varieties 
variety, but ‘very juicy, sweet, and pleasantly | same may be said of other natural orders. Several oagelasly exhibited, and recomm mended by myself and 
flavoured.” ` zis Š it, r ince wi my be age n, viz., “ Celes St R ‘Ca satis,” Reape 
your t is to say ns poisoned rs since t l; gar 
but ine dye = preserving or cooking ; a latter, which was sold instead of Bilberries, a sub- cae and if it cate A Faney Pelargonium A ba 
concur. I nm g the root of 
gardens where there is | Aconite is sometimes substituted for Horse-radish. |% 
no ee an or sea The discrimination of wholesome from unwhole- nie them, even Mr. pede r with his magn sane 
As to Mitchelson’s, that is scarcely known to soma , phenome productions is matter S ger collection being unable to pull th ga a season 
any one; and can hardly be said to to be in the rience, and no one is safe in the use of a e- | without the aid of these two varieties. I might 
trade. Itis oval almact as large as a Victoria, of | table vsobethiess whatever, without s Sip a Tias | enumerate two more sent out at bok snme time— 
por ape p stuns hich 1 the peculiarly agreeable v3 information as shall preclude all reasonable | “ Bian e wie : br í nm em 
render a ripe Damson | chance of error. iated plants, bu or mee ars leading 
80 os a favourite. a table Plum it is ale my be very well then to caution Benes exhibition varieties, „To show however r the EA 
an eed as somo Patents cee ae! te ae mir of jogging Aoa ee gape 
sorn Ligon yews _— or pp m — we ser of whati pi: wholesome and what is roma randum. » yey though as near weefeetto a ) 
ell peep for 7 or ey to its | g E i l 
other aE. ‘Guatitles it rivals the Red Currant 
itself in the rich colour o its juice. To our taste, | mischief. A few po erga individuals may haye | bloom upon it; but one morning il sheeted with 
indeed, its jelly is preferable to any other for sery- | been intermix ed in the eral gad and if the | beautiful eee and attaching th above commeniora- 
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pensity or pe i owe 
serei to ascertain pein nei has ny ese the | that for weeks together you would not see a perfect 
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the branches te D —— with fruit as closely | the poisonous species may on a tt vt very true | evening with a . Iad 
Er of $ as Onio rope, and some idea may he that a few constitutions may sue zs not | Judging from the plant pe before theim, the consors 
ormed of ite feeundity. Its history is unknown; | to admit of the use of Fungi at all, exactl 5 could not have done aa had: or my (ora 
zio sirep t has be ban paat a ieye, sn or Love Apples, and some other ; > 
wever, i pin originally in the hands of a | fruits, are a positi ison, or at a vine ; ibili udges 
Mr. MITCHELSON, whose name A bears, but how it | some to a eee” Saute babes are however quite det Se eto anion vues facts 10 show ial 
ay his possession has never been recorded. E o PERT and the person w. who has once oe aetna |", ere certificates originating with occasional observers 
r. Hoce ome zese? no mention of it a = will n all probability be foolish enough to ven- ien not a safe guarantee of the value of a plant — fruit; 
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body of his Fruit . Very likely it is some | ture on ape food again. Where however there | they, the plants, ys 
foreign ieit a int mee we feel no yaaxisty to is igp knowledge, cases of disagreement are far | they may be, as was the case with Nil D aner 
investigate. We are content to know v that an i - | from merous, and where ily do occur we haye | mere Lem nts the day, and otherwise, or beyond that, 
valuable fruit nas bem uired, quite w 
curiously into i S TEES h f dec mp In the inate of the value of a new plant or fruit, I 
sition: In Engla a we te piis heard of a case | Shee Sea an I ex payee ea prs Bp ss 
A case of ison ing from e true A. ca ris, and the ss 
Poneto hate aaa the use of deleterious iamm variety whiski atr the nero art cul- | Pett ies and value as he — has the daily care of mi 
ineo y atI — in Shieh s the p if a conscientious judge 
verdict given by thej jury misis ined tivated artificially is on all hands acknowledged to | properties necessar or fruit, 
uk. e more arna D ta ares be perfectly safe; and as‘in this instance no mis- | I would rather trust to his opinion and i recommenda- 
verdict * oo by the eating of poisonous take can well be made, it is almost the only’ tion Pihan that of all the occasional observers in the 
— fae which appears en fi or sale in Soe: no ota country. It may be sotto TE Igo: against seedling 
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sons ing to take 
SWAINE TAYLOR medic i ae atandi peso ad really is represen! 
prudence, an on hasin his work on m tye |e where it was formerl aoe ee a Lora ssa os, it m t be BA by a declaration on the part of 
jury, stated ‘that there do not appear to be any Rene itacquires a yellow stain when bruised, As exhibitor. “dhe _the premiated plant is od upon 
satisfactory rules for distinguishing those Mus this species, however, is han thick and fleshy, it he rthy lg judgment that has been p upa 
rooms whic tn By joe oe in general far more stewing than the com- — ce cane f declaration setting forth 
poisonous. And that in some persons even the n Mushroom, and we can easily concety (a He pi ate = nd submitted | to the proprietor ; 
edible J hitegy ry person partaking of it largely without | zi iy tea its described, 
stomach and bowels by the effects of idiosyn- | proper mastication might experience disagreeable | then the prize should be ste i pinerang Any 
1» yn- | and aein ly fatal consequences; but this is | person acquainted with the progress 0 f horticulture 
no more beg arises in isolated cases from a too | could point to numbers of both fruit fa flowers sen 
hearty meal of ordinary food. TAYLOR’S oes at within the las % years, and at the time pio- 
— Gut, at page 152 will furnish cases = unced to be acquisitions, 
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treatise. hsv grace the part relative to Fungi 
is not ary with that which is so remarkable 
ey 
The cay ene neal of fe sary, then, should "a i 
been direc use of Fun h 
thi d tead of, is too Frequently the case 
Laren but against the yee use of thea sen ng them out, i so prum pte aceon cn the responsibility of 
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much valuable food which is spread in probama]. Wi ‘ih Sa liminary remarks i wiil pee i 
around us, and has been aptly termed the Poor | notice e the Ttar si Grapes. I perceive 
| man’s Manna, is utterly wasted, and yt so pipa Warner’s Bianu AE Sanhi Villa Richmond 
| prejudice exists on the subject. M, J. i ynonymes of the old I Hamburgh. Rich 
