November 8, 1877. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



357 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



1 Day Day 



1 of | of 

 J£onth Week. 



NOVEMBER 8—14, 1877. 



Average 



Temperature near 



London. 



Sun 

 Rises. 



Sun 

 Sets. 



Moon 

 Rises. 



Moon 



Sets. 



Moon's 

 Age. 



Clock 

 before 

 Sun. 



D av 



of 



Year. 



8 



9 



10 



11 



ia 



13 

 14 



Th 



P 



S 



Sun 



SI 



Tu 



W 



Lord Mayor's Bay. Prince of "Wales born, 1841. 



Sale of Bulbs at Stevens's Rooms. 



24 Sdnday after Trinity. Martinmas. 



Sale of Norsery Stock at Derby. 



Brixton and Gravesead Chrysanthemum Shows. Carter's 



[ Boot Show. 



Day. 

 52 

 50.5 

 50 4 

 50.2 

 50.2 

 49.9 

 48 5 



Night. 

 31.3 

 38.8 

 34 

 34.2 

 83.8 

 35.2 

 83 8 



Mean* 

 43.1 

 43.2 

 42 2 

 42.2 

 42.0 

 42.6 

 41.2 



h. m. 

 7 9 

 7 10 

 7 12 

 7 14 

 7 IS 

 7 17 

 7 19 



h. m. 

 4 19 

 4 18 

 4 16 

 4 15 

 4 13 

 4 12 

 4 10 



u. m. 

 11 18 

 0a 6 



40 



1 3 

 1 21 

 1 84 

 1 46 



h. m. 



5 53 



6 59 



8 It 



9 26 



10 39 



11 50 

 mom. 



Days. 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 < 

 8 

 9 



m. s 

 16 7 

 16 2 

 15 56 

 15 49 

 15 32 

 15 23 

 15 13 



812 

 313 

 314 

 3'5 

 316 

 317 

 318 



Prom observations taken near London daring forty-three years, the average day temperature of the week is 43.8 ? ; and its night temperature 



APPLE ELECTION. 



f HAVE received twenty-five lists, and another 

 year I hope many other lovers and cultiva- 

 tors of the Apple will assist. At the same 

 time I think the result will be of use to many 

 intending planters, and also an aid to growers 

 for grafting and other purposes. There will 

 be many an opportunity for discussing the 

 relative merits of the Apples in the lists, 

 but as plinting time is approaching, I will 

 make a few observations on the leading sorts 

 as a guide to small growers — that is, growers of a few 

 sorts. I only consider the result of the election as a 

 very email guide to the orchardist as to planting for 

 profit; but at the same time I think it shows the 

 merits of the Apple as an Apple for profit and merit 

 combined. 



In the dessert kinds I have received the names of 

 ninety-two sorts ; I have included thirty-two in the lists, 

 leaving off with those that had received four votes. The 

 Blenheim is at the head of the list, not on its merits as a 

 dessert Apple, but on the votes awarded in both kinds, 

 and if left in the two lists it would not have had due 

 justice rendered to it. Cox's Orange Pippin, there is no 

 doubt, is now the king of dessert Apples. I believe it 

 will do well either as a standard or pyramid. The Rib- 

 ston will still remain with us (although I should not 

 recommend it for planting), while its merits for flavour 

 are handed down to successive generations. It is im- 

 possible to discuss the merits of all the kinds at this 

 time, but for bearing in succession I have found the 

 summer Golden Pippin, King of the Pippins (now ripe), 

 Court- Pendu- Plat, and Stunner, generally have a crop. 

 In kitchen Apples it is a curious coincidence that the 

 number receiving four votes should be within one of the 

 dessert — viz., thirty-three. There is another fact, that 

 two kinds stand far ahead — viz., Wellington (Dumelow'a 

 Seedling), and Lord Suffield. If I had to choose two more 

 sorts for a small grower that would be constant bearers 

 I should take Cellini and Beauty of Kent. But there is 

 one point in relation to cooking Apples that I should like 

 to see carried out, and that is the result of the cooking of 

 a certain quantity of the best known Apples by measure, 

 and I think it would be found that many of our sorts, 

 although producing a quantity on the tree, would not 

 make much apple sauce. 



There are many kinds of Apples that do better grafted 

 on another stock. The best to plant for stocks are Goff, 

 Cellini, and Beauty of Kent, and many sorts will grow 

 on these stocks that refuse to bear on any others. I 

 have many notes that I shall be pleased to place before 

 your readers in future numbers, but I do not think the 

 publication of the result should be deferred, and therefore 

 send it for publication this week. I only hope it may be 

 the means of enlarging the knowledge of Apple-growers 

 as to the best sorts to grow and the best means of grow- 

 ing them. — Lewis A. Killick, Mount Pleasant, Langley, 

 Maidstone. 



No. B67. — Vol, XXXin., New Series. 



dessekt apples. 



Votes. 



Blenheim Pippin 22 



Cos's Orange Pippin .... 21 



Ribston Pippin 20 



King of the Pippins 16 



Scarlet Nonpareil 14 



Kerry Pippin 14 



Devonshire Quarrenden . . 14 



Irish Peach 13 



Margil 12 



Conrt-Pendu-Plat 11 



Sturmer Pippin 11 



Aefrachau 9 



Summer Golden Pippin . . 8 



Court of Wick 8 



Old Nonpareil 7 



Golden Harvey 7 



Mannington's Pearmain . . 6 



Red Joanetting 6 



Cornish Gilliflower 6 



Ashmead's Kernel 5 



Early Harvest 5 



Golden Reinette 5 



White Joanetting 4 



Reinette dn Canada 4 



Old Golden Pippin 4 



Melon Apple 4 



Lord Buiioigh 4 



Claygate Pearmain 4 



Wyken Pippin 4 



Pearson's Plate 4 



Sam Young 4 



Cockle Pippin 4 



KITCHEN APPLES. 



Votes 



Wellington 24 



Lord Suffield 23 



Alfriston 14 



Keswick Codlin 13 



Hawthornden 13 



Cox's Pomona 12 



New Hawthornden 11 



Cellini 11 



Bess Pool 10 



Warner's King 9 



Bedfordshire Foundling . . 9 



Tower of Glamis 9 



Northern Greening 9 



Striped BeeSng 8 



Dachess of Oldenburg . ... 8 



Eeklinville Seedling 8 



Emperor Alexander 8 



Stirling Castle 7 



Beauty of Kent 7 



Gravenstein 7 



Yorkshire Greening & 



Fearn's Pippin 6 



Rymer 6 



Small's Admirable 5 



Gooseberry Pippin 5 



Winter Quoining & 



Manx Codlin 5. 



Hollandbury 4. 



Norfolk Beefing 4. 



Waltham Abbey Seedling . 4 



Nelson's Glory 4 



Hanwell Souring 4 



Lord Derby 4 



ECONOMY IN HEATING GREENHOUSES. 



Now that the time has again arrived for the heating of 

 greenhouses and other glass structures by artificial means 

 it may not be out of place to say a few relative words, 

 but more especially in reply to the remarks of " Respice 

 Finem " which appear on page 246 of a recent issue o 

 this Journal. 



" Respice Finem," in the first chapter of his Three-years 

 Experience in a Greenhouse, gives an interesting account 

 of the ways and means of erecting his house, and I would 

 say that amateurs who have the time and ability (for it 

 is not everyone who is blest with either), and are desirous 

 of putting up a similar house as cheaply as possible, can- 

 not do better than follow him in his modus operandi ; but 

 I am afraid that few if any of us amateurs will care to 

 follow in his footsteps as to heating them. By this I do 

 not so much mean the apparatus by which they are heated 

 as the cost of doing so. 



Roberts's patent terra-cotta stoves such as used by 

 " Respice Finem " are, if I mistake not, intended to be, 

 and from all I have heard of them if properly handled 

 are no doubt, fuel-econornisers ; and therefore I read 

 with considerable surprise that it had cost him £2 15s. 

 for heating his small house during a period of eight 

 months. I could scarcely think that possible; but not- 

 withstanding the amount seemed to me large at the time, 

 on calculating what would be the cost per hour for the 

 period stated I find it is a trifle under one-eighth of a 



No. 1519.— Vol. LVI1I.. Old Series. 



