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Garden and Forest. 



[June 20, 1888. 



beautiful and finer fruit can generally be raised when a very 

 considerable portion of tlic sets are removed. Apples or 

 Peaches when crowded closely along; a limb are no more 

 able to attain full development than F.eets or Cabbages when 

 set too closely in a row. It will generally pay to reduce the 

 number of sets in some way. The exceptions in the case of 

 Pears, mentioned aljove, simply prove that some varieties will 

 not respond to this treatment in some places. These facts the 

 fruit grower must learn L)y experience. The commercial 

 grower raises fruit for the profit. He must study his market to 

 know how far his gain from increased qualifv will warrant the 

 increased expense of thinning. The amateur, who prides 



fortiuiate that they have so generally gone out of fashion. 

 When grown as standards to the heiglit of two or three feet 

 they make plants of striking beauty. They are all rapid grow- 

 ers, and need a liberal supply of water when making wood and 

 Howers. A correspondent of the Gardener's Chronicle makes 

 the following selection of varieties from a large collection at 

 the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick. 



One of the freest and strongest grown is named Ver 

 Luisantej orange-red with orange centre, deepening in color 

 with age ; the young flowers open orange, and deepen in 

 color as they mature. This would make a good exhibition 

 specimen when well grown. Le Styx has very fine. 



Fig. 36- — Piiiiius pendula. 



himself on fine specimens for exhibition, or for his table, does 

 not stop to consider the financial side of the question. He 

 simply takes the necessary steps to secure wdiat he wants. 

 His labor in this direction is often really a pastime, and if he 

 does not reap his reward, in his satisfaction from day to day, 

 he is pretty certain to do so when his crop matures. Those 

 who have not studied and experimented in this field will be 

 surprised to find that in many cases the very finest fruit is 

 produced only after tliinning lias been carried on to an extent 

 that would seem to the novice most extravagant. 

 Monlclair, N.J. " E. ]\'i lliailis. 



Lantanas. — These are properly classed among green-house 

 plants, but they make admirable bedding plants, and it is un- 



rich, deep orange-red ffowers, produced in large and bold 

 trusses ; it is a very free grower also. Mons. Boucharlat has 

 fine and showy pale orange flowers; the individual blossoms 

 are large, and they are produced in very fine trusses that are 

 bright and striking; it is a remarkaldy good grower also, be- 

 ing strong and rolaist. La Patriote is a very pretty variety; the 

 Howers open p;de golden-orange, changing to pink, and with a 

 rosy-pink centre ; a fine and distinct variety. Venusta is 

 salmon-colored with orange centre; very fine in the pip and 

 truss ; distinct, and \-ery good. Clio opens gold, and gradu- 

 ally changes to lo\-ely rosy-purple ; fine pip and truss, 

 and a good, free grower. Triomphe du Commire is of a 

 pale lilac-pink color, deepening in color with age ; fine pip 

 and truss, and it can safely be marked very good. Grisette 



