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THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. 



Cherries of the May Duke and White Heart families can he planted on the east and 

 west walls outside, or introduced inside on the same aspects. They should, however, be 

 placed together, as it is necessary to net them to protect the fruit from birds, and the following 

 are best for the purpose : Belle d'Orleans, Early Rivers' Black', Ludwig's Bigarreau (white), 

 Guigne d'Annonay (black), May Duke (red), Royal Duke (red), Frogmore Bigarreau, 

 Archduke (red), Elton Heart (white), Waterloo Black, Black Heart, Kent Bigarreau (white), 

 Napoleon Bigarreau (white), Bigarreau Emperor Francis (red), Bigarreau Noir de Schrecken 

 (black), Reine Hortense (red), Late Duke (red), Noir de Guben (black), Geant Hedelfingen 

 (black), and Black Tartarian (late). 



In the quarters also a selection of bush Gooseberries and Currants must be provided, 

 and preferably they should be planted so that an overhead netting can be placed to protect 

 the fruit from birds. Many make a permanent enclosure of wire netting, and that is, after 

 all, the cheapest. The large Gooseberries are handsome on the table, but not so good in 

 flavour as the smaller kinds. The following will be found reliable: Yellow, *Champagne, 

 *Ball, Leveller, Leader, Drill, Ringer ; red, Crown Bob, 'ironmonger, Whinham's Industry, 

 *Warrington, Lord Derby, Lancashire Lad, Rifleman, Bobby, Dan's Mistake, Monarch ; white, 

 *Cheshire Lass, Lancer, Careless, Whitesmith, Alma ; green, *Hedgehog, *Rosebery, 

 Keepsake, Philip the First, *Greengage, Telegraph, and Ocean. (Those marked * are the 

 high-flavoured, small kinds). 



The modern system of getting standard Currants and Gooseberries by grafting on 

 Ribes aureum is a pretty way of growing these subjects ; they can be planted next the 

 paths in the same way as standard Roses. 



CURRANTS.— Scotch Red (early), Raby Castle (red), Prince Albert (late red), New 

 Dutch (red), Fay's Prolific (red), White Dutch, White Versailles, Black Naples, Black 

 Boskoop Giant, and Black Baldwins. 



RASPBERRIES. — Bunyard's Superlative (red), Bunyard's Guinea (yellow), Baumforth's 

 Seedling (red), and Golden Queen. Autumnal Raspberries: Perpetual de Biilard (red), 

 Belle de Fontenay (red), and Fourseasons (yellow and red). 



In an orchard should be cultivated the hardier kinds of fruits, such as Damsons, 

 Plums, kitchen and dessert Apples, Medlars, kitchen Pears, etc. For Damsons I recommend 

 Frogmore Early, King of Damsons, Hereford Prune, and Cheshire (late Damson). For Plums, 

 Rivers' Early Prolific, Czar, Belle de Louvain, Victoria, Pond's Seedling, and Wyedale, and 

 a tree or two of the white Damson and Shepherd's Bullace. For standard kitchen Apples> 

 Grenadier, Golden Spire, Lord Derby, Golden Noble, Blenheim Orange, Bramley's Seedling, 

 Newton Wonder ; for dessert, Beauty of Bath, King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange, Allington 

 Pippin, and other good useful kinds. This orchard should be of dwarf trees on Paradise 

 stock in bush form. 



On the borders outside the walled gardens plant Rhubarb in variety, such as 

 St. Martin's, Paragon, and Victoria ; also such outside fruits as Quinces, Siberian and 

 Dartmouth Crabs, the cut-leaved Blackberry, the Wine Berry, Logan Berry, Barberry, and 

 the various Nuts, the prolific Filbert, Kentish Cob, and Kentish Filbert being the best. 



It is natural that those who have read my notes to this point should say, "Oil, yes, 

 but we are not making a new place, but want to improve the garden we have." Yes, 

 certainly ; but the lines of culture, together with the choice sorts named, will give one an 

 idea to work on, and an old garden can be altered when desired, retaining any feature that 

 is in keeping, and yet improving it to such an extent that the new may not clash with the old 

 associations, rather supply new life and interest. In many gardens there are scores of 

 useless trees that may be well destroyed and their positions filled with young and healthy 

 specimens, taking care, of course, to introduce fresh soil in replanting, and, in cases where 

 the fruit supply is not abundant, working piecemeal so that the new trees come to cropping 

 age before the old are rooted out. 



