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Time of Blossoming of Fruit Trees. [dec, 



Late Flowering Apples. — On 19th May, Hambling's Seedling, 

 Lord Derby (13 days), Ecklinville (14 days), Striped Beefing, 

 Calville Rouge (cider), Golden Noble (16 days), Wellington (16 

 days) ; 20th May, Foster's Seedling (11 days), Slack my Girdle 

 (cider) (10 days), Dutch Mignonne, London Pippin, Cornish 

 Gilliflower (12 days), and the Sandringham (16 days) ; 21st May, 

 Blenheim Orange (11 days), Loddington (11 days). 



Latest Apples. — 23rd May, Graham's Royal Jubilee (21 days), 

 and Jersey Chisel (cider) ; 26th May, Cherry Pearmain (cider) 

 (16 days), and Foxwhelp (cider) ; 27th May, Medlar commenced 

 to flower — full bloom 3rd June, petals fallen 15th June (20 days) ; 

 28th May, Broad-leaved Norman (cider) (16 days) ; 30th May, 

 Court Pendu Plat (14 days) ; 3rd June, Argile Gris (cider). 



Mr. F. Ivo Neame, of Faversham, has sent me a record for 1907 

 and 1908 of the opening, full blossom and fall of petals of some 

 22 apples and 7 pears taken at his farms at Selling and Chilham, 

 which corresponds fairly closely with my own record at Wye. 



Mr. Frederick Chittenden, however, has sent particulars of the 

 record of blossoming, taken at the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 gardens at Wisley t Surrey, in which he points out some instances 

 in which the order of flowering at Wisley differs from mine, 

 showing that observations should be taken in different localities 

 and for several years to get greater exactitude. 



Mr. Edward A. Bunyardwho kindly sent me notes on the first 

 flowers of some 170 varieties taken this year at Maidstone, 

 remarked : — " It is curious to notice the short duration of 

 blossom this year, from earliest to latest only about fifteen 

 days." 



Period of Blossoming in United States. — A bulletin issued this 

 year by the New York Experiment Station on "The Relation of 

 the Weather to the Setting of Fruit," gives the average duration, 

 according to six years' record, in that State, as about 9 days for 

 apples, while five years' records show pears to be 7 days in 

 flower ; peaches, 8 days ; plums, 7 days ; cherries, 7 days, and 

 grapes, 10 days. The number of trees on which the observa- 

 tions were made is given in each case, and varies from three 

 to six. The first varieties of apples began to flower on 10th 

 May, the last on 20th May. The shortest length of time for 

 any apple to be in flower is six days, and the longest twelve days. 

 Thus the apple trees in this State appear to take but nine days, 



