JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Fruit must never be wet when stored, and should be 

 handled very carefully and laid singly on the shelves, but in the 

 case of small Apples (Eussets, &c.) they keep well three or four 

 deep. Look over carefully from time to time and remove rotten 

 or specked fruit, and keep the floor always damp. 



These few hints will enable growers to keep late Pears to 

 March, and Apples to May or June. It was from our fruit- 

 room, constructed on these lines, that we put up forty dishes of 

 fresh clean Apples at the Temple Show in London on May 23, 

 1894. Our house is constructed in the open, on the soil, and is 

 30 feet by 12 feet, outside measure, and easily takes 300 kinds of 

 fruit. The cost was about £30. 



Discussion. 



The Chairman, in inviting discussion, said they often learnt 

 more from their failures than from their successes. He then 

 told the meeting of a gentleman who was taught by bitter experi- 

 ence, because, contrary to instructions, his trees were planted too 

 deep, and because a dead dog, a dead cat, and butcher's offal 

 were placed at the roots of some Pear and Apple trees. Trees 

 could not live on such food, said the Chairman, who added that 

 as they would not go to a cheap grocer for their tea, so they 

 should go to none but the best sources for their fruit-trees. 



Mr. John Weight paid a high tribute to the Rev. Mr. Wilks, 

 whom they greatly missed at that Conference. He could easily 

 have imagined that the paper had been written by a professional 

 gardener instead of by an amateur. He could scarcely find one 

 fault with it ; but there was one omission— Mr. Wilks did not 

 mention that grand old favourite among Strawberries, the Sir 

 Joseph Paxton. 



Mr. Bunyard said the flavour was not good enough. 

 Another gentleman in the hall suggested that it was " worn 

 out." 



Mr. Wright vigorously defended " Sir Joseph Paxton Irom 

 these onslaughts. He was glad to see the importance attached 

 by Mr. Wilks to the Gooseberry and the Raspberry. These were 

 the fruits for the amateur, as they gave an ample return for the 

 space allotted them. He told of a man who divided his allotment 



