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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



descriptive catalogue of 

 by Mr. Dean : — 



Adelina Patti 

 Creole 

 Gaiety 

 Harlequin 



Imperatrice Eugenie 



Belle Esquermoise 

 Belle Lilleoise 

 Couronne de Flore 

 Diamant 

 Distinction 

 Donald Beaton 

 Due de Brabant 



them, well worth consul tin 



NEW VARIETIES. 



Le Geant 



Leotard (see fig 3) 

 Maid of Honour 

 Mrs. Moore (see fig. 2) 



OLDER VARIETIES. 



Etoile du Nord 

 Leon d'Or 

 Louise Miellez 

 Masaniello 

 Michael Ange 

 Miracle 

 Napoleon III. 



has been recently issued 



Mulatto 



Princess Louise 

 Prince Louis of Hesse 

 Prince Napoleon 



Neomi D em ay- 

 Prince- s Alice (seefig. 1) 

 Princesse CI "tilde 

 Princesse Mathilde 

 Prince Imperial 

 Tiger 



GOLDEN HAMBURGH GRAPE. 



In your September Number " S. T." wishes some of your numerous corre- 

 spondents to favour him with their experience of the Golden Hamburgh Grape. 

 Having grown the above-named Grape for some years, both in hot and cold 

 houses, I can now testify to its good qualities, which will, I feel sure, allow it 

 to rank among the best White Grapes in cultivation. At the present moment 

 it may be seen in perfection, both in berry and bunch, as grown by me at the 

 nurseries of Messrs. Lane, of Berkhampstead, in their orchard-house amongst 

 their collection of Black Grapes, the Golden Hamburgh being the only white 

 Grape in the house. W. Toomer. 



MONS. ROBERT'S PATENT FOR RENOVATING DISEASED 



ELMS. 



A discussion has been going the round of the Press on the merits of 

 M. Robert's plan for renovating old trees, which is stated to have restored the 

 sickly Elms in the vicinity of Paris to a state of pristine luxuriance by stripping 

 off their bark and leaving them to reprovide themselves with this important 

 appendage, anl with it returning health. We are told the plan answers admir- 

 ably ; so much so that M. Robert has taken out a patent for his discovery, which, 

 after doing wonders in France, is recommended as a cure for the stricken 

 Elms in the London Parks, and generally, when declining health shows itself 

 in our English trees. We must admit that the French are ahead of us in 

 knife- manipulations, whether the subject experimented upon be a biped, quad- 

 ruped, or a member of the vegetable kingdom ; but while admitting their 

 general superiority, we are bound to take this question purely on its own 

 merits as involving an important question in vegetable physiology. 



It is now a good many years ago that William Forsyth, the Royal gardener 

 at Kensington Palace, undertook a nearly similar office. Publishing by order 

 of Government, "a particular method "of cure," whereby "sundry cankery 

 fruit trees in the Royal Gardens at Kensington" had been transformed into 

 wonderful specimens of health and fecundity, by the application of a certain 

 composition* described in the said publication, it was dedicated by a most 



* The following is the composition referred to as given hy Mr. Forsyth : — " Take one 

 bushel of fresh cowdung, half a bushel of lime rubbish of old buildings, half a bushel of 



