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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



Sweetwater, Grizzly Frontignan, and White Frontignan. No. 3 contains 

 mostly Hamburghs, Purple Constantia, Buckland Sweetwater, and two plants 

 of the Golden Hamburgh, which I find to be a good early Grape, but an 

 uncertain variety when grown in late vineries. No. 4 is a very large house, 

 being 106 feet in length by 18 feet in width, and started in the beginning of 

 February. This house furnishes a supply through July, August, and Septem- 

 ber, and the varieties are principally Muscats, Black Tripoli, Hamburghs, and 

 Frontignans. Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, are late vineries in one range, about 

 250 feet long, and 14 feet wide. Muscats are planted in the earliest divisions, 

 and for the three latest, Barbarossa, Trebbiano, Lady Downe's Seedling, 

 Calabrian Raisin, West's St. Peter's, Burchardt's Prince, and Alicante. The 

 Trebbiano kept with me last year till the 10th of April, and, although a little 

 shrivelled, was excellent in flavour. 



Wclbeck Gardens. William Tillery. 



THE GOOSEBERRY CATERPILLAR. 



This destructive pest often causes much annoyance and vexation. Last 

 summer I observed about the plantations of the 'London market-gardeners 

 acres of Gooseberry trees entirely stripped naked of foliage by it. The 

 best and surest preventive and exterminator I could ever discover is to 

 store away dry, in old boxes or barrels, all the wood "ashes I can muster 

 throughout the season from any refuse needful to consume by fire. To three 

 bushels of dry wood ashes I add one bushel of chimney soot and one bushel of 

 newly-slaked lime. Incorporate and mix the whole well together, and dredge 

 the Gooseberry and Currant trees by hand well on a showery, moist, or misty 

 day, in order that it might adhere. It not only acts as a destroyer and pre- 

 ventive to this pest, but also clears the plants entirely of moss aud lichen. 

 What falls on the earth and what is washed off after by the rain acts very 

 beneficially to the healthy growth of the plants. It has also its beneficial 

 effect on every other kind of fruit tree at all subject to moss or lichen by 

 thoroughly cleaning them. 



Bicton. - James Barnes. 



WINTER HAWTHORNDEN. 



WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 



Synontme. — New Hawthornden. 



This is a fine noble Apple, bearing some external resemblance to the old 

 Hawthornden. The fruit from which the annexed drawing, by Mrs. Dix, 

 was taken, was supplied to us by Mr. Rivers, of the Sawbridge worth Nurseries. 



The fruit is large, roundish-oblate, and even in its outline. Skin smooth 

 and shining, pale yellow, with a blush of red on the side next the sun. The 

 flesh is firmer than that of the old Hawthornden, with all its qualities.- 



A first-rate culinary Apple, in use from October to February or March. 



It is remarkable while young for its large and handsome foliage and stout 

 robust shoots, so that the trees may be distinguished from all others. Unlike 

 its parent, the Old Hawthornden, it seldom or never cankers, and flourishes in 

 soils in which that variety cankers and dies in a few years. No Apple is 

 more likely to repay the orchardist who wishes to grow a good market fruit. 

 The trees, owing to their compact habit of growth, may be planted more 

 thickly than most other sorts ; and a plantation of this sort on the Paradise 

 stock, cultivated as bush trees, would well repay the cultivator ; for the fruit 

 such trees give are larger and more beautiful than the produce on standards. 



