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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The earliest and latest flowering apples in the collection of 

 117 varieties were found to be as follows, the numbers meaning that, 

 on the five years' average, they commenced to flower so many days 

 later than the variety which was the earliest of all to flower in each 

 year: — 



Earliest-flowering . 





Late si- flow e ring' . 





' Irish Peach ' . 



. 1-2 



' Sandringham ' 



. 13-6 



' Eed Astrachan ' 



. 1-6 



' Eoyal Jubilee ' 



. 13-4 



* Duchess of Oldenburg ' 



. 2-0 



* Court Pendu Plat ' . 



. 13-0 



' Golden Spire ' . 





* Armorel ' 



. 12-0 



* Yellow Ingestre ' 



. 2-6 



' Lewis' Incomparable ' 



. 11-8 



' Early Peach ' . 



. 2-8 



* Flanders Pippin ' 



. 11-2 



' Maltster ' . 



. 3-0 



* Vicar of Beighton ' . 



. 11-2 



' Warner's King ' 



. 3-2 



* Dumelow's Seedling ' 



. 11-0 



' Tower of Glamis ' 



. 3-2 



' Lady Henniker ' 



. 10-8 



' Devonshire Quarrenden ' 



. 3-2 



' Golden Noble ' 



. 10-6 



' Brownlee's Eusset ' . 



. 3-2 



' Gascoyne's Seedling ' 



. 10-5 







* Newton Wonder ' ^ . 



. 10-4 



Eecords were also kept of the dates of flowering of a number of 



Scotch, Irish, French, and Eussian varieties, but they showed no 

 peculiarities in this respect. — A. P. 



Apples, The Gradingr and Marketing- of. By J. L. Hills {U.S,A, 



Hort. Soc. Vermont, 7th Ann. Rept. 1909, pp. 72-74; plates).— In the 

 Hood Eiver Valley, Oregon, the methods of the co-operative creamery 

 have been applied to the marketing of apples, the fruit, immediately it is 

 picked, being taken charge of by the agents of a union by whom it is 

 graded and packed, the boxes being stamped with the name of the 

 union and the registered number of both grower and packer. Hie 

 system is said to have resulted in such absolute uniformity of grading 

 and packing that a car-load of apples is often sold on the guarantee of 

 the trade markings without a single box being opened. This subject is 

 further dealt with in a Paper on * * Western Methods of Packing Apples 

 and Pears " in the Transactions of the Illinois Horticultural Society, 

 1909, pages 148-155, as well as in another Paper on " Fruit Growers' 

 Marketing Associations " in the same volume, pp. 269-282. It is 

 claimed that the products of the Western States mark the acme of 

 perfection in the matter of packing and transporting fruits. — A. P. 



Aquilegria alpina {Bot. Mag. tab. 8303). — Nat. ord. Bamiucii- 

 laceae ; tribe Hellehoreae. Alps and Apennines. A perennial herb witli 

 several stems; 1-3 flowered; leaves biternate; flowers 3 inches across, 

 blue-violet. — G. H. 



Aristolochia moupinensis {Bot. Mag. tab. 8325).— Nat. ord. 

 Aristolochiaceae. Western China. Undershrub, scandent; leaves, 

 cordate, 4|- inches long, 4 inches wide; perianth tube, pale green; 

 iimb, obliquely 3-lobed, 1^ inch across; the margin, recurved., 

 yellowish, with red markings within. — G. H. 



