Square In the production of frnit trees sessions, but nojnere are apples Q.™ 
he possesses a great fund of information ^ ."g 1 ^ Yood condition for a longer period 
that is readily set free for the questioner fi * e or six mont hs. The fact that 
who is seeking for knowledge from a prac- Tasman i an apples were substituted for Eng- 
ticalman. Mr. Tayler has introduced seve- 1:(5h fruit 0 n this occasion does not in 
ral new fruits, and in any fruit he dis- anyway indicate a decadence of apple cul- 
tributes as a novelty one may expect ture in this country. 
high quality; two such fruits come to our The Nati0 nal Rose Society's 
mind just now, and they are the Reme Exhibition. -Wrung to us with rorer- 
Olga de Wurtemburg grape, a capital out- ence to National lio*e Society's Metro- 
door variety for the Southern Counties, po litan Show, which will be hold in the ga. - 
and Libra peach, a variety that, as was dens of the Royal Botanic Society 
recently shown in these columns, is hne next Mr. E. Maw \ e y> ^f.;, "*. !!i 
in size and quality, and crops freely. All but tne 1 J^,^°' £ " ' ' ' ' 
for many years past been held by the Roya 
Horticultural Society in the grounds of Hoi 
land House, have from the first beer 
Dangerous Elms. 
have. It is, therefore, es ^^ y J-j 1 "®*^ 7 ' but the . coldest districts^of th 
and the two following days, has sthe Promise Exhib ition of Gladioli. 
of surpassing the finest of those held at th.wers will he int. 
Holland House. When it became known ^1^, " thai the ue« 
that the grounds «,i tin. h.> one in.n n v Z f h.li^K Society 
comfort hitherto unapproached, engaged ^ 
Olvmpia, which possesses the :id\ antages of ain s m 
i.tfordin- abundant space and of being con- l() 11 '* ] 
vcnient of access. The body of the main '' n< / 1 
hall, the annexe, and the balcony will b< , N 
mptoii. begun in 1906 for the purpose of dete 
Legacy for a Gardener. The ^- \ ^vd v \* 
,nd shrubs that thrive in the open, departments at Stanwick 
miens and water gardens. The them was a legacy of i 
of the annexe is to he devoted wanes to Mr. William Hif 
-aniens and rose gardens, while an pied the position of head 
lieatre of tiered groups, loft. high. u,rk I'ark n 
Mr. Hgw 
on each day the admission will be on t ^ shl1 - he J™ 5 an f^"^ tThTs^ien ' " first " runners, and 1,2071b. from " 
rive a full report of the exhibition, Schoo , Gardening in Oxford. separately^Sdent gave^he grea^^ 
with initiations, in our next issue. shire.— School gardening has undergone 
An Interesting Civic Cere- considerable development in Oxfordshire 
mony. — A few days since a deputation within recent vears. and it is interesting to 
" i Court of the Gardeners' Company 
" Lady 
r.nd Latest 
the Lord Mayor and Lady cently 
Company IS tothe Lord Mavor he offered 'unabated progress, and that the teaehers. 0 f praetieal import a nee to the grower tl 
English-grown flowers, such as were grown scholars, and parents have taken the select on'y first " runners for planting. 
t^J^Z. U "^"!:r- ( r S JT t r ; S,™*!^ New Remedies for APPI« 
youth he understood that no country in tl 
world could produce apples like those i 
