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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ April 6, 1882. 
ing,” gays that Tom Putt may be grown with advantage where 
Dumelow’s Seedling does not succeed. Is the former a local 
Apple ? In the last edition of that marvel of fruit lore, Hogg’s 
Manual, the name is not mentioned. I find Northern Greening 
and French Crab vigorous and fruitful; their fruit is valuable as 
lasting late. 
Of early cooking Apples Keswick and Manx Codlins never tire 
of prodigious bearing year after year. The trees are hardy and 
healthy, and we think the fruit, perhaps because it comes in early, 
excellent for tarts and puddings. Whenever in the late summer 
and autumn an Apple is wanted in the kitchen we go to these 
trees and gather, and never seem to miss a dish from them. Lord 
Suffield gives a good crop, and the fruit is large and good ; but 
here, as elsewhere, the tree is not vigorous. Jolly Beggar pro¬ 
duces good fruit, but smaller than the preceding, and is perhaps 
superfluous where they succeed. A fine tree of Cox’s Pomona, 
covering a high wall facing south-east, is not a profuse nor a con¬ 
stant bearer ; but the fruit is wonderfully large and handsome, 
and cannot be surpassed for roasting. 
Of Ecklinville Seedling I have several healthy trees now 
crowded with blossom buds, but they have not yet borne fruit. 
Blenheim Pippin, as espalier, standard, and bush,yielded last year 
—a first-rate Apple year—among seven trees only four Apples ! 
Perhaps this variety requires many years over its head before it 
becomes fertile. The same may be said of Hambledon Deux Ans, 
which, although growing well, has not yet blossomed. 
Cellini cankers, and its branches die one by one without 
bearing, and the same may be said of Alfriston. We have planted 
many other Apples in order to test them, and have spoken of 
those only that have been so far the best bearers. 
About our grass fields are many venerable trees—some of them 
with local names, such as Curltails, Limmertwigs, &c. Some are 
coarse in flavour, and all are inferior to the more modern fruits 
named above, excepting the old Orange Pippin, which, although 
apt to be marked with specks, is fertile, and the fruit handsome 
and good for dessert, cooking, and cider. It keeps well until 
February. 
It may be seen how much my experience in this part of the 
country confirms the much larger experience of the “ WILTSHIRE 
Rector” in another part.— A Surrey Physician. 
pm-GLEPNGs. m 
A lecture on the history of the Auricula will 
be delivered by Mr. Shirley Hibberd in connection with the 
National Auricula Society’s Exhibition at South Kensington* 
The lecture will be given in the conservatory at 3 p.m. on 
April 25th. 
- We learn that the annual Exhibition of the National 
Auricula Society (Northern Division) will be held in the large 
room of the new Town Hall, Manchester, upon Tuesday, May 2nd. 
•- An Edgbaston correspondent desires to know if* it is 
possible to obtain large puffballs from spawn, the same as 
Mushrooms are obtained. He wishes to grow them in a field and 
orchard, and thinks it a pity they are so little appreciated a a 
food, and so generally scarce. 
- Mr. J. Forsyth Johnson, Director of the horticultural 
exhibitions at the Alexandra Palace, informs us that he has taken 
an office for his landscape gardening business at 90, New Bond 
Street. 
- We learn that the new double pink Bouyardia, re¬ 
ferred to on page 155, will shortly be distributed by Messrs. James 
Carter & Co., who, we are informed, are appointed sole European 
agents for it. 
- J. F. Peacock, Esq., of Sudbury House, Hammersmith, 
recently submitted to our notice a New Lycaste of the L. 
Skinneri type, but very distinct from any varieties we have seen. 
It is chiefly distinguished by the smaller pseudo-bulbs and the 
spreading petals, the latter being of an intensely rich rosy 
crimson colour, affording a most pleasing contrast with the blush 
tinted sepals ; the lip is also richly coloured. If it be a variety 
of L. Skinneri it is by far the finest we have seen. The plant 
is to be referred to Kew for identification. 
- We understand that the finest collection of Tulips in 
London will shortly be in flower at Captain Patton’s new re¬ 
sidence, Alpha House, Regent’s Park. Twelve bulbs each of 
upwards of three hundred varieties were planted, and although 
they cannot all be expected to be in beauty at the same time, yet 
the display can scarcely fail being both interesting and attrac¬ 
tive. It would appear, in consequence of suitable structures not 
being erected in time for growing bulbs largely and well under 
glass, that more attention has been given to growing them out of 
doors, and we are informed that altogether about 30,000 have 
been planted in the garden in question. 
' - “ In the neighbourhood of Bristol,” writes a gardener, 
“ Lachenalia tricolor is remarkably well grown, and I have 
never seen it in better condition than as exhibited at the spring 
show. They were grown principally in 5-inch pots, about six 
bulbs in each, in a compost consisting of two parts good loam to 
one of manure, with a sprinkling of sand ; and this appears to 
suit them well, as nothing of the sort could be finer than the 
splendid spikes of bloom surmounting the broad and sturdy foliage. 
It is not advisable to ripen off Lachenalias very rapidly, and 
repotting should not be delayed after growth has commenced* 
During the winter months shelves near the glass in a compara¬ 
tively cool house are suitable positions for them, and they are 
very effective when grown in hanging baskets.” 
-- Mr. Iggulden writes—“ On the south side of a belt of 
forest trees fringing Marston Park there is a fine old specimen of 
the Glastonbury Thorn. According to the accounts given by 
some of the ‘ old hands,’ flowers have been gathered from this tree 
on one or two occasions early in January, and this winter I noticed 
a few branches considerably more advanced than the remaining 
portion of the tree. No bloom, however, expanded, and these 
early breaks now present the appearance of being scorched. The 
growth generally of this tree is now nearly a month in advance of 
the common Thorns near. Some of the growths are at the present 
time 9 inches in length, and the flower buds, never very plentiful, 
are just on the point of expanding. The vagaries of this tree are 
enigmas to me. Is there any accounting for them 1 It is an old 
maxim, ‘Habit is second nature,’ and perhaps the Glastonbury 
Thorn, having once acquired bad habits, cannot regain regularity.” 
- The same correspondent observes—“ All kinds of flower¬ 
ing shrubs and climbers are remarkably floriferous this season. 
For instance, I never saw Chimonanthus fragrans flowering so 
freely as on Marston House this winter; and the same may be 
said of Pyrus japonica and Forsythia viridissima both on the 
house and rockwork, these at the present time being very effective. 
In the grounds several specimens of Berberis Darwinii, about 
9 feet in height and bushy, are densely flowered ; and whether 
closely inspected or viewed from a distance, the neat, rich, apricot 
yellow blooms and habit of growth cannot fail to please the most 
fastidious. No shrubbery may be 6aid to be complete without 
a specimen or specimens of this perfectly hardy Berberis.” 
- A Peterborough correspondent writes — “Nearly all 
kinds of fruit trees promise an abundance of bloom this season. 
Apricots have flowered very freely, and small fruit as large as peas 
are showing plentifully. Many of the Pears are ready to start 
into bloom. Apples are showing well; the Ribston Pippin has 
abundance of buds. Cherries and Plums are showing profusely ; 
many of the latter, as Jefferson’s and Diamond, are in full flower. 
The cold winds that are now prevailing I fear will prove injurious 
