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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
[ September 27, 1883. 
the people. New Haven in Connecticut, known also as the Elm City, 
is so amply blessed with verdure that the view of the place from East 
Rock gives one the impression of a town planted in a forest. The same 
impression is produced when looking down upon the city of Rochester 
from Power’s Block. Cleveland and Detroit are also reputed for come¬ 
liness and verdure. Euclid Avenue, in the former city, would certainly 
be difficult to surpass. To my fancy, however, there is no prettier town 
in either Europe or America than Milwaukee. Its charming drives, its 
shady walks, its lawns and flower gardens, none of them enclosed, made 
it impossible to imagine that one was not strolling through a public 
park instead of threading the streets of a thriving and industrious 
community.—( Our American Cousins.) 
USEFUL APPLES. 
It would be interesting to know the best Apple of the year. Ecklin- 
ville Seedling has been the best here. The crop as regards number has 
not been so large as on some other sorts, but taking number with size 
and bulk when gathered this is our most profitable variety. I have seen 
it stated that this is not subject to canker in the stem. This is not 
correct as applied to every garden, as the tree cankers here, but not so 
badly as some others. It is a variety that requires a good amount of 
young wood left. Too close pruning is a decided evil. Warner’s King 
is another profitable Apple—not such a heavy cropper as the above, 
but sure, the fruit large, and a grand keeper. It is very bad with 
canker. M6re de Menage is a variety I shall grow more of. It is a 
certain cropper ; the fruits are large, keep well, and are moreover beauti¬ 
fully coloured. The one tree we have is quite free from canker. Cox’s 
Pomona is also a healthy tree. It is well worth growing. Cellini and 
Hawthornden I am going to clear out. They are good croppers, but the 
fruits are never large.—B., East Lothian. 
NOTES FROM A SCOTCH GARDEN. 
We experienced so much wet weather throughout the later portion of 
summer that Pelargoniums have not been at all satisfactory, and proves 
that it is not well to depend on these exclusively for brightness of effect. 
By planting many hundreds of Gladiolus brenchleyensis through the beds 
and borders we have had plenty of colour for several weeks past. Huge 
masses of Tritomas are now well into bloom, and these will give an effect 
that no other plant approaches. Well-grown Sunflowers (annual) with 
eight flowers open at a time are better than anything I know at this 
season. CEnothera Lamarckiana is also a most effective plant. None of 
these, however, is of much use unless the surroundings are bold and open. 
In the race after novelty gardeners are very apt to neglect good things. 
Tritomas are worth more attention than they receive at the hands of 
gardeners, and another pretty flower is the Japanese Anemone. Anemone 
japonica is one of the few flowers which are out of place in no position. 
The flower stems rise from a leafage which is as beautiful in its way as 
that of any flower. The flowers themselves, pure white, faint lilac, or of 
a dull rose, are very lovely. Loosely arranged amongst them own foliage 
with a few half-opened buds they are admirable for vases. I am inclined 
to think that the lilac form used alone is the most lovely. This variety 
is, I believe, sold as A. japonica hybrida. The present is a good time to 
propagate these. We cut the roots into pieces, and each of these grows. 
Of course where only a small stock is wanted good-sized pieces of roots 
with buds started into growth should be selected. They may either be 
potted or planted out. 
A writer recently recommended surface dressings to be applied to the 
stock of Chrysanthemums. I have done so for the past two seasons, and 
believe the practice to be a thoroughly good one. I do not find it neces¬ 
sary to apply the dressing so soon as your correspondent recommends, 
the end of September being quite early enough for our plants. I do not 
remember seeing Chrysanthemums look healthier than they are this 
season, yet they never were subjected to such unusual treatment. We 
had the plants in 4-inch pots until the middle of July before they could 
be transferred into their flowering pots. A month after stimulants were 
commenced, and they have so far thriven admirably. Our stimulants are 
guano, and latterly sulphate of ammonia once a day. They have twice 
had a dry dressing of saltpetre, and once a mixture of phosphates, potash, 
and nitrogen worked into the surface. It is very cei-tain that the Chrys¬ 
anthemum likes high feeding, and it is equally certain it does not always 
receive it. 
I have our Zonal Pelargoniums in them flowering quarters already. 
Like the Chrysanthemums they were rather late in being potted, and are 
not so large as we should like them to be. And another reason : I have 
not found that it is advantageous to let the plants stand out too long. 
When the plants are housed the best of the leaves fall in the course of a 
few days. We escape that by placing them under glass early.—X. 
Masterpiece Melon.— The fruit I staged under this name at Bath, 
and which was described as the best Melon in the Show, was received 
from the Messrs. Sutton & Sons for trial, and was unnamed. It ripened 
so unexpectedly and quickly that there was not sufficient time to 
communicate with the Messrs. Suttons unless by telegraph, and as a 
consequence, a name being necessary, I called it “ Masterpiece.” I think 
now I made a mistake in so doing, especially as I now find Messrs. 
Suttons have a Scarlet Masterpiece ; but it was done hurriedly, and 
after finding its aroma was much better than a fruit of Eastnor Castle I 
had intended to stage. The fruit I staged was scarcely ripe, as some 
we have cut since were much superior to it. It is not of attractive 
appearance, but that is its only fault. —W. Iggulden. 
The ninth Exhibition of the Lambeth Amateur Chrysanthemum 
Society will be held on November 12th, 13th, and 14th, in the Borough 
Road Lecture Hall. Schedules can be had from the Hon. Sec., Mr. 
G. Addison, 22, Peckham Grove. 
- The dedication for the public use for ever of Burnham 
Beeches will take place on Wednesday, October 3rd, when it is expected 
that the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex will 
attend in state and perform the ceremony, after which a grand dejeuner 
will be given in the large hall at Eton College in honour of the event. 
- “ G. N.” writes—“ One of the noblest of the tall Composite 
employed in gardens is Boltonia glastifolia, which attains the 
height of 6 to 7 feet, and has pink Aster-like flowers produced in 
considerable numbers. The leaves are lanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long, 
and about 1 inch broad. It grows freely in any ordinary garden 
soil, and large clumps have a good effect at the back portion or in 
prominent positions in the herbaceous border.” 
•- We observe that the Yellow Ingestrie Apple is becoming a 
great favourite in the markets and on the costermongers’ trucks. 
Its neat symmetrical shape, clean clear colour and convenient size, 
adapting it readily, for “three a penny” no doubt commend it both 
to producer and consumer. To those of the former who find it a 
profitable Apple to grow we would commend Bringewood Pippin, 
which is about the same size, of richer colour, better flavour, and a 
much later keeper. It comes well in succession to Yellow Ingestrie, 
and keeps till January, when it would pass well for “Golden Pippin” 
where nomenclature is not much cared for. Besides, it is an excellent 
dessert Apple, and also one of Mr. Knight’s seedlings. 
-We learn that there are great Potato crops in Cheshire. 
At Chester market last week very fine Magnum Bonum Potatoes were 
sold at 2s. 9 d. per hamper of 126 lb3., or a little over one farthing per 
pound. Reports from all parts of the country show that the present crop 
is the largest on record. 
- A graceful plant for a stove or intermediate house is 
Piiyllanthus sub-emarginatus, though it is known in comparatively 
few gardens. It is of tall elegant habit with small leaves, about a 
quarter of an inch in diameter, and arranged on slender branches in 
pinnate manner. A compost of light loam and peat suits the plant, 
which is not at all difficult of cultivation, and might be added to many 
collections with advantage. 
- The Glory of the Snow, Chionodoxa Lucilise, has become a general 
favourite ; and now another species, Chionodoxa sardensis, has been 
introduced to notice. The collector who found the bulbs, it is said, near 
the ruins of Sardis, at an elevation exceeding 4000 feet, describes the 
flowers as “ larger and more numerous than those of C. Lucilise, and 
with the exception of a very small white eye are of a uniform intense 
Nemophila-blue.” If this description proves correct the plant will 
undoubtedly soon share the popularity of its better-known beautiful 
relative. 
- A correspondent writing in reference to Duke of Buccleuch 
Grapes at Beeciiwood, Tillicoultry, N.B., observes that “ Mr. 
Dewar, gardener to Captain Archibald at the above garden, exhibited 
some fine examples of this Grape at the recent Show iD Edinburgh, 
and was deservedly awarded the first prize in the any white variety 
class. This variety has received particular attention from Mr. Dewar 
with very good results, as the fruit shown and at home has been 
greatly admired. In a warm vinery he has a Vine of the Duke 
inarched upon Rivers’ Sweetwater, but another in a cool house, from 
which the bunches exhibited were cut, is inarched on West’s St. Peter’s, 
and he had twelve bunches on one rod, the lightest weighing 
