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(especially in the case of young Vines) than anything else I 
know. The Vines were again cut back in the winter, this time to 
4 or 5 feet, and carried the next year from five to seven bunches 
of Grapes each. The year after (third year of bearing, four years 
after planting) his house was full of good plump Grapes which 
would have done credit to any professional man, and 
of which I assure you the gentleman was very proud. 
Encouraged by his first success he built another vinery 
against a higher wall and rather longer in the same yard, 
which he planted with Black Alicante, and which has 
succeeded even belter than the first, and which returns 
to him annually for surplus Grapes sold the handsome 
sum of from £25 to £30. The old gentleman declares 
that he has no property (and he has a variety including 
house property) which returns him anything like the 
interest on the amount expended as this vinery does. 
I hope what I have narrated above will encourage 
others to try and do likewise. There are few districts to 
be found in which there are not gardeners who would he 
willing to assist gentlemen in this matter with suggestions 
and directions how to proceed. To those who have not 
this channel of information, with your permission I shall 
be glad to give more detailed directions in a future paper. 
—Druid. 
CHOICE CAMPANULAS. 
Turning to another and distinct section of the genus, 
one species that is especially worthy of notice now is 
C. Vidalii (fig. 26), concerning which a note was pub¬ 
lished recently. It is a semi-shrubby or woody species 
from the Azores, where it was found growing upon a 
rock on the east coast of Flores by Captain Vidal, in 
honour of whom it is named. It has narrow somewhat 
spatbulate leaves with serrated margins, the iiowers 
being white, glossy, and bell-shaped, but curiously con¬ 
tracted in the middle. It is best suited for culture in 
pots, and its value for this purpose is admirably shown 
at Kew, where in the Cape House a number of plants 
have been flowering profusely ; indeed, for a cool house 
the plant is one of the most ornamental of its genus. 
The following account of it appeared in this Journal 
nearly twenty years ago : — “A half-shrubby maritime 
Bell-Flower, probably half-hardy or requiring a green¬ 
house. It is described to us by a gardener well acquainted 
with English flower-gardening as a very ornamental 
species. The plant forms a roundish mass 2 feet high, 
with dichotomous thickened branches, terminating in a 
rosette of leaves of half-succulent half-leathery texture, 
smooth, spathulate-oblong, with revolute crenated mar¬ 
gins. The few leaves which occur on the flowering stems 
are lance-shaped and nearly entire. The flowers grow 
in terminal racemes, which shoot out from the centres of 
the leafy rosettes : they are nodding, bell-shaped, and 
contracted in the middle, white or cream-coloured. Mr. 
Watson describes the leaves and branches as recalling to 
mind some species of Saxifraga or Sempervivum ; in bis 
dried specimen, shown in our figure, on which about three 
flowers were developed, several flower buds appeared 
abortive, or else would have been developed later and 
irregularly. It requires a mixture of two parts sandy 
loam and one part leaf mould. It increases freely from 
seed, but the seedlings do not bloom until the following 
year. It does well upon rockwork, but is rather tender, 
and the colour of the flowers is rather dingy. The whole 
plant has so little the appearance of a Campanula that 
it has been questioned whether it belongs to that genus, 
and it is suggested that it is nearer related to the genus 
Musschia.”—X. 
NOTABLE PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 
Early Beatrice.—A Peach that ripens in an un¬ 
heated house the first week in July, and three weeks 
later upon an open wall, ought not to be condemned 
lightly, as I fear it has been by many who have not 
given that attention to its culture which it merits. In 
an early Peach house where the ventilators are not 
opened wide during the growth of the fruit it is so poor in flavour 
as frequently to be positively insipid ; but in a late house under 
the influence of a free strong circulation of air, and also upon 
open walls, its flavour is full, rieh, and delicious. 
It has always been satisfactory here in a late house, and is this 
year bearing a good crop of high-coloured fine-flavoured fruit out 
of doors, where there are two trees of it, one against a west wall 
and the other in a snug nook facing the south. 
Early Rivers Peach.—A large tree of this Peach growing 
against a south open wall has a full crop of fruit, the first dish of 
Fig. 26.—Campanula Vidalii. 
which was ripe on August 8th. The fruit is large and good, but 
many of them have the objectionable stone-splitting peculiar to 
this variety, and which Dr. Hogg says, in the “Fruit Manual,” 
“ probably arises from imperfect fertilisation, the pistil protrud¬ 
ing so far beyond the stamens. This stone-splitting not unfre- 
