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shire, prolific; late. Northern Spy, fruit of pleasant flavour ; 
succeeds best on the Paradise stock. Adams’ Pearmain, fruit of 
good flavour and handsome. Sturmer Pippin, a useful late Apple ; 
a prolific bearer. Court-Pendu-Plat, a late but sure bearer ; it 
makes a fine pyramid. Melon Apple, splendid flavour ; succeeds 
best trained to a wall. The notes on Pears must form another 
chapter.— Fruit-Growe k. 
Were it not for the colour it would pass for a coarse growth of 
Mangold Wurtzel. Instead of the small delicate top which 
characterises a fine stock of Beet, this has sis or seven tops all 
larger than a single one ought to be. The root is large and 
coarse, and has as many prongs as tops. Such is my experience 
of Betterave crapaudine. —J. Jackson, 
Mr. T. Laxton writes to us as follows on a White Beauty 
of Hebron Potato —“ This variety, like others of the coloured 
American sorts, seems prone to give off white tubers—the 
origin, doubtless, of some others of the transatlantic varieties 
which have reached us recently. The freak has occurred with 
Beauty of Hebron both in the Experimental Garden and also in 
the hands of a neighbour. In all other respects except colour 
White Beauty of Hebron seems a parallel of its parent, and must 
be a decided acquisition, as the great objection hitherto to the 
old variety and to others of the ‘ Bose ’ type is the colour, which 
depreciates their value for market purposes.” 
- A kentish gardener states that he recently observed in 
Maidstone Cemetery a large bed of Tuberous Begonias. 
The bed contained about three hundred plants in fine condition, 
the flowers being of various shades of colour, all the plants 
flowering profusely, proving their usefulness for bedding-out, 
especially in the southern counties. 
- “ Scientia ” writes, “ Amongst a number of varieties of 
Ceanothus planted out in a bed at Chiswick, one named Gloire 
de Yaite (Lemoine, 1879), was most conspicuous. It is a good 
grower and profuse flowerer, having large trusses of a light blue 
colour. It is admirably adapted for walls or planting in beds as 
practised at Chiswick. A large bed filled with this variety would 
be very striking at this season of the year.” 
•-A northern correspondent says, “ Polygonum Brunonis 
is one of the prettiest plants flowering at the present time. It is 
well suited for the rockery, being very showy with its spike of 
pink or rose-coloured flowers, which rise about 9 inches high. It 
is a plant that should have a position on all rockeries, as they are 
comparatively dull at this season. ” 
- “ Lancastrian ” finds Veronica longifolia sub- 
sessile one of the best of the genus, deserving a place amongst 
the most select herbaceous plants. It produces a bold well-filled 
spike of blue flowers about 2 feet in length during August and 
September. 
- “ L. H. W.” observes “ that the old White Mule Pink is 
not only valuable for the borders but for growing in pots. Gar¬ 
deners and amateurs would find it useful, and it is surprising it is 
not more generally employed for indoor decorative purposes.” 
- “ W. B.” considers “ that Eupatorium Ageratoides is a 
grand hardy plant too seldom seen in collections. It grows from 
3 to 4 feet high, and is suitable for the back row of a border or 
for planting amongst shrubs. It is doubly welcome, as it is flower¬ 
ing profusely now, and a few plants when well established would 
afford abundance of flowers for cutting.” 
- Let me caution your readers against a kind of Beet which 
I was tempted to try from the favourable report I received of it. 
It is called by the French Betterave crapaudine, and has 
recently been introduced to this country. I have a long row of it, 
and its foliage and roots stand quite 2 feet out of the ground. 
- One of the finest Standard Boses I have ever seen is 
one in the garden of Henry Webb, Esq., Bedstone Manor House, 
Bedhill, Its stem is 3 inches in diameter, and its branches, some 
of which droop to the ground while others grow upwards from a 
thicket of luxuriant growth, 7 to 8 feet high. The tree when in 
bloom is a mass of colour interspersed with a plentiful accompani¬ 
ment of greenery. What is the cause of this extraordinary growth ? 
Is it the variety which thus affects the stock ? or is the stock some 
particular form of the wild Bose, which expands its growth more 
freely than the Dog Bose usually does 1 This is a subject I should 
like much to have discussed, as it is an important one to all 
rosarians.—H. 
- The Dahlia ground at Swanley has lately been the 
most striking feature, the plants being grown by the acre and 
include all sections—Show, Fancy, Bouquet, and single, the most 
approved varieties of each being represented. The blooms of the 
larger kinds are very fine, and of the smaller most profuse. The 
richest of the singles is Paragon, except, perhaps, some seedlings, 
among which are several new colours. The old single white 
variety Alba is strikingly attractive, and should be grown in 
every garden. Whether there are more distinct single white 
Dahlias is perhaps a moot -question, but none at present, it may 
safely be said, surpasses the one in question. The dwarf single 
scarlet and dwarf single yellows are brilliant by their numerous 
flowers, but for richness of effect all—both singles and doubles— 
are eclipsed by half a dozen plants of an unnamed variety that 
for decorative purposes will probably find its way into all gardens 
and pleasure grounds where Dahlias are grown. The flowers are 
small, double, but not formal and symmetrical, brilliant scarlet, 
and produced so freely that each plant is like a bouquet. Such a rich 
glow of colour is seldom seen as these plants afford, and Mr. 
Cannell must give the variety a good name and propagate it largely. 
- The appearance of the masses of flowers in the Pansy 
ground in the same establishment shows that as a trio OF bed¬ 
ding Violas the following are not surpassed for continuity of 
flowering — Blue Bell, Yellow Boy, and Vestal, the last-named 
being white. Some newer varieties may posssibiy excel them, but 
not yet grown in sufficient quantity to judge of their effect in the 
same manner as those named, which should be obtained by those 
who do not possess them, and propagated by those who do for 
lines and masses, the present being the best time for inserting slips 
and cuttings. They strike readily under handlights, or in gritty 
soil in an open border, inserting them deeply. The old Magpie 
Pansy is flowering freely now ; it is a quaint and distinct variety, 
the flowers being admirably adapted for vase decoration. 
■-Of Chrysanthemums there will be a great display shortly, 
a plant of each of the 149 varieties being grown for testing the 
truthfulness of the stock. Young plants of these are grown in 
small pots, the stock of each variety being plunged in separate 
beds, having 2 or 3 feet of space between them, with the object 
of keeping them distinct and reducing mistakes to a minimum. 
The beds are arranged in the order of the catalogue, and the 
great extent of space the plants occupy afford practical testimony 
of the popularity of this fine autumn flower. 
- Many other things are noteworthy in the nursery, both 
under glass and out of doors, but only the Primulas can be 
referred to. These include all the strains in cultivation, and so 
numerous are the plants that they occupy a length of 800 feet 
