October 16, 1881. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTIGLLTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
847 
and washed clean, and let the sun have full play everywhere. At first 
some of the plants may droop when the sun is shining on them, hut they 
will not he scorched. It will do them no harm, and they will soon gain 
a hardy robust character which they would never have attained under late 
autumn shading.—M. M. 
NEW EAELY CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
E. 1 RLT-FLOWEEING Chrysanthemums rank amongst the most beautiful 
of border flowers in August, September, and October, and there is no 
and symmetrical. It appears to be quite distinct and equally adapted for 
garden adornment and vase-decoration. 
HOT WEATHER AND FRUIT TREES. 
“An Old Gardener” discovers (page 324) “that I did not mean that 
immature wood is more fatal to fruit-production than is inclement 
weather with frost in spring,” therefore “ there is little difference 
between us,” which, with his other deductions, shows his peculiarity of 
reasoning. I shall pass the first three paragraphs of your correspondent’s 
Fig. 58.— Chrysanthemujis Salter’s Early Bltjsh and Fiberta. 
wonder that attention is being given to the raising of new varieties. The 
two now figured—the large one, Salter’s Early Blush, and the small one, 
Fiberta—appear to be well worth the attention of cultivators. The 
flowers were sent to us by Mr. Piercy of Forest HUl, and we selected 
them as the best varieties from a large bouquet. Salter’s Early Blush is 
one of the most beautiful Chrysanthemums we have seen. The flowers 
are of medium size with neat overlapping florets of a pleasing satiny pink 
colour, very far removed from “blush.” Judging by the spray sent the 
variety must also be free and floriferous, and we think it very likely to 
become popular in gardens. Mr. Piercy informs us that it “ came into 
bloom on June 28th, and will bloom twice in one season; the flowers 
came off a plant struck from a cutting in May of the present year.” 
Fiberta is a small yellow flower as “ bright as a button,” full, compact, 
communication at page 324, which contain nothing demanding attention. 
In the fourth paragraph we read, “ Many starved and stunted orchard 
trees are barren this year, and healthy cultivated trees fruitful,” because 
“ the blossom of enfeebled trees was abortive, of healthy trees fertile.” 
On page 289 we are pointed to “ leafless fruit trees in an orchard ” as 
indicative of sterility, whilst “ trees in the garden are still green,” pro¬ 
gnosticating fertility. I thought “ frost ” was the cause of the failure of 
the fruit crops this year and during the past season, now we are asked to 
believe the blossoms were “ abortive.” This seems to me one of those 
things that “ no feller can understand.” 
The trees of “H., Notts ,which bear with unchanging regularity, 
“ (bar the frosts) every alternate year,” bearing out “ An Old Gardener s 
statement that trees in orchards are barren from the blossoms being 
abortive, whilst cultivated trees are fertile this year,” is a queer way of 
seeking a parallel. Exhaustion from overcrop is quite another thing— 
viz., the energies of the trees are so exhausted in the maturation ot the 
