130 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [February 15,1 sss. 
every one in the list has been found to possess merit for table 
use under certain conditions that may be gathered from the 
reports. Thus each reader can choose for himself those 
varie;ies that appear to be most adapted to his circumstances, 
in addition 1 0 others still newer that it is so desirable to test 
under differing conditions as to locality, soil, and climate. In 
analysing the lists before us we arrange the varieties in the 
three groups or divisions above mentioned. 
First Earlies .—Considering that no cultivator named more 
than four varieties it is a little surprising to find that no less 
than six y-nine sorts have been found worthy of mention by 
at least some of our correspondents. In this section Myatt’s 
Prolific heads the list, having been recommended by ninety- 
nine cultivators, Veitch’s Improved Ashleaf by eighty-seven, 
Rivers’ Royal Ashleaf by fifty-six, Old Ashleaf by forty-six, 
Early Rose eighteen, Mona’s Pride and Beauty of Hebron 
fifteen each, Early Coldstream fifteen, Early Hammersmith 
ten, Early Bird nine, Snowflake, Porter’s Excelsior, and Early 
Racehorse, six each. 
The following have also been recommended, but by a less 
number of cultivators than those enumerated :—Suttons’ Fill- 
basket, French or Early Shaws, Alpha, Covent Garden Perfec¬ 
tion, Walnut-leaved Kidney, Flounders, Suttons’ First and 
Best, Extra Early Vermont, Early Sandringham, Early Forty- 
fold, Gloucestershire Kidney, Suttons’ Ashleaf, Suttons’ Early 
Border, Climax, Rector of Woodstock, Carter’s Champion, 
Early May, Fox’s Seedling, Grampian, Woodstock Kidney, 
Lapstone, Prince of Wales, Early Oxford, Early Handsworth, 
Suttons’ Field Ashleaf, Lady Truscott, Ruby, Lady Paget, 
Union, Triumph, Beauty of Kent, Alma, Uxbridge Kidney, 
King of the Earlies, Hart’s Ashleaf, Paterson’s Victoria, 
Jackson’s Improved, Dalmahoy, Cosmopolitan, Huntingdon 
Kidney, Empress Eugenie, Wilson’s Early Frame, Llangollen, 
King Noble, King of the Earlies, Giant King, Smith’s Seedling, 
Queen of the South, Magnum Bonum, Ice Cream, and Red 
Kidney. 
It is strange to find such varieties as Paterson’s Victoria, 
Magnum Bonum, and Dalmahoy in this list, but strange things 
are to be expected in a matter of this kind, and if the remarks 
of the cultivators do not explain the circumstance it must be 
concluded the names have been inadvertently entered in the 
wrong list. We must observe that several varieties in this 
sec ion are also named in the following list. 
Second Earlies .—No less than eighty-seven varieties have 
been recommended in this section, the comparatively new 
variety Schoolmaster heading the list with fifty-nine votes, 
followed by Dalmahoy with forty, Covent Garden Perfec¬ 
tion twenty-nine, Fortyfold twenty-seven, Woodstock Kidney 
twenty-five, Snowflake tweniy-four, Porter’s Excelsior sixteen, 
Lapstone and Beauty of Hebron fifteen each, Grampian 
thirteen, Myatt’s Prolific, Early Rose, and Gloucestershire 
Kidney, twelve each, and Prince Arthur ten. The following 
were also named by a less number of cultivators :—Suttons’ 
Reading Russet, Dawe’s Matchless, Radstock Beauty, Climax, 
Early Coldstream, Early Oxford, Pride of America, Inter¬ 
national, Yorkshire Hero, Suttons’ Early Regent, Fiftyfold, 
Lady Truscott, American Purple, Rivers’ Ashleaf, Racehorse, 
York Regent, Prizetaker, Early Border, King of Potatoes, Rad¬ 
stock Beauty, Late Rose, Gloucestershire Kidney, Drummond’s 
Prolific, Flourball, White Elephant, Huntingdon Kidney, Lady 
Paget, Rector of Woodstock, Dunbar Regent, Walker’s Regent, 
Rintoul’s Early Don, Jackson’s Kidney, Beauty of Kent, Vicar 
of Laleham, Bresee’s Prolific, Breadfruit, Extra Early Vermont, 
Early Goderich, Ashtop Fluke, Milky White, Edgcott Seedling, 
Triumph, Fluke, Queen of the South, Daintree’s Seedling, 
Adirondach, Bresee’s Peerless, Holborn Favourite, Rintoul’s 
Pink Don, Bedfont Prolific, Trophy, St Patrick, Blanchard, 
Kemp’s Seedling, Flounders, Reading Abbey, Manhattan, 
Gryffe Castle, Striped Don, and a few local varieties ; both 
Magnum Bonum and Paterson’s Vic:ona also found a place in 
this list. 
Late Varieties .—Here w r e find a great falling-off in the 
number of sorts, only forty being named. Magnum Bonum 
has the premier place with 132 votes, thus only thirty out 
of 162 cultivators fail to name it ; 108 recommend Scotch 
Champion, eighty-one Paterson’s Victoria, for.y-two School¬ 
master, twenty-nine Suttons’ Reading Hero, twenty-three York 
Regent, fifteen Dunbar Regent, nine each Skerry Blue, Rocks, 
and Red-skinned Flourball, eight Vicar of Laleham, seven Fluke, 
and six Grampian. The following were also named, but less fre¬ 
quently, some of the varieties being new :—White Elephant, 
Fiftyfold, Wormleighton’s Seedling, Uxbridge Kidney, Gram¬ 
pian, Pride of Ontario, Brownell’s Beauty, Peachblow, Bresee’s 
Climax, Walker’s Regent, Rintoul’s Don, Late Regent, Lap¬ 
stone, Late Rose, Queen of the Valley, Prince Arthur, Red 
Rock, Scottish Queen, Silver Skin, Fortyfold, The Queen, 
Yorkshire Hero, Rector of Woodstock, and Adirondach. 
Such, then, is the selection of varieties found suitable by 
cultivators for home use and market purposes, and we have 
no doubt that all these will be more extensively grown during 
the ensuing season, as the soil and locality may be adjudged 
suitable, according to the indications that will be found in the 
remarks we shall publish, while a great number of still newer 
varieties will, as they should, be tested over the length and 
breadth of the land. 
GRAFTING. 
YotTNG gardeners who have not yet learnt the art of grafting 
will have no difficulty in splicing one branch to another neatly by 
following the instructions given last week. They may and should 
practise with portions of any kind of forest tree until they can 
quickly, smoothly, and accurately accomplish the important 
work. It must always be remembered that in splice-grafting the 
bark of the stock and scion must fit closely—not the outer bark, 
but the inner. In placing a small graft on a larger stock the 
junction of the bark can only be on one side, and in such a case 
it is rare indeed that the outer bark of a scion must be flush with 
Fig. 37. Fig. 38. 
the thicker outer bark of the stock. A few experiments and 
attentive observation will enable anyone to perceive this, and 
provided the inner barks meet no concern need be felt at the 
relative positions of the outer. Beginners often fail by paying too 
much attention to fitting the scion to the outer bark of a thicker 
stock. Other methods of grafting must be learned. Very clear 
is Baltet on cleft grafting :— 
Grafting in a Single Cleft .—We have here a stock (fig. 37, A) 
of medium size, which we cut obliquely at B, the top, c, of the 
cut being smoothed horizontally; then with the point of the 
knife make a vertical split, d, to correspond in length with the 
cut on the scion, and in such a manner that it will not extend to 
the opposite side of the stock. When the cleft is made with the 
instrument in one hand, take the scion E in the other, and there 
insert it by the upper opening, pushing it down according as the 
cleft opens (fig. 38), and withdrawing the knife as soon as the 
scion has attained its proper position. The cut of the scion F, 
when inserted at G, must have its bark coinciding with that of 
the stock, without any unevenness. If the stem has a thick bark 
the scion is to be slightly inclined in the cleft, the top being a 
little inwards and the base outwards, so as to secure some point 
of contact between the liber and alburnum of the two parts, for 
the union is formed by these, and not by the external layers of 
the bark. 
