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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ October 16, 1890. 
Class 19, Section 4.—Chas. Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough-Holland- 
bury. 
Class 19, Section 4.—Balchin & Son, Hassocks Nurseries, Sussex- 
Hoary Morning. 
Class 19, Section 4.—John Peed & Sons, Mitcham Nurseries, Streatham 
-Belle Pontoise. 
Class 19, Section 4.—Will. Taylor, Osborn’s Nurseries, Hampton- 
Pine Golden Pippin. 
Class 19, Section 4.—A. Wyatt, market gardener, Halton, Middlesex 
-Fearn’s Pippin. 
Class 19, Section 4.—W. F. Gibbon, fruit grower, Seaford Grange, 
Pershore-Golden Noble. 
Class 19, Section 4.—John Watkins, Pomona Farm Nurseries, Withing- 
ton, Hereford-Warner’s King, New Haw- 
thornden. 
Class 19, Section 4.—Thomas Rivers & Son, nurserymen, Sawbridge- 
worth-Peach Lord Palmerston, Monarch 
Plum. 
Class 19, Section 4.—J. Laing & Sons, Stanstead Park Nurseries, Forest 
Hill-—Bismarck, 
Class 19, Section 4.—J. Cheal & Sons, Lowfield Nurseries, Crawley 
-Crab Edulis, Pear Doyenn^ du Comice. 
Class 19, Section 4.—W. Paul & Son, nurserymen, Waltham Cross-- 
Cellini. 
Class 19, Section 4.—James Yeitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nurseries, 
Chelsea--Sandringham. 
Class 19, Section 4.—Royal Plorticultural Society, Chiswick, W.- 
Braddick’s Nonpareil. 
Class 19, Section 4.—Geo. Bunyard & Co., nurserymen, Maidstone- 
Apple Washington, Pear Doyenne du Comice. 
Selected fkom the Gold Medal Class. 
Class 23, Section 6.—James Nicholson, gardener to W. Malles, Esq. 
Sewardstone Lodge, Chingford, Essex-Pear 
Durondeau. 
Class 23, Section 6.—J. H. Goodacre, gardener to the Earl of Harrington, 
Elvaston Castle, Borrowash, Derby-Lord 
Lennox. 
Class 23, Section 6.—Geo. Reynolds, gardener to the Messrs, de Roth¬ 
schild, Gunuersbury Park, Acton, W.- -Lord 
Derby. 
Class 25, Section 6.—Samuel Barlow, J.P., Stakehill House, Castleton, 
Manchester-Peasgood’s Nonesuch. 
Class 23, Section 6.—Charles Davies, The Mote Gardens, Maidstone- 
Gascoigne’s Seedling, Pear Marie Louise. 
Fkom the British Fruit Growers’ Association. 
P. Crowley, Esq., Waddon House, Croydon-Bismarck. 
Mr. H. W. Ward, gardener to the Earl of Radnor, Longford Castle, 
Salisbury-Pear Uvedale’s St. Germain. 
Thos. Rivers & Son, nurserymen, Sawbridgeworth-King of 
Tomkins County, Rosemary Russet, Pear Pitmaston Duchess. 
Extra. 
Mr. John White, Home Farm, Hampton, Prince’s Risborough- 
Dumelow’s Seedling. 
The fruit was packed in two strong cases and sent carriage paid to 
Ballater, addressed to Her Majesty at Balmoral. 
The Show was visited by upwards of 35,000 persons. 
POTATO NOTES. 
Harvest came in with dripping skies and cold boisterous winds, 
a state of things disastrous to other crops as well as corn. Happily 
the bad weather was not of long duration, and before any real 
harm had been done the very best and brightest days in the whole 
year dawned upon us—days that made work a pleasure and put 
gladness into all hearts. The genial mellowness of a fine English 
September day is not to be equalled in any part of the world. 
Nature seems to be resting after her long exertions, and the sons 
of toil are on every hand gathering up the precious fruits of 
another year. 
Stackyards are filled with golden grain—clean and free from 
storm stain, and work is rapidly progressing in all departments. 
The dry weather has much facilitated the cleaning of fallows and 
the digging of Potatoes. By-the-by, there appears to be no imple¬ 
ment better fitted for tearing out twitch and other weeds than the 
rotary Potato digger. It fairly shakes otf every particle of earth, 
and leaves the rootlets, bare and exposed, easy to gather up and to 
burn with the Potato tops. The digger makes far quicker better 
work if the tops are gathered off first, and this is an easy matter, 
and one quite worth the attention of the Potato grower. 
Some rather interesting Potato experiments have been tried this 
year. The idea was to find out good croppers for general market¬ 
ing, and of seventeen sorts grown only five are found to have any 
value for the ordinary farmer when marketed in the ordinary way. 
Queen of the Valley proved the best and the soundest, but her 
rosy hue might not commend her to everybody. “ Handsome is 
that handsome does,” be it pink or white. This was closely 
followed by 
Sutton’s Seedling , which was a good crop and fairly sound. 
Reading Russet, good in quality, useful, but considerably 
diseased. 
Snowdrop is a sound second early, but must be lifted early, as 
it is very liable to disease. 
Sharpe's Victor is one of the earliest, but not at all a farmer’s 
Potato, being too shy a cropper for field growth. 
Sutton’s Satisfaction is fairly sound and fairly prolific, beautiful 
in appearance, but at the present time, October 6th, not fit for 
culinary purposes. 
These were all set in a field which was Red Clover mown, 
plentifully dressed with foldyard manure and 2 cwts. sulphate of 
ammonia per acre in addition ; soil red cliff ; season favourable save 
for three weeks of Warm, muggy, disease-creating weather. In the 
same field the main crop was Sutton’s Abundance, and as far as can be 
estimated the yield will prove something after this — deliverable 
Potatoes seven tons, seed three-quarters of a ton, and another three- 
quarters of offal ; quality very good indeed, quite the Potato to set 
before a king, flavour not up to, say Imperator, but still very good. 
Half the field received, when Red Clover, 2 cwts. per acre of kainit, 
and that kainit has most certainly left testimony behind it in 
increased crops. Even to idle little boys pickers’ work must have 
been pleasant this year, so clean, and dry and bright, no trudging 
home at night with soaked clothes and perished little bodies, it is 
difficult to estimate the blessings of a fine “ back end.” 
In the same parish and under the same management is another 
large plot of Potatoes, grown on Wheat stubble. The soil is more 
or less cliff, but varies very much. This field had a good dressing 
of foldyard manure, and the half of it that was set with Magnums 
and Sutton’s Abundance had in addition 2 cwts. of sulphate of 
ammonia and 2 cwts. of bonemeal per acre. 
The Magnums have come up very clean, with no disease ; the 
Potatoes are small, and the crop is below the average as regards 
bulk. Sutton’s Abundance is slightly touched by disease, nothing 
that is of any consequence. The quality is most gratifying, and 
the yield fair. This, one would fancy, must be a good marketable 
Potato. 
It was fully intended that the whole of the hand tillage should 
be used on the Magnum and Sutton’s Abundance half of the field, 
but as a little was left over the adjoining first five rows of 
Imperator got the benefit, and it is certainly extraordinary what 
a difference there is between those five rows and the bulk of the 
crop. It certainly goes far to prove that Imperators do not require 
the amount of tillage that their more fancy brethren profit by. 
“ Great bouncing ‘ taties,’ and lots of ’em ” is the report, and good 
as Imperators are it is quite possible to have them too big and 
gross. However, these great tubers keep up the weight per acre, 
and a use will doubtless be found for them, if not in the market 
perhaps in the steam house. The rest of the crop is good, sound, 
and saleable. 
Many Potatoes have already changed hands in this district at 
prices varying from £22 to £24 per acre. This sounds a good 
price, but it must be borne in mind that the grower has to find 
all the labour, and will have out of that money to provide him¬ 
self with seed and offals, and these offals often form an important 
article of food on a large farm, especially when there is, as will 
possibly be the case this year, a falling off of some of the root 
crops. Of course, again, there is a feeling of great relief, too, in 
thinking that the fluctuations of the market are of no moment to 
you, and that your money is earning interest. It is but poor slow 
work peddling out a great crop by two or three tons at a time, 
and there is always more or less waste in delivering from the stores. 
With keen competition on every side, and profit margins growing 
beautifully less, it is more than ever desirable that a successful 
grower should be a man ready to advance with the times, and 
by a judicious combination of capital and common sense place the 
best article in a rising market.— Parts of Lindsey. 
SYDMONTON COURT, NEWBURY. 
This, the pleasantly situated residence of W. H. Kingsmill, Esq., 
lies between Kingsclere and Newbury, at about equal distance, and 
stands in its own park, which is well timbered, commanding extensive 
and beautiful views in the distant landscape. The dressed grounds, 
which are of moderately large extent, are enclosed on one side by park 
fence, and on the others by broad belts of shrubbery plantations 
extending to the highway, forming an excellent screen for shelter. 
The famous Hampshire hills which run in close contiguity forming a 
portion of the extensive estate, lend a pleasant aspect to the general 
surroundings, for unlike so many such elevated sites the range is 
clothed with verdure of the richest hue. On the lawn are some fine 
Cedars of Lebanon, Robinias, and other trees, with the pretty church in 
