December SO, 1836. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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tain extent shaded by those on the trellis, and consequently have not 
such a favourable chance for ripening. 
TRELLIS TREES. 
Nectarines. 
Name. 
First Flowers Open 
First Fruit Ripe. 
Albert Victor . 
March 24 
August 28 
Lord Napier. 
„ 28 
„ 9 
Pine Apple . 
„ 28 
„ 80 
Peaches. 
Name. 
First Flowers Open 
First Fruit Ripe. 
Barrington . 
March 28 
September 21 
Bellegarde . 
24 
August 16 
Dr. Hogg . 
„ 24 
„ 26 
Early Grosse Mignonne ... 
„ 28 
„ 24 
Lord Palmerston. 
„ 28 
September 18 
Prince of Wales . 
„ 24 
August 28 
Princess of Wales. 
24 
September 24 
Salwey . 
„ 28 
October 11 
Violet Native . 
„ 24 
August 16 
POT TREES. 
Nectarines. 
Name. 
First Flowers Open 
First Fruit Ripe. 
Albert Victor . 
Byron. 
Elruge . 
Goldonii . 
Humboldt. 
Lord Napier. 
Pine Apple . 
Rivers’ Orange. 
Stanwick Elruge. 
Victoria . 
Violette Hative . 
March 28 
„ 28 
„ 28 
„ 27 
„ 28 
„ 24 
„ 28 
„ 27 
„ 24 
„ 28 
„ 27 
September 16 
„ 10 
August 28 
September 10 
„ 10 
August 20 
September 10 
,, 14 
Auguat 28 
September 22 
» 1 
Peaches. 
Name. 
First Flowers Open 
First Fruit Ripe. 
Alexander . 
Albatross . 
Bellegarde . 
Chancellor . 
Crimson Galande . 
Dr. Hogg . 
Dymond. 
Early Alfred. 
Early Beatrice. 
Goshawk . 
Grosse Mignonne . 
Hales’ Early. 
Lady Palmerston . 
Merlin .. 
March 28 
,, 27 
„ 28 
„ 27 
„ 28 
„ 28 
„ 24 
„ 21 
„ 28 
„ 27 
„ 22 
„ 27 
„ 27 
July 12 
September 17 
„ 10 
August 20 
September 10 
August 28 
„ 20 
,, 24 
July 21 
September 2 
t , ” 17 
July 31 
October 13 
August 24 
September 22 
August 28 
September 15 
October 18 
Princesss of Wales ... 
Royal George . 
Sea Eagle. 
Salwey . 
„ 28 
„ 24 
„ 24 
„ 29 
• b ® varieties mentioned were grown in our large house. Fire hea 
is available if required, hut was only used a few times to a moderat 
extent, and principally early in the season to Beep out frost. From i 
strictly economical point of view (by which too much of horticulture ii 
private gardens has to be judged at the present time), I am not in favou 
of pot culture. There is a great amount of labour attachod to it in com 
panson with trees planted out and trained on a trellis; neither is it pos 
Bible, as a rule, to get such large fruits from pot trees. They are, however 
very interesting for amateurs who have plenty of time to spare and re 
quire some light and healthy amusement ; it is also obvious that a mucl 
larger collection of varieties can be grown by this means ; but if fin< 
large fruit is wanted that will look well on the dessert table, and occa 
sionally take an honourable place at the exhibitions, there is nothing tc 
fan-trained trees on a trellis.—W. H. Divers, Ketton Hal 
AURICULA CAMPBELL'S GREEN-EDGE. 
J^n Var J et £ , f ? r0 , wn under this name was raised by Mr. Pete 
Mr pam K°ii k‘ r k. Its history is this. Some twelve years ag 
» 8Cnt . T a box containing pips of a large number of hi 
mentinfL’d t^ em was on e or two good green-edges. One 
mentioned as being particularly fine in my note to Campbell. Sub 
sequently he sent me a small plant of it in exchange for something else. 
I was disappointed with it, as it never came up to its first maiden promise. 
After some five or six years I had propagated a dozen plants of it, and as 
no name was given to me with it when it was exhibited, I simply wrote 
on the label Campbell’s Green-edge. Campbell made no conditions or 
stipulations when he gave me the plant, and I had no hesitation, afttr 
six years, in giving plants to friends who called here. It is a free grower, 
but third-rate as regards quality. The above is the true history of 
Campbell’s Green-edge.—J. Douglas. 
AN b OLD LECTURE ON POTATOES. 
By! Mr. Robert Fenn. 
(Continued from page 536.) 
My practice in preparing for Potatoes is to double dig the 
ground 2 feet deep, keeping the bottom spit down, and merely 
shovelling the crumbs of the top spit up to the surface. It is always 
safer to do this than to bring the whole bottom spit of subsoil up 
at once. A large body of soil is thus made porous to receive the 
warmth and action of the atmosphere, encouraging the decomposi¬ 
tion of organic and other substances, ever present (to a great depth) 
in all soils, and which locked out from the sun and air would remain 
there unproductive till doomsday. 
I will mention one or two instances of the value of trenching. 
The first relative to an old garden which came into my occupation. 
It was willingly given up by the former tenant as being a patch of 
ground comparatively worthless, and would scarcely grow Turnips 
larger than hen’s eggs. I had a dressing of road scrapings hauled on 
and spread at the rate of sixty loads to the acre. It was then double 
dug, the crumbs between the spits only being shovelled upon the 
surface. This trenching affair caused rather a sensation, though 
little was said to me on the subject. I sowed the ground in the 
spring in drills with the White Belgian Carrot and the Yellow 
Globe and Long Red Mangold Wurtzels. I shall never forget the 
splendid crops, and I sold the Carrots as something wonderful in 
Ludlow Market at 5s. per cwt. 
My second example refers to a garden that had been under cul¬ 
tivation for upwards of 200 years, and for a long time was considered 
as entailing more expense than it was worth, and the crops were 
certainly miserable. I knew that when a man found his cart stick¬ 
ing in the mud it was very little use calling on Jupiter for assist¬ 
ance' unless he put his own shoulder to the wheel, so I turned up 
my sleeves and set to work by probing the subsoil. I found it 
all right, but it had never been disturbed since the garden was made ; 
below the depth of 30 inches a plastic clay presented itself, which 
made me decide at once for drains. The ground was drained and 
trenched, care being taken to keep the subsoil down. Several years’ 
collection of refuse was cleaned out of backyards, and added as the 
completion and planting went on, which was all the manure afforded, 
I cropped the ground the first year after this chiefly with Potatoes, 
and the result gave over 200 sacks for the acre, and the bountiful 
produce the garden continued to yield, coupled with the vigorous 
health of the fruit trees and ornamental shrubs, was remarkable, 
PREPARING SETS. 
My experience leads me to believe that seed Potatoes are 
stronger when grown from whole than when they are reared from 
cut sets. I choose middling sized whole Potatoes at the time of 
taking up the crop, and since I have been particular in attending to 
this I have never experienced anything approaching a failure. 
The medium-sized Potato is scarcely ripe when taken from the 
ground, and this is a great recommendation for it as seed. My 
seed snay be said to undergo a perpetual preparation, for the moment 
it is out of the ground it is disposed in single layers upon shallow 
wooden trays secure from damp and frost in an underground cellar 
lighted but dimly. On no consideration are the first shoots allowed 
to become maimed or bruised ; and agreeably to the size of the 
tuber I allow two or three shoots to grow, but never more; all 
others that form are rubbed off in their infancy. By planting 
time the young shoots allowed to remain are robust and purple 
with health, with young roots starting from around their base, 
sturdy, so to speak, as the quills of a porcupine. The advantage 
can be plainly seen over the old enervating, spurting and cutting 
method. Nothing is here lost to the Potato. Whatever virtue is 
gone out of it remains stored up in the young shoot, and the seed is 
placed in the ground in the best possible condition. It is well 
known that each succeeding series of shoots consequent on disbud¬ 
ding is weaker than its predecessor, and that if done three or four 
times the leaf-buds are destroyed. Who, then, can wonder at the 
great loss to the crop ? And it should be remembered that the upper 
end of the Potato brings the heaviest produce. Now this end 
generally buds first, and the consequence is that instead of two or 
three original stems we have, in the case of disbudding all the 
sprouts, a host of shoots of secondary power ; and the result is, 
