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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
r January 15, IMl. 
ily ever will exist to a certain extent, it is no 
fungoid pests which florists have to contend 
ack the plants in the same virulent manner 
introduced. Soot is valuable ; quicklime is 
all the fungus tribe ; and when the ground is 
th these it will kill any spores of fungus that 
le ground ; and where plants are treated as 
le of the Journal I think there will be no fear 
5L,r.R.H.S.,//e«f/(ersto<J, Cornhill-on- Tviecd. 
IIBITION HOLLYHOCKS. 
Raiser’s Name. 
Colour. 
Thompson & Sons 
Oliver.| 
Thompson & Sonsi 
Downie & Co. ...* 
Chater. i 
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Geo. Rogerson ...! 
Steel .! 
Oliver. 
Chater. 
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Thompson & Sons 
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Finlay .' 
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Steel . 
Chater. 
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Coddling. 
Chater. 
Finlay. 
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A. Rogerson . 
Chater.! 
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A. Chater . 
Steel . 
A. Rogerson . 
Chater. 
Thompson X Sons 
Steel . 
Finlay. 
Chater. 
Downie A: Co. ... 
Blundell . 
Chater. 
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Chater. 
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Thompson & Sons 
Blundell . 
Smith. 
Chater. 
Harrison . 
Webb & Brand ... 
Chater. 
Blundell . 
Thompson & Sons 
Thompson & Sons 
Blundell. 
Webb & Brand ... 
Mann . 
Chater. 
Thompson & Sons 
Phipson & Sons... 
Thompson & Sons 
Chater. 
Blundell. 
Blundell. 
Rosy salmon. 
Carmine red. 
Rosy peach. 
Rosy purple. 
Salmon flesh. 
Vivid crimson. 
Dark crimson. 
Peach, shaded rosy salmon. 
Yellow, stained carmine. 
Silvery flesh. 
Bright yellow. 
Pure white. 
Rosy red. 
Deep pink. 
Apricot. 
Ruby crimson. 
Rosy lilac. 
Buff, shaded rose. 
Pink, shaded fawn. 
Pale flesh, shaded lilac. 
Pale yellow, shaded rose. 
Creamy white. 
Deep salmon. 
Rosy flesh, 
Salmon flesh. 
Bright crimson. 
Apricot. 
Flesh, flushed with rose. 
R'ch crimson. 
Deep red. [purple. 
Blush white, suffused with 
Shaded peach. 
Deep yellow. 
Delicate flesh. 
Pale yellowish buff. 
Pale sulphur yellow. 
Buff, shaded rose. 
Bright rosy red. 
White, suffused with purple. 
Buff, suffused with rose. 
Shaded pink. 
Cream, stained with rose. 
Light rosy salmon, 
Rosy carmine. 
Rich shining maroon. 
Bright yellow. 
Dark crimson. 
Deep orange buff. 
Pale creamy flesh. 
Pale yellow, stained carmine. 
Orange buff. 
Heavy crimson. [mine. 
Pale flesh, deepening to car- 
Lemon, stained with rose. 
Deep claret. 
Clear flesh. 
Crimson, shaded salmon. 
Crimson, shaded salmon. 
Pure white. 
Pale yellow, stained with rose 
Orange buff. 
Bright crimson. 
Cream, shaded pink. 
Reddish crimson. 
Deep salmon. 
Rosy salmon. 
Bright rosy red. 
Pinkish rose. 
Carmined flesh. 
White, stained lilac. 
Delicate pale blush. 
Rosy purple. 
AN EMIGRANT’S ENTERPRISE. 
I ENCLOSE herewith a copy of a letter just received from Mr» 
Burnett, late of Deepdene, Dorking, which I thought might be of 
interest to his late colleagues and gardening friends. He writes from 
Rosedale, Bakersfield, Kern County, California.—J. Cheal. 
“ 1 have settled down here, and taken up 40 acres of land, and had 
a house built. I have planted 27 acres with Muscat Grapes for 
raisins, also planted a few acres with Peaches and Pears. The country 
here is a vast plain, running 400 miles N.W., and from 50 to 100 miles- 
wide, and nearly surrounded by lofty mountains. 
“ The soil is a kind of decomposed granite of great depth, and with 
water applied, is apparently very productive. Grapes grow splendidly, 
and, owing to the absence of rain, raisins can be made of very high 
quality. My Vines have made remarkably good growth, and I hope to 
have a sufficient crop next year to pay expenses. In two years they wil2 
pay well, and increase in annual value up to five years, when they 
ought to be worth about £35 per acre per annum net profit, after 
paying all expenses. The Vines are planted 8 to 10 feet apart, and aro 
kept pruned very low, the Grapes, in fact, lying oii the ground ; bufl 
owing to the extremely dry weather they are never spoiled by the 
soil. 
“ The country here, before the introduction of canals for irrigation,, 
was a barren wilderness. But the effect of water on the soil seems- 
like magic. The Company from whom I bought the land own between 
six and seven hundred thousand acres, and they have only just begun> 
to sell it; and myself and two others were the very first to settle on 
the desert lands here. The people are coming in to settle very fast^ 
The land is cut up into square miles, which are again cut up into. 
32 and 20-acre lots, and you can have any quantity that you are able, 
to take. 
“ There is not much good for any man without money coming: 
here. It requires a capital for a man coming here to take 20 acres, 
of at least £600 or £700. Wages are good, and if work was steady 
a man would soon make money, but the working men are so numerous-, 
that numbers of them are idle. 
“ Peaches grow and bear remarkably well, and pay well. I have- 
seen some fruit of what is called the Orange Cling, weighing from 
1 lb. to 23 ozs. Some of the Peach growers have cleared as much as. 
£60 per acre. Figs and Apricots also do extremely well. It is a. 
little too hot for Apples, but Pears do splendidly. Oranges do very 
well, but are not grown here for exporting. There seems a market in- 
the Eastern States for any quantity of fruit that can be grown here,, 
and the prices, so far, are much in advance of what they are at. 
home. 
“The climate is very hot in summer, but with always cool nights. 
The autumn months are very pleasant, but now it is chilly and raw„ 
We have not seen much of the sun this month, but all through 
November the days were bright and warm, with cool, frosty nights 
and mornings. I do not think we are likely to regret coming here^ 
as there seems every likelihood of making an independency, but still 
there is no place like home. I miss the Royal Horticultural Society & 
Meetings, and should like very much to be able to drop in for ans 
hour or two at James Street, or wherever the meetings are held, 
I am very sorry to see by the Horticultural press that you have lost 
two prominent horticulturists, Shirley Hibberd, and William Holmes,, 
the Chrysanthemum Secretary.” 
AN ATTRACTIVE WINTER GARDEN. 
A COLD drive was that which I had from Ashby Folville to 
Syston Junction with worthy farmer Smith on a dark December 
morning. Fog and frost had clothed every spray of tree and 
hedgerow with rime, and the first glimpse of the tree beauty, of 
which I was to see so much that day, came in the guise of a belt of 
Austrian Pines and Birch trees, with the slender pendant branches 
all silvered o’er by the boar frost, imparting an air ot wonderful 
grace and beauty to the heavy dense mass of the Pines. Beyond 
them the tall spire of Gaddesby Church was only just visible m. 
the mist, which concealed from view most of that famous old. 
building of the Knights Templars, so rich in its elaborate stoner 
carvings and architectural beauty—fit shrine for the tomb of grim 
old John of Gaddesby, a veritable Red Cross Knight, from whom. 
the village takes its name. i. 
Day was only just breaking as we drove through Gaddesby, and 
we could only perceive the Birches indistinctly, yet the effect was. 
so striking that it will cling to the memory as another of the many 
aspects under which this most graceful of native trees presents 
