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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE ANT) COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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to put on their autumnal tints. The bunches are medium in size and very 
even, whilst the berries are large and well coloured. Tbe noted Orange 
trees, too, which stand on the terrace at one end of the palace have a 
history which is interesting to many visitors. The trees are in huge 
tubs, the majority of them of a healthy appearance, and some producing 
fragrant blossom.— Observer, 
ORCHARD PLANTING NEAR DENVER. 
To your many readers who are connected directly or indirectly with 
horticulture, the following account of what is now going on around this 
city will doubtless be interesting as showing the large and effective scale 
on which fruit tree planting is conducted in Colorado. I have 
previously said that so recently as 1863, William Lee, a native of 
Croydon, Surrey, England, planted the first Apple trees in Colorado, a 
few miles from the then frontier village of Denver, having brought them 
by waggon 700 miles across the plains from Iowa City, Iowa, the then 
nearest railroad point. To-day Denver has over 150,000 inhabitants, 
and is the centre from which radiates a system of railroads aggregating 
26,893 miles, while there are at least 12,900 acres already planted with 
fruit trees in Colorado, and the area is annually being increased. For 
instance, about eight miles south-east of Dsnver one company in the 
spring of 1892 planted 48,000 standard fruit trees, besides Black¬ 
berries and Raspberries, on 540 acres, and this year the same 
company planted 35,000 standard fruit trees, and 112,000 Black¬ 
berries and Raspberries, on an adjoining 450 acres. The land is laid 
out in 5 acre tracts, each containing approximately 421 trees, viz., 
210 Apples, 135 Pears, 10 Cherries, 50 Plums, 16 Prunes, 10 Apricots, 
besides 10 Grape Vines, 625 Raspberries, and 625 Blackberries. 
The trees comprise only varieties which years of experience have 
proved suitable and highly profitable in the vicinity of Denver, such 
as :— Summer Apples, Yellow Transparent, a Russian variety. Autumn 
Apples, Alexander, Haas or Fall Queen, a variety which originated near 
St. Louis, Missouri ; Jeffries, a splendid variety of Pennsylvania origin ; 
Red Beitingheimer, a German sort, very large and beautiful ; and 
Wealthy, which originated near St. Paul, Minnesota. Winter Apples, 
Babbitt, a “ coming Apple,” originated in Illinois ; Jonathan, McIntosh 
Red, Pewaukee, originated in Wisconsin (raised from tbe Duchess of 
Oldenburg), Shackelford, which a few years ago took the first prize at 
the Illinois State Horticultural Society as “ the best new Apple,” and 
is said to be the best market Apple produced in Colorado up to this time. 
Tolman’s Sweet, Wagener, Walbridge, and Wolf River. 
Pears. —Bartlett, Duchesse d’AngoulSme, Louise Bonne de Jersey, 
Beurre d’Anjou, Flemish Beauty and Mount Vernon, a new American 
Pear, the very best of its season, a seedling of Winter Nelis. Cherries .— 
Early Richmond, Ostheimer, a late Cherry taken from Germany to 
Spain in 1814, and brought from there to Kansas ; small trees of this 
variety near Denver have borne two quarts of Cherries each in less than 
fourteen months from planting ; Montmorency Ordinaire, Suda Hardy, 
a very late variety originated in Louisiana. Plums. — Imperial, 
McLaughlin, Shippers’ Pride, Early Red, and Lombard. Apricot .— 
North American. Grapes. —Moore’s Early and Worden. To the south 
of Denver 370 acres of land were planted this spring with 26,000 
standard fruit trees, 30,000 Raspberries, 32,000 Blackberries, and 1000 
Moore’s Early Grape Vines. A few miles east of Denver, 260 acres 
(reached by electric street car line, and having water mains, school, 
and electric lights) are being planted in a similar manner, and 580 
acres adjoining will be planted by the same persons next spring. 
On the same avenue another 160 acres has been laid out in 5 acre 
tracts for suburban homes, and is being planted with standard fruit 
trees. Blackberries and Raspberries as above, together with 2000 
Grape Vines, comprising such varieties as Brighton, “ the finest Red 
Grape ’’for the West; Concord, “ the popular market Grape ; ” Diamond, 
a very hardy Grape, a cross between Concord and Iona ; Lindley, a Red 
Grape specially adapted for Colorado and Kansas ; Martha (White 
Concord), Moore’s Early, the best very early Grape ; Salem, a coppery 
red Grape; and Worden, the best of the Concord seedlings, and 
probably the best black Grape in the United States. 
One firm has undertaken for the various owners the planting of 
the above mentioned 1240 acres with 100,000 standard fruit trees, 
165,000 Blackberries and Raspberries, and several thousand Grape Vines. 
The stock is all obtained from the old and reliable firm of Stark Bros., 
nurserymen, Louisiana, Missouri, about 1000 miles east of Denver, which 
firm was established in 1835. 
The special feature of the above fruit planting enterprises is that the 
6 acre tracts are for sale on easy instalments extending over five years, 
the vendors caring for and [cultivating the trees for five years without 
charge, and guaranteeing 90 per cent, of living trees at the end of that 
time. In this way the wear and tear and worry of the cultivation is all 
assumed and carried out by the vendors and paid for by them. Of course 
if a purchaser wishes to pay cash down he gets a discount. The land 
between the trees (which are planted 30 feet apart in rows 30 feet 
asunder) will grow large crops of Potatoes, Tomatoes, Hops, Cucumbers, 
Squash, Beans, Cabbage, Beets, Melons, Celery, Onions, and other 
vegetables, or can be used for poultry purposes. 
At first sight it would appear that fruit growing near Denver is 
likely to be overdone, but such is not the case, inasmuch as the local 
market is unequalled, for the reason that less than 20 per cent, of the 
fruit consumed in Colorado is as yet grown in the State, the balance 
being shipped from California, Texas, Missouri, and other distant points, 
and sold at high prices. Denver, besides its own consumption of fresh 
fruit and vegetables and the needs of the local canning factories, is the 
great distributing and supply point for a large area, including mining 
communities in the mountains at from 8000 to 11,000 feet altitude ; and 
the fruit and vegetable grower and poultry farmer near Denver can load 
his produce into a waggon, drive into the city, sell for cash, and thus save 
the freight and middleman’s profit, which he would have to pay were 
he further from the market. 
Some of the prominent fruit and vegetable growers near Denver are 
Englishmen who have for years past practically demonstrated what can 
be done here, and at no distant date the vicinity of this city will become 
as famous for its orchards and fruit gardens as Kent, Devonshire, 
Hereford, or the Vale of Evesham.— Thomas Tonge, formerly of 
Manchester, England. 
CYCLOBOTHRA AMCENA. 
This is an exceedingly pretty Cyclobothra, and when exhibited by 
H. J. Elwes, Esq., Colesbourne, Gloucestershire, at the Drill Hall, West¬ 
minster, on May 9th of this year, the Floral Committee of the Royal 
FIG. 37.— CYCLOBOTHRA AMCEXA 
Horticultural Society deemed it worthy of a first-class certificate. The 
flowers are of a pale rosy mauve shade, with three dark blotches in the 
centre of each. The sepals and petals are rather long and narrow, the 
latter being twisted, and they are hirsute. The anthers are white, 
which renders the flower more conspicuous. Fig. 37 represents Cyclo¬ 
bothra amoena. 
THE WEM PEAS. 
Wem, a quiet little town about twelve miles from Shrewsbury, is 
now fast becoming a familiar name with horticulturists,and has become 
celebrated as the scene of Mr. Eckford’s present labours in the improve¬ 
ment of the Sweet Pea, and the culinary Pea also. Some 6 acres of land 
has been devoted to Peas at Wem, for the purpose of thoroughly testing 
his new varieties and securing a supply of seed to be grown in large 
