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writing, I concluded he would oblige us by an explanation. I now see 
Mr. Simpson comes forward to endorse Mr. Bardney’s remarks. Perhaps 
it is possible to scald Black Hamburghs, but it would require gross 
carelessness to accomplish such a feat. This is not so with Lady 
Downe’s. I do not remember entirely escaping scalding with this 
variety for the last nine years. In some seasons only a few berries were 
touched, but sometimes I have seen them scalded so as to spoil the 
appearance of the bunches. The past season we have escaped very well, 
but not entirely scatheless ; but I have not seen an instance of Black 
Hamburgh scalding. I have ample proof that both varieties grown in 
the same house will not scald as suggested by Mr. Bardney’s remarks. 
We have one Vine of Lady Downe’s in an early house ; I mean a house 
that ripens its crop in May. It is planted principally with Hamburghs 
but they never scald, while the former does so regularly, though not to a 
•great extent; still the fact remains. Another house ripening in June 
has also one Vine of Lady Downe’s, but I never saw a berry of Black 
Hamburghs scalded, while Lady Downe’s scalds more or less every 
season. 
Mr. Simpson considers Black Hamburghs grown with very little fire 
heat are just as liable to scald as any other Grape. This I cannot agree 
with, and will give a case in point. I am well acquainted with a range 
■of vineries that used to be managed as succession houses, the first crops 
ripening in May and the last in September. Two were planted mainly 
with Black Hamburghs, one with Muscats, and the other with Lady 
Djwne’s and Black Alicante principally. This garden having changed 
hands through death in the family, and the present owner having little or 
mo taste for gardening will scarcely allow any fuel for the heating of this 
range, so the Grapes are now grown almost without heat, none being 
used till the crops were nearly finished off, so I think I can fairly claim 
to have a case where little fire heat is used. The four houses al 1 started 
naturally, and have all finished excellent crops of medium sized bunches.. 
The Muscats are not very well coloured perhaps, but this is the case 
where fire heat has been employed. Not a Black Hambur h berry has 
scalded, but I see the Lady Downe’s have scalded in several parts of the 
house. Now, this range has been treated exactly alike, and I think it 
proves conclusively that there is no comparison between the two 
varieties as regards scalding. I was very pleased to read Mr. Young’s 
ideas on “ fixed temperatures.” This is one of the old gardening fads 
that are not yet obsolete. I am quite convinced Grapes can be and are 
grown as perfect by Mr. Young’s method as by the fixed temperatures 
insisted upon by some head gardeners. If the truth could be arrived at, 
these “fixed temperatures” are the cause of far more evils than can 
fairly be attributed to a rise or fall of a few degrees.— James B. 
Riding. 
NEW DAHLIAS. 
A large number of seedlings were staged at the Crystal Palace 
Show, especially of the Decorative or Cactus, Pompon, and single types. 
The seedling show varieties appeared to lack development, as if more 
time were required to manifest their characters. But one first-class 
certificate was awarded in the Show section, that for a charming and 
distinct Fancy named Matthew Campbell, exhibited by Messrs. Keynes, 
Williams & Co. of Salisbury, the ground colour bright buff shaded with 
apricot and striped with crimson ; fine petal and outline ; an excellent 
addition to the Fancy varieties. A Show variety named William Jackson, 
shaded crimson, with bright purple edge, appeared too much like other 
varieties in cultivation. Of new Show varieties, Mr. C. Turner had 
Glowworm, bright scarlet, and somewhat reflexed, like W. H. Williams ; 
Mary Anderson, very like Mr. Gladstone ; and Corsair, buff shaded with 
gold) the reverse pale purple. Mr. G. Harris, of Orpington, had a few 
also, but not sufficiently developed to judge of their worth. 
Of new Pompon varieties some charming flowers were staged. 
Messrs. Keynes, Williams & Co., receive 1 certificates for the following 
flowers—Little Ethel, white, slightly tipped with dark purple, good 
petal and outline, medium sized, very distinct and pretty ; Fairy Tales, 
delicate primrose, fine petal and shape, very soft and pleasing ; Whisper, 
bright yellow deepening to gold at the base, shell-like petals, and perfect 
outline ; and Eden, deep bright shaded crimson, a small, compact, and 
admirably formed flower. Others of this type from the same firm were— 
Little Darkie, bright maroon, small, good shape ; Red Indian, deep 
bright red, excellent petal and shape ; and Eurydice, blush, tipped with 
purple, very pleasing. The same award was made to Mr. J. T. West for 
Pompon Dolly Keith, white, the centre yellow tipped with white ; a 
flower likely to appear in variable character, but a very pleasing addition 
to the class. Mr. C. Turner had a first-class certificate for Pompon 
Rubens, maroon crimson shaded with bright crimson ; a small and 
attractive flower of decided merit; Innocence, in the way of Keynes’ 
little Ethel, and very similar to it ; Admiration, and Juliette, yellow 
tipped with orange-red, also came from Slough. 
Of the Decorative class Messrs. Keynes & Co. received a first-class 
certificate for Panthea. a very bright pale reddish cerise flower of the 
Jnarezi type. They also had Amphion. yellow flushed with cerise, fine 
and distinct; and Honoria, pale bright yellow. The same award was 
made to Mr. J. T. West for Beauty of Brentwood, pale shaded purple, 
with bright pale purple on the edge ; a purple Juarezi. Mr. T. S. Mare 
had William Rayner, yellow, shaded with cerise and tinted with purple ; 
Sydney Hollings, maroon shaded with purple; and Professor Baldwin, 
a pale orange scarlet Juarezi. Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons had several 
new varieties. A first-class certificate was awarded to Yellow Juarezi, 
p*le primrose yellow, good and distinct; Lilian Abery, yellow, with 
margins of white, distinct, but staged in poor character ; Sir Trevor 
Lawrence and Lady Ardilaun were also shown. 
New single Dahlias were numerous, and in not a few cases they were 
simply counterparts of others in cultivation. Mr. T. S. Ware received 
first-class certificates for R. C. Harvey, yellow, shaded with salmon, 
and with a red ring round the eye, distinct and of fine form; Florrie 
Fisher, white ring round the eye and edged with purplish mauve, fine 
form ; and Mr. Ramsbottom, pale shaded cerise, very distinct and 
pleasing. Kate, orange-maroon, is a bright and attractive flower. Mr. 
T. W. Girdlestone received first class certificates of merit for The Mikado, 
having a yellow ring round the eye, then a broad zone of deep scarlet, 
edged with primrose, distinct and fine, and Daisy, white, broadly edged 
with mottled rosy pink, pretty and distinct. Messrs. J. Cheal & Son 
had the same award for Queen Victoria, the florets white with side 
margins of crimson, and Duchess of Albany, silvery white, pink, and 
orange-brown, a Fancy Dahlia among the singles, very disti ict. The 
same award was made to Mr. Henry Glasscock for Gertrude, a charming 
variety having a yellow ring roun 1 the eye, then a zone of white 
and a broad edging of pale rosy purple, sha ling to silvery white on the 
margin.— Florist. 
PEAR-SHAPED APPLES. 
One of the most curious examples of changes in fruit that has come 
under our notice is represented in the engraving, fig. 28. It will be 
seen what appears to be a Pear and an Apple growing from the same 
stem, or one blossom producing a round and another a Pear-shaped, 
FIG, 28.—TWIN?. 
fruit. The twins are figured with exactitude. Both fruits are Apple3 
alike in colour, texture, and flavour, and several others of the same 
nature have been produced by the same tree, some of which are before 
us. The specimens were sent to us by Mr. Spencer King, publisher of 
the Suffolk Chronicle, and were gathered from a seedling tree in the 
garden of Mr. S. Gower, Fitzroy Street, Ipswich. 
Mr. King, in writing to us on the subject, observes “ The tree 
bore Apples last year for the first time, but no twin fruits were noticed. 
They might have been there, but not observed. The tree is a see Ping, 
but what of or how sown nobody knows. There is no other tree of any 
kind on the ground. Mr. Robert Garrod, a well known fruit grower, 
and brother-in-law of the raiser of the tree, says that there were this 
year certainly a score of these twins, as well as many other bunches of 
round Apples, and that the specimens I sent you were a fair sample as 
to size. If he can procure a larger specimen of the round kind he will, 
and I will send it on to you.” We were subsequently favoured with 
other specimens, both round and Pear-shaped, with the following supple- 
mentary note : I send another, larger, specimen of the seedling 
Apple. The Pear-shaped ones did not only grow like the specimen I 
first sent you, but also singly and in couples. In fact, the two kinds 
