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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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more freely underneath, the plants. They should at all times be abundantly 
supplied with fresh air, by removing the lights altogether in fine weather. 
The florists’ Pansies are divided into white grounds, yellow grounds, and seifs, 
besides which there are what are called fancies. Among the latter there has 
been much improvement in recent years ; they possess bright and gaudy colours, 
but are far from possessing the finish of the other flowers. The following is a 
list of the best flowers in the different classes :— Show Pansies. — Selfs: Alex¬ 
ander M’Nab, Cherub, Dr. Robert Lee, Locomotive, Miss Ramsay, Miss Muir, 
Ophirie, Rev. John Smith, and Snowdrop. Yellow Grounds: Alexander Whamond, 
Andrew Smith, Comus, Clipper, Duncan Kerr, Emily Lyle, George Wilson, 
George Muirhead, John Downie, J. B. Downie, Norma, Prince of Wales. White 
Grounds: Alice Downie, Cupid, Francis Lightbody, Jessie Laird, Lady Lucy 
Dundas, Mary Lamb, Maggie Grieve, Miss M. Carnegie, Miss Addison, Mrs. 
Galloway, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. Moffat, Mrs. Laird, Princess of Wales. 
Fancy Pansies. —Black Prince, Earl of Rosslyn, Indigo, Kettledrum, Miss 
M. Mather, Miss J. Kay, Miss Melville, Mrs. R. Dean, Mrs. H. Northcote, Magda¬ 
lene Tweedie, Medora, Ninian Niven, Prince Leon, Princess Alice, Sunrise, Sweet 
Lucy, Tambourine, and William Hay.—J. Douglas, Loxford Hall Gardens. 
ORCHARD-HOUSE FRUIT CULTURE. 
CONSIDERABLE diversity of opinion appears to exist as to the advantages 
of orchard-houses for fruit-culture ; some excellent practical cultivators 
regarding both them and the pot-culture of fruit trees as mere toys, while 
Tcf others prefer these over all other systems of culture. It is a subject whioh 
comes directly within the scope of the Pomologist, and we therefore propose to 
devote a brief space to its consideration. 
Admitting at once that the system is neither adapted to supply fruit for the 
million, nor to furnish the main supply for private families, we nevertheless affirm 
that it is of all others the system for amateur cultivators who do not possess the 
advantage of commanding the services of a skilled gardener, and who have but 
limited accommodation, since it enables them to obtain, by an easy and tolerably 
certain process, a considerable amount of choice fruit. It is, then, the amateur, 
with his small garden, who has neither the leisure, the knowledge, nor the con¬ 
venience to grow the choicer fruits according to the ordinary methods of culture, 
nor the assistance of skilled labour to supply his own deficiencies in this respect, 
on whom the orchard-house system of growing fruits has conferred a boon. 
This conclusion has not been drawn without evidence to support it, and that 
evidence we gladly lay before our readers. In the gardens at Gishurst Cottage, 
Weybridge, which is devoted partly to use and partly to ornament, and which is 
tended by one trustworthy labouring gardener, Mr. George F. Wilson has 
erected two span-roofed Orchard-houses, each about 60 ft. long, in which are 
grown annually, besides a considerable collection of Lilies, some 166 fruit trees 
