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THE FLOBIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ December, 
outline, having a straw-yellow ground, and flushed with bright light crimson on 
the exposed side. The flesh is greenish white, tender and melting, separating 
freely from the stone, and very richly flavoured. The leaves are crenately- 
serrate, and furnished with reniform glands. It was raised from Rivers’ Orange 
Nectarine, and is itself remarkable for its comparatively smooth skin.—T. Moobe. 
COLD HOUSES AND THEIK USES. 
HAD erected here, two years ago, a long range of these useful structures. 
The first division is 65 feet long, with Cherries planted on the back wall, 
and with a shelf about two feet from the glass in front, which is full at all 
Seasons. Just now—^October 29—we have grand pots full of Mignonette 
and winter-flowering Carnations^ pans of Watercress^ with Laurustimis all in 
full beauty, making at this dull season a walk in the Cherry-house quite spring¬ 
like and refreshing. These will be duly shifted to the conservatory, and their 
places filled with boxes, 4 feet by 3^ feet, for Earlg Feas, followed by Straiuherries, 
Radishes^ Mustard and Cress^ &c. 
The next department is occupied by Figs on the back wall, and in this I have 
no stage just now. It is filled with standard Roses in pots^ which are particularly 
useful in May for bouquets for the London season. 
The third and last division has Peaches and Nectarines planted in front, and 
no place suits Camellias so well as the back wall, which I have furnished with 
plenty of blossom-buds, and besides this, I winter therein Carnations^ Forget- 
me-nots^ Stocl's, and a whole host of other things. Oh, Mr. Editor, what a 
pleasure it would be to turn our ugly fruit walls into span-roofs on Ren die’s 
system! We should be then, and not until then, independent of the weather. 
My idea is simply this, that if success in hardy fruit-culture is a desideratum, 
this plan should be adopted. 
In conclusion, I may add that no more agreeable promenade could be desired 
for the ladies, whilst the gentlemen are out shooting, than the cool, refreshing 
atmosphere of such a house, where they would be surrounded by the works of 
art and nature combined, and with a glass sky to protect them from the 
unruly elements.—R. Gilbebt, Burghlei/. 
VILLA GARDENING FOR DECEMBER. 
HE year is growing old. Days of out-door labour have well-nigh reached 
their minimum length. All nature speaks of changing and decay, but it 
is not death ; it is rather the sleep of repose, the preparation time for 
Spring’s bright morning. But amid it all, the occupation of Jhe gardener 
knows no cessation ; and if he cannot actually labour, there is yet much to do in 
the way of planning, preparing, and promoting. 
The Greenhouse. —There are but few flowers out of doors at this advanced 
period of the year, and they are apt to become sorely assailed by adverse 
