NOVEMBER. 
2G1 
Carrots, Salsafy, and Scorzonera, each, re¬ 
joiced in two or three. 
Exhibition at Nice. —An International 
Horticultural Exhibition is to be held next 
year, under the patronage of the Emperor and 
Empress of the French, at Nice. It is to 
remain open from the 26th of April to the 1st 
of May; and intending exhibitors are re¬ 
quired to make their demands for space before 
the 1st of March to the Director, hue Victor, 
45. It is stated that the carriage by the 
French railways and steamers of all objects 
going to and coming from the exhibition will 
be free. 
Horticultural Exhibition at Paris.— 
The fourth or autumn Show of the Imperial 
and Central Horticultural Society was held on 
the 24th of September, the principal features 
being fruit, Dahlias, and Gladioli. The 
former came from all parts of France, but 
was more remarkable for the number of kinds 
shown than for size. Messrs. Ballet, of 
Troyes, had a collection of 330 varieties of 
Apples and Pears correctly labelled; whilst 
M. Dupuy, Jamain, exhibited 250 kinds of 
Pears, of .Apples 40, of Grapes 47, of Peaches 
17, of Quinces 2—in all 356. Fine Grapes 
were shown from the famous vineyards of 
Beaune, from Thornery, and from Marseilles; 
hut by far the best were those from Mr. 
Knight, gardener at Pontchartrain, and his 
countryman, Mr. Meredith, of Garston. The 
latter had Barbarossa, Black Alicante, Frank- 
enthal, and Muscat of Alexandria, and a 
white seedling [probably Child of Hale], 
which, for size of berries and bunch, were 
superior to any in France. These two col¬ 
lections prove the excellence of the English 
method of forcing the Vine. Of Gladioli a 
very numerous and fine collection was shown 
by M. Eugene Verdier; whilst new Japanese 
and ornamental-foliaged plants were each 
well represented .—(Abridged from Z’Uorti- 
teur Franqais .) 
American Peach Orchards. — Immense 
quantities of Peaches are grown in New 
Jersey and Delamare for the supply of the 
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and other 
markets, and are sent in baskets or crates by 
special trains. This year the crop has been 
so abundant that thousands of baskets have 
been left behind for want of transport, and 
the prices realised have been from 4s. to 6s. 
per basket, from which ten per cent, is de¬ 
ducted by the factors as commission. Some 
of these take from 1000 to 2000 baskets a-day. 
One New Jersey grower alone has an orchard 
of 46,000 trees. Some growers raise their 
own trees, but most of them buy them of 
nurserymen when one year old from the bud. 
The trees begin to bear in the second year 
from planting, yield a full crop in the fifth 
year, and continue good till the tenth, after 
which it is rarely profitable to keep them. A 
fresh orchard is then established in another 
locality, as it is considered useless to plant 
a second set of trees in the same soil. 
Potatoes. —We learn, from the Railway 
News, that the Great Northern Railway 
Company are expending £40,000 in erecting, 
at their old terminus at Maiden Lane, a long 
range of warehouses for the accommodation 
of their Potato trade. Formerly the great 
Potato mart was in Tooley Street, and at the 
wharves between it and the river, but now 
the Potatoes for the supply of the London 
market are principally brought by rail, the 
Great Northern having by far the largest 
share of the traffic. This commenced soon 
after the line was opened, and now amounts 
to 85,000 tons a-year. At present the trade 
is carried on by thirty-five factors, occupying 
little wooden huts, and paying a small toll to 
the Company, and who, having no warehouse 
accommodation, are compelled to get rid of 
their consignments as soon as these are un¬ 
loaded from tho trucks, of which there have 
been as many as 900 waiting at one time. 
The warehouses, thirty-eight in number, 
which the Company are erecting, will remedy 
this inconvenience; and being each connected 
by a line of rails, 60 or 70 feet long, running 
at right angles with the main line, the trucks 
can readily be turned on to these short 
branches, all of which are provided with a 
wide platform for unloading. 
Public Parrs. —The Liverpool Town Coun¬ 
cil have recommended the Finance Com¬ 
mittee to purchase Woodlands and Walton 
Lodge Estates, comprising an area of about 
30 acres, at a cost of about £34,000. In the 
discussion upon the propriety of purchasing 
this land, Mr. Graves compared the parks of 
other towns with those of Liverpool, and 
showed that in London there were 1628 acres 
of land for a population of 3,000,000; in 
Dublin there were 1752 acres for 300,000 ; in 
Glasgow, 136 acres for 400,000 ; in Birken¬ 
head, 190 acres for 50,000 ; and in New 
York, with population of somewhere about 
800,000, they were now devoting 800 acres of 
land for a park, at a cost of half a million 
sterling; but in Liverpool, with some 450,000 
inhabitants—the population having doubled 
itself within the last forty years, and in all 
probability would double itself in the next 
forty years—they had only forty-five acres, 
fifteen of which had been added within the 
present municipal year. 
A Hermetically Sealed Building for 
the Preservation of Fruit.— A large build¬ 
ing is in course of erection in Cleveland, 
United States, that both in construction and 
purpose is decidedly novel. The building is 
80 feet by 44^ feet, the side walls being- 
22 feet high. The frame is up, and resembles 
a large church edifice. It is, however, nothing 
but an immense refrigerator, or rather it is to 
be a monster hermetically-sealed can of pre¬ 
served fruits. The front of the building, 
