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THE FLOBIST AND POMOLOGHST. 
[ February, 
OKCHAKD-HOUSE PEODUCE. 
HAVE read witL. interest the remarks by “ G. D.” on tlie profitable and 
successful management of Orchard-Houses, but fail to understand that the 
results which he quotes are of a very profitable character. The labour of 
watering plants in pots, syringing, fumigating, thinning, soil, expense of 
pots, &c., does not seem to have been placed on the side of the expenses, to 
say nothing of the first cost of trees, erecting the structure, and other items, 
which add materially to the outlay. The coat of paint once in three years is 
not high-keeping for a glass structure. We valued our returns as a market man 
would, and I still believe that, with the best management, the whole thing is 
profitless in a money point of view. I made no complaint of deficient crops, as 
wo had very heavy crops, and much of the fruit was excellent both as to quality 
and appearance. When one knows the returns from well-managed Kentish and 
other orchards, and the nominal expense by which these orchards are kept in full 
bearing, one is impressed with the idea that orchard-house pot-culture is very 
like baby-gardening, or at least something to be adopted chiefly for amusement. 
Since writing my paper on this subject, I have planted out one-half of my 
trees, used the pots for other purposes, and sent the “ trucks ” where they will be 
turned to useful account. I feel sure that from the trees planted out I shall get 
good fruit with about one-sixth part of the use of the watering-pot as formerly. 
I feel grateful to “ G. D.” for giving us the benefit of his experience and practice 
through the pages of the Floeist and Pomologist ; and I freely admit that his 
system, so far as economy is concerned, appears to be in advance of that of 
practitioners in general.—M. T. 
BAECHAED^S SEEDLING APPLE. 
S his is neither a new nor a very old variety. It was raised by Miss Bar- 
chard, of Putney, some 40 or 50 years ago, and has been frequently 
f brought under notice in one way or another, but has never yet taken that 
prominent position its merits so fully entitle it to. Mr. Thompson men¬ 
tions it in the Catalogue of Fruits of the lioijal Horticultural Society. It was 
awarded a Certificate by the Pomological Society some years ago, and now, at 
last, it has received the same honour from the Fruit Committee of the Eoyal 
Horticultural Society. 
We have specially to thank Mr. F. Dancer, of Little Sutton, Chiswick, for 
showing us the full merits of this thoroughly excellent Apple. Near Gunnersbury 
Station may be seen a group of some 40 or 50 good-sized trees of this variety, 
which every autumn present a most beautiful picture, laden as they are with 
bright, shining, rosy-cheeked fruit. The trees themselves are of a fine free 
style of growth, and form objects of quite an ornamental character. 
The fruit is of medium size, of the Nonesuch shape, flattened at each end. 
The eye is open, set in a deep plaited basin ; the stalk is about an inch long. 
