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THE APPLE : ITS CULTURE AND VARIETIES.-CHAP. VII. 
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HYBKID PERPETUAL ROSE PEACH BLOSSOM. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
HIS new Hybrid Perpetual Rose is, as our plate shows, a large, full, and 
exquisitely shaped flower, the tint being that of a delicate peach-blossom, 
a colour which we have not hitherto obtained amongst Hybrid Perpetual 
Boses. The growth of the plant is vigorous, and the constitution hardy ; 
and while from its size, symmetry, and fullness it is a desirable variety for the 
exhibitor, it is, on account of its colour, hardiness, and freedom of growth and 
flowering, of undoubted value as a decorative Bose for the garden. 
It is, moreover, a veritable English Bose, having been raised by Mr. William 
Paul, of the Nurseries, Waltham Cross, from English seed, and being one of a 
very few selected by him from some thousands of seedlings. It has, we are 
informed, been three years under trial, and proves constant both in character 
and colour.—T. Moore. 
THE APPLE: ITS CULTURE & VARIETIES.— Chap. VH. 
HAVE now only to make a few remarks on a very important point in the 
culture of this fruit, and conclude with a selected list of varieties suitable 
for the purposes of the amateur. 
Whatever amount of care we may bestow upon the manipulation of 
the roots and branches, our work cannot be said to be finished. The Apple is 
peculiarly liable to various insect depredations, which must be guarded against, if 
the tree is to be preserved healthy and the fruit sound. For the furtherance of these 
objects, the amateur will do well to give the trees, when in a dormant state, 
periodical dressings of a solution of Gishurst Compound, six or eight ounces to 
the gallon of water, or to give it consistency, the solution may have an addition 
of lime and clay to thicken it, the principal use of which thickening is to indicate, 
as it dries, any places which may have been passed over without a coating of the 
compound. Or it may be more convenient to the amateur to make his own 
composition, which he may do in the following manner:—Mix intimately 
together 1 lb. of soft-soap and 1 lb. of flowers of sulphur, upon which pour 
two gallons of boiling water ; afterwards add sufficient lime, clay, and soot, in 
equal quantities, to make it of the consistency of thick whitewash; this will 
dry of a pleasant neutral tint, and not be unsightly. 
The trees should be painted over with one of these compositions from base to 
apex, taking care to insert the brush well into all crevices between the forks of 
the branches. In the case of trees infested with American blight, the parts im¬ 
mediately affected should have soft-soap alone, well scrubbed in with a hard 
brush. This dressing will act as a general preventive against most of the insect 
enemies of this fruit, and will tend to lessen, but will not wholly prevent, the 
ravages of those winged depredators, the Apple Moths, as they may come from 
other parts ; they may, however, be very much kept under by a timely removal 
of all fruits which show signs of having been pierced in a very young state; sucli 
3rd series.-VII. K 
