1874.] EIVEES’ EAELY BEATEIOE PEACH.—SEASON FOB PLANTINO EVEEOEEENS. 99 
Six Good Late Desseet Apples. 
1. CouET of Wick. 4. Soaelet Nonpaeeil. 
2. Golden Knob. 5. Lodgmoee Nonpaeeil. 
3. Loed Bueghley. 6. Mannington’s Peaemain. 
The above are all good late Dessert Apples, in season from January to the end 
of May ; they are very well adapted for espaliers and pyramids. 
Six Good Late Culinaey Apples. 
1. Dumelow’s Seedling. 4. To wee of Glammis. 
2. Noetheen Geeening. 5. Waenee’s King. 
3. White Oalville. 6. Noefolk Beefing. 
In all the above lists I have striven to secure variety, but not sought after 
novelty. My aim has been to supply a reliable list of sorts, from which the 
amateur may select such as he requires, without the risk of disappointment in 
the sorts, some one or other of which may be available for use the whole year 
round.— John Cox, Eedleaf. 
EIVERS^ EARLY BEATRICE PEACH. 
HAVE this day, April 8, tasted a ripe fruit of this early Peach, grown 
by Captain Ashby, in the county of Lincoln. The fruit was for the season 
? highly-coloured, and the flavour good. Though small, it is certainly a great 
addition to the dessert-table at this early period. I cannot say when the 
house was started, but as a proof of the early properties of this peach, I may add 
that in the same house, when this was ripe, Eoyal Georges were only just beginning 
to take their second swelling. The flrst dish of one dozen was gathered on 
March 31. I hear, but I have no authority for stating that Early Beatrice was 
gathered at Frogmore some time before—it would be highly interesting to know 
on what date. Perhaps Mr. Jones would oblige the public with this information. 
—R. Gilbeet, Burghley^ Stamford. 
THE SEASON FOR PLANTING EVERGREENS. 
SEE from the letters of various correspondents in the gardening papers, that 
the best time for planting Evergreens is still a subject of doubt. After all 
that has been written on the subject, we still find many persons planting 
large masses of mixed trees, deciduous and evergreen, during the winter and 
early spring. I have seen immense losses, especially in the case of Evergreens, 
when the planting was done during February and March, and have my eye upon 
a piece that has been planted this year during March. Of course it is right and 
proper that the planting of deciduous trees should be finished before the season of 
active growth commences, but in the case of evergreens it is very different. After 
twenty-five years’ experience in planting Evergreens, I have come to the conclusion 
that the six weeks after the first of April are the best for general planting ; and 
if the trees are in a good state at the roots, scarcely a plant will be lost, if the 
work is properly done. The great diflSculty is to prevent evaporation from exhaust- 
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