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I have elsewhere shown farmers, butchers, knackers, &c., the value of flesh 
and blood as a manure for Apples and Pears; and a great amateur Eose-grower 
speaks of the Dundee Eambler as running wild about the church, and eke the 
churchyard. Therefore I conclude that where fuel is scarce and fruit is dear, it 
will be better to hold on to the cold-earth system of sepulture, out of which some 
good may arise and much beauty. If some of the Climbing Eoses once got pos¬ 
session of an old churchyard, they would hold their own against aught but fire 
and faggot, and form a handsome screen, “ hiding the ruin that they feed upon 
but what could be expected from the handful of animal charcoal of the burnt 
bones, and the ashes of the vegetable charcoal of the coffin ? Whatever gain, 
then. Cremation may be to other parties, those that live by the earth, from the 
grave-digger upwards, must grieve to see Mother Earth robbed of her rights, and 
some simple Christians might boggle at the idea of rising again, if so be that they 
were never to be buried.—A. Forsyth, Salford. 
PRINCE ENGLEBERT PLUM. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
'E offer an illustration of this variety, not as a novelty, for it is now 
extensively grown around London for market purposes, but as one of the 
best sorts where annual and remunerative crops are a consideration. 
Its bearing qualities are something remarkable, and its quality by no 
means to be despised, even for dessert, while in the culinary department it has 
very few superiors. Dr. Hogg describes it as having “ Fruit very large, oval, 
and marked with a shallow suture. Skin of a uniform deep purple, covered with 
minute russet dots, the whole thickly covered with a pale gray bloom. Stalk 
half an inch long, inserted in a rather deep cavity. Flesh yellow, rather firm, 
sweet, juicy, with a brisk and rich flavour, and adhering to the stone. Shoots 
smooth.” To this he adds the remark, which we can fully endorse, that it is “ an 
excellent plum, either for the dessert or for culinary purposes, and delicious when 
preserved. Eipe in September. The tree is a great bearer, and in this respect is 
one of the most valuable for large culture.” Our specimens were obtained from 
Mr. Dancer, of Chiswick.—T. Moore. 
PINK LORD LYONS. 
HIS very fine Pink, valuable alike for forcing or border purposes, was raised 
a few years ago from seed by Mr. James Clarke, of Bury St. Edmund’s, 
and it is altogether so fine and distinct, as to be most deserving of cultiva¬ 
tion. The flowers are large in size, of full substance, of a deep rosy- 
purple hue, with indistinct maroon blotches, and the petals slightly fringed. 
The peculiar glow of the colour, and the individual beauty of the flowers, places 
it in the very front rank of border Pinks. 
I was somewhat astonished a short time since, to hear one of our leading 
florists say that Pink Lord Lyons was a bad doer# With mS, the character is 
