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ings should only be put on in frosty weather; and in mild, open weather, the 
plants should be exposed. 
The difficulty of having a supply during winter is experienced where there are 
no spare lights available for protection, and where the soil is of a heavy, retentive 
nature. Many ways will occur to an intelligent mind to meet these difficulties. 
Where the soil is unfavourable, a site should be chosen in some sheltered part of 
the garden, and a bed should be prepared specially for it, by putting a quantity 
of stone and brick rubbish at the bottom, and putting on this some soil suitable 
for the purpose. A sowing made on this towards the end of May, if carefully 
attended to during the summer months, in thinning the plants and picking off 
any luxuriant leaves that may be produced, will furnish a supply during winter, 
provided it has some protection from frost. Experienced gardeners know the 
importance of having a good supply of Parsley all the year round, and generally 
make ample preparation to have it; but young men do not always, at first start¬ 
ing, see the importance of it, and are apt to think it only a trifling matter. It 
does not take up very much ground to grow a quantity of it; and it is a safe plan 
always to sow plenty, for then, with a little attention during the summer, and some 
protection in frosty weather, a supply is always assured.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
DE. HOGG’S CLASSIFICATION OF APPLES. 
NE of the greatest difficulties which pomologists have had to contend with 
has been the want of a classification of Apples and Pears, by means of 
which they could readily and certainly make out the names of any varieties 
brought before them. Various attempts have been made, both in this 
Fig. 1.—Apple Eyes a, closed; b, c, open. 
country and on the Continent, to supply this deficiency, but hitherto with little 
success. One of the latest of these, limited, however, to the grouping of Apples, 
and which we are now about to explain, has just been submitted to the Royal 
Horticultural Society by Dr. Hogg, author of the very useful Fruit Manual. 
The leading characters upon which this new classification is based are not them- 
