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purposes, wliether in the dining-room or warm conservatory. It can easily be 
raised in quantities from seed in bottom-heat, and in two or three years the 
plants will be large enough to bear good crops of berries. When the young 
plants are large enough for potting-off, they will make the best progress in a 
close melon or cucumber frame or pit, with bottom-heat. In the winter months, 
a shelf near the glass in the stove will be the best situation to keep them dwarf 
and stocky in growth till their flowering period, in June and July ; and when in 
flower, plenty of dry warm air will help to set the berries. The soil I find best 
adapted for its growth is sandy peat, mixed with some light loam; and the pots 
must have plenty of drainage. When the plants have their berries fully coloured, 
a situation in some temperate house will preserve their beauty longer for 
decorative purposes.— William Tilleey, Welbecic. 
CHOICE NECTARINES. 
with an illusteation. 
’HE varieties of Nectarine represented in the accompanying plate were 
obligingly sent to us by the Rev. W. F. Radclyffe, from his garden at 
Okeford Fitzpaine. Our figures show how effective they would be in 
appearance when placed on the dessert-table, besides which, it may bo 
noted, that they are both of excellent quality. 
Eivees’ Oeange, represented by fig. 1, is described by Mr. Eadclyffe as having 
large flowers, kidney-shaped glands, and full-sized fruit, which ripens a week earlier 
than the Pine-apple Nectarine. Mr. Tillery, who also kindly sent highly-coloured 
fruit from a tree grown in a pot, notes, that he finds Mr. Rivers’ description of it 
correct,—“ As large, melting, with the rich saccharine flavour of its parent, the 
Pitmaston Orange, but ripens about a week earlier.” Both it and the Pine-apple, 
he adds, are far better than Hunt’s Tawny, or any other yellow-fleshed Nectarine, 
for general cultivation. 
Emmeeton’s White (fig. 2) has large flowers and kidney-shaped glands, and 
Mr. Eadclyffe notes that it is full-sized, and comes in a week or ten days after 
Rivers’ White. It ripens at the end of August or beginning of September, and 
is a free-stone, with a rich vinous flavour. Dr. Hogg, who calls it White Nectarine, 
describes the fruit as being of large size, so that probably our figure scarcely 
shows the variety at its best, in respect to size.—T. Mooee. 
PINE-STOVES versus FIG-CULTURE. 
‘'HAT shall we do with our Pine-stoves ? From several inquiries of this 
sort which have reached me, there is no doubt many persons are giving 
up Pine-growing. Most of the great London growers have already done 
so, nor can it cause much surprise, when the size and cheapness of the 
imported fruit are taken into consideration. Several of the great growers have 
converted their accommodation for Pines into structures for growing plants and 
flowers for market, but in private places there are usually already as many plant- 
