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pots, or in pits or houses where a good command of fire-heat can be had. If 
pots are used they should be of large size, and well-drained; use free turfy loam 
in a rough state, mixed with a little rotten manure ; keep the plants strong and 
healthy, by admitting plenty of air through the day, but close early, and use a 
little fire-heat at night, if the weather is cold, to guard against any check to the 
plants. Sow again for succession. 
Keep the shoots of Tomatos that are under glass well thinned, so that the 
fruit is fully exposed to the sun. French Beans should now be sown under 
glass ; if a pit be sown with these at once, they will come in very useful late in 
the autumn. Take up and pot Knotted Marjoram at the end of the month, and 
place it in a cold frame. Begin to prepare droppings, and make new Mushroom- 
beds as soon as they are in a condition to do so.—J. Powell, Frogmore. 
PEACH GKOSSE MIGNONNE. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
f T is most desirable that this, one of the best of all our large mid-season 
Peaches, should be well known among cultivators, and so indeed it is, and 
f fully appreciated by the most intelligent amongst them. A walk through 
many a country show would, however, prove that this knowledge, though 
wide-spread, is by no means universal, and hence we have had the accompanying 
figure prepared, from some very characteristic specimens grown by the Rev. W. F. 
Radclyffe, of Okeford Fitzpaine (to whom we have been indebted for many of the 
fruits from time to time figured in our pages), in order that growers may have 
a ready means of identifying so excellent a variety, which it appears has been in 
cultivation in this country for more than a couple of centuries. 
The fruit is of large size, roundish, somewhat flattened, with a deep suture at 
top; the skin, which is clothed with thin soft down, is of a pale straw-yellow, 
mottled with red towards the sunny side, which is of a deep crimson or brownish- 
red. The flesh is pale yellow, rayed with red at the stone, from which it parts 
freely, melting, very rich, juicy, and highly flavoured, surrounding a small 
slightly pointed stone. It belongs to the group with large flowers and round 
glands, and is less subject to mildew than some other sorts otherwise of high 
repute.—T. M. _ 
GOOSEBERRY SHOWS. 
« fHE Harborne Gooseberry-growers’ Society, as we learn from the Gardeners* 
]) Chronicle^ recently held its annual exhibition with great success. This 
f is now the oldest of these societies in existence, having been founded in 1815, 
so that this was its sixty-first exhibition. One of its members, Mr. J. 
Barton, of Harborne, now over eighty years of age, who took the premier prize 
fifty years since, last year won the premier prize with Bobby, one of the heaviest 
berries ever grown, its weight being 34 dwt. 20 gr., the largest berry exhibited 
anywhere last year. The society numbers thirty-one members, who must live 
within a radius of three miles of Harborne, and must be growers. On this 
