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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
Of the qualities of eveiy one of these I can speak in terms of unqualified 
approval. They are of vigorous growth, and set their fruit so readily, that, 
although the old kinds on long-established trees were failures, every one of 
these was productive. 
When we consider how brief was the season of this delicious fruit in the 
olden time, we cannot but estimate gratefully the exertions of Mr. Eivers, and 
their satisfactory results. And a new addition to his list, named Advance^ is 
promised to precede Napier by a fortnight. 
Many of the Peaches did not fruit, and I will therefore say nothing of them 
till next year, when I will register the ripening of every variety. But I may 
just mention that Early Beatrice opened the ball on July 13, and Lord Palmer¬ 
ston closed the session on October 6.—O. D. 
WINTER LETTUCES. 
^nnj^ANY persons fancy that unless a lettuce is as big as one’s head, and as 
IL solid in the middle as some of our heads, it is not worth eating. This 
may be so with transplanted summer lettuces, but at this season we 
manage to make a very good salad from very young plants. We sow a 
quantity of seed in frames in lines, and allow them to remain as they are sown, 
thinning,out the largest as they are wanted, which allows those left always a little 
more room to grow. By the spring months those which are left get a considerable 
size, and give a large supply till the outside ones come into use. We sow large 
breadths at the end of September out-of-doors and in frames, but keeping the 
lights off; and a pinch of seed now and again during October and November, 
dropped into other frames, or under hand-lights, or better still, in turf pits, 
ensures a liberal supply at all seasons. The young seedlings in the frames are 
very much more tender than those outside, and hence it is that they are all of 
use in the salad-bowl. The fact is, we do as we do with our winter spinach and 
onions—utilise every seedling, by sowing thickly, in the first place ; and then 
pulling out those that are of any size first, and so on, until they are left to the 
proper width for the legitimate and larger supply. The lights should be always, in 
open weather, left off or tilted up, so that no other covering is necessary in very 
cold weather but the light and frame, unless it be a few leaves scattered over the 
glass in very frosty weather.—H. Knight, Floors Castle. 
THE CARNATION AND PICOTEE. 
Chapter XI. —Work for November. 
Y the time this is in the hands of our friends, the plants should be 
thoroughly established in their winter quarters; and the chief duty of 
the cultivator will be to keep them thoroughly clean, provide them 
abundance of air, and guard from the saturating rains usual at this period. 
Give plenty of room in the frame to every plant, remembering that one, vigorously 
established and well wintered, is worth in the spring more than three attenuated 
