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Glammis is still in excellent condition. One of our largest and best culinary 
Apples. Occasionally subject to canker. Bedfordshire Foundling is another 
first-class Apple, equal in merit to the Tower of Glammis, and like it subject to 
canker. Brabant Belief eur is now in excellent condition, flesh firm and juicy. 
Alfriston is not surpassed by any, and is now in excellent condition, subject to 
canker in heavy retentive soil. Yorkshire Greening in excellent preservation. 
Emperor Alexander is much shrivelled; useless. Beauty of Kent. This is 
another valuable kind, now quite firm and juicy. Waltham Abbey Seedling is 
quite plump and sound ; flesh woolly. Only secondary at this season. Han - 
well Souring still remains sound, but so much shrivelled as to be of little use. 
Northern Greening is firm in the flesh and juicy ; retains its sub-acidity. Nor¬ 
folk Beefing , sound and good. Blenheim Orange , quite shrivelled, woolly in 
the flesh. Warner 1 s King. A few of this variety still remain sound, although 
November is its proper season. Gloria Mundi. What has been said of War¬ 
ner’s King is applicable to this kind. Red German remains in excellent con¬ 
dition. This is a large handsome Apple, and in colour and size resembles 
Brabant Bellefleur and Mere de Menage. Wadhurst Pippin , although a some¬ 
what early variety, continues in good preservation. South Carolina Pippin is 
now full of juice, and in good preservation. Kentish Pippin, excellent, but not 
quite equal to some at this season. Greaves's Pippin is a valuable late kind, 
quite fresh and juicy. Bess Pool , shrivelled and spongy. Gooseberry is some¬ 
what shrivelled, but useable. Dumelow’s Seedling. This is among the best, if 
not the very best, late Apples, high-coloured, flesh firm, crisp, and juicy, and 
will retain its qualities till the middle or end of May. Rymer is quite equal 
to Dumelow’s^ Seedling in every respect. Wormsley Pippin is somewhat 
shrivelled, useable, but inferior to a great many kinds during April. 
Tortworth Court. A. Cramb. 
[From what we have seen of the superior treatment, and the correctness of the nomen¬ 
clature of the collection of fruits at Tortworth Court, such notes as these are highly valuable. 
We should he glad of a few more such, and also of a few words on the soil and situation.— 
En. F. and P.] 
CELOSIAS. 
Nothing introduced of late years is more useful and ornamental than the 
feathered varieties of these plants. As decorative plants, either for rooms or 
conservatories, they are unequalled ; their colours being clear, and their habit 
graceful, and the culture required to bring them to perfection being easy, it is 
surprising that they are not more generally grown. For late exhibitions I 
know of no plants that would be so showy and effective from October to 
February as these. Perhaps the reason they are so little in favour may be 
attributable to the many spurious half-breeds that are frequently sent out 
among seeds, and which produce a comb of whity-brown or dull red, nearer to 
a Cockscomb than the true Celosia, but utterly useless in a decorative point of 
view. Another reason may be very early sowing, which invariably causes a 
diminutive premature spike of bloom, sufficiently puny to justify the plants 
being thrown away as weeds; but even those sown early may be made fine 
plants, with good large clusters of feathers, if the top and side blooms are 
pinched off, and the plants pushed on in a little bottom heat. It is impossible 
in its way to surpass the golden-yellow variety; but there are several, such as 
the Magenta, Scarlet Globe, and a variety we raised by crossing the Prince of 
Wales, which are unique in their way. We had last autumn the two latter 
varieties 4 feet 6 inches high, and nearly as much through, forming pyramids 
of scarlet and red feathering bunches, the most appropriate subjects for a 
