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and they produced abundantly this year. In the new kitchen garden here 
gutta percha hose can be applied to hydrants in different quarters, and an 
unlimited supply of water can be supplied to vegetables and fruits in dry 
seasons. The crops of British Queen, Empress Eugenie, La Constante, Frog- 
more Pine, Bifleman and Sir C. Napier, in a quarter which I had irrigated with 
water and liquid manure last summer, were enormous. The soil of the garden 
here is very adhesive and stiff, and well mixed with the burnt red clay of the 
subsoil and from the drains. The British Queen is quite at home in it, and 
never fails in bearing well. Let the winter be ever so severe the plants never 
suffer, and I can show some rows planted five years ago that still bear great 
crops. La Constante is another fine-flavoured Strawberry that does well with 
me. Frogmore Late Pine and Rifleman I find great acquisitions as late bearers 
as well as for flavour. Marguerite is a fine large showy Strawberry, but has 
proved a shy bearer with me, grown under the same circumstances as the other 
sorts. Perhaps the most valuable Strawberry grown, for fruiting in light or 
sandy soils, is Rivers’s Eliza. Last year it proved with me to be the most 
fruitful of the preserving sorts, and as such it was recommended to several 
growers in this neighbourhood, who have found it turn out their best cropper 
this year. President and Eclipse I have found to be good useful varieties, 
both for forcing and preserving. Ingram’s Prince of Wales is an excellent- 
flavoured early sort, and likewise forces well very early. The greatest success 
in growing Strawberries in dry seasons can only be obtained by watering them 
well, and mulching afterwards to retain the moisture. They ought likewise to 
be well top-dressed in the end of autumn with some rich and rather strawy 
manure. The leaves in the spring will grow through the straw and fix it, and 
the fruit will be kept clean from drenching rains should they occur at the 
ripening time. 
William Tillery.. 
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NOTES MADE AT THE FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
On the 25th July there were exhibited a few objects of great interest. 
One was a white bedding Lobelia, called Snowflake, said to be a seedling 
from L. ramosa, the flowers of which were pure white in colour, and very freely 
produced. The growth of the plants was rather tall, being some 9 inches 
in height, although they had been removed from the open ground. It is, 
however, a capital acquisition, and will be very useful for ribbon-borders, &c. 
It came from Mr. Cox, gardener to Earl Beauchamp, and was awarded a 
first-class certificate. The same award was made to Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea, 
for Bignonia argyrsea violescens, from South America, a very beautiful stove- 
climber, the foliage being of a deep bronzy green colour, with pale green veino- 
clearly defined, and also marked with red; also for Allamanda .Hendersoni, 
a splendid form of this magnificent stove plant. It was raised by Messrs. - 
A. Henderson & Co., of London, from seed obtained on the Continent, who 
have disposed of the plant to Mr. W. Bull. The blossoms are nearly double 
the size of any of the varieties of A. cathartica, in colour they are bright 
yellow, the throat pencilled with bronzy orange. The foliage is large and 
robust, and from what in these varieties usually forms the terminal cluster of 
blossoms, there issues another shoot, from which again springs a second cluster 
of flowers. Among a group of seedling Fuchsias from Messrs. E. G. Hender¬ 
son & Son, were two, to which were awarded first-class certificates. One was 
named Father Ignatius, having very large flowers, scarlet tube and sepals, 
with purple corolla, blotched with red; the other, Enoch Arden, had large 
dark purple corolla, and scarlet tube and sepals, and was also very large in 
