JUNE. 
171 
WALL FRUIT COVERED BY A SHEET. 
I THANK “ Iota ” for his Raspberry hints, and for his compliments. 
I wish he would write to me and say that he will come down now, in 
July at my Strawberry entertainment, or in September, when the wall 
fruit will be ripe. 
The six trees I am about to speak of have been covered as directed 
by me in your Florist. The sheets are two yards wide, and the trees 
have outgrown them, excepting the Apricot and white Nectarine ; where 
they have done so, the leaves are a little curled, and the blossoms much 
destroyed ; but still the crop there is respectable. This year the sheets 
were put on the 20th of March and finally taken off the 18th of May. 
The winds have been cold and fogs and frosts severe till that time. 
The Apricot tree is 8 feet 9 inches high and 19 feet wide—160 taken off, 
512 left on. The white Nectarine 7 feet 10 inches high (a centre limb 
cut out to renew wood) and 12 feet 6 inches wide, has had 822 taken 
off and 261 left on. This Nectarine is, I think, in flavour, one of the 
best fruits I have ever tasted. The red Nectarine tree (not in good 
condition) is 9 feet wide and 4 feet 6 inches high—140 taken off, 143 
left on. The top Peach tree is 15 feet wide by 6 feet 7 inches—262 
taken off', 260 left on. The middle Peach tree, as fine a specimen as I 
have ever seen, is 19 feet wide by 7 feet 9 inches high—605 large fruit 
taken off, besides 43 smaller; now left on, 636. The lower Peach 
tree is close to the river, it is 13 feet wide by 6 feet 6 inches high ; 
189 have been taken off, and 301 left on. The result is that off six 
trees, in a foggy valley, close to the water, 1721 well formed fruit have 
been taken off, and 2103 fine fruit left on. I have fed the trees twice 
within the month; the leaves are luxuriant and clean where the sheets 
have covered them. I cannot expect that all the fruit will be on in 
September, but I will try and bring them all to a good effect, and glad 
shall I be to entertain any one the Florist may introduce to me either 
now, in July, or in September. 
I have sent the above account to the “ Dorset County Chronicle,” 
that my neighbours may detect any fallacy. The fruit was counted 
between two poles placed 2 feet apart, advancing the hinder pole till 
the number was obtained, and at every 100 a chalk mark was made on 
the wall. 
Rushton Rectory. W. F. Radclyffe. 
BRITISH POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
May 6. —Mr. Hogg in the chair. This was the day appointed for 
competing for the prize of one pound, offered by Mr. Spencer, of 
Bowood, for the best Seedling Kitchen Apple, if the variety exhibited 
should be considered by the meeting worthy of such distinction. Dr. 
Davies, of Pershore, sent a fine large Apple, which he stated was a 
seedling, and named by him Taliesin. It is above the medium size, 
and almost entirely covered with dark red, except in patches, where it 
had been shaded, and there it is greenish yellow. It bears a very 
