January 27. THE COTTAGE G ARDENER. 317 
parts tlie soutli aspect is preferable, but in the south 
they succeed well either on south-east or south-west walls. 
To those already named may be added, Passe Colmar, 
Glout Morceau, Nells d' Hiver, and Beurre de Ranee- 
For an East Aspect. — In good situations in the 
south, Passe Colmar, Glout Morceau, Forelle, a deli¬ 
cious a}id most beautiful variety, sparkled like a trout; 
Beurre Biel, Ne Plus Meuris, Nells d'Hiver, Easter 
Beurre, and Beurre de Ranee To which may be 
added, for more northern situations, Tliomx>son’s, 
Knight's Monarch, and llacons Incomparable. 
For a West Aspect. —There is no variety we know 
of does better on a west wall than the Glout Morceau. 
Napoleon also succeeds admirably. To these may be 
added the ever-to-be-desired Passe Colmar, together with 
Marie Louise, Alihorpe Crassanne, Hacon s Incomparable, 
Nelis d'Hiver, Easter Beurre; Jean de Witte, a most 
excellent late variety, coming in between tlie Easter 
Beurre and Beurre de Ranee. This deserves to be 
better known, and more extensively cultivated; it is 
one of Van Mons’s best varieties. The Beurre de Ranee 
should also have a place here and everywhere else where 
it will succeed. 
This is a subject to which wo shall have occasion to 
recur again; but, as the season is now rapidly advancing, 
and all planting work should now be seen after, we 
have considered it advisable to furnish our readers with 
a list of the best varieties for wall culture, that they may 
lose no time in making the necessary preparations. 
The trade of Covent Garden is now even worse than 
it was before Christmas. Every description of produce 
is most abundant; indeed too much so, there not being 
buyers sufficient for the supply. These remarks refer to 
Vegetables. Savoys are making from 6d. to Is. per 
dozen. Brocoli has been very plentiful, bundles con¬ 
taining as many as twelve heads, fetching no moro than 
from 3s. to 4s. per dozen. Greens, Is. to Is. 'Jd. per 
dozen bunches. Brussels Sprouts, Is. to 2s. per half 
sieve. Turnips, Is. to Is. Cd. per dozen bunches. Car¬ 
rots, 2s. Cd. to 3s. per dozen bunches. Celery, Cd. to Is, 
per bundle. Onions, 3s. per bushel. There is still a 
good supply of forced Rhubarb at Is. per bundle. Sea- 
hale, Is. to Is. Cd. per punnet. Asparagus, 5s. to 8s. 
per bundle. New Potatoes, Cd. per lb. 
In Fruit the supply is short. Apples are rising 
again in price; very ordinary samples of culinary sorts 
make from 4s. to 7s. Cd. and 8s. per bushel; and dessert 
varieties as much as from 7s. 6d. to 14s. Those which 
produce the latter price are the Golden Knobs, a fine 
little russety apple, which is grown extensively in Kent, 
and which do not come to market till about this time. 
This would bo a profitable variety for orchard planting; 
not but what there are many which are far superior 
to it, but being a good keeping sort, it comes in at a 
season when there are few good kinds in the market. 
The supply of Plants and Flowers is good, and the 
demand is brisk. They consist of Camellias, Heliotropes, 
Hyacinths, Polyanthus-Narcissus, Tulips, Chinese Prim¬ 
roses, Lily of-the Valley, Acacias, Cinerarias, Euphor¬ 
bia Jacquiniflora, Azalea indica alba, &c. H. 
GOSSIP. 
Mr. Bailey informs us that the statement at page 251 ! 
is incorrect, and that he did not send a catalogue of the ' 
Birmingham Show to the party alluded to. He says, 
moreover, that he did not see a catalogue until after he | 
had inspected the birds as a judge, and given his de- | 
cision. This we are very glad to know; but we have j 
the fact confirmed that catalogues were circulated before 
the day of exhibition, which is one of the chief en-ors 
which we would bring to the notice of all committees 
of poultry shows. 
The following observations by Mr. Whiting, pub¬ 
lished in the last number of the Journal of the Horti¬ 
cultural Society, deserve especial and general attention. 
We are inclined to agi-ee with Mr. Whiting in the 
opinion that our variable climate is the cause of the 
Peach's early decay on our walls, and we consider the 
gumming, and death of large branches to which the 
Moor Park Apricot is so subject, is a consequence of 
the same cause. This opinion is founded upon a state¬ 
ment made to us by the Rev. Mr. Beadon, President of 
the Hampshire Horticultural Society, that he knew 
cases in which the Moor Park had been for many years 
preserved from such injuries by binding hay-bands 
round the stem and branches, at the close of autumn^ 
and continuing on those bandages during the winter. 
Mr. Whiting says :— 
“ It is clear to me that the variableness of the climate, 
coupled in some cases with a deficiency of attention, chiefly 
in spring, has more to do with the early decay of our wall 
peach-trees than either the unsuitahleness of the plum- 
stock, or the present method of pi-uning the trees. In con¬ 
firmation of this opinion, look into our peach-houses, where 
an old tree is not so great a rarity as it ts against our walls, 
and yet in both cases the stocks and the pruning of the 
young trees are alike. Under glass, however, the tree enjoys 
a genial climate, and also the further advantage of better 
general management. There, want of space for the lateral 
extension of the branches is the greatest detriment the trees 
have to encounter; and if at the time of planting they were 
so arranged, that one tree might, if necessary, eventually 
occupy the whole area of the roof at eighteen inches or two 
feet distance from the glass, I see no reason why a peach- 
tree, even though pruned with a knife, and budded on a 
plum-stock, might not live and thrive for an indefinite 
number of years. 
“ As regards the apricot-tree, Mr. T. A, Knight enter¬ 
tained a notion that the short duration of the Moorpark 
trees arose in a great measure from its unnatm-al connection 
with the plum-stock; and many years ago he pointed out 
to me, in his own garden, the greater healthiness of a par¬ 
ticular tree on an apricot-stock than that of another tree 
growing beside it which had been worked upon a plum- 
stock. As the apricot does not thrive in the light sandy 
soil of this garden, I determined upon trying Mr. Knight’s 
plan, and with that view I sowed a few stones of several 
sorts of apricots. Four young plants thus obtained were 
planted against a wall, for the. purpose of being budded 
with the Moorpark; finding, however, that they exhibited 
imequivocal symptoms of a delicate constitution, I did not 
bud them, but trained their branches to the wall till they 
produced fruit. One of these trees is a genuine Mooi-park, ; 
and already some of its principal branches have perished by ; 
that peculiar disease which detracts so much from the value ; 
of the otherwise excellent variety; thus proving that mis- | 
alliance is not the cause of the disease in question. Of the j 
other trees, one is a Breda, one an orange, and the third an ! 
inferior variety of Moorpark; this last also shows symptoms | 
of the same malady. This experiment seems also to show ; 
that some varieties of apricot can be reproduced from seed." j 
