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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 12, 1859. 
direct the attention of clergymen and gentlemen in country dis¬ 
tricts to the great good that might be done by the instil ution of 
such Societies. "VVe all know what Professor Henslow has done 
in his rural parish. We hare seen what the Rev. Janies Jeakes 
and Major-General Parr are doing at Harrow ; and we feel assured 
that if the elevating pursuits of gardening and the spirit of 
generous emulation were more encouraged, it would be well with 
us as a community. 
GISHURST COMPOUND. 
On the 21st of June I found a quarter of MoreUo Cherry 
trees, upwards of 1000 in number, suddenly attacked with the 
black aphis, well known to gardeners. I immediately had some 
of the Gishurst Compound dissolved in soft water (two ounces 
to the gallon), and the ends of the flexible young shoots dipped 
into it, being gently rubbed with the fingers while in the liquid. 
The shoots that were too rigid to bend were painted with the 
liquid, using a medium-sized painter’s brush, and brushing up¬ 
wards. 
The day following I found nearly all my black assailants dead 
and dry. A few, however, were alive ; and as from experience with 
tobacco water I knew that they would, in the course of a week, 
bring forth a progeny quite equal to those defunct, I gave 
orders for a second dipping at the proper time. On the 28th, 
feeling more than usual interest in my Cherry trees, I looked 
over those that had been dipped on the 21st, and could not find 
a single aphis left. Those that escaped the dipping on the 21st 
had languished two or three days, and then died. The young 
shoots imbued with the compound seemed fatal to aphis life. 
Some young Plum trees covered with the blue aphis, peculiar 
to the Plum, and, in my opinion, the hardiest and most difficult 
to kill of all the race, were operated upon in the same way as 
the Cherry trees. Not a single aphis has survived. 
Some shoots of Rose trees covered with Rose aphides (the 
shoots were young and full of sap, and I never remember to have 
seen a more fat and thriving batch, winged and unwinged, of 
these, apart from Rose culture, really interesting creatures) were 
dipped into the liquid used for the Cherries about 8 r.M. They 
did not appear to suffer any inconvenience the first half hour, but 
remained on the shoots plump and quiet as usual. The next 
morning every aphis was dead ; and most of them were brown 
and dry, instead of being green and plump as when living the 
evening before. The shoots nave not hi en syringed with pure 
water to wash off the dead aphides, as is usual, but not one has 
made its appearance since. The young shoots, before so tempting, 
seem now to give out death. There are three modes of using 
the liquid compound—by dipping and the brush, as described 
above, and with the syringe, which is the only way it can be 
used when applied to wall trees, to trees in pots in the orchard- 
house, or to trees trained on trellises. When so applied, one 
operation will not kill all the aphides ; for in one of my houses 
full of Peach trees, three applications were necessary before the 
swarm of aphides on every tree were destroyed. 
For the oidium or any other kind of mildew on Yines, the 
Gishurst Compound is a perfect remedy. Early in June some 
Vines growing on a sandy slope, and trained to stakes as usual 
in the vineyards of the Continent, and which for many years 
have borne good crops of Grapes, with which wine has been 
made, became covered with the oidium. They were syringed 
once with the compound, four ounces to the gallon. The remedy 
seemed severe, as some of the shoots appeared to be killed. 
They have now entirely recovered, and are full of fruit. I should 
recommend only three ounces to the gallon, in preference to four ; 
and if one syringing did not kill the oidium, to apply it twice. 
The Yines in question, some six or eight in a long row, were 
almost destroyed by the oidium last year, and sulphur failed to i 
arrest its growth, although applied abundantly. 
The cheapness and efficacy of the compound make it almost 
invaluable. I have never yet found any remedy for the “ills” 
of gardening so cheap and so easily applied.— TllOS. Rivebs, The 
Nurseries , Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 
[There can be no further doubt respecting the efficacy of the 
Gishurst Compound. So numerous have been the nostrums for 
the cure of aphides and blights which have been introduced, and 
as certainly failed, during the last few years, that it is quite a 
deliverance from a great gardening calamity to find that a sub¬ 
stance lias at last been discovered which proves thoroughly 
efficacious. The many opportunities Mr. Rivers has, his ex¬ 
tensive field of operations, and the candid and disinterested 
manner in which he carries out these experiments, furnish a 
perfect guarantee that the Gishurst Compound is one of the 
most valuable of modem discoveries to the gardener which science 
has yet accomplished.— Eds. C. G.] 
FRUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OE GREAT BRITAIN. 
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PEACHES. 
Springrove. —Eruit medium sized. Skin pale green in 
the shade, bright red next the sun. Excellent, very much 
resembles Acton Scot. Flowers large. Glands x'ound. 
End of August and beginning of September. 
Steward’s Late Galande. See Chancellor. 
Sulhamstead. —Eruit roundish, depressed. Skin pale 
yellowish-green, with fine red next the sun. Elesb very 
excellent. This very much resembles the Noblesse. 
Flowers large. Glands none. End of August and be¬ 
ginning of September. 
Superb. See Royal George. 
Superb Royal. See Grosse Mignonne. 
Teton de Venus. —Fruit elongated, larger than the 
Boudin, but much paler, having but little colour next 
the sun, and pale yellovvisb-v bite in the shade, surmounted 
by a large turgid nipple. Elesb white, red at the stone, 
delicate, sugary, and very rich. Flowers small. Glands 
round. Eiid of September. 
This is quite distinct from Late Admirable. 
Vanguard.— This is a variety of Noblesse, and so 
similar to it that the fruits cannot be distinguished the 
one from the other. The only apparent distinction is in 
the habit of the trees, which in Vanguard is much more 
robust and hardy than in the Noblesse; and the maiden 
plants rise with a prominent leader, while the Noblesse 
makes a roundheaded bush. Glands none. Flowers 
large. 
Veloutee Tardive. See Ninette. 
Violette Hative (English Galande; Hardy Galande). 
—This is evidently a variety of Bellegarde or French 
Galande, but is not so large in the fruit, and of a paler 
colour,’although it also is of dark red colour next the sun. 
It may readily be distinguished by nurserymen, as it 
grows freely on the Muscle, while the Bellegarde requires 
the Pear-Plum or Brompton stock. It is a large and 
very excellent peach, ripening in the middle of Septem¬ 
ber. Glands round. Flowers small. 
Walburton Admirable. — Eruit large and round. 
Skin pale yellowish-green on the shaded side, and crim¬ 
son, mottled with a darker colour, next the sun. Flesh 
yellowish-white, melting, juicy, rich, and highly flavoured. 
Glands round. Flowers small. Ripens in the end of 
September and beginning of October. 
This is one of the best late peaches, and the tree is 
very hardy and a good bearer. 
White Avant. See White Nutmeg. 
White Magdalene (Madaleine Blanche; Montagne 
Blanche ).—Fruit medium sized, roundish, flattened at 
i the base, and divided by a deep suture which extends 
from the base to the apex, and terminates in a very slight 
nipple, which is sometimes wanting. Skin easily de¬ 
tached from the flesh, yellowish-white in the shade, and 
delicately marked with red next the sun. Flesh white, 
with some yellowish veins running through it, which are 
tinged with red next the stone, from which it separates ; 
juicy, melting, rich, sugary, and slightly vinous. Flowers 
large. Glands none. Ripe the middle of August. 
White Nutmeg (Avant Blanche; White Avant ).— 
