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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, March 21, I 860 . 
I suffered from the blues and set rat-traps before the hive on 
the board. Mr. Blue jumped on the place, up went the spring, 
and he was fixed. Now I have no more blues.—A You NO 
Apiarian, Bagsliot. 
FRUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
(Continuedfrom page 385). 
PLUMS. 
Mogul Rouge. See Red Magnum JBonum. 
Monsieur. See Orleans. 
Monsieur a Fruits Jaune. See Yellow Orleans. 
Monsieur Hatif. See Early Orleans. 
Monsieur Hatif de Montmorency. See Early Orleans. 
Monsieur Ordinaire. See Orleans. 
Monsieur Tardive. See Late Orleans. 
Monsieur Tardive. See Suisse. 
Monstrueuse de Bavay. See Reine Claude de Bar ay. 
De Montfort. —Fruit medium sized, roundish, in¬ 
clining to ovate, with a well-marked suture on one side. 
Skin dark purple, covered with a thin pale blue bloom. 
Stalk half an inch long, not deeply inserted. Flesh 
greenish-yellow, tender and melting, with a thick syrupy 
and honied juice, and when it hangs till it shrivels is 
quite a sweetmeat; separates from the stone, which is 
small. Shoots smooth. 
A delicious dessert plum. Ripe in the middle of August. 
It bears considerable resemblance to Royale Hative, but 
is larger, and appears to be an improved form of that 
variety. 
Morocco (Black Damask; Black Morocco; Early Da¬ 
mask ; Early Morocco). —Fruit medium sized, roundish, 
flattened at the apex, and marked on one side with a 
shallow suture. Skin very dark purple, almost black, 
and covered with thin pale blue bloom. Stalk stout, 
about half an inch long. Flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, 
with a sweet, brisk flavour, and slightly adhering to the 
stone. Shoots downy. 
An excellent early plum. Ripe in the beginning of 
August. 
Myrobalan. See Cherry. 
Nectarine (Howell's Large;. Jenkins' Imperial; 
Peach; Prune Peche). —Fruit large,roundish, and hand¬ 
somely formed. Skin purple, covered with fine azure 
bloom. Stalk half an inch long, stout, inserted in a wide 
and shallow cavity. Flesh dull greenish-yellow, with a 
sweet and brisk flavour, separating from the stone. Shoots 
smooth. 
A good plum for preserving and other culinary pur¬ 
poses. Ripe in the middle of August. This is quite 
distinct from the Goliath, which is sometimes called by 
the same name. 
Nelson’s Victory (Knevett's Late Orleans). —Fruit 
medium sized, round, and marked with a shallow suture. 
Skin deep purple, and covered with blue bloom. Stalk 
half an inch long, set in a shallow cavity. Flesh firm, 
rather coarse, sweet and briskly flavoured, adhering to 
the stone. Shoots smooth. 
A culinary plum. Ripe in the middle of September. 
The tree is a very abundant bearer. 
New Orleans. See Early Orleans. 
Noire Hative. See Precoce de Tours. 
(Euf Rouge. See Red Magnum Bonum. 
Old Apricot. See Apricot. 
Orleans (Anglaise Noire; Monsieur; Monsieur Ordi¬ 
naire; Prune d’ Orleans; Red Damask). —Fruit medium 
sized, round, somewhat flattened at the ends, and marked 
with a suture, which is generally higher on one side than 
the other. Skin tender, dark red, becoming purple when 
highly ripened, and covered with blue bloom. Stalk 
three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a considerable 
depression. Flesh yellowish, tender, sweet, and briskly 
flavoured, separating from the stone. Shoots downy. 
A preserving and culinary plum. Ripe in the middle 
and end of August. 
Parker’s Mammoth. See Washington. 
Paterson’s. See Gisborne's. 
Peach. —Fruit large, roundish, inclining to oblate, 
marked with a shallow suture on one side. Skin bright 
red, dotted with amber. Flesh tender, melting, juicy, 
very sweet and luscious, separating freely from the stone. 
Shoots smooth. 
An early dessert plum. Ripe in the beginning of August. 
It is quite distinct from the Nectarine Plum, which is 
also known by this name; and was introduced some years 
ago by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth. 
Peach. See Nectarine. 
Perdrigon Blanc. See White Perdrigon. 
Perdrigon Rouge. See Red Perdrigon. 
Perdrigon Violet. See Blue Perdrigon. ' 
Perdrigon Violet Hatif. — Fruit medium sized, 
roundish-oval. Skin purple. Flesh rich, juicy, and 
excellent, separating from the stone. Shoots downy. 
A first-rate dessert plum. Ripe in the middle of 
August. The tree is very hardy, and an abundant 
bearer. This is not the same as Perdrigon Hatif and 
Moyeu de Bourgogne with which it is made synonymous 
in the Horticultural Society’s Catalogue, both of these 
being yellow plums. 
Petite Bricette. See Mirabellc Tardive. 
Petite Damas Vert. See Yellow Gage. 
Pickett’s July. See White Primordian. 
Pigeon’s Heart. See Queen Mother. 
Pond's Purple. See Pond’s Seedling. 
Pond’s Seedling (Fonthill; Pond's Purple). —Fruit 
very large, oval, widest at the apex and narrowing to¬ 
wards the stalk, marked with a wide suture. Skin fine 
dark red, thickly strewed with grey dots, and covered 
with thin bluish bloom. Stalk three quarters of an inch 
long, inserted without depression. Flesh yellowish, 
rayed with white, juicy, and briskly flavoured, adhering 
to the stone. Shoots smooth. 
A valuable culinary plum. Ripe in the beginning and 
middle of September. 
(To be continued.) 
PLANTING THE SURFACE OF ROSE-BEDS. 
I AM thinking of covering-my Rose-beds this year with low- 
i growing bedclers to hide the “ brown earth.” The Roses are 
chiefly half-standards ; except in N o. 1, where there are standards 
in the centre, half-standards outside.— S. E. L. 
[Mixed Verbenas, Mignonette, dwarf Nasturtiums, and blue 
Convolvulus will do very well in the Rose-beds as you marked 
them; but 14 and 10 will not do at all. What can Linum can- 
didissimum do with Roses ? 11 again. There is no such thing 
in the world as a scarlet Linum ; perhaps grandiflorum is meant, 
but is not a fit subject for Rose-beds.] 
CULTURE OF TECOMA VELUTINA. 
“ An Old Subscriber ” wishes to know if auy one has suc¬ 
ceeded in blooming Tecoma velutina; and if so, whether it is 
worth growing for its bloom, as the foliage is unattractive and 
very liable to red spider. The writer has had a plant four years, 
which has undergone the usual stove treatment; it has been 
stopped, coiled, and potbound to induce bloom. 
\_Tecoma velutina is indeed a most splendid greenhouse shrub, 
not a stove climber as j ou say; but no one has yet, as far as we 
know, succeeded in flowering it in Europe. Our own plant of 
it, raised by the Horticultural Society, has had the same treat¬ 
ment as Tom Thumb Geraniums for the last four years, and looks 
healthy and quite free from red spider, but our house is too cold 
lor it. A Cactus-house, or a dry intermediate cool house, kept at 
from 45° to 50° with fire heat, would seem the best place for it 
