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Sam Young 
Scarlet Nonpareil 
Scarlet Pea.’main 
Stunner Pippin 
Summer Golden Pippin 
Summer Pearmain 
Sykehouse Eusset 
Yellow Ingestrie 
VI. POE OECHAED PLANTING AS STANDAEDS. 
These are generally strong-growing or productive varieties, the 
fruit of which being mostly of a large size, or showy appear¬ 
ance, they are, on that account, well adapted for orchard 
planting, to supply the markets. 
Alfriston 
Barcelona Pearmain 
Beauty of Kent 
Bedfordshire Foundling 
Bess Pool 
Blenheim Pippin 
Brabant Bellelieur 
Brownlees’ Eusset 
Cellini 
Cox’s Pomona 
Devonshire Quarrenden 
Duchess of Oldenburgli 
Dumelow’s Seedling 
Dutch Codlin 
Emperor Alexander 
English Codlin 
Fearn’s Pippin 
Flower of Kent 
Forge 
French Crab 
Gloria Mundi 
Golden Noble 
Golden Winter Pearmain 
Gooseberry Apple 
Hambledon Deux Ans 
Hanwell Souring 
Harvey Apple 
Hoary Morning 
Hollandbury 
Kentish Fill Basket 
Kerry Pippin 
Keswick Codlin 
Lemon Pippin 
Lewis’ Incomparable 
London Pippin 
Longvilles’ Kernel 
Manks Codlin 
Margaret 
Mere de Menage 
Minchall Crab 
Minier’s Dumpling 
Nelson Codlin 
Norfolk Bearer 
Norfolk Beefing 
Northern Greening 
Eeinette Blanche d’Espagne 
Eeinette du Canada 
Ehode Island Greening 
Eound Winter Nonesuch 
Eoyal Pearmain 
Eoyal Eusset 
Eymer 
Small’s Admirable 
Striped Beefing 
Toker’s Incomparable 
Tower of Glammis 
Winter Codlin 
Winter Colman 
Winter Majetin 
Winter Pearmain 
Winter Quoining 
Wormsley Pippin 
Wyken Pippin 
Yorkshire Greening 
QUEEIES AND ANSWEES. 
OFFSETS ON HYACINTH BULBS. 
“Will you be kind enough to tell us, before the Hyacinths 
emerge from their bed of ashes, what is the right treatment to 
adopt with respect to suckers, when they sometimes persist in 
throwing up four or five of them ? I do not think anything is 
mentioned on this point in the directions given in The Cottage 
Gardener for their cultivation. Ought good bulbs to throw up 
so many suckers ? ”—J. J. 
[It is by such suckers, or rather offsets, that choice Hyacinths 
are increased in Holland; but as we in this country have no 
desire to propagate the Hyacinth, and the young offsets draw 
from the strength of the parent bulb, it is always desirable to 
prevent them from doing that harm. They must, however, be 
allowed to grow sufficiently high, to enable one to take hold of 
the leaves. Then give them a gentle bend backwards and for¬ 
wards, till they break off down to the bottom; only be careful 
not to break the scales of the bulb, as that might cause the whole 
bulb to decay. Some bulbs throw up more suckers, or offsets, 
than others. It is no disparagement to such to be so fruitful 
of increase.] 
INTEEPEETATION OF EXHIBITION EULES. 
Among the Eegulations of the Colchester Chrysanthemum 
Society are the two following : — 
“XII.—Plants exhibited in pots other than those in which 
they are grown will be disqualified. 
“XIII.—The diameter to betaken an inch below the rim; 
the depth to be the same as the diameter.” 
Some Chrysanthemums were exhibited in bottomless pots, and 
were adjudged to be disqualified. Wo are asked—Were they 
justly so adjudged ? If the roots were allowed to grow un¬ 
restrainedly through the bottom into the soil or manure beneath, 
we think they were. The Society has determined certain di¬ 
mensions for the pots, and the exhibitor has evaded that deter¬ 
mination. He knew that the wish of the Society was to have 
Chrysanthemums grown in a certain bulk of soil, and by having 
pots of the prescribed dimensions, but with no bottoms to them, 
he did his best to evade that wish, whilst he appeared to conform 
to it. We say this without intending to impute a wrong motive 
to the exhibitor. It may have seemed to him a matter of indif¬ 
ference whether some of the roots grew through the drainage-hole, 
and some over the rim, or whether the whole were allowed to grow 
through the bottom. But it is not a matter of such indifference, 
for but comparatively few roots can escape over the rim, or 
through the drainage-hole. In all such cases, however, there 
needs no reasoning ; for if an exhibitor, knowing the intention of 
a Society is, that each competitor shall grow his Chrysanthemums 
in a prescribed bulk of soil, adopts any mode of growing them 
by which they enjoy a larger amount of pasturage, his plants 
ought to be disqualified. It was an unfair advantage over those 
who strictly and correctly obeyed the prescribed rule. 
GEOWING SQUAT CHEYSANTHEMUMS. 
“ I read with great pleasure the various articles written by Mr. 
Beaton, in your invaluable paper. His opinions are not to be 
slighted, as they are formed from an experienced mind. But 
often, when a man has been nursing a crotchet, and priding himself 
in seeing his labours developing themselves into something like 
success, down comes Mr. Beaton with, “ It is of no use, it won’t 
do.” Mind, I pay great respect to the opinions of Mr. Beaton, 
and always endeavour to follow his advice; and, I think, if all 
did so, they would be not far from right. I trouble you with these 
few remarks in consequence of reading Mr. Beaton’s condemna¬ 
tion of the mode of training the Chrysanthemum, in his account 
of the Crystal Palace Show. I have grown several specimens of 
the Pompones on the ‘ squat system,’ as he calls it, which have 
been very much admired, and—may I say it—much to my 
gratification. I, for my part, do not see anything amiss in them. 
Next year, I intend to grow them in greater numbers, and under 
as many different systems as I can lay hold of. If Mr. Beaton 
would write a few lines solely on the mode of training , it would 
bo of great advantage to me, and to others like me, who have no 
opportunity of seeing such specimens as are shown at the Crystal 
Palace.”— Modus, Ross. 
[So long as the Chinese people do not insist on strangers— 
which is their meaning for barbarians—the necessity of then- own 
practice of crippling and deforming the Chinese women, by bar¬ 
barously cramping the feet of their female babes, as they cramp 
some kind of trees, to keep them very dwarf, so long we have 
no cause to complain of them on that score. And as long as 
Christian amateurs and gardeners choose to cramp, twist, and 
torture, any kind of plant against nature, in order to please their 
own fancies and that of their friends, Mr. Beaton will never have 
a word against them. But it is the duty of all those gardening 
writers, who have hold of the public ear, to blow the alarm, 
when they see nature outraged put in competition with nature 
assisted. Every plant, which is grown solely for its flowers, 
should be assisted by the gardener’s art, to produce it in the 
greatest abundance, and to show it off to the best advantage 
in the most natural w r ay. That is the lawful use of gardening in 
that branch. But when a plant is cultivated for any other 
use,—as a Peach tree against a wall, or a Gooseberry-bush in the 
border, or an Oak for use or ornament,—the gardener is allowed 
a certain latitude to depart from nature in appearance; but the 
less he takes advantage of the degree of this latitude, and the 
more closely he adheres to natural laws in liis management 
of such plants, the more sure liis success. Training Pompones 
in any manner, or shape, differing from their own natural growth, 
will never add one more flower to a plant, or make a single 
individual flower of better shape, no matter who may assert the 
contrary. A conservatory full of squat-trained Pompones, or 
Camellias, or any other kind of plant, could not be tolerated, by 
people of taste, for one single week. The degree of tiresomeness 
to the eye, in looking at them for one day, would be sure to turn 
them out. Squat-training requires three or four times more room, 
in a house, to show the same number of flowers, than natural 
training. Bv squat training, a blackleg may always impose on 
ladies, by selling them the ugliest frights of bad-habited plants 
