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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 13, 1858. 
The budding of fruit, and other trees, to be carried on 
briskly during showery or dull weather. 
Raspberries. —Thin the suckers to four or five of 
the best canes, and afterwards tie them up to save them 
from the effects of high winds. 
Strawberries. —Continue to increase by runners. 
Tines (on walls). — Stop the laterals at an early 
stage of their growth. 
ELOWER GARDEN. 
As Petunias, Phlox Drummondi, tall-growing Ver¬ 
benas, &c., are apt to be blown about, and broken, by 
high winds, it is advisable to stick some small branches 
of Birch, or other light spray, amongst them in the 
beds, which assists, not only to protect them, but to 
give a pleasing variety of outline. 
American Plants, and other evergreen shrubs, will 
require an abundance of water at their roots, as the 
showers at this season but rarely reach them, being 
thrown off by their close, thick foliage. 
Biennials and Perennials may be sown, to flower 
next season; and Mignonette, Collinsia bicolor, Vir¬ 
ginian Stock, Convolvulus minor , and many other 
annuals, to flower in the autumn. 
Dahlias. —Water with weak liquid manure, mulch 
round the roots, and insert small stakes, to which the 
laterals may be tied when sufficiently long. Thin out 
where required. 
Pinks. —Continue to put in pipings, and fertilise 
those intended for seed. Prick out early pipings into 
good soil, as soon as the roots can be seen. To be 
shaded in the beds, by sticking small branches amongst 
them. 
Roses. —Bud. Remove decayed blossoms and in¬ 
sects. As soon as all the flowers of the autumn- 
llowering varieties have expanded and begin to fade, 
cut back the shoots to the most promising eye. 
William Keane. 
THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
POMOLOGICAL COMMITTEE. 
Among the arrangements proposed for the resus¬ 
citation of the Horticultural Society, it was sug¬ 
gested that a Bornological Committee should be formed, 
which should meet periodically, to determine upon the 
merits of fruits, to gather statistical information re- 
' specting the different varieties, and to ascertain which 
are the best adapted for different localities ; in short, 
to take up what the Pomological Society has been 
doing for the last four or five years, with so much 
success. The idea was a good one; Pomology is a 
subject which affords wide and ample scope for in¬ 
vestigation and experiment; it is one in which all are, 
more or less, interested, and, unlike the generality of 
horticultural pursuits, it affords a profitable invest¬ 
ment, as well as pleasures and delights. It was always 
the most popular feature of the Horticultural So- 
: ciety, in its best days ; and any measure of reputation 
i the Society enjoys, arises almost entirely from the at¬ 
tention it gave to the study and cultivation of fruits ; 
it was reasonable, therefore, to expect that, in the new 
arrangements for restoring its activity and usefulness, 
Pomology should receive especial attention. The 
proposal found favour with the Council, the gentlemen 
nominated to form the Committee consented to act, 
the Committee was constituted, and on Monday, the 
5th inst., the first Meeting was held, at the Horticul¬ 
tural. Society’s Rooms, 21, Regent Street. The 
Meeting was well attended, and among those present 
were some of the first gardeners in England. Mr. 
Ingram, gardener to Her Majesty, at Erogmore; Mr. 
Forbes, of Woburn Abbey; Mr. Spencer, ^ of Bowood; 
Mr. Duncan, of Basing Park ; Mr. Bailey of Nune- 
ham; Mr. Tiilyard, of Heckfield ; Mr. T. Moore, of 
Chelsea; and Mr. Busby, late of Stockwood Park. 
Among the nurserymen were—Mr. Osborne, sen., 
of Pulliam; Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth; and 
Mr. John Lee, of Hammersmith. Mr. H. G. Bohn 
and Mr. Robert Hogg were also present. 
On this, the first Meeting, it was expected by many 
that there would have been some statement made by 
the Council, explaining the objects for which the Com¬ 
mittee was formed, tbe work it would be called upon 
to perform, and the duties that would devolve upon it; 
that there would have been some form of inauguration, 
and that the Secretary of the Society, or some one 
officially appointed, would have been present, to ex¬ 
plain the views of the Council, the nature and extent 
of the powers it delegates to the Committee, and, in a 
word, to have given it “a fair start.” As it was, 
however, the members present w r ere left to grope their 
own way, and to constitute themselves. Mr. Rivers, 
of Sawbridgeworth, was chosen to fill the chair, and 
Mr. Thompson acted as Secretary. 
The Meeting then proceeded to adjudicate upon a 
Seedling Strawberry, from Mr. Ingram, of Erogmore, 
which was a very good variety, but did not possess any 
characters, either in regard of flavour, size, colour, or 
other respects, different from what is to be found in 
varieties already in cultivation; and, therefore, the 
Committee did not feel called upon to recommend it 
as a desideratum. 
A collection of Seedling Strawberries, from Mr. 
Myatt, of Deptford, were examined seriatim. They 
were the same as were submitted to the last Meeting 
of the Pomological Society, and the same decision 
was arrived at-—that none of the seven varieties ex¬ 
hibited were of sufficient excellence, to recommend 
them for cultivation along with the varieties already 
grown. Decidedly the best of the whole was No. 3, 
which had more flavour than any of the others, a good 
deal of aroma, and a nice pleasant acid. 
Mr. Turner, of Slough, sent a dish of the Filbert 
Pine Strawberry, very inferior in flavour; but it was 
stated by those who know, and have grown, this variety, 
that this is not its usual character, but that it is 
generally very highly flavoured. 
Mr. Cuthill, of Camberwell, sent a dish of his 
Black Prince, and a Seedling from it, without a name. 
The Seedling much resembles the parent, has the 
same flavour, but is larger. He also exhibited a 
basket of his Prince of Wales, a handsome-looking | 
fruit, with a good flavour, and brisk acid, which the 
majority of the gentlemen present thought too strong 
to be agreeable. We are, however, inclined to think 
favourably of it; if well ripened it will have sufficient 
flavour and aroma to preponderate over the acid, which 
is a very agreeable and refreshing one. Mr. Cuthill 
also sent a plant of another Seedling, in a pot, which 
appears to be a good bearer ; but the flavour of the fruit 
was horrible. 
The best Strawberry at the Meeting was Oscar, a 
Seedling sent' by Mr. Bradley, gardener to W. E. N. 
Norton, Esq., Elton, near Nottingham. It belongs to 
a different strain altogether from the others that were 
exhibited. The fruit is large, and generally roundish, 
but deeply corrugated, or furrowed, on the sides, and 
sometimes inclining to a cockscomb shape. The colour 
is a very dark red, becoming blackish as it attains high 
maturity. The flesh is remarkably firm in texture, of j 
a dark red colour, and very juicy, with a sweet, peculiar, 
and agreeable flavour. It is evidently of the “ Sir 
Harry ” race, and was considered a valuable addition 
to present varieties. 
A Seedling Peach, called Stirling Castle, was re¬ 
ceived from Mr. Carmichael, gardener to the Countess 
