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THE FLOBIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[February, 
way the plants never do so well as when the 
seeds are sown in early spring, where the plants 
are to flower. The hardihood of the Portulaca 
can be vouched for from the fact that seeds 
will drop from the plants on to the soil, remain 
there all the winter, and grow up in spring, 
making fine plants. The seed is very fine and 
requires to be sown thinly ; and as soon as 
the plants are large enough they should be 
thinned out to six or eight inches apart, and 
then left to flower. When the weather is at 
all fine, the blossoms will expand and present 
to the eye a sheet of gorgeous colours; but 
they close early in the evening and also in 
dull weather. The two newest varieties are 
Aurea striata, gold and rose striped, and 
Blensoni, red vermilion ; these are both single, 
but for effect I think the single are to be 
preferred to the double varieties.—R. Dean, 
Ealing. 
THE TURK GRAPE. 
HE Henab Turki Grape, of which an 
account was given by M. Pulliat, in the 
Revue Horticole (1882, 360), was 
received by him a few years since 
amongst other Egyptian vines from M. Rous¬ 
seau, gardener to M. Cacilani, of Cairo. They 
were planted against an east wall, and grew 
well for a year or two, but in 1877 and 1878 
they were overwhelmingly attacked by mildew 
and anthracnose, notwithstanding recourse 
was had to the ordinary remedy of applying 
sulphur. In 1879, M. Pulliat directed his 
vine dresser to scatter the sulphur more 
abundantly, allowing it to fall on the soil and 
against the walls. This sulphuring continued 
each year, and at two or three different periods, 
according as the weather has been more or 
less dry or moist, caused in 1879 a very 
sensible improvement; in 1880, the havoc of 
the Oidium was insignificant, and neither 
anthracnose nor mildew were observed; and 
in 1881, a good crop of sound grapes was 
secured on soil little favourable to vine 
culture. M. Pulliat’s experience during these 
three years leads him to believe that by a 
preventive course of high-dose sulphuring 
the maladies already mentioned may be pre¬ 
vented. 
As to the Henab Turki Grape, it is said to 
be a free-growing sort, but, like other varieties 
from hot countries, very subject to attacks of 
mildew, &c. The fruit is described to be of 
second-rate quality, but its beautiful clusters 
are a great embellishment to the dessert. The 
trunk is vigorous, and the shoots semi-erect, 
with long internodes. The leaves are middle- 
sized or large, smooth beneath, the lobes 
rather deep, and the toothing broad, unequal, 
obtuse, shortly mucronate. The bunches are 
very large, loose shouldered, on long moder¬ 
ately strong peduncles; the berries very large, 
ellipsoid, or shortly olivoid, scarcely depressed 
at the apex, and at the top slightly incurved 
like those of the Cornichon, the stalks long, 
slender, slightly verrucose; the flesh firm, 
crackling, juicy, with an agreeable sweet 
flavour, and the skin thickish, turning from 
greenish white to very bright rose, then to 
deep rose. The fruit is somewhat late in 
ripening.—M. 
THE CALYILLE BLANCHE APPLE 
AS A WALL CORDON. 
§» HOSE who may have seen this splendid 
Apple in Covent Garden, or in the 
markets of Paris, as grown in Guernsey 
or France, are likely to be somewhat 
disappointed if they have tried it either as a 
bush or a pyramid in the open air in this 
country. Its proper place is obviously a 
southern or western aspect, either as a cordon, 
or in any other form on a wall. It does pretty 
well in East Anglia as a growing cordon at the 
foot of a south wall. It is also one of the 
best and most sure cropping Apples either in 
a pot or tub in a cool orchard or other glass¬ 
house—a place which it well deserves. 
Even on a wall in this country it seems 
seldom to reach the size that it attains to in 
France or the Channel Islands ; but it grows 
to a good size in favourable seasons, and the 
quality cannot be excelled either for sauces or 
tarts. It also comes in just as the majority 
of Apples are going out of season, and fills up 
what is often rather a scarce time for the best 
Apples—the long interval from November to 
April. 
The time of ripening varies considerably 
according to the seasons ; and the quality is 
never fully developed till the fruit assumes a 
pale yellow hue. It may also be said that the 
