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in the ordinary way, and they continue to grow 
and yield throughout the season. In this 
way we have had this year a continuous supply 
of fine Peas from the 10th June till the end of 
September. In the same way equally satis¬ 
factory results have been obtained for five 
years consecutively. Where very tall Peas 
are indispensable, Ne Plus Ultra, sown early 
in March and treated as described, would 
continue to bear till destroyed by frost. Thin 
planting more than compensates for succes- 
sional sowing. It should not be forgotten 
that Peas delight in abundance of water in hot 
dry weather; if from the liquid manure tank 
so much the better. 
As Peas treated in this way make more 
growth, and consequently do not come in quite 
so early, it is advisable to plant a few of an 
early kind closer, or to sow thicker for an 
early dish. 
What I have already written on the culinary 
Pea will occupy so much of your valuable 
space, that my notes on Sweet Peas had better 
form the subject of another paper.— Henry 
Eckford, Boreatton Parle, Baschurch. 
THE HEKEFORDSHIRE POMONA. 
HIS fine work has now reached its 
sixth annual part, and keeps up the 
high character which we have already 
attributed to it. There is no falling 
oft' in the beauty and fidelity of the fruit 
portraits which of course form the most im¬ 
portant feature of the book, thanks to the 
care bestowed upon their work by the very 
accomplished lady artists, and thanks also to 
the ability with which M. Severeyns has carried 
out his department. Nor is there any de¬ 
preciation apparent in the manner in which 
the text has been worked up by the very 
competent editor, who has started on a good 
model, and adhered to it faithfully throughout. 
The next number is to complete the work, 
which will then become our standard English 
illustrated book on Apples and Pears—so far 
as it goes. This latter remark indicates that 
the materials are by no means exhausted ; 
and we may therefore express a hope, perhaps 
before it is too late, that some excuse may be 
found, in some quarter or other, for proceed¬ 
ing to the issue of a second volume. 
The contents of the part now published are 
as follows:— 
Plate XLIX. contains portraits of the following 
Apples :—Court Pendfi-Pkt, Landsberger Reinette, 
Golden Russet, Golden Reinette, Seek no Further, 
Uellner’s Gold Reinette, Golden Winter Pearmain 
(syn. King of the Pippins). 
Plate L. devoted to Apples contains Gloucester¬ 
shire Costard, Herefordshire Costard, Catshead. 
Plate LI., Hybridised Pears raised by T. A. 
Knight, Esq., consisting of Monarch (of which it is 
said that much confusion exists and that Plate IV. 
of this work gives an erroneous figure, here cor¬ 
rected), Rouse Lench, Tillington, Eunmore, Broom 
Park, Eye wood. 
Plate LLI. Apples—Dume’ow’s Seedling, syn. 
Wellington (said to be very hardy, which is certainly 
not the case in some parts of Hertford-hire, the 
trees having been nearly killed by the winters of 
1880 and 1881), Annie Elizabeth, Lane’s Prince 
Albert, Cockpit, Greaves’ Pippin. 
Plate LIII. Bergamot Pears—Rivers’ Seedling 
Bergamot, Bergamotte Cadette, Gansel’s Bergam >t, 
Bergamotte Suisse, Autumn Bergamot, Bergamotte 
Hertrich (Dietrich on plate). 
Plate LIV. Apples—Wyken Pippin, American 
Mother, Ashmead’s Kernel, Brownlees’ Russet, 
Aromatic Russet, Boston Rus'et, Wanstall. 
Plate LV. Pears—Glou Morceau, Jersey Gra- 
tioli, Marie Louise d’Uccle, Marie Louise, Nouveau 
Poiteau. 
Plate LVI. Apples—Kentish Fillbasket, Calville 
Malingre, Calville Blanche d’Hiver, Calville Rouge 
d’Automne. 
Plate LVII. Redstreak Apples—Spreading Red- 
streak, Yellow Redstreak, Upright Redstreak, Cow- 
arne Red, Cherry Pearmain, South Queening, 
Knotted Kernel. 
Plate LVIII. Perry Pears—Rock Pear, Coppy 
Pear, Stony Way Pear, Cheat Boy, Thorn Pear, 
Winnall’s Lmgland, Newbridge Pear, Yolking 
House, Blakeney Red. In reference to Cheat Boy 
Hr. Hogg suggests that the name indicates that 
bo] s who purchase it are not to be congratulated on 
their bargain. May it not also imply that boys who 
appropriate the fruit—for boys will be boys in 
Herefordshire we suppose as elsewhere—will find 
that they have made a mistake in their seleciion. 
Plate LIX. Apples—Newland Sack, Minier’s 
Dumpling, Altriston, Iri>h Reinette, Royal Somerset. 
Plate LX. Pears—Leon Leclere de Laval, Gil- 
ogil, Colmar Van Mons, Winter Thorn, Black 
Worcester. 
Plate LXI. Apples—W'elford Park Nonsuch, 
Round "Winter Nonsuch, Mabb< tt’s Pea-main, 
Moss’s Incomparable, Rushock Pearmain, Melon 
Apple, Mere de Menage, Peasgood’s Nonesuch (very 
large and handsome, but not prolific). 
GOLD-LACED POLYANTHUSES. 
QUITE agree with Mr. Dean that these 
are easily injured by being kept too dry 
at the roots in winter; but no good 
grower would allow such valuable plants 
as Gold-laced Polyanthuses of the best varieties 
to be injured in that way. On the other hand 
it is a mistake, and a serious one, to leave 
them exposed out of doors all the winter in 
pots. If the plants are healthy and potted 
at the right time, there are no losses at all 
in the winter. I have never seen healthier or 
better plants than those usually exhibited by 
