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APRICOT ANGOUMOIS HATIF.—ON PLANTING VINES IN SUMMER. 
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offered for Polyanthuses, the competition is 
confined to George IV., Exile, Cheshire Fa¬ 
vourite, Rev. F. D. Horner, and Hilton’s Pre¬ 
sident ; William IV. and Formosa are North 
of England flowers, very pretty red-ground 
varieties, something in the way of Lancer. I 
have obtained George IV. from two sources ; 
in one case the plants are of delicate growth, 
in the other quite luxuriant; and I fancy I 
note a distinct character in the foliage. I am 
hopeful the debility observed in the first case 
may be but temporary, and that the plants will 
soon grow out of it. I have now a good strong 
plant of each in a 48 or 5-in. pot, and I hope 
in the spring to be able to set up a group at 
one of the meetings of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. If any reader of the Florist can put 
me in the way of getting a few of the varieties 
I do not possess, I shall be very grateful to him. 
My mode of treatment of these fine Poly¬ 
anthuses is as follows :—The plants are potted 
in August, in good auricula soil, but a little 
more firmly than I do auriculas ; and they are 
then stood under a north wall on a raised bed 
of cinder-ashes, being freely watered overhead 
in dry weather. At the end of October, when 
wet weather sets it, the plants are removed to 
a raised frame on the same aspect, and there 
they remain till spring, when they are removed 
to a cold greenhouse to flower. This house is 
a little too sunny to have the flowers in per¬ 
fection long together, and I am on the point of 
putting up a north house specially for blooming 
Auriculas and Polyanthuses. 
The plants are placed out in a well-prepared 
bed in a shady spot in the open ground about 
the middle of May, and remain during the 
summer. The soil is taken out to the depth of 
nine inches, and a layer of cow-dung and fresh 
horse-droppings, to the depth of four or five 
inches, put at the bottom ; then the soil is 
returned, and the plants are turned out of the 
pots, simply removing the crocks at the 
bottom of the balls, planted out, pressing the 
plants firmly and a little deeply into the soil, 
and then top-dressed with a mixture of leaf- 
mould and cocoanut-fibre. During the summer, 
the plants are kept well watered, especially with 
soap-suds on washing days ; and under this 
treatment they do remarkably well. The 
plants are divided but once in the year, at the 
time of potting, when the soil is shaken from 
the roots, and the tap-root shortened back ; the 
strong plants are put in 48-in. pots, and the 
smaller ones into pots appropriate to their 
size. At this time of the year and onwards, 
green-fly is a little troublesome, but an occa¬ 
sional painting of the under-sides of the leaves 
with Fowler’s Insecticide is a capital remedy. 
I have a few promising seedlings that 
bloomed last year for the first time, and I am 
hopeful I may secure something nearly if not 
quite up to first-class form.— Richard Dean, 
Ealing , IF. 
APRICOT ANGOUMOIS HATIF. 
[Plate 459.] 
)HIS little known Apricot belongs to the 
free-stone race with sweet kernels, and 
is an early variety, as, indeed the name 
Early Anjou implies, ripening about the end of 
July; it is also a variety of good quality, 
and one which may be recommended to the 
notice of fruit-growers. 
The fruit is of medium size, roundish-oval, 
with a shallow suture, very highly coloured, 
the skin being of a deep orange yellow on the 
shaded side, and freely spotted and flushed 
with purplish-red on the exposed parts. The 
flesh is a deep creamy-yellow, juicy, melting, 
and briskly flavoured, sugary, and taking on a 
fine aroma when highly ripened. 
Apricots are especially adapted for orchard- 
house culture in pots, and the quality of well- 
ripened fruit thus grown is excellent.—M. 
ON PLANTING VINES IN SUMMER. 
HE method of having Vines planted 
f(®5iV i n an active stage of growth has 
long been in practice amongst British 
gardeners, and has generally been considered a 
step in the right direction, a considerable advance 
of growth being gained during the first season over 
those planted during the resting period. The 
greatest drawback to summer planting consisted 
