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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
and there is no reason why they should not 
be applicable to the largest timber that grows. 
At the trial above referred to, an elm 33 in. 
in diameter was cut down in 3 J minutes ; a 
larger tree, 36 in. in diameter, took 9 minutes, 
owing to the saw not being properly ground; 
and two others of similar dimensions occupied 
about the same time, the four having taken 
rather less than an hour. 
The working expenses, exclusive of the first 
cost of the machine, which is but small, and of 
the boiler, run to about 25s. or 30s. per day; 
and Mr. Eansome states that with a gang of 
four men who have had a few days’ practice 
“ the machine will readily fell, as an ordinary 
day’s work, from 50 to 60 trees, averaging 30 in. 
in diameter at the butt.” Moreover, “ as the 
tree-feller saws the trees off at the ground-level, 
it saves, in every tree of 3 ft. diameter, several 
cubic feet of the best part of the timber, which 
would be cut into chips if felled by the axe.” 
Such a machine would soon save its cost, on an 
estate where much tree-felling has to be done. 
THE A BEC PEACH. 
)HE varieties of new Peaches of American 
and English origin have become so 
very numerous, that amateurs and others 
who cannot test them as they appear, and yet 
wish to secure a selection of the very best, 
will do well to add this fine early melting 
variety, of which jmu lately published a figure, 
to their stock. The tree is hardy, a good 
grower, very prolific, and one of the finest and 
best for forcing, as it ripens about a fortnight 
later than the Early Grosse Mignonne. 
Flowers large; fruit equal in size, colour, and 
quality to Eoyal George, which it resembles, 
except in point of earliness and freedom from 
mildew. I have grown it in an early house, 
also as a pot-tree, and on walls, since 1860, 
and although I have tested many of the new 
varieties of more recent introduction, I still 
look upon this fine Peach as one of the best, 
either for general use or exhibition. 
It will probably be useful to many fruit¬ 
growers, both amateur and professional, if I 
here add a list of eighteen of the very best 
early, mid-season, and late varieties :— 
Early Varieties. 
Early Grosse Mignonne. 
Hale’s Early. 
A Bee. 
Dr. Hogg. 
Grosse Mignonne. 
Crimson Galande. 
Mid-season Varieties. 
Alexandra Noblesse. 
Dymond. 
Noblesse. 
Royal George. 
Violette Hative. 
Bellegarde. 
Late Varieties. 
Belle Bauce. 
Barrington. 
Prince of Wales. 
Stirling Castle. 
Nectarine Peach. 
Walburton Admirable. 
Crawford’s Early is large, handsome, fine for 
exhibition, and decidedly the best of the 
yellow-fleshed section.—W. Coleman, Eastnor. 
THE FUCHSIA AS A COOL 
GREENHOUSE CLIMBER. 
GfP HAVE planted out here in a cool green- 
®J ro house some new varieties of Hybrid 
Fuchsias, raised by E. J. Lowe, Esq., 
Ilighfield House, near Nottingham, and find by 
their rapid growth and free-flowering habits, 
that they will make excellent climbers when 
trained on pillars. I have in the same house 
a plant of the old Fuchsia Eose of Castille, 
14 ft. in height, trained on a pillar, and 
during the summer months when in flower 
it affords one of the grandest floral sights which 
one can imagine in a Fuchsia. Mr. Lowe’s 
seedlings are named Columbine , Sievci , Anatu , 
Adria, Concordia , Inez, Dragontina , Phocea, 
Violetta, Odin, and Robin Ilood. Of the 
above sorts, I have selected Odin, Adria, 
Violetta, and Columbine , as being the strongest 
growers, and evidently having some of the 
strain of F. fulgens in them, from the shape and 
size of the flowers. 
The hardy Fuchsia Riccartoni, when planted 
out in the open air in a suitable soil, and kept 
well watered in dry, hot summers, is, when in 
flower, one of the most showy of all shrubs. 
In the island of Arran, Bute, on the south 
coast of Ireland, and in the Isle of Wight, this 
variety forms immense bushes, or rather little 
trees, and is not liable to be cut down in the 
winter. 
To see, however, the tender varieties of 
Fuchsias in all their beauty, we must train 
them as climbers, with plenty of room for 
them to get to a good size. When grown in 
pots for exhibition purposes, it is only a few 
cultivators that bring out collections of well- 
grown plants, owing to their rambling habits, 
unless, indeed, they are well stopped when 
young.— William Tillery, Welbeck. 
