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themselves up by it sailor-fashion, sure-footed, 
tightening the tie by coiling the wiry tendril 
like a corkscrew, and as the circumference is 
equal to three times the length of the diameter, 
it has the power to shorten the tendril by coil¬ 
ing until it gets a tight hold of the stick. Any 
rough prop will support a wire, like a common 
clothes-line, and on this wire short pea-sticks 
may be hung, heads downward, and on each 
side a third row may be set, heads upward; 
this will give scope for the tallest Peas to run, 
and when the season is over, it will be seen that 
every twig has been tied by the tendrils into a 
compact bundle. With a stem so slender and 
a head so heavy, the Pea-plant is a marvel of 
skilful work, and presupposes some kindly 
bush or thicket to lean upon. 
There is little more now to hope for in 
the way of new varieties of Peas, and it 
would look like an advertisement were I to 
name the sorts whose merits are chronicled in 
the various seed-lists. If we are to have green 
Peas in winter, we may as well grow our own, 
as buy poor sorts from our southern neighbours. 
I need not say that a sure sale would be secured 
by bringing a good article into the market, so 
that duck and green peas need not any longer 
be “ given by way of dainty, but every day.” 
—Ales. Forsyth, Salforcl. 
PETUNIAS FOR DECORATION. 
G Tp£)OIt the decoration of the greenhouse 
j j "p and conservatory, there are few plants 
(gr more useful than Petunias. They have 
many good properties to recommend them, for 
they are brilliant in colour, excellent in habit, 
and flower most profusely ; they are also easily 
grown, and not seriously troubled with insects. 
They have been wonderfully improved of late 
years, and many of the varieties, both single 
and double, are exceedingly beautiful. For 
flowering in spring, the plants should be struck 
in August. When the cuttings are rooted, 
they should be potted off and grown on in a 
pit or frame until the end of September, when 
they should be removed to a shelf in a light 
airy part of the greenhouse, but previous to 
being placed on the shelf in the greenhouse 
thev should be shifted into their flowering pots. 
They should be kept moving very gently during 
the autumn and winter months. They will 
not, in the latter season, do in a low tem¬ 
perature and moist atmosphere, as they are 
apt to damp-off. They will come into flower in 
spring without any forcing, and will continue a 
long time in great beauty. Their freedom from 
insects is a great point in their favour, as the 
time taken up and expense incurred in fumi¬ 
gating and cleansing other soft-wooded plants, 
are very considerable. 
Plants for summer and autumn decoration 
should be struck in spring, and grown on in 
pits or frames. They can also be raised from 
seeds. Some seed sown in March or April will 
furnish plants for summer and autumn ; and 
seed sown in June will furnish plants for 
spring flowering, if they are kept in small pots 
during the summer.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
STONE’S APPLE. 
[Plate 467.] 
HIS excellent and showy culinary Apple 
is much cultivated in some parts of 
Kent for market purposes; being not 
only of free-bearing habit, but also having all 
the properties of a first-class cooking fruit. 
The variety appears to have originated on a 
farm at Loddington, near Maidstone, formerly 
occupied by Mr. Stone, the original tree still 
existing there, and hence it was called Stone’s 
Apple. Trees have been sold by the Messrs. 
Bunyard and Sons, of Maidstone, under the 
name of Stone’s Apple, or Mapson’s Seedling ; 
and the variety is described in their catalogue, 
as being “ very large and handsome, a sturdy 
grower, much grown at Linton for market, a 
good bearer.” It has subsequently been de¬ 
scribed in the Journal of Horticulture and the 
Gardeners' Year-Book , 1878, under the name 
of Loddington Seedling. 
For the opportunity of figuring this excellent 
culinary apple, we are indebted to Mr. Lewis 
A. Killick, of Langley, near Maidstone, who 
was good enough to send us the characteristic 
examples from which our illustration has been 
prepared by Mr. Macfarlane. Some fine 
examples also from Mr. Killick were exhibited 
on October 2nd, at a meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, when it was awarded a 
well-deserved First-class Certificate. The tree is 
no doubt of most prolific habit, and the sort de¬ 
serves to be widely cultivated. We learn from 
Mr. Killick that the season for use is from 
August to November. In the specimens we 
