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season. We liad two beds of F, ijlobusa which 
had been planted quite as long, and had lived 
through all the severe frosts we have experi¬ 
enced, by having only a slight covering of straw 
or fern thrown over them ; these flowered freely 
every season, but they had to be removed this 
spring, to make room for some carpet-bedding. 
We have also another old globe-flowered 
sort, called Trentham^ which has been growing 
in the conservatory for upwards of twenty 
years. It is one of the fast-growing, rambling 
sorts, and is admirably adapted for the purpose 
of growing up pillars, and covering trellis- 
work. It runs away occasionally into gross 
rampant shoots of eight or nine feet in length. 
and flowers freely up to about Christmas. I 
do not think this variety is much known, as I 
do not remember to have seen it anywhere else. 
To my fancy, there is no other sort equal to it 
for the conservatory, as when trained up amongst 
other creepers, and allowed to intermingle 
its pendent clusters of bloom with them, it is 
very effective. The foliage is large, and is of 
a dark healthy green hue, as will be seen from 
the specimens sent herewith.—J. Webster, 
Gordon Castle. 
It is a fine bold-habited sort, and very 
ornamental, the buds being large and oblong, 
of the shape of those of the old F. glohosa 
elegans, and the sepals are very large and broad. 
NECTARINE 
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)N appearance, this fine Nectarine may, per- 
w haps, not be termed beautiful. In some 
respects, it resembles the Stanwick, both as 
to its appearance and quality ; but it is superior 
to that variety in every way, and entirely free 
from any of its defects. 
The fruit is large; it is, indeed, one of 
the largest of Nectarines. In shape it is 
roundish, a little flattened at the stalk. The 
skin is rather thick, of a yellowish-green 
colour, flushed on the sunny side with dark 
brown, and marked here and there with 
splashes of reddish violet, according to the 
amount of exposure. The flesh is greenish, 
bright red against the stone, from which it 
parts freely, very firm in texture, yet extremely 
GALOPIN. 
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juicy and melting, very rich and sugary, with 
a most decided piquancy of flavour, and slightly 
perfumed. The flowers are large and pale in 
colour. The glands of the leaves are reniform 
in shape. The tree is a free grower and a 
good cropper. 
This fine Nectarine was raised by M. 
Galopin at Liege, Belgium, some few years 
ago, and is deserving of extended cultivation 
under glass in this country, where its high 
merits require but to be known to be appre¬ 
ciated. The fruit from which the accompany¬ 
ing figure was taken was grown in the garden 
of the Eoyal Horticultural Society at Chis¬ 
wick, and we find the variety is noticed in 
Scott’s Orchardist. —A. F. B. 
WOOLIIOPE CLUB FRUIT SHOW. 
URING the closing days of October— 
the 29th and 30th—after our monthly 
packet had gone to press—a consider¬ 
able Exhibition of Apples and Pears, by far 
the best Fruit Show of the year, was held at 
Hereford, under the auspices of the Pomona 
Committee of the Woolhope Club. There 
were contributions from Herefordshire, Glou¬ 
cestershire, and Worcestershire, fi'om Berkshire, 
from Kent, and from sunny France, the supe¬ 
riority of the Kentish over the local fruits being 
very obvious, while these in their turn were 
quite excelled by the French examples. Thus 
“ climate told its tale.” The exhibits were 
arranged under five divisions :—1, nurserymen ; 
2, amateurs ; 3, open to all; 4, vintage, cider. 
or perry fruit; 5, cottagers. Altogether, 
there were 38 classes, and nearly two thousand 
plates of fruit. 
In the first division, Mr. Killick, Maidstone, 
and Mr. Barnes, Gloucester, showed Culinary 
Apples, the former, who was placed first, ex¬ 
hibiting Bedfordshire Foundling, Cox’s Pomona, 
Ecklinville Seedling, Lord Derby, Lord Suffield, 
very fine, Peasgood’s Nonsuch, Stone’s Apple 
(Loddington Seedling), Tower of Glammis, and 
Warner’s King. Mr. Barnes’s collection con¬ 
tained Broad-end, Caraway Russet, Devonshire 
Queen, Flanders Pippin, and Kentish Pippin. 
In the class for Dessert Apples, Mr. Griffiths, 
Tillington, was first, and Mr. Barnes second. 
Mr. Barnes’s collection of Dessert Pears 
