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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September 
two shades of colour produced just such an inter¬ 
mediate colour as would be derived by mixing 
the colours on a palette, as though the colour 
was produced by a mechanical admixture of the 
sap rather than a vital change. Thus, a scarlet 
and a white produced a seedling of light scarlet, 
like the result of mixing vermilion and white 
lead. A pink and a scarlet give a scarlet with 
a pink flush, a shade now quite familiar to 
florists.— W. H. 0. Sankey, SandyweU Parle. 
PEGGED-DOWN EOSES. 
N the Garden of Logie in Aberdeenshire 
I saw a crescent-shaped bed of Eoses, 
such as I have never seen equalled since. 
In the first place, the shape, was of that unde¬ 
niable type, leaving no room for critics to 
find fault with, for having only circles true to 
their centres, there were no crooks nor awkward 
bends to conceal. The bed was only about G ft. 
in diameter, slightly raised at the back, and 
full in the breast of the crescent. Not only 
was the manipulation so deftly accomplished 
that I reckoned it a bed of Ranunculuses, so 
dwarf and close it seemed, but on coming near 
I found it was a bed of moss roses pegged 
down upon moss, with only the flower-stalks 
with their elegant blooms, to be seen. Of 
course such a bed requiries some cost and a 
good deal of forethought to get suitable plants 
for this style of planting, and it is only in 
early summer that this kind of thing tells; 
but when it does tell, it is remembered for 
many a day. We mount the H.P. Eoses on 
stilts to get them near the eye, and we see 
them acting as starers in every cottage garden, 
and the larger the rose the better for the 
credit of the owner; but here the Logie bed of 
moss roses, like “ good wine wanting no bush,” 
was laid down to be admired, and seemed 
quite at home, as if it claimed kindred with 
the moss on which it reclined.— Alex. Forsyth. 
v ** All roses on their own roots may be 
pegged down with advantage, and with very 
good effect.—E d. 
WASHINGTON KATH-EIPE 
PEACH. 
am induced to draw attention to the 
excellence of this fine Peach, in conse¬ 
quence of the splendid examples I saw 
exhibited by Mr. Bond, of Walcot Park, at the 
recent Show held at Ludlow. They were so 
fine as at once to attract attention from all 
who saw them, being vastly superior to other 
sorts produced upon that occasion. The fruit 
was large, and highly coloured, with a brisk, 
refreshing flavour, which I have not before met 
with so richly developed in a yellow-fleshed 
Peach. I am persuaded that this is also a 
Peach well suited for market purposes, as 
betokened by its firm flesh, which will bear 
carriage well. It is a mid-season variety, 
which, on account of its superior merits, will, 
doubtless, be more generally cultivated when 
it becomes better known. I believe Mr. Bond 
has grown it for some years, and, doubtless, 
will favour us with some particulars as to its 
growth and general behaviour, as may, also, 
others who have tried it.— Geo. Westland, 
Witley Court. 
THE EMPEEOE ALEXANDEE 
APPLE. 
« HE proverbially shy-fruiting character 
of the large showy Apple, Emperor 
Alexander, is probably too well known 
for me to need to dwell upon the fact, before 
making the statement that I have in my orchard 
a very thrifty standard of this particular kind, 
probably about twelve or fourteen years planted, 
and having its branches sweeping down almost 
to the ground, most heavily laden with fruit, 
which are at this time swelling off freely. It 
would be especially interesting to know whether 
this is generally the case this season, in regard 
to trees of the same kind grown in other parts 
of the country. 
This question appears to me all the more 
important, from the fact that as last summer 
was such an exceedingly cold and wet one, 
there seemed less likelihood than usual that 
flowers would have formed upon a sort such as 
this, which is so exceptionally shy-flowering. 
After all, might not the very moist season of 
1879 be such as to suit this variety ?— William 
Earley, Ilford. 
PEUNING PEAE-TEEES. 
S a practical commentary on the evils 
of close-pruning pear and other hardy 
' fruit-trees, we find the following letter 
published in the Gardener’’s Magazine of July 
10th, showing the advantages of an opposite 
course. We have to thank the editor of that 
publication for the use of the illustration 
referred to in the text:— 
