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sites, shelter, cultivation, &c. But making 
due allowance for all these disturbing forces, 
the extreme variations in the fruit crop rang¬ 
ing over the wide area included between a full 
crop at one end of the scale, and entire failure 
at the other, are in many cases inexplicable. 
While these remain in obscurity, such 
variable results will assuredly continue. No 
forethought or skill can possibly grapple with 
or master influences so subtle and hidden 
as to remain undiscovered and unknown. 
Hence our fruit successes and failures should 
teach cultivators humility, and fruit consumers 
patience and forbearance with those respon¬ 
sible for the supply of their wants. 
Should a dripping autumn succeed to this 
abnormally dry summer, as it now (September 
4) threatens to do, it will be well to check 
late growth, and force early maturity by root- 
pruning as the surest means of obtaining a crop 
of fruit in 1885.— D. T. Fish, Hardwick. 
SIMPLE MULCHING. 
HE past season appears to have been 
(throughout the British Isles at least) 
one of the driest we have experienced 
for many years. During May and June 
we did not have a shower to moisten the sur¬ 
face of the ground, but wherever mulching was 
applied every fruit-tree, shrub, and vegetable 
did well. Watering was not had recourse to 
except in the cases of newly planted shrubs and 
vegetable plants, and to them only once when 
they were placed in the ground. Much of the 
mulching (to which I specially wish to refer) 
was only waste soil, and where it was used one 
or two inches thick the plants did extra well! 
Four lines of pansies, about 80 feet long each, 
bloomed more freely and continuously than I 
ever remember them doing, and these were last 
year’s plants. They began to bloom at the end 
of March, were mulched with soil only, and 
continued a dense mass of flowers till now 
(September).—M. Temple. 
EEGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW ELOAVEES. 
Carnation {Perpetual) Chevalier .—Pale primrose, 
flaked with bright deep rose, and slightly dashed with 
white, excellent free branching habit, good full 
flowers ; Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., November 12; 
Hooper & Co. 
Cheysanthemum {Japanese) Criterion, a very 
handsome variety with large and full amber-coloured 
flowers, extra fine for exhibition and decorative pur¬ 
poses. Roseumpictum, deep purplish rose, the reverse 
of the petals silvery blush ; large and very fine; a 
grand exhibition variety. Both the foregoing have 
been in cultivation for a few years past; Ist-class 
Certificate E.H.S., November 12; Veitch & Sons. 
La Bien Aime'e, white tinted with lilac, or delicate 
blush; a very large full flower of great delicacy and 
beauty. Cullingfordii (Cullingford), a magnificent 
reflexed variety of the large-flowered section; a 
really grand variety, of a rich shining orange-crim¬ 
son colour, the reverse slightly golden; the very best 
of all the crimson reflexed flowers ; ist-class Certi- 
tificate E.H.S., November 12 ; H. Cannell & Sons. 
{Japanese) La pure white, vith long recurved 
funnel-shaped florets; very large and full, extra fine ; 
Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., Nov. 12 ; J. Laing & Co. 
The following new varieties of Chrysanthemums 
were shown by Messrs. J. Laing & Co.:— Carmen (in¬ 
curved large flowered), deep red, the petals finely in¬ 
curved, reverse bright golden yellow; extra fine, but 
not seen to the best advantage on this occasion. 
Mans. Tarin (Jap.), violet rose, shaded with silver, 
large and very fine. La Nigiere (Jap.), deep bright 
crimson, very fine. Galathee (Jap.), deep pink, long 
thread-like petals. President Lavallee (Jap.), a fine 
incurved form, deep reddish brown, shaded with 
purple; large broad petals. Paiwy (Jap.), rich 
crimson, shaded with brown, flowers of large size, 
very fine. Madame de Sevin (Jap.), pale purplish 
magenta, very fine. Brise du Matin (Jap.), deli¬ 
cate pink, very pleasing in colour. Beaute des Jar- 
dins (Jap.), bright magenta; and Elegant (Pompon) 
gold and brown, small, of the shape of Model of 
Perfection, very pretty. 
The following were shown by Messrs. James Veitch 
& Sons :— Talfourd Salter (reflexed), bright orange 
red, the sides, points and reverse of the petals golden, 
very distinct and showy. Fleur des Bois (Jap.), 
brilliant red, one of the very brightest, bold and showy. 
Mdlle. Antoinette Brunei (Jap.), blush quills to 
petals, flattened ends, deep cerise shaded; distinct in 
character. L’Ronneur (Jap.), pale orange red, the 
reverse bright gold, free and distinct. M. Leon 
Brunei (Jap.), pale quilled florets, feathered at points, 
and of a bright brilliant red colour; distinct. Colibri 
(Jap.), bright maroon, thread-like petals; full and 
distinct. John Laing. Gangmede (Hyb. Jap.), a 
reflexed flower, having deep rosy lilac petals, the 
centre petals having a pale reverse. Belle Alliance 
(Jap.), pale red, large and very showy. Mad. TJrgel 
(Jap.), bright lilac, narrow petals; very pretty. 
Boucharlat aine (Jap.), bright red, the reverse gold, 
very showy. Fernand Feral (Jap.), delicate lilac, 
large, full and handsome. Formosa (Jap.), pale rosy 
magenta, large broad petals. L’Alsace (Jap.), distinct, 
rosy lilac, bright in colour, tipped with white. 
The following shown by Mr. A. Salter, were also 
shown by Messrs. Veitch & Sons:— Mary Salter (Jap.), 
in the way of Fair Maid of Guernsey, larger, fuller, 
the petals broader; extra fine. Tubifiorum (Jap.), a 
variety with tubular-shaped petals of a pale rosy-lilac 
colour; and Singularity (Jap.), bright pale-red ; very 
free and fine. 
Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, had the 
following Japanese varieties;— Mons. Tarin, Bou¬ 
charlat aine, Val d’Andorre {32p.),pdlQ orange-red, 
bright and showy. Julius Scharff (Jap.), rosy pink, 
very bright, thread-like petals; pretty and distinct. 
Madame Feral (Jap.), very broad petals, lilac-purple; 
bright and showy. Mignon (Jap.), type of Alfred 
Salter, bright lilac; delicate pink reverse. VOrdu 
Rhin, very bright gold, small thread-like petals; a 
fine hue of colour. Black Lovglas (Pompon), a 
charming bright chestnut red, style of Marabout; 
compact and very pretty. Volcan (Pompon), pale 
chestnut-red, but not particularly full. Also the fol¬ 
lowing single-flowered varieties:— W. A. Harris, a 
single form of Peter the Great, pale yellow. Kate 
