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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ JANUARY, 
opaque sides of the wall could readily be reversed. The latter is also water¬ 
proof, so that these walls would be impervious to cold rains, hail, and snow, as 
well as wind, and to a great extent frost-proof. Fig. 1 shows the wall in use. 
The canvas back is simply tied on to the espalier, and the glass fitted up, with 
a wooden frame and grooved iron bars to hold the glass. To forward late fruits 
in the autumn, the glass would be put in front. It would be easy thus to forward 
late fruit, and to give a high finish to any varieties that the natural heat of 
sunless autumn might have failed to ripen. Again, to keep late Plums or 
Peaches, the opaque side might be put in front; and such Plums as the Impera- 
trice be kept hanging on the trees for almost any length of time, the glass 
wall protecting the fruit alike from adverse climatic conditions and the attacks 
of vermin. The espaliers, with the framework for receiving glass, &c., the walls 
being removed, are shown in Fig. 2. 
The greatest merit of this invention is its thorough portability. In use for a 
month or six weeks in the spring, and perhaps for another month in the autumn, 
the trees and the crops would be freely exposed all the summer, while the glass 
walls could be used as wide ground protectors, &c., or be stored up safely for use 
another season. Thus treated they would last for years, and could hardly fail to 
ensure a crop in many situations where it is now next to impossible to do so. 
We therefore welcome these reversible walls, glass copings, portable cases, and 
all other temporary shelters that will help us to conquer the seasons, or aid in 
filling the national fruit-basket fuller, and with fruit of better quality.—F. 
NEW HYBRID NOSEGAY PELARGONIUMS. 
4 ^ERHAPS one of the most valuable breaks in the way of Hybrid Nosegay 
JQ and Zonal Pelargoniums is that obtained by Mr. James George, gardener 
f to Miss Nicholson, of Putney Heath, Surrey, some three years ago. Some 
of the varieties so obtained have been shown during the past season, and 
received First-Class Certificates—sure proofs of their undoubted worth. I well 
remember Mr. George exhibiting these seedlings at one of the meetings of the 
Royal Botanic Society in 1870, and though they received no acknowledgment at 
the hands of the judges on that occasion, there was about them so much of pro¬ 
mise that I was not surprised to find a year later that they were shown in remark¬ 
ably fine condition. Most of the seedlings were of the Hybrid Nosegay type, 
having large stout flowers of great size and substance, and immense symmetrical 
circular trusses, generally freely produced. 
There appears to have been quite a competition among the London Florists 
as to who should send out these new Pelargoniums. Four of them have passed 
for distribution into the hands of Mr. G. Smith, of Islington, the sender-out of 
Le Grand, Grand Duke, Eclat, Lizzie, and other splendid varieties; and I think 
he may be said to have had the pick of them. His lot consists of :—Polly King , 
rosy peach, dashed with white towards the edges, the eye white, the petals large, 
stout, and finely formed, the trusses grand, the plant very free-blooming, and of 
