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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
Give air at every favourable opportunity, always giving a little early in the 
morning, increasing it during the forenoon as the weather permits, and closing 
up early in the afternoon. Peach trees whilst in flower should have all the air 
possible ; thin the fruit when set, leaving rather more than are wanted for a 
crop until after stoning ; disbud the shoots, retaining no more than are required, 
and as they advance keep them neatly tied to the trellis. Start late houses. 
Syringe Figs on mornings and afternoons ; keep them well watered ; maintain a 
night temperature of 55°, and admit air freely in mild weather. Give Strawberries 
in flower abundance of air, and when the fruit is set, keep them close and warm, 
giving them liberal doses of liquid manure; introduce a fresh batch of plants 
about every ten days for succession.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
GOLDEN CHAMPION GRAPE. 
QUITE agree with Mr. Freeman in what he says (p. 22) respecting the 
Golden Champion Grape. We have not tried it sufficiently long to speak 
in a very positive manner about it. No doubt it is difficult to manage, 
and requires peculiar treatment, but when well grown it is the best of all 
white grapes. 
It is to be regretted that gardeners do not use more caution in condemning a 
new fruit before they have had sufficient experience with it. Some have even 
gone so far as to censure the Fruit Committee of the Eoyal Horticultural 
Society for granting this variety a certificate, I bought a plant of it the first 
year that it was sent out, and inarched it on a Hamburgh the same season. 
Next year I grafted and inarched it on permanent vines in two more houses. In 
1869 I had about a dozen bunches from the three rods ; the berries were 
immense, but some of them badly spotted, although the flavour was all that 
could be desired. Last season the same number of rods carried eighteen 
bunches. In two of the houses the berries were free from spot, and some of the 
bunches kept well two months after being ripe. It has one excellent quality 
lacking in some grapes—the flavour is good to the last. I look for great results 
from this grape next year, as I have a notion it will grow out of this tendency to 
spot, which seems to be constitutional.—J. Douglas, Loxforcl Hall. 
NEW DWARF MIGNONETTE. 
JA R owe to M. August Gebhardt, of Quedlinburg, the opportunity of 
QxJ presenting to our readers the accompanying figure of this new dwarf- 
growing, compact-habited, and very floriferous variety of Reseda 
i ( §S odorata , which he calls nana compacta multijlora. It forms a dense 
semi-globular bush of about 10 in. high and 18 in. across, the robust and vigorous 
branches being clothed with dark green leaves, and decorated with innumerable 
close spikes of reddish-tinted flowers. These flowers are said to be produced 
without intermission from spring till late in the autumn, the blooming period 
being of longer duration in this than in any other variety, owing to the succes- 
