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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ OCTOBER, 
slightly curved, of a light glaucous green colour, containing from. 6 to 9 finely 
flavoured Peas. Plant robust, about 3 feet in height, producing from 10 to 12 
pods, generally in pairs. Dried seed, white and wrinkled. Wonderfully prolific 
and early. A grand and first-class pea of universal excellence.—A. F. B. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
A-^N a recent letter to the Gardeners' Chronicle Mr. Brehaut, writing of Early 
Peaches , observes :—“ Some half-a-dozen years ago we used to watch the 
ftf growth of that fine fruit, Early York, as the real staple of early Peaches. 
Now Early Rivers, Early Beatrice, and Early Louise are about three weeks 
in advance. This constitutes an appreciable gain to the orchard-house owner, for it is rather 
to these very early Peaches than to mid-season and less delicate kinds that our ideas at present 
are turned.” He adds :—“ Four years of trial under many forms of training and exposition have 
convinced me that the Early Rivers Peach is the best for orchard-houses -as a very early 
fruit. It is quite as early here as any other, and has the great merit, especially in the case 
of early Peaches, of being always of a good size, colour, and flavour. It is of somewhat 
delicate constitution, however, and apt to be assailed by earwigs and wood-lice near the base, 
its tender skin and tempting juice, joined to a certain weakness of stone, making it a desirable 
prey. It should never be grown in any gloomy corner of the house, as it requires every ray 
of the oblique spring sun, and well deserves such exposition. This season, in my orchard- 
house, which is an unheated lean-to, Early Rivers Peach actually ripened on June 10, being 
the earliest Peach I have ever, in 17 years’ experience, had to record. 
-- ££he raising of Shallots from Seeds seems to be coming more and more 
common. Mr. 0. J. Perry, amongst others, adopts the practice. He prefers to 
sow the seed early in March, in drills, thin enough not to require thinning, as they 
root so deeply that they are not easily pulled out. The plants as they grow soon stool out, 
and, if a dry summer, good waterings should be applied. The ground is dug and manured 
the same as for Onions. A selection of the largest and most matured roots is made for plant¬ 
ing in spring for seeding, and if any of these do not throw seed they are still valuable for the 
quantity of bulbs they produce. This method of growing Shallots is by far the best for a large 
supply, and is the plan adopted in Jersey and Guernsey for procuring the enormous quantities 
sent every year to Covent Garden Market. 
- 0ne of the most promising suggestions we have heard made, as to the 
best mode of Battling with the Potato Disease , is to grow early varieties only, and 
to grow two crops annually. A crop of some good early variety may be got off 
the ground before the period when the disease becomes so destructive ; and as 
the plant is little liable to attack in the early stages of growth, there will be time, at least in 
good seasons, to secure a second ci’op in the autumn, during which season the tubers do not 
appear to suffer, if not previously affected. 
- Sport from the Gloire de Dijon Bose has been obtained by Mr. A. S. 
Kemp, in which the flowers are all of a rosy-pink colour. In former years the 
colour has been of the usual tint. The plant was struck four years ago, and is 
growing on its own roots in ordinary garden soil. This is no doubt a case of 
reversion, and if it can be perpetuated the sport will be highly prized. 
- (£)ne of the foremost places amongst golden-leaved Conifers must be 
accorded to Mr. Maurice Young’s Juniperus chinensis aurea. The Chinese Juniper 
is well known as one of the hardiest and handsomest of coniferous shrubs, and 
when we state that the novelty just referred to is the exact counterpart of its parent in all 
but its colour, and that that colour is equal at least in richness of hue to any other golden 
Conifer hitherto known, but little further praise of it is needed. We may, however, add, 
