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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
August 21, 1886. 
Of course, all the other vegetables are equally good 
in their season, but the best of summer kinds have been 
enumerated above. It is most obvious that a gardener 
who does not snatch a prize now and then, but through¬ 
out the entire season maintains a high reputation for 
his exhibits, and wins all along the line, merits the 
warmest praise, and is a thoroughly good gardener. 
Mr. "Waite enjoys in the Hon. Colonel Talbot the 
pleasure of serving under a sympathetic and deeply in¬ 
terested employer, which is much more than can be 
said in too many cases. We give with this notice of 
Glenhurst an illustration of the charming lodge resi¬ 
dence Colonel Talbot recently erected for his gardener, 
and which is an admirable example of the liberality 
governing the garden arrangements at this place. 
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FRUITS, FLO WERS & V EGETABLES. 
New Peas. —I am this season growing a number 
of varieties of Peas, and I possess just now four pets. 
One of these is “Waltham Hero ” (Laxton) ; it grows 
at least 6 ft. high, the pods are both large and numerous, 
light green in colour, and of a capital flavour. The 
pods average nine Peas in each. No. 2 is one of Mr. 
Burberry’s, called “ Cross from Early Bird.” It is a 
very early, good Pea, much in advance in size of all 
others of my knowledge of the early type. It is too 
scarce to be tasted this season. No. 3 is another of 
Mr. Burberry’s crosses, called “Tom Thumb’s Master¬ 
piece,” dwarf, not more than 9 ins. high, the pods 
large and well filled, and the flavour grand. This Pea 
is undoubtedly in advance of other dwarf varieties. 
These three varieties of Peas are not yet sent out, so 
that they cannot be had for perhaps two years. I will 
therefore name my fourth pet, which is in the market 
and can be had at once. It is Sutton’s Marrow, height 
3 ft. to 3i ft., a prodigious cropper of not over long 
pods, still eight to nine large Peas are encased in each. 
It literally bears from bottom to top, and the flavour 
is most excellent. I have had a few cooked to-night, 
which by some would be called old ; I found the flavour 
all that could be wished. This variety should have 
been named “ The Pea for the Million.”-— E. Gilbert, 
Burghley. 
Chrysanthemums and Earwigs.— A few 
weeks since I wrote agreeing with Mr. Kidson that we 
had no positive proof, so far as appearances went, that 
Earwigs destroyed the foliage or young shoots. Mr. 
W. E. Boyce, to whom your readers must feel indebted, 
thinks differently; but last issue, p. 795, Mr. J. 
Waldie’s experiment seems completely to establish Mr. 
Kidson’s contention. I merely desire to add, I have 
been collecting Earwigs every day since off some 300 
of my plants, and as carefully as possible watching 
their action, with the result that I do not believe they 
injure the foliage. I have caught a considerable num¬ 
ber of green and brown larvae, but woodlice are the real 
culprits.— TV. J. Murphy, Clonmel. 
A Failure with Peas.—I have a small garden 
in the suburbs, and have this season tried to grow some 
Peas; the sorts are Carter’s Stratagem, American 
"Wonder, the .Earliest of All, and Bishop’s Dwarf 
Longpod, and from the four rows, one of each kind, I 
had not a quarter of a peck, but the reason why I do 
not know. I bought the seeds from one of our respect¬ 
able firms, and had blanks in the rows 3 ft. or more 
long, and yet I had them well protected from birds. 
The American "Wonder I have sown three times with 
the same result. I have two rows that I had sown of 
Stratagem and Earliest of All as a forlorn hope, and 
the Stratagems are now in bloom ; yet even among 
these there are blanks. Earliest of All has come up 
rather better, but the haulm is very poor and weak, so 
I have given up all hope of having a dish of Peas this 
season. Can any of your practical readers suggest the 
cause of failure ?— Amateur, Manchester. 
Early P6ach.es. —I am pleased to inform your 
much esteemed correspondent, Mr. Gilbert, that I am 
in possession of the three excellent early Peaches 
named at p. 778, and each variety has fruited the past 
two seasons. Now, with us, "Waterloo is the first to 
ripen by nearly a week. This season we picked our 
first ripe fruit on July 25th, last year on July 21st. 
It is earlier than either Alexander or Amsden, bril¬ 
liantly coloured, and full of delicious juice. Alexander 
we gathered first on August 1st, and Amsden about the 
same date ; last year on July 26th. These two are so 
near alike in every respect, that it is almost impossible 
to tell the one from the other. They are really grand 
Peaches for earliness, and should be given a trial by all 
Peach-growers. Early Beatrice we gathered the first 
week in August, but I have not been able to send a 
single dish to my employer’s table. This variety I 
have done with entirely. Hale’sJJEarly is very good, 
but uot yet ripe, and is, with us, one month later than 
Waterloo. I may also mention that twelve months 
ago last November I planted a "Waterloo indoors at the 
warmest end of our second early house, and it has this 
year finished a crop of eighty-seven handsome fruits. 
"We started to force gently on January 25th, and the 
first fruit was ripe on May 28th. This variety needs 
very careful handling. —Herbert Markham, Mereworth 
Castle, Maidstone. 
Something Like a Fuchsia.— "When visiting 
Raasay a few days ago, the seat of Mrs. "Woold (on the 
Island of Raasay, opposite the Isle of Skye), I was very 
much struck with the large specimens of Fuchsia Ricar- 
toni growing there. I selected one of the largest and 
had it measured, and found it to be 65 ft. in circum¬ 
ference, 12 ft. high, and loaded wdth blossoms from top 
to bottom. Fuchsia hedges here, averaging 5 ft. to 
6 ft. high, extend for over two miles along each side of 
the carriage drive, and have a wonderful effect w r hen in 
full bloom. In the centre of the kitchen garden there 
are two Fuchsia hedges 10 ft. high, and 4 ft. through. 
These are clipped in early in spring, straight on each 
side and flat on the top, and then left to themselves, 
and in August, when in full bloom, they are a sight 
worth seeing. These Fuchsias receive no protection 
whatever in winter, but the frost here is never very 
severe ; Raasay being on the west coast of Scotland, it 
is allowed that the influence of the Gulf Stream is 
sensibly felt.— John Downie, Edinburgh. 
Birds and Fruit.— It cannot be that the big 
birds are blind to colour, for what a distinction they 
are making here between red and white Currants. The 
ravages they make upon the red fruit is astonishing, 
whilst they never touch the whites ; this was exactly 
the case last year, the whites dried and withered on the 
trees. We have also two quarters of red and yellow 
Antwerp Raspberries, and, although the latter is of a 
very sweet flavour, these again escape while the birds 
are gorging their stomachs with the reds. Can it be 
that colour guides them, for it cannot be the senses of 
taste or smell if they have any at all.— B. L. 
Early Kenilworth and William the Con¬ 
queror Peas. —These are two very fine Peas, the 
first is a fine sort, which for earliness runs Earliest 
of All a very close race, whilst its cropping qualities 
are ahead of that well-known sort. Height, 3 ft., 
haulm and pods a deep green, and the pods are of good 
size, containing seven and eight Peas of excellent 
quality. Both were sown on the same day, on the 
same border. Earliest of All was three days in advance 
to flower, but Early Kenilworth gained upon it in the 
filling of the pod ; this is where some of the earliest 
sorts lose themselves in the north. Day’s Early Sun¬ 
rise, which seems to be so popular int he south, keeps 
well up until the setting of the pods. I have noticed 
this sort flower from eight to twelve daj^s before 
Dickson’s First and Best, whilst the latter has regained 
itself in the filling of the pod what it lost in flowering, 
and ultimately has been the first into the kitchen. I 
have noticed this for three years, and on this account I 
have had to discard Sunrise, which, were it to keep up 
after the setting as it does up to the flowering, would 
hold its own. William the Conqueror follows the first 
named, Early Kenilworth, in succession, and is really 
a fine Pea ; height nearly 5 ft., and on this account it 
is more to my liking, as I prefer a 4 ft. Pea upwards 
than downwards—the taller the better, provided that 
they commence podding from the ground, which Wil¬ 
liam the Conqueror does, continuing up to the top. 
This is a capital cropper, with equally capital pods, of 
a dark green colour, and closely packed with Peas, 
eight and nine of good quality. A most desirable 
variety, which, no doubt, when it becomes more known 
will make its mark in the market, and in most gardens 
where Peas are of the first importance, as they are here. 
I enclose a sample from our last gathering. —B. L. 
Plants Going Blind. —When kitchen garden 
foreman at Arundel Castle—I am afraid to say how 
many years ago—I have a distinct recollection that 
large numbers of our Broccoli, Savoys, and others of 
the Cabbage tribe used to go blind, and for years past 
here I have scarcely seen a blind plant, which for some 
time rather perplexed me, until I began to ask myself 
a few questions. My late good master, Mr. MacEwen, 
would have the young plants duly watered every 
evening in dry, hot weather ; and here I must note the 
water was icy cold. I never water seed-beds here, let 
the weather be what it may ; I am, therefore, inclined 
to think that by pouring on cold water every evening 
would alone be sufficient to cause the mischief.— E. 
Gilbert, Burghley. 
Dasylirion serratifolia. —I think any lover of 
horticulture who can find time to take a peep over the 
gardens at Melville Castle will be handsomely repaid, 
for amongst the many charming things to be met with 
he will just now see a splendid plant of this grand old 
Dasylirion growing in a tub. The plant is fully 6 ft. 
in diameter, and some three weeks ago it began to send 
up a flower spike which in so short a time has made 
the prodigious growth of 8 ft. in height, and fully 7 ins. 
in circumference, and is still growing. I am inclined 
to think this is not a very common occurrence in the 
northern part of the island ; you will no doubt be able 
to tell whether it has been brought to your notice 
before. The visitor will have an opportunity of seeing 
one of the finest houses of late Grapes it has ever been 
my good fortune to behold. The house is 100 ft. long, 
and planted chiefly with Alicantes bearing an immense 
crop of Grapes, the bunches averaging 4 lb. each, in 
most splendid condition. This house is always very 
fine, but this year it appears to be better than usual. 
— D. P. L. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Orchid Growers Calendar. —From hence¬ 
forth care must be taken that the shading is not 
allowed to be on the houses too long, or during any but 
bright weather ; at the same time it will be well to bear 
in mind those plants which are easily injured by bright 
sunlight, and carefully guard them from injury in that 
direction. Pliakenopsis want the most care to protect 
them from the sun, and next to them comes the ever¬ 
green East Indian things, such as Saccolabiums, 
"Vandas, Aerides, Angrsecums, &c., the Cypripediums, 
Bolleas, Pescatoreas, Huntleyas, Warscewiczellas, these 
and the plants usually associated with them, and the 
Masdevallias, Odontoglossums, &c., never pay to keep 
unprotected from the sun’s rays at any time during 
the bright season. Cattleyas and such like plants are 
less susceptible, and will henceforth be benefitted by a 
good bright light being admitted on their house, which 
should at the same time be well ventilated. 
Most Laelias, and especially those of the L. anceps 
and L. autumnalis class, as well as all the Barkerias 
require plenty of light, and should for the remainder 
of the season be only shaded when the sun is very 
bright ; the Barkerias, indeed, in any cool well venti¬ 
lated house are better unshaded. In nothing is there 
more at the discretion of the grower to secure the 
happy medium than in the matter of shading. In some 
houses plants will do well with little or no shading, 
which would be greatly injured in others under the 
same conditions. Resting Dendrobes require a bright 
light to harden up their growth for flowering, sufficient 
water being given them to prevent them shrivelling.— 
James O'Brien. 
Cattleya granulosa asperata.— This name 
has been given by Professor Reichenbach to a 
grand Cattleya recently flowered by Major Bendy, 
Sunbury House, Sunbury-on-Thames who, as the 
Professor observes, is particularly lucky in getting good 
novelties. The plant flowered out of C. velutina, and 
it reminds one of that species in the dark Indian yellow 
of its crimson-spotted broad petals. Its handsome 
labellum is much like that of a good C. Schofieldiana ; 
white veined with bright crimson. Those who know 
C. Schofieldiana will be able to form a good idea of 
Major Lendy’s plant by imagining an improvement on 
it in every way. — J. B. 
Cypripedium Sanderianum.— A number of 
lots of this new introduction from the Malayan Archi¬ 
pelago, came under the hammer at Protheroe & Morris’ 
rooms, and realised good prices. It is something like 
a C. caudatum, with showy petals beautifully marked 
like Masdevallia chimerte. Prices generally ranged 
from three to ten guineas, and two of the finest pieces 
fetched fifteen guineas and nineteen guineas respectively. 
National Carnation and Picotee Society. —Our 
report of this society’s exhibition, held at Manchester 
last week, is unavoidably held over till our next. 
