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WATERLOO PEACH.-POTATOS FOR EXHIBITION.-THE CARNATION DISEASE. 
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WATERLOO PEACH. 
[Plate 554.] 
¥ E owe the opportunity to figure this 
new early American Peach to Mr. T. 
F. Rivers, of Sawbridgewortli, by 
* whom it was fruited last season. It 
was raised at Waterloo, N.Y., by Mr. H. Lisle 
of that place, and passed into the hands of 
Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, N.Y., 
who state that it is the first very early Peach 
raised in Western New York. It fruited for 
the first time in 1877, and then ripened 
several days earlier than the Alexander or the 
Amsden—two of the earliest of the American 
Peaches. In 1878 the first specimen ripened 
on July 14, and all the fruit was gathered by 
July 19, about a week in advance of the above- 
named sorts. In 1879 it ripened about three 
days in advance of Alexander. The fruit is 
full medium size, good specimens measuring 
nine inches in circumference, and weighing five 
ounces ; the form is round with a deep suture, 
the apex slightly depressed with a short nipple ; 
the skin is whitish-green in the shade, marbled- 
red deepening into purple-crimson in the sun ; 
the flesh is greenish-white, melting and of 
good flavour, with abundance of sweet vinous 
juice, and is somewhat adherent to the pale 
yellow stone like Hale’s Early, and the 
Amsden. 
It would thus appear to have sufficient good 
points to make it worth trial amongst the 
earlier varieties of Peach now in cultivation; 
and w T e shall be glad to learn if any of 
our readers have had any experience in its 
cultivation. Mr. Rivers’ report is altogether 
favourable.—T. Moore. 
POTATOS FOR EXHIBITION. 
HE numerous exhibitions of Potatos 
now being held annually throughout 
the country has 'so operated to bring 
Potatos to the fore, that an apology 
is not here necessary for naming a selection 
of a few good varieties for show purposes. 
Here are the names of twelve varieties of excel¬ 
lent character : —International Kidney, Cos¬ 
mopolitan, and Magnum Bonum, white kid¬ 
neys; Defiance, Mr. Breesee, and American 
Purple, coloured kidneys ; Schoolmaster, 
Porter's Excelsior, and Bedfont Prolific, 
white rounds; and Vicar of Laleham, Rad- 
stocfc Beauty, and Grampian, coloured rounds. 
As a matter of course, it would be unwise to 
grow only twelve varieties from which to 
select twelve dishes; and therefore an addi¬ 
tional twelve should, at least, be added—of 
white kidneys: Advance, Covent Garden Per¬ 
fection, and Snowflake; coloured kidneys : 
Beauty of Hebron, Bountiful, and Garibaldi; 
white rounds: Feltham White, Climax, and 
Wiltshire Snowflake; coloured rounds : Beauty 
of Kent, Triumph, and Matchless. 
A selection of twelve of the best American 
varieties for show purposes should comprise 
Adirondack, Matchless, Climax, Early Ohio, 
Oneida, and Triumph, round varieties ; and 
American Purple, Mr. Breesee, Beauty of 
Hebron, Snowflake, Trophy, and Breesee's 
Prolific, kidney varieties. 
A selection of the twelve finest English 
raised Potatos should comprise International 
Kidney, Cosmopolitan, and Advance, white 
kidneys ; Schoolmaster, Porter's Excelsior, and 
Bedfont Prolific, white rounds; Defiance, 
Garibaldi, and Bountiful, coloured kidneys ; 
and Radstock Beauty, Vicar of Laleham, and 
Grampian, coloured rounds. — R. Dean, 
Ealing. 
THE CARNATION DISEASE. 
fEf OME time ago we sent to our great 
vegetable pathologist, the Rev. M. J. 
Qfl, Berkeley, some examples of Carnations 
<L/ affected by what is called the gout, a 
disease which, commencing by a swelling and 
breaking up of the stems, gradually destroys 
the plant. “ It appears,” Mr. Berkeley 
observes ( Gard. Chron., n.s., xvi., 002), “in 
the form of pallid spots on the leaves, 
especially towards the crown of the plant, 
which in decay acquires a rusty tint. On 
examination of numerous spots in the different 
samples, I find, without exception, one or 
some examples of a Nematoid, belonging 
clearly to Dr. Bastian’s genus Tylenchus. 
There is not room for large cysts, as in the 
Melon disease, but I find amongst the inter¬ 
cellular passages, which are very large, single 
cysts, wider than the adjacent cells, and in one 
case containing a single nematoid. I do not 
find the worms anywhere except in the pallid 
spot. I have hunted the root in vain. They 
