1882 .] 
DWARF MORELLO CHERRIES.-HUMBOLDT NECTARINE. 
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Baron, Foxhall, Firefly, Mauve Queen, Huntsman, 
Coccinea, Canary Bird, and Yellow Gem — these 
were very effectively set up by ihe aid of wires, 
wh cli the flowers appear to require, as if not inele¬ 
gantly close-bunched, they are bad travellers. 2nd, 
Messrs. Keynes & Co. 3rd, Mr. T. S. Ware, Totten¬ 
ham. 4th, Messrs. Cannell & Sons. In the class for 
6 singles, the prizes went to Mr. Turner, Mr. Ware, 
Messrs. Keynes & Co., and Messrs. Gilbert & Son, in 
the order named. 
A large number of Seedling flowers was 
staged, the singles being greatly in the ascend¬ 
ant, and the following lst-class Certificates 
were awarded (see p. 156):— 
Show Dahlias : Senator, Hope, and Condor, 
all from Messrs. Keynes & Co.; Earl of Ravens- 
worth, said to be a sport from Vice-President, 
from Messrs. Harkness & Sons. A Commenda¬ 
tion for its colour was voted to Beauty of the 
Grove, from Mr. Harris. 
Pompon Dahlias: Gem, Little Duchess, 
Isabel, Favourite, and Mabel, all from Mr. C. 
Turner. 
Single Dahlias : Acquisition, and Evening 
Star, both from Messrs. Keynes & Co.; 
Christine, Pantaloon, and White Star, all 
from Mr. T. S. Ware. — T. Moore. 
DWARF MORELLO CHERRIES. 
"HIS seems to he a most prolific form of 
fruit-tree for this part of the country; 
and indeed Morellos on all aspects, as 
we have them here, have been very 
prolific both last year and this. But what I 
wish to say a few words in favour of is, the 
dwarf mode of growing this fine useful fruit. 
A row of trees bordering one of our kitchen 
gardens here has been laden with fruit, and 
admired by every one who has seen it. 
They were, moreover, very beautiful at the 
flowering time, and branches of the trees 
were used freely for flower decoration. 
I should say a quarter planted with these 
dwarf bushes, and attended to as to pruning, 
—not too severely—would prove a most profit¬ 
able outlay. They should be planted from 8 ft. 
to 10 ft. apart all ways, and cropped between 
moderately for the first half-dozen years ; and 
where sewage or other manure water can be 
got handy a dose of it, after the stoning period, 
would be found beneficial, as also would a 
mulching of rotten dung spread over the 
roots in winter and allowed to exhaust itself 
without being forked in. Owing to the flowers 
opening later than those of the table kinds, and 
to the tendency of their slim shoots to bend 
to circumstances, storms and winds have not 
the same effect on them as on stiffer habited 
forms of fruit-trees. 
Morellos are liked by many as a dessert 
fruit, especially when ripened in the sun, and 
not on a north wall, and certainly they are 
more wholesome than some of the so-called 
table kinds; and when in eating them the 
stones are swallowed with the pulp, as the 
French wisely do, they are still more whole¬ 
some.—H. Knight, Greenlands. 
HUMBOLDT NECTARINE. 
f F this variety as an outdoor wall Necta¬ 
rine I am very pleased to be able to 
send you a favourable account; and I 
am all the better pleased to do so be¬ 
cause the season of 1882 has not by any means 
been a favourable one for either the setting, 
swelling, or maturing of outdoor fruits of any 
kind. During the spring of 1881 I planted a 
wall having a south-west aspect with small trees 
of Peaches and Nectarines of sundry varieties 
—one of which was the Humboldt Nectarine, 
now ripening 46 very nice fruits—a dish of 
which were gathered to-day, September 5th. 
For outdoor fruit they are of goodly size, very 
dark in colour towards the light, and of a deep 
yellow towards the wall. The flavour I have 
no doubt is as good as they look. I did not 
taste them, as I could only gather about as 
many as would make a dish to send away. Of 
this I shall have an account in due time. Suffice 
it therefore for the present for me to say on 
this point—which will relieve me of a great 
deal of responsibility—what we may accept, 
mmgrano salts, as being substantially correct, 
namely, that the raiser of this very fine and 
promising Nectarine will have already said 
everything that could possibly be said in 
favour of its flavour. With him I might, as 
regards the matter of flavour, have joined 
issue, and risked the consequences, but being, 
unfortunately, a man of delicate conscience, 
I delay doing so until I can speak without 
hesitation. 
My chief object now is to record my short 
experience of this tree, ol its kindly growth, 
and of its fruiting out of doors during a year 
