August 17, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Next Week’s Engagements. 
Wednesday, August 21st.—Northampton Horticultural Society’s 
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Thursday, August 22ud. — Royal Horticultural Society of 
Ireland’s Autumn Show. Royal Horticultural Society of 
Aberdeen ; Show in Duthie Park (3 days). 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p.810. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
diseased, those which are sound will he of 
exceptional merit. We have already got up 
the best hay crop for many years, and there is 
a wealth of after-growth and late feed for all 
cattle ; indeed, the farmers arc having the finest 
season for many years, leading to the hope that 
a turn in the tide has come at last, and that 
agriculture is once more about to enjoy 
prosperity. 
If our tree fruit crops are thin, at least we 
feel assured that next year will he a very 
fruitful one, whilst in the gardens and fields 
all kinds of vegetable products are luxuriantly 
plentiful. Clearly we may, in spite of some 
broken weather, expect to find 1889 the most 
prosperous year of the decade. 
‘TJ'pfles. —One of the curiosities of the present 
generally very sparse Apple crop is the 
fact that many varieties not at all ordinary 
croppers, are carrying very good crops of fruit. 
It may be said that any tree which will give 
some considerable produce during bad seasons, 
possesses material value, a fact which is true 
enough, and is especially noteworthy in private 
gardens. The market-grower, however, has 
rather to regard the average of seasons, and 
naturally he thinks more of the average bulk 
than of the occasional but still rare heavy crop. 
One variety which has a great reputation 
because of its excellent quality—Wellington, or 
Dumelow’s Seedling—is, we fear, breaking 
down largely, as of late decent crops have been 
rare, and we hear great complaints as to its 
barrenness, especially on old trees. 
Ever since this variety suffered so much from 
frost some ten years ago, good crops on Wel¬ 
lington trees have been rare ; but in any large 
area of trees just now to be put down, it seems 
probable that Wellingtons would be left out. 
That fine early Apple, Lord Suffield, is another 
uncertain variety, as with age it becomes barren, 
and this is not the only sort that does not bear 
out in age the promise of youth. We sadly need 
a thorough revision of our Apple lists in the 
direction of selecting all kinds which, like the 
Blenheim, endure for many years, and those 
which, precociously fruitful, become com¬ 
paratively barren in old age. It has been 
suggested that, were all the early or precocious 
fruiters to be planted thickly in well-cultivated 
gardens and orchards, to endure say twenty 
years, about the best of their lives would 
have been got out of them, and new orchards 
should be planted. The late robust fruiters 
should, however, be planted in fields, orchards, 
or parks, where they may fruit as they will for 
fully 100 years. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
||fHE Season’s Prospects. —We have been 
passing through, so far as the weather is 
concerned, a rather stormy time. Very heavy 
rains, cold winds ; gigantic banks of clouds have 
obscured the sun; nights have been cold— 
indeed, the weather has been of a very broken 
character, and has naturally created uneasiness, 
because harvest time is with us. None can 
wonder that the weather, therefore, forms an 
interesting subject of conversation, and even 
of anxiety. The season promises—the weather 
favouring—to be a wondrously plentiful one. 
The harvest truly is plenteous, and only needs 
fine weather to enable it to he properly housed. 
We shall probably find this year the cheeriest 
corn returns heard of for many seasons. 
In spite of the activity of the Potato disease 
in the tops, there seems to be hope that in the 
widest breadths of Potatos there will be a 
splendid crop ; indeed, so heavy an one as to 
render tubers cheap almost beyond previous 
experience. Still farther, there is anticipation 
that apart from any tubers which may he 
^Iucumbers.— It is really a moot point whether 
we now see at exhibitions such capital 
samples of Cucumbers as were presented for 
competition many years ago. If we were to judge 
from the new varieties put into commerce, and 
the numerous selections or improvements 
assumedly made, it would appear that perfection 
in Cucumber-production has been reached. Thus 
it is all the more disappointing at shows to find 
so few greatly meritorious samples, and so many 
that are indifferent. Growers of Cucumbers 
who exhibit fruits for competition seem to have 
little conception of what constitutes quality. 
We still see the same long necks or handles, 
the same irregular outlines, the same tapering 
points, even in the best samples, whilst many 
of the fruits are a week older than they should 
be, and very uneven in outline. Really good 
show Cucumbers should have no necks, and 
should be even in size from shoulder to point. 
They should also he of moderate girth, very 
clean and fresh, and of a deep green colour. 
These are essentials which it should not 
be difficult to furnish in days when there is 
such a choice of varieties, and so many regarded 
as absolutely perfect have been put into 
commerce. The samples shown in many places 
in competition for prizes for so-called improved 
varieties, are often absurdities, and only serve 
to discredit the names attached to them. 
