January 4, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
283 
VEITCH’S GENUINE SEEDS. 
James Veitch & Sons 
BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR 
SEED CATALOGUE FOR 1896 
Has now been posted to all their Customers. 
If anyone has failed to receive the same,J. V. <S> Sons, on receiving information , will he pleased 
to forward a duplicate copy, post free. 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W. 
-£01 Seeds Carriage Free. 
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Extra strong, for Forcing; also smaller size for 
Planting. Samples and prices on application.—H. B 
MAY, Dyson’s Lane Nurseries, Upper Edmonton. 
For Index to Contents see page 294. 
" Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
flU TfLrW. 
Edited by J FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JAN. yth, 1836. 
SUPERIOR GARDEN 
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£?AST DEVON IN mid-winter. —The snow 
’ which is generally supposed to prevail 
at Christmas, did not come, so that the 
winter can hardly be considered typical, as 
the story goes. The bitterly cold east winds 
which attested their presence everywhere 
last week, gradually decreased in intensity, 
giving place to rain and fogs every day, 
more or less. Mild and wet weather is con¬ 
sidered unhealthy by people generally, but 
all the same the inhabitants of Devon prefer 
it to snow, which incommodes almost 
everybody. The open winter has been very 
favourable to outdoor gardening of all kinds, 
so that planting and other works are progres¬ 
sing favourably and expeditiously. The 
visitor who sojourns in East Devon at this 
period of the year, finds himself in an un¬ 
dulating and hilly country, well watered 
everywhere, and much wooded in places, 
so that the landscape is varied and beautiful 
so far as the eye can reach, from the hill¬ 
tops to the abrupt and red cliffs of the sea¬ 
shore, for the white cliffs of Old England 
terminate at Lyme Regis, justoverthe border 
in Dorset. The old red sandstone formation 
determines many of the physical aspects of 
the country here and also the character of 
the vegetation to a great extent. The 
nature of the soil retains the heavy 
rains, so that much of the land at 
present appears in a very wet condi¬ 
tion. The prevailing winds come from the 
south-west, laden with moisture from the 
English Channel and the Atlantic, so that 
the climate is always more moist than in 
the London district. All this tells upon the 
vegetation, and gives it much of its peculiar 
character. The fogs, however, consisting 
merely of vapour, are in no way injurious 
to vegetation. 
The subsoil must lie damp at most 
periods of the year, and that, combined with 
the atmospheric moisture, no doubt largely 
determines the peculiar appearance of the ■*- 
fruit trees in orchards, which are mostly 
varieties of Apples suitable only for the 
production of cider. Red Winter Bitter 
Sweet and one of the Reinettes, seem to be 
amongst the most popular varieties in this 
part of Devon. The treesare to a great extent 
covered with moss and lichens, the result of 
the above-named conditions. The drainage 
of the land and planting fresh portions of it 
should do much to remedy this state of 
matters. Afewgrowershaveadoptedmodern 
tactics by making plantations of good varie¬ 
ties of Apples suitable for market purposes, 
and this feature will no doubt be largely 
developed if facilities for the transmission of 
fruit to various parts of the country are 
adopted bythe railway companies according 
totheexample set by the Great Eastern Rail¬ 
way, as recorded by us a week or two ago. 
For the present we content ourselves in 
looking at the outward aspects of the 
