October 10, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
89 
month and keeps until November. Finer in every 
way is Doyenne du Comice, a popular Pear 
keeping till December. Marie Benoist keeps for the 
same length of time, and is a russety skinned variety 
of rare merit, keeping till December. 
The Peach crop bad mostly been harvested, and 
the trees stood out in the open before the middle of 
last month. It was different with the Figs, which 
bore no evidence of going to rest. Indeed, the young 
bushes in 24-size pots were simply laden with fruits 
about half grown or even younger. Excellent 
varieties are Brown Turkey, Negro Cargo, and PiDgo 
de Mel, a delicious white-fruited variety. Numerous 
sorts are kept in stock, and the size we mentioni d 
above is that intended for sending out. The house 
in which the Figs are grown is a low-r^ ofed structure 
with wooden sides of no great height. The plants 
are, therefore, close to the glass and well exposed to 
light. 
Apple Hambling’s Seedling. 
you don't require to sign your name or go through any 
performance before obtaining it. If a piece of cotton 
wool be saturated with the Carbon Bisulphide, and 
pushed into the mouth of the nest at night or during 
a wet day, when all the wasps are in, the whole of 
the insects will be dead in a very short space of time. 
I have destroyed a lot of nests very successfully 
during the past summer with this chemical.— Ento¬ 
mologist. 
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THE ALLINGTON NURSERIES. 
About the middle of last month we paid a visit to the 
Allington Nurseries of Messrs. Geo. Bunyard & Co., 
situated at Barming, about two miles from Maidstone. 
Here the trees are reared and grown which bear the 
renowned Apples, Pears, and other fruits which were 
so much in evidence at the Crystal Palace last week. 
At the time of our visit much of the earliest fruit had 
ness of its colour, some fruits being of a deep red on 
the exposed side. It is grown as half-standards 
and as bushes on the Paradise stock. Bietigheimer 
Red is remarkable for the light carmine flush of the 
fruits, and their attractive appearance. Worcester 
Pearmain is well known as one of the prettiest of our 
dessert Apples, and here it takes on a beautiful 
colouration. The Queen was raised in Essex by a 
boy, as recorded in our columns last year, and at 
the Allington Nurseries it attains a large size and rich 
colour. The same may be said of Emperor 
Alexander. Lord Suffield also does splendidly on 
the Greensand overlying the Kentish rag. Hoary is 
equally well-known for the beauty of its red splashes 
and stripes. Washington is one of the few American 
Apples which do well in this country, and is both 
handsome in form and colour. The same might be said 
of American Mother, which is ot smaller size and more 
oblong or conical in outline, whereas Washington is 
been gathered, yet a good harvest still hung upon 
the later trees, and the rest was in the fruit-room, 
which was laid open to our inspection. 
Fruit-Room and Houses. 
The fruit-room stands in a fully-exposed position, and 
consists of matchboard covered with a thick layer of 
the Common Reed (Phragmites communis) so 
plentiful in wet and marshy places and by river 
sides. This covering must be very effective in main¬ 
taining an equable temperature, if we are to judge 
by the fruits that are kept here and brought before 
the public in good condition late in the spring. On 
this occasion amongst the Apples we noted Sops in 
Wine so richly coloured as to remind us of the well- 
known Mere de Menage. Beautiful also was the 
Duchess of Gloucester, with small red fruits, more 
correctly known as Duchess’s Favourite, and popular 
for market work. One of the best old Apples in 
cultivation, Ribston Pippin was notable for the rich- 
oblate. fames Greive is a Scotch Apple of fine 
flavour, suitable for dessert, conical, and red on the 
exposed cheek. It is quite new and likely to become 
a favourite, as it is hardy, and does well even in the 
far north. The above are only a few of the Apples 
in the fruit-room, notwithstanding, the large quantity 
on exhibition in Maidstone on the occasion of our 
visit. 
Amongst the Pears, William’s Bon Chretien and 
Beurre Superfio, were notable for their fine pro¬ 
portions. Dr. Jules Guyot is a September Pear, and 
bears some resemblance to Bon Chretien, but is 
larger, more beautiful, and likely to supersede the 
latter for market and early use generally. The 
orchard house contained a number of the late 
varieties about the time we speak of, and the pot trees 
bore some large and handsome fruits. Conspicuous 
amongst these, in this respect, were Durondeau and 
Doyenne du Comice. The former ripens during this 
Wire-Netting House. 
When the Apples have been grown in the Orchard- 
house till the fruits have attained a certain size, they 
are placed in a structure consisting of wire-netting 
so fine that it will exclude the smallest birds that are 
likely to be tempted in the same way as old mother 
Eve. Here then we have ocular demonstration of 
the conditions under which the Apples and even 
Pears are brought to that perfection which suprises 
the public at the various exhibitions throughout the 
country, and which gives a fame to the Kentish 
grown fruit to which those in the midland and 
northern counties cannot aspire. 
Tibbett’s Pearmain is a huge conical Apple 
striped and splashed with red in a very handsome 
way. Twenty-ounce Pippin is another, in many 
respects similar to the last named, but paler. It is 
a large but little-known fruit. Cornish Aromatic is 
an old favourite of a rich red. The fiery-crimson ot 
