TUB GARDENING WORLD. 
1001 
December 5, 1903. 
SATURDAY, 
DECEMBER 5, 1903. 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
rruit as a Diet. 
Both as a food and medicine, fruit is being 
dilated upon by different authorities. " The 
'Family Doctor ” advocates the eating of 21b. 
to 8 lb. of Grapes a day, which we. should 
think would make the diet a very expensive 
me, and only obtainable by certain of the 
upper class of people. Grape® are said to 
be good for consumption, for dyspepsia., for 
'(rout, liver trouble and for anaemic people. 
Plums are- prescribed for gout and rheuma¬ 
tism. The acid of Lemons and Oranges is 
considered good for stomach troubles and 
rheumatism. This 1 same paper advocates the 
use of a perfect balance of. food, but surely 
if the above amount of Grapes and quantities 
of other food are to be used in addition, to 1 
the ordinary diet, such people must have a 
wonderful capacity for eating. The idea is 
that a sufficiency of simple food only should 
be eaten, with a, judicious admixture of 
Apple®, Pears, Orange®, and other fruits. 
This paper also admits that fruit make® the 
blond thin, but the Editor is mighty glad of 
it. The minerals and natural acids of fruit 
are considered the best conceivable remedies 
for the thickened condition of the blond, and 
most people have their blood too thick. 
Fruit, then, is described as a food, a medi¬ 
cine, a necessity, and a delightful luxury. 
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A Tropical Fruit. 
It frequently happens that people speak of 
certain fruits, Bowers, or vegetable®, as new, 
and they may he new to such people, but in 
many cases it happens they are not really 
new to the country. The “ Literary Digest ” 
speaks of the Mango a.s a new fruit, and says 
that modem systems of storage have over¬ 
come all difficulties of transportation, and 
that if an effort were made similar to that 
which brought the Banana into favour in 
the United States, a good supply of Mangoes 
could be placed before the public in this 
country. While that may be so, we know 
that' Mangoes have been on sale in Coveut| 
Garden many times during the last ten or 
fifteen years 1 , as we have secured them from 
that source. An illustration shows that the 
Mango is a. very fruitful tree, and it may be 
so in its own country, but it is extremely 
rare that it can be fruited in this country, 
and then only a few scanty fruits are pro¬ 
duced. To> those not accustomed to tliisi 
fruit, it is described a® being like tow soaked 
in turpentine, but as in the case of many 
other tropical fruit, it is necessary to acquire 
an appetite for it, after which the eater 
begins to like it. Those who liavei acquired 
this taste describe the fruit in such terms as 
rich, delicate, with an. intensity of taste, and 
voluptuous. 
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A Spring Show in October- 
Our cousins at the Antipodes have just 
been celebrating their spring Bower show. 
Under the auspices of the Canterbury United 
Horticultural Society, the show was held on 
October 5th. Judging from their exhibits, 
the show might veiy well have been termed 
a Daffodil Show, for such really monopolised 
the greater portion of the space in the Art 
Gallery at Canterbury. Trumpet Daffodils 
were represented, some of them of very large 
size indeed, but the medium and short- 
crowned Daffodils seem to be greatly in the 
majority. Freezias were also represented, 
hut other flowers besides Daffodils were 
chiefly employed in the floral decorations, 
baskets of flowers, etc. Richardia afrieana 
and Snowflake® were shown in small 
numbers, while foliage plants were repre¬ 
sented by Palms and Dracaenas. 
The Genus Pinus. 
At one time, Pinus included not only the 
Pine® proper, but also Spruces, Silver Firs 
and other cone-bearing trees. On the 19th 
ult,, Dr. M. T. Masters, F.R.S., F.L.S., gave 
an abstract of his paper, “A General View 
of the Genus Pinus,” illustrated by speci¬ 
mens of cones and lantern slides. He made 
a. large use of sections of the various species 
of Pine needle® to show how the various 
groups into which they could be classilied 
differed from one another. The transverse 
section of a leaf showed the shape of the leaf, 
the structure of the epidermis, and the 
various tissues lying underneath it with the 
tibro-vascular bundles in the centre. The 
number and position of the resin canals also 
served as characters for identifying the 
leaves of species. Characters derived from 
the hud scales, the number of leaves in a 
bundle, the formation of the male flowers, 
the cones and their scales, also served a® 
characters in assisting to classify and arrange 
the several species of the genus. The two 
main sections or divisions of the genus were 
defined according to the character of the 
scales of the cones. These were the Tenuis- 
quamae and the Crassisquamae. The first 
of these groups was defined by the thin 
character of the scales forming the cones. 
Instances of this type were Pinus Strobus 
and P. exeelsa. The Crassisquamae, included 
such as Scotch Pine, and most other of the 
European, ones, together with P. Coulteri, 
all characterised by the great thickness of 
the scales of the cones. 
The Scented Shrubberies of 
S Europe- 
The woods bordering on the Mediterra¬ 
nean, including the South of France and 
Italy, are characterised by the number of 
sweeUscented evergreen shrubs which form 
the undergrowth amongst the taller subjects. 
Common amongst these are the Myrtle, 
Thyme, Rosemary, and the Mastick tree. All 
of these are confined to- the regions south of 
the Alps, which may serve to explain their 
tender character when attempts are made to 
grow certain of them in' this country.- Those 
species we have mentioned, however, are 
characterised by their pleasant fragrance as 
the pedestrian wanders through amongst 
them. The Rosemary has nothing to do 
either with a Rose or with Mary, hut comes 
from the: old name employed by such writers 
as Horace, Virgil and Pliny, who speak of it 
under the name of Rosmarinus, from two 
words signifying sea dew in allusion, to their 
fragrance. Several of the above are never 
found growing wild very far from the sea, 
and their evergreen foliage would indicate 
that they require a mild and equable climate. 
