October 26, 1907. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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up but little space, and therefore well 
suited for small gardens. It bears freely 
when grafted on the Paradise stock, but 
it may also be grown as a standard, giving 
it more space, though it never attains 
the size of a large tree. 
The fruit is fit for use in February, 
and continues to be of good flavour till 
April. It is, therefore, a late Apple, 
and liable to be overlooked by those who 
wish to use their Apples as soon as they 
are gathered from the trees. The best 
quality of this Apple has not developed 
at that time, but the fruits must be stored 
away in a cool room which may be venti¬ 
lated until they have got over the sweat¬ 
ing stage, after which the atmosphere 
should be kept as uniform as possible. 
If the temperature can also be kept steady 
so much the better. It is not always easy 
to furnish the best conditions in a private 
establishment, that is, where the garden 
is of moderate dimensions. Where the 
owners have a good sized garden and 
plant plenty of trees, it then becomes 
worth while to build a special fruit room, 
or to fit up a room on a northern aspect 
of the house where the temperature can 
be kept cool and steady. 
-- 
-New Perpetual-- 
- Strawberry. - 
Improvements continue to be made 
amongst perpetual-bearing Strawberries, 
and one of the latest triumphs in this 
direction is Merveille de France, fruits 
and fruiting plants of which were shown 
at the meeting of the R.H.S. on October 
1st by Mr. James Hudson, gardener to 
Leopold de 'Rothschild, Esq., Gunners- 
bury House, Acton. The fruits are of 
large size, nearly globular or bluntly 
conical, and bright red, deepening with 
age and sunshine to a crimson-red hue. 
It was received from France in the form 
of runners last spring. These were 
potted up and planted out in May when 
well rooted. The runners from these 
were layered between July 8th and 13th, 
and these were brought under glass on 
September 10th to ripen their fruits. The 
fruits shown were partly grown in pots, 
but a sample was also picked from the 
open ground on the day of the meeting. 
These fruits were much larger than 
those of any perpetual-bearing Straw¬ 
berry yet grown in this country, and the 
flavour is all that can be desired in Octo¬ 
ber. Probably it would be hopeless to 
expect Strawberries then to ever possess 
the flavour they would do in June or July 
when grown under the influence of bright 
sunshine. Those who will have Straw¬ 
berries late in the season have now a 
very tempting variety as far as appear¬ 
ance goes, and will have to forego flavour 
in unseasonable fruits. 
It was raised by M. Gauthier, a well- 
known Strawberry grower in France, and 
was the result of crossing Saint Antoine 
de Padoue with the pollen of Louis Gau¬ 
tier. A coloured plate of a fruiting plant 
appeared in La Tribune Horticole for No¬ 
vember 24th, 1906. The fruiting stems 
are very strong, and carry the fruits well 
above the foliage, both on the mother 
plant and on the. runners. 
Apple Lord Derby. 
A very profitable Apple is Lord Derby, 
which is of first-class quality, but being 
of large size, it is reckoned a cooking 
rather than a dessert Apple. The fruit 
is oblong, angular, greenish-yellow, and 
ripens, or is in season, for use during 
November and December. The tree is 
a strong grower, a great bearer, and may 
be treated either as a standard or a bush. 
To get the most from a tree of this char¬ 
acter it should be grafted on the Crab 
and grown as a standard. The largest 
sized Apples, however, would be obtained 
from trees grown in the bush form and 
looked after in the matter of pruning, as 
well as feeding. The thinning of the 
fruits would also be necessary where they 
occur in clusters. Young trees would be 
the most reliable for the very largest 
fruits, but those who grow Apples for 
their own use prefer a heavy crop of fair 
sized fruits to a medium crop of large 
Apples. 
Apple Cockle’s Pippin. 
Apple Cockle’s Pippin. 
The fruit of this Apple is ovate in out¬ 
line, pale green, and speckled with 
russet. It is not therefore a showy Apple, 
but highly coloured Apples are, by no 
means, always the best. Within its plain 
exterior the firm and juicy flesh is highly 
aromatic and agreeable to the palate. 
It has something more than sweetness, 
something more than sugar and water, 
and we rvant more of these for the dessert 
table, in which class this takes a leading 
“place. It is an old Sussex Apple, and 
liable to be overlooked in the race for 
mere size which has been going on for the 
last decade or two. 
The tree is also of dwarf habit, taking 
- Apple Lord Derby. - 
