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THE GARDENING WORLD 
OctoSer 26, 1907. 
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‘SyTuuss. 
Nowhere in Britain, perhaps, are the 
houses more freely or abundantly covered 
with climbers and twiners than in Lon¬ 
don. This is most noticeable to people 
coming from a distance, but especially 
from the north. They speak of the 
people in London having gardens on the 
walls of their houses. There is a greater 
wealth of trees and shrubs suitable for 
this purpose, however, than the majority 
of plant lovers imagine, and it is desir¬ 
able that they should grow different clim¬ 
bers for the sake of variety. It gives a 
house or villa distinctiveness to be 
covered with some little known shrub or 
climber. 
Mr. H.'Purefov Fitzgerald has written 
11 A Concise Handbook of Climbers, 
Twiners, and Wall Shrubs” which is pub¬ 
lished by Messrs. Methuen and Co., 36, 
Essex Street, London, W.C. Within 
the covers of this book of 152 pp. a vast 
number of climbing shrubs, twiners, vines 
and shrubs that may be grown and 
trained against a wall are briefly des¬ 
cribed. The author’s plan is to give a 
brief description with the native country, 
"the height of the plant, and the purpose 
for which it may be used, such as, walls 
of houses, garden walls, pergolas, trel¬ 
lises, etc. 
The first chapter of the book deals with 
the pergola or covered way, then come 
pillars and trellis, Roses for pergola and 
pillar, after which comes a chapter on 
tender climbers, and wall shrubs which 
are usually grown in greenhouses in most 
parts of the country, but which may be 
grown in the open air in Devon, Corn¬ 
wall, and other favoured parts of Eng¬ 
land. Those who are accustomed to 
seeing these climbers only in a green¬ 
house will be surprised to learn that they 
can be grown in the open air in any part 
of this country. They even thrive and 
blossom freely in that distant part of the 
country where they are seen only by re¬ 
latively few inhabitants of Great Britain, 
because those countries do not lie near 
London, nor are they in the way of tr. 
vellers coming to that great centre. T 1 
book has a considerable number of ful 
page photographic reproductions of cln 
bers interspersed through its page 
Walls and pergolas are also represente 
The book is obtainable for 3s. 6d. 
Apple Bismarck. 
Apple Bismarck. 
Although this tree has been a consider¬ 
able time in cultivation, relatively small 
quantities of the Apple come' into the 
market, and probably the tree is better 
represented in private establishments, 
where the fruit is, of course, grown for 
home use. The fruit is of large size, 
wider than deep, and when grown in pro¬ 
per exposure they , are more or less richly 
striped' with red. It is a variety which 
begins fruiting very early when grafted 
upon the Paradise stock, and is suitable 
therefore for small gardens and confined 
spaces where as much variety as possible 
has to be got into the space at command. 
It may also be grown as a standard on 
the Crab stock, in which form it will bear 
an immense quantity of fruit, though they 
will be moderate in size compared with 
Those on small trees which can more 
readily be influenced by the attention of 
the grower. 
It is too large an Apple for dessert 
purposes,- and is therefore classed 
amongst cooking Apples, and for this pur¬ 
pose it retains its flavour from December 
to April when stored under suitable con¬ 
ditions. In years of plenty this would 
be extremely .convenient, as a supp 
could be had from a few trees that wou 
continue in use right through white 
Those who are fond of Apple trees t 
the lawn might very well include this 0: 
first for the sake of its blossom in Api 
and in the autumn for the size and han 
some character of well exposed fruii 
which would colour up better under tho 
conditions than when crowded in an c 
chard. 
-- 
Chrysanthemum Minnie Carpenter. 
The blooms of this early flowed) 
variety are rosy bronze and very free 
produced. First-class Certificate by t. 
National Chrysanthemum Society <■ 
October 2nd when shown by Mr. H. 
Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, Lewisham. 
Odontogiossum Pescatorei ornatum. 
The characteristic feature of' tb 
beautiful variety is that the white flowe.s 
have seven to nine violet-purple and criii 1 
son-purple blotches distributed aroui 
the crest of the lip. Award of Merit > 
Messrs. J. and A. McBean, Cooksbridg 
Sussex, by the R.H.S. on October 1st. 
