February  1,  1900. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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I  SWEET  PEAS! 
III  Din/wev  r«aiAi 
The  BIGGEST  SUCCESS  of  all  is  ECKFORD’S 
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CULTURE  that  the  seeds  are  PHENOMENAL 
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TALITY,  and  with  proper  cultivation,  give 
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(See  part icu  ars  in  Catalogue.') 
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THURSDAY,  FEBRUARY  1,  1900. 
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•  BLOSSOM  BUD  FORMATION. 
The  interesting  comruunication  on  the  {Rev. 
C.  0.  Ellison’s  garden  at  Bracebridge,  near 
Lincoln  (page  74),  reminds  me  of  days  long  gone 
by,  when  the  garden  and  its  trees  were  young. 
By  the  privilege  ot  occasional  visits  to  the  garden 
thirty  years  ago,  I  learned  some  lessons  from  the 
practice  and  experiments  of  the  active  and  earnest 
amateur.  Active  he  apptars  to  he  still,  it  is  a  plea¬ 
sure  to  learn,  while  his  energy  in  fruit  culture 
seems  to  have  been  lately  re-invigorated. 
If  I  were  to  say  exactly  what  I  used  to  ihink 
of  Mr.  Ellison  in  the  old  days  it  would  be  that  he 
is  energetic  or  nothing.  In  other  words,  if  he 
undertook  anything  he  did  so  with  the  full  inten¬ 
tion  of  succeeding.  He  appeared  to  devote  his  un¬ 
questionably  strong  brain  and  keen  perceptive 
faculties  to  the  solution  of  any  particular  prollems 
that  confronted  him,  and  no  research  and  labour 
were  too':great  to  deter  him  from  arriving  at  the 
truth  on  whatever  matter  might  be  in  question. 
If  I  were  bound  to  name  any  one  person  who  has 
impressed  me  more  than  any  other,  during  a  not 
short  career,  wdth  a  determination  to  “prove  all 
things  ”  on  which  doubts  existed,  that,  person 
would  ceitainly  be  the  founder,  planter,  and 
manager  of  the  Manse  garden  at  Bracebridge.  I 
say  “manager,”  for  though  Mr.  Ellison  has  his 
gardener  and  assistants,  and  treats  them  after  the 
manner  of  the  thoroughbred  English  gentleman 
that  he  is,  he  still  supervises  all,  and  this  in  the 
happy  way  that  makes  it  pleasurable  to  those 
whose  duty  it  is  to  carry  out  his  wishes. 
In  the  description  of  Mr.  Ellison’s  garden  last 
week  the  interested  visitor  advised  those  who  are 
not  believers  in  pinching  fruit  trees  to  induce  the 
formation  of  blossom  buds  to  steer  clear  of  Brace¬ 
bridge  Manse,  or  they  would  have  the  conceit  taken 
out  of  them  inside  fifteen  minutes.  That  I  suspect 
is  true,  for  it  would  be  impossible  to  say  how 
many  thousands  of  hlosscm  buds  have  been  assisted 
to  form  there  as  the  result  of  pinching  the  growths 
in  the  right  way  and  at  the  proper  time.  Summer 
pruning,  as  ordinarily  practised,  is  another  matter, 
and  has  not  the  same  effect.  By  systematically 
No.  2679.— VOL.  CIL,  OLD  SERIES.  _  , 
