. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ; it has even been utilised for human food,and M. Baltet told me that the flavour of boiledPolygonum was much like that of Spinach. Oar visit to Troyes took place on July 28 last, andwe were astonished to see on the walls some beautiful Clapton, had Dendrobium speciosiisimum, but theflowers were not in sufficiently good order to beappreciated. At the Vegetable Committee a fine batch oftwenty-five distinct varieties of Cucumber was stagedby M. Vilmorin, and the floral committee voted aFirst-class Cert
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ; it has even been utilised for human food,and M. Baltet told me that the flavour of boiledPolygonum was much like that of Spinach. Oar visit to Troyes took place on July 28 last, andwe were astonished to see on the walls some beautiful Clapton, had Dendrobium speciosiisimum, but theflowers were not in sufficiently good order to beappreciated. At the Vegetable Committee a fine batch oftwenty-five distinct varieties of Cucumber was stagedby M. Vilmorin, and the floral committee voted aFirst-class Certificate to Tillandsia Sieboldiana, abeautiful and rare Mexican plant, little known incultivation, and characterised by vermilion - redfloral bracts, perpendicular to the spike, staged byM. Truffaut of Versailles. George Iruffaui. A FINE VINE. The following details respecting a Black Ham-burgh Vine in these gardens may be of interest tosome of your readers (fig. 62). The Vine is twenty-fiveyears old, and stands in the centre of a house 54 feetlong by 13 feet wide, which it completely covers. Castle Gardens), who wrote of them, testifying totheir excellence when cultivated under glass. Ihave grown them only to a limited extent in pots inorchard-houses, but could easily appreciate the fineflavour which the fruit would attain when grown inwarmth and given abundance of air. Even on asouth wall, the improvement of flavour is greatcompared with that of fruit from a northerly size the Morello Cherries I have seen in Wiltshireand around Bath were finer than I have seen any-where. In a Scottish town Morello Cherries havebeen produced in quantity on an old tree whoseroots were firmly embedded in soil under the pave-ment, and where moisture must have reached theroots with difficulty. These Cherry trees neverrequired prnniDg, though in hot, dry quarters, duringthe summer months, the foliage always remainedhealthy, and the fruit was very dark in colour. On a south-east wall, where
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