The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ctarine culturo has marvellously extended,although tho s rme principles of training and ofculture prevail. In 18:37 Peach-houses wererare in most gardens. To-day no good garden in ripening, and have larger fruits of betterappearance than any that were previously cul-tivated. Of these, we have only to mentionLord Napier, Newton, Advance, Albert Victor,Byron, Darwin, Improved Downton, Pine-apple, Spenser, and Victoria, the subject of ourillustration this week (fig. 144). This fruit is of avery laige siz
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ctarine culturo has marvellously extended,although tho s rme principles of training and ofculture prevail. In 18:37 Peach-houses wererare in most gardens. To-day no good garden in ripening, and have larger fruits of betterappearance than any that were previously cul-tivated. Of these, we have only to mentionLord Napier, Newton, Advance, Albert Victor,Byron, Darwin, Improved Downton, Pine-apple, Spenser, and Victoria, the subject of ourillustration this week (fig. 144). This fruit is of avery laige size, greenish-yellow, crimson on thesunny-side, rich and sugary, partaking of theflavour of the Stanwick. It is one of the finestvarieties, but should not be planted outside inany but tho warmer ^>arts of the glass the fruit ripens with gentleforcing. Out-of-doors the fruit is ripe at theend of September. Of all stone fruits the Apricot has madeleast progress. That is very romarkable. Wehad in 1837 Moor Park, Hemskirk, Breda, and June 12, 1897.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 381. GLOXINIA HER MAJESTY, SNOW WHITE. (SEE v. 381.)(Raised by MeBsrs. Sutton & Sons, Readiug.) 382 THE GARDENERS1 CHRONICLE. [Jone 12, 1897 Orange ; and we have nothing better now. Itscharacter as a miffy or uncertain doer seemsalways to have marked the Apricot. Grapes. In Grapes we had sixty years since suchfirst-rate varieties as Black Hamburgh andMuscatof Alexandria, two varieties that promiseto be of the best sixty years hence; also theFrontignans, Wests St. Peters, Syrian, andBlack Prince. It is the two first-named almost exclusivelythat have high reputations, and we have not inblacks, perhaps, with the exception of Madres-field Court, excelled the Hamburgh in flavour;and certainly, of all the tribe, Muscat of Alex-andria still remains the best. The more modernadditions that now have good reputations areMadrosfield Court, Gros Colmar, Alicante, andLady Downes; and the best white is perhapsMr
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