The Garden.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 197, 19 April 1878, Page 7

The Garden.

Tha flowers mostly used in London for Christmas decora tioDS, are oamelias, ro^es, azaleas, hyacinths, .narcissi, cyclamtns, double tubroses, and prinnels. We received a specimen of a most tremendous cooking* apple, grown by Mr Seanlan, of Pioton. This mighty fruit measures IP^ inches in circumference one way, and 15 inches the other, while it weighs within a fraction' of 21bs. A small boy attempting to eat this gigantic apple would be almost hidden behind, its vast expanse. — Wellington Post. It is stated that one the principal of rose -firms of England purchases annually from 60,000 to 80,000 briar stocks upon which 'to bud standard roses. These, when received are sorted trimmed and planted out where they are to grow until solid. The proper time for budding these stocks in England is said to be July, earlier or later, according to the season. A correspondent of the London Garden, relative to packing for plants for transportation, says : — " I have received a great many packages from different parts of the country lately. Some of them were on the road for eight or nine days. Both rooted plants and cutting's always come in very much better condition in dry packing than in mois';. The latter soon ferments and causes the plants to rot, and it should never be used where it has to be in contact with the plants for more than twelve hours." " jßose," in his recent work v Among the Spanish People," -says : — ln some of the gardens near Rota — whence conies the famous tent wine, or, as it is called there, Tintilla red wine, from the word tints (coloured), whence the English apellation 4< tent"— the cherry tree is grafted upon the plum tree, or vice versa, the plums and the cherries grown upon the same tree, become, after a few years, well nigh alike in sise, shape and colour. In fact, you can hardly tell the round plum, degenerated in size, I and altered to the cherry's colour and appearance, from a large cherry. This fruit may be seen in the month of June from about the 6th to the 20th, exposed for sale in the Oalle San Francisco at Cadiz. It commands a higher pi v ice than other fruit, and is greatly prized by the gardeners. The American Chemist says that a western farmer discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground. Time I and weather, he says, seem to have no effect on it. The posts can be prepared for less than rwo cents a piece. This is the recipe : Take boiled linseed oil and stir it in pulverised charcoal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and he adds, there is not a man who will live to see. it rot.