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IRISH GARDENING. 



Irish Farming World Directory, 1914. 



The " I.F.W."' Directory and Annual for 1914 is 

 now on sale at the railway bookstalls and at book- 

 sellers, and on the whole it will be conceded that 

 the number is well uj) to its usual standard of 

 merit. Its main feature, tlie Directory of Land 

 Stewards and Oardeners in Ireland, has been care- 

 fully revised up to the end of October last, and 

 will be found of special value for reference amongst 

 those who wish to know " Who's Who " in those 

 circles in this country. Then there is a compre- 

 hensive list of Irish fairs for the ]iresent year ; 

 and important additions in the live stock produce 

 table, and ready reckoner, m- rketing and hourly 

 wages table. The special articles include the 

 following : — " Education and Training of the 

 Young Gardener," by Mr. J. H. Gumming ; 

 " Kerry Cattle for Milk and Beef," by Mr. .John 

 Hilliard ; " A Dairy Farm in Lanarkshire," by 

 Mr. .John Simpson ; and " Showing Poultry — 

 Hints to Secretaries," by Miss MacQuillan. 

 These are supplemented by editorial contributions 

 on " Sales of Irish Pedigree Cattle " and " Irish 

 Sheep Sales in 1913," also pi'actical suggestions 

 on such topics as spraying potatoes, the 

 farrowing sty, forage plants, manures for 

 different crops, measuring haystacks, seed re- 

 quired to sow an acre, sprouting potatoes, 

 rations for live stock, scour in calves, milk fever, 

 measurement of timber, storing turnips, estimat- 

 ing weight of cattle, distances for planting fruit 

 trees, and useful hints in reply to the query : 

 When does a soil need lime ? There is a revised 

 list of the chief officials of the Department of 

 Agriculture, with the names and addresses of the 

 members of the Council of Agriculture. To com- 



plete all, tlwa-e an- farm and garden calendars for 

 the year, and a collection of photos dei)icting 

 prize-winning stock. The price is Is. ])ost free, 

 and co])ies can be obtained direct from the OfTice, 

 15 Fleet Street, Dublin. 



Correspondence. 



The following interesting letter has been re- 

 ceived front a correspondent : — 



" Reading your excellent contribution in 

 January Irish Gardening it strikes me as 

 very peculiar that after an elaborate c(jllection 

 of statistics you have found that the first three 

 cooking apples for commercial work are Bramley, 

 Lane's, and Grenadier. If that question had been 

 put to any farmer in Grange, thi'ee miles west of 

 Portadown, in 1889, it would have been similarly 

 answered ! I thought you would like to hear this. 

 I always believed it was from that very district 

 fruit culture spread in Ulster, and your investiga- 

 tion seems to bear me out. 



" Is it not strange the commercial imi)ortance of 

 the apple never dawned on the shrewd farmers 

 there until the eighties ? My late father often told 

 me that in 1839 he accompanied his father's men 

 to Belfast market with three loads of apples 

 chiefly Fox Whelps, S. & W. Eves, Sam Mont- 

 gomery's, &c., and these, with perhaps a few of 

 such kinds as Barren Hills, Yorkshire and 

 Northern Greens, Sugar Sweets, Lord Nelsons, 

 and the like, were the main varieties to be found 

 till the eighties. The evolution was slow for 

 those fitty or so years, but has it really been in a 

 sense any faster during the last twenty-five " ? 



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