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FEBRUARY 1918 



THREEPENOe 



Irish 

 Gardening 



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Contents 



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Picea bicolor (Illustrated) . . .17 



January Flowering Plants (Illustrated) . 18 



The Servian Spruce (Illustrated) . 20 



Soil Fertility 21 



Lectures for Plotholder* . . .22 



Earliest Spring Sown Peas . . .23 



Allotment Observations . • .23 



Friends and Foes of the Plotholders' Crops 24 



Points for Plotholders . . .25 



Dublin Corporation Land Cuhivation 

 Committee . . . • .26 



The Fruit Industry . . . . 

 Irish School of Gardening for Women 

 Potatoes Grown from Single Eyes 

 Gardening Lectures .... 

 The Onion . . . . . 



Manure and Fertilizers 



The Month's Work- 

 Southern and Western Counties 

 Midland and Northern Counties 



Rainfall for 1917 . 



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