XOTEMBEE 3, 1888.1 



THE GARDENEBS' CHRONICLE. 



517 



King, Lord Derby, Golden Noble, and Brabant Bel- 

 lefiVur. 2nd, Messrs. Bunyard & Co. 



Twelve dishes cider Apples, distinct. — This class 

 was very interesting to the farming community, as 

 several were of those varieties from which the best 

 cider is made in the countv ; 1st. — Mr. W. Gibbings, 

 Topsham ; 2nd. Mr. W. Sclater ; 3rd, Mr. P. Slade. 



Amateur Classes. — Twelve dishes of Apples, dis- 

 tinct. — 1st, Mr. R. Yeo., gr. to R. B. James, Esq. ; 

 2nd. Mr. Garland, gr. to Sir T. C. Acland. 



Nine dishes, dessert, distinct. — 1st, Mr. A. C. 

 Williams, with nice fruit, the best being Gravenstein, 

 Blenheim Orange, Ribston, Cornish Gilliflower, 

 King of Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, Quarrenden, 

 Margil, and Court Pendu-Piat. 



Nine dishes, culinary, distinct. — Mr. R. Yeo was 

 again 1st with good fruit of the following : — Pott's 

 Seedling, Winter Hawthornden, Lord Suffield, Royal 

 Pearman, New Hawthorden, Ecklinville, and Cellini. 



Nine dishes, distinct. — 1st, Mr. E. Prothero, who 

 had very good fruit of Warner' King, Peasgood's, and 

 Emperor Alexander. 



One dish of Apples grown by Devonshire cot- 

 tagers. — 1st, Mr. C. Scadding, with Lord Suffield ; 

 2nd, Mr. J. Hitchcock, with Warner's King; 3rd, 

 J. Potter, with Warner's King. 



Heaviest five of any one variety. — The dishes 

 exhibited were not remarkable for their size this 

 season, but were fairly good fruit. 1st, Mr. W. Black- 

 more, with Warner's King; 2nd, Messrs. Bunyard 

 & Co., with Warner's King; 3rd, Mr. G. H. Mouns- 

 den, gr. to F. Bradshaw, Esq., for Bedfordshire 

 Foundling. 



The exhibitors who took prizes in the smaller 

 classes were chiefly those who won honours in the 

 more important competitions. 



Pears. 



Among Pears some exhibitors staged excellent 

 fruit, bnt on the whole there was a falling off, as in 

 the Apple classes, and from the same causes. 



Twelve dishes of Pears, distinct. — 1st, Messrs. 

 Bunyard & Co., whose collection included General 

 Todtleben, Catillac, Calebasse Grosse, Beurre Clair, 

 geau, B. Ranee, B. Superfin, B. Hardy, Pitmaston 

 Duchess, Doyenne du Cornice, Durondeau, Conseiller 

 de la Cour, and Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



Six dishes, distinct. — 1st, Mr. Powell, all dessert 

 varieties, including Pitmaston Duchess, Marie Louise, 

 Beurre Superfin, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Muirfowl's 

 Egg, and Beurre Clairgeau. 



Three dishes, distinct. — 1st, Mr. Powell, with Pit- 

 maston Duchess, Beurre Superfin, and Muirfowl's 

 Egg. 2nd, Mr. Garland, who had Pitmaston Duchess, 

 very fine. 



Non-competing Fecit. 



Messrs. R. T. Veitch & Son staged a hundred 

 dishes of Apples, including all the best varieties in 

 cultivation, and forty dishes of Pears. The collec- 

 tion of Apples included Bramley's Seedling, which 

 received a Certificate of Merit at the late Chiswick 

 Apple Congress, and fine fruits of other leading 

 varieties. Pears: Glou Morceau (Certificate of 

 Merit, Chiswick), Beurre Bachelier, Louise Bonne of 

 Jersey. Beune Ranee, Muirsfiwl's Egg, Beurre 

 Diel, Marie Louise, Flemish Beauty. The same firm 

 kindly lent a splendid lot of Palms, Japanese Maples, 

 Bonvardias, &c, for the decoration of the tablas. 



Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. staged fifty dishes 

 of Apples and eighteen dishes of Pears, including 

 many of the best varieties. Mr. C. G. Sclater put 

 up fifty varieties of very fine fruit of Apples and 

 baskets of various kinds of fruit, as usually sold in 

 the markets, making a very pretty stand indeed, all 

 well coloured fruit. Mr. D. C. Powell staged fifty 

 varieties of Apples and eighteen varieties of Pears. 

 Mr. Randall. Exebridge, had thirty varieties Apples 

 and six of Pears, very nice fruit; with a variety of 

 dinner-table plants. Messrs. Jarman & Co., Chard, 

 put up forty-four varieties of Apples, capital fruit, 

 and twenty-one varieties of Pears. 



The Weather. 



MEAN TEMPERATURE OBSERVED AT CHISWICK DUR- 

 ING THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 10. (AVERAGE OF 

 FORTY-FOUR YEARS.) 



Nov. 4 ... 



... 45°.l 



Nov. 8 



.. 43°.8 



., 6 ... 



... 44°.8 



„ 9 



.. 43°.B 



.. e ... 



.. 7 ... 



... 44°.5 

 ... 4»°.l 



„ 10 



Mean for the week 



.. 43°.3 

 .. 44°.2 



[Accumulated temperature indicates the combined amount and 

 duration of the excess or defect of temperature above or 

 below ay° F. for the period named, and is expressed in Day- 

 degree — a "Day-degree" signifying 1° continued for 

 twenty-four hours, or any other number of degrees for an 

 inversely proportional number of hours.] 





Temperature. 







Accumulated. 









8 a 



j> a - 





Above or 



£ 



g 



**^ 



s4 



Districts. 



below the 













Mean for 







a : . 







the week 



Tfs 



ft* 



~= * * 



~ T X 







■<*' 









Oct. 29. 



&" 



•sr 



ls n 













23 

 35 



Principal Wheat pro- 





Day- 



Day- 



Day- 



Day- 



ducing Districts. 





deg. 



deg. 



deg. 



deg. 



0. SCOTLAND, N. ... 



7 above 



64 







— 247 



+ 215 



1. Scotland, E. ... 



10 above 



77 







— 449 



+ 155 



2. England, N.E. ... 



7 above 



76 







— 518 



+ 89 



3. England, E. ... 



4 above 



67 







— 399 



+ 205 



4. Midland Cos. ... 



5 above 



67 







— 487 



+ 201 



6. England, S. 



5 above 



78 







— 493 



+ 238 



Principal Grazing, &c, 













Districts. 













6. Scotland, W. ... 



7 above 



7t 







— 36S 



+ 102 



7. England. N.W.... 



5 above 



73 







— 399 



+ 124 



8. England. S.W.... 



5 above 



85 







— 49T 



+ 268 



9. Ireland, N. 



7 above 



7S 







— 281 



+ 61 



10. Ireland, S. 



7 above 



Si 







— 28-> 



+ 119 



— Channel Islands 



4 ubove 



97 







- 370 



+ 154 





Rainfall 





Bhight 



SUSfSHEfE. 



Districts. 



3 =1 



3d 



Hi 



SB 



goo 



i 



£ 'So 



Principal Wheat-pro- 

 ducing Districts. 



Tenth* of 

 Inch. 





Ins. 







0. Scotland, N. ... 



9 more 



196 



33.4 



3 



28 



1. Scotland, E. ... 



2 more 



166 



23.1 



21 



30 



2. England, N.E. ... 



5 less 



151 



20.9 



13 



26 



3. England, E. ... 



2 less 



69 



20.2 



22 



30 



4. Midland Cos. ... 



4 less 



138 



19.2 



19 



28 



5 England, S. 



3 more 



114 



21.6 



23 



so 



Principal (Grazing, &c. 

 Districts. 













6. Scotland, W. ... 



2 more 



156 



3-'. 7 



7 



31 



7. England, N.W.... 



2 more 



157 



23 1 



7 



29 



8. England, S.W.... 



1 more 



160 



26.9 



12 



35 



9. Ireland, N. 



I ess 



167 



28.5 



10 



28 



10. Ireland, S. 



7 more 



149 



28.6 



10 



33 



— Channel Islands 



3 less 



177 



23.7 



47 



41 



THE PAST WEEK. 



The following summary record of the weather for 

 the week ending Oct. 29, is furnished from the 

 Mete orological Office : — 



'• The weather was fair and dry at the commence- 

 ment of the period, but in the north and west the 

 conditions soon became unsettled and rainy. In the 

 south and south-east, however, fair weather con- 

 tinued until towards the end of the week, when the 

 skv became overcast, and consideiable quantities of 

 rain fell. 



" The temperature has been much above the mean 

 in all districts. Over ' England, E ,' and the ' Chan- 

 nel Islands' the excess has been 4 C , in most of the 

 other English districts 6°. in Ireland, the greater 

 part of Scotland, and in 'England, N.E.,' 7°, and in 

 ' Scotland, E ,' as much as Kr 5 . The highest of the 

 maxima were registered ou the 27th, when the ther- 

 mometer rose to an unusually high level for the time 

 of year. In ' England, S.,' (in London) the maximum 

 was as high as 70°, and in the 'Midland Counties' 

 and ' England, E.,' 69°, while in most other parts of 

 the kingdom readings between 64° and 67° were 



recorded. The minima were again low over England 

 until the 25th, the sheltered thermometer falling to 

 between 24° and 30°. During the early morning of 

 the 23rd the gross minimum at Ingatestone was as 

 low as 17° The temperature subsequently rose with 

 great rapidity, and the minimum readings were very 

 high for the time of year. At Shields, York, and 

 Loughborough the thermometer during the night of 

 the 27th and 23th did not fall below 60°. 



" The rainfall has been less than the mean in 

 'Ireland, N.,' and the 'Channel Islands,' and over 

 eastern, central, and north-eastern England, but 

 more elsewhere, especially in the extreme west and 

 north. 



" Bright sunshine was very little prevalent except 

 at a few of our extreme southern stations. The per- 

 centage of the possible amount of duration ranged 

 from 47 in the ' Channel Islands ' to 23 in ' Ireland, 

 S.,' and to 22 in ' England, E.' In Ireland, the 

 north-west of England, and the north and west of 

 Scotland the amount was extremely slight, the per- 

 centage of the possible number of hours ranging 

 between three and ten." 



Markets. 



COVEST GARDES. Xvvember 1. 



[We cannot accept any editorial responsibility for the subjoined 

 reports, which, however, are furnished to us regularly 

 every Thursday, by the kindness of several of the principal 

 salesmen, who revise the list, an \ who are responsible for the 

 quotations. It must be remembered that these quotations 

 represent averages for the week preceding the date of our 

 report. The prices depend upon the qualityof the samples, 

 the supply in the market, and they fluctuate, not only 

 from day to day. but often several times in one day, and 

 therefore the prices quoted as averages for the past week 

 must not be taken as indicating the particular prices at 

 any particular date, and still less can they be taken as 

 guides to the prices in the coming week. Ed.] 



Business quiet ; supplies more than equal to the 

 demand. Large consignments of Nova Scotia and 

 Canada Apples to hand ; quality better. Kent Cobs 

 short. Prices steadily rising. James Webber, Whole- 

 sale Apple Market. 



Fruit.— Average Wholesale Prices. 



Apples, half-sieve ... 2 0- 4 6 

 — Canada and Xova 



Scotia, per barre 10 0-14 

 Cobs, 100 1b.... 100 0- ... 



Grapes, per lb. ... "6-26 

 Lemons, per case ...12 0-21 u 



Melons, each ... 1 0- 3 



Peaches, dozen ... 2 0- 6 

 ^■lie-apples. En*., lb. 16 2 

 Plums, half-sieve ...3 6-4 6 

 — si. Michael, each 2 0-81 



Vegetables.— Average Retail Prices. 



*. d. *. d. 



4 0-50 



Artichokes, p. doz.... 4 < 

 Beet, red, per dozen 10-20 

 Carrots, per bunch... 

 Cauliflowers, each ... 

 Celery, per bundle ... 16-20 

 Cucumbers, each ... 9- 

 Endive, per dozen ... 3 0- 

 GreenMint, bunch... 6- 

 Herbs, per bunch ... 6- 

 Leeks, per bunch ... 4- 

 Lettuce. per dozen... 2 **- 

 Mushrooms, punnet 2 6 - 

 Potato^.— Myatt's finished. Beauty of Hebron, 60$. to 81*. ; 

 Regents. 90s.; and Magnums, 60s. to 80s. per too. Trade 



Plants in Pots.— Average Wholesale Prices. 



Mustard and Cress. 



punnet 



Onions, per bunch ... 

 Parsley, per bunch.. 

 Potatos, per cwt. .. 



,, kidney, per cwt. 4 0-50 

 Shallots, per lb. ... 6- ... 

 Spinach, per bushel... 2 6* ... 

 Tomatos, per lb. ... 1 0- ... 

 Turnips, per bunch, 



new 5- ... 



Aralia Sieboldi, doz. 6 

 Asters, per dozen ... 6 

 Chrysanthems., doz. 4 



— large plan's, each 2 

 Cockscombs, per doz. 3 

 Coleus, dozen ... 2 

 Cyperus, per dozen . 4 

 Dracaena terminal is, 



per dozen 30 



— viridis, per doz. 12 



per dozen ... 



Evergreens, in 



per dozen ... 



s.d.s.d. 



0-18 Ferns, in var., doz. 4 0-lb 

 0-90! Foliage plants, vari- 



0-9 ous, each 2 0-10 



0-40! Ficus elastica. each .16-70 

 0-60, Fuchsias, doz. ... 3 0- 6 

 0-4 Heliotropes, dozen... 3 0-60 

 0-12 ' Hydrangeas, dozen... 9 0-18 

 Liliums. var., doz. ...18 0-30 

 0-60 I Marguerites, doz. ... 6 0-12 

 0-24 ' Mignonette, 12 pots 3 0-60 

 0-18 I Palms in var., each 2 6-21 



j Pelargoniums, -car- 

 0-18 j let, Der do?en ... 2 0- fi 



1 Primulas. p«r dozen 4 0-60 

 0-24 Solanums. dozen ... 9 0-15 



Cur Flowers.— Average Wholesale Prices. 



Abutillons, 12 bun.... 



— French, per bun. 

 Bonvardias, per bun. 

 Camellias, 1-' blms. 

 Carnations, 12 blms. 

 Chrysant hemuma, 



12 blooms 



— dozen buuehes... 

 Eucharis, per dozen 

 Gardenias. 12 blooms 

 Gladiolus, doz. sprays 

 Heliotropes, \2 spr. 

 Liinim longinorum, 



12 blooms 



— lancifolium,12bI. 

 Lapageri*, 12 bloome 



Marguerites. 12 bun. 3 0- 

 Mignonette, 12 bun. 2 0- 

 Pelargoniums,12»pr. 1 0- 



— scarlet, 12 spr.... 4 0- 

 Primulas. double, 12 



sprays 1 0- 



Pyrethmms, 12 bun. 2 o- 

 Roses, Tea, per doz. 1 0- 



— coloured, dozen. 2 0- 



— red.perdozen ... 6- 



— Safrano. dozen. 



6-10 



3 0-40 



2 0-30 



6-30 

 9 0-18 



4 0-80 



3 0-60 

 16-30 

 6- 1 I Stephanotis, 12 t*pr. 4 if- 6 



whin 



4 0-60 Violet*, 12 bunches... 1 O- 1 

 1 0- 3 j — dark, Fr.. bunch 16-; 

 10-30: — Parme, Fr., bun. 3 0- 1 



