



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[March 16, 1912. 



EDITORIAL NOTICE. 



ADVERTISEMENTS should be seat to the PUB- 

 LISHER, 41, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, 

 W.C 



Letters for Publication, as well as specimens of plants 

 lor naming, should be addressed to the EDITORS, 

 41, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London. 



Communications should be written on onk side only of 

 thk I'apkr, sent as early in the week as possible and duly 

 signed by the writer. 1/ desired, the signature will not be 

 printed, but kept as a guarantee of good faith. 



Local Sews.— Correspondents will greatly oblige by sending to 

 th' Editors early intelligence of local events likely to be of 

 interest to our readers, or of any matters which it is desirable 

 to bring under the notice of horticulturists. 



Illustrations. I he Editors will be glad to receive and to select 

 photographs or drawings, suitable for reproduction, of 

 gardens, or of remarkable plants, flowers, trees, &c. t but 

 they cannot be responsible for loss or injury. 



splendid work. All this was done wh^n Chem. Industry), and have reached the 

 the conditions of the town with respect to conclusion that the causes are two- 



smoke and other disadvantages were, at 



fold. 



In the first place, sewage sick- 



the least, as unfavourable to horticulture ness is attributable to a change in the phy- 



as they are at the present time. Yet, sical properties of the soil. In the second 



whilst Manchester has grown and pros- place, it is due to a change in the micro 



pered enormously in recent years, horti- flora and farina of the soil. This change 



culture has steadily lost ground there, so takes the form of an increase in those soil 



that to-day, if we except the Orchid en- organisms, probably protozoa, which prey 



thusiasts, there is probably less interest in upon the useful decomposition bacteria, 



the products of horticultural art than may The latter are therefore unable to do their 



be found in some of our comparatively beneficial work. 



small towns. If any people might be ex- 



The authors find that if s-ewage-sick soil 



_ pected to find pleasure and relaxation in is heated to a temperature sufficient to de- 



iDDfiMTMEyTQ HID TUC CMQIIIMP WEEK the culture of P lants and flowers > surel y stroy these in J urious organisms, it regains 



AmJINimtNia mil int tN&UINb HECK, they are the Manchester people. It is diffi- its properties, and, when put back on the 



cult to believe that a preference for sport sewage farm, renders the effluent clearer 



and the coarser kinds of enjoyment has than before. Large scale partial sterilisa- 



drawn them from horticulture, although tion is > however, not cheap, though it 



the fact that the once beautiful and in- would Probably prove cheaper than the 



teresting gardens at Old Trafford are now current method of resting the sewage farm 



occupied by water shutes and similar till the soil has recovered from its sickness, 



means of diversion, might be taken as a For such S0lls > however, it is possible that 



TUESDAY, MARCH 19- 



Roy. Hort. Soc. Corns, meet. (Lecture at 3 p.m. by Mr. 



H. B. May on " Ferns.") Horticultural Club, bouse 



dinner and meet. 6 p.m. 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20- 



Roy. Meteorological Soc. meet. (Lecture by Dr. 



Pettersson.) 



THURSDAY, MARCH 21— 



Perpetual-flowering Carnation Soc. Sh. at R.H.S. Hall, 

 Westminster (2 days). Linnean Soc. meet. Manchester 

 Orchid Soc. meet. 



Average Mean Temperature for the ensuing week 

 deduced from observations during the last Fifty Years 

 at Greenwich-41-9°. 

 Actual Temperatures:— 



London.— Wednesday 9 March 13 (6 p.m.): Max. 52°; 



Miu. 44 u . 

 Gardeners' Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 

 Covent Garden, London — Thursday, March 14 

 (10 a.m.) : Bar. 29 -8° ; Temp. 53° ; Weather— 

 Dull. 

 Provinces.— Wednesday, March 13: Max 51° Cam- 

 bridge ; Min. 4*8° Scotland, N. 



proof that this is really the case. 

 It may be assumed that the love of 



treatment with antiseptics may be found 

 more practicable. Toluol or carbon disul- 



SALES FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



MONDAY and WEDNESDAY - 



Rose Trees, Fruit Trees, Perennials, Liliums, Trained 

 Bay Trees, Palms, &c, at 12.30, at Stevens's Auction 

 Rooms, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, London. 



MONDAY and FRIDAY— 



Herbaceous Plants and Perennials, Lilies and other 

 Hardy Bulbs, at 12 ; Roses and Fruit Trees, at 1.30; at 

 67 St 68, Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe ft Morris. 



WEDNESDAY- 



Perennials and Border Plants, Hardy Bulbs, &c , at 12 ; 



Roses and Fruit Trees, at 1.30; Palms and Plants, at 5 ; 

 Trade Sale of Miscellaneous Bulbs, at 12; 456 cases 

 Japanese Liliums at 2 30 ; at 67 & 68, Cheapside, E.C., 

 by Protheroe & Morris, 



Clearance Sale of Pot Plants, &c, at The Nurseries, 

 Lower Gravel Road, Bromley Common, by Protheroe & 

 Morris, at 12. 



FRIDAY— 



Orchids, at 67 ft 68, Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe & 

 Morns. 



plants is still alive in Manchester, and P hlde ma y be used instead of heat to re- 

 only requires a little stimulating to burst gyrate the sick soil, but they are too ex- 

 into its former ardour. The Orchid Society Pensive for use on a large scale. The 

 manages to keep up a flicker by holding Problem then is to discover a cheap anti- 

 fortnightly meetings in a badly-lighted septic which has the like properties. The 

 and poorly-situated building, but the mem- importance of such a discovery is very 



bers, some hundred or so, are the only 

 people that take an interest in the pro- 

 ceedings. Compare all this with what we 

 have in London. A society 12,000 strong, 



evident. 



A Hardy Orange.— Messrs. T. Rivers & Son, 

 Sawbridgeworth, have forwarded us a seedless 



ul 'j.u £t u'u'j.* l. n j Orange, which is said to be hardy, and a sketch 



wealthy, with a line exhibition hall and an . * » » .. , , , , T *-* 



experimental garden ; the result in a large 

 measure providing a spacious hall in an 

 accessible part of London. What this hall 

 has proved to be for the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society a similar venture would 

 almost certainly turn out to be for the 

 horticulturists of Manchester. Societies 

 can only prosper when they labour 

 to promote that which is appreci- 

 ated by the people. The report of the 

 general meeting of the Manchester Botani- 



It is to be regretted that, cal and Horticultural Society, published in me , diu ™. siz *' " fl. a ^ned ; the 



of the fruit and leaves by Mr. Worthington 

 Smith is reproduced in fig. 71. The variety is of 

 Japanese origin, and is known as " Satsuma," 

 " Oonshin," and " Ku Seedless." The fruit is 

 flattish, and resembles a large Mandarin Orange, 

 the skin being of a deep yellow colour. The tree 

 is said to be of dwarf habit, quite thornless, 

 and to fruit when very young. In California it 

 is the first Orange to ripen its fruit. The follow- 

 ing description is from Citrus Fruits, by R. M. 

 Teague, California, where this Orange is best 

 known to cultivators : — The fruit is of 



colour is not 

 red, like the King and Tangerine, but a 

 deeper yellow than the Mandarin; rind and 



"Wake Up" in the city and neighbour- our last issue, stated that the land at Old 



Manchester, hood of Manchester, horti- T 7 ffo J d ^i°^ n ?, S- the , T^? W f ^gments p^t fr^l^ 



culture does not occupy so valued at £50,000. If this valuation is only 



large a place in the affections of the approximately correct, it ought to be 



people as it did 30 years ago. At that easily possible to provide the city with the 



time, the collections of plants in the gar- horticultural attractions is so obviously 



dens within easy reach of the town were lacks at the present time. We should like 



among the best to be found anywhere, and to see the Manchester Orchid Society and 



the flower shows held there were impor- the Manchester Botanical and Horticul- 



tant horticultural events. We have seen 

 exhibitions in the Botanical Gardens at 

 Old Trafford which, for extent, interest, 

 and cultural excellence, were at least the 



and Horticultural half a century ago, claimed to be amongst be delivered by Mr. H. B. May, V.M.H. 



tural Society co-operate so that periodical 

 shows and lectures might be provided 

 where the people could profit by and enjoy 

 them. Surely such an effort is not too 

 equals of ^ld in the metropolis. The much to expect from those who, less than 



Manchesi 



Society, i 



stimula 



people 



the s' 



lack 



was 



anr 



ad 



juicy, sweet and delicious ; entirely seedless ; one 

 of the earliest sorts known ; fruit ripens as early 

 as November ,• tree thornless ; bears when young." 

 The variety has fruited in Australia, where it is 

 described as a heavy cropper, and is the best sort 

 for planting in cool districts. One of the calyx 

 lobes in the fruit sent us was somewhat foliose 

 (see fig. 71), an unusual character in the Orange. 



Royal Horticultural Society.— The next 



meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Committees will take place on Tuesday, the 19th 

 inst. In the afternoon a lecture on Ferns will 





in 1828, did much to the leaders of British horticulture. 

 :n\ art among its own 



A 



«* 











apse of about 30 years, 



came to grief through 



but it recovered, and 



a career of prosperity 



This was achieved by the 



jlder policy, which included 



l exhibitions that were at- 



•e people. The society built 



irden and a rich collection of 



d Trafford, where, for about a 



a century, it continued to do 



The method of getting rid of 



Sickness sewage by distributing it over 



ln m land from which crops are 



taken is admirable in theory, 

 and should be so in practice. Unfortu- 

 nately, it often happens that land so 

 treated becomes sewage-sick and loses its 

 value as a bacterial filter, so that the 

 effluent becomes impure. Dr. Russell and 

 Mr. J. Golding have investigated the origin 

 of this sewage sickness (Journal Soc. 



Horticultural Club. — A house dinner and 

 meeting of the Horticultural Club will take 

 place on Tuesday, the 19th inst., at the Hotel 

 Windsor, Victoria Street. Mr. Harold C. 

 Long, B.Sc, of the Board of Agriculture, will 

 deliver a lecture on " Weeds " ; the lecture will 

 be illustrated by lantern slides. 



British Violets. —Messrs. W. Heffeb * 

 Sons, Cambridge, have in the press, and wiU 

 publish shortly, a monograph on the British 

 Violets, by Mrs. E. S. Gregory. The volume 

 will be illustrated with both line and half-tone 

 blccks. 





