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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[April 6, 1912 



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Plants In Pots, &c. : Average Wholesale Prices (Cotitdj. 



8.d. s.d. 



Marguerites, white, 



per dozen ... 8 0-10 

 Mignonette, 48's. 



per do/en ... o u- o u 

 Pandanus Veitchii, 



per dozen ... 36 0-48 



s.d. s.d. 



Phoenix rupicola, 



each .. ... 2 6-21 



Spiraea japonica, 



per dozen 



pots 10 0-12 



— Pink ... ... 10 0-12 



Fruit: Average Wholesale Prices. 



Apples (English 

 cookers) bushel 



— Nova Scotian, 



per barrel 



— Cal if orniau 

 Newtowns, pr. 

 case 



— (Canadian), per 

 barrel ... 



— Oregon (Hood 

 River), per 



case 



— American, per 

 barrel .. 



— Australian per 

 case .. 



Bananas, bunch : 



— Doubles 



— No. 1 „ ... 



— Extra 



— Giant „ ... 



— Loose, per dz. 



— Red coloured... 



— Jamaica Giants, 

 per ton 



— Jamaica Ordi- 

 nary, per box 

 (9 doz.) 



Cranberries, per 

 case (30 qts.)... 



— Cape Cod, per 

 case (30 quarts) 



Dates (Tunis) doz, 



boxes 



Grape Fruit, case: 



— Ufi's 



— hOs 



— 64's 



— 54* s 

 Grapes 



s.d. s.d. 

 6 0-12 



.. 17 0-22 



s.d. s.d. 



6 0-80 



.. 20 



.. 16 0-18 6 



r 



. 20 0-32 



■ 



V. 14 6-25 



10 12 



8 10 



10 0-12 



14 0-18 

 6-10 



5 6-66 



Lemons : 



— Messina,p.case 



Limes, per case ... 



Mangoes, per doz. 



Melons (Capj) ... 



Nuts, Almonds, per 



bag 



Spanish, p sack 



— Barcelona, bag 35 6-36 6 

 Nuts, Chestnuts, 



per bag 



— Cocoanuts, 100 



— English Cobs 



7 6-17 

 10 — 

 6 0-10 

 10-1 6 



52 6 — 



40 42 



3 6-19 

 18 0-23 



per lb.... 



— Wain 



(Naples) 



dried, 



cases 



Oranges, Jamaica 



3 



u t s 



kiln 



c w t. 



54 



per case 

 Californian 



JE10-JE12 



4 0-50 

 10 0-11 

 9 6- 

 4 6-56 



9 0-10 



15 0-16 



16 0-34 

 10 0-12 



9 6- 

 8 0-90 



14 0-20 



6-36 



" 16 0-18 6 



15 0-18 



10 6 16 6 



11 6-12 6 



8 6 — 





13-20 



(Belgian), 

 Gros Colman, 

 ptr lb. 



Almeria, p.brl. 11 6-15 6 

 Per dozen lbs. 4 0-60 

 (Cape) per case 



White... 



— „ Red ... 

 Lein us : 



— (Naples), case 26 0-30 



»» 



4 0-50 



5 0-60 

 5 0-70 



— Denia, case ... 



— Valencia 



— Jaffa, per case 



— Blood, per case 



— Mandarins, 

 per box 



— Bitter, per A 

 chest ... 



— Seville Sour 

 4 chest 



Pears (Californian), 



per case 



— Glou Morceau 



— Easter Beurre 



— Winter Nelis 12 6-13 6 



— (American) per 

 barrel, 180 lbs. 



— cases ... 



— (Cape) 



Pineapples, St. 



Michael 

 Pines Cape), each 

 Plums (Cape), per 



case 



— Apple, per box 

 Strawberries, p. lb. : 



— A quality ... 5 0-60 



— B quality ... 3 0-40 



25 0-26 

 7 — 

 4 0-50 



2 6-50 

 6-09 



10 0-19 

 8 0-10 



Vegetables : Average Wholesale Prices. 



S 



Artichokes(Globe), 

 er dozen 

 rusalein, per 

 J bushel 

 Asparagus, Sprue. 



— Lauris 



— Paris Green ... 



— (English), per 

 • bundle 



Beans, Guernsey, 

 Dwarf, per lb. 



— French, pec 



packet, lb. 

 Beetroot, p. bshl. : 



— Long 



Broccoli, sprout- 

 ing, per bag 



Celeriac, per doz. 

 Cabbages (French) 

 per doaen 



— Cornish, p. dz. 

 Cauliflowers, p. dz. 



— (Italian), p. pad 



— (Cornish), per 

 crate 



Celery, doz. bndls. 



— (washed), per 

 dozen bundles 



Carrots (English), 

 pr. doz. bun.... 



— per cwt. 



— (washed) p. bag 



Chicory, per lb, ... 

 Cucumbers, p. doz. 

 Endive, per dozen 

 Greens, per bag ... 



— Spring, p bag 

 Herbs (sweet), 



pkts., p. RTOV 



Horseradish, 12 

 bundles 



s.d. s.d. 

 3 0-40 



1 — 

 10-1 



2 6-36 



80 - 



2 0-80 

 10-13 

 16-19 



2 6-30 



3 0-36 

 2 6-30 



2 6-30 



2 0-26 



3 0-40 

 2 0-30 



10 0-14 



6 0-10 



7 0-10 



2 6-30 



3 6-46 



4 0-60 

 4 — 

 2 0-40 

 2 — 

 2 6-36 



5 6-60 



70 - 



.. 10 0-14 



Leeks, per doz. ... 



Lettuce (French), 

 per doz. 



Mint, per dozen 

 bunches 



Mushrooms, culti- 

 vated, p. lb. ... 



Mustardand Cress, 



pr. dz. punnets 

 Marrows, each ... 

 Onions (Dutch) per 



bag 



— English 



— (Spanish), per 



case ... — 



— Egyptian 

 Parsley, A sieve ... 



— per doz. bun. 

 Parsnips, per bag 

 Peas (French) per 



pad 



— (Guernsey), lb. 

 Radishes (English), 



per dozen 

 Rhubarb, forced, 

 per 12 bundles 



— Outdoor, per 

 dozen 



Spinach, pr. bshl. 



Seakale, p. punnet 



Tomatos (Canary 



Islands), per 



bundle... 

 Turnips (English), 

 per dz. bunches 



— tags (washed) 



— (unwashed) ... 



Turnip Tops, per 



bag ... 

 Watercress, p. dz. 



bunches 



s.d. s.d. 



3 0-36 



9-13 

 2 6-50 



7-09 



10-16 



8-10 



7 0-76 



8 0-90 



9 0-10 

 8 0-86 



1 6 — 



2 6-30 



4 6-50 



5 0-6 



3 0-36 



13-16 

 8-10 



26 — 

 5 0-60 

 8-0 10 



.. 10 0-14 



2 6-80 

 4 0-46 



3 0-36 



16-20 



4-06 



Potatos. 



per cwt. 

 s.d. s.d. 



Rents— 



Queen's ... 

 Up-to-Date 



Lincolns - 



Up-to-Date 

 British Queen 

 King Edward 

 Northern Star 

 Evergoods 



4 



4 



4 6 

 4 6 



3 9-46 



3 9-43 



4 0-46 



2 9-36 



3 0-39 



Lincolns — 



Maincrops 

 Blacklands 



I Bedfords - 

 Up-to-Date 



Dunbars— 



Up-to-Date 

 Maincrop 



per cwt. 

 s.d. s.d. 



4 0-46 

 3 0-33 



3 9-40 



4 9-53 



5 3-56 



Tenerifle 



New Potatos. 



10 G-14 | Algerian 



... 12 0-14 



Remarks.— Trade remains quiet, and stocks in London 

 are still very large, although best tubers are not plentiful. 

 Prices are about the same as those of last week. Edward f. 

 Newborn^ Covmt Garden and St. Pancras, April 2, 1912. 



Remarks. — Last season's crop of English hothouse Grapes 

 is exhausted, but Black Hamburgh, from the Worthing 

 district, will shortly be available. The supplies of hothouse 

 Strawberries are increasing, and, consequently, their prices 

 continue to fall. Cape Grapes are much in evidence, and 

 may be purchased at reasonable prices. Plums from the 

 Cape are limited to the Kelsey variety, the supplies of 

 which are shortening. There is a better demand for Cape 

 Melons (green flesh), which is not surprising, considering 

 their excellent flavour. Cape fruit received this week per 

 s.s. "Edinburgh Cattle" consisted of Grapes, Pears, Plums, 

 Peaches, Melons, Pines and Margjs. in all about 27,000 

 packages. There have been received from the Canary 

 Islands, per ss. M Cluny Castle," 2.213 bunches of Ea lanas, 

 2,3(56 packages of Tomatos, and 2,213 of Potatos. The first 

 English-grown Tomatos of the season reached the market 

 this week from the South Coast. Outdoor vegetables are a 

 much shorter supply. Forced vegetables are fairly plentiful, 



and now include Peas. Forced Marrows are more plentiful. 

 £•£.&., CtWftJ Gaidcn, April *, 1912. 



GARDENING APPOINTMENTS. 



[Correspondents art requested to writ* thm mmmee of 'p«n««i 

 Mad plrnc** a* im S ibl\ mm postlble. No charge %s 

 made for these announcements, but if a small contribution 

 is sent, to be placed in our c Meeting Box for the Gardeners 1 

 Orphan Fund, it will be thankfully received, and an 

 acknowledgment made in these columns.^ 



Mr. G. Hall, for the past 17 years Gardener to Lady 

 Ashburton, Melchet Court, Hampshire, as Gardener 

 to Herbert F. Smith, Esq., Didlington Hall, Norfolk. 



Mr. Allan Brown, for the past 3 years Foreman at Melchet 

 Court, Hampshire, as Gardener at the same place in 

 succession to Mr. Hall. 



Mr. C. Chipperfifld, for the past 10 years Foreman at 

 Chilston House, Tunbridge Wells, previously at Bently 

 Priory, Great Stanmore, and Coombe House, Croydon, 

 Surrey, as Gardener to Capt. Blunt, Huntleys, Tun- 

 bridge Wells. 



Mr. J. Hepburn, at present in charge of the hardy flower 

 garden in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, has been ap- 

 pointed Gardener to the Marquis of Ailsa, Culzean 

 Castle, Ayr. 



Mr. C. Ryde, for the past 8 years Gardener to G. Goodall, 

 Esq., J. P., Pine Ridge, Farnham, Surrey, as Gardener 

 to General Sir Wykeham and Lady Leigh Pemberton, 

 Abbots Leigh, Haywards Heath, Sussex. 



CATALOGUES 



ECE1VED. 



J. Chfal & Sons, Ltd., Lowfield Nurseries, Crawley 



Sussex— Dahlias. 

 H. Cannell & Sons, Swaniey, Kent— Plants. 



B. Hammond 

 Gladioli* 



FOREIGN. 



Tracy, Wenham, Massachusetts, U.S.A 



Clmi iuw 



to 



Corr^or\d£nU 



Apple Scab and Mangels: Domestic Economy. 

 It is too late to spray the Apple trees with 

 the caustic alkali solution, but if the flower- 

 buds on your trees are not too far ad- 

 vanced you might spray with the Bordeaux 

 mixture (20 ounces copper sulphate and 12 

 ounces of quicklime to lU gallons of water). If 

 the flower-buds are fairly advanced, it would 

 be advisable to wait till the fruits are nicely 

 set and then spray in dull weather. It is 

 usual to harvest jNIangels before there has 

 been much frost, say not more than from 

 4° to 6°, which cold they will stand, but more 

 would be apt to damage them, particularly if 

 they were soft through a damp autumn. If 

 black at the time of damping they would be 

 liable to rot, but if they are black only on the 

 exterior when taking them out of the clamp 

 they would be suitable for use. 



Bilberry : E. W. P. The Bilberry, or Whortle- 

 berry (Vaccinium Myrtillus), grows wild in 

 large numbers on Dartmoor, in Devonshire, 

 and on the moors of Cornwall. In these 

 counties the <fc Worts," or " Hurts," as the 

 fruits are called, are gathered by women and 

 children in the late summer and early autumn, 

 and sold to dealers who forward them to the 

 large maikets. Great quantities are imported 

 from Hamburg, and there is a large demand 

 for them in the north and north Midlands. We 

 do not know of any place where the Bil- 

 berry is cultivated ; it grows naturally in peaty 

 soils which are flooded during the winter 

 months. The large-fruited Cranberry (Oxy- 

 coccus macrocarpus) grows wild on the Ameri- 

 can continent from Canada to Virginia in 

 boggy heaths which are flooded in winter. It 

 is said to be cultivated on poor land in New 

 England, where the yield is estimated at 80 to 



100 bushels rjer acre. Quantities of the fruits 

 are sent to this and other European countries 

 Cranberry and Apple tarts are often recom- 

 mended by the medical faculty as a specially 

 wholesome food. 



Cucumber Plants: St. Michael's. Cucumber 

 plants may be removed to an unheated pit 

 at once, but you would be more successful 

 with them if you grew them in a frame on a 

 hot-bed, or in a brick pit, filled with manure 

 to within 15 inches of the glass, putting the 

 soil on the top of this to plant in. 



International Horticultural Exhibition: a 



Devon Gardener. We believe that efforts will 

 be made to promote such railway facilities as 

 you suggest in your letter. On behalf of the 

 residents in Devonshire who desire to visit the 

 Exhibition, inquiries have already been made 

 to the railway companies by those interested 

 in the Exhibition. Write to Mr. P. C. M. 

 Veitch, The Royal Nurseries, Exeter, the 

 honorary secretary for the county of Devon- 

 shire. He will give you any information at 

 present available. 



Names of Plants: E. Hubbard. 1, Picea 

 morinda ; 2, Rhododendron barbatum ; 3, Skim- 

 mia japonica ; 4, Acer rubrum ; 5, Cornus Mas. 

 — Wool. Leptotes (Tetramicra) bicolor. — A. M. 

 1, Dendrobium crassinode ; 2, D. nobile ; 3, D. 

 Pierardii. — J. H. Smilax aspera. 



Plants for Shade : W. P. You cannot expect 

 plants to do well in soil under an Oak tree. 

 Not only will there be very little light, but 

 the plants will be subjected to drip from the 

 branches in rainy weather, and the evils of 

 drought when the conditions are dry. The 

 most suitable carpeting plants are Ivy, Vinca, 

 Hypericum, Euonymus radicans and Hyperi- 

 cum calycinum. Flowering plants may include 

 Anemone japonica, Saxifraga umbrosa. and 

 Hellebores. (See also p. 204 in the last issue.) 



Sweet Peas: J. O'D., Dundrum. The follow- 

 ing are the best 12 varieties in the list you 

 send: Countess Spencer, Etta Dyke, King Ed- 

 ward Spencer, Princess Victoria, Masterpiece, 

 John Ingman, Queen of Norway, Elsie 

 Herbert, Flora Norton Spencer, Clara Curt 

 Helen Grosvenor and George Stark. The seeds 

 should be sown at once in deeply dug and well 

 manured ground, preferably in two narrow 

 drills 9 inches apart and about 2 to 3 inch 

 deep ; the latter depth if the soil is of a hgnt 

 texture. The seeds may be inserted at from 

 2 to 3 inches apart, thinning the seedlings n 

 quired to produce exhibition flowers to 9 lnche* 

 when they are about 6 inches high. The plant* 

 should be staked with goo3 Hazel stakes w Jien 

 about 1 foot tall, using stakes 9 feet high ii 

 the soil is in a good condition. To obtain 

 high quality flowers the shoots should be re- 

 duced to three to each plant. Hoe tne 

 ground once a week, adding a mulch ot rnanure 

 to the plants after they get well into bloom. 

 During dry weather they should be afforded 

 liquid manure from the farmyard or artincia 

 manure in water according to their req u 

 ments. Remove all flower-spikes till ju 

 before they are required for exhibition. 

 Wages During Illness: Yorjcshi reman. A» 

 employer is not entitled to stop the wjff« 

 RPrvant. who in temnorarilv incapacitated d\ 



servant who is temporarily incapacr 

 health. 



Half-hardy 



Half-hardy Annuals: .7. O'D. m 



annuals should be sown at once in tne y 

 border, choosing a time when the soil is 

 friable condition, as the small . see ^ n ^ litte d 

 covered with only very fine soil, 

 to give the date of the exhibition. 



You omi 



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Hyacinths with Several Spikes : A . .j ar 

 We have received other complaints ot as 

 nature. Owing to the exceptionally not ^ 

 dry summer of last year large b « lw ° l v e bjg 

 quality were toot plentiful, and ra&ny thc 

 bulbs "of a loose texture were P lace % rvon ic 

 market, these having more than one eu . t 

 flower-spike. Vhe smaller and onore corny 

 bulbs gave the best results, as usuai. 



Communications Received. — B« 8. B~-- ■ (jodalwo* 

 _H. T. V._E. J. W._T. P. A -A- D ^„ T elies--- W *T 

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R S. & Son_L. N._A. W. A.— R 

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