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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 26, 1896. 
AN EXCELLENT SPRAY OF PHALANOPSIS 
RODITE.—There was shown before the last 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society at West- 
minater,an excellent spray of Phalznopsis ‘Aphrodite, 
but from some delay in the letter that should have 
accompanied the ee it was not known by whom 
t by 
the spray was sen ow hear that it was sen 
Mr. G. W. Even, e to the Right Hon. the 
Earl of Srrapsroxse, Henham Gardens, near Lowes- 
toft, to whose exceptional success in the culture of 
alenopsis we have previously had occasion to 
refer, The spike in N bare fourteen * 
expanded flowers of good substance and fres 
appearance. 
Essex County COUNCIL, — The technical 
Instraction Committee is doing excellent NN 
ot only are lectures given at various centres, but 
at Chelmsford there is a well-equipped — tory 
where the students are trained as well as taught ina 
manner which may well make those ni who 
“lectured to” only rather envy the coming gen 
ti I the principles 
In 
under the supervision of Mr. Houston 
executed by the pupils is, as we can testify, fully 
equal to that done in advanced laboratories of the 
Universities, It is impossible to doubt but that the 
horticulture and agriculture of the future will be 
most ben ly influenced this instruction, 
Under the head j Notes is r are a 
series of hints and sug 
well as for practical work inthe garden a the field, 
_EFFECT OF Snow: STORMS. oT POWERSCOURT. 
in the woods and pleasure grounds at ee 
Splendid specimens of rare trees have, we learn, 
been utterly destroyed, one beautiful tree of Torrega 
myristica has been snapped off at 1 foot from the 
ground by the weight of snow. Thujas, Cupressus, 
2 chine are quite disfigured through loss of ‘ops 
us insignis, of which the 
80 somalia nd specimens on this estate, have 1 
terribly. The Scotch Fir appears to have suffered 
most; m 
ple ed 
away. The fall z snow on the llth and 12th inst, 
will long be remembered as very e e for 
Mr. er e who = 
news, considers the fall 
total fall 
tes was abo 
urse, 
there was considerable drifting. The hardest frost 
registered for the year up to date being 10° on the 
night of the 9th, 
A Year's ne ora 1894. —Ten years since—in 
1885—we were in somewhat the same wane ent 
——— anuary, eg B e took a 
turn, and we were never a n going to 25 despon- 
dent. things hüprovdd with ue, kept on i 
ee until in the years 90 we 
the creat of that wave of prosperity ; 
began, — until to- 
m- 
had ‘reached 
but the decline 
to-day, when, as we sincerely 
trust, the to er ascent towards doing 
very well with our enormous capital of gold, and 
skilled rkmen. 8 agencies hay n 
failures i nA ia i 
country last year showed 
£624, a 05 as saa £622,783, 7 in * 3 
ditions 
though the great — in the value of 
imports are eerie . the volume of these 
is also to be n ce the present cheapness 
of the 4· pound loaf, a ko other things, upon which, 
to a great extent, depend the comfort and happi- 
ness of the toiling millions, It is worthy of note, 
that the value of live stock for food imported last 
year was in excess of that for 1893 by £2747,092— 
this in the face of the imports of chilled meat from 
allround the globe. And here it is only right to 
give a summary-table of the year’s 3 of fruits, 
roots, and vegetables, as follows: 
IMPORTS. 1893. 1894. Difference. 
Fruit, raw: — í 
Apples * bush. 3,459,984 | 4,967,569 | +1,507,585 
Cherries 346,14 810,785 —35,363 
ums 77.1 777,411 +269 
Pears Š 915,212 1,309,114 +393,902 
pes eee 978,505 832,992 —145,513 
Unenumerated ... „ | 1,079,794 1.300, 273 +229,479 
Onions „ 4.67809 5,288,512 +616,703 
0 Sos . ewt. 2,828,125 | 2,703,803 —124, 322 
Vegetables, unenu- 2 £ £ 
merated ... value 1,076,749 | 1.090.355 13,608 
As a figures are given in our mogekiy | Stock- 
ing,” they excite much interest. Half-a-dozen 
lines ole the enormous totals of other sesh 7 
for the e on will certainly enhance this 
feeling, r well Aout ca 
ve how great is ‘he room for many thousands of 
pro 
allotment-farmers at getting quick and profit- 
able returns from all great centres of See 
he items we have selected in illustration are as 
follows :— 
Bacon wos ewe, 3,116,603 
Rabbits ik E 108,478 
Butter 55 ar iy 33 
„287 
gt. 10s Pr pe 963 
Petey and Game 5 4180, 890 
The p of money from ka 55 hand, by 
ness done in the year 
gone was an tee d one. Thus the Bankers’ clear. 
ing House ret 
ing tl y 10 per cent. 
within the year, this small reduction in the bulk 
of ges Sone well for sa volume of 
We 
out of 
ood must come, and the prospect all round 
be brightened, 
POTATO PLANTING, Mr. 
M. J. M 
published a leaflet on Shis | au e loc 
si oa from which we 
should be 
turned ionally; cut the sets 3 days before 
ee and have them spread out on a dry cool floor 
W 
. 
The eyes on the top of the Potato should be alone 
used, If you use the other portion of the Potato 
for seed, you will always have gaps in your stalks, 
at least in the early Potatos. Do not be tempted to 
use small tubers as seed, because it is the law of 
nature that like will produce like, 
pays to use imported seed. Before earthing up your 
Potatos for the second time, when the surf 
of soda, and 2} cwt. of bone compound, which, if 
mixed well together, will be ample for a statute acre, 
the soil is then put up with the drill-plough. The 
kinds of Potato I would recommend to be used 
would be the Puritan for very early table use, which 
a month earlier than the well-kn 
WorLo’s FAIR AT AMSTERDAM.—At the 
World's Fair at Amsterdam this year there will be 
a permanent horticultural e Four special 
shows will take place: — (a), One of Roses, at the end 
of June and beginning of July, ‘the date is not settled 
yet; and (b), at the same time, one for early fruite, 
The second special show will be in the end of gal, 
There will be chiefly—Pelargoniums, Fuchsia) 
Resedas, Hatice 4 Begonias (Rex variety) 
i September there will bes 
SLOOT, n man, 
will give all ee wanted. "i t 
ie satisfaction in announcing that our old corre 
spondent, Mr. C. Y. Micktz, N whose contribution 
on Forestry our readers owe so much, has been 
recipient of a well-merited “ 1 of true rt V 
hip.“ Mr. Micure has been forester on the § z 
to diffuse 
principles and practice of his art, so that his 
work s far beyond the limits A= Ba! 
Micals 
7 1 
The presentation te d 
n the 9sh inst, 
young, the struggling, or the 
the foro. Some of this we reer ‘before, 
in the Banffshire Journal, 
been tbe 
. C. Y. Michig.—We are entitled to fal : 
kingdom. Joun Cuartzs, seventh Ear 
planted in his time no fewer than pose million & 
and the woodlands cover 70,000 a s It i 
88 to have a man competent y ag his 
egard to forestry, and it would have looked © 
ordinary if Mr. Micurm had not been com —— 
the forestry department. Mr. ROBERT M partet 
been foreman for many years, oe in that de A 
thə man is as good as his mas T 
RoYaL Botanic Society OF MANCH HESTENS 
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The council of the above society bave resolve ’ 
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