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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
the different methods that are worked out at any of 
the seed-control institutions in Germany and France 
dence, "a aless it is on the score of 
cheapness, we are at a many 
of our own seed- houses end their samples fo a 
perts who undertake the work at home, 
that governs the quality of seeds ; but as their services 
— . some extent restricted to the great institutions 8 
3 nes ‘establishment of a atation or stations from 
aeedamen and others d obtain analyses 
upon 
All the best seed-houses, however, now offer their 
under some kind of f guarantee, and as many of 
eh 
pte of the foreign stations; and this may account 
for the absence of a public office for the purpose 
Various Moves or SeeD Txstina. 
The employment of artificial methods to induce 
the germination of seeds, whilst reliable to a certain 
t, can never be considered „ 
e at W. t 
en 
different times. It may be small, but there it is. 
The writer in his own F. has seen variations 
of 15 per cent. on the same sok " ridges. A German 
ex whose investigations t be respected, has 
come to the conclusion that 856 rr than 400 seeds 
seeds, to th q f a sample, and 
these may be divided into four sets of each, 
The forces which set the d t into 
motion are air, and are absorbed 
by the living organs of which is i 
and being ulated by the oxygen burst thei 
covering, and push forth to the light. Professor 
Nobbe, Germa ed specialist, has made man 
botanists pee ae 80 
espect to the quantity 
of water to be tart the growth of the 
embryo, it has been pier that the seed should be 
q ee cai 
en degree of warmth plays an roy apn part 
n, both the 
prowl that 
rene ie vo 
E , which when so 
difficulty our thesia, 
seedsmen rar their seed intended wo leading 
countries in a prev room. Seedoma 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
HYBRID CYPRIPEDIUMS.—I have ooking 
through the valuable list of hybrid erg in a 
th 8 icle, an 
the a ae seedlings were raised 
rt Warner, who n lived at Broomfie 
—.— and we 4 
Holloway: — C. melanophthalmum x, 
nearum N, . poiran; . Meira x, and 0. Wile 
liamsiix. E. Hammond. 
OPOLD DE ROTHSCHIL 
Shot read “3 5 k. Ds a ts castle e upon “Mr. 
Leopold de Rothschild Carnation on p. 208, 
autumn-flowering variety, I beg to enclose you 4 a yer 
have been cutting ever since the 
this season. 
borough, 
fragrant, and of pleasing form and colour. 
THE COLOURING OF APPLES. I have had ete 
to my notice the correspondence the Gardene 
Chronicle on the colouring of mae I quite 3 
i and “ W. R., that i is not the soil 
market rhe exhibition for some years, and 
e best colour fruit on the south side, where 
ed to the aun. I also believe that under 
careful ap iepa — are many 80 
ore colour if the proper soi il- 
‘within their reach. It is a well- 
iron in the soil, 
or exhibit h some 
Wellington gp! eee. in colour y Worcester 
Pearmain. They grown in an orchard, where 
there ra et trees of the same sort, but 
— manures Beis fruit 
— t for 
Raspberries, red an Currants, and Goose- 
berries I now often have a few bushels 
put on = kitchen garden, 9. — dug in before e 
out any of the Brassica family. J. M., Southampton, 
SEMI-DOUBLE - Vi 
CINTHS. —Will you k kindly ‘inform me what is the rea- 
fth RI 
have several other pota of various colours coming t the 
e 
rdinary co 
0 ‘a shoot wit 
r 
are unable to assign the precise spe pet in all 
probability was climatal, and was ative last 
summer or autumn, when the flower- bude were first 
safe within the bulb, Ep ] 
ERSUS NEW CALENDARS OF GA 
OPARA TIGAN —I am m 
spondence which h 
the above topic. I said all that I thought worth 
saying in regard to 8 rs’ ‘ne mee in the 
, Mare 3 
1893. The books mentioned by oie. 3 te in sn 
re full of 
he 
of re 
ountry. I ref 5 sg — 
I refer e different i 
— fangi. The common Mush > 3 politis 
hie rn ge 3 to nearly all of ur, and has been 
vegetable worth cultivat ating for 
any years, “The Morel, M 
wait kn sie. ant bce 5 orchella esculenta, is also 
there are nearly a dozen other edible 
. € ; species con mon 
— pa which ee mention the Charatarelle, 
ulis, pes, Hydna, Orcella, 
[Maron 2, 1895, 
Agaricus 8 de Puff Balls, an 
Fistulina hepat Ok these there must be 
deserving of i derade, but they are r 
gro ear after year, ever, or very sel 
appear at our tables. In Russia and other co ntries 
on the continent, many species of fungi are not only 
considered aae, but are made the obj f culti- 
vati r indifference, then, to this article of food 
mus sure accounted for by our 
ignorance of their ear It is true t 
are occasionally killed by eating the onous 
5 would be i great measure pre- 
the poisonous an 
be done by bringing 
into greater prominen as articles of foots ary as 
, Agaricus campes 
succeeded in ealtivadiin,, so might other pote: and 
es of diet, 
pore s this short article will be favour 
no a means of bringing into our 
133 mar Kats wholesome articls of food, 
A, Kitley, Crystal Place Sydenham. 
THE METRICAL SYSTEM.—I cannot admit that 
se, because 
y count on their ten fingers) is so incon- 
venient, that the measures founded upon it have no 
called “decimal,” they are 
w what an infinitely superior means of 
calculation it is than the e decimals. 
C. W. Strickland, 
ACTINIDIA POLYGAMA — This , as its name im- 
ern m 
market in the to 
be 
—— — 
cultivated long ago — such 3 horticulturists 
as the e are. Max Leicht aden- Badem 
ON OF GARDEN wig ae a reader of 
the horticultural papers during the past twenty year 
I have —— that the above question is — 
l corr 
n to learn as that contribu 
-6 and 198. Iti is Mer’ fe jeie in 
ced ed 
them into work in a l 
glad to get t we 
bring grist to the mill to help support the bos 
