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CHRONICLE. 
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This will be in his — place, at 58. per week 
erp A, pots, and help in the Re If the lad be 
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rom £1 to 24s, per week, 
oul about 10 per cent. of the places 
are really large places, employing from twelve to 
forty men, p high-class practical gardeners. 
It is in auch plac as these that a knowledge of the 
different sciences 1 by Mr. Boulger would be 
extremely use eful, Although 1 am bound to say that 
well d by men 
who “have ‘only what is the real esential of gar- 
dening—the practical a 3 d wi k 
Jedge E the three Rs, I should be nck for any 
to imagine e that I —— opposed to education 
but ie is this 3 education to reach our 
yo men n the majority o 
gardens are situated in lonely districts. 
miles distant. 
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to Par vate e 
they a studiously inclined iat goin foë self-educ 
tion, In large horticultural centres it is easier Tor 
y men to attain a better knowledge of the sub- 
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au ber wh ung man, 
working in ak nursery in Ghent, I found 155 
young me “ae ledge of three fou 
guages, 
government le ses in pursuit o WN and 
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to the above prike take a 
on do we, as regards the real essen- 
actical part, take a - seat ? 
I — — 5 ly, no. From what I have 
seen, and from what I read in foreign . 
Papers concerning the opinions of foreigners who 
have visited these shores, they do not 
the attainment of it will not make our gardeners 
t workmen, W, G., Frythesden Gardens, 
i: TREES KILLED BY OJL-DRESSING.—A 
of mine saw an article in one of the weekly 
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t the plant is devoid 
— nearly to the top, as 
of good material and loss to 
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the growing top of 
take a Ms ore 
to furnish cuttings. In the first place, it 
and a tongue half- 
an-inch or more, according to the girth of the stem, 
d ba 1 open 
moist, In a 
nd potted, 
e same heat as before, and gradually 
hardened off, the treatment afterwards — s simply 
of a routine — — after the plant roken u 
and potte e crown can either ba deepest in 
he usual way, or a . Sharp suggests. J. D. G., 
The Gardens, Collingwood, Burton-on-Trent, 
HESTNUL TREE SPLIT BY] THE FROST. 
Daring the recent severe weather, a Spanish Chestnut 
standing in the paddock was split in three distinct 
a sorte perfectly healthy. The t 
mometer registered 32° of froat here — rt 8. 
F. Fitzwiter, Suig Lodge, Teddingto 
ŒLOQYNE CRISTATA, —Lsetters were written in 
eight blooms on mek I enclose for 
ne having eight blooms, 
; the plant ‘they were cut from is in 
a 10 iach ky aad had 104 blooms on it. A, Holland, 
oe Forest wakas Gardens, Blackheath. tae. variety 
good one, and the plant has evidentl y been 
— very succes id D] 
spikes with 
DESTRUCTION OF ANTS AND CRICKETS. — The 
following . have prov use in killing 
crickets a —Take 1 piet of oatmeal and 2 oz. 
of ane (Porson) saa Car i 
. ouad Ani 
piec e paper cA coar 
ER to partake o i 
honey may be mixed together and laid about for 
pe a place of ante is to mix arsenic 
a few pegs being slipped in between the saucer 
; a te Altea ds ck C. E. Martin, The Hoo * 
5 85 hand from Warm 
various breadths of Patatos lifted that hal been 
grown there by the s County Council, for thə 
trial of Bordeaux Mixture dressiags on the tops 
may therefore b for interest, 
There were asad there numerous varieties that have 
un isease - resisting rep se 
rts om suffer under tha efficts of disease, so 
r in the tubar is concerned, that th 
em seems t 
U be . in that direction than in the mere 
f from Taaa that tha Warminster 
— will prove to be at o ee and valu- 
able. We nace te to set Price 
roduce the cost of the s saying. probably ia two 
applications, S nos excassive, and then s32 
on which side the balance will lie. Whilst these 
that power was i the skins, which ma 
be more impervious to the aa of the spores, or 
else to the entire formation of the tuber flesh, 
of which the f these sorts is composed, 
presents obstacles to the spores too great to over- 
come. Bat after all, to me the greatest interest 
of his owa raising. All o 
as a rule, specially susceptible to 
ar aay attacks, r. Fean does not use the Bor- 
deaux Mixture, bat solely the Anti-blight Powder, 
an e gives his plants, just the disease 
time, dressings of this powder about a week, 
— could be adduced examples of the benefits 
that have, during the past exceedingly 
wider, and, may I say, more national scale? We 
wank ) site within easy access ess of London, where such 
aut e Department griculture may, 
in — with the Royal tural and Hor- 
ticaltural Societies, conduct a ‘ag on the widest 
possible basis. a tria s obvious would 
receive the fullest 3 5 attract t the wi 
attention. res ted with many 
sorts in sections of early, mid-season, and late 
disease-resisting, and sry ca yet high-class non- 
resisters, and so on, aaas eated both with the 
liquid- mixture and t 
most certainly it 
parts, 
disease Potato-breadths, 
is most — if not criminal, on our 
employ them pecially so is this 
the case with earlier and high- -class table varieties, 
where, as 
n the direction named, it is high time 
made, as it is useless 
until it is too late * D. [Es 
farther experiment really necessary ? evidence 
is ample already, it remains for people oniy £ to act 
n it, but tha great majority we may bə sure will 
not 7 45 so. Ep 1 ee 
the —— from the pen of M 
issue of February 2, n Pruning Stan — 
es, for which he gives pe een ints, 
whioh followed vi so mete — en the right 
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vee much further in his teaching ia hago 
practical way, “how not to do — 
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