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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 23, 1895, 
ae much faith, I only tried six. I selected them 
from a plot in the field, in various stages, from little 
more than a . ea to a forward or quite mature 
Cabbage. is morning, my friend paid me a visit, 
and we lifted two of the Cabb whi 
ard 
2 pongi! * proper depth yet), and find ‘them 
te mY w m buried 
pulled up ihe ports ts, dug h and buried themin 
it head downwards. "William t Hovell gre to &. Herbert 
Morrell, Esq., Headington Hill, Ozford 
CIDER OR CYDER.— An article in the Gardeners’ 
Ghandi of this week on cider reminds me — i 
very recen tly saw in some London 
inquiry about the derivation and spelling of vider, 
and Pliny (! A we quoted as an authority for spelling 
the word with a y. Strange as the change may 
seem, there 10 no reasonable doubt that cider is a 
corro the ww sikera. 
s ado 
nt (St. Luke, i., i, 15), © 
n the Baptist “ shall drink . 
wine nor — The old Hebrew commentators 
-eand he lost work), where sikera 
eidiri. Wyckliffe’s eeg of the . 
e have, He s not drinke wyn 
eydyr.” This will hardly 1 thought an authority 
for eyder, unless we opt wyn. As for m, 
în 
Q 
© 
E. 8 
© 
. 
also inclu er, is a good classic 
meaning Fig wine,” and has no connection with 
sikera. Skeat, Latham, Littré, all agree in the 
I have given. The last-named, 8 his 
large lexicon, gives the changes which word 
ore undergoes in ah different European 8 
y does not occur in any one of them. 
0. W. Dod, Bdge Hall, Malpas 
CIDER.— Until I read the Journal of the Society 
8 that cider w variety of thirst-quenching 
liquids, which was tolerable only under certain con 
0 d . lerable under any 
conditions rather a ee 7 the state- 
ments made, I — to Mess r & Sons 
Banham, Attleborough, Norfolk, a pala ce ro 
samples, which were more than 
tolerable, under any conditions. It would appear 
roducing wines ter eae 
less than 5 per cent. of spirit, which will bear 
i vo — ie a of hock and dhiii 
pagne, 
the British , product, 8 this at a price which quite 
excludes * pa reigner. No doubt there are other 
can produce samir fine anampa, and 
they oniy S eed to be known to maka our home- 
product popular and reset g used, Thos. Tete ner 
Grappenhall, Cheshire, 
cr ARGENTEUM.—I should be 
i the Se She the experience of 
care in pottin 
of th e soil, Aden should be of 
uality, open, 
and porous. I should like to 
know if the pla with arti artificial 
nt will do well if fed 
ith 
spines as The leaves when 
painted on are sold by the natives, and thus made of 
commercial value. There are only a few plants in 
this cou — and its general treatment in this 
changeable cli of ours is as yet practically 
unknown; 7 . — 1 should be pleased to see in 
the columns of the Gardeners’ Chronicle the experi- 
ence given o i 
possession. Pe 
ampton e tree was figured in th 
Decembe sat 188 9. p. 5 and a brief notice of the 
plant occurs at p. 714. Ep. 
1 OUT oe 1 NEET, 
McLeoa’s note o of the last volume 
reminds me of the 9 adopted in tha gardens o 
t 1500 8 
vear for ing permanent be 
Vicomtesse H hu Laxton’ Noble, eee 
ir J. Paxton, and r . The gro is 
spring. Vicomtesse 9 hea- s the e 
e taken straight from 
and planted. From these forced plants the strongest 
runners are obtained for nex year’s 
crop of ex pal fant aeons fruits 
Vicomtesse the e autumn 
clean, straw is strewn among plants, and th 
trusse it are tied 
the same year, except a few 
runners would do they carry a better crop of 
fruit the next summer than those. C. 
LATE SEVERE FROSTS —I see your corre- 
. ee C. Leeson Prince, F. R. Met. S., in 
1 ners 
t Chronicle, alludes to 
Jan , as being the severest frost ever 
observe him. I, too, ta diary at that date, 
and it is very singular and interesting to ho 
exactly t r tha n compares with th 
one we ugh. My diary states 
the autumn of , and the first week in January, 
as 
o 
alm d 
mes was completely —.y 
in history. e 
over, fires were made thereon, and a considerable 
traffic was as kept up for some ine, Brea 
not more; and Rose 
I expect be found killed by trond especially the 
Tea varieties, W, H. Rogers, Southam 
a TUE IN son HOOL8.— —1 was much 
districts would derive from — in- 
struction irera i by competent pe 2 
0 ined. There would, koosne ing many 
äificulties to overcome, and not the least 
la 
s 
at for others 
did before them, and are ve aceptical ab 
po being tant even a read an a — aoe 
management of 3 _ They “used to do w 
learning,” is the Mark I have ofte 
s the managers of the villa age schoo 
get pe 
learn — * of things at school which unfits 
them — their occupation, and they know more 
n their masters. Clergymen, too, ia the rural 
— — 
distriets are sadly opposed to a pie: I 1 have 
often heard them remark that men who 
their living by Dlonghing, or hedgin ng a 
need n ing. With 
ts, 'armers 
telling their men that if they plough more than 
4 inches deep, a greater amount of man 
he money it, hay a 
advantage in some places had the Parish Councils 
the m ment schools, with power to take 
land for * * In some districts the funds 
are so low o admit o most m 
improrements dein pith. hat prospect, 
. 
J 
runing-knife, I have 
often s ne and watched men having cottage gardens 
dig, who on account of not having had any instruc- 
tion in the use of the spade made very laborious 
work of it even though they do not turn the soil over 
of thrusting the spade 
dicularly, but simply, — to parina agre 
ology, point over the ground,” and 
produce a good crop, and are surprised on ‘finding chet 
the plants “ — — up when a spell of dry ee 
ets in. 
with the eee, and hav e not the 
eee e of the difference between a fruiting ere 
wood-bud, or why Black Currants require dif- 
ferent pruning from the red varieties, it is 
that many would be only too glad to be instructed 
graft, and to make cuttings, 
advocate A school 3 
o look after one, and it was by such that I received 
the first instruction in the cultivation of vi 
principal crops in the garden. H. C. Prinsep, 
Park Gardens, 
o doubt rash to 
DO PLANTS EAT SOIL ?—It is n 
that answers 
criticise the collective 3 pede bat 
root-hairs, as a rule, 7% has 
cannot help thin = that scant justice of 
1 a as Jamieson’s fifteen pe 
he “ Repo 
Association for the 8 in 
Scotland for 1891.“ He . Lupine Carrot, 
root - hai T ip, ea, grass, 
Tobacco, Potat Beet, ae yaad gae 
i.e., in representatives ef Ka large order% nop 
guminoss, U ifers, s „ 
diaces, and Graminem, and adds inte fo fnd the 
plant that I haye examined d ption of 
aperture,” He also gives figures an ; 
Fam 
