Marcu 30, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
397 
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the winners of the prizes will be great, and the ex- 
firmsmentioned, The following gentlemen have kindly 
consented to examine the eee sent in for com- 
othe . make the aw : Mr. RongRT Geray- 
The ish Printer) ; qt ro . W. Jones (The 
Printing World) ; ; Mr. W. Jonx SrowmtLt ( The 
iti Colonial * and Stationer). The 
— itoa is limited to 
nne Sunday, March 17, Mr. 
N, Steward and Gardener to the Earl of 
Uffington House, a post he has filled for 
twenty-six peer 8, was prese 
h me watch 1 chain, a tripod lamp, 
also a scarf m from the Ladies — on his 
leaving Uffington for Bank Hall, Tarleton, A silver 
inkstand formed a gift trom the villagers, 
INDIVIDUAL HARDNESS OF PLANTS.—If one 
will 
We say these 
ardi * is common to all kinds of 
urslane, after the first — 
— while the majority are killed, though still 
retaining the green leaves, — to be found inter- 
twined with those which have been killed. This 
There is, of 
5 — e likely to get much beyond this. 
Cultivators range or Lemon in California or 
Fioride, 0 well profit by facts like these, 
Mechans’ Monthly for February. 
AN AGED ELM at UFFCULME.—An Elm tree, 
mid to rad * several hundred years on the 
te, Uffeulme, was on Saturday, the Och 
reateat 
Kr Its g was 25 feet, and it 
was 120 feet higb. 
* av 
Winzig, of Woking, and 154, 155, 
PRESERVING FU. -M. 
Per bis heey that by eg ra 
in a with 
— 25 of alcohol, the said — keep well. On 
Grapes 
Cellar, closed as hes as possible by a w 
u the cellar was a jar containing 100 cubic 3 
mètres of alcohol; the Grapes were 
Wooden frames, Ia two other similar cellars, N 
closed, the other open, but where there was no 
alcoho), the Grapes were Tue 
temperature of the caves ranged from 8° to 10° C. 
(60° F.). Oa November 20, in the open and in the 
Hi 
f 
1111 
jipii 
AATU : 
k, 
in 
ar in closed compartments, adding 
8 
ap 
alcohol is, it appears, very tae ` Revue Scientifique, 
New aA a eg Pea EXPERIMENTS.—M. 
Lönxxx has been making, at Christiania, 
certain — a with a paritenlat. "peana em 
unlike that used by M. Paul. A pole 8m 
(about 26 feet) high, was placed in the middle of the 
ground, which was a square area of about 
The elevations which on either side were 
irregular, and reached a height of eg 5 to 20 
— wn to 64 feet), one side was o to the sea 
and the other close to a wooded height ee some 
15 —— 2 49 fee pik - soil was pre 
bbly, poor in humus, but in marine algæ 
Placed in July, 1893, in a Raa ‘aa oe apparatus 
which diffused the fluid in the earth by means of 
strands of tyres iron, 2 métres apart, produced 
an increase of 11} per cent., and a remarkable rich- 
ness in starch of 237 i cent, against 207 per cent. 
in the best plot. The tubercles — influenced were 
in form similar to those not affected by the electric 
current, but the skin was more — and of a much 
hter red colour than 
vegetation, although it was im 
exact in nerease. Ot her favourable: results 5 
N. lat. Finally, M. Warrixz, at Oatre . near 
Montreal, Canada, obtained, through use of this 
same placed in Tomato plantations 
covering three-quarters of a hectare (nearly 2 acres), 
a crop a 9 in advance of the usual season. 
Revue ntifique, March 9, 1895. 
WASHING AT HOME.—To those who reside in 
the country, and who believe in the advisability or 
of & r See 
» book 
economy o at home,” we can cordially 
on 
. Mrs, Barer di 
pictares shall be ian dee = our favourite arm- 
chairs swathed in dusting-sh as the first 
ceeding. 
purification is coming nearer and nearer. 
— — —õ m ů-— — 
qq ˙kSñꝶ . — 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
VITALITY OF C hg ig 
A SCAN 
It may be in atate that when looking over 
a collection * plante in the greenhouses o of a gentle- 
Birmingham, I notice 
d that the main 
formerly.” Enthusiasts may wri 
write to the contrary, 
but speaking from P e ex 
means a profitabi 
late years; indeed, with the * 
perhaps, of Larch and Ash, every other kind 
the last fifteen years, as will be seen 89 
rec Journal, 
I recently 9 for the Timber Trades 
which were derived from almost every 
county in G Britain. In England, Oak bark at 
present averages ; £3 “A 8. 64. per ton, whilst | fifteen years 
yea ra fetched £10 p r acre, can now hardly be dis- 
poan of for half that ae unt. ‘There are 1 
of rees e ent time in Scotland that 
8 be sold at the 8 figure of 4d. pe 
muc “id 
plantations are grown Shay for economic p! 
but muddled ap with game-coverts, ornamen 
h, however, I have no aie to 
t present. A, D. Webster, Bormoor, Herts, 
8 
THE 80 
the recent show held at — 
made, by an 1 
ading, a prett 
s. Walker, — the 
fl ag no with blooms issus 
and Ferns, a — trailing shoots paragus 
* ra s was remarked by the withet in last 
eek's Gardeners’ Chronicle, it ia a wonder that this 
m ies of Peeper is not more generally 
cultivated, E. M. 
might, — be gp ha ay * in questions 
as 
of synonymy, it was desirab na “authorities 
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paar be the best. As to 73 ec Ar nown 
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