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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Armi 13, 1995, 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE. 
—“ The Lotus is not a large tree, 
b rny, and has a green leaf, 
like the Rhamnus (Black o r Whitet 
LOTUS, 
equal to round Olives, and has a i 
Wine is made of it; it only keeps te f. 
aleo is made out of it,” (History OF 5 9 oe 
historian, B.C circa), two vols., 
Shuckburgh, Zud vol., > 79) H. M. This, Z * 
phus Lotus, or perhaps, Nitraria tridentata, has no 
thing to do with the . Lotus. 
BOTANY IN BOARD schools. It is, as you say 
(0. ae) gratifying to know hat the teaching be 
me of our prim 
rather than wor 
that ten-year-old apil are too young to learn botany; 
to your question as to how much of 
ry Botany should be 
even more 
Diagrama b the black- 
a fal supplement to the actual 
examination of plants by a elass of ‘Degianers than 
the small uncoloured illustrations in a text-book. 
ustrations, 
useful for the moe 
most use al sazii to the 
extensive 
zebeme i, T shortly to be put 
is aai for supplying educational sets illustrative of 
economic botat Then, what with forced or im- 
por ig plants or ‘their fruits and 
to some extent the meaning of a map of the world! 
If, however, the nni is to inspiring, the 
teache have enthusiasm and a knowledge 
which is not itself entirely of book origin. G. 9, 
Boulger, 18, Ladbroke Gro 
A ROSE de ENSIS. — Possibly it aj i 
. H. M.“ he 
oll 
ment in the iseu ane 712 of the first 
of the Gardeners’ Chronicle : 
volume 
Rosa Devoniensis, a 
very beautiful new jami of which * possess = 
entire stock. Si exhibited o 
demand, otlan [The 
repeated on June 18; and the demand is very much 
larger. 
E CHISWICK VEGETABLE EXHIBITION, —It is 
indeed 1 satisfactory to learn that we are to have after 
alla metropolitan Mi ore show this year. Also 
that it will take t Chiswick, where there is 
ample room, and n on Least piat urgent b 
Haro led to the shifting of the date m Oct. 15, a 
the weather ma 
mere fact that the vegetable show will fall i 
than the oe Palace fruit * will do the latter 
not the least harm, whilst it give to vegetable 
ire ea the same encourage- 
r fruit-growing brethren. 
yal Hortic ultural Society Council 
usiness, t ey may, 
n's colleetions, aud in other 
ways m 
We and Joost tive, Now, an exhibition of this 
3 up, as is often the case, of 
esents a favourable opportunity 
ao 
sans for winning prizes, 
can exercise no pe beneficial influence. hat- 
ever may be ms of other soceties, it is not 
too much to ask of. the Royal Horticultural Society, 
O sen 
titten that would at o 
sorte, rather tha 
repelling dirty 2 ? Look, how, in the majority 
aes, vegetables are roughly and unevenly 
gathered and cad: See how they go to the 
market ia wagons that but s few h before ware 
laden with manure. Follow these iiai into the 
mark and se e how they are 3 t 
d to su sua and wind- how finally, when 
wind 0 
— 
price bas gone up. hat w 
hey otherwise would do, could it be placed before 
them fresh, cheap, and attractive. What can th 
do towards helpin 
season, a very distressing one, but an 
accident all the same, and ma ay not be without its 
ons mane: e less. soon we shall b 
getting ou Po summer 8 5 and . comes the 
question kow to make the yi f tbem; 3 
tainly not in the old style. On any hand 
complaints as to the poor returns obtainable k all 
forms of coarse or common vegetables, 
aware that such complaints are made with rasp Ek 
the higher class products, 1 as Seakale, As para * 
early Cauliflowers, choice s 
asked in regard to vegetables that something sh 
e done toi ve their market status, just as is 
earnestly sought to be done in relation to fruit. All 
that such able market salesmen a Mess 3. Webber 
and Monro have been so long preachiag with regar! 
to fruit 3 is equally applicable to o vegetable 
packing and marketing. Our hom 5 5 
their m 
ode. How suicidal, 
pr e to follow in the same 
It is really a qcvestion of maintaining the 
superiority of home Producte of ir there can be 
no doubt as against superior mar methods, If 
we will combine the two, we peed ie fear but that 
our home products will once more 7 the 
highest position in the Staa of the British 
consumer 
ENS’ NEW STRAWBERRY.—As a reader of 
the Seared Chronicle, aai intees'ed in the forcing 
of Strawberries, I see this fine variety has been 
favourably noticed ia i ur journal, and I believe 
received a First-class Certifi ate at ths Royal Horti- 
week of February last, a 
not essily to be forgotten, Fruit iu thousands, plenty 
f them weighing 1 0z., and e l} oz., and con- 
Saal D the severity oft i 
Vinet the mana 
as employed to 
in which the ants are forced are span-roof house, 
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grown here, a 
Spottiswo od, 
THE EDUCATION OF GARDENERS.—Once nat „ 
this subject is — f 
opinion it is a subject pii cannot be 
too often. All young gardeners who devote their 
kn owie ant K e 
1 ‘ha ere lend advice 
rdeners > Chronicle. He 
th 
po fade — nted “i Mr. capri 
afforded on p. 369 o Aig ; 
has sarin taken a A interest ia the 2 a 
improvement of abbas © rari 5 -a of en. 
8 
TP Se 0 
men would take up the ch good, I 
would result. Ma ae . pase gardeners 3t 
good enough in their own wa an 
by employers, would soon revolutionise the Rue 
world, and separate the best men from the 
gardeners. G. 
wages. I beg to di res 
statement that children cngh 
the three R’s „ 
