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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arrn 20, 1995, 
than 5,288,512 bushels of Onions, of the value of 
£7 came from abr a 
Iti is gotesitirthy that rts of Onions from 
ce 1885, but 
those from 
increased, Ther receipts of Oaions from Egypt have 
more = quadrupled in the past decade, 
or, again, were mer a a sources of 
Early and 
tations bn very early Pot 
fere mach with Boglish growers of Potatos, ree 
Channel Islands, whose Potatos are not read 
continue in increasing quantities until the Channel 
Islands season begins. The average importation of 
Potatos for the first six months of the last three 
years from France, Lisbon, Canary Islands, Malta, 
the Channel Islands, and other countries was 
The average quantity of Potatos imported from this 
source for the four months—May, June, July, 
Au f the last three years was 1,171,216 cwts., 
of an average value of £521,141 for each of the three 
riods 
The average annual importation of Potatos of the 
last three years from all parts of the world to this 
eee to 2,846,754 cwts., of an average 
value of £962,458 
The volume of imported Potatos has, however, 
ee 
in a 
years ending 1875, the average annual importation 
of Potatos was 5,363,136 cwts, For the three years 
ending 1885, the 2 eee — was 
3,297, C 1 „ 80 e large 
importing countries which 1 . gs 
te summer and autumn have greatly diminished 
their aupplies, as they could not compete with the 
English main crop produce. But from the Canary 
Islands, the e Malta, Spain, and the south of 
France, er sources, steady supplies of new 
Potatos have — sent. 
the new Potatos and Waere ee 
large quantities of raw, unenum vegeta 
such as Peas, French Beans, Lenton, and _ 
“ salads,” Cauliflowers, Spinach, Beetroot, Radisher, 
Turnips, and Cucumbers are sent from Denmark, 
ermany, Holland, France, Portugal, Madei 
pain les, i Austrian Territories, 
other countries, The 
average annual value of 8 imported ve 
1885, the value Wy. as £467,287, 
Pe ovata 1875, it was ee £132 124, divided enced 
Holland. France, and Germany, 
naterially with the tol ori 11 
the early spring wor and it ie meurs 
delicate vegetables and salads that —— 
have hitherto made their chief gains, Some profit 
is still made from young 3 ” Onions in 
y and Jane, as Oaions are no 
in thi 
form. 5 
imported in 
ese are now, however, produced by oe 
who, as a market-gardener remarked lately, 
driven into it, and look over the hedge an 
imitate er. eber Vatil a few years ago 
lery was a very 3 crop, realising gross returns 
of £40 to £70 per e, when it was grow n by com- 
paratively few “inate fide market-gardeners, Now it is 
grown by farmers, and upon sewage farme, so that 
din some seasons the markets 
ge quantities of Celery are 
now grown in in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, In some 
ofa propinquity to towns 
i markets, 
ificant degree. For the three- 
j 8 near rail wa 
a with Manchester and Birmi 
districts, Asparagus was formerly produced with 
considerable profit to the growers, N for the 
first fortnight or so of the season, but the importa- 
tion of Aspar from Toulouse, isn: Paris, and 
f Spain, which begins in ary an 
until about the ti 
anu a 
8 when English 
Asparagus is ready, has in recent years rendered 
this crop less profi table. 
The high rents of market-garden land near 
London, in oo Essex, Kent, and Surrey, as 
e s and sca rcity of labour, also 
is applies to all market- 
d more disinclined 
work on the land. In the production of such 
crops as Onions, Carrots, Celery, and Lettuce, a 
great deal of labour is absolutely essential, not only 
for their cultivation, but also for preparing them for 
arket, and in this re 
2 
market in their own conveyance 
me near e A communicating directly with 
arkets, to consign large quantities of 
ende r, TES reasonable rates, though they 
aud market gardeners een of the om charged 
for small consignments of their produc 
Technical knowledge is necessary in -the produc- 
poe of vegetables, Some market gardeners are par- 
ticularly clever, visa and hardworking, always 
n the look-out for 
— m, from connection with salesmen and their 
in 
up as to supply and demand. 5 
they have a certain advantage over farmers, who 
do not, as a rule, care about small details, and would 
not have such opportunities of getting information 
as to immediate and prospective market wants, But 
where technical knowledge may be easily obtained, 
ing the state of markets, and it will pay to grow vege- 
tables, farmers will no doubt adapt themselves to 
circumstances rendered necessary by the exigencies 
of the times, 
to be some opening for the further 
d 
cultivation in the open. A Jar, 
a 
growing Tomatos, in cheaply-built glasshouses, for 
the English markets. The cultivation of this 
vegetable is simple and profitable, and in view of the 
increasing demand, it may be worthy of the attention 
of British farmers, 
Market-gardeners have done best who grow fruit 
together, in eee e from 
ways 
Ş 
Malaia. as well 5 the 
N. are 
í as herbs and Aa 
there is Nr g 
In some of these favoured districts, as Pershore Si 
e- giog the tati ‘en 
eir rotations t 
. — s to suit the altered 
For ea fruit and vegetables, we 
, We may add, 
cultivation in heated glasshouses puts us more on an 
equality with the foreigner, whilst no doubt the use 
of the electric light will in the future render essen- 
help. It is already in profitable use in America, 
we in the old country are alwaya very slow in 
Ooy aa n 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
na STEN GLABRA, Bailey * 
s Aroid is now flowering at Kew 
than the spathe; but it possesses one quality 
distinguishes it from all the o 
the odour is very similar to that of the pink sweets 
sold under the name of pea r- drops. 
The peduncle is over a foot in height, moderately 
stout, and with the usual snake-like mottlings, Th 
apathe is about 6 inches long, and about 14 inch in 
diameter, being rather closely rolled around the 
spadix in the ich i 
; the inside is u. _ The spadix is much | 
blackish dots. The leaf has not yet appeared. It 
is a native of Queensland and North Australia, 
E. Brown, 
Dawpaostom AMBOINENSE, aa Bot. Mag. t. 4937, 
shorter t has 
of a eulphur-yellow N covered with | minute 
ugh it were a new 
ced plant, The 
psendobulbs are slender at the base, The 
are borne in pairs, and have white sepals and petals, 
which are 3 inches long, and curve downward, The 
lip is of remarkable form, with rounded side lobes, 
and the middle one — 1 colour of a dark 
yellow tint, with a few ish markings, The 
plant was first discovered by Henshall oat M 
modation, the 
accomm | 
and flowerer, and & Co : 
a 
favourite, J. 
2 
* 
* 
ORCHID NOTES ANO GLEANINGS. 
THE VAGARIES OF CROSS-BRED | 
DIUMS. $ 
Ir is very difficult to say what freaks fr not 2 
observed in the flowers even of 1 a 
cross-bred Cypripedium, This f 
candidulum) ae by Mr. Wm. 
to W. maden, Esq. 
The one is or the ordinary Me i 
and rose-tinted hue of the flow 
there is strong evidence of 8. 
trace of S. caudatum, which would come 
* Amorphophallus glabra, ee ia Bulletin No. 20 (n 
Bu'letin No. 7), of the Queensland D ns poe 
1893, p. 68; 5 ha variabilis, Bentham, 
liensis, v. 7, p. 154, not of Schott. 
