Mar 18, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
621 
have left school. Still, these gardens do constitute 
acho * r instruction in gardening, and although 
limited generally to vegetable culture, yet, th 
penny much that constitutes the groun dwork of 
n various ways, and generally 
the gardens are highly appreciated, 
BuLL’S ORCHID EXHIBITION.—It is rather 
that 
ps it is 
to this prolonged art that is due the more 
refined grouping that is now perceptible. As to 
quantity, every one knew that there was plenty, 
there w no n 0 eas that fact, 
For au we know, there may be as much 
now, but if so, the 5 is lighter and 
more delicate. Masses of colour are broken up 
by graceful Palms, and space is eee for the = 
ut we are sure that we have n 
W. Orchids to 
Mend — ‘exhibition, which will be open throughout 
the 
LAPLAND KALE. —Enquiries have recently been 
mean in e N re 1 
the med being 
productive N and 
being very hardy, iin of great service after severe 
winters. He suggests that the Labrador Kale is 
synonymous with the Lapland variety. Our en- 
quiring correspondent of a few weeks’ back will 
kindly take note. 
LECTURE ON PARKS AND GARDENS, PAST 
AND PRESENT. — Mr. F. W. 
gardener to Messrs. R. ‘Ve EITCH 
at Yeovil on 
lecture on Par 
tions, giving views of d gardens in many 
parts of the world, including those of the most 
ancient, as well as others of a modern type. 
PRESENTATION.—On Wednesday afternoon the 
workmen in St. James’s Gardens, West Malvern, 
G. Jessop, who h 
for the last two years, with a purse of money and 
an address, 
STOCK-TAKING: APRIL.—As compared with 
April of last year, the Board of Trade Returns show 
a deficit in imports to the value o 
decline in viet of £307,565. 
ps en for by the Easter holidays, Leaving them 
ks eee there would certainly have Ngee 
crease to record under both headings. are 
e that the labour market shows a ii 
return, as compared with the same period last 
year; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 
his Budget speech, whilst t Trade 
ti ress, made som 
perti inent e the e occasion, which 
££ 
Tea has HeY e eg 1855 per cent. of the z na- 
tion’s Tea n mes from Tadia a and Ceylon. 
ossai jii: ot Tobacco has increased by nearly t per 
Ba 
cent., whilst that of Coffee had declined; Cocoa has 
increased in 8 bhai asses a to have been 
better fed, and a cost than in forme el 
and the me * — societies and the sa 
banks show that the national thrift is of a higher 
reg than ae The annexed are 
m the Su enk table printed in the Nl 
ce the past mont 
IMPORTS. 8 1894. 1895. Difference. 
2E 2 £ 
Total value of imports | 35,015,781 | 34,341,358 —674,423 
2 3 of food 
dri 5 
— bas 11,019,979 | 11,385,692 +365,713 
(B.) Ades ét food 
and drink—dutiable| 1,888,908 1,871,632 —17,276 
Raw materials for | 
textile ne | 
tures 7,338,021 7,092,876 —245,145 
w | 
sundry industries 
and manufactures ,,.| 3,597,390 3,005,266 —592,124 
(A.) e ee 
articles eas | 1,888,642 1,241,128 —147,514 
(B.) Parcel Post 74,630 97,011 | +22,351 
oe Panag pang 22 up from the general mass 
g, possesses its usual interest, now that our 
e friends are e e forward on our market 
what they have to spare from their own :— 
IMPORTS. 1894. 1895. | Difference. 
Fruit, raw :— | 
Apples bush. 104,819 221,229 -+116,410 
Cherries ae sr s 
Plums 3 100 3 —100 
Pears „ 1,716 4,051 | +2,335 
Sas 933 1,881 | +948 
Unenumerated 4 31,315 | 34,854 |  -+3,539 
Onions ner 529,416 | 470,437 | —58,979 
Po .. Cwt.| 37,055 778,671 4741, 616 
Vegetables, raw, unenu- 2 Big £ 
merated , Value 69,040 86,250 | 417,210 
The “difference” colamn in these figures possesses 
its old value = the reader, 
. TS 
for the month show a falling off o which attention 
is drawn above, 
w 
affairs. He says that the currency — 
greatly depreciated in value, and our merchants 
have increased the selling value of their goods—just 
to keep the commercial boat properly trimmed; but 
our German friends have quite another way of doing 
business—they have withdrawn their old goods and 
substituted a fresh lot, very much reduced in quality, 
and as his German rivals are content with smaller 
— they are likely to make aot out of this bit 
of “ smart ” business rectificatio 
E CULTURE.—The small manual on the 
cultivation of the Grape-vine, by Mr. J. R. Pearson, 
3 Nurseries, pann 3 issued 
some few years ago, appears to have met a want 
2 erally felt, and a new edition, the sixth, is now 
e who is ewan 
delle with ard contraction of glasshouses 
well as with advanced — 
pens it is dae illustrated by designs of 
useful house or Vines alone, or Vines and 
pot- an We r — the old methods of wooden 
rafters and glass secured with putty, used for bedding 
the glass, but not above the pane, is preferred to any 
of the n lewer ones ; and we t think that he is right if 
paint be used as a first coat after the “ priming,” 
secure freedom from drip. The border receives 
Mr. Pearson’ amount of attention, as 
s hands a due 
do the heating arrangemen enin, Meike of Vines, cid 
the general culture of the Vine from the seca 
planting till it comes intofull bearing, A brief desc 
. — ad the varieties of Grape, the Vine Pet 
this country under glass, with naturally 
tine 2 — but perfectly candid accounts of the 
varieties raised at Chilwell herie the last twenty- 
five years. A useful amateur’s manual, cheap at the 
price of 1s, 
THE pi saan AND DISTRICT GARDENERS’ 
MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION held their 
2 general moeting in the Y.M.C.A., Grange Road, 
ay 11. e secretary read over the statement 
3 accounts, which showed that the „5 
of the were in every wa . 
Although rg in existence five bh the — 
r on the rolls. During the 
of fortnightly meetings 
oe 
© 
5 
the evening inclu 
8 for the ensuing twelve months, Mr. W. 
E, head gardener to Mr. Jonx WILLIAMSON, 
of 3 Grange, was elected chairman. 
PROPAGATION OF XANTHOCERAS SOR 
BIFOLIA,— The propagation of the ee 
Yellowhorn can be carried out by seed, layering, and 
by soft shoots under glass, If the gardener pos- 
zesses old plants, the suckers which form in the 
8 ma taken off and ee on. The roots 
lend themselves likewise to propagation, and 2 
very n 
a bottom-heat, and apply water with great care 
he a ae rag if too much be afforded. 
There is for shading them 
growth 8 pot each piece separately, replace 
on eee. oe afford shade till established, 
Accust e plants to full sunshine and air, and 
when sufficiently aaa for gis weer: 
do so by sinking the a bed of 
coal-ashes or sand ina 
Jeu the planta will be f for planting in the nursery 
in a well-drained bed of It muat not be for- 
gotten that the plant demands a warm sheltered 
position, and a soil free from standing water. If 
2 be sown in April or May out- ol. dora. the 
eed-bed should b 
lights, the seedlings dying wholesale if if exposed to 
much moisture, Moller's Deutsche Gärt ung. 
DEVON AND ato GARDENERS’ fis doe: 
IMPROVEMENT AssOCIATION, — The 
have fixed the fourth Wednesday i in a Jay Q cst) as 
the date of the summer outing for d by 
permission of the Right Hon, Lord es Sir 
5 
which places are noted for t. horticultural interest 
they possess. Mr. Anprew lope, Hon, Sec., will 
be happy ge e any T in regard to the 
starting point and route to be taken, the price of 
tickets, &c. 
UTRECHT.—The r- 5 Club hold 
their biol exhibition 
(May to 19), The — is Mr, D. E. 
ow 
“ Horses, Asses, Zesras, MuLES, AND 
MULE BREEDING.” By W. B. Teozrmetar and C. L. 
SUTHERLAN, LAND (London e Cox, Field Offi 
Uader this long title, 
about on 
n Great Britain;” “oa the 
length, and carefully, of some recen 
animals, such as Presevatsxi’s horse and Gaevy's 
