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xture to about 400 parts of soil, this being con- 
s than recommended by Mr. Willis, his 
ng one part of a similar manure to 
of soil (4 ounce to 4 lb.). Mr. W. Dyke 
p. 74) ten times as much (75 ounces to 
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ous The manure 
was well incorporated with the soil by turning it 
several ee during the fortnight it was lying before 
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xe the first half of 258 E » the plants 
were Ee into this soil, r part being 
planted out in the open gro Daring the next 
two months, I was not satiafied with the look of 
them at all, They made but little progress, the 
leaves were and of a rather yellowish-green 
colour, still lan not really thy, 
and they filled the pots well with healthy roots, but 
they lacked dark-green colour and robustness 
(24 to 25 September), they were about 1 foot shorter 
than usual, and did not look promising at all. 
But from that moment to the present time, 
expected. hey commenced wW ce (fer 
this the warmer climate ount), showed 
buds well, and they have been flowering the whole of 
I have only planted-out plants to compar 
‘these were lifted some days earlier with gooå balls, 
and planted in an old Cucumber bed in front of the 
same house in which the plants in pots occupy the 
middle. These planted-out plants got a serious 
check somehow (they had a few iu of frost 
one night, but ар о in pots had the same and 
one night thout any injury), causing the 
firat buds to und , and up to date, 
we have not cut these, h 
‘cut about half the crop from the plants in pots, 
- sorts the same, but they promise a rich and welcome 
late crop of small flowers. 
The ep I draw from m 3 
and from some earlier ones in the а ion 
with other planta, i is, that artificial manures (espe- 
-cially kainit Т slag), are rather dangerous 
Perera soil, that I only just 
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least some months before using it ting. 
But erop of flowers from rather miserable 
plants also shows that, at last, it was t 
rich i in potash and phosphoric acid promotes fertilit 
growth, and tends to make flowering 
mineral salts we are aterilizing 
t for а time of all that animal 
or vegetable life ich otherwise decom 
table) for potash. Bat mineral manures may also 
be safe if applied at the right time, and they are 
generally much cheaper than the others. 
This event is a good answer to the question about 
theory and practice, a" shortly put it is, that 
theory has here, without any — iw used, 
iven a very dangerous advice, and your much 
blamed non-theoretical, but M peers gardener, 
have one and all—at if seems so to m 
escaped a serious failure iy. 106 taking any otis " 
the advice given, preferring to stick to old tried 
methods until the new ideas have been put to the 
t. This is always safe, and perhaps it is the best 
way to go. We gardeners cannot all be masters of 
chemistry or 9 sciences relating to hortieulture, 
but what we require are trustworthy middlemen, and 
these you have got in pes X of science—in 
this connection only to mention Sir John Lawes 
and Sir Henry Gilbert. Bat TEL am again entering 
on this ng question, and it is not my theme 
on this occasio 
I cannot ea these remarks on Chrysanthemums 
without mentioning that it is not with unmixed 
pleasure I always closely follow every Chrysanthe- 
mum event in England from beginning to end ; it is 
interesting to search for new varieties, and very 
gra tifying to see almost all those procured one year 
earing again in most prize-winning standa the 
following season, 
nvious Беса 
exhibition or an нй учу flower; we have not got 
exhibitions yet, and I do not think it would pay to 
w such flo 
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mode of culture in England, ut 1 kr find great 
pleasure and profit in а house filled with T neon, 
MIC e 5 
me ten to twenty . on measuring 31 
мө in diameter, an ost all the илеу 
that are to be found at T en If I am 
surprised 2 anything concerning Chrysanthemum 
culture in Eagland, it is the small number of 
viditius recommended for cutting purposes. I find 
t the varieties C. Davies, M Griiaerwald, 
— . Rey, Col. W. B. Smith, Condor, 
Florence Davies Gloire du Rocher, Jeanne Delaux, 
кеттн Seward, Viviand 
Dames, F. 
me C, 4 Mrs. J. Wright, 
and other good ри sorts pay me as well as 
those so much recommended, and much better than 
do the incurved pon, and anemone classes, 
. Andersen, Jönköping, Sweden, 
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OUR FRUIT TRADE. 
ia Colonial and ec rate trade is growing 
ee and 
* those о! of ny 
time of жаы шау be found luscious py tins 
lands far re ар т e corner of en ro 
No Bon is season over than i 
fruit from the the Antipode, from the Pacific cha 
sunny lands and islands. 
To-day good Pope pas being retailed in London 
streets at the of four a penny !—not dried- -up 
rubbish, but bei, spheres of sweetness, As 
to the Cape supplies, much has still to be 2 by 
those engaged in the trade. 2 of the fruit 
sent to market are fine specimens, and reward the 
— moat of the remainder ы never to have 
n placed here on sale, d 
ove 
rictically 
non-existent, are in excellent dn, though they 
have to go to the wall in face of the 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avast 17, 1895, 
Dr 
quality of the fruit was generally better than that of 
the previous season. The general же on of the 
fruit on landing was sole hotter than 
1 и worth noting that the р Canal 
o Manchester is having some ip. 
fluence on the iri trade oft the d “a it is con- 
Fruit Brokers’ old of 
000 packages, made up of fruits ipe e^ ‘hinds, from 
all fruit-producing countries—there not being any 
kind of fruit imported into Liverpool wich have not 
The gr 
as hitherto been in Valencia Oranges; but new 
fields of supply, we are told, are being formed in 
taly, Sicily, Smyrna, Lisbon, and Seville; and 
efforts are now being made to procure trade in 
Canadian Apples; and во, after all, it may come to 
pass that all the year round we shall have a supply 
of fresh fruits from whence to draw comfort and 
health. Z. C. 
BELGIUM, 
CHAMBRE SYNDICALE DES HORTICUL- 
TEURS BELGES. 
Tue last monthly meeting of this association was 
Scherzerian 
Adriani, spathe sturdy, habit fine, colouring excel · 
lent; to M. L. De Smet-Davivier (par acclamation) 
for Nerine Fothergilli; ; the plant bore seven floral 
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twenty pots of tuberous Begonias 
flowers of an excellent strain; the ‘peduncles і em 
arie 
example of а species becoming very rare; X. 
Francois Desbois for Spiræa Anthony Waterer; 0 
the same exhibitor and also to M. Dalliére for 
land; also to the auno exhibitor for 2 
tricandata, a sturdy free-flowering plant, wi 
singular flowers and curious in к номе E — 
ng 
atro-pu 
of the leaves, "ges are dark purple merging 
black; MM. D.s а ynaert obtained Cè 
tifieates for Baphorbia Fournieri, a plant which looks 
as if its pretty green lea 
Cactus; М, 2 with tuberous 1 
flowers, in every way admirable. Othe cri 
were awarded to M. Jules Hye (ра — 
а Cattleya Rex, а splendid flower of this fine pss 
were пена to М. І. De Smet-Da 
Adiantum macrophyllum albo- striatum, а = ' _ ' 
— whereon the rosy-red of the young: wel 
effective among the adult eg 
streaked with white; to the s& 
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