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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[STEUER 7, 1895, 
free setters, bearing large clusters of even, good- 
sized, handsome deep fleshy grad fruit, the lowest 
8 lying almost on the rims of the pots. е 
clus are borne on duis phi -jointed saae 
arag 7 to inches apart—the height of the 
rods is feet. Mr. Lawrenson informs p^ 
is 1 14 & good performance for 
spring-sown plants, gr ch pots, and 
merel tonat 15 inches square. О 
e quantitie 
varieties which can i: thorou enr iden деа ароп 
for ng, аза 8 у friends 
will have found out by now that 1 growing 
is not all profit. Experientia docet. 
THE LARGE CEDAR TREE AT BEECHWOOD PARK, 
Herts, the seat of "ps Egbert Sebright, "B art. The 
height of it is te and the circum- 
ference o e feet from yox ground, is 
29 feet. feel su the gardener 
there, would be «зв to corroborate my statement, 
G. Shepherd, The Lilies, Aylesbury 
THE SWEET LITTLE, DEAR LITTLE, SHAMROCK 
perfe green wiry 
stems, characteristics which are certainly more 
marked in Trifolium minus than in any ot her 
know the real plant, and have often exa ined c 
ot observant enough to 
аге more kinds of Trefoil than one, 
уе seen such an in 
they will share his belief that any 
as well as m si tga little one known botani 
Trifolium minus, 
+ 2 ich 
native thistles is the typical Scotch шч ог which 
фин ^d pesien and eighty-three varieties of 
ose enum: int enden ks ga: 
13 British dani (ш ed), we are to regard the 
Ape 22 ft., Py ome В, A. Phillips, Cork 
My soil is rather rich in potash,” and 
this, ае with the remark that it is a fibry turf, 
naturally leads one to suppose the imagi is not so poor 
may, ne should like 
to have seen its analysis. Another pude I noticed 
in connection with the soil w the quantity ot 
rubbish he mixed with it (бе parte out " five) ; 
mprove it very 
a good ‘thing to Pus on 
me t plantes, — such vigorous 
growe m 
question which concerns us most, be. the use of 
artifici 1 manures. I noti your correspondent 
used an entirely different manure that recom- 
result ? a says:— The nts made but little 
progress, the leaves were small and of a 9 
een З why ecause they were 
lacking one of their most essential food 13 
viz., ni “If the plants Мет» not а sufficien 
Hotel of 8 in the J soil, i t can be detected E 
а lack of v АК. 6 
bard and Wanted. the leaves are of a pale yellowish 
colour, an e growing p 
Manures and their Application, by hil os 
then your as "ui d wil 
I not pe the 4 per 3 of nitrogen 
the mixture P used? Yes, that is 
and su phat her onia together e caustic 
lime contained i in the slag (about 50 per cent. ) would 
with—and xor M ammonia, liberating the latter 
as a gas, which w then escape into 6 
stable-manure rf coul 
become very Sonir piae for the use of the Tv 
and in my experim hrysanthemums I have 
found there is woking which 3 their growth 
— nitrate of Doda and potash, Ih 
colour E 
y used for * the 
the the foliage from a us yellowish-green colour to 
very dark olive-green i in three days, 
ures, they Ar ve жез the a rance as 
ndersen, as their foliage would 
ery dark green; this can soon be remedied by 
88 the soil rather dry for a time. Your cor- 
mana thought his mixture was in accordance 
ith е requirements of the 3 But 
why, when givi mit to 
d 29 per cent. of 
er cent, of chlorine? "The 
с only require 44 per cent, of the former and 
f lime, а subst ery injurious to vegetation. 
Your correspondent as * What res such 
quantity of artificial manure as I recommended 
would — % Why d not its effect as 
lesser quantities es with very fe In con 
I think, the purs thirteen e" of practical ex clusion, 
has taugh not to recommend anytbing I have 
not tried minit and Jolai benefi mf There are 
very few plants which will stand with antage so 
much feeding as Chrysan santhemums, Матт. the 
mechanical condition of soil be well looked after, 
W. Dyke, Turnford, Herts, 
— SUTTON’S 
* pity 
is Bean, 
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need be no чт in the ihr. TAR 
he Royal Horticultural Society granted 
. Ward in 1885 establishes, beyond ques- 
tion, precedence in favour of his ay 
in the hands of Messrs, Veitch, Pen ctm 
Sutton's Bean was not mentioned in the Chie 
wick Report until 1891, there is a pri 
in favour of the Exeter Bean of six years, had 
not matter one j e committee, as а hole, t; 
n the inter 
t e, for then, pry 
bably, there may be a fuller dios of the um 
ittee, А 
PRIVATE ber AND GARDENERS bern 
CHISWICK, MM: 
leader, p. 244, 
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taken off to fill vases and 
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them, &c., before a * — can be done in the garden 
involving foresight, Ww ong 
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ave some idea, and noe 
work i ia * gardens for a be is nothing 
to show. We expect, E a matter of course, visitors 
by the hundred, and often at a time rendezvousilg 
in the grounds, — 1 ре charitable objects me^ | 
polising the staff's ic [iy ay every | 
courts, and fre- brigade drilled — ples on „ 
ter be 
thing, 
becaus ia b, and it is a "eli 
if the К Fok ppointed - 
from private places bave usually be ! 
b Ouid h like Thompso, 
horticulture generally, wher 
be dangerous, Som "ul 
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for private биде, 
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＋ been spe at Chiswick, but + T 
nd will go in a garden, and 2 
& pou 
вау, one-third of the £1624 for Ber er 
mentioned—a very liberal а 90 рег 
—and which would leave about £ 
management, fuel, and sundries, &c. 
