Остовев 19, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICL is 451 
PAUL &SON 
The Old Nursery, 
CHESHUNT. 
One of the Ancestral Homes of the Rose. 
ROSES 
For DELIVERY AUTUMN, 1895. 
STANDARDS, as usual, rreng 
DWARFS, almost entirely on Bri 
GARDEN ROSES, all the амо опей. 
SINGLE ROSES апа SPECIES, unequalled. 
POT ROSES, 
The rior sae in Europe. Better than ever, 
COMMON - SENSE ROSE CATALOGUES, 
with reasonable — Id pE ices. 
STANDARD APPLES. 
50,000 of the FINEST TREES in England, for 
MARKET ORCHARDS, 
HOMESTEAD FARM ORCHARDS. 
Really good Standards are still the Best. 
DWARF-TRAINED and PYRAMID FRUIT 
TREES of like quality 
Priced Descriptive CATALOG UES, post-free. 
UNEQUALLED ARE THE FOLLOWING 
Siop. 29 1 Еу 
JAPON 
KALMIA LATIFOL 
MYRTIFOLIA, к. fine, 
sik sil PANA BENDIR, ss: 
CHARLES ‘NOBLE. | BAGSHOT. 
ROSES, RHODODENDRONS, Ac. 
G PLANTERS cannot do better 
is aveyance will me t visitors at Bagshot or 
к, P 
ROS Murau deci 12s. doz, 
— eean NS, cese ida named, un 
beautifully 
budded. 
seara pa fbi for forcing, —— be — E & 12s. p. 100. 
and 8з. per 
S, EVER- 
SN 
UBS, (ште diti 
r in fine condition. 
IRISH IVIES, in pots, вр lendid. toliage, 3 Fiut to 12 feet, for 
— = & specialty of our Nurserie 
HERBAOROS E PL —All leading varieties. 
VATORY PLANTS.— 
BULBS of all kinds, in splendid conditi i 
GARDEN TOOLS and REQUISITES of Желе. еы 
ANTS, 
STOVE, GREENHOUSE, and CONS 
3 cin be 
W. — — AND SONS, Mason's Nurseries, Windlesham, | 
Surrey ; or, Sutton Court Nurseries, Chiswick, London, W. 
LBB 
COLLECTIONS 
BULBS 
. - THE FINEST 
ELECTED 
HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS, CROCUS, 
LILIES, SNOW- 
DROPS, ЕТО. 
Prices, 5s., 7s. 6d., 10s. 6d., 15s., 218., 428., 638., 
and 105s, each; Free. 
FIVE PER CENT. DISCOUNT FOR CASH, 
For full particulars ot Contents ot these Boxes, and 
Lists of the Best Bulbs of the Season. 
WEBBS BULB „CATALOGUE, 
Post m. ca Gratis to — 
Ei wer 2 I Warrants to H.M. n TA 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wal 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDCE. 
EVERGREENS — EVERGREENS. 
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT. 
OHN PERKINS anp SON offer the follow- 
ing Shrubs, in — quantities and excellent quality, all 
aving been recently transplanted :— 
ENGLISH YEWS, 3 to 3, 3 to 4, and 4 to 5 feet. 
2 — YEWS, 3 to 3. “had 8 t6 4 fee t. 
ESSUS LAW: nu^ ies 5 to 6, Y uai 
CTA VIRID to 5, and 5 i 6 fee 
RIT, 5 
THUJOPSIS. BOREALIS, 5 to 6, an ee 
PLUMOSA, 4 to 5, and 5 to 6 feet 
ee ee t, 
AUCUBA А TAPONIOA . 13 to 2. and 2 to 23 feet. 
BOX. ANDSWORTH ee to 3, and 3 to 4 feet. 
LAUR EL CAUCASIOA, 2 ди 31 e and 5 to 6 feet. 
TUNDIFOLIA, 2 аз to4 4 feet. 
^ PORTUGAL, 2 to 3, 3 to еў 
нш; GREEN. to 3, 9 to 4. end ТИГ 
SHEPPARDII and — 5106 bh 
er Cheap Offers on 
52, MARKET SQUARE, — 
Тнк BEST HYACINTHS THE 
WORLD PRODUCES АТ 
PATA each, 
ROMAN H HYACINTHS, 
быреу per egre 
BEFOEE 
BUYING ELSE- 
WHERE, SEND FOR 
OUR 
CATALOGUE 
(FREE) 
AND COMPARE PRICES. 
“Е. 
AND THE NURSERIES. HAARLEM, HOLLAND. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1895. 
CLIMATE, AND THE ORIGIN OF 
ROOT-CROPS 
pne — - the labours of the numerous 
ts and agriculturists of the present 
ny means clear that we know 
effeot climate than 
does an ordinary working farmer 
In estimating the special effeot of climate on 
one particular root-organ, there are two methods 
open to us; we may adopt mr or we may 
try v" effeot of direct experim 
ing statistics first, it is best to compare 
94, as given in the Agricul- 
tural Returns for Great Britain, with the climate 
in those years. 
I therefore obtained (through the kindness of 
Mr. E. Clarke) from the agricultural returns of 
the Board of Trade, the following table of the 
average yield per acre of Turnips, Mangels, and 
Potatos, throughout Great Britain in the years 
1885—1894. Ihave to thank Mr. Marriott of 
the Meteorological Society for assisting me to 
Table I. 
| : | T E 
HE 3828 382 5 8 2 i.f 3282 
Year, B A538 2Ё5< сеш сп 285 
EF 
| 8 * = . a = Rn 
1885... | 1041 | 15:264 | 474 54 160 | 741 
1886 ... | 1475 1 | 31 60 10 46 
1887... | 989 | 1461 | 5°26 43 595 809 
1888... | 12°51 | 1678 5 12:30 624 
1889 «| 1443 | 1821 | 4°71 60 11.15 €70 
8 1 17-76 | 3°53 € 11-29 631 
18 18 60 4°74 es | еә | 639 
1892 . | 1404 ne | 5 | 1l27 684 
1893 ...| 1 523 8&4 | pub |. 704 
1894 m ard DER 18 02 |. E83... 74 | 1188 617 
! 
i 
Now this table is at first sight on ly remarkable 
р eet ME is that it is ap 
utterly impossible for human ingenuity to ex- 
tract anything of the slightest өе service to ma 
kind from its n a case of this kind it 
is always advisable to draw curves representing 
fi „as then the most striking features are 
perceptible at а glanoe, but it is necessary to be 
very careful how these curves are drawn, for it 
is a popular fallacy that anything can be proved 
by 8 
The manner I have adopted is to take only the 
Es: from a normal or average. Thus the 
