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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(Остовив 19, 1895, 
with — consent and by the authority of the чүт 
р 
&с. h that 
everything sent to Chiswick for trial was not tried, 
е reasons, he ightly or wrongly, ( ), 
that there was not space, and (2) here being п 
taking place that 
cultural 9 TES" well 
р” 
an 
the same fate awaits reason No, 2. As it not by 
or that a fact ot its ае peu end j^ ш a 
trial at Chiswick Garden үч e and 
parc igs rily he accounted for he xplanation 
elicite d by м mmi £^ iswick on 
Sept. 10, to the rw “we pte not Lue poke very- 
thing is sent us for trial at Chiswick.” An 
admission which, under the e. ces, naturall 
provoked a pardonable expression of opinion from 
the person responsible for the introduction of the 
Climbing French Bean—an which was 
entirely retrospective its , and, 
fore, did not in any way apply to the present Fr 
ply to 
or management of the Royal пня 
However, опе thing І venture 
at body Peace quite 
ne y бна" д 
consider E incum- 
mineat part 
last twelve ea, in the fate of the 
me question, but always, be it observed, 
sive жүз the claims of one to the detriment of the 
other, H. W, Ward, 
ENIUM GRANDICEPHALUM 
Ware а nursery a years ago, is now 
in gardens under this very objec- 
The plant is nothing more or less 
than H. nudiflorum of N The striped ray, 
T » d pointed 
‚ brown-purple dise, an 
rec stinguish it from all forms of Н, 
autumnale, — which it has been e p "ad 
АП these are characters of H. n orum, 
Gray's Flora of North Ame "1 Woll D 
Wath, Mol, rica, olley — Ege 
TATION OF ore Ia answer to your cor- 
respondent, "D T. F., p. 399 of the issue of t 
Gardeners’ Ch * 88 5, 1 admit the 
statement that the Cabbage tribe е upon 
d much too poor to grow a good crop of Oaions 
or Carrots,” requires some qualificati ave 
in this neighbourhood в field which, within the last 
та, feng has been let out, in ents. 
bu эе ана дна е culture, 
Onions upon : 
gradually being ác ca рес and шайт bnt м ль 
— &nd manuring, these latter crops are п 
ming more frequent, The Cabbage tribe chev 
capitally en m rat essere 
r 
gave to th bbag mand of the water 
supplies of the subsoil not available to surface- 
rooting plants f course, the texture of the soil 
as much to with the 5 th of | 
cro hile Oaion 
free working soil containing a good apply of lim 
the Cabbage tribe seems to do мА the stiffer 
roots of the different plants substances w 
directly into pus structure, J. J. Willis, Harpenden. 
Е'8 BEGONIAS.—Another eo ast d cre 
i 
and they were а blaze I saw them, 
double and pic meth varieties, of fine form and 
ties are kept in pots in the 
Po ope, the manager of this nursery, 
vas moreover the 
late Dr. Wm. Rol 
just succeeded his uncle, the late Mr. R, T. P 
in the Lap oid of the Exeter Nartery. 
elsea 
W, Марр 
эл Saturday last, the 12ch inst., 
I was driven “ith some friends through the Epping 
with a view to ins autumnal tints, 
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iculturists may be able to give oth 
a tre fruit d 
blossom, and I heard in Essex that wana there 
Pan я 
d witnessed the same thing. 
ат н —Mesars. G. & J. Miller, 
Mitcham, ve growers of Peppermit t for dis- 
tillation, dads irat, that Mitcham soil is almost th 
on 
cond, that n а crop has been 
grown for four years, the ordinary time, that, s 
much is the soil exha of the constituent which 
the tial that it ia useless to plan 
the 3 ground under twenty years. Could it 
т ful c uent is, and whether 
ould be artificially s in any form of 
den 4. D. [Oaly by pss —Е1 ]. 
THE CULTIVATION OF THE ENGLISH SHOW 
TULIPS.—It is both gratifying and encouraging to 
i that the efforts which have been made dming 
he last few years, to resuscitate in the sou 
par беке бе of that fascinating florist’s 
ever, su е adm 
tion of all persons touched with the love ч florist’s 
flowers, and many were not surpri r minute 
examination of their exquisite purity, ыра, апа 
—̃ —Ü— 
refinement in marking, that their fathers and grand - 
fathers should have been во infatuated in the 
her : ao mar 
enough t tand that Messrs, 
Barr are ei ец to their leviathan stock, feeling 
assured that the time ar distant when the 
Eaglish "Talips will be cultivated in the south by 
ateurs, as extensively as t are at the present 
time cultivated in the north. I have cultivated fr 
&re so gr experienced by 
the growers of the English Show Tulip! Thus tins 
having now arrived for Tulip planting, amateurs who 
may feel inclined to give their cultivation vd 
should lose no time in obtaining a sma ection, 
he price of which is a o nominal sum, Jams 
Thurstan, The Green, Cannoc 
VALE OF CLEVELAND POTATO. — When re- 
cently in Lincolnshire I inspected & — of 
early varieties of Potatos grown their 
earliness and = gonis for er- purposes, 
It has been stated t he Boston district 
considerable 83 of p Potatos are grown, 
the soil, position, and method * h^ adopted 
favouring : considerable 
sums are made by the ien у getting 
produce into the various mong the 
varieties tested are Vale of Сй and Sharpes 
Ё ctor, and I could detect no difference between 
—in growth, in neni and in the shape and 
iat of the tubers making enquiries as aes 
origin of the Vale of Cleveland Potato, I found it was 
2p Acd the late Mr, Geo, C. Short, nurseryman 
5 sd describe bed it as a seedling 
* cross between the Early Rose and the 
old Ashtop Kidney. Тае stock of this Potato was, 
it is said, sold to Messrs, Charles Sharpe & Son, in 
the early part of 1879, and — afier зне 
it will бай for the’ Aal 1 
— Айы d, —* the А 
Forit is well kn own Re otatos ty in t 
efinite crosses Mr con 3 not col 
tint of ү flesh 25 also in L, rg un colour i 
kin. ө part cular t 
which I have e both Vale of Gere v 
different names though to all 
Mis ce D 
NURSERY NOTES: 
MESSRS. J. CHEAL AND SONS. 
er illustration үч the exten 
his an 
nurseri We 
bust we ht to be in Sussex, 
Cram! f >” the nearest 
there. As а matter of fact, the whole of 
find it most convenient to ей tant 
station, from whence the nurseries are zi bove 
more than two miles, The soil in the 
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pes 11 
think it is claimed that — 
ee TSR езет анаа 
tof the me 
