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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Novemsrr 23, 1895, 
below the average, with farmyard manure much above 
average, g 
but with the others below average. It would seem that t the 
ult was much the same in the country at large; that is 
5м 3342 A +h 1+; +3, ftt 1 A Aa 
more than average crops have been ое, дй where they 
were bad there have been le гм than a з. The very 
at gr тунар is hi dU pone partly due 
to the wetness of the айл es if we knew how much 
or sown late, we might be able to make 
tim: oe of the yield of the country. 
ө is reason to fear that it will prove to be below 
yield we have recorded. 
Although there is at present more labour and time spent 
than form 
hom е Wheat crop was 
8 8 
fi weight, which would probably represent about 32 
bu at per bushel, our ow: eing 33 
bushels at 60 Ib. per "dns A the imports with hain we 
h reckoned at 60 Ib., it 
be mor re convenient to adopt by way of пана our 
estimate, which was obvi gies Reste opti gher than 
that of the Board of Agriculture would ight 
Now, deducting 2 bushels per acre f e 
f the 1894 crop, we last year estimated 
that 7$ millio arters would be avai for consumption 
„as 
figures, the total available supply from home А foreign 
sources would amount to about 32} million q 
a surplus of more than 3 million РО to be otherwise 
peg 
5 were nearly d million instead of only xt million 
estimated to be required. According fo these 
ns stocks e now know, how- 
ever, t e area under t the crop in 1895 was more th n 
g 
as Misi ls ó iio in 1895 (though it is d that 
some whic was afterwards ploughed up) the 
а required $b we was less than was last yea r esti- 
mated, 1 
if we assume the Previous calculation to be so corrected, the 
pp homeand 
І esult would be 
1 
5001 
instead of 321 million quarry and the surplus would p^ 
rither more than 3} million quarters 
It bing A "m atated that our ніт of t last year reached 
Whea 
equal to feeding five-sixths of our ipiis ion 
With favourable А times, our own area un ider the op may 
y past oe but 
j f the world find that it 
current at the the е crop cannot be 
ex xpecte ed to M much ife, o or to bet the important factor in 
1 
cign a in recent years. J. В. Lawes, Ri tha t 
other t — 
BERLIN. 
, GERMAN з, BRITISH CYCLAMENS, 
che lamen persicum grown from English seeds, Be- 
sides these, some German sorts of the same plant were 
exhibited. The English sorte were the following :— 
C. persicum hybr. and C. p. h. purple, from AM H 
Cannell & Sons of Swanley; C. p. Crims 
мече of Connaught, giganteum roseum —— 
d Rosy Morn 
. 
‚тош M т & Co., London; 
С. р. Brilliant, Crimson King, and Mauve Queen, 
from Mr, George Reid of London. The Ger- 
orta were: re. idl, pure white; 
и ‚ with carmine eye; Rosa, from Marien- 
Stoldl at Hamburgh, The plants were grown by 
specialist, Pan 
Кот, near Berlin, who grows i 
every year at least 4000 
to 5000 plants. The object of the exhibition was 
to ascertain whether the English sorts are so much 
better than the German ones, that it would be 
desirable to introduce N. A blood 
into German cultures. A уез similar trials 
were made with English Nins ый. which 
gave the results that the English so mg were in some 
eG ones, This I 
est, 
this occasion not one of the English Cyelamene 
could rival the German varieties; ind the 
flowers were во A satisfactory esie. with 
those of the German sorts that they would rank 
after all others. But not wes — 2 Ne 
are preferred [No]. Here, in pend: leaves are di: 
i ich ich marbling; the more they 
resemble those of C. hederæfolium the higher they 
are valued. The 
and very healthy p 
green, and therefore also, like the flowers, of less 
value. As Mr. Schwarzburg remarked, the reason 
for the superiority of the German sorts is that 
German Cyclamen growers do not buy their seeds, 
but raise them themselves, They select from their 
whole stock of many thousand pliate only some 
lve to twenty plants, for seed-growing. 
regular selection during many years, they have 
raised sorts which are accounted excellent for their 
pure colours (the English sorts by no means showed 
this mpe for ки very large size (the German 
sorte a Nr aed c" one-half larger 
than the English ore) 2 for 
the flowers, and for th 
which are also of go ba it. Mr. Schwarzburg said it 
may be > possible that English growers havea different 
e that he would much like to learn the English 
во as to make a further trial. During the 
A а eii merchant, — is also а specialist in 
Cyclamen culture, Mr. Van 
many 
four centres of Cyclamen culture—Berlin, rines 
rankfort-on-Maine, and Dresden. The latter place 
рафо s Mets which differ notably from those of the 
three other places, He remark 
German se 
glad to give information. 
flowers are by no means rare, 
of knowledge is progress possible, It is not for 
nces о 
a it is so much wished 
that Eng 2 should come to the large 
exhibition ih their products, We shall learn from 
, and we also can 88 ra орин gardeners 
кл» be Eon 8 few thin 
he autumn here is this died ute an c 
one, лоні төө or the a 
temperatur 
cessful pe That 
above the dnd one, а ya ы 
ma d 
shrubs are atill green, а fact quite unprecedented 
here at the 
— 
try if plants grown from seed which ripens noy. 
would be more resistent to our climate than the 
mother plants. A plant that very seldom fruits here 
is Sophora japonica, which thi 
plant itself, with its thick fleshy leaves, is interesting 
but the flowers are not good. 
n ionantha, or, as if is called d here, the 
Viol f Usambara, is, on the 
n full flower in June, and 
are still flowering now, Nov. 1, in my room, Cer. 
der brought forward of late years. B esides weiin 
freely, 16 is nee 15 be propagated, he a ii 
by leaves, The culture is quite easy. It is to be 
hoped that East An especially Kilimandzaro and 
Usambara, will furnis 
nt gar 
métres and higher, and which 
interestin ne | 
of the Blackberry group, with fruits 2 inches 
in diameter, and of llow colour, Also a new 
Anemone is very rem le, Very large is the 
e 
number of Monocotyledonous plants from Kilinsad- 
zaro which are worth growing by us Amongst the 
Polygonaceæ, t 
var. , usambarensis, a climber with stems 8 inches in 
d 
f the highest - 
pe М 
that for eight months th „ to be seen, 
because clouds, and fogs, me rains wu the sky, 
The rains are not ұрынса ав in other tropical - 
regions during the rainy seasons, but mild rains. 
The total rainfall observed during one year, at an 
elevation of 1550 mètres, was 1900 mm. The — 
highest temperature is not equal to that which we 
а in the summer months,  Potatos grew very — 
3 shoots grow up, во that afterwards all stages, 
m young shoots to ripe ears, are оп the ame 
ait, which gives much trouble in harvesting. Pro- 
fessor Volkena thinks that this may be 
selection of the plants and by raising local юм. 
U. D., November, 
FRUIT EN — m 
Finsr, 5 d * upon p^ size of the plot of v 
ground we can spare for growing Apples P ane. T 
shal 
given plot wi 
know of several good kinds ourselves, ‚ 
help us much, as most of these are grown en, 
for the markets in large orcbards, and ар 7 s a 
unsuitable for growing in small E 
the large size the oon ME besides which a t 
pas sakaru have been planted for the last n 
and other kinds of better flavour, po 
ree Бей qualities have supersed 1 
an instance, we probably all of us know what ^ FE 
gill 
tracts from a Paper read before the Streatham ^ 
Agassiz Society, р? Ott. 25, 1895, by Mr, J. 0. walten ; 
