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TEMPERATURE for the ensuing week 
from — n during the last fifty 
roni le Office, ngton 
UU e кога "January 
A 
“Kew 
eresti 
project of vm blishing a 
Trianon and the forest of 
thie x haa nies such gre work in Horti- 
Our well - med 
French French  corresp ondent, 
Gardens," A, M., sends us the 
infor 
. The 
1,500 : DR RA and is 
ovid- 
purposes. 
айг be ү that this admirable pro- 
‚ and that France, 
eultu: may possess 2 ersailles a 
National Botanical Carden ond to none 
с бз ү orld. The J ardin Ды. Pignus 
yt 
ч [s ену that plants no longer pus our 
soil is exhausted, and pde 
eity slowly poisons all but t| 
subjects 
moke of du 
he most robust 
st th + 
bli Kew 
Français swill plendar тух to a ad 
appoin 
g 
* eently called into 
eo-ordina 
nted Council of Agricu pie Poet 
Monsieur Boret, en tic 
ing for the purpose o 
g the кийи гезеатсһев 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 4, 1919. 
carried out in SE. Experiment Sta- 
The Kew of Versailles 
d 
Arlington €um are над 
tained by t 
at Washington 
Near Pari a horticultural region, 
not far from Е the site in the Park 
of Versailles would appear to b. ideal 
e. The soil is fertile, the land belongs 
to the State, a rs almost unlimited 
ilties for expans Furthermore, 
there are already at Trianon d 
lections of trees, dating from the tim 
of Michaux. 
We understand that only a year or so 
ago, whilst yet preoccupied with war, Ger- 
4 ; A 
distinguished student of genetics to assume 
the direction of the station, and insisted 
only on one condition, that the station 
should be for nd should n 
es, 
worthy of her horticultural 
sure guarantee 
be mined 
re € nt. Why, 
shows signs 
e 
that, used 
ex detailed 
Work of DES individ 
The fact that so fertile 
Food Imports into 22 island 
Ceylon, 1913-1917. js а f 
count 
sapete ugh no news ose who 
make it their business to vini Imperial 
F E: 
Ваве 6 
ша g figure 
intervening ps A actually exceeded 
“it жыл, T. 
Rer is, how th 
ases ent foo а аа was d 
in the island duri us th 
E - 
it 
oat be that Ceylon went жиш, Potatos 
rm transport supplies became 
sca 
The imports of sugar showed also a re- 
duction from about 26,000 tons in 1913 to 
“ Food-stuffs : Te Nod of She Island. by F. 8 
dale, Phe Propioa Армени боре, TEE ee. 
T Pus in 1917 ; but here, evidently, it was 1 
case of seli- supplying, but of doin ing 
wl ud 
Condi iments, including Chillies, бог: | 
ander, Cumin, F enel, Ga o Tur- 
meric, Ginger, Pepper, Mus ard, and 
ош, intel 24,000 tous in ТГ and 
300 a 
ex 
ici 
Fe. 
Ф 
tha 
in Ке case of "Chi ies, of whieh 4,500 
were imported i 13 and 4,300 tons in 
917, i e 
rence of the n 
Empire to be self-suppliers. 
Chelsea чад Mie ee House Shows in 1919,— 
the past year the Royal 
hey proposed to 
КОЧ» the two 
an ees 
two pu tio 
one show in Tane, either a 
sted. We 
House, is s 
formation regarding the support p "3 
judge, the tra de de gene 
ч 
E 
5 
Ф 
* 
shows, and the pro 
Royal Horticultural Toa 
eval of its great 
proved. Е 
Gift of ee Park to ee, 19 со: 
rate the end of the of Mie Е 1 
are roperty. 
ed with the Ro 
of усу date, 
poe 
tee are fixed for September 
he 20, gel 17. and De cember 1 
t Essex Hall. 
and the 
Ju ег ape 
the Floral od 
ke ede 
$ 
nd of the Natural History M Museum. | 
a ы uunc dpa vam of the Natural E 
ry Museum, Cromwell Road, South Ken 
matic condi: 
of all vanieties of Citrus icis rin : 
Shaddocks, Citrons, Cumq uats and Lemons © 
