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January 11, 1919.] 
Rue АСУ as 
THE 
Gardeners Chronicle > 
No. 1672.—8ATU RDAY, JANUARY 11, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
Agricultural wages .. 18 | Nitrate of 18 
Apple Edward VII. .. 21 | Obituary— 
Aipine garden — | Bennett, William H... 23 
Primula acaulis var. | Gordon, George САК. 
- е 14 | Orchids in France 18 
Primula Palinuri 14 | Powell, ` N haniel >. 22 
olent Institution, Rice the Japanese 19 
Gardeners’ Royal 18 | Romneya Coulteri PRE 
Rosa Moyesii var. Far 
cl mi жем loss of the, 
n garden 
22 19 
Farm, сера and stock iem chara ters in, 
onthe home .. £3 | а " difference of 
m production, on in- | habit; x AB 
{ eased . 20 | silver таб disease v, 32 
fiandanec s “death from FES ieties — 
1 tetanus 18 танаа Hort 23 
Lamellen, no в from m dd | Surveyors’ Institut on 18 
Land D ыа 19 | Trade notes 23 
мае, m саба the 19 [ш Wart peer: of Potato.. 19 
schemes, Wedding, a pio ie at 
18 | 18 
I 
oie vewry 
M ites, some experiments | Week's work, the. og 
13 
in E | Wolverhampton | EN 
Medicinal plants 20091 Эйе 1 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Apple сд М ААЙ ra ee Ker 
Maize co NE os с S 
. Maze “4 Bletchley TOR Buckinghamshire. ; ws 54. ЭЙ 
Боза М Тоуве Farges .. x» MONS |) 
р У VER 
EXPERIMENTS ON GROWING 
MAIZE IN ENGLAND. 
n this countr 
. For the former purpose some 
, luxuriantly-growing variety is i 
which the cob never approaches ripeness in 
this country or the one 
the of several of arieties 
of Sugar Maize, principally tho hich have 
lately been imp eh » е American raiser 
But these, of course, re ыру suit, ne ay the 
pr ion of a ripe font crop b scar- 
city of food has indu some people 
to attempt Maize cultivation on a small scal 
for the sake of the ripe grain, ose f 
Which a flint or a dent Maize is r e 
variety suitable for this is Sutton's Quaran- 
in, à dwarf f f Yellow t. 
very well, but the cob is a tiny 5 
small-holder, and possi 1 
e agricul- 
turist. Maize needs so little attention Saring 
ered a tored, 
growth, and is so easily 
that it sh Тро у анн 5а 
н if а sui rthcom- 
. Su y 
etics in Cambridge quu the past few 
The possibility of growing Maize as a 
crop in this country occurred to Professor Biffen 
isi wal 
е ridge University 
it struck me that it would be useful 
mte — » inherit- 
lect At my 
my 
request P rofessor Biffen very ide. gave me a 
few cobs i 1914. Heads ripened di ia 1915, 
THE GARDENERS’ C HRONICLE. 
ag I —Á for the кє of my fowls, 
grow a larger quantity the following 
year. I sted the earliest та largest cobs 
for this pur and in 1916 the yield w 
evidently a n. deal higher than it had been 
the year before. The improvement was su 
ciently striking to suggest that further work 
along the same lines might evolve a iz eom 
ripened well in our climate, producing at the 
same time a on uc This was uS Med 
taken in hand, may now on to give 
some acco Pss st Ae SM obtained during “the 
past two y 
f seed from 
t 
On Ma ay 10, 1917, about 5) Ibs. 
16 c 
MAIZE COBS GROWN IN 
SIZE. 
Fic. 4.—THREE LARGE MA 
1918; THE FOOT ao INDICATES THEIR 
about 4 inches high. weather 
enced in August ч ашу told pubem tho. Ee. 
ior visa the crop was gathered, many cobs were 
dee aw ither = to have уз г tx or to have 
ined to attri- 
Beto this v nee don y were examined in order 
to sepa arate the thoroughly атту бо obs 
those in which 
, to ensuri 
84 1 ard. 
wo yield of 2,180 lbs. per acre, ie, 
39 b 
And h a few words тя the 
land on which the "plants were жыл of a 
nature, g to pack а after 
main. The depth of soil is Mon one foot, the 
subsoil NE untractable blue gaul 
g er for garden 
ore that а 
Since it was е ч a g of manu 
been р t, altho Tapai this - 
obi at all ea Whether 
de WI zie Mar e is certainly not unduly favour 
г wth of п of the crops that I 
S 
cobs of 
ileciod a ce 
sowed this маг tely' 
principally yellow 
as before, but as previous — shown 
that germination g e seed was put 
about 6 inches M in iens dre. The patch c on 
w phéch the yellow 35 
and that into which ihe. Ju. was put was 114 
Backs yards. either e the amount of 
seed used 
I am inc clin dens the ж 
rove a heavier aider even ep the 
same conditio 
In reckoning the Scie the produce of all cobs 
giving grain ма In some of these 
ni grain, oaei ad e fit for f 
as probab ly not efficiently ripened to have 
germinated well. The seed became во 
process of 
ryin and 
the glossy, semi transparent appearance о = well- 
тайа: тей grain. Such “taili ed to 
e results of 1918 constatute a istinct ad- 
vance over those of 1917, and I feel little doubt 
З z i 
that, if the process of s ontinued, 
yer higher yield can on —— 
rred to me las d be 
t year that 
compare the yield of ‘this early 
is one 
flint Maize with t of the early 
g in Am Accordingly I tai ined from 
M of Philadelphia, seed of four 
of the earliest and highest yielding of sugar 
Maizes, viz., Catawba, Golden Bantam, Ext 
Early d Howling Mob. For the test a 
small piece of light, gravelly soil on the - 
ridge University Farm was " p Se e 
een given manure for two 
only a ligh — dm light pie ыкма» 
was ie expected, as the expe riment was 
mat 
вечан point was that ro patch w: 
of 
es 
fint Maize were sown 6 inches apart in 
drawn at intervals of 2 feet. Germination was 
cept in 
good ex n the case of Golden Bantam, where 
