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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[January 25, 1919. 
EDITORIAL NOTICE, 
Editors and Publisher. 
would obviate delay in 
— Our correspondents 
obtaining answers 
depar rtments, Publishing and Editorial, are distinct, 
and much unnecessary delay and confusion arise 
when letters are misdirected, 
AVERAGE MEAN ' 
мето fro 
тамай for е: ensuing week 
observations during the last fifty 
9.60, 
Gard ronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
nt ссни London, а алені, January 
22, 10 a.m.: Bar 30.25; .  Weather— 
Dull. 
The reference hai 
"Relation to the in book* on this e. 
prepared by Raymond 
Pearl isther Pearl 
impen e behalf of the Statistical Divi- 
sion of t оо ‚ соп- 
tains менка tion оѓ absorbing interest 
and iun nanent value. Who among the 
Allies, for example, ld have guessed 
s that the allied nations contained a popula- 
as numerous as 
e 
o look 
w hat 
only the Un ited pue Ted lso ? 
t is not reassuring either to discover that 
whereas the percentage of total ро рыта 
engaged 2 Mtm 2, 
and 
is in ce 2 
in any 15.6, it is only 4.9 
н the Gaited Kingdom. Yet there 
is a brighter side, for in Whea 
production as inereased in yield per 
acre, the United Kin h 
average of thirty-three bushels, beat 
Germany - irty, and e with 
nineteen, the United Staten with seventeen, 
ды Eo weh ria- jd ith fifteen, al- 
be A beaten i 
in urn 
Биа five, Holland 
with thirty nite, yrs De uictor whieh 
heads fort 
< The f. ing Pe 
are also wo n Germa. is 
well ап extraordinarily 
` * Reference Handbook of Pood Statistics im Relation 
the War. to 
large quantity of 
age to 41,000,000 tons; but the Germai 
yield (in Winhester bushels = 54.2] 
per acre) was only 204, as against 220 in 
the United Kingdom. These yields are, 
however, far surpassed by those of Den- 
mark, Md bushels ; Belgium, 291 bushels — 
7 tons ; and Holland, 305 bushels — nearly 
75 tons. 
Ithough Germany made a great effor 
ho 
in 1915, post produced an additional qua. 
tity amounting E. nearly 0,000 ton 
ew n to maintain her 
=» 
ef 
she was not able ev: He 
war production in ubique years. Thus 
in 1916. from an unascertained acreage 
German Potato production only les 
than f that o e pre-war average 
namely, about 19,0 ons. "Thus the 
predict e ig 
war appears to receive реет 
justi ӘВЕ оо 20 all events, with respect to 
the i un 
tistical part of the Reference 
Handbook is supplemented by a valuable 
series of tables of conversion 
. hav 
impor Sant fruits b fion included in it. 
Royal Society of Arts' Lecture. — At the 
meeting of the Royal Society of Arts on xa 
ay, the 29th inst., a paper on ems 
duction by Intensive Cultivation " will be 
y FREDERICK КЕЕ F 
Horticulture, od 
Board of Agriculture ped Mound 
will be pt ken at 4.80 p.m. 
Lord LaAMBOURNE, С.У. о" 
C sea Show, 1919, and Wisley Gardens 
Endowment — ines the Fellows’ tickets 
for 1919 and the Annual Seeds de 1918 were 
printed, the prospect much mo 
Pom. fr the supply of tenting for the ш 
great m of the Royal Horticultural Society 
held a t Chen c hi 5 wing to war со е 
had to be abandoned.in the теа 1917 апа 
o much so that the Rev. Wi 
3 
Ж. 
The chai 
by the Right Hon. 
th amateur and 
e—have been approached, and have made a 
most oem urable l cases 
o 
the Society’s Wisley Gardens Endo nt Trust 
work it was set ccomplish is Fun 
wa blish f Declaration 
a Deed o 
of Trust, and falls within, the definition of- а 
charitable or philanthropic purpose. 
V.M.H. Sir puli Crisp. — 
acancy occurred during 1918 in 
o 
Soc K Crisp, w 
done much коа жо т огеш, especially 
in connection with alpi rock plants, а: 
as ages eme of the 
` Albert  Maumené. — dde ALBERT 
з the well-known French жашашы 
Potatos, which in the 
Dav: 
journalist and editor, writes us as follows; 
** Some LEM gar rdeners on the Có 
have told m 
'a 
issue once more my  publicatio ons 
Campagne, Jardins et Bas 
culture Elevage, 
пнд, the war. I 
r kind 
suspended 
am very gra tefu al to you for 
remembrance of me.’ 
a ard Mawley Memo ae 1917 the 
National Rose Society raised a sp ie fund in 
window in 
2 
of it m pear in the N. R.S. Ros ual. Two 
aen wley Memorial ue will be 
a. S the first time, at the summer show 
on pls 2, 1919. 
2 cen of Pritzel's ‘‘ Icones Botani 
ocupletissimus.''—The Royal Honi. 
cultural Steiety v already commenced the re- 
Pritzel,’ ' and wi 
ud sth th £ 
yal Gardens, Kew, 
and th e Linnean Societ 
Bra 
to the 
т, was pi 
ver 1 A 
out earlier h 
tch Меш rial rustees 
100. e fun cs ed from 
а Ioternatio nal in Horticult ural "Exhibition hài held 
n 1912 PR are invi 
of those рк ing £1 1s. will be Pe plished 
the new M very subscriber of er or 
A ards will n receive a presentation сору; 
28; £50 bo 
scriber o will recei ive a copy ар 
half- -ca alf ; £100 will receive à 
llum. The revision is being 
done at ih here the Director has found 
odation for the ists, who are prepat- 
accomm 
ing the manuscript under th 
vision of Capt 
UR 
Director. 7А тет 
vision Committee аге : Sree I. Bayiey BALFOUR, 
= E. A. Bowrzs, J. Hawsuny, Capt 
THUR W. Hirr, T Bre N Jackson, Mr- 
aa W. E. Loner, Sir Dian Mo Sir 
тр Pratn, Dr. A. B. Rrexpre, Dr. О. STAPF, 
and Sir Harry J. VETTCH. 
The death of Sir МІЛА 
Іхотвү, = Ripley Castle, тан, recalls = 
interesting fact connected with the - 
gardens н ttached to mis Sepe i for, WM 
ARAM, senr., WaS - 
