50 
ON INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION. 
'e many ex- 
WH E frankly admitting there ar ) 
arket to- 
cellent varieties of Onions on the m 
lay, I consider, judging from several years’ ex- 
perience in growing and comparing most, if not 
all the well-known varieties, the best for general 
i f 
purposes, especially for keeping, is The Urn 
'aised some rs ago by Mr. Taylor, The Gar 
dens, Byram, Ferrybridge, Yorks. The variety 
does not come absolutely true u 
bout 85 per cent. to 90 per cent. of the seed 
lings are tr The variety is urn-shaped, and 
to my mind this is a great advantage to the con 
sumer is very little waste when the 
base of t s 1 
The bulb is very solid, and consequently weighs 
eavy, whilst the keeping proper that 
can be desired. ауе b i of The 
Urn, quite sound, _ year after year ng after 
those of other t p s 
From a plot of 200 square yards I had a 
of 16 cwt. of be of excellent uniform quale: 
The treatment was quite ordinary throughout. 
Fic. 18.—4 FINE CROP OF 
The seeds were sown in!boxes in January, and 
the seedlings eventually plan ated in their per 
— ашыгы w witho: it any special treatment 
of any kind. W . Dobson, Stapleton’ Park 
Garlin: Pontefrac 
OTATO MAJESTIC (see p. 20). 
Since my notes on this Potato ap 
pear 
Vol. LXIV), 
t be arin g on ше que: 
ting. 
per re, free from disease. The quality is grand 
Some of the tubers, weighing 14-15 vere as 
smooth and shapely as you ever saw any of Up- 
to-Date selected for exhibition. Wit spect to 
your.remarks on the cutting ubers 
may say cut about half ours, and plan 
them alongside the uncut ones. e results, s 
far as we could tell, re premi bus same. 
There уеге no failures, an 
as heavy from the cut as from the who ж СЕ 
ONIONS OF THE URN 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
They were cut the day of анро from the chit- 
ting trays and li as 
‘he 1 Street Senior 
Е sby в: 5 After reading 
your article on the Potato Majestic in Gar 
(0, 28, 1918 you 
eeded on 
ч 
К 
ity. 
tic, .calisisting of 
38 tubers. Thes ing, I divided 
into 82 sets, cating them m hour ‘before plant- 
ing, and NM the cut surfaces with quick- 
lim wi sets failed, and Шо оп 
examination, I found to be eaten off by some 
gi 
ound pes 
‘One Potato I cut into five parts, three of 
1 ug up, f-grown, on 
for show purposes, getting 16 lbs. of small and 
moderate-sized ers, al in additi ine 
Ei 's e competition (not so bad for 
Potato set). The € crop.. lifted 
in er dien was 4 cwt. 2 st. 3lb.—about 54 tons 
per acre. The ане" root yielded it lbs. ger 
“Tt may also interest you to know that 
n experi iment I Wanted alongside of Majestic 
a row each of Arran Chief, King Edward, Pre 
ры 
VARIETY. 
ent, Queen Mary; and Carter’s Monarch, and, 
although I treated them exactly the same as the 
in no case more than half 
"i ety: n 
кч 2 
5 
bertson's second note (p. 32), he 
very esty brings out the diffic ulty of obtaining 
seed” sized 
to keep back ег) 
for фый again lesse; and g 
as good a sample as де ssible. 
been stated in Gard. on. no one need fear 
cut their se 
In my lecture at the Mansion House lást 
February, I gave Majestic and Kerr's Pink as 
“ tips" for 1918 I thi as right. For 
19 I gave Arran Co e, fine, shapely 
cond-early va: , imm to wart disease, 
raised by Mr. McKelvie, of Arran, the raiser of 
Arran Chief. keenly interested in 
varieties of Potat hould endeavour to secure 
a few pounds Ww üthbertsón, Dudding- 
ston, Mid-Lothian 
SUGAR R PARSLE 
Tue Sugar or large-rooted boul is: not. much 
[Екввсаву 1, 1919. 
grown, thoug h it is a distinctly useful vegetable. 
zm 8 
т 
fish, and is, in а ап 
arrots a dern i a cou 
further thinning s st a- heavy crop of 
useful-sized Pol: “The 1 thinning in the 
case of the Parsley left the plants only some 
4 t nches v n 
45 10s 
g (3) Small 
and forked; 38 ro average 7 oz. 
It should be added t the real crop wa 
rather larger, as a ce number had been 
pulled and consumed before the crop was lifted 
Perhaps it is unjust to compare the produce 
a strip of Parsnips, which received scan 
attention, and was only put in as a wart! 
asure; moreover, they were attacked by some 
disease о e leaves which retarded their 
growth. The total crop consisted of 120 roots, 
weighing 90 Ibs. Of these, the larger ones 
amounted to 70 “а number, with an average 
о , and 50 smaller, averaging 
ncm ard to pests, the Sugar Parsley does 
pote a = ауе by the nied or Celery 
not see 
flies ; it is not so prone to destr Le by slugs 
as the ctio I have notice fide roots 
affected. with some softening iue with the 
nature of which I am not acquaint » 
be scope for i ved М 
rate, so far as concerns the strains that I have 
ied from English sources, from I have 
Е 
sé 
p4 
T 
w from. is is especially the case 
with Unmbelliferons pio, as the blossoms, 
though freely- produced, will some fade: 
without forming see i hink 
— jo. ut Pa older than’ thre r at most four, 
year: H. Be Ds; 
THE WINTER ACONITE. 
Eranthis hyemalis, 
THE Winter Aconite, 
owed to seed an 
Dal has annually his 
the golden flowers of £he Y inter Ac in 
grounds irkennan, and in the early days © 
the year. M The right flowers, with their Е іла" 
bethan ruffs of green, accord well with the grass 
in ich they grow. ter g the Win 
Aconite in ane: plac дау y that the scene 
rkennan excelled those provided by the 
there are certainly more plants. 
at Kr Я 
Aconite еее else, Are з in f tone places. 
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