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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONIC! 
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EDITORIAL NOTICE. 
эйс зын Чыны should be sent to the 
rA ner ap ve Welington Street, 
Garden, 6: С. 
to Correspondents. — The 
ndertake to pay jor any coniri 
ons or iliustrations, or to urn unused com- 
unications от ilustralions niess by special 
arrangement. The Editors do m e a. 
responsible for any opinions pres. thei 
correspondents. 
L News.—Correspondents will greatly 
obli 
by sending to the Editors early intelligence е 
local events likely to be of interest to our readers, 
or of any matters which it - bs irable to bring 
under the notice of horticultur 
со юмге 
in obtaining Fer mage 
unications вна зате и org ti 
and ae “unnecessa ry delay Сапа c stains arise 
w etters are misdir ted. 
tions.—The Edi Aun will be 
and to Satit photographs or dra 
for reproduction, of gardens, 
flowers, trees, ge 
for loss or inju 
glad to receiv 
wings, suita able 
or of remarkable 
, but they cannot be responsible 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Nola Pon bet жең . Soc. 
TUESDAY. "FEBRUARY 11— 
Hort, Soc, ann. mec 
Club ann. meet. 
Prov. Com. meet. Bath 
Coms, meet, 
te dinner at 
at 12 p.m 
Anderton’s 
rgrave Gard, Soc, 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14— 
Richmond Allotment Association, meet. and lecture, 
8 p.m. М 
AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE for the ensuing. week 
deduced frer observations during the last fifty 
years at Greenwic с: 39.0°. 
ACTUAL TEMPER 
Gardeners’ ае Office, 41 
Covent Ew rden, eren 
5, 10 а Bar. 
Snowy. 
Wellington Street 
M m xd February 
Weathe 
роне Inver 
Rural Cottages tions ment, which 
from Army Huts, has сараа suc ci valu- 
able service during the 
war in elaborating methods of destruction, 
been prompt to seize the asion 
offered by the armistice to turn its in- 
genuity to peaceful ends, ev has designed 
and erected from standard hutting, used 
y the War Office and « ther ра ent, 
the cottage illustrates fig. Inas- 
üs 8 so acute 
ted at precio Park. 
Esher, was Жырда by Capt. G. В. Imrie, 
R.E., for the Munitions Disc ntions 
partment, and, as inspection 
of the plans shows, it makes a 
e- 
of the hut and 
ve the time taken in tl 
erection of the hut is relatively short; the 
example at. Esher was built in fourteen 
en-hour davs hird, any local perder 
can effect the eonversion and erection 
the hu n pr е а dry, warm, 
t, and c lu à 
and sanitary deities Fourth, the cost is 
тыы ely low; in the ease of the Esher ex- 
pu ee net cost of ¢ conversion and 
0-foot 
bui 
cottage. je 
the ‘rooms 
than 
there extra room, aud 
generally are slightly smaller 
type A. 
Ihe cost of this latter type would be 
rather ji than the former, owing to the 
faet that there are fewer partitions, and 
the 
a musical 
p-m. at 
w wet be 
same place. A 
programme 
Royal ne cns S Examinations 
in 1919. — The Royal Hor du Society’s 
i neral Examination in eae i 
unior, will be held this 
March 19. ae Teachers’ 
ion in School and Cottage Gardeni ing 
place on Saturday, April 26, = 
a of the Honours 
on the same date, 
amination in practical or the 
Honours Examination d must fil Pw in the 
form provided and send ith £3 3s. ] 
c 
Secr eae у 
for 
of the R.H.S [^s 1 g 
be the examination takes place. he 
Society's Board of Examiners has decided to а 
cept the Teachers’ Certificate in Rural bp 
(including School Gardening), given by the De 
Agriculture di Technical nos 
ion for Ireland, in place о the Teachers’ Pre- 
‘iminary Examination: for 
ndi За sitting for 
the Teachers’ Honours a aniinatio The ex- 
amination for the Элзара Diploma in Horti- 
culture will be held in September. Copies of 
Fre. 25.—a COTTAGE MADE FROM ARMY STANDARD HUTTING. 
also that less plumbin = 
At a cost of an additional £20, 
section can be used, m stil 
beatae’ If, after 
t 
factory cottages can be made in this 
manner, it js to be hoped that arrange- 
ments may b le without delay for 
putting the standard hutting to this use 
It should not difficul evise means 
1ereby the hutting could be put at th 
disposal of local authorities and private 
wners for the purpose of building cot 
distriets where they 
are parti- 
eeded 
tages in 
eularly n 
rticultural C The SRM general 
f th 
t Anderto on’ pe tel, Fleet Street. 
Praia Crisp, Bart., will 
meeting will be follow ый Ъу 
which will take place at 
iti nisu din 
the R.H.S. Examinations Syllabus may be ob- 
ene?) on арр: ication (enclosing 14d stam ed ias 
the retary, Vii t Square, Westminster 
ncen 
hold in i 
companies have definitely сес е 
e jon are шн to grant the usual 
Public Park- The Duke of Bre 
of Langholm the 
the Parish urch. 
a 
field 2 Eldinho!m, close to 
with the footbridge 
as a ны ез together 
leading 
National Diploma in Horticulture. — The 
Royal Horticultura! Society informs us that its 
Board of penne haa determined that me” 
h i servi for ш be bak 
or more “shall be Mb Wed to enter for the Pre 
liminary Examination.for the National тот 
in Horticulis ure if they have had t diee 
perience in gardening, ates of te be uM 
as required under Sect 6 of the бугаз; 
