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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
It roots very readily from Sagi or ца. 
It is moderate in vigour, healthy, with a 
Tt very often comes fro 
d 
Qu 
Ф 
Uu 
= 
ч 
= 
Ке, 
ise, is, in fact 
3 
on circulation than the Broad 
leaved Paradise at the present time. Opinion as 
ts es are, however, far more varied. 
is said en e ve rly сг z.'0 
o E ed it i ies Pit he ra gor 
season, retaining its 
even later. 
as 
for g of nearl 
TE a Ок ты 
sary es for 
for st saap Дол, Турез 
L3 
Thus it is 
stocks along similar lines. Ronald 
Hatton, tor, South-Eastern Upricultiral 
College, Wye, Kent. 
(To be concluded.) 
NOTES ON IRISES. 
AN VEPET- FLOWERING IRIS. 
Inrs BAKERIANA is a delicate 
original oj mpanying sketch 
и м. 28), of E Max eii sent me a 
rical, with — projecting ribs 
reticulata ur-sided, thos 
six ri 
of melaina, or black, 
appropriate, for th the tips of de falls are "of. the 
most intense, Motivo dark georg pus in prp 
The central portion is whi ip ala 
ег 
irregular linear blotches of Т Tt 
is interesting note ? 
members of my present little colony of bulbs 
have sprung as from oi i bulb, 
yet ihe m are never exactly similar 
on any two flowers. Differences, at any rate in 
arise. in individuals that 
sexual, 
Char: 
. colour, сап 
have originated in vegetative, as opposed 
summi О асын У. Р. mue 
terhouse, Godalming, — 
THE MARKET FRUIT GARDEN. 
Work was quite as much interrupted by ba 
weather in За as it was іп the preced 
onth. There we 1 
T: 
t no time was the n a fit state for plant- 
ing fruit trees, and women diggers have n 
been able to dig the ground for six weeks. Thu 
inter work to b 
complis! ortunatel; s been ssible 
to ce fuir So with pruning, « although this 
ry opie conditions. 
It ees that wintry 
Setia set in in в pins which escaped the 
Fic. 28.—1RIS BAKERIANA MELAINA (I. BAKERIANA 
X I. RETICULATA.) 
lier from many 
w reported ear 
rst snow fell on the 27th, but 
i Я E was not until the the: 
vy 
heavy Баз чы sno 
localit: 
was anything a ‘heavy fall, and it is still 
coming down as I write. ow is not par- 
ticularly welcome, but the lower temperature 
that accompanies it is d bi t-back 
to forward vegetation. i ve been 
blooming in the hedgerows for some time. Cro- 
cuses are just showing yellow in the garden, and 
some of the female blooms have appeared on 
Cobnut The lowesi perature recorde 
during the month E еа 119 of frost 4 feet from 
the ground on night of the mee 
Prospects, - 
which most fruit trees had 
auring ng 1918, der may э ек о 
[Feprvary 15, 1919, 
w dia during the coming season. The present 
Apple, Pear, Plum, and баш! 
and 
ату · crop is very d 
J È 
a а remit of LI 
It is difficult to under use there 
is for this. By the time these newly-planted — 
chards are in ring it is more than pr- 
bable that overseas supplies will be normal, amd | 
we shall rn the old conditions of full 
markets and low prices. The fruit ty and 
igh prices of one quite abnormal si have 
caused some peop vli to forget the y years in 
man d 
which vind er ous almost given away in the 
wholesa 
ProvGHING IN ORCHARDS 
Digging козш fruit trees in winter has always. 
been something of a gehe to fruit- | 
rtly because the w is interrupted | 
by the weather, but still more use of its 
expense. ring the war, with lal ваге 
and wage! ‚ some ers hav E 
possible to get all their digging done, and of 
chards have allowed to fall down to grass 
is nos ре 
completely, t thi a 
the stems о ees, and leaving а shallow oM 
furrow down the middle of the alleys: "y 
gives i inage. ' other int 
so big еге їз no space for Р? ре 
ing, is being forked bv . women. 
