Marcu 1, 1919.] 
THE 
Gardeners Chronicle 
No. 1679.—SATURDAY. MARCH 1, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
T ine Garden, The— Orchid Notes and 
E flowering al- Gleanings— 
E 95 бур ре сы Нега 
judaica 95 Euryades, New Hall 
n ey variety... ES, 
oh "аге man ing 91 |Macodes ` Rollissonii 93 
eg дар heap 1 t 
gar rden war Paradise stocks, selection 
са . 100| and propagation of... 1o 
Petato statistics $0 
E crops a and stock . 103 |Potato, wart disease 98 
po: hom Profits on ооч for ds 
a gardening arity... 
Tree planting by the [Rainfall in 1918... ... 99 
o doctor © ов |Еоѕа Moyesi .. 127107 
ааа" .. 101 yellow i f the 9? 
phos бањ Gardens a y 2: v 
and, s fr k 
Коз gerden 5.201 Edinburgh d 
Berne scrim олан. Hortieultural, 102 
Dbituary— Р 103 Тапакаев radie a 
: В. antes . x de. notes zs m 
‘Goldring, Ww Ed Violet Cyclops ... 95 
е, . s ey, notes 
‘Sibbald, Thomas <.. 103 Week's wil гта 7 97 
Odontadenia speciosa ... 99 |Worms, the food of .. 
ILLUSTRATIONS, 
SPA il We oe ot Re spi TE 
pton Court :— 
Flower Beds Borders at . 99 
Sunk Garden at 100 
des Rollissónii ... PE E ín ax = 93 
amakaea  radicans ... es Ue is E i 
CARBOHYDRATE MANURING 
AND THE RUBBISH HEAP. 
уе material (starch 
oil samples upon 
а series ed. 
present importance of the manure 
estion may make the publication of 
€ results useful, even if only to stimu- 
i r lines on a larger 
ale than can be attempted single- 
ded. 
Ir most case ew soils were taken from 
top nine НРА of old pasture land 
т the sake of un rmity. Whilst still 
; they were sifted through a 3 ae 
n of about 15 
з \ 227 к es said mn 
ler trials cane ein ar), make 
T ce the Ae ray чешне 
1 
i further 
i nate 
um carbo 
es. The ae dry weight 
ned. The fermentation e 
e. n 
ventually как was 
oul 
е results witich are due to the sur- 
of and activity of the bacteria 
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re ee vHRUNICLA 
were present in the fferent 
ples no doubt would differ fr rom those 
obtained from soil in situ, chiefly perhaps 
m the er in 
* were at work i 
Odour лебде" 
(ld red sandstone 
Farm C.— 
(ane eed Very strong butyric. 
Farm W.— 
Малы А Ditto. Indol-like, eventually 
pastur stale, sewer-gas-like, 
Budleigh.— 
Recently- W rter Triassic Slight, butyric. 
T. ploughed pasture А Е E ч 
Orchard pasture Granitic Sweetish, later faint 
indol. 
5. 2— 
Garden soi! near Ditto. Sweetish, no indol. 
by 8.1 
Ipine.— 
Le Lautaret Igneous Mawkish and musty. 
Alpine.— 
M. Cenisi Limestone None distinctive or 
marked. 
Brecon Beacons. 
Hill pasture Black a 
layer over ng dla 
NE red 8 Mawkish and must y. 
Old ‘pasture Flint gravel drifts Slowly developed 
slight butyric. 
экеле егу: “oe ы LM alka- 
1 tial acidity having been ov ver- 
е, 2 the ease with patho ogenic 
b when carbohydrate material is 
not too "abun an 
o phosphoric determinations 
eral. it is осади that they are 
largely unreliable bec 
quantity of ci acid), and this causes 
appreciable, if often importan 
osses. In order to avoid such losses, the 
‘incinerations " have been done by means 
f nitrie acid with the help of a slight 
amount of concentrated silp uric acid 
in very ferruginous soils a c n amoun 
ried do that eco iie lon 1s 
necessary. r, care must taken 
during the үе acid extraction to ae id 
urdue shaking, such being limited to a 
sete mixing to ensure uniformity; an 
repeated sedimentation is preferable to 
filtration. The work of Dr. E. J. Russell 
and J. A. cott (JI. Agric. Sci. VIII, 
1916, p. 65) has shown the serious loss o 
hosphorie acid which as after vi 
x shaking, especially with inorganic 
acids; though = ese authors elaborately 
ascribe Ha ee “absorption,” it seem 
rely a на of ттары 
aggregations of pes ids as described by 
W. Ramsden (Separation of solids in the 
i 5, etc., ан 
ho 
siete Separation 
of certain colloid Гыл а by means of 
simple shaking. It seems not unlikely 
that in the case of the shaken so 
some Жат eie 
was involved. 
Phosphoric 
Soil. Potash. dca. 
wich aL бу 00870 I 
4 Di Е ermeni 
Ton 19и оо. . 0.0079 — (Not 0.0472 
Firen 
Jan. 1914 Ditto after ferment 0.0243 084 
Ditto, ditto. .. 
(Stood 40 months) 0.0252 0.084 
Budleigh Dis Ext. : . 0.0121 0.098 
91 after er-' 
pie prins t, starch only 0.0338 i 0.135 
: Starch € СаСОз... 0.0366 x. 0.176 
e seen that the amounts of 
“ available” phosphoric acid and т otash— 
that is, those amounts taken up by stan- 
dard citric acid extraction—imay be very 
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рү increased by є e soil Ыы 
under ermentation е б. with its 
w to 
a cr so 
m 
complex to soluble form. Soil 
chemistry sud sar seal sis grope in the 
pes until we ve some insight and 
ed, and in 
ittle value. unless th 
ante 
h e former soil to yield 
up its porasi rather than adding more, as 
ust. one latter; so far, 
amelioration with is our chief 
addition o e of lime aided the 
fermentative hosphoric 
acid (vide Budleigh above), whilst 
addition of 1% qu e to Farm 
soil only r ised рһогіс acid 
nfermented, and 
arm C. soil behaved 
1) Т 
of the fermentable or 
putrescible material present or added to 
the soil and also the amounts 
of i impor 
play an par 
(catalysts) in prep aces oat are 
not produc nly in a much slower 
ucing action in 
s of ferment 
о 
unds, сг sul- 
d to sul hidas which will 
ect upon some er com- 
ре? "work ач ‘the "direc 
of сака sulphid 
ameliorating agent, and the ‘older | prac. 
