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THE GARDENERS’ 
_ CH RONICLE. 
[Apri 12, 1919, 
EDITORIAL NOTICE, 
ADVERTISEMENTS should be sent to the 
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Bes to Correspondents.—The Editor 
rn eeu of Ee pay os any contributions or 
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plants for naming, should be addressed to the 
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printe ut kept as a guarantee of d fait. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING 
WEEK. 
MONDAY, APRIL 14— 
Mie ge Hort. es 
Bath Gard. Soc. 
уры Prov. Soc. Com. meet, 
DAY, APRIL 
meet. 
FRIDAY, APRIL 18— 
Good” Friday. 
AVERAGE Fae A for the ensuing week 
deduced from "observations during the last fifty 
| ACTUAL TEMPERATURE :— 
y Duden Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
hà rac Ме eiae PE a eaten ts 9, 
: Bar, 29.75; temp. 
vale Kiet very generally 
_ Cultivation. hold” орі, that high 
сапа: `` cultivation. results 1 
дебе: rig er gd and 
the n fact of 
riesen of дач т МБА 
nas and Gr 
Seeds in our. fiu become atrophied, the 
fruit itself grows largely in size and 
quafity." 
Neve: rtheless, i in spite of the prevalent 
ч this opinion, there no very ae 
t of evidence in Ив се support. 
M cake 74 Pe that me exam үн, of к 
fruits necessarily examples of 
,000 Apples mdi um 
upwards of 6 000 fruits of 95 species ы; 
мане of aes genus Malus. 
Apples were divided 
it is in 
- "Thus the cr number of seeds in the 
E: > Seid Production in Apples. By ©. S. Crandall. 
Bull. 203, Univ. of Illinois Agric. к. Station, 1917. . 
s 
Manchester and North of England Orchid .Society 
vai m № the chry: 
\ tak 
the feeding of a — sent 
advan 
M От: 
{ hee their domain. 
fruit of 12,912 Apis of large size (32 
yarina was found be the 
average in 8,500 ra les of ize, 
7.91, and the hi E in е yup of 
b Apples 
» 
several others. 
occur more frequently in small than in 
large fruits. Hence, so far at all events 
as the Apple is concerned, the commonly 
held view that decreased fertility is 
associated with increased size of fruit is 
erroneous; and seedlessness would appear 
to bea contretemps which arose indepen- 
dently of increase of size, and once having 
risen it was perpetuated by artificial 
ler 
It matters. ow 
much scientific Као" 
ledge тау be’ piled on 
scientific Boo wledae, 
RARE ed of 
Sir William 
Crookes, О.М. 
the 
scientific fac igh эзин апа 
орррев the Erw of Se ait diente 
orkers—vexing them with the worry of 
Bnding out where to fit themselves into 
р ranks of the army of discoverers, and 
aid in the ordered advance of the line 
di Vica they are units—there will always 
be, at all events among British men of 
Science, pioneers. | idees is in the 
blood of the „гасе; it: is part of its 
intelleetual  equipm ment. доға аво 
amateurishness, shocking to the ee 
conventionalised mind; naïveté, whic 
the- merely clever seems only. pue arog 
iru onk m which 
of 
mind of these pioneers and depict it for 
our instruction; show that with a о 
ead 
fortresses, gnable if 
акк. ith (бы. "conventional aer bea 
of scientific warfar 
Of that glorious gd Lp ioneers of 
older generation, Sir William Crookes 
was the last; though surely others will 
саа. him—unchartered ‘libertines of 
science, and like him straying from the 
beaten paths and rod жү ass roads of 
knowledge, will blaze new trails into the 
unknown. 
an 
Sir William Crookes’ contributions 
to chemical — physical knowledge it Mx 
e 
not necess еар here. His im 
nation led to conceive of ine 
psig T ber skill enabled him ‘to find 
them. ое ме he will always be 
remem ay by his startling incursion 
and his fluttering of 
by the Son that 
ere made of atmospheric 
nitrogen as a food for Matay с. Reime 
supply would prove  inadeq m": 
quick is the 
that thinigh" the eae was uttered 
merr years sebrat Me 
technical seience. 
spirit, ee have arisen 
ting of the British Association at 
Beutel in 1898—the dadie it announced 
is warded off ; and, T ee o the ch. 
discoveries ю sits 
atmospherie nit ies 
world to-day, aia, likely to ‘be foes " io 
time to come, rather a glu han ME 
age of nitrogenous old for 
Sir William Crook 
p" 86. 
wo ne Hh It urged tim to d knowled 
also of that which lies beyo: 
Liverpool Flower. _ Bhow.— 
H 
ust 13, 14, 1919. 
Royal Horticultural mies War Reli 
е а: ds the pomi on Friday, psy 
4th i of the Serbian MS SA { 
Ноне aid st was а 
and esult £1,000 will be бсо JR 
"ug e Pallad ium Ww. as filled with a dis- 
tinguished pp cire , which in- 
n 
1 i 
yw ve, Lady Clementine Walsh, and Miss 
. Gifts т опе by M ned Cares Higham, 
MLP., realised over 100 g 
Bee-keeping. —Mr. W. Herrod-Hempsall, of 
the British Bee-keepers' Association, one of " 
Board of Agriculture ere in bee fave a 
at present in nsport 
f stocks to be supplied or Ris Mn “gs е 
county hortienltura organisations and ‘there 
used as the basis о f larg 8 Р 
ing the n y 
fas been ap 
. Mac is best known as an 
authority on. Primulas, of which he cultivates a 
arge repre ге collection, in his im . 
к шы period h 
to Mr. Henry Joh 
man under M 
in the ci cnarge of the ‘garden! 
Gardeners’ o Rodi tion.—A reunion of 
bem of the British Gardeners' Aoin 
resident in or near Lon 
Anderton’s Hotel, Fleet Street, on Wednesday 
evening next. Demobilised soldier nd sailors ` 
and the friends of members are inv! 
or Ex-Soldiers.— 
part on a voluntary basis and in the 
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