Max 24, 1919.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. closing he admits unison is essential before higher € = in a та уо; loamy soil. 
wages. can be demande $ He then casts his eyes Be Ке strong and ТӨН dono 
(The mes do not hold themselves responsible for the — heavenward and talks of a better ids whereas T ex n hi b S Tur te 14525 1 
E теу were ery shor oin Е : 
rH d MRNA he should put his hand i in his pocket and assist „ iy е Беш in the E v^: MS lifted for 
Mites on Red Currants.—In certain buds of the funds t the Assocation, d is making ү. UE € "E | 
rrants grown at Long Ashton, I have an p 
j es i ^ to be 
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vour in ilis right direction. He prefers transplanting in a new house m thoroughly 
made border. Some of the vines were cut back 
found in some numbers of mites having a great a procrastinator rather ihe a subscriber. to three, Tour-and five feet. They have broken 
resemblance to those of Eriophyes ribis, the mite —J. ©. J. SEO ahe d showin plen dir. fr it [ 
that causes Big Bud in Black Currants. There is — Two lads in the garden. in which we are rr vaik narrowly how they set fruit and 
: some reason to thin that E. ribis may be much oe ed asked for more wages they could how the berries i I shall only allow an 
more common on Red Currants than is generally iot get e than 21s. per week pee bothy average of two buncl on -— vine I am 
supposed, and I am therefore venturing to appeal ipiis ipid They secured employment at writi g in D —— that some Gr: - grower will 
to your many readers for d ial, Big n the railway works for 32s. a week and hours give me his expe reg din е ено 
are not caused, as in the case of the Black Cur- less work. ne of the labourers became dis- of his vines m» vn sg 0-8 temperature. 
rant, but attacked buds generally fail to mes satisfied and has gone to work on a farm for J. W. Irvine. d radle y Gard. ns, Grimsby. 
in the spring. АП buds of any size, there 
i that are the preser e dormant, are gos 
pect, and I should be greatly indebted if any of 
your readers would sei any such apparently 
ead buds from the Red The 
4 grow Lees, Agri- 
cultural’ and Horti: uliiral Research Station, 
Long Ashton, Bristol. 
ds Plants.—I recently sowed some 
Fuchsia seed, а I had saved last year. The 
of the s s have normally the d 
leaves of dic isles plants. But 
мй, and is regularly develop 
whorls leaves in threes Ca: ny reader 
8 
as having isu ae opposite leaves." If it 
abnormal, how will it „affect t 
e que n f 
Кы. classification? Tf e Fuchsia is 
classe а dicotyledonous T where Sh a 
tienigedonous Fuchs What i 
bearing upon pro laias of Бе g ical varaton 4 
Here s varia that seems to go back 
behind ken rank 5. к nt т the rank of 
orders, a е very primi- 
ib and "initial pub deed P aa nt life. І 
avi a 
tr quedes onous Fuchsia ев ing 
Apart from its exhibition оше what is, if a 
ex fon import n 5 Judson (xus 
1.2.C Ini В.; Exe 
(Lo nd. 5 
7 |, Gardeners Hours and Wages (see page 280). — 
! . G., like many other writers on the sub- 
Ea fails to advise how any rate of e 
: and wages can be enforced. He also fails 
à appreciate w ae is being done in that direction. 
ü As he states ith matters as they are 
s a 
one can," th oa es himself. But is dt 
nghi that he о uld practically condemn the 
B.G.A. in its ort to make such a thing 
possible while he offe ers no solution to the prob: 
lem? He, like e previous writers, agrees that unit 
18 he sa i 
— 
sires is to pis 'e the principle of the 
B.G.A, befo rd rally. 
. oung men, 
gardeners in pre- de Lys on demobilisatio: 
naturally require some guide to conditions with 
$ ыр; hours wages prevail t tk CHELSEA SHOW 
homent, i r i i 
e things might be enforced. etn Fic. 12ő5.—PAEONIA WILLMOTTIANA, EXHIBITED BY MISS WILLMOTT. 
* ч zi Р See awards by the Fistal Committee, p. 258.) 
П every gardener who knows of the B.G.A. were ( : 
to join the same nen be sufficiently 
ощ for action. . М. С. declares “ € a 10s. a week more wages and a house in addition. Pu ations Received.— Birds Beneficial 
ns right to ask rs to subscribe to In our opinion, the ause of disco operas to Agr culture. Ву Е. W. Frohawk M.B.O.U. 
unds ” until enforcement E пе асе e e amongst gardeners is that the hea adv vill engag A ith 22 plates. London: Printed by 
is possible, е is surely short-sighted or narrow- anyone whether he sesses a knowledge ot or би ег ra the к of the British Museum; В. 
minded; someone must “ba ild befor gardening or not, and. тау ап MAKE man Quaritch, Ltd., 11, ао Pme New Bond 
пак shelter : is he to sind by bows ‘the holes the same wage as skilled man. Four Street, W.1; and Dulau ; м. 34-36, 
S 7 T cw d ч "ed 
BGA. ^ x» las i Kw vani odis й "pr uld X the Journeymen. Margaret Street, Cavendish p^ Price 
remain, A v abes us in the dies ar de de of Cool Treatment of Vines.—Many gardeners 28: Annual Report of the о of 
Smam, might have its hundreds o e ERA or the Departme nt of тане Marie odii 
applicants, but a none would plead for the situa- have been una е to give their vines the noris Тазы t Hé ito ted 
tion at such a wage as 30s. All would ask the temperatures usually considered necessary in 8716 gi Pa ЛУУ НЕ Ех{тас A 
Same standard wage, and the best PM should Grape culture. Here we have a large, span- ss oor a I; for the y ) Ep. ag 
Win. Again, if the 1 d were A. man roofed house 100 ft. by 18 ft., in which vines of to 88.) he Origin A riche hats By 
and wi Ay 168, e is я : f Alexandria, Black burel Black T. MacDougal and H Spoeh The Desert 
and wished a foreman at 40s. he Er not be Muscat of Alexandria, Black Hamburgh, Black Е: : 2 
faced with 1 ‘3 : Р Alicante, Gros Colmar, Mrs. Pince and Gros Laboratory, Tucson,- Arizona Reprin ed from 
38s. d d [aroc were plan ч um » kl aieo The Plant World, Vol XL, No. Oc obe 
n fire heat has not been employed save for 1918 те Tenants’ Emergency Charte 
the purpose of testing the boiler and pi The — the nt Restriction Acts. liver 
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vines were bought last winter previous, and and Boyd. London: 33, er Row, E.C. 
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ihe heuse noi being ready, they wero cut back Edinburgh : Tweeddale Court. Price 7d 
