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tural difference, and this is certainly remarkabie, 
but only, I think, at rs sight, for on closer 
inspection it will be seen that the veins are 
there but so faint as e be расгау invisible. 
One of nag features of I. ste lonifer s the way 
in which the blue colou zs a sed over E 
D = urple ground. In oogia on 
e m is : delightful s E eg of есен 
tin "ss of теср, and brighter ne over the central 
porti falls and on the outer side of the 
st dk 
Yet in spite of the close resemblance—apart 
from colour—between the two species, I am quite 
convinced that I. a 
Hoogiana is a good and distinct 
species, for which сига should be a great futur 
in store, if only those who grow it t will take up 
their picis about the. middle. of July and replant 
Fra. 
them early in October. For years I have been 
in the habit of taking up caes Pls ea dy in 
une, but now I am sure the new growths 
З quently they did not 
3 p y 
I. Hoogiana, but this year there 200, 
and these have come from a NOR Shirts of e 
kotan ms zomes whic E" filled in 1914 about 
squa a bed. Now I am жап “with 
Regions. purs ve no hesitation in r end: 
ing it not only as one of the most striking « of all 
Tris тео; but also as one with an excellent con- 
stitutio W. R. Dykes, бо ын Godal- 
ming. 
LETTERS FROM SOLDIER GARDENERS. 
FRUIT AND FRUIT TREES IN MACEDONIA. 
NY s I have longed for a good English 
Apple since I came this intry. The very 
first fruit saw after landing were Appies of 
a sort. n wa m the docks to the 
Base Depot we espied a Greek w a donkey 
carrying two pannier Баке, and he signalled 
to us, exhibiting ғ sale some small DIE s 
veral men-broke the ranks and went across 
o hir hey had all bought a go ж талу 
S.M.'s eye feli on them. The whole 
alion was halted, and the great man went 
across to the offenders. The Greek апа his 
donkey vanished promptly, and the Apple 
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139.—1RIs HOOGIANA; COLOUR OF FLOWER PALE BLUE, 
buyers were made to cast their 
тма оп 
the grond ey ium ihe ranks. Fron 
w ns 
I could f the fruits they were little superio 
to Crab d ape 
Si n I have not seen an Apple, though 
I per sede there are ргы trees. In fac 
I saw them in full bloom in the ring 
very handsome and home ly they loo 
Pears, on the opti: are common every- 
where, wild trees, some of ү em bearing 
enormous crops of frui кок goodly 
size. In appearance the Pears POM a x 
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English Lammas, me da жы about the same tim 
but they are not weet. 
eatable, i e 
r Pears issued as ponis at times, 
I-s ie ect these came from the Struma 
Lime 7, ‚ 1919 
Valley, where fruit, I pai is m 4 
Quinces, ioo, were issued lieu of jam" 
very freely last sum A 
ji 
never h 
I have thought. it possible d eat a dis| 
stewed Quinces. One in an Apple tart was well 
ough h however, were passable and 
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tas sparingly include ets Plume, 26 t n 
—white and rather poor—and Apricots. At one 2M. 
placé among the hills, where the villagers had à 
een: allowed to remain T ere fairly large mi 
гре of these trees, and the fruit was Tipe M 
quite early in July. revious to that we had lis 
seen Gedy any fruit whatever. I found some ОЕ i 
wild Strawberries, rather larger than English hn 
ones, r in colour and iem and by the bh 
end of July Sloes, which are v abundant and И i 
f large size, were fully ripe. ii 
The outstanding treat. we had in fruits w 
el E 
he rearing silkworms, and ar rily pol 
larded to produce an Sever ha ‘of ied but © 
war began silk-production seems to have 
to tree: 
been entirely s 8. e the s have grown 
up to a considerable height. Last year І was able 
io go during the early part of June to а 
larg hard, and feast to my heart's content 
e : X 
riences I have had in this country to w nder 
alone in the cool of the groves, picking the ri 
fruit fan them d 
i n he trees and tł 
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sa te 
piquancy of English fruits, inclined to 
be- sickly. This applies to the black variety. 
The white variety is better flavoured. 
It is rather an odd thing, b igh most 
things out here are a month earlier than in 
Engl : jeg do n edible until 
quite la te year. This is no doubt ae 
ir. It is no 
counted for j* the “dryness of fhe a 
October and 
адел. Reb: wen on bushes 
ravines vere зеге the sun was shut out durin 
of the -day 
rowing in 
4 g part 
So И experience goes, thes 
the English fruits one finds here, and v go 
be off in the autumn. were it not for 
рога would e house i 
i 
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id 
es О T hehe. size. Hs 
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ome nean 
ring 
Figs are 
garderi is without one Fig | 
there are orchards with “large n 
immense trees almost; every wher 
