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ee FOR THE ENSUING 
WEEK. 
ut they cannot 
MONDA “JULY 14— 
nited Horticultural . and Prov. Society’s 
Oo EN ittee meet, 
Bath Gardeners’ Society meet, 
Е ус iE. 
Society's 
Nolienol ym Ба, s Exhibition ber mone THe doce. 
National D уру and Picotee Soc ES S 
lecture by Mr. A. D. Webster, 3 p.m 
“ Afforestati 
FRIDAY. JULY. dE E Itural Society’s Floral Fete 
orticu ciety’s Fe at 
Handsworth ear Birmingham. (2 days). 
SATURDAY, 
JULY 1 
Praag Celebration Day. 
roydon Horticulturay "Society's Vegetable and Fruit 
Show, in the Public Halls, George re erage 
n Horticultural Society’s Outin 
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AVERAGE ` TEMPERATURE for the ensuing week 
deduced, gore observations during the last sity, 
at сег 63.1. 
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Gardener. iele Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
Covent Garden; London, ap ednasday, July 9, 
10 a.m.: Bar. 30.2; temp. 659. Weather—Sunny. 
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The Botany dife ult tasks that a 
of Crop 
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inculcate ri Бае of еси + Pan. 
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out" of Po , no reference is m to 
British experience, which de testen 
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ter of strains and- not of 
rieties; nor does the а uthor refer 
Plants. A “Text ard Reference 
bbins Hi gna. 81. к: ns 
and Со. 1917. 
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cupo 6 RA age aed 
Р. Blakiston’s Son 
is one of the most 
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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
ne Jee 12; 1918, 
the proved excellence of Scotch and Irish 
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chapters on fruit 
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formation as а ү-н the facts given are 
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plea t any description the names of the 
class: 
tho ough the statements made are 
nera des accurate, we are 
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and that opinion we propose to ad- 
here rg the evidence to the contrary 
is Коп ng. 
Sulphur 
Many experiments have 
a made 
e Fertiliser:* 
been with respect 
to the value of apanr 
a fertilisèr or as 
eans of sterilisin ur the soil and thus 
inditesily hen: oe crops. 
of these ve, ho 
cases benefi ects have been observed, 
in others, the application | of sulphur has 
failed to incr he yield. Recently 
the subject been investiga by a 
number of ifferent observers from 
new реше w, and it has been shown 
that when Mee is added to the soil 
it undergoes oxidation m the result of 
biological action; tha say, the 
sulphur plays a part in the metabolism of 
certain specific soil bacteri as. а 
result is converted into sulphate. f 
course it has long —since the 
work of Winogradsky—that sulphur bac- 
f various kinds 1 an 
elsewhere which make use of this element 
a fo 
d are elder y pE oma : 
by mixing soil, dine ur and mineral 
phosphates ghd that the phosphate — 
into a soluble f s hen 
post made in nner sen one as a 
useful substitute е апа superphosphate. 
The proportion which gave the best re- 
sults was s parts soil, 12 of sulphur, and 
40 of mime Bp hosphate. 
е addit trace of sulphate of 
iron and of pubes of aluminium causes 
* Internat. Review of the Sciense and Practice of Agric. 
Monthly Bulletin X. I. Jan., 1919. 
the oxidation of sulphur to go on yet mo 
rapidly, and ii actice to obtain 
perhaps some of our readers be 
to carry out tests alon es. 
siia also be interesting to know wheth 
s of the benefits which are said 
or instance, may nal 
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pho бей: da the 
New Gerder Book.—Days in My Garden й 
a book by Mr. Ernest. Baliard, whi 
y the Cambridge Uni 
The Biol, will - heres 
an 130 Photographs by t 
Ce 
e. Gardeners’ Chr *onicle. 
appreci 
his Bisnis з mak and аё management of the 
Botanic Garden Lynch will take win hin 
into his retirement the good wishes я 
large circle of friends. 
Te AE Examination.—The 
al imm qe Social 
Educational Garden at Reading —Dr. J. 
asks us announce that his ening a 
Westfield, Reading, will be open to gar 
other persons interes 
on the 12th and 13th inst. betw 
of 3 an E ake iat he will 
ti re interesting 
vided 2 or visitors M om a distance. 
S ers ish Association — The eighty- yo 
eeting of the British Association w 
[css nemouth from Tuesday, Se er 9 d 
Saturday, Septe ERES 13, under the E Я 
pus Hon. ‚Вт = Parsons, who will d Ee 
addres the Еа (dealing . 
war) ig 
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Tue held i 
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begin esday orning, 
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