| Jury 19, 1919.] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
33 
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Gardeners’ Chronicle 
No. 1699.—SA TURDAY, JULY 19, 1919. 
NTS. 
Onions RONNIE реше 
со 
Aberdeen flower show 
ae .8 
elgium, Torticuttural no 
Js e де . 38) g eanings— 
5 s grown in leaf- 
d 
moul 
attleya 
. 89 
and. 
E 
33 
s tw А 
hernia А 
р үне ma Laelio:Ca 
r. Wi qa . 40 Mendiona 3 
ys Phyllopertha Shei eons 36 
Carna UE 33 cul tree, beauty ofa . 39 
Ge 
. 38/300; 
netic 44 
. 94 Manchester and North "а 
of Seke anas 
ы. Ros 
Röyal Horticultural a 
:33 м пы и ана Fiori 
8 TER 
m ЖУ 
L 23 x 3|Soldie: “gardener 5 
еш n, ge roig lett com from . 85 
ке. B E ouch 30 Eric notes 
ituary— es and shru 
Griffith - qued. pr. A А: AM i 
К Lady .. . 45] Week's work, the 36, 37 
4 ILLUSTRA 
Ci nations, Scarlet Dr seon area peer NM a. 85 
ew 
n йоу 4 
. Mr, William, paren ait of 40 
hy opertha ‘lanai % mee June bug, attacking 
. 96 
T eta .. 48 
ose garden, Rartham’ Hall, Norwich OP 9 
Mrs. Charles Lamplough ade 42 
Pea A re land рт 44 
fables e exhibited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs ‘at 
the Drill Hall . 41 
LAND SETTLEMENT. 
TH 
and p 
t 
nstruction ” рар of this title, 
inistry of Reconstruction 
from any bookseller for 
bject of the pamphlet is to state 
pportunity for successful land 
ent, which this .co qoum € at 
esent time. Suc is 
deserves. a ond. ‘pub 
е 
mpelled to go 
ntry has 
esent. 
x million acres, about three 
» e, edes forty-seven million are 
cultiva: on. 
p à 
misleading, statement 
the pamphlet which should 
be corrected at once, lies in the assertion 
that in previous days, we produced “the 
great bulk of vege 
uire 
tol ec and like value ‘ot e d 
poultry. At fiam values, this would 
с nea orty milli ds 
is but a small part 
reference e 
кр of ho ES аа could 
but evidently forty million pounds- „worth 
of imported cen of ky nds which 
capable of being. grown in ee canis 
quantity in this ЫЎ, is no small 
matter. 
pou 
implying € va. 
ym NS summary of agrícultural 
holdings England and Wales, p 
that iiio а are 420,000 syne ie holding 
These may be classified i 
Very large farms: 14 000-95. per cent. 
(500 acres "d A rice! ғ) 
Large farms : 38,000 =29 per cent. 
(Aver g 3 acres. 
Ordinary ^н аер 30 per cent. 
(Averaging 90 
Economic small Беи. 5 "m 
0 per cent. 
(Averaging 35 acres.) 
Part time y sii t 83,000—1 per cent. 
Nm to 5 acres.) 
Ithou ie eat importance the two 
ilia аен, boe of which are of 
tent, у be omitted here: 
agricultural workers, and ‘it is 
that this fe rine was at the =a of seven 
en for every hundr of arable 
land laid down to grass. 
The steps which are now being t 
ti 
with it in 
v 
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В 
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Ф 
АЧ though. everyone will agree that ther 
d in the a : езе 
-achieve о: e difficulties 
lies in the enhanced cost of building. gs 
i land; another 
о К 
competition with which in pre-war an 
the market gardener and fruit grower 
To 
was faced. et over this difficulty in 
a way acceptable аа to igri pre 
consumer, will pro a ina tax 
statesmanship. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
DISAS GROWN IN LEAF-MOULD. 
OSE who saw = i разы -flowered н 
ту and Black 
Slough, at the yal Horticultural Жако E 
meeting on the lst inst. (see Chron., 
July 5, 11) were € ed by their 
pain УЛ m ‘in small pots, each 
bearing a sioak go three to быга 
height. "The selection shown was a sample 
bre n d -batch. raised аё Бшш үле, 
е treatment given, they t to per- 
Pace erbe many growers Ay "i oh satis- 
factory results with 9 beautiful Orc 
The success at Slough is largely attributed p 
mice are placed ее от drainage, ar ed 
i to the brim with decayed leaves ту 
essed down. The strongest tu 
E next season's flowering are P nted in the 
li 
pot in other composts, 
ушу! try thee [oim The cultivation of 
Ler ese tuberou aperte ring Disas in leaf- 
ould may pr ent success, although 
the formerly lauded ere soil ppm of Odonto- 
glossums ud other epiphytes in t cases was 
a costly failure, 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA MENDIONA. 
A FIR lower of a between Cattleya 
Mendelii and Laelia Ion (Dayana x Ж ано 
ustace a Clark, Esq., Evershot, 
shape 
of С. Mendelii and p tenebrosa, but in colour 
it ey approa 
delii. 
Men gi ceolate shape and 
br etals are white, tinged and veined with 
e mauve. The lip, which i th 
e median i 1 
Pepe ple ng primrose yellow and the 
Mr. Clar] ends a specia т fine Laelio- 
Me 
which, sithoogh no 
may be likened з a bright үйөт © endelii 
with deep crimson front to 
FLORISTS’. FLOWERS. 
ЖИЕ BORDER CARNATION. . 
Tue article by Old Florist, on p. 4 in your 
issue of "шу 5, is much to the point, and 1 agree 
with most that t he writes. 
e СЯ oe bear and showing blooms on 
cards out slowly but surely, and 
еса 2h f ‘consider tha the old striped flowers 
are shown t ? best advant: 
fully 
pread 
ss kind should be 
any 
erate A. 
But why the Midland к allows Selfs, 
Fancies, rione Ground P as well as the 
ае ne ico m e shown on 
comprehension, and I ie 
Mr. it "m Grp for that Society to giv: 
the practice, at least as regards the three frat. 
mentioned Pou 
Old Florist merely touches on one very important 
matter, E SAA Logs advance that has been made 
in recent years in rigidity 
ve 
на best of ар "d ch. 
bc he bo: Carna- 
tion to the perpetual асаў I consider it time 
that raisers of seedlings of that kind should look 
