THE 
GARDENERS’ 
APPOINTMENTS FOR AUGUST. 
DAY, AUGUST 4— 
Abergavenny Flower Show (2 days). Hertford 
Flower Show (2 days). 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. 
Walsall Floral Fete (2 days). 
MONDAY, AUGUST 11.— 
Uni ort. Ben M Prov. Soc. Com, 
Royal Hortigutarat po Committee's Meeting. 
i feras by „ Jam ames Hudson, at 3 p.m., on "Fruit 
ST 13.— 
ral Association's Show 
aac: to be held in ie kam 
, Southampton Horticultural 
ос: 
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 
Southend Fruit aa Vegetable Show, to be held 
in the Chalkwell Park, Westcliff, (2 days). 
THURSDAY, AUGUST $1— 
Aberdeen Horticultural Society's Exhibition. 
Oxford Horticultural Society's Exhibition. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26.— 
Royal ‘Horticultural Society’s Committee Meeting. 
pe hel by Mr. H. Burns, at 3 p.m., on ‚ Allot- 
ment Development in and around Leicester.” 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30.— 
Bridgend Horticultural Association’s Flower Show. 
Southport Fruit and Vegetable Show. 
East 
AVERAGE TEMP: ensuing weel 
deduced from бана cll py I ond the last M 
years at C——— 62.199. 
ACTUAL 
Gardeners’ путы Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
x t Garden, Lon до, Wednesday, aly 30, 
a.m.; Bar 30.2; 599. Weather—Dull. 
ollowing our practice 
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г than s мае е one of 
t pe know me growers: id ex- 
cellent crops, zd ib v was also known that 
the unfayourable season had militated 
st and September. Prospec 
Sod satisfactory until the WO. of 
the trees were in bloom, and up to that 
and 
commenced dropping, eye 
Pire ier ql numbers from the same tre 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avcvsr 2, 191 
ме became entirely denuded of their 
m cau The hot, dry con- 
7 п- 
preventive measu of aying and 
prae. -banding fru it recs pe the serious- 
ess of pic in these matters has been 
Bocchi hom th: owers this as well 
as last sea 
08 will [^a Tim from the rand sum- 
he average. 
most criti time with all 
s when the stones are forming, and that 
rought at that stage predispo 
fruits “ turn yellow and drop from the 
tree n the case of Apples; which ma 
e ni as the principal hardy fruit 
crop in this дёйш, 83 of our correspon. 
dents record a yield of over: the average, 
whilst 116 have average crops, and o 
53 notify crops under a normal jiel 
..Of. Pears, which were de a miserable 
ода with 116 records go deficient it crops. 
Several correspondents o goo 
erops generally, attribute i succes ab their 
practice of mulching the trees 
=f e fac many, е 
crops F trees worked on the free stock 
lends a point to those who argue 
that the. sag was chiefly re- 
above, Apricots 
complete оси for there is only one 
record of an over the average crop, and 
fourteen OF лке та ek us a total 
of 136 returns. As éars, the 
records for small fin very satis 
factory, and of a total 2 248 returns, 930 
OW aver r average yields. In 
most enclosed gardens Gooseberries have 
fruited as freely as ever, but we know of 
cases ү erry bushes in exp 
of the April bliz 
куё crop has 
and ү pe s 
ably pev 
m nd r the 
material from Sith our Musicale was 
made, informs us that never before has 
he seen pee a remarkable crop of Walnuts 
= season o iustos e sent 
ят were, he states, an Pm cal of great 
Now Wheats.—The new Wheats, Fenman 
an, fone na at Cambridge and distrib 
a cbr Trials 
Pota ad — ‘conducted А 
em of Quarantine ne } 
(under authority bg ae by the Ee 
August 2 1 
боо old ше 
"he use of paraffin 
tar, etc., 
the ‘ 
ful Же is the most — sfac 
ro gren of sodium (or 
ооа just inside the entra 
ues tm h be be The горай pena be 
or as they en u 
Lu suni an Elder E hollowed ont a 
fr s iis "local chemist тч for € 
be got h om the о book ” pa 
.2 pe an d ins sue 1 
= апа 41, 000 gal. are equa. in 
eri to about 3 owt. ol i. of pi 
of the Board of Agriculture, at] 
dae wo ould be about 4s. 6d. p 
farmyard кыша, лы; oan pie Ie 
2 О: m ons 
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