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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
ГАосозт 30, 1919. | 
силат m SEPTEMBER. 
zes Park, New- 
n-Tyne (three days). 
WEDNESDAY. се MBER 3— 
Glasgow and Scotland Horticultural 
Society’s Exhi biet Pin (two days). 
et paleo erg 4- 
as 
DS (Lan Peace Exhibition (tnree 
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8— 
nias pam nal Horticulture Conference, Paris (two 
ays 
United and Prov. Soc. Com. meet. 
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 
Royal icultural Society meet, 
National" ociet. Autumn Meeting at the 
London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham P 
ire b t 
Е Lecture by € Уша Ban 
ing Fruits.” 
Bottl 
National "Dahlia Soc: ina Meeting in 
MBER ТЕ 
Market Horticultural Society. 
TURDA TEMBER 20— 
Brighton Hortioultacel Society’s Outing. 
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22— 
; National sk gorge Society Floral Committee 
— ч туз x Hall at 3 р.ш.; Executive Committee 
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 93— 
Royal Но AE Sooiety? s 
Sox. Lectu Ur а! 
on “ Fruit ue 
Vegetable — Exhibi- 
nald G. Hatton, at 3 p.m., 
AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE for the ens suing week 
soe from on during the last fifty 
at Greenwich. 
Рс RPE 
pri Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
(^ Miren eyed" London, Wednesday. Aug. Бе 
10 a.m r. 29.5 ; temp. 619. We ather—Showe 
The cultivation of To- 
Kingdom 
Tobacco has pas 
Cultivation rough many phases 
in the United according to.an interest- 
Kingdom. ones in the | United 
orical surve: 
recently contri but 
to the Daily Тее" 
ing was prol ohibi 
th d it 
wealth, and it is recorded that in 1658 
a party of horsemen moved out of Glou 
ter to C nham to destroy the 
Tobacco grown in those parts, whereupon 
the farmers rose against them and assailed 
them abuse, tening ll them, 
rses men, in so mu at t 
 tumult t being so grea at t n charge 
had desis: (Mereurius Politicus) 
n more recent times ihe Royal Agri- 
— Society in ради г itself in as- 
sisti 
into 
ue e Дайын. 
e crop kadd Бе нов under 
wn 
The records, of pe results vis 
J. Beale's ** English 
reviving Tobacco growing cul- 
iral € and  recei pni аен 
«я ance from the Development Com- 
missioners. 
The programme which the Society set 
x OE eae UE rt E кш ы ЫШ 
The Development of the Tobacco Growing Industry 
in Great Britain, by” Alfred Wood. - ur E 
hene: Tobacco Growers’ Society, Lt d., 3d. 
before itself was to ascertain in the fi 
place w 
екан ere 
also has been done, as als 
Tobacco that these soils 
er 
in their „бєксє: 
ж жай, "whether hod crop is a profit- 
able one 
he ia ions kare 1913 have 
de Sa obacco 
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1918 
tà 
rtain par 
u robably pen Frust e 
alg the ш ыша of which has been 
ved by practical test. In addition to 
hia. test, ihe gos ciety bes е carrion, out 
experimen р- 
a 
shir 
pay кале 
experiments thiat 
cou ld, i s Ll sicily on good 
land © many locali 
попе вва on the 
li sandy lan 
land there was ci less in 
for other _ the Tiobaeco 
4 
Я 
w that there dis Te produced 
here a kind- of E euer bg ch Ms ра 
facturer can a I 
hoped that the E vill ‘be’ еса 
for we have any 
able for athe se Hight at ands 
Tobacco appears to do sufficiently well 
Shropshire Horticultural. Soci ciety.—The Shrop- 
shire Horticultural’ Society” коруы to hold a 
ti € dee ven on in 1920. 
course ab rupe arp and 
will he RLA ‘for issue at an early date. 
Proposed Garden City at Welwyn. —A pro- 
a garden city = 
posal is on foot to construct a 
Welwyn, Hertfor е on part of the Pan 
nger estate. ‘he idea is to form a township 
of about 8,500 ee. with room for c 
ind al wide belt of дес 
n 
English Rock Garden.—Mr. Reginald 
Farrer’ не ork e ^p york Flower 
Garden, mple 
and E. C. gd will publish it it immediate 
tely. It 
is in two volumes and con 
illustrations. 
emorial Prize for 
of Southfield, [И-им уна а 
на зн оѓ ern esc] e, Reading, who 
took first place in this s examination for the 
National Diploma in ена еня 
Gardeners’ (Hours and Wages NE. 
ing, secretary to the British Garden 
tion, informs us 2 at his 
‚С. Has 
* Assoc 
xecu tie Conal hae 
recently йм у sportig standard of hours 
and wages for а з, and the Bros эл 
will endeavour to obtain 
Mines 
egi lads and labourers—under 5 у 
› 14s. pcr week; under 16 years of Чаш u 
en " week ; under 17 years of age, 21s. per тоб 
under 18 years of age, 28s. per week; under 19 
years of age, 35s. per week; r 2 уш ars of 
age, 40s. per week; under a modia Í age, 47s, 
per week. At the age of 21 over all wo ал. 
to receive the minimum in of £3 per 
irst journeyman, leading ha 
hands to receive minim rate 
week; nursery, garden, а : 
single-handed gardeners, £3 Ts. 6d 
general foremen, landscape foremen and stok 
£3 10s. per week; head ga т 
Managers, from £3 12s. 6d. per 
tendents, horticultural instructors an 
tural travellers, £ r year, 
T M: if own too 
Ee i me and a 
urday per uie s Sunda; 
Eom double time. least seven days 
with All perq 
between pnl an 
en.ploy It must be "distinctly mec h 
all th d p eem yet of wages are based on 
44-hour working week. 
Destruction of Rats.—At the $ 
a the Royal Sanita агу: Torture “hal a New. 
mice, with: M s wi 
ference to И? control of E rat po opulation ; (2) 
Fleas found on mats heir relation to plague; 
ie soe af diseases trà 
men an other lower animales .(4) poA 
problem and ге те: 
port be given 
Destruction now before depu 
oni argoni 
.ddition to its бойова as а pies G 
and School of -Horticu 
of gardening: iş = 
nev Dub. 
is brilliantly "gay with flowers. А 
wW. wage 1 intl "a of one of E side dual filled 
ith named varieties of double, s 
ested Begonias, every plant being а a welkg 
pedal son The opposi osite stage 
Zoi la: inve 
prend Caps 
Botanic al Magazin, ны 1761, xe 
iriure 
нт и Ба an 
ardeners 
eem of ga County 1 
cludes. the ‚ histori 
ublesome insect pes 
and . orchards ; а prepa 
which аге. preval 
