__ МоукЕмРЕВ 15, 1919.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
‘Gardeners Chronicle 
No. 1716.—SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
А American blig 245, Manures, not , for 
E ia socotrana, hy- ovember ... 252 
of . 248 id, notes and gleanings : 
251 Blue Orchids 2: TET 
248 Sophro-Laélio-Cattleya 
-» Rainbow ... . 247 
Laelio-Cattleya Pi s 247 
3 Laelio-Cattleya Nebula 247 
ophro-Cattleya Rs o 247 
253 rasso-Cattleya Jul 24 
. 253| Plants, new or noteworthy : 
Kniphofia Snowdenii 247 
: Plant notes : { 
. 251 Dichorisandra thyrsi- 
flora . 247 
Richardias, improve 
. 250 piva Io disease .. 254 
. 254 ent oi .. 252 
BUT rees aan shrubs ` 
i ucryphia  pinnati- 
. October dessert ` apples 254 olia ы 254 
_ Market fruit garden, the 250 | Week's work, the 248, 249 
E LLUSTRATIONS, 
Apples, a market exhibit of hs 246 
Crinum Powell flowering on a "warm border 251 
Нуна “Ria n жый а н: -land ; .. 948 
. 252 
. 247 
.. 253 
TEMPERATURE for the ensuing week 
Ке, gh A EN during the Де fitty 
E at d nwich, 42.39. 
neuer DEPO ole Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
E his o" Tondon, ednesday, November 12, 
ar. 29.8; temp. 399. Weather—Sunny 
It is an interesting co- 
The ти incidence the 
М of Apple of th 
pee holding a 
x ае ч Apples, is an item 
: expenditure bane annot be whol olly 
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aving of much labour and do away with 
railway 
whom 
bas kets have sd handled between despatch 
dr 
irai: ОГ colour appears to be as desir- 
dmirable gradin s in sizes seen 
at the com Mure Vende itions. Other things 
ing equal, highly-coloured and more 
attractive frets Sell more readily than green 
ones o m 
on Won and ^ rt, are 
requentl nd in competition with com- 
paratively early sorts. The lack of storage 
t the farm or plantation c st 
grower to market ‘his fruits as as pos- 
sible a e cn re harvested, irrespec- 
e the crops 
tive of variety, with the result that ‘there i is a 
glut of mixed varieties which congests’ the 
sp period 
over which gi z Apples should 
be available to the public. The man who 
has a large acr Apple trees and adopts 
up-to-date meth of c ation, regards 
the provision of a fruit-room for.;storage as 
ssary part of the equipment, and 
e profits thereby. On the contrary, the cul- 
tivator of fe acres does not build a 
ruit room. ation whereby storage 
room could ed to meet the needs o 
he smaller growers in given districts, with 
n agent to grade and market the stored late- 
seeping crops, wo overcome ny of the 
diificulties of transport ура: now иу ina 
move , 
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dee varietie ut on the market by pese 
e variety 
scme varieties colour r beautifully, liee 
other soils they rem green. There is evi- 
dence 
that keeping dias alib: does vary-with’ Si Ы 
Scottish Parish Flower Shows.—It is aioe 
to observe that many is the Scottish parish 
st of v 
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in 
yas of their supporters are being held 
country and considerable per, Mert is 
being sas wn in many places. oodiy number 
w members are being endi from among 
il tment aa ж: their accession will prove 
eat з e of strength. 
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ana Jandino; of Castlemilk, 
nted a 
= Large боле, both о 
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sof о ае 
ву ра ту fac the 
е a ratio d 9h 
p meo ani 30 д 
нао 339 : 
The шерге 
charac of КИ 8 ia 
h of di эры de 
меи of Seed Potatos а Albans. 
A Potato exhibition ‘a pe novelty, à Eo show 
of seedling Potatos and 
Messrs. Ryder are to а не Med c on the 
success of their exhibition on the 6th inst, 
ich was justified by the quantity of 
seedlings ‘entered. For nineteen prizes of 
the ар value of £100: there were 
bout к exhibits, each hibit con- 
sisting of twelve tubers eges m Messrs. 
der' t were pec mine 
e 
last spring in packets eri utn ab 
sp The A eyo zo. tabore could 
e fro 
2 the e xhibits, consisted 
of ibus ана" Potatos. r 
FB here was a remarkable pod “ot 
size, shape, and colour in the exhibits, many 
of which, however, looked distinctly promising. 
Th ie was awarded т. llins, 
Lea rm, and, Malvern; the 
s ^ M. Hond, 86, HE ad, 
Willesborough, Kent; and the third to Miss 
“ Мыш, Stewart ardens, New- 
town wn, Ireland. first prize 
татав Casi of round, —— A 
of good quality from tw wo or he 
— was Prey. на one root шу, or at 
fro: ‚ and bore a strong re- 
most 
* Behaviour of the Hybrids of the Two Varieties 
P; on © Siroendo’ and ‘Sans Parchemin très large 
Cosse,’ ” bv N. Sigeroku. Bot. Mag., Tokio, xxxii, 
377, S , 1918. 
