NOVEMBER 22, 1919.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
257 
Gardene E onicle 
о. 1717.—SA TU RDAY, NOV. 22, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
Agricultural returps ... 291) Orchid notes and gleanings— 
Alpine күн, the :— Laelio-Cattleya Hon- 
Alyssum spinosum ... 263| oria Orchidhurst 
| variety 264 
Apples, boxes versus 
t . 264 
Apples, bush .. 262 viis, horticultural ex- 
Farmer, Profes: r3. B. 258 Uer x . 258 
Farrers, Mr. Reginald, lant 
second урон їп Mentha “acutifolia .. 264 
a . 262 ооуу а new Bie 
тү Commissioners: 258 | Poi "d tos, ey 
d a d шә ... 964 Prain, sit D оне "23 
Societies 
rs, Nov mber 265 Birmingham Chrys: 
Garden, presentation to themum and шуп: 
al Potato 
new publie Manchester and North 
of England ке 268 
Hardy press border : Na erie al Сһтуѕап 
Viola eee aoe 259 * 268 
aulis. . 259 North th of England Ho т- 
Sigalla акими . 259 ticultural `... . 269 
pee Club : ortsmou' А 
headquarters of th 
axodium an nd Glyp- 
tostrobus, notes on 259 
,Zanthorhiza apiifolia 259 
Trade note 
T ese bulb import 
1 269 
260, 261 
Luxemburg, a national 
cb cultural society for 258 
Obituary : ontro| 
Ts Wis . 270 Week's work, the 
STRAT!ONS, 
Apps packed ii Mi un: for market 
ucc sinensis, forms of M" 258; shoots ot, 
родейснеїото with close а essed leaves ... 258 
Turner, the late T. W., ii Tato aye Pre 
AVERAGE MEN for the ensuing week 
m p "Observations during the last fifty 
egets ырады wich, 41.79. 
ACTU. 
Qr may Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
a ed Cors € е Wednesday November 19, 
р. 539. Weather—Rainy. 
A J is so ago 
The Spraying of was pointed out in ‘the 
Potatos Attacked Lote of the Food Р 
by Aphis. 27 ion Department P 
results obtained b 
the spraying. w Poratos va Bordeaux or 
Burgundy mixtures that when Potatos are 
growing under pue and pré ЕКШ ДАУ ип- 
favourable conditions spraying may result in 
damage to 
in и 
crop. 
ations made during the last 
a 
mea edly 
recommended in the generality of cases, it 
be wi when Potatos 
It perd 
on Potatos, and i 
ather 
a 
or this plant, is the cause of the prevalence 
9f Aphis on Potatos during t st season 
From analogy with the state of affairs in the 
United tes, ere Aphis attac o 
оц 
" is cu 
Bordeaux — e is, we 
d with insecticide 
Spray flu id, no general injury presen s re- 
ing; yet here, w 15- 
with Bordeaux 
Pre 20e dam Pire 
hich cannot be attribu 
Msi a of the Aphis. 
It is, of course, not surpri sing t that a 
sould 
of с 
sulphate wh ay 
vs d is discharged on a sound plant it remains 
a sort t of i armour on the surface 
that sp spraying "shall be бап 10404, but that if 
rop is infested with Aphis effort 
out. Бе, irected to ridding the E 
of this pes! ore spraying is done 
i h 
t be 
vould be interesting to know how soon 
got rid of, spraying ight 
in other words, how long d 
wounds caused by Aphis lke to heal. t 
would also be usefi his i 
ile 
microscopist skilled іп “Histological 
methods to find out what chemical changes 
occur in the walls of cells bordering on such 
minute pun wk res as those formed by the 
attacks of Ap 
Revival aff how.—On the 
өы н kr one "Schedule Sub-Committee 
the Narcissus and Tulip Com cedi the 
yal Ho анага Socie 
ety has 
agreed to the revival of the London Daffodil 
Show in 1920, on ril 13. Certain members of 
e. Committee will ag make t el 
responsible for the cash prizes, and the Council 
will give the medal awar understand 
there are. јс А ый in hand to provide all 
the money p xt year. e schedule : 
Th 
s practically dentical with the one published 
чеш 
w Home for the ecd oes mm Club.—Every 
since u^ was known that a ке poa 
Windsor, Victoria. Stree: Wes 
impossible, the Committee of pel "Horticaltural 
lub has new and suita m 
quarters for the Club in АМ ster. orts 
were unavailing until Mary suggestion was put 
that a room or rooms might be жы үр 
s Hall 
forward 
in the Royal Horticultural Society 
As : osa of and negotiations final 
wie have bee r the use of 
mmittee uarters of 
nd "uw in the n will also 
possible to hold the qs Tub. dinalis in the 
same рт es, and the Hall will be 
as finished 
t 
e 
Gu : 
5 а чс president, has been unanimously 
ected for the next period of three 
will become the next president 
otland.—Mr. Munro, in 
i 
2,524 applica 
application for enlargement. e figur 
may garded as the present ascertained 
dema id: for small holdings; 92 discharged men 
have been settled on the land to date. It 
ected that 200 ean men m be settled 
that term 
а а tinmas, thou ual ony 
not be amis Же all cases ing 
gren in connection "a th buildi g 
avid Prain, —The Pres an 
have rcu 
tion to a Gardener.—Mr. Walken 
den, who S n gardener at Castle 
Kennedy si , when he succeeded 
Archibald Fowler, was on the 11th inst. visited 
at his by re tatives of the Bowlers’ 
and Curlers’ Clubs other Ё in 
district and presented by Mr. Ji TS, 
one of oldest ten on the estate, with 
£ i ury notes as a token of esteem 
and rs. Cruden was presented with a 
regar 
d watch, „suitably in inscribed, by Mr. James 
р 
rates апа m 
a this бошу: as shipments 
a eme oun Meme Kingdom to ы Ip make 
a di 
Jou [) publicatio 
The vete A 0 #2277 ino IN issued b 
: Co., e ed re 
lington, Maidstone, and 
d ndm Y e to Mess 
Ma aedis 
lasi 
oes cud Mos т 325 pastels ia than 1918, and 
-— M bushels below ave The total 
rage. 
produ is 5,476,000 quarters or 0.000 
даме rs Te than in "1918, and 310,000 quarters 
below the rage; with the exception of 1915 
nd 1916, this is the smalle: і 
» ielded 22 bushel 1 
average and y^ bushels less t than last year and, 
h the 
althoug eased this year, the 
production is 35,000 q oa less. Peas yielded 
nearly t bushels re above average. 
The hay crops were very light: the total pro- 
, and only about three rs. of 1 
year's crop, and two-thirds of the average of 
the ne us Au Seeds’ hay (Clover, Sainfoin, 
and under rot — from an area larger 
y a cer A acr yielded nearly 330,000 
tons less than in 1918, ield per acre 
( = s.) being more than 5 cwts. less 
than 18 and eg the average ; is 
111 
lowest төгө 1896. 
у (16 25 стін.) is also m n5 
ЕД in 1918 and is the anes кая 1901 ; "it is 
nearly 6 cwts. b nere rapiat 
