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AUTUMN FRUITING 
SPBERRIES 
HE autumn gag riba m 
at Ferrier 
en- Bus an at Armanvilliers, two well- io 
gardens within an easy distance of Paris. Th 
grown and protected, 5 as supply ай на 
season 
> 
c 
aff much as 
— ee and E one might have expected 
Referr Il-known work by a Scotch 
€: p 1 brem pers he Lor ue um 
Mr. Rivers : 
Autumn с. зад October Mob. 
Yellow, are a great step in advance of our old 
ing ; were rai от see 
of the Fastolf, and both most abundantly 
а nt ngl 
young cane at the end с October 
anoth: e cane in the follow: 
ing July. 
Two "distinct methods of cultivation are те 
quired to obtain the best results, and if these 
are followed, a su m of its 
may be maintained throughout the entire season, 
i.e., fro late уе 
often | surprised that so few ee a en- 
deavour to produce Raspberries xi dira a 
MM MEN is not a difficult aie: for where 
[November 29, 1919. 
fruiting Mere flourish in the 
unties of England, there will the 
iters ve e ue care ar 
m. 
€ summer 
outher 
Siren fru 
attention is bestowed 
u 
during Mar he weakest of the new 
growths 'shouli be газа during the early 
By ‘the end of July or Fpa in August the 
comme: 
er buds will at the ter- 
sonia, and it will then "e necessary to erect a 
vor еш; у trellis tpe ipa row. All 
Bamboo с fixed ho d 
ed are 
wally: » fair size and rigid, чаре at in: 
At е he row, and at intervals pies 
eac w, d stout stakes, 3 in. | 
and 7 feet height, for the suppor e 
netting, later on, when stout tarred string is 
strai fr t it 
he seti id means of Raffi 
р so bring them from a pendant x 
to an rect tering Cut out any shoots mol 
showing flower. 
uits commence to colour it 
, red, to all taala i and purposes a - 
‚ and the found be the best of 
at Gu si 
1 
the t. I have hen I first gr 
fruit, planted out’ young, siis ines in the 
early je and fruited them the autumn. 
Mr. Chittenden recently со 1у 
Rickey me with the names of five of the best 
varieties of autumn fruiting ed 
me that he had ‘found "riens To 
its befter than the fru for 
bottling. noted an. exhibit of of really ~ 
saat of a late Try 
A om but I did not Ss Mes name. 
[The vite exhibit. October 21 was 
named Lloyd George (see Gard. Chron., Novem- 
ber 1; Fig. 103, p. 227). Ерв.] 
CONFESSIONS OF A NOVICE. 
Ni WAS walking with a quee the other day - 
| my "queden, enjo yin diee ma irrita autumn | 
Е Л 5 ir 
cind of leaf which this year, Biggs of going 
drably the way to dusty death, had 
itself ‘brightly з the journey to the «крон 4 
Suddenly the spell of admiration ken by 
frie 1 “Wh: 
my nd exclaiming : at loi 
for!” By questioning I found out that he wanted 
to know how the colours ben he plant, 
I free to co that a novice never 
indeed so perve 
us ieri to believe that autumn colours are brightest — 
when the soil is rich in moisture. I am sure 
that is the c. with the flame colour of Liquid- 
it is true of most of our 
late summer preceded the autu rough 
that tree trunks are water tanks of high storage 
capacity. Hence I coul ell imagine that 
when, after the turn of s , the divining 
r of trees, which we call roots, found stores - 
water in the soil, they sucked them up and 
filled the water B oh eaves, however, | 
as is the way of leaves after the strenuous work - 
of spring and early summer, were already - 
“calling canny " and could no longer lay their — 
part of dismissing the e гарри by the | 
roots aS vapour into the The lus water 
ts aS vapor 
therefore remained s bed in in the Heind E 
in spite of the seat at rainless autumn, the trees — 
were, so to speak, wet, and the leaves were kept - 
alive beyond their natural tami th EM water 
which they could neither refuse. 
Wherefore they lingered half iiim "hal. ер 
= in that on leges dme state ceased _ 
to perform jon the — о eer 1 
ions doi o m Ете 
ie and began to play t 
tricks which result in the formation of pigments. 
remembered learning that — 
vy of p : 
асаа ег ап ts den oui ar e, 3 
as though he. Solent oe ies » cholerie, that flush ot : 
pink which seems to be the cells’ E 
эс md the exeiteme nt E 
9а we unde 1 
the: ot. pec of Eos rs. When the p — е 1 
leading the quiet vegetative life and adding unto | 
ай physiological temper is even and its shi 
n; but when it undertakes at one = J 
e bins time the worryin, growing hich ; 
reproducing—these strange incompatibles whx NL 
resent a compromise between self and : 
expression—the  physiologi temper of t 
ps. is and ДӘ chemical manifes ns 
rig 
j us pec 
produc mid cde e. P nt if ‘‘ its al 
h its privileges” so the very tints d 
