DeceMBER 13, 1919. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
| Gardeners Chronicle 
No. 1720 —SA TURDA Y, DEC 13, 1919. 
CONTENTS. 
garden, the— N EA x савобе, supplies 
thus erectus ... 297 gis 4. 296 
ЕЕ 
bop be 
OOO 
a3 
[ Ар E versus 
s са kes marketing of 304 
glor 304 M Cone am Gatto: 
Bouvardia, sports of, : ae . 299 
from root cuttings ... 304 
Bush pears in the open 303 €— “Golden 299 
‚ | Potatos, hea КЫЕН E 296 
wing, the ... 295 Hoya ‘tostioultural So- . 
i— ciety’s appointments 
Chrysanthemum Lady tor 19 920 p^ . 295 
E Societies— 
Ipswich and E. of 
England Hort. 306 
Roy: Horticultural— 
LE EUR ) ... 305 
Smithfield eii : 305 
dS Sur pue ног, 256 
ugar Ве je grown 29 
Toransiug, ‘the e of шб 
06 
ns Pe 1 sis — 
303 Li. multiflora 301 
Apple Histon “Cropper 303 УРЕ S rix Fortunei 301 
Market fruit garden, the 802 Ultraviolet rays, and 
National Rose garden their VE on "m 304 
Suggestio ога 300 | Week’s the ... 298, 299 
register : 
Peaches Crimson Gal- 
p. and Golden 
LLUSTRATIONS. 
che е Histon на ку ... 903 
esed Lady A: Es «se 200 
3 ums, a Gold rai a up oe jen ЖО 
on дз паі йога, хана inet ... 301 
.. 297 
nr 
Mertens: 
_ AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE for the ensuing week 
. “deduced from observations during the last fifty 
ran te ich, 40,10. 
P 
AL TEMPERA’ 
- Gardeners’ Chron cla Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
mre Spe oce esee i „Уайлер, a 10, 
Bar. , 419. . Weather—Bright. 
The report of the Confer- 
con Chelsea e on Fruit Growing 
nference on convened by the Royal 
ruit Growing. Hopes Society and 
Cham 
ў е and 
. Spring Зора ee: of ie Socie 
this y 
nds of consumers with the fact that sup- 
Plies of British-arown fruit, 
Imported from abro re at their disposal 
s Lobjoit points out, the installation 
f a grading and packing station close to t 
rding station ve ay can _be 
т 
Stations have been esta n лее іса. If 
П course of the organisation of grading and 
king greater uniformity Id be secured 
ith respect to packages, a fu means of 
enabling British fruit to compete successfully 
with imported Иш would have been 
variabili Itiplicity fruit 
Packages are а known to grow and 
salesmen and are deplored alike by Both. It 
CHRONICLE. 
295 
is, we confes o point 
of the present, s system : ба, pol "атре 
packages агу 
within esee Ma Waits Ww ar DET 
their actual с ity; ‘but it is 
not so easy to prescri a edy 
the weight of such Une s id ipples 
f eight 
is also’ variable in he cation th 
ofa bushe l or other measure d «lotis differs 
. The 
OW ork pe the im- 
proven of packages as well.as of packing. 
rading, with cogent 
s which are de- 
price E td for all 
e been not the Е of 
a figure 
t he actually eyed but earer 
to price his third gra 
in ing, which an i 
ant bearing on the ke qualities of 
fruit, should. узт dise more attention, for, 
is well small an el 
s 
ceptible prise ds is "fatal to ga quality- In 
present circumstances it is prope isp i 
difficult fhan it was olia ‘the for 
growers attention to such ККА аз 
it 
red if British growers е 
héi roduce pad to AE ORN ^h e 
or Br itish д 
ong peri ege of the 
y er ышар pie dist РШ of fruit 
ce 
the Conference turned its attention to pro- 
blems of growing an nd the choice of Sides 
Mr. F. Smith's тесош o, = оп with respect 
Apples a for cooking: ach Vic- 
toria, Grenadier, RUE Castle, Lane's 
Prince Albert, rfol eauty, Bramley's 
Seedling and Newton Wonder. As the list 
shows, the c which could, of course, be 
widened, is a la one. I case of 
dessert Apples f commercial purposes, 
here is room for improved varieties 
Mr. mith points out, with respect to 
late sorts whic! i кеше 
think, room new ny 
e : 
to the end of March. 
4 o 
r Sm ith's selection of dessert Apples for 
market ее Gladstone, which does best 
adi > 
Salmon dealt with the ponme g 
a subject which, as s 
nspection of retail shop азат is по 
m. "important t to-day than it was in former 
times. The breeding of Mise ase-resistant trees 
orchard sanitation were 
point of special interest was 
н es 
ade, at for certain d s 
Silver Leaf of Plum, Apple canker and Brown 
ot er—s| dei die is оо and plant 
s to eradicate them. 
rown R g 
soon, as they wilt. Young trees 
sed by th means, but, of ec. С 
not be practised | on old trees, which 
should be un sa 
o her - Salmon 
obta ine in нң мч of "n scab by 
se of rdeaux mixture containing a 
excess of lime; to the use of ammonium 
olysul e as a Wi for seberries 
attac y American Goose ildew, 
nd to the effect of addition of a small 
of. saponin to aue eu when 
p number o 
ie sgh know little, either of the v. 
fruit a health- ape or of the А чый ot 
киме а the moment visam ction 
an not probably ш! the demand, рш їп 
шн уе» it will be necessary to extend 
{еН market by encouraging а аре іп- 
сгеаѕе іп ЖУ consumption of fruit. 
——— 
5 Meetings.—There will be no further 
in Ж: the R.H.S. Committees during 
19 "The next fortnightly meeting is fixed fer 
y 13, 1920. The full list of for 
ows :—Fortnightl 
pë 
à 
held о € 
—€— on ut k S. Cruden.—Mr. ба, 
Ћаа а long and ЖЕКЕСАН сагеег аз 
-— bar stle Kennedy 
mule at Lochinch Castle 
ing from 
Gardens, in Wigtow townshire, 
position Л gem to arl ot Sta 
the 22nd i e s been Асры there for 
d poen an four genera- 
the family " Bear "during | "i lo ор 
Ве for appointment, Castl 
the past 
tions of 
period. 
Kennedy veral 
inclu ding Bro ih Park, the aL, ot 
s of Roxburgh ; at о а 
Southesk ES the Earl of 
alhousie's fi rdens t Pant mure. 
pre: 
Mr. R. Meum has been appointed 
Mr. Cruden 
зана bons rsity. —The 
assuant to the late Professor Trail. 
