DEcEMBER 20, 1919.] 
ANS Chronic 
No. 1721.—84 TURDA Y, DEC. 20, 1919. 
TENTS 
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Apples, Arthur Turner, Orchid notes and glean- 
316 ; late dessert, 316 ; | ings — 
Queen Caroline 316 Be 05 of fifty years 
Alpine Garden, es — | MID 
Gentiana crini 2o LE piter Grass, the <.. 915 
Basic slag, quality сш 312 | Plant notes 313 
Berberis dell at Kew, the 307 | Potato crop, the .. 308 
Books, Patios ices of — Potash, supplies of ... 308 
Botan ical Magazine 308 | | Вос deties 
The English Rock pies Natural His- 
Garden 314 tory and Antiquarian 317 
ematis tanguti British Gardeners' Asso- 
Cobb, Mr. A. J., appoint- | ciation 316 
ment of ... .. 308| Dumfries and District 
omic biology 307 Horticultural 317 
, crops and stock | Manchester and North 
on the home .. ».. 818 | of England Orchid 316 
Foxglove, dialysis of ... 309 | EE and District 
Fruit problems... 316 | Horticultural 317 
Gardener, presentation о 307 | North of England 
Garden: ing, soldier’s Pansy and Viola ... 317 
... 812] ampton and District pr 
Graj ы ” unheated | Nursery Workers ... 317 
eries BSS «s 815 nited Horticultural 
Irises, notes 1. 309| Benefit & Provident 317 
King's garde tire- Silver Leaf Disease Order 308 
309 
on 
s ner, re 
ment of the, at Balmoral 307 | Trees and presos 
реу and similar | Trees and shrubs with 
the 312 ornamental fruits 307 
New plants, the "protec- Veitch Memorial Medal, 
omon of raisers of ae = awards of the, . 208 
8 | Week's Work, the ..310, 311 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Berberis yag var hys Sy xis in 
Gentiana crinita m s ot tone 
Iris Afterglow das ae e .. 308 
ретту, the H ve HC SIE 
Pampas Grass, a fine clump of . ae 3 
AvERAGE MEAN TEMPI for the uing week 
deduced from Observations during the last fifty 
E at hip oh, 38.49. 
err ge ЕЙТ Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
E Gardon, London, Wednesday, December 17, 
. 30.0; temp. 429, Weather—Foggy. 
** OUR ALMA 
usu, bs pct we shall 
only issue a 
Gardeners' Chronicle Almanac for the year 
1920. Hh order to ma useful as pos- 
sible for nce, we shall be obliged if 
Secretaries of Horticultural, Botanical and 
ny of our correspondents, 
IMMEDIATE пшнен of all fix- 
tures for the comi ing yea 
HE meeting of the Asso- 
Eco H 
nomic 
Biology. 
a 
ing, not y by of the technical 
subjects which were discussed, but aiso be- 
ca F of the evidenc ich Agape ned: 
tha organisation of rese biologica 
on for investigation will a 
less inadequate scale in the future “than 
it has been in past. Daniel 
the pen ee Rem ch 
in t 
in co-ope 
with the research institutkais in differen 
of the country. He explained that he 
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policy of the Board was, in the first t plac ce, 
to provide financial assistance to A е 
tutions and thereby to enable 
increase and pay more ag mpi their "etas 
of investigators. ln t ond 
to act 
dvisors in their several districts. Thou 
all investigators ged conomic 
re seach in biol must be i uch "d 
institutes t keep in the closest touch a 
sible with ше Tt i their pres to dis 
ver and help to solve problems of local 
economic i nce; just as it is the duty 
Саша, | Аза Wye, ма else 
where—there has been recently established 
at Rotha 
ment departments, yet the ultimate 
diseases rests with 
id devising 
means of c ing or dedito ng i 
as organisation goe Lis is 
ood ground. PE Perdu that entomologist 
е 
produce beneficent 
esults it s ep to recruit men of high 
ound training, and ting 
s 
the prote research attractive 
nancially it will, we , prove possible 
to ensure t research worker shall be 
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difficulty of scientific investigation. 
Chad the pH а pests dm been plentiful 
and ou few ow, with the 
nae sit E increasing: the € we 
look to see the a welco 
fa ilure of the 
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King's Garden at 
twenty-eight polos 
three British 
Retirement of the 
Balmoral Castle.—After 
John M Љав retire 
in 
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p wi essrs. Ben. rin eid 
and was for 24) years with that firm. 
For the P eater part of that Кез. x Trou 
i Yoel arge of the floral depart 
ent, € 
hid the E of м икон Tromp 
appointed h is success Mr. Pater- 
ardener at gie Castle when it was 
Purchased by Qi Queen Victoria, and he se erved Her 
Majesty for 474 years. Thus there have been 
€: two head gardeners at "T peal during the 
75 years. oral situate 
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а. 
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іп the neighbourhood and in the 
early days a last month "x = sg rees of erod ona 
eg 
22 inches | de pth of snow 
Troup lterat and 
especiall rovided for a beautiful display o ot 
t кан rs during the Court’s -— 
at Balmoral Mors ж, King Edw. BE was a че 
lover of i i токио ing the 
beautiful, troi | чие ү cluster, Chinese variet 
Hermosa. Mr. Troup 
i rum кыш superbum, pho 
s Aconitums, sweet-scented Roses, 
the fine ‘‘ Golden Glow” vba Rudbeckia, 
finely-coloured. Antirrhinums, border ations, 
Delphiniums, Geums, Epilobiums, Eryngiums, 
Gaillardias, inus, Mon: , chnis, 
Heuchera, Potentilla Montbretia, 
Polemoniums eronica, Spiraea, elianthus, 
Galega, Beabiosa, and reris M roup 
is a typi cot, hame-o if somewhat 
er, and ays ' е his 
a host of 
friends, and is succeeded by his son-in- a. Mr. 
obert F. Chalmers. 
from China -— eg Barberries "ring 
recent years je at least deubled th 
of species in cultivation in gardens - 
te these in the Ke 
Berberis vulga 
eae de opportunity to mal 
over ы centre of the mound. 
ve а $^ 
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ing individual ong the 
beris, both aod dons M хе. Мосар змо = 
numerous distinct and highly ernamental speci 
Presentation to а Gardener.— estate of 
Troqueerholm, Kirkcu онды, having vas 
sold, the neighbours and ds of Mr. Jam 
Davidson, the gardener у Dmm без T, miade 
Pi т йене as a their шш 
e pr 
gold h hunter w. watch, 
. Wilson, minister of tie p paris! 
Trees and Shrubs with Ornamental Fruits.— 
While the kerries of the Holly receive most 
eason, the 
made d the Rev: 
ish. 
r n Crab (Pyrus baccata) at 
Kew, the bright red fruits still hang so thickly 
as to weigh down the branches. ange 
and n Sgen €— eri are 
теріс ornamental mid-winter, and 
wide- sue аы bushes of. Coto measter rotun- 
the 
difolia are pril iant pih sealing-wax red fruits. 
On Berber Sta рдап апа B. subcaulialata 
there ois en d fruits, whilst 
Eme mend pou is noliceable 
for ite. онан of ee fru 
The Pot re —/ the monthly 
Agricultu ana report of the ned p^ Арташ 
Potatos сй сак а all been lifted under 
high Psion Pese cel the crop is (except 
stern 
disease is re "cg p rn 
d 
tubers are, how small; an t pro- 
duction in хода and Wales, from an area 
of. 475,000 ounts to ,000 tons, 
2, 
being at the 1 han of 5.7 tons per acre, or three- 
fifths of a ton below the average. 
