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GARDEN ERS’ 
the most useful essays should be those giving 
accounts of Че аа of а small holding 
f from two three acres, with ini itial 
a expenditure, and pos 
first three years, ем 
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Perpetual nations | 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA ae LIGHT. 
(ANDER, Orc 
Holod, 
Cros: - 
p ind iL bs 
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исне sei of p ssive 
e of the best Silow "Laelio- 
sed in the famous Westonbirt 
grower to 
EONO 
he pals and petals are T ee- eod -a- m. 
ое iu the former one- “inch, 
e-and-a- oe inch in vidus 
curved mar : oth als 
bright yellow. 
front, sli 
slightly pa yellow e ' 
whilst the tube and side ‘lobes are tinged with 
Fic. 150.— PERPETUAL CARNATION MRS. T, IVES: 
floriferous and promises to make a good 
mercial variety. In pointing this variety, 
j pom awarded high marks for habit. 
colour is bright salmon pink, with a suggestion 
of rose suffusion, giving a pleasing effect. The 
flowers ex xhibited » [о o wi edium size and they 
are slightly fragr 
com- 
the 
The 
Shortage of os The Mangold 
crop of й ere = tons to the acre, M 
35 tons belov uy rage, and the total produc- 
tion Lis. is nearly 2.000. tons 
below the crop ^ last year. The total emen 
of Turnips and Swedes is A be 
tons, or at the rate of 11.4 tons to 
tons below last year. 
,500,000 
‚000 q uarters less 
to e iac acreage, 
e quarters of Oat 
wedes 
о Barley is lea 3 
oer ak “but o owing 
there are fully 800,000 m 
COLOUR, BRIGHT SALMON PINK. 
purplish rose. The flower is of fine substance 
and remarkably attractive. 
ORCHIDS AT THE Vm HOUSE, 
STANMOR 
In the Orchid houses in Mrs. Bischoffsheim’s 
ge j Stanmore, the value of imported 
species of Orchids is well exemplified by a fin 
show of Laelia anceps, chiefly white forms 
having ten to twen re plants 
т гей for decoration indoors ог the flowers for 
use as cut spikes no other subject equals some 
which has bee 
of these Tant species, none of 
imported for some years past 
CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 27, 1919. 
THE BULB GARDEN. 
MANURIAL 
REQUIREMENTS OF BULBS. 
ing, mi 
У during the final preparations. 
bulbs wh ich have been in the кз “all 
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Their chief gan secre are the very large pro 
ortion of potash uired, phosphatic. 
fertilisers of a aed nature. The former 
the greatest Phosphates are very 
necessary to hasten flowering, also t 
md producti. on of leaf which is so ruinous to 
t 
m 
ect in the case of lighter soils. As regards the: 
quantities of manure to be used, e in the 
preparation of the bed or for top-dressing, taking 
40 square yards as the unit of area, apply bone 
m 2 3 lbs.; super-phosp! , 2 to 5 lbs 
sulphate of potash, 2 lbs. Wi the manur 
ointed in the bone meal may, with advantage 
incr When the bulbs begin to 
p e ground has 
dressing of dung recently ferar will hardly E 
required. J. W. Tayleur, Theale, Ber 
л сечо. 
HEL s Grape Hyac is 
Mearns А ror ae Muscari, 
which '' Heaven lue 
bor del or rock 
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FRUIT REGISTER. 
PEACH CRIMSON GALANDE. 
draw attention 
NOLD does well 
and is far more r le in cropping. At 
Hall, from 1884 94, I grew all the best kinds 
of Peaches and Nectarines that could be obtained, 
and Crimson Galande was my favourite. Most 
growers train in too much ponte. wood in E 
Peach and Nectari rees 1 bor 
ore apar d e poe success 
1 Ha i а thin trainin g s d 
ripened growth, an abundance of б 
thanks to Rendle’s system of glazing—gener rous 
fruits had s stoned, and a good 
down 
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