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THE GARDENERS’. 
CHRONICLE. 
[БЕРТЕМВЕй 25, 1876, 
All selections of this character are to be en- 
cause they tend to advance type 
towards a higher stage of perfection, and if we have 
o sometimes pay an vanced price for them, we 
invariably get our money’s worth in the form of a 
fine stock. 
time. 
The best type we are acquainted with is the Ban- 
bury Improved White Spanish, a very fine Onion 
indeed, of an size, ——Á in shape, and a good 
kee e Ban rict is remarkable for the 
capital Onions it’ produces Meets at the annual exhi- 
bition of = Banbury Horticultural — generally 
during thé week in August, magnificent 
are E нез weight and symme ing 
the two main points ich the Onions are 
judged. In round огу there are а num 
of persons who make quite a pet of the Onion, just 
one would eR r er ar flower ; 
these growers compete together at the show, the 
large number. of twelve or fourteen es being 
warded among a pow of competitors. 
The competition is very keen and even exciting, an 
t is remarkable how much vo the cultivators take of 
heir plants—nursing 
in every way in their 
he leading Gain cultivators at Banbury is Mr. J. 
Taplin, a printer in the town, who has published a 
valuable little pamphlet on the cultivation of the 
Banbury 
and perhaps am Pa bular 
tion, a little more 
than the s Бтр when Ве " 
Mam 
and 
are all selections from the Y White e Spanish, 
of good quality ; but they are nothing more 
Onion has a distinctive appear- 
use of its yellow-brown outer skin, which 
It is no doubt a 
X din 
d ap 
t is a good keeper. Th 
Yellow Flat Onion is an American ety, 
to be a flat t of Danvers’ Yellow merely. 
t ing grown Баа the name of Coven 
Onions 
a salad Onion, but it is now to be found 
e the = =~ ale seed lists. 
obe Type, Fs Globe xdi у has two distinct 
em Brown or James’ Keeping, and the 
White Globe ; is considered to be the best 
only in some 
e in shape w 
the finest | types of = White Globe Onion 
was that ES under the na M um Bonum 
it cannot be depended on as a keeper. It might 
quem! be un described as a large pale-coloured 
| d Spanish Ty~e.—From this the well-known 
pes, amc 
are also Brown EN, and the light red and French 
Strasburgs are the 
The Tripoli Type ype. This is a ey distinct уре 
represents а section of large Onions of mil 
dete well adapted for sowing in the autumn for use 
ly summer before the ordinary crops turn in 
T ere are to forms. the globular shaped and the 
her 
flat shaped, the Globe Tripo 
resentative of the former, 
аг and Naples 
a кудуре atter sh 
pes ling Ts Fiat at Tripoli 
“The White е Tripoli is а very distinct flat 
ne variety to sow in the — for 
and with a white 
Giant White ie Early White Tripoli of France, 
and es "Keri e Italian are all included puri 
this heading. 
T) he y apolitan rede ies Onions.—As а rule, the 
Marzajole Onions о besmaller than the White 
Tripoli, but the - the: same type. It may be that 
ey are sometimes 
erm 
Silver-skinned Tj ye. — деч of the best of these 
is undoubtedly the Queen, as bs in very quickly, 
$ 
2E 
ver-skin may, 
or later, according to the selections made, 
allowed to stand, the ripened bulbs are of large size, 
no means handsom 
distinct flat 
ly the larg 
Hovey & Со,, the st, к=з of great size. 
The very deep blood-red, or le, nely 
was 
coloured, € the bright red oder is a edis 
bro нь but а somewhat e- 
kii is Badin the Welsh Au which is a perennial 
b, but sown ually to 
e аа ius, and the young growths of 
older plants are chopped up small ы ie same pur- 
The tree, or b , is a curious 
eature among the Chiswick trials. "T is said that it 
came originally from Ca the climate 
being too € for Onions to flower and seed, it be- 
comes vivi and instead of flowers. 
It is remarkable Je to see these a е cing a second 
and even a third a gro 
HEAT WITHOUT COST. 
THiS is no longer a fancy, but a fact ; and it is fact, 
abolition of the excise duty with w 
burdened 
as cheap or free heat been brought within reach of 
horticulture. The chief obstacle to enlarged and pro- 
fitable production is the cost of cost is 
also being now felt daily. Not only has 
icul- 
have things out of season, or rather to make the 
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season of all the choicest fruits, flowers, plants, and | 
— 
the yeu | 
round with the лый od ares m р if The s we 
e sings its Hierro мр in {һе darkest 
ing rapidity, Horticultural skill is sure to rise to 
the — but, —— à this cannot alwaysbe - 
of the coal heap; and 
doabt- that the high price of fuel has limi 
» grumbles over 
bills, e specially as ate most profitable residue 
Ws behind after the coal has yielded up its heat has | 
been but d | 
Fortunately; just as the coal famine was coming 
crown of the limekilns around him, 
— arde, thought occurred to hi 
place a hot-water boiler astrid 
he it it 
With a certain cl s to think is to act, and 
very soon the glasshouses at Dromore were hea 
from a limekiln; e with many the matter might | 
have but with Mr. Cowan. Having dis. | 
covered the great horticultural boon of heat without - 
cost for himself, only very few of us kno perses _ 
r. Cowan forced limekiln heating' on the attention 3 
of the horticultural world. One would have supposed | 
trary, i 
sical К 
Eple to = геа heat but of the limestone or chalk i 
than we put into it, forgetting ук that were | 
the statement true the boiler astride its cr wn would | 
hath oe $4 
utterly ed, Unable to gainsay this, 
z [i orm irae Hatfield, 
of any that used it was interpr | 
did a gardener change his situation, the limekiln wis EL 
the cause of it. The Hatfield kiln especially was | 
said to have failed again and again, and I owe 
journey or two there to that rumour—as un: 
r. Cowan's first. ila. | 
This immediately placed Bmekila beat: on a ce 
godadion believed in 
the majority o: ur 
amount of your aie 
f trad 
guarantee for the company to offer the public ч thei : 
good faith in the m P. 
But they have алы more, and have recently i 
ticed to Garston several hundreds of horticulturists 
ren га 
representative gathering of ho 
Friday, i — сне on 
avour, — 
of any ME pr in favour of the 
On the co: en they arrived 
no one left the 
of both. The i 
facts of zie e a s 
banished all doubt, and changed scepticism into 3 - 
, ihe most notable fact was to see nearly 4 miles € 
inch pipe to temperatures ranging from th 
м ме gi according to their distance 
kilns, and the fierceness of the fires, by the 
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