ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 108. | DECEMBER. [1895. 
CCCCXCI.—CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES. 
the Kew Bulletin for July 1894 ( pp. 219-223) an article was 
Mie from the Standard on the importation of vegetables. This 
newspaper is ordinarily well-informed on agricultural subjects, and the 
article sppoared to give a fair summary of facts which etia i, deserved 
careful study. Kew is not oceupied with vegetable gr wing, and the 
article was reprinted only with the objeet of drawing PUE to the 
subjeet as an economie problem. 
Two of the leading horticultural journals commented — it. The 
Gardeners Magazine for July 21st, 1894, wrote as follow: 
Marker SUPPLIES OF VEGETABLES. 
In the current issue of the Kew Bulletin is given a reprint of an 
article from one of the dailies on the market supplies of vegetables, 
and as it now appears with the official sanction of a great Government 
department, * as a useful and, doubtless, epi Eod: a the facts," 
we feel compelled to take some notice of it. The r states in 
his opening remarks that we receive large quantis of age bles 
from various parts of the Continent, and of excellent 
taken. We are also in agreement with the writer when he tell us that 
the prices of tomatoes and cauliflowers have fallen caret” during 
the past 12 years, as indeed we are upon some err r poit “tu But 
there is much to whi ch exception must be 
‘In be 
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for in t, *In September come to hand the Se valle nt Belgian 
neys, in man best in the market," and that, 
5 inte rtat roper, tons upon tons become the 
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port of Hamburg." If the Be gian kidney is the “ very 
in the market during Séiahiber it is a matter for some surprise that 
it has no longer a place i in the market reports of that month. Further, 
what js said with reference to “ tons upon tons” of potatoes sent from 
Germany, and to the German genes holding “a high place in the 
market, ex even continues to do so until rus into April, " might have 
held good from 10 to 20 years ago ; utu late years the importation 
of German potatoes has rendy declined, as proved by the fact that in 
December 1893 we received 49 tons, and in the corresponding month 
of 1891 six tons only were imported from that country. ** With regard 
to onions," we are assured that “ ae. appears to be wholly menm 
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