REPORT OF THE CHISWICK BOARD OF DIR1?€TI0N. 
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XXYIII. — Report of the Chiswick Board of Direction. 
[February, 1874.] 
The Eoard of Directors have to report that the garden labour at 
Chiswick, which for the last year or two has been very ranch 
directed towards the various works of re-arrangement, consequent 
on the recent cuitailment of the area of the Garden, has, by reason 
of the compleaon of those works, been available for other purposes, 
so that duriiig the season of 1873 it was found practicable to take 
up a fair share oi the experimental trials of Vegetables andElowers, 
for which, in conjunction with the supply of decorative plants for 
Kensington, the Garden is now more especially designed. These 
trials were not indeed wholly suspended during tlie period when 
the alterations were in progress, but they have now again assumed 
in some degree the more extended form and comprehensive 
character which the importance of the subject demands. 
In the Fruit and Vegetable Department the distributions to 
Fellows and Correspondents of the Society comprise 60,000 packets 
of Vegetable Seeds, and 1543 packages of Cuttings of Vines and 
Scions of Fruit Trees. Amongst the latter was an important col- 
lection presented to the Horticultural Society of Victoria, of which 
the officials of that Society report that, "owing to the lengthened 
voyage of the ship by which they were forwarded, a large number 
perished." 
A considerable collection of Cherry Trees of pyramidal form, 
were, some few years since, got together, but they proved to be 
extremely unsatisfactory, owing partly to the difficulty of 
efficiently protecting them; they have therefore been dispensed 
with, and have been replaced by young trees planted against the 
boundary walls, and which are to be trained as single cordons. 
An extensive collection of pyramidal Plum Trees, which had 
become too much crowded, have been transplanted and re-arranged 
at wider intervals so as to admit of their fuller development. 
The trees planted out in the Orchard House had grown so freely 
that they had already become too much crowded ; and as thinning 
out in some form was necessary, the opportunity has been taken 
to lift and pot the pyramidal trees, chiefly Peaches and Nectarines, 
and to re-arrange the standards, which are still planted out. In 
this way the overcrowding of the trees may be more readily pre- 
vented by the temporary removal of the potted trees. 
Many new varieties of the Grape Vine have been introduced to 
our Gardens within the last few years, and it has been thought 
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