November 2, 1912 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE 



833 



ceetors of this family had compound leaves, 

 these nectaries corresponding to the mar- 

 tnnal glands of the leaf-blade and repre- 

 senting rudiments of divisions of compound 



leaves. 



Torquay Gardeners.— The open- 

 ing meeting of the winter session of the 

 Torquay Gardeners Association was of spe- 

 cial interest. Mr. W. A. Masterman^ one 

 of the vice-presidents, gave an interesting 

 address on the Royal International Horti- 

 cultural Exhibition held at CheLsea in May 

 last. In the course of the pro?ee<lings fol- 

 lowing the address, Mr. ilasterman, on 

 behalf of the members, presented Mr. A. 

 Pidgeon with a silver watch as a mark of 

 the appreciation of the services he has ren- 

 dered the society as hon. librarian during 

 the past eleven years. Mr. Pidgeon, who 

 has retired from the office of librarian, is 

 succeeded bv his son, Mr. W. J. Pid- 



been opened up alx)ut five years, were on 

 view in the windows of "the Canadian 

 Government Emigration Offices, at Char- 

 ing Cross, and at the offices of the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Raihvay, the Grand Trunk 



Railway, and the Canadian Northern Rail- 

 way. 



Colonial Fruits. At a recent 



sitting of the Dominions Royal Commis- 

 sion in London evidence was given on the 

 nect^sity that exists in this country for 

 moro abundant supplies from the Colonies 

 of plants suitable for the distillation of 

 essential oiks, and of the vaiious kimLs of 

 fruits used in confectionery. With refer- 

 ence to the latter, Mr. Stanley Machin 

 stated that he saw no reason why a hirger 

 proportion of the raw materials u.mmI in tlu*. 

 X'nited Kingdom in the conf<y*tionery ami 

 preserved fruit trades shonhl not 'w' 

 prodmed within the Empire. For 

 example, oranms. cit roii-. and Irjnons 



KENT COMMERCIAL FRUIT 



SHOW. 



Xo one who viMtcd tJu' exleusive and ex- 

 tremely iuteresting; exhibition held in the 

 Corn Kxchaufi^e. Aiaid>toni\ on October 29 

 and 30 c(»uld fail to be impre^^ed by the evi- 

 denec here afforded of Ihe growing impor- 

 tauoe of fruit farming in tiiiw country. It 

 was not only the (juautity and (lie quality 

 of the frui; shown — excellent thongh this wa« 

 — but alM» the inten.se intere>t evinced l»y the 

 tompany of growers ami experts 'who 

 gathered, not only fri>ai Kent, but frcnn far 

 distant fount iets, that made one realise that 

 at last our agriculturists and njarket gar- 

 deners, and even the country cottagers, are 

 waking up to tiu» fact that fruit culture, <ar. 

 ried on u])()n systematic and i)n^ines«like 

 lines, with the aid ol' Kcience, is a pursuit 

 with hitherto undreamt-**! jXHssibilitie^. 



This was but the second annual show held 

 in Kent under the auspice of the Kent Com- 



<S M.502. 



ME. NORMAN DAVIS'S FINE GROUP OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 



"Which secured a large gold medal, and Messrs. Clay and Son's gold medal, at the National ( lii y-.uit Ih iiiuim Society's 



Exhibition at the Crystal* Palace on October 21). (See jjage S4(i.) 



Columb 



geon. The hon. secretary. Mr. G. Lee, 

 has relinquished his office m < (Hisequence of 

 his appointment as <-iirator oi the museuju 

 <^f the Torquay Natural History Society, 

 and is succeeded by Mr. Holder.* 



Growing: in Britisii 



a.— A fruit grower in Pentic- 

 ton — famous for its peaches — has recently 

 picked and shipped ten tons of peaches 

 from his ten-acre orchard, and estimates 

 that there were ten Urns still to gather 

 trom the sanio orchard. 



the first picking wa.s ratlier small owin<4 

 to the inability of the grower to obtain 

 labourers to thin the peaches. A grown- 

 ^ith a similar holding in the sanu^ distrii t 

 "fts gathered a large quantity of pcadus 

 Jiveraging half-pf)und each. A stuall quan- 

 tity of Peiiticton peaches rt^criitly arrived 

 *n England, and was sent Inr tlu 



pose of 



Tli(^ fiuiit from 



pui- 



showing what finn fruit can br 

 ffrown in this region. Example's (sf these 

 Pfvacbes. from a district which has onlv 



imported in large qu'Uitities from 

 Spain, Greece. Italy, etc.. hut wrre at juv- 

 sent imported in coniparat iv<'ly small 

 (juautities from Malta, Australia, and the 

 West India Islands. A most important 



J , . ll»g 



dustry was the supply of fruit puip. espe- 

 cially apricot p^lp, whi<'li at i)ii^M'nt was 

 im])orted from the Colonies in ouly \ cry 

 small quantities. Australia bad at times 

 sent supplies to tins market, the (luality 

 of which wa^ good. Init tlic export trade 

 <litl not ajtpear to ]ja\ e itccn cxtend4Hl 

 to any extent. The British <lemaml. which 

 was \ory lai-ge, liad. therefore, to be pro- 

 vided from S]>aiu. Italy. Eran:-<\ :nHl Cali- 

 foinia. The Nupply of aliiMmdv from 

 Hiitisb j)ossessions was valued at o?dy 

 t':lHo2. but immense qiiautitic> which Wi*i^e 

 used in the trade, to the value of l'i)l!^*i'J7. 

 an<l. presumably, could b*^ grown in Bi itisli 

 ]>(;ss<'ssions. were imported from France. 

 Portugal. Italy. Spain, and .Moincco. 



mercial Fruit Show A.--(M iat ion and witli 

 t lie .support <tf the South ila-Urn Ag^icult^l^al 

 College. La>l yviw tlic ^Imw was at Ashford, 

 and everyliody wa^s pleached with tlie results of 

 Tlie tirst effort. There were on th:it uccasion 



."i^n 1k)xc> of apples staged in the competitive 

 (Ia--c^. hut file judges on. Tuesday last had 



over ] ,2i JO h()xes placed VK'toi e them, thu> 

 -howinuf that the jsocictv ha- i|ui< klv aroused 

 the interest which evervonc ronccnied so ar- 

 dcutly desired. It iriu-^t .iUm i'c iti^d that 

 niO't noticeable ini])r(t\eiiiciii w a.- » \ idcnced 

 all j-oniid in tlu' «jfraflin£T and ))ackiniif cf the 

 fruil in c^orinaT !-<ui witli lii>t v(nir and tlii^ 

 of cDurNC, is really the great pniut, beine^ 

 that which !ia> hitherto marked thv dividinii: 

 liin' hrtwcen I5riti.-h and Colonial gi'oWvT-. 



1)1 the in iTcipal i la-sc-, t he fruits w t-je 

 ^licw II jiaf ki'd in l"<'cl<'rat i(ui standard boxtv^. 

 t he flimcn-ioii-. heing 2niii. lon^ hy 1 1 in. 

 w ide and icin. deep, wliile lialf-hoxe> u-od in 

 -oinc classes were -iin. (h'C]> and of the same 

 Icnii^th and breadth a- the oMu-r-. Obviously 

 a j^reat number of cx}iiliit> >ia^jed in this 

 manner provided a display of g^rcat 



