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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



TABLE II. — SHOWING THE AVERAGE OF THE LAST SIX YEARS 

 IMPOBTS COMPARED WITH 1907. 







Quantities 



Values 







Six years' 



1907 



Six years' 



1907 







average 



average 



Fruit : 





Thousands 



Thousands 



in £1,000 







in £1,000 



Apples, raw 



. (cwts.) 



3,503 



3,526 



2,146 



2,231 



Apricots and Teaches 



> » 



18 



39 



39 



79 



Bananas, raw . 



(bunches) 



4,700 



6,232 



1,514 



1,771 



Cherries, raw . 



. (cwts.) 

 >> 



180 



165 



233 



199 



Currants, raw . 



94 



109 



120 



142 



Gooseberries, raw . 



• „ 



OO 



•40 







Grapes, raw 





/ io 





nod 

 (DO 



7 KG 

 IVV 



Lemons .... 





923 



882 



419 



422 



Almonds .... 





151 



162 



558 



661 



Other nuts, used as fruit . 





752 



703 



678 



750 



Oranges .... 





5,828 



6,120 



2,235 



2,455 



IVflv; va \v 





407 



500 



456 



479 



Plums, raw 





554 



326 



550 



346 



Strawberries, raw 





39 



44 



53 



54 



T T n pn ii 1 ii pvn tpd va\v 



: : :: 



565 



538 



368 



339 



Fruit, Dkied : 



















_ 



1,158 



1,375 











1,108 



1,208 



Vegetables, Raw : 













Onions .... 



(bushels) 



8,177 



8,645 



1,027 



1,036 



Potatos .... 



. (cwts.) 



6,704 



8,249 



1,957 



2,372 





1,065 



1,136 



934 



1,021 



Unenumerated 









418 



365 



Flowers : 





















238 



234 



Oncocyclus IlUSES. 



W. R. Dykes, Esq., M.A., F.R.H.S., of Charterhouse, Godalming, sends 

 us the following account of an interesting and suggestive experiment 

 in the cultivation of these beautiful but difficult plants. The treatment 

 is, of course, only in the experimental stage, but the success that has 

 attended it warrants perseverance : — 



u Everyone who has grown these wonderful Irises, at least in Great 

 Britain, knows that perhaps the chief difficulty in their cultivation arises 

 from the fact that, whether the roots are in the ground or out of it, they 

 begin to sprout in the autumn, and these tender shoots often fail to resist 

 the alternate periods of frost and of warm and muggy weather that 

 usually make up our winter. In their homes in Asia they must be 

 frozen hard all through the winter months and unable to grow until the 

 snow melts in spring. In order to reproduce these conditions as nearly 

 as possible I packed up a few rhizomes in August 1907 in dry moss in 

 a wooden box, and sent it to the Imperial Cold Stores Co. at South 

 Tottenham. There the box remained in a temperature of 28° to 30° F. 

 until the first week in March. On opening the box I found the rhizomes 

 in precisely the same condition as when they were packed up. They were 

 planted on March 9, and soon made healthy, if somewhat slender, growth 

 in warm sandy soil, with a good layer of old cow manure a foot beneath 



