ABSTRACTS. 



Fifty-one plants from seed sown August 20 yielded as follows : 



Month. 



No. of Fruits. 



Weight. 



December 



r,2 



lb?. 



7 



oz. 



<•>} 



January ..... 



181 



22 



lOi 



February ..... 



899 



HO 



9f 



Miuch 



494 



104 



9] 



April 1 to 9 . . 



142 



29 





Total 



1,218 



244 





These Tomatos were sold at 80 cents per lb. during January and 

 February, and 20 cents per lb. during March, at which prices they were a 

 profitable crop. — F. J. C. 



Tomato Manures. By H. A. Huston (U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Indiana^ 

 JiulL 92, 4/02). — The soil on which the experiments were tried was a 

 moderately heavy clay loam, in good mechanical condition. 2,2 10 plants 

 were set to the acre. The fertiliser which gave the best result was a 

 mixture of muriate of potash 250 lbs., nitrate of soda 200 lbs., azotin 

 120 lbs., acid phosphate 200 lbs. (per acre). This gave (5*28 tons per acre 

 against 3-27 tons on the unfertilised plot and 3-46 tons on the plot 

 receiving nitrate alone. The fruit also ripened earlier. — F. J. C. 



Transplanting* Large Trees. By J. Luquet (Le Jard. May 20, 

 1902, pp. 149, and 184).— Methods pursued by the Administration of 

 Paris are fully described and illustrated. — C. W. 1). 



Trees, large, Transplanting. By W. W. Pettigrew (Garden, 

 No. 1624, p. 7, 3/1/1903). — The writer says: "When trees and shrubs 

 can be removed and planted with the necessary-sized balls of earth 

 around their roots, the result is such as to justify the extra expense, for 

 new plantations can be made to appear many years older than they 

 really are without the risk of losing a single shrub. As one can 

 hardly expect to get plants of this description from nurserymen, the 

 practice of planting large trees and shrubs can only be carried out on an 

 estate or in a park where plantations and shrubberies may be thinned 

 out by transplanting from one part to another, and during the winter 

 months there is no work in connection with the garden more interesting 

 and fascinating than that of transplanting large trees or shrubs." 



R T. C. 



Trees unlawfully cut. By P. Hariot (Le Jard. Aug. 20, 1902, 

 p. 241). — The Parliament of Paris in a.d. 1782 sentenced one Charles 

 Moulin to stand in the pillory for two hours on a market day, labelled 

 in front and behind " A Cutter-down of Trees," then to be branded with the 

 letters GAL, and to work in the King's galleys for three years. This is 

 an instance of the severity of forest laws in France shortly before the 

 Revolution.— C. W. D. 



Trees, Weeping. By W. (Garden, No. 1611, p. 283, 4/10/02).— 

 Planting these with a niggardly hand is, after all, not what is wanted : 



