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GARDENERS' MA GAZ1NE. 



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Chrysanthemums.— J . A. B., Tipton : We are afraid that after such a 

 severe check as your plants have experienced, due to their becoming tightly root- 

 bound ere potted into the flowering pots, you have seriously affected your chances 

 of producing large exhibition blooms. However, you must do the best you can, 

 and, as regards feeding and the use of manures, we must refer you to Mr. Lee's 

 article on the subject published in our issue of July 23, p. 472. You should 

 "take" the buds that now appear, otherwise the flowers will be too late for 

 exhibition purposes. 



Broad Windsor Beans.— A. F., Wallingford : We should like to know 

 the reason the exhibitor you refer to had for stating that a good exhibition pod of 

 Broad Windsor bean should contain but two beans. We have always understood 

 that broad beans were cultivated for the sake of the seeds or beans rather than for 

 the pod ; consequently we should certainly give the preference to the specimens 

 containing the largest number of seeds, size and quality being equal. We agree 

 with the judge, for if horticultural exhibitions and flower shows do not tend to 

 improve our fruits, flowers, and vegetables by selection and culture there is no 

 really good reason for their existence. 



Seedling Carnations.— F. M. K., Bridgewater : The small collection of 

 seedling carnation blooms sent contains several very handsome fancy varieties of 

 merit and worthy of perpetuation, providing they are free and vigorous. Not 

 many of them appear to be of any great value for exhibition purposes, as the 

 larger blooms are short in the calyx. The " bursters " should be discarded as 

 soon as a good border variety of similar colour is obtained. The majority of the 

 flowers have plenty of petals, and doubtless finer blooms could be produced by 

 judicious thinning of the buds. Not more than five per cent, of single flowers 

 represents a very fine strain of seed. You should make further experiments in 

 hybridizing and the raising of seedlings now that so much success has already 

 .attended your efforts. 



Failure with Strawberries. —Novice, Notts: No doubt your plants are 

 the result of runners from unfertile plants, and this accounts for the failure. 

 There is apparently no just reason why strawberries sometimes cease to be fertile, 

 but it is nevertheless a fact that they do, and also that plants propagated from 

 them do not bear fruit. Your land is not the best for strawberry culture, but, of 

 course, much may be done to improve it by manuring ; farmyard and stable manure 

 .are the best if obtainable ; pig manure is very strong. Clear out all the unfruitful 

 plants and burn them, and do not take any layers from them before so doing. 

 Procure rooted layers as early as possible from some nurseryman or grower who 

 has a high reputation that he will be careful to sustain, and plant these as quickly 

 as you can, watering and tending the plants carefully till established. By this 

 plan you will not lose a season's crop, and it will be cheaper to obtain rooted 

 layers than plants in pots at a later date. Shade may be necessary for a few days 

 alter planting, but as your beds are narrow a few hurdles would provide this. 



?7 a ^r €8 J? f Plan <*-— J- T., Birkenhead : 1, Cratxgus nigra ; 6, send again. 

 * ™r ' F arnworth ; No, at least not the Irish Shamrock, which is Trifolium 



Shlmrock SpeCimen Sent is 0xalis a <*tosella, often passing in England as the 

 h w ^f dfor f d : Acanthus longifolius, perennial. 



A p tS *' Anthemis Biebersteiniana ; 2, Veronica virginica. 



Bumalda ' : h Er, g eron speciosum ; 2, Oenothera Whitneyi ; 3, Spinea 



'Haa^ti V# ^ BriStQl - *' ?aVia macrostach y a 5 2, Amorpha canescens ; 3, Olearia 



* tS 5" , i?5 entW ^ 0 ^.; x ' Mon tbretia crocosm^flora ; 2, Zygadenus bracteatus; 

 3, Rhodochiton volubile ; 4, Rochea falcata ; 5, Rhodanthe Manglesi. 



Contents 



Amelioration of Fruits 



Answers to Correspondents ... ,.' 

 Arundinaria metallica ... ,[[ 

 Chrysanthemums 



Engagements for the EnsuingVeek' 

 Exhibitions and Meetings :— 



Headington Horticultural Socier 

 Royal Horticultural Socie 



5* ??£ h penological Society 

 The Midland Counties Carnation 

 ttcotee Society • » 

 Fern Hunting in Scotland 







Markets .„ 



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New Philadelphus 

 New Plants, Flowers, and Fruit 

 Notes on Orchids 



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Notes of the Week 



Hybrid Fruits 



Hybrid Nympbaeas 

 m Imports of Fruits and Vegetables 



Obituary ( ... 



Strawberries at Maidstone 

 The Chiswick Trials ... 

 The Tudor Garden 

 Vegetables for Exhibition 



Weather 



Work for the Week 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Arundinaria metallica 



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523 



Dendrobium Pierardi at Coombe House, 



Croydon ... ••• ... ••• ... 526 



526 I Philadelphus coronarius Mont Blanc 



Aocust 1 3l l89 g 



Markets. 



Covent Garden. 



vegetables are good and sell readily ; peas are rather dear but ,ut ■ 1 

 has been a better demand for potatos. The cut flower trade is mow Ia " 

 grown tomatos are now plentiful. wa * 1 - Home. 



Fruit.— Cherries, 4s. 6d. to 103. 6d. per half-sieve ; English eranw « . 

 Jersey, od. to is. 6d. per lb. ; black currants, 5s. to 6s. 6d. ; red « to'« •' *' 

 berries, 2s. to 3 s. per half-sieve ; bananas, S s. to 103. per bunch pineannW g ~'T 

 4 s. 6d. each ; English peaches, is. to 5s. ; green figs, 9 d. to is. 6d. per dozen " J^i° 

 gages, 9d. to is. per box, 4s. to 63, per half-sieve; French plums is 6d n F- 

 case, 2S. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per half-sieve; French pears, 3 s. to ss. per 'case' 

 melons, 8s. to 12s. per case ; raspberries, 3s. 6d. to 6s. per dozen punnets. ' 



, is. to 3s. ; eucharis, 2 s. to is • 

 gardenias, is. to 3 s. ; Lilmm Harnsi, 23. to 4 s. ; tea roses, 6d. to is. ■ pink rrW 

 23. to 5s.; red roses, 6d. to is.; cattleyas, 5s. to 8s.; Odontoglossum crisDum! 

 is. 6d. to 4s.; and tuberoses, is. to is. 6d. per dozen blooms- Adianmm 

 cuneatum, 4s. to 8s. ; asters, 2s. to 12s.; marguerites, 2s. to 4s. ; mignonette 2s to 

 4s. ; Sweet Sultan, is. to 2s. ; Pansies, is. to 2s. ; pelargoniums (scarlet), q 3 ' to'es. 

 per dozen bunches ; stephanotis, is. to 2s. ; lily of the valley, 6d. to is • white 

 gladiolus, 8d. to is. ; and pelargoniums, 4d. to 6d. per dozen sprays. 



Vegetables.— English tomatos, 4d, to 5d. ; Jersey, 3d. per lb. ; Spanish, od to 

 is. 2d. per box; mushrooms, 6s. to 9s. per 12 ibs. ; celery, 12s. to 18s. per dozen 

 rolls ; endive, is. to is. 4d.; cauliflowers, is. 6d. to 2s. 6d.; cucumbers, is. to 3s 6d 

 per dozen; cabbages, 3s. 6d. to 4 s. 6d.; beetroots, 25. 6d. to 3s. per tally; mint 

 is. gd. to 2s. 3d. ; parsley, 2s. to 2s. 6d.; carrots, 3s, to 3s. 6d.; turnips, 3s. 6d. to 

 4s. per dozen bunches ; English onions, 2s. to 3s. per dozen bunches ; ports, 5s. 

 to 6s. 6d. per case; peas, is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per bushel, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d, per bag; 

 French beans, 33. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per half-sieve, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per flat; leeks, is.6d.' 

 to 23. p.r dozen bunches; potatos, 60s. to 120s. per ton. 



Borotigh Potato Market. 



Supplies are not quite so heavy after the rain, and this, coupled with a bettor 

 demand has had a tendency to raise prices. English Snowdrops, White Beauties, 

 and Early Puritan, 33. 6d. to 4s. ; Beauty of Hebron, 35. ; and Sutton's Early Regent, 

 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6cL per cwt. 



WEATHER during the We 



Stations. 



Temperature of the Air. 



Highest. 



Lowest 



Fahrenheit. 



Mean. 



Fahren- 

 heit. 



Rainfau* 



In 

 Inches. 



Jn Cemi 

 rnetreL 



London 



Croydon 



Brighton 



Bristol 



Wolverhampton 

 Norwich 



Nottingham 



Liverpool 



Huddersfield 



Bradford , 



Hull 



79*4 

 78*2 



73*o 

 71*2 



73 'o 

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75'8 

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72*5 

 73'2 



75 # o 



47 4 



43*5 

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48*0 



41*4 



43.o 



45'o 

 50*6 



50*0 



50*0 



44*o 



6 3 '8 



6l*2 



6 3*4 



59*7 

 58*2 

 60' 2 

 6o'i 



57*7 



58 6 



60-4 



59 * 



17*67 



l6'22 

 15-78 



i5'39 

 14-56 



15*<57 

 i 5 '6i 



14-28 



14- 78 



15- 06 



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1-24 

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 455 



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The mean reading of the Barometer durine the week at Greenwich was 29*816 inct**, »»» 



ytiri 



1841—90. The direction of the wind was westerly, the horizontal movement of the ^[^JJ 



being i°'s above the week s average 



37 Per cent, above the week's average in the 16 years 1860—75. The duration of register* 

 sunshine in the week was 58*4 hours. The measured rainfall amounted to 0*06 of an wen. 



days 



ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK 



MEETINGS. 



Wednesday, August 17.— Shrewsbury Floral Fete ; Tw. 

 Shankhn (I. of W.) Summer Show. 

 Newton Stewart Floral Fete. 

 Cuckfield Summer Show. 

 Pembroke Dock Horticultural Society. 

 Dover Flower Show ; Two days 

 Thursday August i8.-Jersey Horticultural Society. 

 Niton (I. of W.) Flower Show. 

 Abingdon Horticultural Society. 

 Grandpont and South Oxford Summer Show. 

 Friday, August 19 —Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society. , 

 Saturday, August 20.— Co-operative Societies' Flower Show at Crystal I'aiace, 



veil Horticultural Society, Pol lokshaw. 



Sir J.Stirling Maxwell 

 Bicton and Oldland Horticultural 



AUCTION. t - 1 



Wednesday, August i 7 .-Imported Bulbs, Me. J. C. Stevens, King Street, U»e» 



peare's authority that ^ TjK * tm- 

 Les this is unfortuna ely^T^^ 

 > rreat thai ingratitude be^ J^ 



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i , erC a /i?u Um ^ 1 ? owev ? r > wh en the benefit received is so great that 1 n„ restof^ 

 sible. When life is rendered a burden to us by sickness, and somc ?"^ a V c t ) d»T 

 hea th, we should be base indeed to feel ungrateful. Thus, miI1 »°" S d ^^Sl-. 

 Hoi ow. Pills and Ointment, which have cured them of 



headache, flatulency, indigestion and low spirits, and cleared their s> stems a 

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