THE 



GARDENERS 



MAGAZINE. 



SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1898. 



SOCIETY. 



VT A T I 0 N A L CHRYSANTHEMUM 



j[\ ROYAL AQUARIUM, WESTMINSTER, 



November 8, 9, and 10. 1808. 

 GREAT AUTUMN CHRYSANTHEMUM FESTIVAL. 

 Specimen Plants, Groups, Cut Blooms, Fruit and Vegetables. The Largest Chrysanthemum 



Show in the United Kingdom. 



Schedules of Prizes from 



Richard D ean. V.M.H., Secretary and Superintendent, 42, Ra^elagh Road, Ealing, W. 



RADFORD and DISTRICT CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY.— 



TWELFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION in St. George's Hall, November ii and 

 12. ^750 in prizes, four Silver Cups, and three Gold Medals to be competed for. Entries close 

 November 7. Schedules, &c, to be had from 



R. Eichel, Hon. Secretary, WestclitTe Road, Shipley. 



BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— GRAND 

 CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, to be held in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 

 November 15 and 16. Schedules of 



Secretary, i, Dyke Road Drive, Brighton. 



ORN EXCHANGE, BURY ST. EDMUND'S.— GRAND CHRYSAN- 

 THEMUM FLOWER and FRUIT SHOW. 



THURSDAY and FRIDAY, November 10 and 11. 



The Shew will be opened on Thursday, at Half-past Two o'clock. 



Entries close November 4. For Schedules apply to the Hon. Secretary, 



Walter Noeton, 



Bury St. Edmunds. 



indifferent management, and in others it is the result of planting varie- 

 ties that cannot be depended upon to produce crops excepting in seasons 

 specially favourable to the apple. These facts were brought into special 

 prominence in the long, elaborate, and costly investigation of English 

 orchards we made a few years since with such satisfactory results, and as 

 ey were fully set forth by our special commissioner in his series of 

 reports, under the title of "The Wasted Orchards of England," it is not 

 now necessary to refer to them further than to say that an enormous su_ 

 of money is lost to the country through so large an area annually being 

 planted with varieties of the apple that bear crops in those seasons only 

 when apples are exceptionally abundant. It is not possible to give an 

 exact estimate of the annual loss from this cause, but it must amount to 

 some hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling, and the loss of such a 

 large sum is specially regrettable from the fact that it might be materially 

 reduced within a few years were owners of orchards to take advan- 

 tage of the information that is given them. The question of substituting 

 sure-bearing for uncertain varieties is not less important to the private 

 cultivator than to the grower for market, and we are pleased to say that 

 much is being done in private gardens to improve matters by replanting 

 and regrafting. Recognizing the importance of evidence that will 

 not admit of question, we asked a large number of the leading fruit 

 growers to send us the names of apples that have this year, which has 

 been remarkable for the lightness of the apple crop, borne satisfactorily. 

 Our request received a ready response, and the reports which have been 

 received and published contain information of the most valuable 

 character. As will have been seen from a perusal of the reports, the 

 number of sure-bearing varieties is very small in proportion to the 

 number of apples that have a place in trade lists, but it is more than 

 sufficient for the purpose of maintaining a liberal supply during the seven or 

 eight months in which apples may be had in perfection. We have pre- 

 pared an audit of the varieties enumerated in the reports, and the twenty- 

 four standing highest in the audit cf ccoking apples are: Bismarck 



t Vlma tw. ^ * Blenheim Pippin, Bramley's Seedling, Cox's Pomona, Dumelow's Seed- 



L E SS. lt X J° T ^^ Nfc Ecklinville Seedling, Gascoyne's Scarlet, Golden Spire, Golden, 



Noble, Keswick Codlin, Lane's Prince Albert, Lord Grosvenor, Lord 

 Suffield, Manks Codlin, Mere de Menage, New Hawthornden, Newton 

 SHOW. Wonder, Northern Greening, Stirling Castle, Loddington or Stones, 



Tower of Glamis, Warner's King, Wealthy, and York shire Beauty. The 

 twelve dessert apples that are mentioned as bearing the heaviest crops, 

 by the largest number of correspondents, are : Allen's Everlasting, Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, Court Pendu Plat, Duchess of Oldenburg, Fearn's 

 Pippin, Irish Peach, King of the Pippins, Lady Sudeley, Red Astrachan, 

 Ribston Pippin, and Worcester Pearmain. There are, of course, many 

 OF excellent cooking and dessert apples other than those enumerated above, 



and cultivators' may be advised when they find an apple of good quality 

 that bears abundantly in their district year after year to plant it in 

 accordance with their requirements. But as the varieties named are of 

 good quality and sure-bearing in all parts of the country, they should in 

 all cases be selected, as profitable fruit plantation can only be obtained 



EASTBOURNE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S 

 GRAND CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW. 

 TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, November i and 2. 

 Several open classes. Good Prizes. Entries close October 28. Send for Schedules to 

 Secretary, E. A. Newman, 21, Brooklyn Terrace, Eastbourne. 



UDDERSFIELD and DISTRICT CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The SEVENTH EXHIBITION of the above Society will be held in the Town Hall, 

 Huddersfield, on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, November ii and 12, 1898. Entries close on 

 Friday, November 4. Entry Forms and Schedules may be obtained from 



John Bell, Hod. Sec, Marsh, Huddersfield. 



ENT COUNTY CHRYSANTHEMUM AND HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. --ELEVENTH GRAND ANNUAL IXHIBITION of CHRYSAN- 

 1HEMUMS and other Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables, will be held in the Rink Hall, 

 Biack heath (opposite S.E.R. Station), on Wednesday and Thursday, November 2 and 3, 

 1898. Schedules and all particulars of the Hon. Sec, 



F. Fox. The Gardens. The Cedars, Lee. S.E. 



T/INGSTON AND SURBITON CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY.— The 



t, P cA N ^ UAL SHOW will be held at the Drill Hall, Kingston-on Thame?, on 

 H LbDA\ and WEDNESDAY, November i and 2. Entries close October 28. Trade 

 exhibits invited. Schedules, &c, of 



- Mr. W . D. ElS AM, Secretary, Clarence Chambers, Kingston on-Thames. 



'Y'S CL*w V4 «,*.^^vx. 4 v..*. 



-L* Hall, Leeds, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, ^November *i 5 and ^6. Upwards 

 of X,i8o, including four Challenge Cups, will be given in prizes. Schedules from the J 



. , w _ Hon. Sec, 



James Campbell, The Gardens, Methley Park, Leeds. 



OWESTOFT 



C H RYSANTHEMUM 



November 2 and 3. 

 ^50 offered in Prizes. Entries close Saturday, October 29. 

 particulars of the Hjn. Secretary, 



H. W. Bevan, 9, High Stree*, Lowestoft. 



MAIDENHEAD CHRYSANTHEMUM, FRUIT and VEGETABLE 



SHOW, Town Hall, Maidenhead, November 3 and 4: Entries close October 29. 



htdules free. 



J. W. Stone, Hon. Sec, 



Cookham Dean. 



]>OVAL BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



MANCHESTER AND THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. 



Founded a.d, 1827. 



GREAT CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, November i 7j i3, and 19. 



In St. James' Hall, Manchester. 



.£180 in Prizes. Open tJ all comers. 



^rlofD erh P^ Yt ' CHALLENGE CUP ' Value ^ presented by the Right Hon. the 



distinct Cwa ri 1 ' anc * * IQ b y the Society for 48 Blooms (24 Japanese and 24 Incurved) 



""ct. Schedules post free on applicati in to 



P. Weathers, Curator and Secretary, 

 Jtrr ' Royal Botanical Gardens, Manchester. 



\\ °J£S& . HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 



by the planting of sure-bearing varieties. 



Chry 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE IMPORTS. 



The Board of Trade returns for September are even more satis- 

 factory than were those for August, there being a material augmentation 

 in both the imports and exports. The exports, which in the case of an 

 old country are regarded as the best indication of activity in commercial 

 circles, show an increase of £1,639,810, equal to 8*9 per cent. As is 



ORTtpttt — — — customary, the products of the garden and the farm constitute an 



* A coiu^^JU^L SHOW ADVERTISEMENTS are inserted in this important part of the imports, and in glancing at the figures it is difficult to 



^^48 and^te^l^^:!?^ *** FivC ShillbgS - Advenise - understand why our dependence upon foreign and colonial produce cannot 



be materially lessened. Of apples we imported 248,126 bushels, of the 



ChpvqamVu;; — ^u^mi ivyn. — FIFTH ANNUAL 



a^iSo' »2mA N £ H£ MUM SHOW, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, November 

 - ira. t he New Church Hall, Woking. Two Challenge Cups and tumerous prizes 



ums, F ruit, and Vegetables. For Schedules apply to 



W. I. N fal. Chesalon, Claremont Ave nue, Woking 



S /mw?l£ RI F S OF FRUIT SHOWS, &c— JUDGING OF FRUITS, 



'LUWERS and VEGETABLES, by Stephen Castle. F.R.H.S., Consulting 



Horticulturist, Iiottesford Vineries, Notts, 

 lerms on application. Telegrams, "Grapes," Bottesford. 



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Notes of the Week. 



Us ands of a S ° equentI y Ported out in these pages, there are many 

 b y fruit ii™* f XCelIent land in the United Kingdom that are occu- 

 °ses FeeS wnich > from some well-known cause, or a combination 



SURE BEARING APPLES. 



ca "ses H« U1U1 » rrom some well-known cause, or a combination received during me muu^ - — o ~t ~ ^ ^,~ 0 ~.. 



Jund. ' ,° 1 yidd efficient fruit annually to pay for the rent of the There was a material decrease also in the quantity of plums received ; 



value of ,£74,65 1, and the absorption of this large quantity at remunerative 

 rates is sufficient to refute the views of those who a few years since were 

 so loud in proclaiming that an extension of fruit culture would be 

 disastrous, inasmuch as there would be no outlet for the produce. 

 During the nine months ending September 30, our imports of apples 

 amounted to 1,310,553 bushels, of the value of .£460,066. There was a 

 material increase in the imports of grapes, those for September amount- 

 ing to 274,835 bushels, of the value of .£126,173, which is the largest sum 

 we have paid for these fruits in September for several years past With 

 reference to the imports of pears, it must be said that there was a drop in 

 quantity of 142,511 bushels, and in value of £37,173 5 the quantity 

 received during the month being 169,064 bushels, of the value of £70,501. 



Ml 



inq . - ~«-*n^i tllL nun annually iu p< 



fruit Plant n r Ume ^ able instance s the unprofitableness of the orchards 



cations is due to the exhaustion of the trees from old age or 



but the imports of these fruits were more than sufficient to prevent the 

 price of home-grown fruit rising to a point that placed it beyond the 



