April 10, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
499 
hardy perennials. 
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CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden, the_503 
Apple, the . 505 
Aubrietias . 501 
Cactus Dahlias . 504 
Carnation and Picotee .... 504 
Chrysanthemums, out-door 507 
Cinerarias, sowing. 509 
Cucumbers and Melons .. 507 
Flowers in Wild Gardens.. 500 
Flower Show in the Scilly 
Isles .. 509 
Gardeners’ Calendar, the .. 50S 
Horticultural Societies .. 509 
Hyacinths . 502 
Lettuces, notes on. 50S 
Lobelias, Wintering . 507 
PAGE 
Odontoglossum odoratum 
albidum. 509 
Orchids at Misarden Park. 509 
Orchid-houses, fumigating 509 
Parsnip, the. 501 
Pears from the Cape. 500 
Pelargonium, bedding .... 502 
Pelargonium, the Show .. 504 
Pillar Plants . 503 
Plant Cases. 500 
Primula Conference. 507 
Rose, Mar&hal Niel. 507 
Scottish Gardening . 503 
Soot and the Onion Maggot 506 
Spring Flowers, Hardy .. 504 
Tobacco.499 
SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1886. 
Tobacco. —Doubtless to gardeners, who have 
long been familiar with the Tobacco plant as a de¬ 
corative element in sub-tropical gardening, there 
must seem much that is amusing in the proposal 
almost gravely put to pull, or endeavour to pull, 
agriculture out of its present depressed state by 
the culture of Tobacco. Apart from any other 
considerations, it seems a very odd suggestion 
that is now made to devote the land to the 
growth of a crop which, let it be ever so 
valuable pecuniarily, is not food, cannot benefit 
the myriads wanting food, and offers hut little 
in any way that can create wealth or promote 
national prosperity. With the economic or 
even moral aspects of the project we have here 
little to do, although such aspects must receive 
full attention in the proper place. But we have 
now to deal only with the cultural aspects of 
the suggestion ; and here the experience which 
gardeners have obtained through years of culti¬ 
vation of the Tobacco plant may stand us in 
good stead. 
