July 9, 1899. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Supplementary Chapter on the 
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THE 
CARNATION: 
For Index to Contents see page 713. 
Its History, Properties, and Management; 
WITH 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE BEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. 
BY 
E. S. DODWELL, 
Hun. Secretary and Treasurer of the Carnation and Picotee Union. 
“ Gardening is the purest oi human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
GARDENING WORLD ” OFFICE, 1, CLEMENT’S INN, STRAND, W.C. 
NIERRYWEATHER’S HIGH-CLASS GARDEN HOSES. 
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“ Dear Sirs,—I am very much pleased with the working of the lengths of hose supplied in May, 1881, 
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THE ORCHID FLOWER HOLDER 
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A useful invention for Orchid Growers and Floral Decorators 
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NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, luly 12.—Royal Horticultural Society: Committee 
Meetings at Drill Hall. 
Hereford Rose Show. 
Wolverhampton Floral Fete (3 days). 
Wednesday, July 13.— Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society 
(2 days). 
Bexley Flower Show. 
Ealing Flower Show. 
Bedford Flower Show. 
Thursday, July 14. — Helensburgh Rose Show. 
Friday, July 15.— Sale of Specimen Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris Rooms. 
Saturday, July 16. —National Rose Show at Chester. 
Charlton Rose Show. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, JULY 9 th, 1892. 
he Season’s Fruit Crops.— Whilst we 
await with interest the returns from 
all parts of the kingdom which are usually 
furnished by competent garden observers as 
to the generai nature of the fruit crops of the 
present year, we have already to notice that 
these returns have been to some extent 
anticipated by the enterprise of a firm of 
fruit importers and salesmen in Covent 
Garden, who seem to have gathered up 
from the chief points of the compass some 
information of the fruit crops in both 
our own and other countries. 
Of course we at home have most interest 
in our home productions, and are pleased 
to learn that we have good crops, or are 
sorry if they be poor ones as the case may 
be. But then just as our own may fluctuate, 
so may the fruit crops of other countries, 
and it not unfrequently happens, as seems 
to be the case this year, that when our home 
crops are thin they are generally so else¬ 
where. Assuming that the returns fur¬ 
nished of the probable market crops of 
fruit be correct, it seems obvious that we 
shall have hardly more than one-third of a 
fair crop in Europe generally. That is of 
course bad news. A poor fruit crop signi¬ 
fies a deficiency in value of garden and 
orchard produce of many millions sterling, 
and thousands engaged in fruit culture are 
thereby all the poorer. 
Perhaps later returns may show better 
prospects, but when these come chiefly from 
private gardeners who have little know¬ 
ledge of the general state of the marketgarden 
and orchard crops, to which the public have 
to look for their supplies, it is obvious that 
such reports have less value than otherwise 
should be the case. After-all it is of little 
importance to learn of the abundance of 
small fruits. What we want to know is 
the prospect of Apples, Pears, Plums, 
Cherries, Gooseberries, Currants, and 
Strawberries, and if these be poor then we 
know that they will be dear and scarce. 
