August 27, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
819 
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tjMw. 
Edited by J. FRASER. F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , AUGUST 27th, 1898. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Thursday, September ist.—Dundee Show (3 days). 
Stirling Show (2 days). 
Friday, September 2nd.— National Dahlia Society’s Show at 
the Crystal Palace. 
Saturday, September 3rd.—Manchester Royal Botanical and 
Horticultural Society’s Show for Amateurs and Cottagers. 
SPECIAL . . 
. . NUMBER 
OF 
The Gardening World 
TO COMMENCE THE 
15 th annual volume. 
Illustrations and Special 
Articles 
ON 
DUTCH 
AND OTHER 
BULBS. 
Issued Thursday, 1st. 
Wruit Culture Extending. —Whoever 
may happen to be travelling about the 
country, but particularly in the best fruit¬ 
growing districts, will be able to see planta¬ 
tions of no great age, and making more or 
less vigorous growth according to the 
natural fertility of the soil, and the cultural 
treatment it received at the time of plant¬ 
ing, and since then. The agitation that 
has been carried on for some years past 
anent the cultivation of fruit by home 
growers has certainly resulted in putting 
British cultivators upon their mettle, not¬ 
withstanding the scoffing and jeering in 
many quarters as to the unprofitable nature 
of the industry. A great many have under¬ 
taken the cultivation of fruit who knew 
little or nothing of a practical nature upon 
the subject. As might have been expected 
some of them made glaring failures ; while 
others equally ignorant of the subject at 
the commencement, but being keen 
observers and men of business capacity, 
have been decidedly successful. 
The British farmer learns slowly, and 
progresses accordingly ; but if he is slow 
to adopt better methods of culture than he 
has hitherto pursued, he may be ready to 
urge that more labour is necessary for the 
newer methods of fruit culture than he can 
afford. Nevertheless a few object lessons 
may be gleaned from the methods pursued 
along the various railway routes in Kent. 
Not far from Sevenoaks a young orchard 
on the grass may be seen struggling with 
the various occupants of the soil and the 
dry weather. The young trees as yet 
afford but little shade against the fiercerays- 
of the sun, while the hard surface, together 
with the grass upon it evaporates four times 
as much of the soil moisture than would be 
the case if the surface were bare and kept 
loosened on the surface by means of the 
horse hoe. Beyond Wrotham, still going 
in the same direction, the spaces between 
the fruit trees are covered by Potatos and 
Wheat. This may be considered a degree 
better inasmuch as the surface is kept 
looser, while a profitable crop can be taken 
off the ground while the trees are growing. 
A little further on fruit trees may be seen 
on strips of grass, even while the middle 
space between the rows of trees is cropped. 
The grass can have little to recommend it, 
except that it saves the labour of cleaning. 
Another example may be noted where the 
space between the half standard trees is 
planted with fruit bushes. The latter help 
to shade the ground, keeping it cool, but 
the ground is very weedy even in a dry 
season like the present. Evidently the 
British farmer thinks that the loosening of 
the surface and the destruction of weeds 
are the last things to be undertaken. The 
heavy, loamy soil near Mailing must be very 
fertile, for the fruit trees upon the grass are 
making wonderful progress. Close by one 
may notice that the Hop plantations are 
kept regularly hoed, while the Hops are 
now forming dense thickets amply shading 
the soil. Evidently more value is attached 
to the Hop fields than to the orchards. At 
the Allington Nurseries, alongside of Bann¬ 
ing station, Messrs. George Bunyard & Co. 
believe in keeping the surface clean and 
loose by constant hoeing by means of a 
horse hoe, and the results proclaim the 
practice a good one. It does not always 
follow, however, that good examples are 
followed by others. A hedge or a fence is 
often all that separates well and badly-kept 
farms. Generally speaking, however, a 
healthy emulation is set up under such cir¬ 
cumstances. 
In spite of its northern latitude, Aber¬ 
deen is rapidly becoming the centre of a 
great fruit-growing industry. The growing 
city has acquired an appetite for fruit, but 
has little need to look abroad for supplies. 
The farmers situated around three sides of 
the Granite City, and within a range of 20 
miles, are quietly setting themselves the 
task of meeting the demand for fruit. The 
largest and most important fruit farms are 
on Deeside, adjacent to the city. Straw¬ 
berries, Gooseberries and Currants are the 
fruits most extensively cultivated, and for 
which the climate is wonderfully well 
adapted. Many years ago the late Mr. 
Gladstone recognised the suitability of 
Aberdeenshire for Strawberry culture. 
Potatos and other vegetables are also more 
or less extensively grown by the fruit 
farmers. For many years past the county 
of Kincardineshire has been contributing 
its quota to the fruit supplies of the Granite 
City, Mr. Sim, the Temple, Drumlithie, 
sending all his fruit there. His father, Mr. 
Sim, who commenced the cultivation of 
Strawberries at Strachan, Deeside, more 
than twenty-five years ago, is still hale, 
hearty and active. Strawberries were so little 
known there about that time that a native 
asked him if he was planting Averns, this 
being the local name for the Cloudberry 
(Rubus Chamaemorus). Mr. Sim now 
sends about 70 tons of Strawberries 
annually from this district to the jam 
makers. His favourite is the old-fashioned, 
but finely flavoured, Elton Pine. 
-- 
How the Americans Advertise!—To what do they 
refer? Plants, ladies or stars? "Choice 3-in. 
Perles, for immediate planting. Fine stock which 
will make you money. Also some extra nice 3-in. 
Meteors; and some good Brides and Beauties. 
Sample on receipt.” See American papers.— Patter¬ 
son. 
