July 1, 1899. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JULY ist, 1899. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, July 4 th.—Harrow and Gloucester Shows ; Meeting 
of the Scottish Horticultural Association. 
Wednesday, July 5th.— Hanley Fete (2 days); Lee, Black- 
heath, and Lewisham Show (2 days); Ipswich, Ealing 
Brockham, Hitchin, Bexley Heath, Redhill, and Tunbridge 
Wells Shows. 
Thursday, July 6 th.—Colchester, Aylesbury, and Farningham 
Shows. 
Friday, July 7 th.—Hereford Show. 
Saturday, July 8 ch.—N. A. G. Garden Party at Regent’s Park, 
N.W.; Rose Show at Manchester Botanical Gardens. 
Experiments with Turnips and Potatos. 
—The “Fifth Annual Report” on 
field experiments, 1898, by Douglas A. 
Gilchrist, B.Sc., of the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment of Reading College, in connection with 
the County Councils of Berkshire, Dorset, 
Hampshire, and Oxfordshire, has just been 
issued. For the benefit of our readers we 
cull a few facts from the report in relation 
to the experiments with Swedes, Turnips 
and Potatos as they bear upon the subject 
of gardening much more particularly than 
do those which deal with pasture, field 
rotation, wheat growing and other agricul¬ 
tural subjects. Experiments with the 
“ finger-and-toe ” disease of Swedes have 
been conducted upon a farm at Headington 
near Oxford since 1895, i n which year the 
malady was very bad. The attack was 
greatly aggravated where farmyard manure 
had been used. The soil on the lower part 
of the field is deep and sandy, overlying 
the limestone rock of the Middle Oolite 
system ; but towards the top or higher end 
of the field the soil is shallow and lies close 
to the rock. This constitutes an important 
difference for the deep sandy soil is very 
poor in lime, containing only 0^45 per cent., 
while the shallow soil, lying close to the 
limestone formation, contains 5’49 per cent, 
of lime. Here the Swedes were much 
better; for the slime fungus known as 
finger-and-toe (Plasmodiophora Brassicae) 
does not like lime, while all the Brassica 
tribe does. 
A table shows the results obtained on 
eleven different plots during 1896, 1897, 
and 1898 by the employment of different 
