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THE HARDEN IN G WORLD 
October 8, 1904. 
Strawberries in the Open. —Fine ripe Strawberries grown in 
the open are still being offered for sale in small quantities, in 
Yarmouth market. 
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Carriage of Chrysanthemums. —At Bristol County Court, on 
the 29th ult., his Honour Judge Austin heard a claim for £12 10s. 
brought by George Warren Drake, 44, Cathays Terrace, Cardiff, 
against the Great Western Railway Company for damage to 
Chrysanthemum blooms while they were being carried by rail 
between Bristol and Devizes. Mr. Drake had taken his blooms as 
personal luggage. After hearing the evidence given by both sides, 
his Honour, in giving judgment, said he had come to the con¬ 
clusion that the blooms were damaged between Bristol and 
Devizes, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £8. 
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Japanese Roses. —At Romford, on the 29th ult., a Leyton 
labourer, named George Mahony, was committed for trial on a 
charge of swindling ladies by selling them ditch weeds as Japanese 
Roses. Several ladies deposed that the prisoner came to them 
while their husbands were in the City, and said lie had brought 
the Japanese Roses which had been ordered, and that there was 
10s. to 1 pay. However, the last lady who was called upon was 
informed of the ruse by some neighbours, and detained the 
prisoner in the scullery until the police arrived, 'there were at 
least thirty different charges against the prisoner. 
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Death of Mr. W. E. Boyce. —An inquest was held by Dr 
G. Danford Thomas at Hornsey Coroner’s Court on the 27th ult. 
in relation to the death of William Edward Boyce, gardener, aged 
52. For many years past he had been secretary to the Higligate 
Horticultural Society and the Highgate and District Chrysan¬ 
themum Society. On the 23rd ult. he was found dead in an 
empty house at Highgate. Dr. W. L. Penny, who was summoned, 
found that death was due to carbolic acid poisoning. The auditor 
of the Highgate Chrysanthemum Society’s accounts says that 
there are deficiencies amount ins to something like £20. 
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Apple Canker. —At the meeting of the Scientific Committee 
of the R..H.S., on Sept. 20th, Dr. Cooke exhibited branc.hesl of 
Apple tree suffering from canker. Surrounding the cankerous 
spots were tufts of a slightly pinkish mould, which had been 
identified as the conidia of Nectria ditissima. Other, and older, 
cankers on thicker limbs showed no trace of either the conidia or 
the perfect Nectria, and would otherwise have been difficult to 
trace to their true cause, especially now that the Glaeosporium 
is also charged with producing canker on Apple branches. With 
this evidence it would be tolerably clear that all the cankers on 
this tree were clue to the Fusarium, which forms the initial stage 
or oonidial form of the Nectria. 
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Mr. J. Cameron, 'Of Byethorn. —For many years past the 
gardens of Byethorn, Corbridge-on-Tyne, the residence of Mrs. 
H. J. Edwards, have enjoyed a high reputation for general ex¬ 
cellence. ' We regret to say that owing to the reducing of the 
gardens Mr. J. Cameron, the head gardener, left his post on 
Friday, the 30th ult. He has been most successful in his manage¬ 
ment for over ten years, and during that period he has carried 
out extensive improvements, and it has always been a noted fact 
that for good management, order, and cleanliness Mr. Cameron 
ha,s raised the name of Byethorn Gardens to a high standard, 
and has gained many friends in the Gorbridge district. Mr. 
Cameron, who has ripe and wide experience in landscape work 
and is a sound adviser in horticulture, is in the meantime to take 
up this work. Some years ago Mr. Cameron was a frequent 
contributor to our pages of useful information to the profession. 
As his work increased at Byethorn, his time became so fully 
occupied and his attention so absorbed in the garden that readers 
had less benefit of his experience. Of his doings we heard, how¬ 
ever, from other contributors in the district. The chief regret 
is that he is unable to reap the benefits accruing from a garden 
which has been brought to such a high state of excellence through 
his endeavours and incessant care. Like most others of the same 
name, he hails from the “ Land o’ Cakes,” and his experience in 
two countries should insure him plenty of work in his new sphere 
of labour, in which we w’sh him hearty success. 
Imports of Tomatos. —Although the “forcing” of this par¬ 
ticular fruit is rapidly becoming an important British industry, 
the imports this season have been immense. They now amount to 
1,250,000 owt. a year, representing a value of £1,200,000. 
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Canadian Apples for Belfast.— Three experimental ship¬ 
ments of Canadian Apples are being made direct to Belfast for 
the purposes of developing the Canadian fruit trade with the 
North of Ireland, and as Belfast is recognised as the chief dis¬ 
tributing centre for the North, the authorities at Ottawa have 
decided to make the shipments to this town. If the new venture 
meets with success' the trade will be developed accordingly. 
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Danger of Mushrooms. —“Mushrooms are a most dangerous 
article of food,” declared a doctor at an inquest, held on the 30th 
ult., regarding the death of the wife of a Walworth bricklayer’s 
labourer. Sire had died of acute peritonitis, brought on by Mush¬ 
room-poisoning. It would be interesting to know whether the 
Mushrooms had been eaten in immoderate quantity, or whether 
they were really Toadstools, 
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Fruit from Kent.— The: Kent hard fruit crop this year is the 
heaviest known for many years. Indeed, some of the principal 
growers say that the yield is the heaviest they ever remember. 
The weight of fruit despatched from Sittingbourne has been 
enormous. Strawberries were a record crop, and 100,323 baskets 
were despatched by passenger train alone. This represents a 
weight of 703 tons 14cwt. This was in addition to the heavy con¬ 
signments of fruit, principally Cherries, that had to be' dealt, 
with simultaneously and despatched from the goods yard. 
Altogether upwards of 3,100 tons of fruit have been sent by rail 
from Sittingbourne this season. 
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Sewage-fed Fruit and Vegetables.— Some months' ago we 
heard much about the evil effects of growing Watercress in beds 
supplied with water from the sewage works. It seems, however, 
that various municipal authorities grow Cabbages and Straw¬ 
berries on land that has been, fertilised with sewage water. This 
might not be productive of harm in the case of Cabbages if the 
land had been flooded with sejWaga some time previous to the 
ploughing or digging of the land) on which the. seedlings were to 
be afterwards planted. The case is different with Strawberries, if 
the plants are irrigated with sewage, whether in winter or sum- 
men’. A better plan would be to. flood the land with, sewage first 
and them allow it to get sufficiently dry to be ploughed, trenched, 
or dug in preparation) for the reception! of the young Strawberry 
plants. There could then, be little fear of contamination from 
the sewage. 
On the Editor’s Table. 
Dihlias from Bloxham. 
Some Cactus 1 Dahlias have reached us: from Mr. Ernest 
Townsend, the Hollies Nursery, Bloxham, Oxo-n. That, named 
Standard Bearer is a beautiful form with long pointed brilliant 
red florets, more or lessi reivolute at. the sides, as in the more 
popular forms grown at. the present day. Hei also sends for 
our inspection some blooms of a seedling Dahlia, raised by him 
* three years ago, and which lie has now named Lady Davies. 
It was a seedling from Cycle, a ruby-red flower, tipped with 
lilac. Some of the: seedlings give flowers of an alternate shade. 
The blooms sent us: measure about. 4 in to 5 in. in diameter, 
though those that bloomed earlier in. the season were much 
larger. All the blooms come perfectly double and good, with 
a long stem thrown well above the foliage. The: florets in this 
instance are long and pointed, but mostly quite flat, so that it 
would belong to a different type from that which is mot 
popular at the: present day. Nevertheless 1 , many private 
growers: like these forms: for garden decoration. The colour 
of it is very pleasing, being a soft, rosy-purple shading to 
white in. the centre. The younger florets appear to be tinted 
with heliotrope:. The shade is: by no: means a common one, 
and though not,of the popular Cactus type, would no. doubt find 
favour with some growers for the purpose above: named. The 
sender had it, in his first-prize stand of Cactus Dahlias: ex¬ 
hibited in August last, so that in certain districts, at least, 
it is favourably received for exhibition purposes. The: variety, 
we understand, will be distributed in 1905. 
