October 15, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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he Qardening^^rld. 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Meteorological Observations for 
September. 
The month of September might be de¬ 
scribed on the whole as one 'that was very 
suitable for holiday-making, although the 
fine; weather was occasionally broken by 
stormy weather extending over a -fairly wide 
area. Usually the equinox brings more 
rough weather than was experienced 
during the past- month. At London, and 
m ; are particularly ait Holland House, Ken¬ 
sington, everything recorded would seem xo 
indicate a very fine month for out-door pur¬ 
suits. The barometer was highest on the 
19th, this being registered as 30.55 in. It 
was lowest on: the 14-th, the register being 
30.00 in. The highest temperature in the 
shade was 78 deg., which occurred on 
the 5th. The, lowest in the shade was 35 
deg., which occurred on the 26th and 27tlx 
o-f the month. There was therefore a con¬ 
siderable range of temperature in the shade, 
and the mean temperature of the month was 
53.9 deg. The lowest reading on the grass 
was 34 deg., on the 26th and 27th, the 
thermometer therefore being almost down 
to freezing point on the mornings of those 
two days. No frost was registered, how¬ 
ever, during the month. The greatest 
amount of rainfall in twenty-four hours was 
0.16 in. on the 12th. The total amount, for 
the month was only 1.09 in,, thus bringing 
the total since January 1st up to 14.95 in. 
During the next three months, therefore', 
fully 9 in. are necessary to bring the rain¬ 
fall for London up to the average. These 
observations are being taken regularly by 
Mr. Charles Dixon. 
-O'— 
Liverpool and its Trees. 
At present there is some alarm amongst 
certain of the inhabitants of Liverpool con¬ 
cerning the tall Elm tree,® at the city end 
of the Aigburth Road. Those passing out 
into the suburbs by -this 1 road will find many 
beautiful trees little, if at ail, suggestive of 
a busy and crowded city thoroughfare. The 
complaint is that the old Elms are to be cut 
down and the estate upon which they are 
growing laid out in, new streets for the build¬ 
ing of houses, which some of the local people 
describe as of the usual rabbit-hutch variety. 
The plea is that, instead of cutting down 
such fine tiee-s a, broad piece of frontage 
should be secured up-on which the trees are, 
growing, -so as to form a wide boulevard, 
keeping the trees in their present form. The 
chances are, however, that if these Elms had 
their roots 'covered in by concrete', asphalt, 
or other forms of paving, they would very 
soon get into an. unhealthy -state that would 
necessitate their removal, becausei they 
would become dangerous to those using the 
boulevard. At present the foot-path by the 
trees is very narrow and the traffic annually 
increasing, so that if the ground immediately 
surrounding this area is laid -out in streets 
and built upon, it wo-uld be -safer to plaint 
other and more suitable trees that would 
not be dangerous to the people using the 
thoroughfare. We admit that the trees 
would have a fine effect, if maintained : u their 
present condition, but the' environment can¬ 
not be the same if the ground comes to be 
built upon, so- that their ultimate removal 
is merely a question of time, whereas young 
trees of a suitable kind if planted now- would 
be making growth in the meantime and 
become sufficiently established to furnish 
the necessity in the- way of ornament in this 
respect. There is also- the plea, that the bor¬ 
ders of this road should be pu-t back -some 
distance to begin with, and thereby avoid 
the great expense of doing it after the place 
has been covered with valuable property. 
With that view we can well agree. 
The Coreless Apple. 
For some time past a story has been going 
the round of the daily and weekly news- 
papers, b-oth in America, and in this, country, 
concerning the seedless and oorel-ess Apple 
that has been raised and about t-o bei put 
into commerce in immense numbers. As 
we stated when the story was first; promul¬ 
gated, we could scarcely believe the possi¬ 
bility of the existence of a, fruit desiorib-ed in 
the terms it was. They -say no less than 
that the fruits had neither seeds n-or core, 
and could n'ot therefore be attacked by the 
grubs -o-f the Co-dim moth, which feed up-on 
the seeds, neither could the blossoms be- de¬ 
stroyed by late spring frost, for there were 
n-o flowers as in other Apples. Fruits of 
this remarkable vegetable; growth, should 
have been in our markets long before this 
time, a® promised, but we are afraid that 
nothing further can be seen or heard of this 
remarkable tree until a, further story has 
been fabricated. It reminds u-s very much 
of the blue Rose that was stated -to bei ac¬ 
tually shipped to- our shores from America 
about two years ago-. When this remark¬ 
able new comer did arrive on our shores it 
turned out, to be one -of the ordinary pink 
variety. The oorefiis an-di seedless Apple 
bids fair to be even more -shad-owy, unless 
the creators of it- hurry up with their speci¬ 
mens of fruits or trees. 
Potatos at the Crystal Palace. 
Judging from the exhibits of Potatos at 
the Crystal Palace-on the 11th and 12th inst., 
these dates: are too early for the proper ma¬ 
turation; of the tubers in all parts of Britain. 
Many -of the varieties from Scotland we-re 
still so immature that the skins were badly 
peeled and broken in the operations o-f lift¬ 
ing and conveying to the show. No- doubt 
this applies chiefly to late varieties and to 
some of th-e newer kinds which have been 
placed under special treatment in order to 
get heavy crops and large tubers. Unless 
the show is postponed till a, later date next 
year, the growers of late varieties, must get 
their tubers ripe-ned earlier. 
