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THE GARDENING WORLD . ♦ 
November 26, 1904. 
Chrysanthemum Notes. 
The Exmouth Chrysanthemums. 
We were full late in going to inspect this notable collection, 
but amply repaid by finding the ’Muni expert, Mr. W. J. God¬ 
frey, at home, and, as usual, only too ready to impart his vast 
knowledge respecting the merits or demerits of the majority 
now under cultivation. 
The' first blooms that caught our - eye on entering the spacious 
show house were those of G. F. Evans, a creamy buff which 
gained a certificate at the Crystal Palace a few weeks back— 
truly a noble 1 flower of great depth. Chrysanthemiste Monagny 
Kelviei is 1 a very fine pale yellow of much merit. The Lion, as 
its: name implies, is a massive flower with sword-like florets, a 
decided improvement, on Mildred Ware. Mrs. J. Dunn, similar 
to. F. S. Vallisi, but with petals much longer and quite as: large 
as Mduie. Carnot; it is pure white, of every promise of a 
good thing. Godfrey’s Pride, although not new, was much in 
evidence, and the colour ai reddish earmine-criih|on, with a 
lighter reverse, always shows up well. Whites are always in 
command, and J. H. Silsbury by the side of Emily Mile,ham 
showed up the latter’s pureness, with, broad, drooping, curled 
florets of snowy whiteness', and the plant of good habit, while 
the former’s brilliant, crimson with golden-yellow reverse, with 
long - drooping petals, really made a magnificent flower—an 
introduction from, Australia!. Charles Cronin:, same tint as 
Bessie, Godfrey, which is a. canary-yellow, as most readers will 
know; this is also from Australia, and of dwarf habit, promis¬ 
ing well. A deep 1 rich golden-yellow is found in Model, the in¬ 
dividual blooms being of good depth. 
When Godfrey’s Sensation appeared, all exclaimed what a 
wonderful flower 1 , but Sunrise excels even that variety, being 
of a, brighter colour, deeper in form, and petals of much sub¬ 
stance. A. W. Etlie,ring-ton, is a pale rose with a lighter centre, 
immense flower quite a foot in diameter, also a deep, bloom. 
Another rich, golden-yellow variety is, found in Beauty of Leigh, 
a large incurving flower and the plant, robust; the one thing 
against, it is its great height. Mary West gives us a, finef flower 
of excellent form of yellow, shaded with a, reddish-bronze. This 
was sent out, last year. In creamy-white®, Mrs. Swinbourne 
will be hard to beat, florets, broad and long, a, superb, variety. 
A flower much reminding one of Florence Davis is Belle of 
the West, a very fine bloom. 
Buttercup,, as its name indicates; is, a,si Mr. Godfrey re¬ 
marked, the richest yellow up, to date, and doubtless a, hand¬ 
some' variety among the incurves; so is Souvenir de William 
Glib ram, certainly one of the best writes of late, years, a, seed¬ 
ling from Nellie S. Threlfall; perhaps the best description, is— 
a, giant form of the parent. Among terra,-cottas Mary Inglig 
supplies immense blooms 1 of fine Japanese form. Donald 
McLeod is of excellent, habit, long, broad, drooping florets of 
apricot, yellow, shaded crimson. Mr. J. M. Darcy promises to 
be an immense flower with long, drooping florets of Australian 
lemon-yellow. Balaclava, has, well-formed bloom-si, with wide, 
petals of a rich reddish-apricot, and the plant of very dwarf 
liahit. Madame R. Obertliur is a. good deep bloom among 
whites Mrs. F. W. Vailis a, terra-cotta-crimson, and Mr. F. S. 
Vallisi, a canary-yellow of fine form,, a superb flower, one of the 
best, of Calvat’s introduction. 
One of the prettiest pinks in the large and varied collection 
at Exmouth was Mrs. E. Curry, of tine form. Among Cal vat’s, 
we noticed President Vigen*, with long pointed petals of 
amaranth or lilac-mauve, a grand variety. Mrs. Barkley and 
Kimberley, although not new, arei still flowers of much, merit 
when well grown, and we observed quite an: array of the, former 
which should have turned out Lady Cranston,, hut, the whole 
batch has reverted back to itsi parent. Mr. Godfrey had an 
army of seedlings, many of which, promise to eclipse anything' 
yet sent out from Exmouth; to define them would 1 take too 
much space, so, we must leave them until another year. Tliei 
whole, collection presented a clean,, healthy appearance, and wei 
noted a large batch of buttings just put in while, thousands were 
already callused; owing to such mild weather of late the 
varieties that should have flowered about the thud week in 
December are already expanding their petals, but owing to 
the day atmosphere very little damping has occurred. About 
2,000 specimen blooms liad been cut, and the men were busy 
on the day of our visit getting ready for the Edinburgh and 
Bristol shows; 
Up-to-date Manuring. 
Abinger and District Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement 
Association. 
On, Thursday, November 10th, Mr. F. W. E. Slirivell again 
lectured before a, good meeting of gardeners and others, the 
meeting being open, for public benefit'. The above society beg 
to- anno,mice that they are, deeply indebted to W. J. Evelyn, 
Esq., for his kindness, in allowing them to use the Abinger In¬ 
stitute for a meeting-place. 
The members received much encouragement and pleasure by 
the presence of one of their vice-presidents, F. Merrilees, Esq., 
who, took the, chair. Mr. Shrivell, after an introduction by 
the chairman, commenced his lecture, entitled " Up-to-date 
Manuring,” by reviewing the one, given about twelve months 
ago,, it being in reality a preface to the present one. It is 
said that the only safe and sure, means to progress and dis¬ 
covery is to experiment. This, is, just what Mr. Shrivell has 
been, doing for the past ten, or twelve years in a, most 
methodical and efficient manner, the, result of which he 
lectured in a free and easy manner. His; lecture was supple¬ 
mented by lantern, views of the experimental grounds at 
Golden Green, Tonbridge, Kent. 
Mr. Shrivell also, cultivates a large, area, of Hops, and showed 
some interesting snapshots of the East-enders under all sorts 
of conditions during hop-picking time. Mr. Pardon. Howe, of 
Dorking, ably manipulated and supplied a veiy excellent 
lantern. 
Mr. Shrivell convinced all present (by giving the results of 
his, experiments, the records of which had been strictly kept) 
That the practice of up-to-date: manuring, as laid down by him, 
was a most profitable one to, follow both as a. medium for re¬ 
ducing expenditure and at the, same time increasing the yield 
■of crops. 
For instance, he quoted Potato® grown, on a. plot of land 
manured with fifty loads of ordinary London dung per acre, 
which gave the average crop' of 9 tons per acre, the cost of 
which was, <£10 per acre. On another plot 25 loads of London 
dung, 10 cwt. of basic slag, 1 cwt,. sulphate of potash, and 
4 cwt. nitrate of soda, gave the average result of 12 tons per 
•acre, the, cost of which was £8 15s, per acre. 
He, also warned gardeners and farmers against using chemi¬ 
cal manures' alone, but always, in, conjunction with dung, which 
would then give the best, results, as shown:. Mr. Shnvell’s 
book on “ The Manuring of Market Garden. Crops,” Is., pub¬ 
lished by Vinton and (gbi, 9, New Bridge Street., London,, E.C., 
should be read by all farmersi and gardeners. 
The, meeting them closed with a Hearty vote of thanks, pro¬ 
posed by the chairman, who, expressed a wish to hear another 
of Mr. ShriveH’si lectures. H. S. 
Apple Orchards in Ireland.— A leaflet on the Apple which 
has just been issued by the Department of Agriculture states 
that new Apple orchards are steadily being planted throughout 
Ireland ; in certain districts, indeed, the whole aspect, of the 
country has, been changed owing to the number of Apple trees 
recently put down. The results attained from the sale of the 
produce of these orchards, we are told, have been very satisfac¬ 
tory ; while, on the other hand, the results attained from the sale 
of the products of old aim'd neglected orchards, or of badly- 
managed orchards, have been disappointing and unprofitable. 
This is a point which Irish farmers should not overlook. As a 
rule, they judge the value of fruit farming by old trees which 
have been played out. 
