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THE GARDENING WORLD 
May 13, 1905. 
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Mr. Benjamin Wake, retired market gardener of Morpeth, 
who died on March 1st in Iris seventieth year, left estate valued 
at £1,934 4s. lOd. gross, and £1,250 4s. 5d. net. 
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Mr. W. H. Gotham, formerly gardener to D. Birt, Esq., 
Blaickheath, has been appointed in a similar capacity to Geo. W. 
Marshall, Esq., LL.I)., F.S.A., Sarnesfield Court, R.S.O., 
Weofeley, Herefordshi re. 
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Gardening Appointment. —Mr. F. G. Brewer, Tire Grange 
Gardens, Brentwood, and previously three years gardener 
to R. E. Johnston, Esq.. Terlings Park, near Harlow, Essex, has 
been appointed gardener to C. G. Beale, Esq., Bryntirion, 
Bbnt-ddu, Dolgellv, N. Wales. 
* * * 
Late Frosts and the Fruit Trees. —The “ Liverpool Courier ” 
reports that the fruit trees in the Midlands and Northern 
counties have been having a hard time of it owing to the recent 
sharp night frosts,. After a brief spell of warm weather the 
temperature dropped many degrees, and the prospects of a good 
fruit season were considerably marred owing to the havoc played 
with the Plum and Pear trees. 
* * * 
“ Mary-gold.” —The pretty pronunciation of the common 
Marigold (Calendula officinalis), which is now blooming pro¬ 
fusely in the neighbourhood of London, was at one time “ Mary- 
gold.” This favourite little flower is said to have been intro¬ 
duced from southern Europe by the mediaeval monks. The 
Marigold was familiar to our ancestors in the black-letter books 
of the old herbalists. 
* * * 
Dublin Botanic Gardens. —The excellent botanic gardens at 
Dublin attract on an average about 400,000 visitors annually, 
which is said to be double the attendance of a quarter of a 
century ago. A recently introduced feature, the agricultural 
plot, is proving a great attraction, mainly, Mr. Moore, the 
superintendent, thinks, owing to the present tendency of people 
to live away from the city, and the increased interest conse¬ 
quently taken in gardening. 
* * * 
Lock-jaw prom Garden Mould.— At an inquest held on the 1st 
inst. on the body of Georgje Whitehouse, a gardener, fifty-two, 
of Handsworth, it was shown that death was caused by lockjaw. 
Deceased was potting plants with old garden mould when a nail 
ran through his boot into his big toe. Dr. Hedley Tomlinson, 
who had attended deceased, said there was no doubt that baccili 
germs which are frequently found in garden mould had got into 
the system and caused death. 
• * * * 
The Henry Eckfobd Testimonial. —The contributions to this 
fund up to Saturday evening, May 6th, are as under:—Pre¬ 
viously acknowledged, 429^s. ; Mr. N. F. Barnes, 12^s. ; Messrs. 
Barr and Sons, 21s. ; Mr. W. A. Bilney, 10s. ; Airs. Conn, Is. ; 
Air. C. H. Curtis, 5s. ; Miss Julia Grierson, 2s. ; Air. C. Hazel- 
grove, Is. ; Air. J. Leishman, Is. ; Aliss Al. Montagu, 3,s. ; Air. 
Lester C. Alorse (Alessrs. C. C. Alorse and Co.)," 100s. ; Mr. 
W. W. Osmond, Is. ; Air. Wm. Sanderson, 2s.; Air. Robert 
Sydenham, 42s. Airs. Alann Thomson, 10s. ; Mr. W. J. 
Unwin, 2ggs. 
* * * 
Australian Fruit for England.—T he Agent-General for 
Western Australia is exhibiting at Victoria Street, Westminster, 
a collection of fruit and cereals which has just arrived in this 
country. The fru t, consisting mainly of Apples of different 
varieties, has been pronounced by two well-known firms of fruit 
brokers to be in almost perfect condition, and of exceptionally 
good quality, but too large in most cases for market purposes. 
The object of the Agent-General is to demonstrate the possibility 
of the creation of an important export trade in agricultural pro¬ 
ducts with the mother country. The prospects in fruit-growing 
would seem to be excellent. The Government gives assisted 
passages from this country, and makes free grants of land to 
settlers. 
A'Ir. Seddon having discovered that Maoriland imports from 
the United States of America £210,000 worth of canned fruit a 
year, says the trade must be stopped by the imposition of a pro¬ 
hibitive tariff and by the establishment of State. canning 
factories capable of producing sufficient canned fruit for horn), 
consumption. 
* * * 
A Useful Lawn Tree. —A tree which may be recommended 
for the lawn in place of the common Sycamore is the Corstor- 
phine Maple, which is really a form of the Sycamore. The 
young leaves of this tree when first produced in spring are of 
a golden green colour, and contrast well with the purple and 
bronzy-leaved varieties. It is of rapid growth and shade-pro¬ 
ducing habit. 
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Fruit Drying in New Zealand. —An important new industry 
lias been set on foot in New Zealand by Air. AY. D. Petcheli, who, 
at Ormond, near Gisborne, has planted twelve acres with Plum 
trees. Having obtained from America a complete plant of the 
Allan Evaporator, he has commenced drying Prunes on an exten¬ 
sive scale. The new plant is capable of treating 6 tons 15 cwt. of 
fruit at a time ; and when his trees are in fine bearing Air. 
Petcheli expects, to obtain about 3,500 251b. boxes of fruit. 
Apples from America. —The enormous growth of the imports 
of American and Canadian-grown Apples into this country is 
shown by a report recently made by Air. Swalm, United States 
Consul at Southampton, and in which it is stated that in 1903 
no less than 11,000,000 bushels of these Apples were sold in the 
■English market. According to. all appearance this huge 
number is likely to be exceeded from the crop of 1904. Air. 
Swalm states that it is seldom that the standard varieties of 
Apples popular in the English market have turned out so much 
in favour and to the taste of the buyers, the fruit being of that 
firm mold and solid condition generally required in the English 
market. 
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To Kill Weeds in the Lawn. —Where the area of the lawn is 
too extensive to allow of hand-weeding, it is recommended that 
by means of a small oiler, such as is used for bicycles, a drop of 
paraffin be squeezed into the centres of weeds such as Plantains 
and Dandelions. This method, if persisted in, will ultimately 
have the desired effect of extirpating the nuisance. For Daisies 
the lawn should be sprinkled in Alay with sulphate of ammonia, 
an ounce of the ammonia being used on each square yard of the 
lawn. This process should be repeated at intervals of a mouth 
until they are all destroyed. Applied at the rate of^a third of 
an ounce per square yard of lawn, finely powdered sulphate of 
iron has proved efficacious in killing moss ; but the only really 
permanent cure in this case is proper drainage. 
* * * 
The Garden City Movement in Paris. —Writing to a daily 
contemporary, M. Georges Benoit Levy, general secretary of the 
Association ties Cites-Jard-ins de France, observes that the initia¬ 
tive of Air. Howard in originating the garden city movement is 
not only a benefit for the English nation, but for all the world. 
He says that his association were fortunate enough to save last 
year for the people the open spaces of Bagatelle, and they hope to 
do the same for the “ Fortifs ” of Paris. The land to be appro¬ 
priated amounts to 189 hectares, and the proposal of the Asso¬ 
ciation is to utilise a portion of this land by surrounding the 
capital with large boulevards, public p rks, playgrounds, gar¬ 
dens for boys, etc., ; and on the other part to build a garden 
suburb on the lines of the garden suburb at Hampstead. 
* * * 
First Anniversary of the Chinese Cabbage.— The first anni¬ 
versary of its introduction into. Continental Europe was recently 
celebrated of a Chinese vegetable called Pe-tsai, which is indeed 
a near relation of the better-known homely Cabbage. It was on 
Alay 1st, 1904, that Al. Bois, assistant lecturer at the Pans 
Aluseum of National History, presented M. Cure, secretary of 
the Syndicate of Parisian and Suburban Market Gardeners, 
with a parcel of Pe-tsai seed. M. Cure has studied the habits 
of the new vegetable and ascertained its cultural requirements, 
and the Cabbage is now being successfully grown in a number 
of gardens in the neighbourhood of Paris. The plant is well 
furnished with large pale-green leaves, having handsome white 
stems.. In the restaurants of the French capital the Chinese 
Cabbage is quite ousting its western cousin. It is described as 
being tastier, tenderer, and less pungent and coarse in flavoui, 
and without the offensive small when cooked, than Cabbage. It 
was first cultivated at Kew in 1887. 
