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EDITORIAL NOTES . 
tk. Means of Counteracting Frost. 
When fruit trees, bushes or other plants 
are in danger of being damaged by frost in 
late spring or eaily summer, gardeners have 
in many cases a means of counteracting the 
same by the use of tiffany, herring netting, 
leafy branches of trees, and other kinds of 
shading. This can only be practised to a 
moderate extent and would scarcely be 
practical in large orchards. Our forefathers 
had, however, a means of protecting even 
orchards against late frosts, as is indicated by 
the poet Thomson in the first part of “ The 
Seasons ” referring to spring. This custom, 
it would seem, is still more or less practised 
by the farmers and fruit growers in Jersey, 
and being an old and more or less forgotten 
custom, it is apt to be regarded as new or 
strange. Both gardeners and farmers are 
usually skdled meteorologists and during 
the evening can pretty clearly determine 
whether it is going to be frosty at night or 
towards morning. This they can do by 
closely observing the sky. When frost 
threatens, the plan is to have supplies of 
something that will burn and cause a heavy 
smoke. This being placed in suitable quanti¬ 
ties in various parts of an orchard, is lighted at 
a suitable time, and the smoke, hanging about 
amongst the trees, has the effect of checking 
radiation, and thereby preventing injury to 
the blossom by the sinking of the tempera¬ 
ture to freezing point or below it. ^ In Jersey, 
according to the “ Chester Courant, it 
appears that the farmers get a number of 
wooden boxes 9 in. square and 3 in. deep, 
filling these with a composition of pitch and 
other smoky substances. These boxes are 
placed at intervals of 15 ft. to 18 ft. apart 
in convenient situations, so that when their 
contents are lighted the dense smoke will 
hang about amongst the trees at no great 
distance from the ground, and thereby 
prevent radiation, or in other words ward 
off frost. This simple plan might well be 
tried by gardeners and farmers in this 
country when late frosts threaten promising 
orchards. 
the extent of the area occupied to the 
favourable situation in being near the 
southern coast, in being exposed to the in¬ 
fluence of the sea air, and to the character 
of the soil. Here and there are meadows 
or fields of Clover with cows grazing upon 
them, but the gross area is occupied with 
Strawberries. Most of the people in the 
villages scattered over this area are em* 
ployed in the Strawberrv industry. 
A Confusion of Names. 
Some time ago Mr, Joseph Meehan was 
discussing the utility of Robinia Pseudacacia 
under the name of Yellow or Black Locust 
in the “Florist’s Exchange.” A correspon¬ 
dent wrote him stating that the Yellow and 
Strawberries Forced Twice in Succession. 
At the Edinburgh Spring Show on May 
24th and 25tli last, Mr. J. H. Gumming, 
The Gardens, Grantully, Aberfeldy, took the 
first prize for a dish of Strawberries grown 
on plants which had been forced twice in 
succession. They were first grown and 
fruited in pots, then the plants were put out 
in the open in the hope of getting a late 
crop in the autumn. For some reason 01 - 
other, he found himself short of the usual 
number of plants in pots for forcing, and 
the old plants were again lifted from the open 
in August, and potted up in 6 in. pots. Sin¬ 
gularly enough, he had the best crop of fruit 
from these plants. No doubt the operation 
of planting them out in the open , enabled 
them to recouperate and plump up fine 
crowns. The variety treated in this manner 
was Royal Sovereign, and each pot furnished 
eighteen fruits, thus showing how wonder¬ 
fully pliable is the constitution of this 
variety, and at the same time fruitful. 
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The Hampshire Strawberry Fields. 
Those travelling by rail to Southampton 
pass through the Strawberry fields of Hamp¬ 
shire, between Fareliam and Southampton 
Water. The land is gently undulated, and 
the sunny slopes supply the earliest picking 
for the London markets. This land is also 
traversed by an inlet of the sea known as 
the Hamble River, which is navigable, but 
although it is supplied by a small river, the 
volume of water is by no means great, and 
the fine sheet of water is entirely due to the 
sea at high tide. All this country is chiefly 
devoted to Strawberries, and, no doubt, owes 
WEEKLY PRIZE COMPETITION. < 
- RESULT - 
The prize in the Readers’ Competition was < 
► awarded to “A. J.,” for his article on “Saxi- < 
► frages,” p. 514. A prize for a supplementary J 
* reply in “ TlieG. W. Enquire Within” column < 
was awarded to “ Wm. Taylor,” for his article < 
on “ Rust on Grapes,” p. 518 ; another in this < 
► competition was awarded to “ J. C.,” for his J 
► article on “Elm Tree Blown Down,” p. 518. < 
Black Locust were not the same thing, but 
this merely indicates some slight variation, 
chiefly in the colours of the flowers, for both 
names are applied to the tree in question. In 
this country the most common name applied 
to the tree is Acacia, and while that might 
be passable as a popular name, it would be a 
great mistake to confuse it with the trees 
and shrubs to which that name should pro¬ 
perly apply. The Robinia has pea-shaped 
flowers, while the Acacias have regular 
flowers gathered together in globular heads 
or finger-like spikes, with long stamens, 
often giving them an appearance of a bottle 
brush. W 7 e mention these facts in order to 
show how confusing English names may 
sometimes be when applied to a plant with¬ 
out any apparent good reason. Such names 
as Yellow and Black Locust can scarcely 
apply to very strongly marked distinctions 
in the flower. The word Locust, we believe, 
would be applied to distinguish this tree from 
the Honey Locust (Gleditschia). We may 
also recall the fact that the Loeustswhich were 
eaten by John the Baptist were fruits of a 
tree belonging to the pea family, namely, 
Ceratonia Siliqua. The flowers of the 
Robinia in question are usually pure white 
in this country, and a variety named R. P. 
