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CHRYSANTHEMUM 
SOIIV.  DE  WM.  CLIBRAN.” 
First  Class  Certificate,  N.C.S. 
Dec.  2nd,  1903. 
The  high  estimation  in  which  we  held  this  variety 
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Nurserymen,  Seedsmen  &  Florists, 
No.  ifSl.— VoL.  XLVIII ,  Third  Series. 
PURE  WOOD  CHARCOAL,  Specially  Prepared 
for  Horticultural  use.  Extract  from  the  Journal  of 
Horticulture  ;  “Charcoal  is  invaluable  as  a  manuriad  agent ; 
each  little  piece  is  a  pantry  full  of  the  good  things  of  this 
life.  There  is  no  cultivated  plant  which  is  not  benefited  by 
having  Charcoal  applied  to  the  soil  in  which  it  is  rooted.” 
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The  Weather  of  i903. 
.  .  — 
N  spite  of  the  disastrous  character 
of  the  past  year  in  respect  to 
its  'weather,  the  opening  mouth.s 
proved,  upon  the  whole,  fairly 
favourable,  the  heavy  downpour.s 
January  and  March  being  not 
unwelcome  after  the  continuous 
drought  of  the  preceding  two  years. 
Besides,  February,  although  concluding 
■Y’ith  an  exceedingly  wild  and  boisterous  week, 
proved  otherwise  a  fine,  mild  month,  enabling 
agriculturists  to  get  through  much  necessary 
winter  work  under  most  favourable  conditions. 
From  the  end  of  March  onward,  however, 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  weeks  of  ideal 
haymaking  weather  at  the  end  of  June  and 
commencement  of  July,  a  fine  period  following 
the  great  storm  of  the  second  week  of  Septem¬ 
ber,  and  a  fair  November,  not  a  good  word  can 
truthfully  be  said  of  the  season. 
Doubtless  the  foundation  of  the  year's  failure 
lay  in  the  remarkably  wintry  weather  of  April. 
This,  following  as  it  did  a  long  period  of  ex¬ 
ceptionally  warm  weather,  which  had  started 
vegetation  into  an  unduly  early  growth,  did 
irreparable  damage  to  many  crops.  Still, 
except  in  the  case  of  the  fruit  grower,  who.se 
hopes  from  that  time  were  quite  extinguished, 
a  due  proportion  of  sunshine  and  warmth  in 
the  ensuing  mouths  might  still  have  saved  the 
situation. 
This  was  not  to  be,  however.  The  .scanty 
sunshine  and  heavy  rains  of  May,  the  unpre¬ 
cedented  cold  combined  with  great  rainfalLs 
during  the  middle  portion  of  June,  the  con¬ 
tinuous  downpours  of  the  last  half  of  July 
and  the  whole  of  August  and  October,  and  the 
terrible  winds  of  the  second  week  of  Septem¬ 
ber,  furnishing  such  an  unusual  combination  of 
adverse  conditions,  that  the  season  could  not  be 
otherwise  than  of  a  very  disastrous  character. 
Taking  the  months  in  detail,  January  opened 
P>  EADERS  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
^  Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THEl  EDITOR,”  at 
12,  Mitra  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
iddress. 
