. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. cursas a town wherein a Potato show might be held withpropriety, but though the chief town of Berkshire it isso situated that it adjoins Bucks and a large portion ofHants as well, and it should be the centre of a wideand important district. Kent might well have itsshow at Maidstone, and Surrey and Sussex could joinconveniently at either Guildford, Croydon, or Tun-bridge Wells ; and in this way the entire kingdommight be mapped out if within such districts enter-,prising persons were found to take the
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. cursas a town wherein a Potato show might be held withpropriety, but though the chief town of Berkshire it isso situated that it adjoins Bucks and a large portion ofHants as well, and it should be the centre of a wideand important district. Kent might well have itsshow at Maidstone, and Surrey and Sussex could joinconveniently at either Guildford, Croydon, or Tun-bridge Wells ; and in this way the entire kingdommight be mapped out if within such districts enter-,prising persons were found to take the matter inhand. The influence of the International Show isstill spreading, and county shows universally woultistrengthen that central one materially. The German Grass Crops.—Advices from Germany state that at one time it was hoped that thegrowers would have been able to report favourably asto the crop of natural grass seeds, but the long con-tinuance of the dry warm weather in April, followedby heavy night frosts in May, destroyed nearly ali October i, i88i.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 437. Fig. 82.—puya whytei : flowers greenish blue, (see f, 436.) 438 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [October i, i88i. prospects of a good harvest, and the continual droughtwhich prevailed during the further development ofthe seeds operated also to curtail the yield. Now thatthe seeds are coming in it would appear that theharvests on the whole have turned out smaller eventhan was latterly expected. The crops of MeadowFoxtail, Meadow and Tall Fescue, Cocksfoot, andPoas, are almost a complete failure ; while of small-leaved Fescue, Crested Dogstail, Sweet Vernal andTimothy the crops are smaller than they have beenseen for years past. In France the crops are no betterthan in Germany, and growers are already askinghigh prices for beeds. Already there is a greatdemand for Hard Fescue, Crested Dogstail, Poas, l^c,and prices advance. Of Clovers there will be but alimited crop, and the samples of but medium q
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