. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ere are plenty ofroots in an active state the liquid is absorbed rapidly,and the plants derive immediate benefit, which stimu-lates them into fresh growth, and sustains them underthe impost of a heavy crop. In order to bemethodical the border should first of all be examined,and its condition once ascertained, provision couldthen be made to give it a liberal drenching. In theabsence of any better remedy an ordinary gardenengine filled with liquid at the proper temperaturewould furnish a ready means of
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ere are plenty ofroots in an active state the liquid is absorbed rapidly,and the plants derive immediate benefit, which stimu-lates them into fresh growth, and sustains them underthe impost of a heavy crop. In order to bemethodical the border should first of all be examined,and its condition once ascertained, provision couldthen be made to give it a liberal drenching. In theabsence of any better remedy an ordinary gardenengine filled with liquid at the proper temperaturewould furnish a ready means of carrying out theoperation, which should be performed about mid-day,when the sun is at its warmest. If the surface of thebed is mulched all that will be necessary will be 10re-arrange the mulching to prevent in succession-houses should still be kept asdormant as is consistent with health until the daystake a turn after the New Year, when, with assistance,they will be found to be a very valuable crop nextFebruary. W. Hinds. 820 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE, [December 24, ^<i^l SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1881. WHAT a contrast has been often affordedof late to the visitors to the RoyalHorticultural Society. Outside dank,grimy fog, chilling to the bone, stifling tobreathe, suggesting one idea only — that ofgetting away to ones own fireside as quickly aspossible. Inside—that is, in the arcades—thestate of affairs has been quite of another cha-racter. Soft but brilliant light floods the usuallydreary corridors, glowing heat from grate andfurnace converts the chill passages, as it were,into so many flues, that would be more plea-sant if the hot dried air were a little more tem-pered with moisture. The object of this dis-play of fiery iurnaces is to secure means ofabating the prodigious and ever-increasingnuisance caused by the tens of thousands ofcoal fires which pour their smoky clouds overthe metropolis, to the detriment of every livingthing, to the actual
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