. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. veness. The difference is sometimesobservable for several years, and is quite asmarked as that which follows extremes of manu-rial treatment. If experimental plots are madeup of plants which differ so much at the start, itis not surprising that the results are divergent. glaring sun in adry soil, and with the aid of thewater-can to^ikeep the plants from perishing, aserious difference may be expected in thebehaviour of .the plants. These are not imaginary difficulties, for I haveknown cases [where cul
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. veness. The difference is sometimesobservable for several years, and is quite asmarked as that which follows extremes of manu-rial treatment. If experimental plots are madeup of plants which differ so much at the start, itis not surprising that the results are divergent. glaring sun in adry soil, and with the aid of thewater-can to^ikeep the plants from perishing, aserious difference may be expected in thebehaviour of .the plants. These are not imaginary difficulties, for I haveknown cases [where cultivators inexperienced inexperimental work have conducted trials ofStrawberries, both for manurial tests and otherobjects, without due attention being paid to suchinitial differences, and with consequent confusionof the issues. In experiments organised and conducted bymyself, I have always preferred to rely uponStrawberry-runners layered in the open soil atthe earliest possible time after fruit-gathering,and planted-out under the best weather con-ditions. Besides this, the plants should be. Fig. 12.—new culinary apple fenns wondeb,Whicli obtained an Award of Merit at the Royal Horticultural Societys mestiog on Januaiy 3, beinp; shown by the Earl of Stradbroko (gr., Mr. T. Simpson) (Sec also report of the nieetiiig on p. 16 of our last issue.) performed in a systematic manner, and therecords of results are at command. The morefrequently a well-designed experiment in culti-vation can be repeated, the more valuable do theobservations become, and the greater the proba-bility of arriving at reliable averages, with theelimination of errors due to local conditions. With Strawberries such repetition is especiallynecessary, for the varieties are numerous, andthese behave differently in varied soils and posi-tions, the consequence being that records areoften divergent or even contradictory. My ownexperiments in the manuring of Strawberrieswere commenced about sixteen years ago, and Iha
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