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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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pound. As to the foreign Potatos, none that we haveseen equal English samples, nor in the case of thefirst earlies do they bring anything like suchgood prices ; and surely if it pays Germany,Holland, France, and Belgium to send us be-tween them, as they did last week, 141,893 bags,it would pay to grow more at home. No doubt could not fail to be valuable to most readers.As an illustration of our meaning, and as a verye.xcellent instance of successful double crop-ping, we may allude to a case recently broughtunder our notice in the practice of Mr. WilliamAllan, the successful gardener to Lord SuF-FIELD at Gunton Park, near Norwich. Thisconsists in running two crops, a vegetableand a fruit one, abreast, in the followingmanner ;—The subcropping of fruit trees andbushes with dwarf vegetables or salad plants is byno means new. But this is quite different, andrefers to crops which, so far as we are aware,have not been mated thus before. No cropscould be more unlike nor less likely at first
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ARJU^f; ( SftlTH b Fig. 150.—south front of hinchingerook house, Huntingdon, (see r, 751.) enormous food imports as referred to in arecent leading article on the other, it seemshigh time to discuss the question of SIMUL-TANEOUS Cropping and other methods ofreaping more and better produce from thesoil. Two and a-half millions worth ofPotatos, and nearly half-a-millions worth ofOnions in one year, are enough to quicken theinvention and arouse the energies of all classesof cultivators ; for, barring the disease, there isno climate better suited for Potatos than our own;while, as to Onions, it is no uncommon occur-rence to meet with samples grown in Englandalmost equal to imported Spanish in size, andquite equal or superior to them in quality.Disease hardly attacks Onions, and even the Potatos are a risky crop, but so are lor thatmatter. Wheat, Barley, Oats, Beans, Peas,grass, Clover, as so many farmers have foundto their cost of late years. With the presentmode of storing and treating

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