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POSSIBILITIES OF THE PARSON'S GARDEN. <$. USEFUL HOBBY.. By Joseph Jacob No. II. THE title of this, the second part of Possibilities," might very well be, Why not make your garden your hobby P" The difference of life, with a hobby and without a hobby is almost more than words can express. A hard-headed business man, whose religion is far removed from ortho- dox Christianity, said to me one morning as we were breakfasting .together this sum- mer at Euston en route for one of the R.H.S. Tuesday shows, « I can never be too thankful that I have got the interest in gardening I have. It takes me quite out of myself, I ara sorry for the poor beggars who have no hobby." He, I may say, is a lucky beggar. He can afford to send a col- lector to China or to the Argentine to seek for new plants. He is doing now very much what Bishop Compton did when he was Bishop of London. He is trying to enrich our .gardens by giving us a still wider choice of beautiful things than there is. Both men by their hobbies have done much horticultural good. We have entered into their labours. Now, it is one of the great charms of the garden that it can and does appeal to us in so many different ways. And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anythiifg that grows;- But they can roll and trim the lawn and sift the sand and loam, For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come." (Kipling's The Glory of the Garden). Plenty of Jobs. There are plenty of jobs to be done. Jobs that country parsons with quite a small cabbage patch could so very well do for the mutual benefit of themselves and all who love their gardens. A very busy country parson—the Rev. W. Wilks, who for so many years has been the secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society and under whose wise guidance it has become what it is to-day, the premier Horticultural Society of the world—by patient selec- tion has produced from the common poppy of our cornfields that exquisite strain of Shirley Poppies which are one of the most useful of all annuals. It is a grand object-lesson to show what Qan be done in a few generations, I know a country clergyman in Hertfordshire who has discovered that his garden is particu- larly suitable for growing the most beauti- ful early flowering iris reticulata, and who in consequence has yearly a few hun- dreds to swop or sell. Dealers are only too glad to get hold of good, clean, fat bulbs from a healthy stock, and the price they pay is very remunerative. I know another parson who got hold of a jfood strain of long spurred columbines, and who after a. few years,' selection was able to offer seed of a very fine strain, which soon found purchasers at quite a satisfactory figure. Seedsmen are only too glad to know where they can get really reliable seed from, so directly a grower has made a name for himself or has established a re- putation for this or that, he has not much- difficulty in selling his wares. The job, of I course, is to manage to get it. As Mrs. Glasse, in her famous book of cookery, puts it in her directions how to make hare soup, You must first get your hare." How to make a name or reputation is, then, the first consideration for the man who has made a hobby of his garden and who would like to make his hobby pay. The getting known as a reliable person is a great difficulty, and the best suggestion I can make is that at the start the advice of some knowledgable person should be sought who is fairly well acquainted with what is going on in the horticultural world-one who knows what has been "done" and in what directions there is the best prospect of an opening. To come very near home and to speak about myself, I can never be too grateful for the advice which Sir Frederick Moore, of Glasnevin Gardens, Dublin, gave me when I was casting about for something to take up alongside of my Nerines and Lachenalias: Try Freesias." But I must beg for room for a third article to fully put forth my tips or suggestions. Meanwhile, some one may be wondering if they might not do something. [Any reader desiring further adviie on points raised in the above article should write, to the Rev, Joseph Jacob, Whitewell Rectory, Whitchurch, Salop.1

PARALYSED THROUGH THE WAR. THE first anniversary of the Armistice has'passed. The "Hospital Blue," which was so much to be seen twelve'months ago, is scarcely to be found in our streets; but hidden from general sight in home and hospital there is still many a brave man left stranded, a paralysed derelict of the war. Such men compel our sym- pathy, They cannot return to their old life, and they deserve every comfort we can give them to ease the bitter fate of their sad condition. The Hoyal Savoy Association for the Relief of Paralysed Soldiers and Sailors is doing a good work in assisting them in every way in its power. An earnest appeal is being made for funds to arrange visits at Christmas time from mother, wife, or other rela- tives, many of whom live too far away to be able to afford the expense of the journey, also to provide extra comforts for the season. v Contributions would be gladly acknow- ledged by the Rev. Hugh Chapman, Founder, The Royal Savoy Association, 7, Savoy-hill, London, W.C.2.

A GUN METAL tablet.has been placed in Sandy Church (Bedfordshire) to the memory of Lieut- Church (Bedfordshire) to the memory of Lieut- tenant W. F. Graves, 3rd Battalion Bedford- shire Regiment, killed at Ypres.

HINTS FOR THE COMING WEEK., Rose trees that were potted up this autumn should be closely pruned: Strong growths may be cut back to two buds, but on weaker shoots only one bud should be left. Climbing .roses in pots or planted in the greenhouse should be cut back, .six or eight buds being left on a shoot. An excel- lent climbing rose for greenhouse planting is Mine. Jules Gravereau; other good climbing sorbs for indoors are Cl. Liberty, Cl. Mrs. W. J. Grant, Niphetos, Marechal Niel, and W. A. Richardson. Remember to cover cold frames and also small un- heated greenhouses with mats on frosty nights. This is a good time for washing all empty flower pots ready for use in spring. It is important to see that they are quite clean on theinside, or the drain- age will be defective when in use and soil and roots will cling to the sides when it is necessary to turn the plants out. First batches of seakale and rhubarb roots may be put into heat for forcing. The seakale will have been lifted in readiness and laid in dry soil, as recently advised; rhubarb roots should be dug up and left exposed on the surface of the ground for a week or two before forcing. Freshly planted trees should be staked where necessary. Great care must be taken to prevent the bark from being rubbed by the stake or the twine, shreds of cloth or sacking being used to protect them. The stakes and ties of older-planted trees should also be examined and made secure from the same risk. Damage from rubbing is so common and so serious that we much prefer to do without staking wherever pos- sible. Of course, it is unavoidable in some cases, but it is apt to be resorted to where quite unnecessary by over-zealous planters. If neglected similar damage is done by the wires holding metal labels. A wind-shaken tree is apt to form a hole round its base, in which water will collect. Such hole3 should be filled up by forking the ground and treading the trees firmly.

WITH ALLENBY AT THE ALBERT HALL. ROYAL PATRONAGE. MR. LOWELL THOMAS continues hte wonder- fully successful run at the Royal Albert Hall in his marvellous moving-picture travelogue, With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia," with both after- noon and evening performances to-day (Friday). There will be no performance to-morrow Saturday), but a special per- formance will be given on Sunday evening, the 30th inst., and Lowell Thomas will appear every afternoon and evening during next week. It is not generally known that when the Queen attended the performance with Princess Mary during the past week, so delighted was her Majesty with the en- tertainment that she graciously summoned Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Thomas and Mr. Percy Burton (who brought them from America) to her box and heartily congratu- lated them on their enterprise. King Alfonso of Spain was even more enthusiastic about the entertainment at the Albert Hall, while Mr. Winston Churchill, General Seely of the Air Minis- try, Lord Burnham, Lord Northcliffe, Major-General Chetwode, and others, in- cluding the famous Field-Marshal, Lord Allenby himself, have vied with each other i'n lauding Lowell Thomas's wonderful illustrated travelogue of the Holy Land, and the latter candidly confes-ed that he had no idea Thomas had secured such -ft remarkable record. Mr. Burton is can- celling Lowell Thomas's American engage- ments, EQ that he can remaiii in this country.

PALESTINE IN LONDON. AT the last General Committee of the London Jews Society it was decided to hold an exhibition representative of Pales- tine and Bible Lands in the Central HaV. Westminster, from June 10 to July 7, 1920. Readers will probably remember the exhibition held by the Society in the Agri- cultural Hall in 1907, and it is felt that the recent history of the B.oly Land, asso- ciated as it is with so many t)f our brave men, together with the importance of it3 position in the immediate future, should make the exhibition a feature of great interest in the religious life of London next summer.

THE GOAL OF INDIA. THE profound truth of our Lord's words Heroin is that saying true, One soweth. and another reapeth," is strikingly illur- trated in a paragraph in the C.Jil.Z.M.S. announcement which appears on another page. The paragraph is a quotation from The Goal of India, and reads: "District missionaries will testify that .the great majority of their converts re- ceived their earliest impulse towards Chris tianity in a Mission school. The district missionary raaps what the educational missionary has sown." That goes to prove that the educational work conducted by the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society is of supreme value in winning Eastern women to Christ, and it is a strong incentive to that liberality of giving for which the Society pleads.

CORN AVERAGES. THE figures for 1919 show the quantities and average price of British corn per quarter for the week ending last Saturday: W H JB AT. BARLEY. OATS. 8. a. (rs. s. d. Qrs. a. d. Ore. 11912 ..31 9 65,243.. SO 8141.128..19 8 19,111 1913..30 05-1050.. *7 0167.427..18 4 2:5.137 1914 ..41 11 75,997.. 30 8 150.615..26 8 33,761 1915.54291,993. 48 7 1 3^ .804 1916.0 893.669.. 61 8 163,578. sg 7 35,953 1917 ..70 2 u5.220.. 59 9 Uii.505..43 1 14.628 1918..72 4. 2 989 60 10 63,085. 51 1 11.81a 1911)..7" -783,426..104 11.55 11 lb,872

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