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HARDY PLANTS.
Overcoming Climatic
Difficulties.
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.
Pera, PRÍS, GRANT from
Manila-Mr. & Mr. C. D
PIGEON'S PATHETIC
RETURN
Agnaw, Dr. Augos; Anguits, Mr. Flew 200 Miles to Old Home. &M Howard Ayres, Mr. & As befits a nation of gardeners Mr. J. X. Barth, Mr. M. An old homing pigeon, 1814 Englishmen have to their bands. Barub, Mr. E. K. Bobson, year obt, which had been panned a remarkably varied choice of Miss D. Boson, Miss Bath and aver allowed to fly, haa| travelled from Birmingham to bardy plants, and a comparison of Boboing. Mrs. J. B. Bickark, Haswell, Durham, a distance of the catalogue of a representative Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Culver,
200 milse. British nurseryman with that of Miss Patricia Cutrer, Mr. Cham Mr. W. Carlin, the owner,
reputabla foreign firm shows Chio, Mr. & Mrs. Irwin H. Evana, how fortunate they are in this Mr. John G. Eaton. Mr. & Msent the bird to end its days with respect.
F. Z Eage:, Miss Kitty Hitab. Birmingham fancier. It escaped This happy state of things is, berg, Miss Darothy Hirshberg, from the lattar's note, and reached perhaps, only natural. for Mr. C. Hammand, Mrs. E. its old bauns at Haswell three Although, gardeners, we do not Jennings, Mr. & Mr. H. E
make much use of our own wild Jones, Hon. W. D. Jupp Hr. flowers, we have the world H. Ko, Mr. J. S. Kennard, Mr. to choose from, and are quick Earnest Kauffman, Mr. Lo Min of what Kwok, Miwe S. Masbach, Miss other countries are ready to Valink Mesoner, Miss Catherine barter with us. In modern times, Naylor, Mr. D. C. Oldenborg. too, the brunt of the work involv-Mrs. C. V.Orio, Mr. Ang Chui Peż, ed in the discovery of new plants. Hiss Clara lost, Rer. Gerado aspecially in Asia, and their in troduction to gardens, has been baras by our countrymen, and that has given us the first call on
to take
the
bost
many recent discoveries.
the countries
whence
weeks later,
The father of this bird, when 161 years' eld, flew from London Haswell after being kept a Prisoner in London for dve years.
WEATHER REPORT.
The anticyclone is now shown as an area of relatively high prea- sure from China to N.E. Japan with shallow gradients.
Another anticyclone may be forming over Chine.
Jan. 8d. 11h 03m.-Pressure Ramiro, Rev. Higino Suarez, Mr.has increased considerably over Chan Sam, Mr. Lee Suen Sha.. Japan. It has decressed Hr. W. Renwick Smith, Mr Curtis P. Smith, Rev. Serapio moderataly over the Loochoos and slightly from Shanghai to Tamayo, Miss Molana Taggart, Some of these are already firm. Mrs. F. K. Taylor, Mr. Lam To. Boogkong and the Philippines.. ly established; some have still to Miss C. Velasco, Mrs, Thora Voll- prove their worth, and others murs. Mr. Eric Villeos, fr. have failed to live up to the Thomas B. Wells, Mr. H. P. encomiums bestowed on them by white, Mr. J. W. Anderson, Mr their discoverers. That, however, J. W. Andrews. Mr. F. J. Black- is no more than one would expect, inger, Mr. Lloyd Brown, Mr. & in view of the great differences Mrs. L. C. Dyer, Mrs. Oscar F. between our climate and that of Hills, Mrs. Euphonia Hills, fr. exo James L. O'Leary, Mr. Frank W. plants come, for climate has much stout, Mr. & Mr. N. H. Green, to do with plant welfare.
Miss Dorothy Dowell, Mr. & Mrs. In handling new plants, the Phillip B. Deane, Mr. A. W. Gib amateur's prime difficulty is the sou, Mfr. A. N. Jureidini, Mr. J. discovery of the conditions under A. Kraudell, Miss Mattha Mills, which they will flourish, and J. E. Molsas, Mr. & Mrs. unless he can profit by the Chas D. O'Connor, Mr. G. M. experience of others, he can learn Paris, Mr. & Mrs. G. W. only by experiment. Therein lice Whitaker. much of the zest in gardening and mach of the disappointment ROTTINGDEAN'S OLD WINDMILL which salts the zes', for by
Mr. Hilaire Belloc has made an empirical methods ball on failure, and plants will appeal for the £400 meeded to often succumb if unhappy in their are the old windmill of Retting-3 Hongkong
dean. He says -
success is
surroundings. To make them happy is the aim of the cultivator Frequentis, attempts are made to simulate the conditions ander which a plant is known or suppos-
The owners, who were about to proceed to its demolition, have consented to make it over (with right of access for the public) to Trastres at Rottingdean on a
The monsoon will freshen along! the coast of Chios and over the Hongkong Rainfall for the 24
China Sea. bours ending at 10 am. to-day, 100 inch. Total since January 0.00 inches, against average of 0.18 inches.
ORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS INDING AT NOON TOMORROW.
District
Forecast.
(Formosa Channel N.E. winds,
fre b. 2.South coast of} China between 3.K. & Lamocka. N.E. winds,
to moderate;.
fice. Gap Rock....... South coast of China between 9.K. & Hainan.
1. P. CLAXTON.
Director.
led to exist in its batural hume- ninety-nine years lease or rondi. 1 1.K.Observatory, Jan. 8, 1923.
but in nine cases out of ten this on that it be put and kept in
is impossible of stainment in Great Britain, and, except with wide limits, the wise cultivator does not attempt it.
ONE WAY OF RECKONING. A Putasy Isbourer against repair, and I am assured that the
Z possession order was sum mentioned above will be sufficient for the purpose. It whom
hould not be difficult to raise so sought told Judge Haringtoo at sum for Wandsworth County Court that comparatively small a the preservation of a famous be bad four children. A voice landmark, the central feature of from the back of the Court: is wide landscape for the last No dve." The Judge: "Aren't bundred and fifty years and of you certain how many children practical service, I believe, as you bay?" Defendant: "Well,
and mark from the sea."
FLOURISHING IN BRITAIN, Sometimes a plans will flourish here in conditions seemingly the very opposite of those prevailing in its natural home on the other side of the globe, and that is more a tribute to the marvellous adapt
tbe ability of plant life than skill of the cultivator. Now and again the end is achieved by accident, and in the cultivation of plants there is no golden rule to success. But it is well to observe certain broad principles, and no one in his spases would endeavour to grow a dryland plant, sucb, for T example, as the Yucca, in an
would he50 1. English marsh; por expect any of Primula tribe to live long in a sun-blistered bill garden.
Some are born cultivators, and seem to know intuitively the con ditions under which exotic plants will flourish. But even they are T. Jasa pometimes beaten by the tricks. Marks our climate plays on them, for it. Franc is the one element which no.e of Demand, Paris us can control. The gardener can alter the stars) soil in his garden much as he pleases, for it
Demand 30 d.
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T. Shanghai TT. Sinzypore T. T. Japan 7.1. India Demand India
one of them is out of work."
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POST OFFICE NOTICES.
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plants as seem to need it bave alt! the water they want. But when they are "sunned and snowed
the
in within
hour"
the middle et May, battered by bailstones.
by drowned DT week after week of steady down. pour, be is gravelled. Were hel able to grow plants in the prodi- gal way Nature grows them, such
Asstralia & Manila not matter. incidents would
Bbabai. because, i-abe destroys nine--anda tenths of the pisate in her wild Shanghai... garden, there is ample left to Australia & Manila
Jepan "ant carry on the race.
Europe vin Bues Letters & Papers,
London 7th Dec}~~
Some plants flourish so smat ingly when brought into the con-Shanghai.. genial surroundings of a garden
as to dumbfound the man who
has
seen them only as wild
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bings. Others pine on rich far, Reator. Amoy & Keelong and are content with little else Japan. but stones for a bed.-The Times. Amo
PRINCE AND WOMEN B&RRISTERS.
The Prince of Wales, who is a bencher of the Middle Temple. dined with his fellow benchers and a large number of barristers and students at the Middle Tem- pla Hall on November 21st. The Prince was admitted and called
Two minutes from Ferry and Railway Station Five minna by Ferry from Hagenog in 1919, and dined at the Hall on A first clase Hotel in every respect and under English manageme Cuisine under peroral supervision of the Proprietor. -Lounge, Bar and Billiard Boom.
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