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the walls for the inspection of the members. The following gentlemen were 

 unanimously elected office-bearers for the current year : Mr W. H. Maxwell 

 of Munches, hon. president; Mr M. Dunn, president; Mr Hugh Fraser, vice- 

 president ; Mr D. Laird, treasurer ; and Mr Alex. Milne, secretary. From 

 fourteen members nominated to fill six vacancies in the Council, the meeting 

 chose Messrs A. D. Mackenzie, A. Mackenzie, Laurence Dow, Robert Lindsay, 

 "Robert Morrison, and |George Simpson. On the table for exhibition were 

 specimens of the new late -keeping kitchen Apple, Beauty of Moray, in fine 

 condition, from Mr Webster, Gordon Castle; a new table Apple named Lady 

 Charlotte, described as a hybrid between Eibston Pippin and King of the 

 Pippins, from Mr George Barry, Saltoun Hall ; a pot of Leucojum vernum, in 

 full flower, from Mr Dow, Saughton Hall ; and a collection of spring flowering- 

 plants, including Iris reticulata, Leucojum vernum nanum, Bulbocodium 

 vernum, Primula cashmeriana, Primula dent'culata pulchella, and Saxifraga 

 Burseriana, from Messrs Dicksons & Co., Pilrig Park. 



PRESENTATION TO MR WILLIAM HINDS. 



On the 17th of February 1879 a number of the principal gardeners in the 

 neighbourhood of Liverpool and a few friends assembled at the Public Boom?, 

 Aigburth, for the purpose of making a presentation to our contributor, Mr 

 Hinds, on the occasion of his relinquishing his post as head-gardener to Sir 

 T. E. Moss, Bart. The present was a handsome gold watch, with the inscrip- 

 tion : " Presented' to Mr William Hinds by Gardeners and Friends of Liver- 

 pool, as a token of respect, on the occasion of his leaving the service of Sir 

 T. E. Moss, Bart. Liverpool, February 17, 1879. The gift was in recognition 

 of the sterling worth and gentlemanly demeanour of Mr Hinds, and the able 

 manner in which he had represented Liverpool as a horiculturist. 



NOTICE OF BOOK. 



The Fern World. By Francis George Heath. Sampson Low & Co., 

 London. 



We have already noticed this interesting and instructive volume. The work 

 is well calculated to accomplish the end the author has in view — namely, to 

 create an interest in, and love for, Ferns, and to teach how they should be 

 cultivated. The volume is now being reissued as a serial in monthly parts; 

 and we trust that in this form and manner of publication it may have a large 

 increase of readers. The book is charmingly written, very instructive, and is 

 7)rofusely illustrated with coloured plates and engravings of photographs taken 

 from nature. It should be in the libraries of all who are interested in the 

 Fern World. 



The Phylloxera vastatrix in the Vineyards of France. — A Paris 

 correspondent informs us "that the insect is spreading in all the wine-growing 

 countries ; no remedy discovered." It seems as if the prediction of Mr David 

 Thomson, editor of ' The Gardener,' was coming to pass. Five years ago he 

 wrote to the French Minister of the Interior, stating that going by his own 

 experience of the insect, he believed that the only remedy was to grub the in- 

 fected vineyards. Five hundred thousand acres have been already grubbed. 

 We have since received confirmation of the reports as to Portugal and the 

 island of Madeira from Messrs Page & Sandeman, Pall Mall. — Maidstone and 

 Kentish Journal. 



