1870.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 191 



& Co., Printers, New-Cross, London. This appears quite anew design, and consists 

 of a series of sheets in the form of slips attached to a stiff card, and is issued 

 for the purpose of hanging in the greenhouse or toolhouse, and noting tempera- 

 ture, direction of wind, date of planting or sowing, &c.,a space being left after 

 each day of the month for the purpose ; and there is also a column of brief re- 

 minders of monthly duties connected with every department of the garden. The 

 backs of the slips can be utilised for advertisements by the firm who may order a 

 quantity of them. For registering a list of shows, and suchlike, it is extremely 

 useful. 



NOTES A1STD QUERIES. 



[We regret that an unusual press of matter compels us to postpone many 

 valuable communications. — Eds.] 



Royal Horticultural Society. — His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., 

 President of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, has nominated the following gentle- 

 men for Vice-Presidents of the Society for the present year — viz., H.S.H. the 

 Prince of Teck ; the Lord Bishop of Winchester; Lieut. -General Hon. C. Grey, 

 F.R.S.; W. Wilson Saunders, F.R.S. 



We are informed that the Council of the Eoyal Horticultural Society have 

 awarded a silver flora medal to Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, Sedbury Park, Chep- 

 stow, in recognition of the assistance she has given to the Society's collection 

 of economic entomology. 



Abandonment of Chi s wick. — The writer of the lines under this heading is 

 informed that they are not admissible to our columns. 



Variegated Wellingtonias (Mrs Browning). — We have seen two different 

 types of variegation ; the one being variegated with gold, the other with silver. 

 The former was sent out by Mr R. Hartland of Cork, who has in his nursery a 

 large plant, though somewhat cut to pieces by the propagator's knife. The other 

 ha3 a silvery or creamy variegation, and, to the best of our knowledge, was ob- 

 tained in Somersetshire. We have seen it, and it has the appearance of being a 

 capital companion to the golden variety, apparently quite as robust in growth, 

 and if anything of a livelier appearance. The silvery variegated variety is to be 

 distributed in the autumn by Mr Thomas Sampson, Preston Road Nurseries, 

 Yeovil. 



Mushroom Culture (Job Surman, Sutton - in -Ashfield). — 'How to Grow 

 Mushrooms/ by William Earley, price one shilling ; or a very useful pamphlet 

 just issued by Messrs Sutton & Sons, Reading, will, we think, give you all the 

 information you want. You cannot do better than get both. 



Lucy Grieve Pelargonium (Edward Coveny).— Our correspondent writes: 

 " The above-named well-known Tricolor Pelargonium has been in my possession 

 ever since it first came out, but it does not do well with me. Perhaps I may use 

 an unsuitable soil, it seems so shy of making wood. Will you, or any of your 

 correspondents, give me their mode of treatment of the above-named plant ? I 

 am afraid it will never make abedder, as it grows so indifferently, at least in thi3 

 part of the country." Our correspondent, however, does not name the locality 

 in which he resides. We forwarded his letter to Mr W. R. Morris, the well- 



