HORTICULTURAL CHRONICLE. 



March, 1874. 



— Exhibition of Feuits at Ghent, and distkiuftion 

 of Prize Medals. — A splendid show of fruits took place ! 

 on the 21 Bt of last September, at the Casino, Ghent, which i 

 was afterwards removed, under the auspices of the Ccrcle 

 cV Arboriculture de Belgiqm; to Vienna, where it deservedly 

 gained one of the grand prizes of the I'liiversal Exhibition. 



The distribution of the prizes took place in the Uotel-de- 

 Ville of Ghent on the 21« of December last, in the presence 

 of a numerous and select company, presided over by M. de 

 Ghellinckde Walle, who was assisted by the provincial and 

 municipal authorities. The Leathering was brilliant, and the 

 pomological resources of Belgium showed up to great ad- 

 vantage under the skilful and intelligent direction of active 

 and industrious men. 



— D r Hooker, President of the Royal Society of 

 London for the promotion of Natural Science. — The 

 learned Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. one 

 of the botanical glories of the present day, has recently 

 been appointed to this important post, In honouring him, 

 the Society has equally honoured itself, and given the best 

 answer to the vexatious Avrtonian intermeddlings of the 



D r Hooker has also accepted the Chairmanship 

 Royal Horticultural Society's scientific Committee. 



— Expedition in Cyrenaica. — The exploratio 

 country, under the auspices and at the expense of t 



:' Egypt, ha: 





of |i„ 



as botanist to the expedition. 



— Scientific Exploration of Paraguay. — The Para- 

 guayan Government lias formed a Scientific Commission in 

 Europe, which has just stalled for the purpose of two years 

 investigation of Paraguay. It is composed of Messrs. Thwite, 

 geologist and mineralogist, Keith Johnston, geographer and 

 Balansa, naturalist. The latter is already well-known from 

 his discoveries in Asia Minor, the Atlas and New Caledonia. 



— M. Bureau, Professor at the Museum of Paris. — 

 We learn from the Journal officiel of 31 st January, that 

 D r E. Bureau has been nominated Professor of Botany at 



of V, 



.vl.u 



his 



according to a new programme. 



— The Candollean Quinquennial Prtze. — r 

 of 500 francs, about twenty pounds, founded by 

 Candolle for the best monograph of a genus or 

 plants, will be awarded this year by the .w/c/c <i>> 

 et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve. The memoirs 

 written either in Latin. Trench. German, English ( 



of Manihot 

 i poorest soi 



tiim.it. ly large crops. 

 All parts of this veri 



colonisation. When, th 



