HORTICULTURAL CHRONICLE. 



July, 1874. 

 — The Exhibition at Florence. — On returning from 

 Naples towards the north, we tarried a few minutes at Flo- 

 rence, where we witnessed the remains of the vast Exhi- 

 bition , now a matter of history. The Marquis of Ancona 

 was busily engaged superintending the removal of the last 

 of the plants ; the New Market was fast assuming its 

 original aspect. Professor Parlatore was still confined to 

 his room, not having sufficiently recovered from his illness 

 to venture abroad. He informed us that the Exhibition had 

 been in every respect a success. The balanced account 

 shewed a net profit of JB 1600. These funds will be applied 

 to an appropriate object. The establishment of an experi- 

 mental garden in connection with the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society of Tuscany is under consideration, to be followed 

 by the publication of the proceedings of the Society. We 

 heartily applaud these wise measures, and anticipate the 

 most beneficial results therefrom for Italian Horticulture. 

 — The Spring Frosts. — We give a summary of the 

 injurious effects of the frosts that we were visited with in 

 the early part of May. 



In Belgium, they did some damage, though relatively little, 

 taking into consideration the advanced state of vegetation. 

 In Italy, we observed that the Orange trees near Genoa , 

 the Vines in Piedmont and Lombardy, and the Mulberry 

 and Chesnut trees as far as Kome, and even Naples, were 

 cut and blackened by the frosts during the nights of the 

 first and third of May. Fortunately vegetation soon overcame 

 the injury, and a fortnight afterwards scarcely a trace of it 

 was to be seen. 



But in France the effects were more serious. The East 

 has suffered severely. In the Aube and a great part of Cham- 

 pagne , there are places where the vines will not yield more 

 than five per cent of an ordinary crop. In the Cote d'Or the 

 plains have suffered greater loss than the coast districts. In 

 Tomard, Beaune and Chambertin, two thirds of the crop are 

 destroyed. In the neighbourhood of Tonnere and in the 

 Maconnais , and on both shores of the Ehone and Saone, the 

 damage is very considerable. The Beaujolais loses only a 

 quarter. In the department of the Isere the Mulberry trees 

 are cut. The Ain is very much cut up , the Jura comparati- 

 vely little, and the Puy-de-Dome has been spared , but Savoy 

 and Ardeche were visited. 



The news from the West and South West is good. The 

 Bordelais is scarcely touched, and throughout the whole 

 region of the Olive the loss is recovered. In the Charente 

 it is the same, and the damage done to the fruit trees in 

 Normandy, Picardy and Flandres is unimportant. 



Taken altogether, the abundant crops of some districts 

 will in a good measure make up for the losses in others, 

 and there will be no serious deficiency. 



— Destruction op the Phylloxera. — Sand is now 

 proposed as an antidote to this pest. M. Espitalier, of Mas- 

 de-Roy, in the Camargue, laid bare the roots of his Vines 



and put a large quantity of drift 

 in the place of a part of the soil 

 the Phylloxera perished from rai 



cent of the Vines, that appeared a 

 forth again with renewed \i>un\ It 

 this remedy in all places where sam 

 submersion is still recommended \vh 

 gation are at hand to efiVrt ii 



M. Dumas, the celeb: 

 knotty question : and he 

 for applying the snlplu,, 

 without injuring the Vines, lie h.e 



for the vine, and a poison for the ii 

 carbonate of potassium or sodium, wl 





D r Candeze has now inv 

 more simple instrument, 

 hand. All there is to do ; 

 expose the plate, and subs 



Tin 



book, and therefore readily portahh 

 genuine discovery. The price is .">() fi 

 procured through M. Deyrolle. 23 rue 

 — Garden Labels. — This m ighl 

 of far more importance than is genen 

 serymen and Amateur gardeners, has 



Dome) process. The labels are of zinc 

 engraved or written by a particular 

 writing of which is imperishable. We 

 nothing better in the way of labels , 

 commend our readers to procure the ; 

 for themselves. 



_ Rare cases of fbuitog. Be 

 celebrated nurserymen. Messrs. Hovel! 

 establishment we shall shortly describe 

 during our last trip to Lake Major, wc 

 shrubs and trees that are not often si 

 a profusion of fruit and nourishing a. I 

 air of that delicious climate : Fortun 



