THE ILLUSTRATION 



HORTICOLE. 



is for twelve Stove and Greenhouse Plants in pots, for which 

 prizes of £ 15 £ 10 and £ 5 are offered. For schedules and 

 other particulars, apply to Henry Bowen, Hon. Sec, Cardiff. 

 — A grand Horticultural Exhibition will be held at Dudley 

 in connection with the Worcester Agricultural Society, on 

 August 25, 26 and 27. Apply to Albert Buck, secretary, 

 Worcester. — A Great International Shoio of Plants, Flow- 

 ers and Fruits will be held in the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 Belfast, on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 20 and 21. Schedules 

 and all other information to be had through the secretaries 

 R. Atkinson, J. Taylor and C. D. Yonge. - The Autumn 

 shoio of the Brighton and Sussex Horticultural Society will 

 be held in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, on September 9 

 and 10. Two or three valuable cups are offered for com- 

 petition. Apply to Edward Carpenter, 96 St. James' street, 

 Brighton. — A General Exhibition of Plants, Flowers, Fruits 

 and Vegetables and of Horticultural accessories and im- 

 plements will be held at Lyons on September 17 to the 20 

 We may observe that the schedule is a very full one. Apply 

 to M. le secretaire general du Cercle d'Horticulture , 14, rue 

 de la Bourse, Lyon. - The Pomological Congress of France 

 will hold its next meeting (the seventeenth) at Angers, in 

 the apartments of the Horticulture Society, Boulevard des 

 Lices, from September 28 to October 3, included. Members 

 of the congress and the societies in connection with it are 

 requested to communicate with M. le President du 

 Congres Pomologique , Lyon. Exhibitors should apply to 

 the secretary, M. Millet, Angers. We are told that this will 

 be a very brilliant gathering, which we do not doubt, taking 

 into consideration the importance of the district as a 



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Benevolent Institution. His writ' 

 stated that he prided hi,,,., lj-^'!t .T) " Un,m,us - 

 Properties of Flovxrt a 

 vexed by other writer* n.> 

 ledgnient. For mora than twentr-1 

 the horticultural column ■ 

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retary to the Horticultural I 

 till the changes and removal 

 author with M r Chandler of 

 and author of other scattered 

 quite a young gardener, he w 

 Linnean Society. 



M. Cordier, one of the most 

 tanists, died at Algiers, dune 1 

 great services to botany and 

 splendid work on Fungi. His 

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mological centre and the well known 



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the numerous Angevine gardeners and their traditional 

 hospitality. 



— Kose Show at Lyons. — At the time we are writing 

 these lines the exhibition of Roses at Lyons is probably 

 open. We are informed that the commission hope to bring 

 together a numerous and important collection. We no- 

 ticed that there were thirty classes in the schedule. As 

 soon as the results reach us we shall publish them. 



— Feuiting of Toeeeya Myeistica. — This handsome 

 evergreen is now bearing fruit in the nurseries of Messrs. 

 Thibaut and Keteleer, at Sceaux , Seine. So far as our know- 

 ledge goes, this is the first time it has fruited in Europe. 



— Obittjaey. — One of the most celebrated of English 

 horticulturists , Mr. John Salter, died on the tenth of May 

 last, aged 76 years. He was well known for the improve- 

 ments he effected in many florists flowers, such as the Dahlia, 

 Chrysanthemum, and Pyrethrum roseum , and for the intro- 

 duction of many choice variegated varieties of plants, such 

 for instance as the variegated Lily-of-the-Valley. From 1838 

 to 1848, be carried on the business of a florist at Versailles, 

 in France, where he raised many of the best varieties of 

 Chrysanthemum. 



Another English horticulturist of still wider fame as a 

 florist and a writer on floriculture and horticulture, has 

 Passed from us. We mean M r George Glenny, who died on 

 the seventeenth of May last, after a short illness, at the 

 n pe old age of 81 years. He was the originator of garden , 

 newspapers in England, and for several years conducted the I 



away on the twenty tirst of M 

 He was one of the most m 

 and is well known by his n 

 the last war broke out, he , 

 University of Strasbourg. N< 

 of his pupils, the wishes of h 

 held out by the new posses* 

 against all, and remained tru 

 to Paris. But the shock was 

 and he soon succumbed, cai 

 and regrets of all. 



A name brilliant in the w 

 necrologue; it is that of M. 

 the science of plants for the 



s closes our sa 

 He belonged 1 



his noble endeavours to inculcate in youth an appreciation 

 of their beauties. I had the honour of being an inmate of 

 that delightful house at Passy for more than fifteen yean. 

 There I saw all that was illustrious in Art and Literature 

 of recent times. And it was he who fostered and guided 

 my first steps in literary labours. His memory is one that 

 will ever remain fresh, and it is a sorrowful pleasure to have 

 the privilege of saying that his goodness and gentleness 

 w r ere superior even to that wonderful talent, which rendered 

 him the delight of two generations/In him 1 mourn the loss 

 of an excellent friend; and he was one of the best of the 

 writers who could describe the charms of flowers in language 

 worthy of the subject. 



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