THE ILLUSTRATION 110HTIO..K. 



HORTICULTURAL 



CHRONICLE. 



February, 1875. 

 — Canna ibedifloba. — The appeal made by us 

 possessors of this beautiful plant, which has become 

 exceedingly rare in collections, has been, we are tol 

 crowned with success. Amateurs desirous of procuring 

 it, among others Messrs. Sisley and de Lambertye, should 

 communicate with Mr. Miiller, the curator of the Botanic 

 Garden at Strasbourg, who will doubtless gratify their 

 wish. For our part in the matter, we only request one of 

 those gentlemen to furnish us with a sucker of the j 

 when either of them shall have propagated it. 



— Masdevallia chimaeea. 



of this curious 



species from the pencil of Mr. W. G. Smith recently appeared 

 in the Gardeners' Chronicle (1875, p. Ill), together with a 

 brief history of it by the same gentleman. Whe shall shortly 

 have occasion to speak of this plant again, a specimen of 

 it having flowered in Mr. Linden's establishment, from which 

 a new plate has been prepared for a future number of the 

 Illustration Horticole. With the plate we shall publish further 

 details of this and an allied form. 



— List of vegetable Oils and Fats. - A second edition 

 of this useful little book , for which we are indebted to 

 Mr. Bernardin, the energetic conservator of the museum at 

 Melle, Belgium, has lately appeared. It will be of great 

 service in the manufactures, in commerce and in the arts. 

 It maybe had at Mr. Muquardfs, library, Brussels. 



— Hoeticulttjral club in London. — We have pre- 

 viously announced the efforts of certain horticulturists and 

 amateurs to found a club in London, and we believe the 

 only cause of delay in starting is the difficulty experienced 

 in finding suitable quarters. It is to be hoped that it will 

 be so organised as to have something of an international 

 character, which would doubtless increase its chances of 

 success and prove mutually advantageous to ourselves and 

 to our foreign colleagues. 



— Fuchsias. — In the Gardeners' Chronicle, (1875, p. 179), 

 we have published some preliminary notes on this attractive 

 genus of plants with a view to completing, as far as possible, 

 our knowledge of the horticultural history of this genus.' 

 We take the opportunity here also of requesting those inte- 

 rested in the matter and in possession of trustworthy know- 

 ledge or record of the origin of the early garden-varieties, to 

 favour us with such information. Fresh specimens of newly 

 introduced species , and some of the older varieties are very 

 desirable. Our appeal lias already resulted in the publication 

 and private communication of some missing links in the 

 history of these interesting plants. Letters and specimens 

 maybe addressed to Mr. W. B. Hemsley, Herbarium, Kew. 



— Evening Lectures at the Royal Hoeticulttjkal 

 ociett's Rooms , South Kensington. — A new feature in 

 6 Wlnter programme of this society is a series of lectures 

 °n horticultural and cognate subjects. On Feb. 3, the Rev. 

 1 • J- Berkeley treated of " Fungi, the Causes of Disease Real I 

 ° r Su PP°sed. „ It would take up more space than we have 



designs of Mr. Sclnv 

 National Society of II 

 will be laid out as u 



which will give some 



aside for Agricultura 

 scale of the preparatii 

 " Centennial Commiss 

 bition at Philadelphia 



-Wl-LLIXGTOXIA (, 



ere Cfcrwifcfeofthis j 



of Wellingtonia growii 

 of pendula is proposed 

 noticed in the Revue II 

 1870, by Mr. PailK-t. n 



-Mn-. 



Federation of the Belgia 



to offer a bronze meda 

 name of Belgian Horticu 



tinction. 

 u. Df. Cahdolle's q 



instituted by A. Pyram 

 Mr. Eadlkofer of Munic 



— Delessebt's Hebb 

 went from Paris to Gen 

 Miiller, who has been 

 rearranged , and its nun 



— Obituary. — Mi 

 Wurtemburg, in No vein 

 his fferbariw 



