HORTICULTURAL CHRONICLE. 



May, 1875. 

 _ Exhibitions. — We have received a circular respec- 

 ting the forthcoming international Exhibition at Cologne. 

 It will be held in the gardens of the Horticultural Society 

 Flora, and will remain open from the twenty-fifth of August 

 till the twenty-sixth of September. It will include all garden 

 products with the exception of grapes and grape-vines, on 

 account of the Phylloxera, and will comprise eight classes • 

 Horticulture, hardy and tender plants. 

 Garden Produce, fruits , products of the juices and fibres 

 of plants, vegetables and seeds. 



Garden Architecture, designs for parks and plans for 

 structures. 

 Garden ornaments, fountains, statues, vases, etc. 

 Tools and machinery. 



Collections of garden woods, seeds, insects, etc. 

 Cut flowers and fruit, and models of ditto. 

 Horticultural literature. 



The Committee have entered into negotiations with the 

 various carrying companies, and most of them have agreed 

 to reduce the freight on goods by 50 per cent., and there 

 is no duty to be charged on the objects exhibited unless 

 they are sold and remain in the country. For English 

 exhibitors it will be of special interest to learn that the 

 Netherlands Steam Navigation Company and the Belgian 

 Company, whose steamers ply respectively between London 

 and Rotterdam and Dover and Ostend, as well as the Rhe- 

 nish Railway Company, have granted the before-mentioned 

 reduction. 



A sum of 135,000 marks will be devoted to the purchase 

 of objects for a lottery. Exhibitors will not have to pay 

 anything for space. A public sale of the objects exhibited 

 will take place after the twenty-sixth of September. 



For any further information application should be made 

 to the Flora Society, Cologne, Prussia. 



— The Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876. — The 

 schedules of the horticultural section in this great exhibition 

 have not yet reached us. Nevertheless we may state for the 

 information of those of our readers who intend to exhibit 

 hardy plants, which have to be planted out this autumn in 

 the gardens of the Exhibition , should signify their wish as 

 early as possible to the acting Committee of the Horticultural 

 section of the Philadelphia Exhibition, and the conditions 

 under which space will he granted for plantations will be 

 shortly communicated. 



— The Inteenational Exhibition at Brussels in 1876. 

 — In accordance with circulars received, we announced a 

 Great Exhibition at Amsterdam in 1876. It has since been 

 decided not to hold it before 1877, after that at Brussels, 

 where the cycle of International Horticultural Exhibitions 

 and Congresses began , and whose turn comes round next 

 year. A botanical congress will also meet at the same time in 

 the latter city. We may expect again to see a fine show 

 of vegetable wonders in the capital of Belgium. 



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