HORTICULTURAL CHRONICLE. 



— Inteenational Exhibition at Cologne. _ The I ance of th di 



English Committee is composed of the following gentlemen : (rerting-m ' 

 Messrs. W. Burnley Hume, W. B. Kellock, Robert Warner whether tl . ' 

 and Dr.Hogg, and from what we hear the exhibition promises 1 

 to be of a thoroughly international character. that thi'v ire 



— Botanical Exploration or Celebes. — Dr. E. de ness of 'the '!', 

 la Savinierrc will shortly leave for the Celebes Islands for th 



the purpose of making collections of dried plants to supple- in several \\r 

 ment the results of M. Beccari's explorations in Borneo and v, ! 

 New-Guinea. On his return he will distribute sets in ecu- th: 

 turies of Plants Celebenses at the fixed price of £ 2 per hn, 

 100 species. To commence with, he solicits subscriptions for ! swarm->por< >. 

 four centuries, that is £ 8 for a collection of 400 species. The former 

 Apply to the Secretaire general de la societe botanique de branches. whi 

 France, 84, rue de Grenelle-S 't- Germain , a Paris. medium The 



— Flowering- oe Tillandsia musaica. — On our last ' what are tern 

 trip to Italy we went by way of Lake Major to visit Mr. Lin- j each end w hi 

 den's branch establishment at Pallanza, where we saw the a short time ali 

 beautiful plant in bloom which we published under the zo<^ 

 preceding provisional name (III. Hort., 1873, p. 171). Exactly of the fungus. 'I 

 at the same date it was flowering in Mr. Bull's establishment gnated hv the 

 at Chelsea, and he presented it at the meeting of the Royal spore, occur in 

 Horticultural Society, April 28. But we are much surprised re that lies dor 

 to learn from the English journals that Mr. Bull's plant following sunn 

 bore flowers " of a rich orange yellow,, with yellow bracts, j enemy. Mr. Sin 

 whereas our plant had whitish flowers in a bracteato head, ■' which Mr. Berl 

 with pale green bracts striped with crimson. We shall, organ, with tin 

 however, shortly return to this subject again. hoped that this 



-Exploration of Guatemala.— We hear that Mr. Bun- of the Peronos 

 stroem is at the present time in Guatemala collecting plants ' prevent its ra\ 

 and insects, at the instigation of a few earnest promoters - Male Fl 

 of science in Belgium. Mr. Morren announces in the Belgique this year, this 

 Horticole that the first consignment of considerable extent dowers, hut tin 

 has arrived in good condition. j ve lli of Pallana 



— Mr. Darwin's new Book. —Mr. Darwin's late studies was this sca>.u 

 and investigations have' given birth to anew book, published now reasonably 

 within the last week or two. It is entitled " Insectivorous j ?e st of seed « 

 Plants, „ and like all works from the pen of this great na- commerce, 

 turalist it is destined to cause a sensation. It is published - Expfoitk 

 by Murray of London and comprises no fewer than 401 Moore, the abl 

 pages with illustrations. We content ourselves with simply garden, 1m- - 

 announcing its appearance now, reserving a more detailed j Fiji, Caroline a 

 examination of its contents for a future occasion. 



— Discovery of til k 1 Jesting-spores oe Peronospoiu Arthur, a privat 

 infestans , the Fungus which causes the Potato disease, the task of supe 

 — Mr. Worthington Smith has had the great good fortune this spintfd en 

 to discover the resting-spores of the Potato fungus. He made ved . and eontr 

 his first communication to the Scientific Committee of the — Presides* 

 R oyal Horticultural Society on July 7, and he has since fiedtoheai thai 

 supplemented it with more complete descriptions and illus- to till the post 

 trations. For the full particulars we may refer our readers Botanical Soci< 

 to the Gardener's Chronicle for July 10, 17 and 24. Here we Mr. Ghellinck d 



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