HORTICULTURAL 



CHRONICLE. 



— Exhibition and Congress at Amsterdam in 1877. - 

 Primarily we announced these horticultural meetings for 



1876, and subsequently their postponement till 1877. Some 

 extracts from an important document, lately received from 

 the general commission, will not be without interest for many 

 of our readers. 



The project was first of all mooted last year at the Con- 

 gress in Florence, and the Royal Horticultural Society of 

 London simultaneously announced the intention of holding 

 a large exhibition in 1876. Nevertheless the right of priority 

 was accorded to the Dutch , and a programme was speedily 



However, it soon became known that the Royal Society 

 of Flora of Brussels wished to celebrate its hundreth anni- j 

 versary in a worthy manner in 1876, and this date could j 

 not be departed from. Animated by the most courteous ' 

 feelings a Commission, composed of Messrs. Krelage and j 

 Westerman for Holland, and Messrs. Cannart d'Hamale. 

 Doucet and Lubbers for Belgium, met and decided in favoiu 

 of the Belgian project for 1876. We have already spoken 

 of the very comprehensive scope of the intended exhibition 

 and congress in the Belgian capital , and we shall frequently 

 have occasion to recur to this topic. 



The Netherlands General Commission has profited by this 

 extension of time to enlarge its field of operations. We 

 have just received the new programme , comprising vege- 

 table products , an important accessory to the exhibition of 



1877. The principal sections are : Cottons, Tobaccos, Qui- 

 nine, Madder, Indigo, Caoutchouc and Gutta-Percha , Fixed 

 Oils and Fats, Essential Oils, Vegetable Substances em- 

 ployed in the Manufacture of Paper, Cereals , Cashew, Va- 

 nilla, Rhubarb, Sarsaparilla , etc. 



The Commission would bo glad to receive any suggestions 

 for the amendment of this programme , which will be for- 

 warded , on application , to any person interested in the 

 matter, by the secretary, Mr. H. Groenewegen, 5, Oudewater- 

 weg, Amsterdam, 



— Caraguata musaica. — A short time ago we mentioned 

 the flowering of this handsome Bromeliaceous plant in two 

 different places simultaneously. It will be remembered that 

 it was introduced by Mr. Linden and sent out under the 

 provisional name of Tilhvuhia musaica. Recently we announ- 

 ced our intention to revise the nomenclature of certain 

 species affected by this flowering. Now there is no longer 

 any doubt that the presumed TiJlandsia is a true Caraguata, 

 and henceforward it will bear the name of Caraguata mu- 

 saica. At some future time we shall publish a corrected 

 description of the species , which we have submitted to 

 Professor Morren, who, as is well known, is learned in all 

 that appertains to the Bromeliaceae, and who is just putting 

 the finishing touch to his work on the tribe TUlandsiae, 

 for be- 



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