THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. Gl 



HOETICULTURAL AFFAIRS. 



ilHE EOTAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S Annual Meeting will be 

 held in the Council Room, South Kensington, on Tuesday, the 9thinst., 

 at three p.m. 



The Royal Horticultural Society has recently issued a new 

 part of its Journal, containing the Reports of the Trials of Plants and 

 Vegetables at Chiswick, and a record of the Meteorological Observations taken at 

 Chiswick during 1S73. 



The Classificatiox of Pla^'TS will form the subject of a series of lectures 

 to be delivered by Professor Bentley, at the London Institution, on Mondays, 

 April 5, 12, 19 and 26, at five p.m. 



A New Botanical Axxual, intended chiefly a5 a record of progress, has 

 been started under the editorship of Dr. L. Just, of Carlsruhe. It is entitled, 

 HotaniicJier JahreshericM. 



Mu. Cutler, secretary of the Gardener's Royal Benevolent Institution, was, on 

 the occasion of the Annual Jleeting hell on the 14th ult., presented with a hand- 

 some silver tea and coffee service, subscribed for by the supporters of the Institution. 



British Fungi. — Mr. W. Phillips is preparing to publish, under the title of 

 "ElveUacei Britannici," dried specimens of British Fungi, belonging to the genera 

 included in the order ElveUacei of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley's "Outlines of Fun- 

 gology, and Mr. M. C. Cooke's " Handbook of British Fungi." 



A New Potato Disease is reported on in the journal of the Central Horticul- 

 tural Society of France. It appears to be produced by the minute larvae of a 

 lepidopterous fly, which eat into the tuber, ana cause the ultimate decay of what- 

 ever pulp they leave unconsumed. 



Mb. William Paul's annual exhibition of roses in pots, pictorial trees, zonal 

 pelargonius, etc., will this year be held in the gardens of the Royal Botanic 

 Society, Regent's Park, from May 3rd to 10th. 



The Colorado Potato Beetle. — The Swiss, Austrian, and Belgl.an Govern- 

 ments have adopted stringent measures against the importation of American 

 potatoes infected with the Colorado beetle. 



NEW BOOKS. 



Piper's Poultry "Sard Account Book. By Hugh Piper (Groombridge and 

 Sons).— This is at once a most ingenious and a most useful work, that mu.-t soon 

 come into general u.se, and prove of the utmost value to keepers of poultry. There 

 is a great bulk of diary for a shilling, sufficient for at least a year's records of most 

 poultry -yards, and the pages are ruled for every item of account that can be thought 

 of as desirable. Ou one side are columns for items of receipt, such as daily account 

 of eggs laid, money produce of eggs sold, fowls sold, chickens sold, etc., while on 

 the o°ker arc entered the outgoings, such as cost of birds, cost of food, rent, labour, 

 and so forth. It is the first time we have been provided with a proper means of 

 settling for ourselves the question, " Do poultry pay ? " 



The Elements of Botany. By Thomas Moore. (Longmans).— This is the 

 eleventh edition of one of tlie most useful of school-books. It has been carefully 

 revised, and is more than ever to be desired as a first step to one of the most useful 

 and recreative of the sciences. The style is simple, the illustrations to the purpose, 

 and the scheme so comprehensive, that whiles it is especially adapted for the young, 

 the information it pleasantly conveys would be received with gladness by many 

 who will see their youth no more. 



Haydn's Dictionary of Poi'aL,\R Medicine (Moxou). — This is on the plan 

 of "Haydn's Dictionary of Dates," but not by the same author, Mr. Ray Lankester 

 being responsible in the present case. It promises to be a thoroughly good book, 

 too technical sometimes, periiaps, but copious and trustwortliy, and especially adapted 

 for the use of the clergy, and others w)io visit the poor, for captains of sliips, mis- 

 sionaries, as well as for the family library. In some sense it is a dictionary of 

 chemistry and physics, as well as of medicine, for in the number before us we find 

 articles on ammonia, barometer, bone, brandy, etc. It is to be completed in sixteen 

 shilling parts. 

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