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TEE GARDENERS' GERONIGLE. 



[Auotjst 25, 1888. 



part of our horticultural societies ; but we "need 

 say no more on these heads at present. It must 

 suffice now to cite those portions of the proposed 

 Bill which are of main import, and to solicit the 

 comments of our readers, so that, when the time 

 comes, the Bill may be amended in those parts 

 where amendment is desirable : — ■ 



"1. — (1). There shall be established a Board of 

 Agriculture consisting of the Lord President of the 

 Council, Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, 

 the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury, 

 the Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer, the 

 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the 

 Secretary for Scotland. It shall be lawful for Her 

 Majesty the Queen from time to time to appoint any 

 member of the Privy Council to be President of the 

 Board during Her Majesty's pleasure, and if he is not 

 one of the above officers of State he shall be a mem- 

 ber of the Board. 



" 2. — (1) There shall be transferred to the Board 

 of Agriculture — (a) The powers and duties of the 

 Privy Council under the Acts mentioned in Part I. 

 of the first schedule to this Act; (6) the powers and 

 duties of the Land Commissioners for England under 

 the Acts mentioned in Part II. of the first schedule 

 to this Act, or under any other Act ; (c) all powers 

 and duties vested in the Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Works and Public Buildings under the 

 Survey Act, 1870. 



" (2) The Board of Agriculture shall also under- 

 take the collection and preparation of statistics re- 

 lating to agriculture, the inspection of, and reporting 

 on, any schools which are not public elementary 

 schools, and in which technical instruction, practical 

 or scientific, is given in any matter connected with 

 agriculture, and in aiding any school which admits 

 such inspection, and in the judgment of the Board is 

 qualified to receive such aid. 



. " (3) The Board of Agriculture may also make, 

 or aid in making, such inquiries and experiments, and 

 collect or aid in collecting such information as they 

 may think important for the purpose of promoting 

 the advancement of agriculture. 



" 3. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen 

 in council from time to time by order to transfer to 

 the Board of Agriculture such powers and duties of 

 anv Government department as are conferred by or 

 in pursuance of any statute, and appear to Her 

 Majesty to relate to agriculture, and to be of an ad- 

 ministrative character. 



" (2) There shall be paid out of money provided 

 by Parliament to the President, if not one of the 

 officers of State above mentioned, or any other 

 officer of State receiving a salary, the annual salary 

 of £2000 a year, and to the secretary, officers, and 

 servants of the Board such salaries or remuneration 

 as the Treasury may from time to time determine. 



" (3) All expenses incurred by the Board of Agri- 

 culture in the execution of their duties under this 

 Act, to such amount as may be sanctioned by the 

 Treasury, shall be paid out of money provided by 

 Parliament. 



" 7. — (1) The office of President of the Board of 

 Agriculture shall not render the person holding the 

 same incapable of being elected to or sitting or 

 voting as a member of the Commons House of Parlia- 

 ment, and shall be deemed to be an office included 

 in schedule H of the Representation of the People 

 Act, 1867, schedule H of the Representation of the 

 People (Scotland) Act, 1868, and schedule E of the 

 Representation of the People (Ireland) Act, 1868. 



" 8. — (1) There shall be transferred and attached 

 to the Board of Agriculture such of the persons 

 employed under the Privy Council or any other 

 Government department, in or about the execution 

 of the powers and duties by this Act transferred to 

 the Board of Agriculture, as the Privy Council, or 

 Government department, with the sanction of the 

 Treasury, determine. 



" (2) There shall be transferred and attached to 

 the Board of Agriculture all persons employed under 

 the Land Commissioners for England. 



" (3) The Board of Agriculture may by order from 

 tima to time distribute the business of the Board 

 among the several persons transferred thereto in 

 pursuance of this Act in such manner as the Board 

 mav think right, and those officers shall perform such 

 duties in relation to that business as may be directed 

 by the order. 



."Provided that such persons shall, while they 

 continue in office, be in no worse position as respects 



their tenure of office, salaries, or superannuation 

 allowances, than they would have been in if this Act 

 had not passed. 



" (4) In the event of a transfer of any powers or 

 duties to the Board of Agriculture being made by 

 Order in Council in pursuance of this Act, such 

 order shall extend this section to the persons em- 

 ployed in or about the execution of the powers and 

 duties so transferred, but nevertheless with such 

 modifications as to Her Majesty in Council seem 

 necessary. 



" 9. After the establishment of the Board of Agri- 

 culture no person shall be appointed to the Office of 

 Land Commissioner for England. 



" Provided that any person who holds office as 

 Land Commissioner at the passing of this Act may 

 be assigned such position in or under the Board of 

 Agriculture as the Board may appoint, so that he is 

 not placed in any worse position as respects his 

 tenure of office, salary, or superannuation allowance 

 than he would have been in if this Act had not 



New or Noteworthy Plants. 



11. In this Act the expression ' agriculture ' 

 includes horticulture and forestry. 



" 13. This Act may be cited as the Board of Agri- 

 cultulture Act, 1888. 



" First Schedule. 



"Part I. — Acts relating to Powers and Duties of 

 the Privy Council transferred to Board of Agriculture. 

 — 40 and 41 Vict, c. 68, the Destructive Insects Act, 

 1877 ; 41 and 42 Vict. c. 74, the Contagious Diseases 

 (Animals) Act, 1878 ; 47 & 48 Vict. c. 13, the Con- 

 tagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1884; 47 and 48 

 Vict. c. 47, the Contagious Diseases (Animals) 

 Transfer of Parts of Districts Act, 1884 ; 49 and 50 

 Vict, c. 32, the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 

 1886. 



•• Copyhold Acts. — 4 and 5 Vict. c. 35, the Copy- 

 hold Act, 1841 ; 6 and 7 Vict. c. 23, the Copyhold 

 Act, 1843 ; 7 and 8 Vict. c. 55, the Coyyhold Act, 

 1844 ; 15 and 16 Vict. c. 51, the Copyhold Act, 

 1852 ; 21 and 22 Vict. c. 94, the Copyhold Act, 1858 ; 

 31 and 32 Vict. c. 89, an Act to alter certain pro- 

 visions in the Acts for the commutation of tithes, 

 the Copyhold Acts, and the Acts for the inclosure, 

 exchange, and improvement of land ; and to make 

 provision towards defraying the expenses of the 

 Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Office; 50 and 51 

 Vict. c. 73, the Copyhold Act, 1887. 



" Metropolitan Commons. — 29 and 30 Vict. c. 122, 

 the Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866 ; 32 and 33 

 Vict. c. 107, the Metropolitan Commons Amend- 

 ment Act, 1869 ; 41 and 42 Vict. c. 71, the Metropo- 

 litan Commons Act, 1878 ; 45 and 46 Vict, c. 15, the 

 Commonable Rights Compensation Act, 1882. 



" Other Duties. — 14 and 15 Vict. c. 53, the Inclosure 

 Commissioners Act, 1851 ; 15 and 16 Vict. c. 62, an 

 Act to alter and amend certain Acts relating to the 

 woods, forests, and land revenues of the Crown ; 29 

 and 30 Vict. c. 70, an Act to extend the provisions 

 of the Acts for the inclosure, exchange, and 

 improvement of land to certain portions of the 

 Forest of Dean called Walmore Common and the 

 Bearce Common, and for authorising allotments in 

 lieu of the forestal rights of Her Majesty in and over 

 such commons ; the Poor Allotments Management 

 Act, 1873; 44 and 45 Vict. c. 41, the Conveyancing 

 and Law Property Act, 1881 ; 45 and 46 Vict. c. 15, 

 the Commonable Rights Compensation Act, 1882 ; 



45 and 46 Vict. c. 38, the Settled Land Act, 1882 ; 



46 and 47 Vict. c. 61, the Agricultural Holdings 

 (England) Act, 1883 ; 47 and 48 Vict. c. 67, the Im- 

 provement of Lands (Ecclesiastical Benefices) Act, 

 1884. 



" Second Schedule. 



" Enactments Repealed. — 6 and 7 Will, IV., c. 71, 

 an Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England 

 and Wales, section 2 ; 4 and 5 Vict. c. 35, the Copy- 

 hold Act, 1841, sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 ; 8 and 

 9 Vict. c. 118, the Inclosure Act, 1845, sections 2, 

 6, and 8 ; 14 and 15 Vict. c. 53, the Inclosure Com- 

 missioners Act, 1851, the whole Act, except sec- 

 tion 9 ; 25 and 26 Vict. c. 73, an Act for continuing 

 the Copyhold Inclosure and Tithe Commission, and 

 entitling the Commissioners to Superannuation 

 Allowance, the whole Act so far as unrepealed ; 40 

 and 41 Vict. e. 68, the Destructive Insects Act, 1877, 

 section 6 ; 41 and 42 Vict. c. 74, the Contagious 

 Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, subsection 2 of sec- 

 tion 8, and subsection 6 of section 58 ; 45 and 46 

 Vict. c. 38, the Settled Land Act, 1882, section 48 

 down to ' may require of the three several bodies of 

 Commissioners aforesaid,' being the end of sub- 

 section 5 inclusive." 



SACCOLABIUM CERINUM, n. sp* 

 This was exhibited at the last Ghent show. 

 Though it is no fashionable Orchid it attracted a 

 good deal .of interest, as the rather dark ligulate 

 bilobed leaves and the porrect inflorescence of 

 numerous ascending waxy flowers, orange, with an 

 apricot colour spur, excited the curiosity, and 

 numerous visitors were not quite sure, cujus generis, 

 the curiosity might be. It is a Sondaic introduction 

 made by Mr. F. Sander. It was exhibited by Mr. 

 James Bray, Rue Courte des Pierres, Gand. H. G. 

 Rchb.f. 



BOLLEA HEMIXANTHA, ffl. Sp.t 



This is very near Bollea Lalindei. It has a similar 

 large flower. Colour quite distinct. Sepals and 

 petals white. Lip yellow, with thirteen parallel 

 darker yellow keels forming a mighty crest and 

 numerous small warts and styloid processes at the 

 base. This is quite a novel and peculiar feature of the 

 plant. The white column is much dilated at the 

 base, with yellow basilar angles, the yellow base 

 being covered with minute dark red spots. It 

 was kindly forwarded me by Mr. F. Sander, who had 

 it from New Grenada (United States of Columbia, if 

 you like it better). H. G. Rchb. f. 



Roses. 



NEW ROSES IN 1888. 



One of the great disappointments connected with 

 this very abnormal season has been that an oppor- 

 tunity has been missed of seeing, as we had hoped to 

 do, the new and semi-new Roses in larger quantities 

 than we have done. By new Roses I mean those 

 which have only recently been put into commerce ; 

 and by semi-new those which have been in the market 

 for a year or two. It was the more disappointing, as 

 several of these claimants for favour are from new 

 sources, and we all looked forward, in the case of 

 some of them, to see them largely exhibited by their 

 raisers ; but this was not to be — the lateness of the 

 season, and its stormy, rainy character hindered 

 that, and many of them were only sparingly exhibited. 

 I was, however, enabled to grow many of these in 

 my own garden, and thus to notice their character — 

 which is, after all, the most satisfactory plan, as 

 one can compare wood, foliage, and habit of growth 

 with those Roses which are supposed to bear some 

 likeness to them. 



There are two of our home-raised Roses which 

 have established themselves in the opinion of all 

 who have seen them as first-rate novelties — Sir 

 Rowland Hill and Earl of Dufferin — and these I 

 must note first. 



Sir Rowland Hill, raised by Mack & Son, of 

 Catterick — was exhibited by them at Edin- 

 burgh, where it obtained the Gold Medal of the 

 National Rose Society, and also the unanimous 

 approval of all Rose growers who saw it, as a first- 

 class novelty — has, if possible, risen in esti- 

 mation. It is a Rose of a most beautiful and novel 



*Saccolabiumceri7ium,n.ap. — Aff.Saccolabioconipre3so,Lindl. 

 Caule valtdo brevi ; folii3 ligulatia obtuse bilobis ; pedunculo 

 porrecto bivaginato, apice deflexo ; raeemis denaifloribua 

 ascendentibua ; bracteis linearibua acutia ovaria pedicellata 

 aubeequantibua ; aepalis oblongis ; lateralibusnuncsubcurvatia : 

 tepalia ovatis per lineam mediam incrassatis ; labeUo calceo- 

 lari excavato^ tridentato ; dentibus lateralibus retuaia antice, 

 angulatia, dente medio convexo apiculatoi ; calcari compresso 

 cylindrato obtuso ovarium pedicellatum aubsequante ; anthera 

 rostrata, vertice apieulata; caudicula genuflexa. Ex Sondae 

 insulis imp. H. G. Rchb.f, 



t Bollea hemixantha, n. sp. — Aff. Bollete Lalindeee, Rchb. f.; 

 labeUo ima basi ante unguem oallis parvia numerosia styloideis 

 Beu vermiformibua obsito, c&rinis contiguia lamellosis dorso 

 obtusiusculis ad 13. lamina a basi oordata triangula, inverse 

 replica to saccato ; colnmna apice angustiori infra multum 

 dilatata, basi leevi. Sepala ac tepala albida. Labellum flavuni 

 carinis obscurioribus. Columna alba, basi utrinque ac infra 

 cum ungue flava punctis numeroaia in basi — Zygopetaltim 

 hemixanthum. Ex nov. Grana. et imp. exc. Sander. H. G. 

 Schb. f. 



