Octobee 13, 1888.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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National Chrysanthemum Society.— A 



grand provincial show of this Society will be held at 

 the Corn Exchange, Sheffield, on Friday and Satur- 

 day, November 16 and 17. Schedules for this Exhi- 

 bition have been forwarded to all members. Any 

 further particulars may be had on application to 

 either of the Hon. Sees., Mr. W. K. Woodcock, Hon. 

 Sec, Sheffield Chrysanthemum Society, The Gar- 

 dens, Oakbrook, Sheffield ; or Mr. William Holmes, 

 Hon. Sec, National Chrysanthemum Society, 

 Frampton Park Nurseries, Hackney. A Chrysan- 

 themum Conference will probably be held on the 

 evening of the first day, further particulars of which 



inst., and will be continued every Thursday at 8 p.m., 

 by K. J. Harvey Gibson, Esq.., M.A., F.R.S.Ed. 

 The object of the course will be to give an account 

 of the structure and uses of the various parts of 

 flowering plants, and the principles on which they 

 are artificially cultivated ; the origin of cultivated 

 from wild plants, the diseases to which plants are 

 liable, and the means adopted for their prevention 

 and cure. 



The Genus Primula.— Dr. Pax, of Bresiau, 



the latest monographer of this genus, admits 150 

 species grouped under sixteen sections distinguished 



all the colonies ; and agricultural labourers in 

 Canada (in the summer months), New South Wales, 

 Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and some districts 

 of New Zealand ; while mechanics are only in de- 

 mand in very few localities, as in Melbourne for those 

 connected with the building trades. Intending 

 emigrants should write to the office, 31, Broadway, 

 Westminster, S.W., as to the arrangements (if any) 

 which are made by Colonial Governments, and in some 

 cases by private committees and individuals in the 

 colonies, for the reception and assistance of emigrants 

 on landing. The committee wish to urge the need 

 of careful selection in the case of emigrants, and of 



Fro. 58. — rockert at pinner, fbom a pen-and-ink sketch by mr. t. Wilkinson, (see p. 416.) 



will be duly announced. Visitors to Sheffield will 

 be admitted after 3 o'Clock on Friday at half-price, 

 on presentation of the return-half of the rail ticket. 

 The Midland Railway will convey exhibits at owner's 

 risk, at single rate for the double journey, provided 

 they remain the property of the exhibitor. A 

 number of cheap excursion trains will be run into 

 Sheffield on Saturday, November 17. — A general 

 meeting of the Society will be held at Anderton's 

 Hotel, Fleet Street, E.C., at 7 p.m., on Monday, the 

 15th inst., E. Sanderson, Esq., in the chair. 



Mechanics' Institute, Woolton— We learn 



that a course of ten free lectures on " Elementary 

 Botany and the Principles of Gardening,'' in con- 

 nection with this Institute, commenced on the 11th 



one from another by the margins of the leaves folded 

 inwards or outwards as the case may be, the texture 

 of the leaves, the nature of the infloresence umbel- 

 late or in superposed whorls, the calyx increased 

 after flowering or not, and other characteristics. 



Emigrants' Information Office. — This 



quarter's circulars, relating to Canada, the Aus- 

 tralasian and South African Colonies have just been 

 issued. Queensland grants free passages to female 

 servants and selected unmarried agricultural 

 labourers. Western Australia and Queensland grant 

 assisted passages, and the two former and Natal 

 nominated passages at reduced rates — mainly to 

 female servants and agriculturists. Farmers with 

 capital, and female servants, will find openings in 



providing those who go out with money to keep 

 them on arrival. 



"Botanical Magazine." — The following 



plants are figured in the October number of this 

 valuable publication : — 



Howea Belmorcana, t. 7018.— A graceful Palm, of 

 medium size (24 feet), with spineless, ringed, slender 

 stem, and a crown of pinnate leaves, each about 

 6 feet long, with linear-oblong, plicated pinna;. The 

 sessile flowers are borne on cylindrical spikes in- 

 cluded within a leathery acuminate spathe. The 

 fruits are olive-shaped, reddish-brown. The species 

 is peculiar to Lord Howe's Islands off the eastern 

 coast of Australia, latitude 32° S., with one or two 

 other endemic genera of the same order. 



