Novembbh 17, 1888.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



573 



deners and successful traders were all that 

 were aimed at, the shows might be held 

 at the Crystal Palace, the Aquarium, or any 

 other convenient locality. The work of organis- 

 ing them and of awarding them might be under- 

 taken, as indeed, it is already, by special societies 

 like the Rose Society, the Chrysanthemum 

 Society, and the now numerous organisations 

 which threaten to outgrow their original limita- 

 tions and to become general in their aim. General, 

 however, only in the flower-show sense — not 

 general in so far as the interests of horticulture 

 in a wide sense are ooncerned. But in the case 

 of the premier society the public has a right to 

 look for broader aims and a more comprehensive 

 scope. If these be not forthcoming, the Society, 

 were such aa operation possible, might as well — 

 nay, rather had much better — be dissolved. Hor- 

 ticulture, as far as its public manifestations are 

 ooncerned, would then be reduoed simply to the 

 bazaar element. Does anyone wish this ? "We think 

 not, and we are supported in our opinion, first, by 

 the unanimous vote in support of Mr. Malcolm 

 Dunn's resolution at the Chiswick Apple Con- 

 gress, and specially — (specially because the meet- 

 ing was convened for the express purpose of 

 taking the vote on this particular subject) — 

 beoause, the same verdict, after various other- 

 proposals had been made, was pronounced on 

 Dn. Masters' resolution on Tuesday last. This 

 was to the effect, that the Council be requested to 

 make arrangements for the holding of a certain 

 number of meetings at Chiswick during the en- 

 suing summer and autumn. This proposal was 

 advocated because it does not clash with any 

 other, but particularly on the ground that it is 

 desirable that the Fellows and the public 

 should have an opportunity of seeing what the 

 Society does at Chiswick. There is ample op- 

 portunity of seeing what the exhibitors can do, 

 either at Chiswick. or anywhere else ; but what 

 the Fellows have a right to demand is, that the 

 Society itself shall do something towards carry- 

 ing out the object for which it was founded — 

 the advancement of horticulture, and that they 

 shall have the chance of seeing and appre- 

 ciating what the Society is doing. Of course 

 this implies that the Society is already doing 

 something at Chiswick. Those few who frequent 

 that establishment know that a good deal is 

 done, but they also know and feel that a good 

 deal more might advantageously, and we may 

 add profitably, be done there. The articles and 

 letters in our last and in our present issues in- 

 dicate what might and ought to be done. 



That this view is substantially correct and in 

 harmony with the feeling of the general body 

 of horticulturists is shown, as we have said, not 

 only by the results of the meeting at the Apple 

 Congress, but specially by the vote taken on 

 Tuesday last. In spite of the objections and 

 doubts raised in all good faith by the President 

 and Secretary, Dr. Masters' resolution was car- 

 ried with one dissentient only. 



It remains now for the Council to do their 

 utmost to develope the resources of Chiswick, 

 and to make arrangements for the holding of 

 certain meetings during the year in the old 

 home of the Society. This can be done with- 

 out in any way interfering with the wishes 

 of the exhibitors as to any meetings or shows 

 which it may be deemed desirable to hold 

 elsewhere. It pledges the Society to nothing 

 fur;,kir than that some meetings should be 

 held at Chiswick. It may here be stated that 

 some meetings of the Committees are already 

 held during the season at Chiswick to 

 inspect the trials of flowers, fruits, and 

 vegetables, thattake place there annually. Ex- 



tend these meetings, give the Fellows an 

 opportunity of seeing and appreciating what is 

 being done in their interests and in that of hor- 

 ticulture, and the desired result will be obtained ; 

 only the scheme must be entered into in no 

 half-hearted way, but with a resolute intention 

 to achieve success as far as that may be possible. 



The meeting of the Scientific Committee on 

 this occasion was noteworthy for the report of 

 some recent trials of the efficacy of the Jensen 

 system of moulding, as narrated in another 

 article. The doings of the other two committees 

 are also reported in another column. 



Here, too, we may allude to the meeting held 

 to confirm the bye-laws. This meeting was well 

 attended, and various poiuts were discussed 

 rather unneoessarily this time, as the laws in 

 question had been, line by line, examined and 

 re-examined by the Council, by the Committee of 

 Fellows, and by the solicitors. The bye-laws are 

 not all that could be desired ; exception was taken 

 to some of them — justly, perhaps, in the abstraot 

 — but still, after the assuranoe that all had been 

 done in the way of scrutiny and revision that the 

 charter would permit, it was ill-timed to persist 

 in raising objections against the repeated expres- 

 sions of opinion of the President and Secretary, 

 who, knowing all that had been done, were in a 

 position to speak with authority that ought to 

 have been beyond question. At length, how- 

 ever, the bye-laws were passed, and now the 

 Sooiety must get on as best it oan till the oppor- 

 tunity comes for applying for a new charter. 

 That opportunity, it is universally admitted, 

 does not present itself at the present time. 



Lastly, and by no means least, the thanks of 

 the community are due to the Council, who have, 

 since they took office, laboured, with an assiduity 

 beyond all praise to put the Society on a better 

 footing, and who have succeeded to a degree 

 that is not only astonishing, considering the 

 time at their disposal, but which was considered 

 by many to be impossible. 



Gift of a Public Park.— Sir John Hardy 

 Thursby, of Orinerod House, Burnley, who was High 

 Sheriff of Lancashire in the Jubilee year, has pre- 

 sented to the town of Burnley, through the Mayor 

 (Alderman Sutcliffe), 28 acres of land, near the 

 centre of the town, as the site for a public nark. 

 The value of the land is estimated at over £25,000. 



Horticultural Exhibition, Berlin, 1890.— 



With the year 1890 a period of five years will have 

 elapsed since the last great exhibition of the Vereins 

 :nr befbrdtrung dcs Gartenbaites in den Preussis- 

 chen Staatcn was held, and now we find before us the 

 provisional programme of another still more exten- 

 sive. In one direction the exhibition is intended to 

 illustrate the intimate connectionbetween architecture 

 and horticulture, aud in this department it lias already 

 received the support of many competent persons. 

 The schedule above-mentioned falls into eight chief 

 divisions, viz., flowers and plants, and under these 

 are decorative group novelties of the warm-house, 

 of the greenhouse, of open-air plants, and of Or- 

 chids. Warm-house plants take 235 classes, green- 

 house and out-of-doors plants, 377 classes ; nursery 

 commodities, 81 ; fruit, including articles made from 

 the same, 25 ; vegetables, 16 ; and garden plants, 

 5 classes. Under the head of architecture and tools, 

 implements, engines used in horticulture, there are 

 36 classes. The following section of the exhibition 

 includes in its 59 classes plant morphology, anatomy 

 of plants, growth of plants, physiology, instruments, 

 and methods of research ; useful and poisouous 

 fungi, officinal and important technical plants, seeds, 

 plant geography, &c. The exhibition, which will be 

 open to all nations, will be held in the large pre- 

 mises of the Royal Exhibition buildings at the 

 Lehrter Railway Station, 



Chrysanthemums at Moor Park, Rick- 



MANSWORTH.— A fine display of nearly 1000 plants 

 in 200 varieties has been arranged in the various 

 large houses of this well-known garden. The most 

 beautiful varieties of the Chrysanthemum, in re- 

 flexed, Japanese, Anemone, &sc, are well represented, 

 exhibiting a fine display of colour. The groups are 

 edged with well-grown plants of various wintar- 

 flowering plants and bulbs, which form a tasteful 

 finish. Lord Euury has kindly permitted the collec- 

 tion to be open to inspection by the public for the 

 next week or so — a privilege lovers of the Queen of 

 Autumn will be delighted with many of the new 

 sorts that Mr. Mundell has grown this year. 



Carnations at Chiswick. — We leara that 



the proposal made in these columns recently with 

 respect to having a trial of border Carnations at 

 Chiswick next summer has been duly considered, 

 bnt it being thought too late to arrange for its con- 

 duct next year, it has been determined to hold 

 such trial in 1890. In the meantime it is to be 

 hoped that proper conditions governing the trial will 

 be elaborated and published in due course, and thus 

 ensure the success of what could hardly prove to be 

 other than of exceeding interest to all horti- 

 culturists. 



Botanical Magazine.— The following plants 



are figured in the November part : — 



Phaius WaMchii, t. 7023. — A large-flowered 

 terrestrial Orchid, native of tropical India, with 

 plaited leaves, and erect racemes of flowers, perianth 

 2h inches across, segments spreading lanceolate, 

 chocolate-brown, with a narrow yellow edge ; 

 lip convolute, limb oblong, spreading, flat, violet, with 

 a yellow blotch, and purple nerves. The colour of 

 the flower is variable, as is also the tip of the lip. 



Pcumits fragrans, t. 7024. — A Myrtle-like shrub 

 belonging to the order Monimiacea 1 , and remarkable 

 for the delicious fragrance of its foliage and wood, 

 and much valued in Chili for the manufacture of 

 charcoal. The aromatic fruits are eaten ; they at- 

 tain the size and appearance of black haws, and the 

 bark is used for tanning purposes. Kew. 



Iris Korolkowi, t. 7025. — A species from Turkestan, 

 with lilac ovate-acute standards, with a purple fringe 

 at the base, and erect, oblong-acute, lilac standards. 

 At the same time is figured a self-coloured variety 

 from Professor Foster. 



Calanthe striata, t. 7026. — A Japanese species, 

 with leaves plicated, with erect, many-flowered 

 racemes; flowers l.V inch across, segment, spreading, 

 oblong, brown in the centre with narrow yellow 

 margins ; lip broad, roundish, deeply 3-lobed, with 

 three projecting reels on the central lobe. Kew. 



Agave Ellemeetiana, t. 7027. — Leaves narrow, lan- 

 ceola-acute, very fleshy, spineless, with a long, erect, 

 cylindrical raceme of greenish flowers with very 

 long projecting stamens and style. Kew. 



The Celebration of the Centenary of 

 the Introduction of the Chrysanthemum 

 TO EUROPE. — It having been suggested that 

 as the Chrysanthemum was introduced to Europe 

 in 1789, its centenary should be celebrated, a 

 preliminary meeting of representatives of Chry- 

 santhemum Societies, judges and others, was 

 held at the Crystal Palace on the 9th inst, Mr. E. 

 Sanderson, Presideut of the National Chrysanthemum, 

 in the chair. After some discussion it was proposed by 

 Mr. John Laing, seconded by Mr. William Earley, 

 and carried unanimously: — "That considering the 

 year 1889 is the centenary of the introduction of the 

 Chinese Chrysanthemum to Europe, it is advisable 

 that the National Chrysanthemum Society be re- 

 quested to prepare a scheme for the proper celebra- 

 tion of this event.'' 



Extraordinary Carrots.— At Waereghem, in 



Western Flanders, according to the Bulletin d'Arbori~ 

 culture, a Carrot has been lately exhibited 1 metre 

 45 centimetres long ; while at Beveren, in the same 

 province, a Turnip has been shown measuring more 

 than 1 metre in circumference. These giants recal 



