February 3, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



1 



Street Trees in Canada. — In his interest- 

 ing note on this subject (see p. 3) Pern does not 

 mention the kinds of trees which are planted 

 in the streets of Canada ; neither does he 

 give the names of those in the Winnipeg 

 street, which were said to have with- 

 stood such intense cold. The illustration 

 (see fig. 2) shows a street of exceeding 

 width, as compared w T ith that of an English 

 town, and the trees evidently hfrve both head and 

 root room far in excess of that which trees in our 

 streets have. Also smoke and soot are evidently 

 very much less in evidence in such open spaces, 

 as the street shown in the illustration can scarcely 

 be less than 100 feet wide. The illustration 

 shows that the trees are not subjected to dis- 

 tressingly hard prunings such as our street trees 

 receive in winter. They seem also as if they are 

 allowed to grow naturally and not constrained 

 into rigidly spiral or conical forms. A. D. 



The Pronunciation of Plant-Names. — 

 " A little learning is a dangerous thing." Of 

 late years many people have learnt that in Latin 

 words the vowel a is to be pronounced ah, as in 

 Ah or Bah. Therefore, they speak of Clematis 

 montana as Clematis montahnah. Why do they 

 confine the "new pronunciation," as the school- 

 masters term it, to the specific name only, when 

 to be consistent they ought to speak of Clay- 

 mahteece montahnah? In like manner Iris stylosa 

 should be called Eereece steelosah and nothing 

 else. Others having learnt that the German 

 syllable heu is to be pronounced like the Eng- 

 lish syllable hoy, and not knowing that the 

 German ch is to be pronounced as we pronounce 

 it in loch, talk about their Hoykeras. And only 

 the other day I heard one in a garden mention 

 Ins Cockeye! Surely, sir, until we "reform" 

 all our spelling and all our pronunciation, we 

 ought to be content with speaking as our fathers 

 spoke, and say Briza, not Breezah ; Dahlia, not 

 Daylia; Cakile, not Cahkeelay. George Hyde 

 W ol/aston, Flax Bourton. 



LlLlUM SULPHUREUM AND L. FORTUNE! (see 



p. 19).— The illustration of L. sulphureum in 

 fig. 14 conveys a very fair impression of its 

 torm and the general poise of the blooms on the 

 stems. Ihe fine trumpet-like blooms have just 

 that pleasing droop downward which relieve 

 them of any stiffness, and enables one to see the 

 beauty of the sulphur-coloured throat and the pro- 

 minent stamens. In these gardens fine flowers 

 of this beautiful Lily upon their tall, slender 

 stems towering above the plumed, massive heads 

 ct Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, were a sight 

 that gave pleasure to all who saw them. In the 

 early morning and at eventime the blossoms 

 diffused a pleasant fragrance that was not over- 

 powering as in the case of some other Liliums. 



ihtiT - W€r6 Plant ? d in a heav .V loam w ith 



ufiich was incorporated a good dressing of partly 



felvTlrf f i m ° Uld Yf* plantin S > *»d de P caye3 

 leaves are also pricked into the soil in autumn 



aroun^X. 7 e Pl f 6 a C0l ] ar ° f Prorated zinc 

 around the .terns to guard the vounu growths 



against slugs. The plant produces bulbils freelv 



offering a ready means of increasing the stock' 



tne slugs. Ihe plant grows stronsr and 

 the flowers are placed well apart in a more or 



C ?ves P> a ra nl lda - head -, In theautumn tKl i?y 

 I een fo^lTJ A° l °T e % 1 above the da 2 



B W Norm of 4 U ; arf -S r r in r Rh ^od e ndron S . 

 u. W. Norman, Hehgan Gardens, St. Austell. 



SOCIETI 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Ltd.. Gate- 



r> c „ SEEDS. 



V HAS - w - Br eadmore, Winchestpr 

 John R. Box, Croydon. V,nchester - 



Charles Turner, Slough. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



a cre V n"4r°T-° RCHI ? AND NuRSERY Co., 

 A r , A Liverpool— Orchids. 



A. Ll. Gwillim, Sidcup, Kent-Begonias. 



. ~ FOREIGN. 



CoNv A E R L s IN B ES F I C l h I ? ne T BoUr S. geneva-Seeds. 



U.S.A.-Seed^ ' ' Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, 



^leeds PFIT2ER » Mi *-strasse, W. Stuttgart, Germany 



bTm^ L ™' 21-35, Nakamura, Yoke 



MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF 



ENGLAND ORCHID. 



January 12. 



Crombleholme (in 

 Ashworth, W. R. 

 Z. A. Ward, J. C. 

 W. Holmes, A. J. 

 Arthur (secretary). 



J. 



R, 



Com m ittee prese n ( : Rev. 



the Chair) ; and Messrs. 



Lee, C. Parker, H. Thorp, 



Cowan, J. Cypher, J. Evans, 



Keeling. D. McLeod. and H. 



The following Medals were awarded for collec- 

 tions of Orchids : — 



Esq., 



group 

 Silver 



Silver-gilt Medals to Z. A. Ward, 

 Northenden (gr. Mr. Weatherby), for a 

 consisting principally of Odontoglossums. 

 Medals to W. R. Lee, Esq., Hey wood (gr. 

 Mr. Branch), for a mixed group ; Col. J. 

 Rutherford, Blackburn (gr. Mr. Lupton), for a 

 miscellaneous group ; W. J. Hargreaves, 

 Esq., Burnley, for a group of Cypripediums ; 

 J. McCartney, Esq., Bolton (gr. Mr. Holmes), 

 for a collection of miscellaneous plants. 

 Bronze Medals to Rev. J. Crombleholme, Clay- 

 ton-le-Moors (gr. Mr. Marshall), for small but 

 pretty Cypripediums; G. H. Pearce, Esq., 

 Monton Grange (gr. Mr. C. Mace), for Cypripe- 

 diums. Other exhibitors were : O. O. Wrigley, 

 Esq., Bury (gr. Mr. Rogers); S. Gratrix. Esq., 

 Whalley Range (gr. Mr. Brown) ; J. J. Holden, 

 Esq., Southport (gr. Mr. Johnson) ; H. J. 

 Bromilow, Esq., Rann Lea (gr. Mr. Morgan) ; 

 J. H. Craven, Esq., Keighley (gr. Mr. Corney) ; 

 R. Le Doux, Esq., West Derby (gr. Mr. 

 Fletcher); H. Thorp, Esq., Middleton; Messrs. 

 J. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham; Messrs. 

 Sander & Sons, St. Albans; Messrs. Stuart 

 Low & Co., Enfield; Messrs. A. J. Keeling 

 & Sons, Bradford; Messrs. Hassall & Co., 

 Southgate; Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Hay- 

 wards Heath; Mr. W. Siiackleton, Great Hor- 

 ton, and Mr. D. McLeod, Chorlton-cum-Hardy. 



AWARDS. 

 First-class Certificates. 



Ltelio-C attleya Myrrha grandis (Gottoiana x 

 Dowiana Rosita), Cypripedium Actceus variety 

 u Durbar,'' Odontoglossnm crispum xanthotes 

 variety " Perfecta," all shown by W. R. Lee, 

 Esq. Odontoglossnm Delhi (augustum X exi- 

 mium), a fine flower, from J. J. Holden, Esq. 

 Odontoglossnm crispum xanthotes Gratrixce, 



from S. Gratrix, Esq. 



Awards of Merit. 



Cattleya Maggie Raphael variety " pidcher- 

 rima " and Odontoglossnm " Milky Way," both 

 from W. R. Lee, Esq. Cypripedium Jasper 

 (Alcibiades x Hitchensse), a fine large flower, 

 and Odontoglossnm X Eric, a variety with 

 deep purple blotches; both from Z. A. Ward, 

 Esq. Cypripedium Seedling (hirsutissimum 

 X aureum Hyeanum), exhibited by S. Gratrix, 

 Esq. C. Actceus Major (Leeanum giganteum x 

 Harefield Hall), a well-shaped flower, from Col. 

 J. Rutherford, M.P. C. caudatum Sanderce 

 and C. Jucundum, a noble flower, from Messrs. 

 Sander & Sons. Sophro -Cattleya Saxa 

 " Low's " variety (Sophronitis grandiflora x 

 Cattleya Trianae) ; Cypripedium Lion (Mrs. 

 Mostyn X Euryades), a fine and round flower, 

 from Messrs. A. J. Keeling & Sons. 



2s. 2£d 



LEEDS PROFESSIONAL GARDENERS. 



The forty-fifth annual report and statement 

 of accounts of the year shows that this benefit 

 society had out of a total income of £226 10s. l£d. 

 a credit balance amounting to £108 3s. Id., 

 bringing the accumulated funds up to £1,874 



Sickness has averaged about seven 

 days per member, one member and one mem- 

 ber's wife have died, and the sum of £17 has been 

 paid in death allowances, which, with £53 7s. 6d. 

 paid in sickness benefits, makes a total sum of 

 £70 7s. 6d. paid out of the benefit fund. Several 

 members in poor circumstances have been as- 

 sisted in the payment of their contributions and 

 by grants from the Distress Fund, the amount 

 disbursed being £8 10s. 7d. Three new mem- 

 bers have been admitted during the year, one 

 member has died, and eight lapsed or resigned, 

 most of them having gone abroad. The number 

 of ordinary members is 155. The secretary is 

 Mr. George Carver, The Grange Gardens, Scar- 

 croft, near Leeds. 



ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL. 



January 17. — The annual general meeting of 

 this Society was held on the "above date at the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George 

 Street, Westminster, Dr. H. N. Dickson, Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. 



The Council, in their report, stated that they 

 had decided to discontinue the collection of obser- 

 vations and the publication of The Meteorologi- 

 cal Record as from December 31, 1911; and that 

 they proposed to prepare a series of normal values 

 of climatological elements of the British Isles. 



The President presented to Professor Cleveland 

 Abbe, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, Washington, 

 the Symons Gold Medal for 1912, which had been 

 awarded to him in consideration of his distin- 

 guished work in connection with instrumental, 



tatistical and dynamical meteorology and fore- 

 casting. 



The President delivered an address on u Some 

 Meteorological Observations." He said that 



meteorology has at the present time reached an 

 important and critical phase in its history. This 

 is due, in the main, to the operation of three 

 principal factors: (1) By the effluxion of time a 

 mass of observational material has been accumu- 

 lated which urgently requires examination and 

 discussion, with the object of ascertaining the 

 precise meaning and value of the records and of 

 improving routine methods for the future ; (2) 

 the rapid increase of knowledge of the conditions 

 obtaining in the upper atmosphere has modified 

 and is modifying current views as to atmo- 

 spheric phenomena generally, and new in- 

 terpretations must be placed upon the dis- 

 tributions observed at the surface of the 

 earth ; (3) the importance of applied meteo- 

 rology in relation to agriculture and other activi- 

 ties of everyday life is becoming more generally 

 recognised. It follows that there is in many 

 directions urgent need for the extended prosecu- 

 tion of research work. Increase of popular in- 

 terest and public support is necessary, and the 

 active assistance of research workers must be 

 enlisted. It is to be noted that the investiga- 

 tions required are of many different qualifica- 

 tions ; they include the criticism and improve- 

 ment of methods of routine observation, partici- 

 pation in organized exploration of the upper air, 

 investigation of statistical and analytical methods 

 of dealing with data already collected, investiga- 

 tion of mathematical or physical problems stated 

 as the result of observation, and the examination 

 or restatement of geographical or other questions 

 affecting the relation of meteorology to the pro- 

 blems of botany and other applied sciences. 



SOUTHAMPTON ROYAL HORTI- 

 CULTURAL. 



(ANNUAL MEETING.) 



January 22.— The 49th annual meeting of the 

 Southampton Royal Horticultural Society was 

 held on this date. Mr. A. J. Day, J. P., pre- 

 sided, in the absence of the Mayor. 



The annual report showed that the financial 

 position of the society had improved since the 

 last account was issued. Although a small sum 

 was due to the treasurer, the council had been 

 able to meet all liabilities. Many new members 

 had been added during the past year, but a large 

 number of former subscribers had been lost. 



The Rose show was a success financiallv. and 

 the exhibits, although showing a falling off in 

 some classes, were generally of the highest order 

 of merit. The autumn show was the best of the 

 season, but, unfortunately, the attendance was 

 disappointing, being, indeed, the lowest since 

 the Chrysanthemum shows were instituted. 



A liberal and comprehensive schedule of prizes 

 is being prepared for the great Jubilee Show, to 

 be held in July. 

 ^ Mr. E. Kemp Toogood, in proposing the adop- 

 tion of the report, impressed upon the members 

 and his fellow townsmen the necessity of giving 

 the society increased support to enable the coun- 

 cil to celebrate the society's 50th anniversary in 

 a fitting manner. 



Lord Swaythling was elected president., and 



the vice-presidents were re-elected. Mr. Toogood 



was enthusiastically re-elected chairman of the 



council, Mr. A. Doggrell vice-chairman, and Mr. 



A. G. Thompson hon. treasurer. Mr. C. S. 



Fuidge was re-elected secretary for the 40th 

 year. 



