February 10, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE 



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in congested areas. The question of the suit- 

 .ability of particular trees for cultivation in 

 densely-populated towns possesses great interest 



of mercury were shown. These patterns were 

 compared with the repetitions and reduplica- 

 tions found in the living organism. It was 



with the different packs used on the commercial 

 market. Special lectures and demonstrations 

 will be arranged for those who attend on the sub- 



for all who are engaged in public gardening. Ar- pointed out' that these mechanically-produced jects of planting, fertilising, pruning, spraying, 



rangements for the social functions in connection 



effects must not be looked upon as directly and the management of orchards. 



with the exhibition are nearing completion, and analogous to the similar effe s in the organism, 

 the reception committee, through the chairman, Yet it must not be considered as improbable that 

 .Sir Albert K. Rollit, has presented its report it i s to some similar mechanical device that Company have issued a directory of Guern- 



The Channel Islands.— The Guernsey Press 



The Right Hon. Walter 



to the directors. 



Runciman, P.O., M.P., will speak at the lunch 



meristic phenomena are due. 



to be given on the opening day to the members 

 •of the jury and administration. 



The " Orchid Review. •• -The February issue 

 of the Orchid Be view contains a fine portrait 



sey, Alderney, and Sark. Agriculture and 

 horticulture are important industries in the 

 Channel Islands. Nursorvmen mav be interested 



The Silver Cup, illustrated in fig 39, and biographical notice of Mr. Harry J. Veitch, 



will be offered by the Yokohama Nursery Co., F.L.S., V.M.H., figures of Oncidium Krameri- 



Ltd., at the Royal International Horticultural anum, Cypripedium San-Acta>us " West field 

 Exhibition in May next, for the best exhibit of 



Paeonia Moutan. 

 13 inches. 



The height of the 



cup is 



to learn that the authorities forbid the impoi a- 

 tion of Gooseberry and Currant bushes, or cut- 

 tings of the same; whilst Potatos are not allowed 

 to be imported unless the consignment is accom- 

 panied by a declaration. It is also forbidden to 

 import vines, unless special permission is obtained 

 from the Royal Court. 



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Liverpool Horticultural Association. — 



This society will hold a spring flower show on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, March 27 and 28, a 

 Sweet Pea show on Wednesday, July 17, and a 

 Chrysanthemum show on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, November 13 and 14. The exhibi- 

 tions will be held in the Corn Exchange, Bruns- 

 wick Street, Liverpool. Particulars may be 

 obtained from the secretary, Mr. Harold 

 Sadler. 



trated chiefly by the rostellum of an Orchid 



Mr. John Lambert. — At Welshpool re- 

 cently Mr. John Lambert, late of Powis Castle 

 Gardens, was presented by the Mayor with a 

 purse of gold subscribed by friends to mark the 

 occasion of his retirement from his charge at 

 Powis Castle. 



organism 



Professor Bateson on Genetics. — Con- 

 tinuing his discussion of meristic variation, Pro- 

 fessor Bateson said that the nature of the dis- 

 turbance which gives rise to such variations is 

 unknown. The consequences of the disturbance 

 are not chaotic, but there are at least traces of 

 orderliness in the variations that result. The 



seems always to aim at producing 

 order. For instance, in the hind foot of the 

 polydactyle cat, not only are the extra toes on 

 the radial side formed like those of the other 

 side, but the normal index is reversed. Similar 

 oases in other animals were given. An interest 

 ing discovery was made by Tornier, when study- 

 ing the regeneration processes of the Tadpole. 

 He made a cut in the bud, from which, normally, 

 a single leg would develop. In addition to the 

 single limb, there developed an extra pair, and 

 those bore a normal right and left-handed rela- 

 tion to each other. If the buds of both legs 

 were cut, two extra pairs of legs were formed. 

 These extra pairs may be compared to the twin 

 larvae, that may arise from the division of a 



var., ,> and the handsome new hybrid Odonto- 



glossum Delhi. There are articles on the 



"Orchids of Panama/' " Hybridisation of Zygo- 



petalum Mackayi," and " Fertilisation and 



Secondary Hybrids." In the leading article, —The Government of Western Australia recently 



under the title " Our Note Book," is a discussion placed an order with Messrs. Sutton & Sons, 



of some of the phenomena of inheritance, illus- Reading, for 165 tons of seed Potatos to be 



shipped to the Western State of the Common- 

 wealth. The object of this importation is to im- 

 prove the type of Potato grown in the State, and 

 to secure immunity from disease. The selection 

 was carried out under the inspection of the Board 

 of Agriculture. The first consignment of 30 tons 

 was despatched by the s.s. " Masunda." The 

 balance of the order, namely, 135 tons, was 

 shipped on the steamer " Jeanara " on Monday, 

 February 5. The tubers, after being carefully ex- 

 amined and hand-picked by Messrs. Sutton's 

 staff, were packed in boxes (in specially-prepared 

 material) with a view to preserving them during 

 the protracted journey, each box containing 

 1 cwt. The total consignment, therefore, con- 

 sisted of no fewer than 3,300 cases. 



The Exportation of Plants. — The Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries announce that they 

 are prepared to issue the certificates required by 

 the Governments of the countries and colonies to 

 which plants are to be exported under certain 

 conditions. The conditions require, among other 

 things, that where consignments of plants or 

 bulbs are only admitted on production of a certi- 

 ficate by the Board, or by one of their inspectors, 

 that the contents have been declared to be healthy 

 or free from certain specified pests, application 

 should be made to the Board a few days before 

 the consignment is to be despatched. When the 

 parcel is to be sent by parcel post the plants 





Fig. 39. — royal international show. 



(Cup to be offered by the Yokohama Nursery Company.) 



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should be sent ready packed in a box, with the 

 lid not nailed down, to the Secretarv of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 4, Whitehall 

 Place, London, S.W., marked " Plants (or bulbs) 

 for export." If the parcel is to be despatched by 

 the Board a prepaid adhesive label should be en- 

 closed, and the Customs declaration form should 



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of this publication gives an account of the Duke be filled up and affixed. No charge is made for 



of Marlborough's Orchids at Blenheim Palace, the certificate unless the parcel is over 7 lbs. in 



single egg cell. The one half of the egg cell re- w j t h an excellent portrait of the Duke, and views weight or the inspector is required for any reason 



generates the other half, giving rise to a complete in some of the Orchid houses. Mr. Kromer to travel to the place where the consignment is 



larva. Another case of orderly phenomena in re- continues the story of his Orchid collecting in to be examined. In this case a charge of £2 2s. 



generation is that of the earth-worm. If the 



British Guiana. Current events and the reports 



will be made. Where a certificate is required 



*»a similarly with the head. But if the cut is 

 made behind these critical points there is no such 

 regeneration. The tail may be cut off between 

 the two critical points, but instead of the growth 

 •of a new head a new tail is formed, the mirror 

 image of the first tail. In Planarians, the head 

 may be cut off, and another head, the mirror 

 image of the first, will be regenerated. Scientists 

 -nave compared the orderly structures of the liv- 

 ing organism with the shapes of crystals, 

 this ennmt^^. cannot be fairly made, 



is ultimately molecular, 

 and 



grown has been found to be free from certain 

 specified pests, application for the attendance of 

 an inspector must be made before May 1 each 

 year. A fee of £2 2s. will be charged for the 

 certificate. Where a certificate is required that 



tail is cut off at a certain point it is regenerated, f the Orchid Committee make up a very interest- that the nursery in which a consignment has been 



ing number. 



Apple Packi: g at Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College.— Mr. F. C Sears, Pro- 

 fessor of Pomology at the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, sends us particulars of a school no disease of a certain kind has been reported 

 of Apple packing, arranged to take place at the f rom the neighbourhood in which the plants were 

 College from February 12 to 24. The packing grown a declaration by the grower must be sent 

 school will be under the personal direction of not less than three days before despatch, stating 

 Professor Sears; the instruction in pack- that the plants (in most cases Potatos) were 



grown on a particular farm, naming the parish 

 and county, and that the disease has not occurred 

 on those premises. No charge is made for this 

 certificate. Applications for further particulars 



comparison 

 crystalline form 

 form in animals 



But 



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for 



, and 

 plants is not molecular. 

 Some remarkable photographs of complex waves 

 and patterns caused by agitation of the surface 



ing will be given by John B. Castner, expert 

 box packer of Hood River, Oregon. The work 

 will consist of grading and packing Apples in 

 boxes and barrels, those registering performing 

 the operations themselves until they are familiar may be made to the Board. 



