April 13, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



241 



Royal Horticultural Society.— The next plate. The flowers are white tinted with rose 

 meeting of the Committees of this Society will or violet, and are produced in May. 



technical staff of the department. In the pa^t 

 the second officer, in addition to the duties 

 Campanula arvatica, tab. 8431. — This is the appertaining properly to his position as deputy 

 plant figured and described in Gardeners' to tne cme f officer in all matters, has had the 

 G. Henslow, M.A., Chronicle, September 23, 1911, fig. 104, as direct control of the technical branch, but the 

 V.M.H. The competitive Daffodil show, to be Campanula acutangula. The plant was named committee are advised that this arrangement does 

 opened on Tuesday at the R.H.S. Hall, will con- c. arvatica more than a century ago, but was not secure the most efficient administration of 



take place on Tuesday, the 16th inst. At 3 p.m. 

 a lecture on " Darwin as Ecologist " will be 

 delivered by Rev. Prof 



tinue for two days. 



Royal Meteorological Society. — A meet- 

 ing of this Society will be held at the Institu- 

 tion of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, 

 Westminster, on the 17th inst., when papers 

 will be read by J. E. Clark, B.A., and 

 R. H. Hooker, M.A., on the " Report on the 



Observations for 1911." and 



afterwards lost sight of, and on its re-discovery 

 was named C. acutangula. But C. arvatica has 

 right of priority, and C. acutangula must be re- 



the work of the department. The committee 

 therefore propose that an additional senior 



assistant should be annointed to act as head of 



nately plants have not proved hardy in Kew 

 Gardens. 



Peter Barr Memorial Fund. — In 1910 



Phenological 



R. G. K. Lempfert, M.A., and W. Braby, B.A., numerous Daffodil lovers expressed a desire to 

 on " A Method of Summarising Anemogra^ns.'' 



Appointment from Kew. Mr. John Lam- 

 bourne, a member of the gardening staff of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has been appointed 

 by the Secretary of State for the Colonies As- 

 sistant Superintendent of Government Planta- 

 tions in the Federated Malay States. 



School Classes in the London Parks. 



Subject to the concurrence of the Parks and 

 Open Spaces Committee, a class of children from 

 the girls' department of the Poole's Park 



garded as a synonym. The species is endemic in the technical branch. This officer, however, will 

 Northern Spain, and flowers in July ; unfortu- be m place of an assistant in the second class, 



so that no numerical addition to the staff would 



in effect be made. 



Forest Areas in Canada.— The recent setting 



apart of the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve 

 calls renewed attention to the series of national 

 parks and forest reserves formed with commend- 

 able foresight by the Canadian Government in 

 the mountain districts of Alberta and British 

 Columbia. During the session of the Dominion 

 Parliament of 1911, a new Forest Reserves and 



see a fund raised for the purpose of commemorat- 

 ing the life and work of the late Mr. Peter 

 Barr, V.M.H. The members of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society's Narcissus and Floral Com- 

 mittees considered the matter, and the proposals 

 most favoured were the institution of a Peter 



Barr Memorial Medal and the provision of a Parks Act was passed, covering no fewer than 



24 parks and reserves with an area of 16,760,640 

 acres or nearly 30,000 square miles. These hold 

 within their wide boundaries some of the world's 



fund for the maintenance of an orphan through 

 the medium of the Royal Gardeners' Orphan 

 Fund. To give effect to these proposals, Messrs. 



J. T. Bennett Poe, M.A., V.M.H., William 



CUTHBERTSON, J. P., R. HOOPER PEARSON, Wm. 



Poupart, Chas. E. Shea, Walter T. Ware. 



grandest scenery, and conserve the sources of the 

 great rivers which lie in the snowfields and 

 glaciers of the continental watershed. The 



(London County Council) school is to be con- , . ' T * " ' ^ A •, ± ' e " i L ±i. t> i vr *. • r>«„u -d„«# 



\ , , . ~ , J -nix xi. •!!! * a •! and the Rev. J. Jacob were elected to form an largest are tne Rocky Mountains Park, Bantf, 



ducted in Finsbury Park from the middle of April 

 to the end of October. Last year the Parks 

 Committee offered to assist the Education Com- 

 mittee in carrying out a scheme for the utilisation 

 of parks and open spaces for class purposes, and 

 a start is now to be made at Finsbury Park, 

 where every facility is available for nature study, 

 simple practical geography, practical arithmetic, 

 measuring, and games. 



executive committee, with Mr. Wm. Marshall, with an area of 1,800 square miles, the Yoho 

 V.M.H., as chairman; Mr. H. B. May, V.M.H. . National Park of 560 square miles, Glacier Park 

 as treasurer; and Mr. Chas. H. Curtis as hon. 468 square miles and Jasper Park 1,000 square 



miles. 



Rhododendron Yodogawa. — This Rhodo- 

 dendron, introduced recently from Japan, receives 

 high praise from Mr. Kunert in the pages of 



secretary. Donations have been received from 



all parts of the 



and for these the committee 



world where Daffodils 



are grown, 



wish to tender their thanks. 



At a meet- 



ing held on Tuesday, April 2, the committee _r z . ?. n i_ j i j u 



i i xi. 2 j 1,-Y - a o7 n ij • x l Die Gar ten welt. It has proved hardy enough 



" Botanical Magazine." 



The issue for 



closed the fund, which, with £3 7s. Id. interest, 

 amounted to £309 15s. 5d. Receipt books, 



to withstand the severe frosts of January and 

 February (in Germany), though it may require 



a -i x • -ii 4. i.- j j -a- £ stationery, printing, and postage amounted to j t * . Jn ,, \ T , 



April contains illustrations and descriptions ol n i a +i, -i -u x> t? some shelter in very cold places. It grows 



the following plants : — 



Schomburgkia Lueddemanii. tab. 8427. — This 



£3 Is. 7d., and the silver-gilt Peter Barr 

 memorial cup (which does not involve the 

 creation of a trust, as an annual medal would 



well in exposed and also in half-shaded posi- 

 tions, and bears masses of delicate lilac-coloured 



Orchid is interesting as having re-appeared in ^ ^ cogt £5 ' g 1?s 6(L> Jeaving a balance blossoms. R Yodogawa has proved very useful 



gardens after having been lost sight of for half 

 a century. A plant, reported to have been re- 

 ceived originally from Venezuela, was purchased 

 for the Kew collection at a sale in London in 

 1908. It flowered for the first time at Kew in 

 1911, and was identified with S. Lueddemanii of 

 Prillieux. In common with other Schomburgkias, 



of £266 16s. 4d., which has been handed over 

 to the Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund. The 

 handsoms cup, designed and made by Messrs. 

 Elkington, will " be awarded annually in con- 

 nection with work among Daffodils." The 

 honour of holding it for the first year will belong 

 to the Rev. G. H. Engleheart, V.M.H. The 



for table and vase decoration. 



Mushroom Growing in France.— France is 



the great centre for the production of Mushrooms, 

 and it is estimated that the yield exceeds 

 6,000 tons per annum and brings in a return 

 of considerably over a quarter of a million pounds 

 sterling. According to an article on the sub- 



the plant needs considerable heat and exposure to w -n u ~ " 7*A fn AW Fvptfttt.pt i* ?,.*', AL ™ 1 ™ 1 * ? " a J 1 ™* 51 " 7V , 



j*1i u - i, i • « u t<u T. 4 CU P wl11 be P resented t0 Mr - i^GLEHEART at j ect in tIie Bulletin of the Bureau of Agncultu- 



■direct sunshine when making its growth, but 11Tn _ A -i 1A • il xt t ™,™ of iv. a J , T " ,. I ,. , , - , i, 



MW,™ fW ,^ M *. ™t.. ^nnl A* W An U-30 a.m. on April 16 in the No. 3 room at the ra l Intelligence, the disused stone-quarries, chalk- 



following this stage the roots should be kept dry 

 for a few weeks. 



Magnolia Kobus, tab. 8428. — This plant 

 formed the subject of the Supplementary Illus- 

 tration in Gardeners' Chronicle, April 29, 1905, 

 when Professor Sargent's description of the 

 «pecies, as given in the Florists' Flora of 

 Japan, was published in the accompanying 

 text. M. Kobus is nearly related to M. stellata 

 and M. salicifolia, which latter species was illus- 

 trated in our issue for last week (see fig. 99). 



— Agave pro- 



Changes in the London Parks Depart- 

 ment. — A number of changes in the staff of the 

 London County Council's Parks Department have 

 been rendered necessary by the forthcoming re- 

 tirement of Mr. G. F. Barnes, the second officer 

 of the department. As regards the position of 

 second officer, it is proposed to appoint, at a 

 tuberans is one of the numerous species intro- salary of £500 a year, Mr. F. W. Parker, the 



principal clerk of the department, who is at 



Royal Horticultural Hall. Although the fund p^ and gypsum-quarries in the neighbourhood 

 is closed, the committee will meet^ annually for c f i arge towns are used on a vast scale for Mush- 

 the purpose of awarding the cup in accordance room cultivation. Thus, in the neighbourhood of 

 with the original suggestion. p ar j s a i on e, over 1,500 hands are employed in the 



industry, and the daily output at the height of 

 the season amounts to 25 tons. After Paris and 



England is the chief 



AVE 



duced to gardens by the late Max Leichtlin. 

 The foliage is spotted with dark brown, the 

 usual terminal spine found in most species being 

 absent. The scape grows about 2 feet high, the 

 flowers being solitary on the swollen nodes of tb* 

 rachis. The perianth segments are greenish, 

 finely blotched with purple. The plant is a 

 native of Mexico, and requires the protection of 

 a greenhouse in this country. 



Daphne retusa, tab. 8430.— We are indebted 

 to Mr. E. H. Wilson for the introduction of 

 this pretty shrub from Western Szechuan, 

 China. Plants growing in the Coombe Wood 

 Nursery of Messrs. James Yeitch & Son sup- 

 plied the material for the Botanical Magazine 



present in receipt of a salary of £400 a year. 

 The Establishment Committee report that Mr. 

 Parker is possessed of organising ability and 

 technical qualifications, which make him 

 specially fitted for the position. As regards 

 the position of principal clerk, it is proposed to 

 promote Mr. D. Mottram, an assistant in the 

 first class, at the commencing salary of £300 a 

 year, rising by annual increments of £25 to £400 

 a year. For the consequential vacancy in the 

 first class, it is proposed to appoint Mr. E. T. 

 Powel, an assistant in the second class. The 



the " canning factories," 



market for French Mushrooms, though they 



travel in refrigerators so far as the United States. 



Treatment of Barren Soil. — The Board of 

 Agriculture has arranged for the continuation of 

 the experiments carried on privately for many 

 years by Mr. Elliot at Clifton-on-Bowmont. 

 The soil is poor, very stony, and liable to 

 deteriorate unless skilfully managed. Owing to 

 its dryness, it suffers severely from drought; it 

 can, in fact, by no ordinary system of farming 

 be made profitable. Mr. Elliot's method was 

 to plough up the herbage and to sow a new lot 

 of plants capable of resisting drought; after 

 many trials a mixture was devised suited to the 

 conditions, and also bringing in profit. It con- 

 tains Cocksfoot, Fescue, tall Oat Grass, and such 

 drought-resisting plants as Yarrow, Kidney 

 Vetch, Chicory, and Burnet. After four or five 



attention of the Establishment Committee has years this mixture can be followed by arable 

 been drawn to the need for strengthening the crops. 



