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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[May 11, 1912. 



EDITORIAL NOTICE. 









ADVERTISEMENTS should be sent to the PUB- 

 LISHER, 41. Wellington Street, Covent Garden, 



Letters for Publication, as well as specimens of plants 

 for naming, should be addressed to the EDITORS, 

 41, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London. 



Communications should be written on one side only of 

 the paper, sent as early in the week as possible and duly 

 signed by the writer. If desired, the signature will not be 

 printed, but kept as a guarantee 0/ good, faith. 



Special Notice to Correspondents.— The Editors do not 

 undertake to pay for any contributions or illustrations, or 

 to return unused communications or illustrations, unless by 

 special arrangement. The Editors do not hold themselves 

 ' responsible for any opinions expressed by their correspon- 

 dents. 



Local News.— Correspondents will greatly oblige by sending to 

 the Editors early intelligence of local events likely to be of 

 interest to our readers, or of any matters which it is desirable 

 to bring under the .otice of horticultures. 



Illy st rat ion s. - The Editors will be glad to receive and to select 

 photographs or drawings, suitable for reproduction of 

 gardens, or of remarkable plants, flowers, trees, &c, but 

 they cannot be responsible for loss or injury. 



Newspapers.— Correspondents sending newspapers should be 

 careful to mark the paragraphs they wish the Editors to see. 



flowering shrubs, and the fullest equipment 

 of ornamental gardens. Readers, will 

 readily call to mind many remote sea- 

 side resorts, country towns, and manufac- 

 turing centres where the gardening spirit 

 is in evidence. More, however, remains to 



Our Exhibition Supplements. - All horti- 

 culturists — both those whose good fortune it wfll 

 be to attend the International Exhibition and 

 those who may be unable to do so — will wish to 

 have a permanent record of that great event 

 Moreover, the duty of placing on record a full 



t 1 • ' ' u ~ ~~j and impartial report of the exhibition is on* 



be done, and in many cases where good , . , £ *. /. , "■» ™* 



work has been carried out, expert advice 

 wouid yet secure better results. The gar- 

 dener can hardly be said to have come into 

 his own in connection with town gardening. 

 The amateur enthusiast on the Council is 

 apt to lead his committee, and, with the 

 best intentions possible, he determines a 

 policy, and commands its execution, with 

 an assurance that is seldom affected by 



which is owing not only to contemporary horti- 

 culturists, but also to their successors. 



shall therefore issue a 



the form of 



We 



full and illustrated 

 report in the form of a supplement to 

 the Gardeners' Chronicle. The supplement, 

 which will be presented to all our subscribers, 

 will consist of three parts. The first part will 

 be combined in our issue of May 25, and will be 

 devoted to a general report of the exhibition and 

 of the Awards. The second part will appear in 



those who have made it their business to the ^ ue of the following week (June 1), and 



study the principles of ornamental garden- ^LT^.t^^-?' "^^^Lf^^^ 

 ing. It is of the utmost importance, 

 where public authorities decide upon gar- 



APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, dening developments that they secure the 



MONDAY, MAY 13- 



United Hort. Benefit and Prov. Ccm. meet. 



TUESDAY, MAY 14— 



Royal Hort. Soc. Coins, meet and Tulip Sh. (Masters 

 Memorial Lecture bv Prof. I. Bayley Balfour on "Gar- 

 dening and Drought.") Devon County Sh. at Plymouth 

 (3 days). Horticultural Club meet. 



WEDNESDAY, MAY 15- 



Royal Meteorological Soc. meet. North of England 

 Hort. Soc. meet at Leeds. (Lecture by Mr. J. H. 

 Priestley on " Electricity in Relation to Horticulture. ) 

 Paris Spring Sh. 15-22. 



THURSDAY, MAY 16- m _ tMm 



Manchester and North of England Orchid Soc. meet. 



services of a well-qualified and adequately- 

 remunerated professional gardener who 



report, together with an account of the con- 

 gresses and social functions held in connection 

 with the exhibition. The third and concluding 

 part of the Exhibition Supplement, which will 

 be published on June 8, will deal with the 

 " Sundries," which have become such an im- 



has acquired, as the result of experience, portant and striking feature of recent horticul- 

 the skill and judgment essential to success tural exhibitions. 



in garden planning. The vicarious inspira- 

 tion of the amateur is a dangerous alterna- 

 tive to professional skill, no less in garden- 

 ing than in other walks of life. The choice 

 of areas, the positions for special features, 



Certificates at the International Show 



Important Notice. 



Awards 



of Merit will be awarded at the Royal Inter- 

 national Horticultural Exhibition just as is 



Average Mean Temperature for the ensuing week 

 deduced from observations during the last Fifty Years 

 at Greenwich— 52 2°. 



Actual Temperatures:— 



London.— Wednesday, May S (6 p.m.): Max. 71°; 



Min. 58°. 

 Gardeners' Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 



Covent Garden, London— Thursday, May 9 

 (10 a.m.) : Bar. 30*1°; Temp. 67°; Weather— 

 Sunshine. 

 toviNCEs.— Wednesday, May 8: Max. 66° Yarmouth ; 

 Min. 52° Preston. 



,r 14.' t l i. *x li £ j,u usual at the shows of the Royal Horticultural 



the selection of plants suitable for the " . . * x x ~ -.. . , 



,. , , t, li-i j • j Society. By an arrangement the Directors have 



particular locality, and kindred consider*- ^ ^ ^ ^^ of ^ Horticultural 



tions demand the knowledge of the expert ; g^.. thig gociety has agreed to regard the 



and perhaps in no other calling or profes- Csrtificates and Awards given at the International 



sion would an amateur who rides a. hobby ghow as R . HiS . Awards. All entries of plants, 



be prepared to perform the functions of flowers, fruits or vegetables for certificates must 



one who has devoted all his time and be sent to Mr. A. J. Gaskell, R.H.S. Hall, Vin- 



energies to acquire the experience neces- cen t Square, Westminster, not later than May 18. 



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SALtS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



WEDNESDAY- „ „ 



Herbaceous Plants, Lilies and Hardy Bulbs, at 12 

 Trade Sale of Miscellaneous Bulbs, at 3.30; Palms and 

 Plants, at 5 ; at 67 & 68, Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe 

 and Morris. 



Clearance Sale of 60,000 Beading Plans, at 158, Ravens 

 croft Road, Btckenhani, Kent ; by Protheroe & Morns 



at 1. 



sary to fit him for his work. We advise 



gardeners to qualify themselves by every 



means in their power for the increasingly 



important duties connected with town 

 gardening. • 



Royal Horticultural Society.— The next 



ill 



. 



meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society w 

 be held in the Society's Hall, Vincent Square, 

 Westminster, on the 14th inst. At the three 

 o'clock meeting in the lecture room the "7th 



The Garden City movement has had a Masterg Memorial Lecture „ will be de i ive red by 

 stimulating effect, and will excite urban Prof j B Balfour> the subjec t being "Gar- 



districts to further gardening efforts. 

 There are some towns of considerable im- 

 portance where very little attempt has yet 



dening and Drought. 



> » 



The » Farrer- Cup. -Mr. Fabker writes to 



been made to acquire or develop land for remind as that the Royal Horticultural Society 



It is pleasant to reflect upon pleasure grounds and recreation, and such reserves its right to give medals or other awards 



towns will inevitably lose what importance to the next best exhibits in the competition for 

 and prestige they may enjoy, unless in this this cup, or to withhold the cup altogether if no 



exhibit is held by the judges, whose discretion is 

 absolute, to attain the required standard. The 



Carting. the Popularity of open spaces, 



decorated squares, and gar- 

 dens in our provincial towns ; and particu- par ti C ular they amend their ways. The 

 larly so, when we compare present activity authorities of a fashionable coast town in 

 with 



A quarter Wales are to _ day lamenting their failure to P lants shown must not exceed 9 inches m helg 



of a century ago but few of the larger acfc on the a( j v ice given them 25 years ago 



centres paid attention to the beautifying to pIant the mount ain background to their 



of their open spaces with flowers, trees, pre tty town. Twenty-five years' growth of 

 or shrubs, and the smaller t 



were 



Pinewood would have been an asset to-day 

 too much engrossed in the question that t fc e town badly needs. Fortunately, 



of low rates to give even a passing both in t ^i s case and many others, the 



egard 



even villages, bright 



extravagance. Happily, public opinion 

 is now all in favour of making towns 



and cities, and 

 at the public expense. Beside the 

 Metropolis, where the various public 

 bodies are keenly alive to the 



public will not tolerate a like procrastina- 

 tion in the future. 



nu- 



ance 



him 



Coloured Supplementary Illustrations.— 



Starting from the present month, we propose 

 to publish at regular intervals coloured plates of 

 subjects of permanent horticultural value. Not 

 a few illustrations are — in spite of rtcent de- 



Horticultural Club. — A special house 

 dinner of the club will be held on Tuesday next, 

 the 14th inst., at the Hotel Windsor. After the 

 dinner a lecture and exhibition will be given by 

 Mrs. Henshaw (of Vancouver, B.C.), hon. secre- 

 tary of the Alpine Club of Canada, on " Trails in 

 the Canadian Rockies." Coloured lantern slides 

 will be shown, representing some of the more in- 

 teresting features of the Canadian Alpine flora. 

 The chair wiU be occupied by the President, Sir 

 Frank Crisp. Ladies are especially invited on 



occasion 



nised so signally), we 



r h t i 1 velopments in colour-process work — more faith- 



gratified to find seaside and inland 



towns all over Great Britain awakened 



fully rendered in black and white. Such sub- 

 jects we shall continue to reproduce by these 

 means. But in all cases where colour is calcu- 



r. William Hales, A.L.S.-At »_ recent 

 meeting of the Linnean Society, Mr. William 

 Hales, Curator of the Physic Garden, Chelsea, 

 was elected an Associate of that Society. I 



Hales is a graduate of the Botanical w*« - ' 



Birmingham, and the Royal Gardens, Kew. * 



or awakening to the desirability for, lated to lend an additional value to the illustra- has entirely remodelled the Physic Garden, an 



revived all the interest that formerly belong^ 

 fields, but for artistic displays of sum- the usefulness and attractiveness of our Supple- to it. We congratulate Mr. Hales on his we - 



not only open spaces and playing tion 



propose to use that means of adding to 



mer bedding subjects, herbaceous borders, mentary Illustrations 



deserved honour. 





