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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[May 18, 1912. 



EDITORIAL NOTICE. 



ADVERTISEMENTS should be scat to the PUB- 

 LISHER, 4i v Wellington Street, Covent Garden, 



W.C 

 Letters for Publication, as well as specimens of platits 

 for naming, should be addressed to the EDITORS, 

 41, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London. 



Communications should be written on onk sihk only of 

 thf 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 of 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, tin ess by 

 special arrangement. The Editors do not hold themselves 

 responsible for any opinions expressed by their correspon- 

 dents. 



Local News.— Correspondents will greatly oblige bysendingto 

 thf 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 notice of horticulturists. 



Illustrations.- The Editor swill 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. 



buoyant optimism which led to her con- 

 struction gives place to a sentiment of des- 

 perate fatalism. Such feelings are natural, 

 and beset all strenuous men at the dark 

 hour before action. It is only the brain- 

 less optimist who is always confident. 

 Such an one was he who, engaged in hang- 

 ing wallpaper, replied to the irate mas- 

 ter's exclamation, " Why, man, you have 

 hung it upside down!" with the soft 

 answer, " Oh! it will dry all right." 



Knowing that such feelings of pessimism 

 are bound to beset not a few of those who 

 have laboured to make the Exhibition a 

 success, we, who have watched their 

 labours and appreciate the splendid work 

 which they have done, step in at this 

 moment, when alFs done that may be 

 done, to assure them that " it will dry all 



right." 



APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. The exhibitor of delicate subjects may 



fin 



WEDNESDAY, MAY 22- 



Royal International Hort. Exh., in the Chelsea Hospital 

 Gardens. Exhibition open to the public on every week 

 day until May 30 inclusive. Bath and West and Southern 

 Counties Sh. at Bath (5 days). Royal Botanic Soc. meet. 



FRIDAY, MAY 24- 



Linnean Soc. meet, and Anniversary. 



Weinhausen, of Berlin, on " Horticultural Edu- 

 cation in Germany " ; W. Hales, Esq., of Chel- 

 sea Physic Garden, on " The Education of a 

 Gardener"; and Prof. A. Buyssens, of the 

 School of Horticulture, Vilvorde, Belgium, on 

 " Horticultural Education* in Belgium." The 

 second conference is arranged for Friday, the 

 24th inst., at 9.30 a.m., on " Legislation in Con- 

 nection with Plant Diseases and Pests." The 

 speakers include Prof. Ritzema Bos, of Holland, 

 on " The Value of Importation Regulations as a 

 Means of Preventing the Introduction of Hunt 

 Pests from Abroad "; A. G. L. Rogers. Esq.. 

 of the Board of Agriculture, on " The Aim of 

 Legislation in Great Britain"; H. Maxwell 

 Lefroy, Esq., M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S., Imperial 

 Entomologist for India, on " Legislation in Con- 

 nection with Insect Pests"; H. J. Girssow, 

 F.R.M.S., Botanist to the Canadian Government, 

 on " Legislation in Connection with Fungus 

 Diseases " ; and A. W. Sutton, V.M.H., of Read- 

 ing, on " Import Dues and Regulations." Re- 

 ports are being prepared by the Science and Edu- 

 cation Committee on the present condition of 

 both horticultural education and legislation 



in spite of all his careful devices, the fierce . 



V a o„^ <^™o nf Viiq finest <*neri- against plant pests, and will be printed with the 



sun has damaged some of his finest speci JJ m ^ A ^ naa{m 

 mens. Nevertheless, as he knows full well, 

 he is a resourceful man, and when his ex- 



papers and discussion. 



As an instance of the magnitude of 



Average Mean Temperature for the ensuing week 

 deduced from observations during the last Fifty Years 

 at Greenwich— 54 2°. 



Achal TemperatuRes:— 



London.— Wednesday, May 15 (6 P.M.): M"« ^° 



Min. 55 y . 

 Gardeners' Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 



Covent Garden, London —Thursday, May 16 

 (10 a.m.) : Bar. 29*4°; Temp. 55*; Weather— 

 Sunshine. 

 Provinces.— Wednesday, May 15: Max. 62° Norfolk; 



Min. 49° Ne vcastle-on-Tyne. 



Hudson), are of interest. The display of fruit 

 trees in pots will occupy 1,380 square feet. There 

 will be 13 different kinds of fruits shown in 50 



This enormous contribution 



of 



SALES FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



TUESDAY— _ . ... 



Semi estabished Cattleya aurea and other valuable 



Orchids, at 67 and 63, Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe 

 and Morris, at 1. 



WEDNESDAY — 



Liliums and other Hardy Bulbs, at 1; Palms and 

 Plants, at 3.80; at 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C., by 

 Protheroe and Morris. 



THURSDAY— t m _ _ _. , 



Orchids, by order of J. J. Holden, Esq., of Southport, 

 at 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe and Morns, 

 at 1. 



FRIDAY— Tr if , . .... .. 



Orchids, by order of Francis Wellesley, Esq., of Woking, 



at 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe and Morris, 

 at 1. 



hibit is staged none will believe in viewing some of the exhibits the following particulars 

 its magnificence that he and his foreman relating to that of Leopold de *™*r»> 



, , . t t i n i i ^t Esa Gunnersburv House, Acton (gr. Mr. J. 



and his men have lived through weeks of R^™; ™ 7 +prPflt ' Thp d Jf ftV of frllit 

 trouble. So also the organisers need not 

 vex their souls with apprehension. They 

 have done all that can be done to deserve JJSinS "varieties! 

 and command success, and may leave 

 the rest to the powers above and to the 

 Standing committee which, as we under- 

 stand, will be the power below to take de- 

 cision and action during the time of the 



Show. 



For our part, we have complete confi- 

 dence that the net effect of the Exhibition 

 will be a magnificent proof not only of the 

 skill of the world's horticulturists, not only 

 of the fact that British horticulture can 



will be set out in the form of two pans 

 parallelograms at opposite ends of the tent, each 

 parallelogram filling a space of 40 feet long by 

 8 feet wide, and each of the pairs of groups beim 

 connected by five pergolas of fruiting vines and 

 Cherries, which will span the path. To remov 

 these fruit trees from Gunner sbury to the show- 

 grounds 18 to 20 vans will be required. Another 

 of Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's exhibits will 

 be composed of the great specimen plants of 

 scented-leaved Pelargoniums, for which Gunners- 

 .. , , , bury House gardens are also noted. These plants 



hold its own against all comers, but also ^ ire a space qq feet i ong by 4 feet wide. 



that the love for and interest in plants is 



keener and more widely disseminated to- 



■ " The 



The medal (see 



Exhibition 



Vast numbers of people, both 



The Eve a ^ home and abroad, are look- 



* ZfiSlL. ing forward to the Exhibition 



Exhibition. p , 



with increasing interest and 

 expectation— happy people, whose only 

 care is the purchase of a ticket which will 

 entitle them to a unique opportunity 

 for enjoyment and admiration and, if 

 their tastes lie in that direction, to an 

 occasional effort in criticism. But there is great achievement. 



day than it ever was before. 



organisers and exhibitors will find no mean 



satisfaction when they see the thousands 



of admiring visitors thronging to the Ex- mmvm ,__ 



hibition, and when they themselves realise ^ Burlington^kouse. 



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and 



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 executed 



for the 



bv 



designed 



The design has met with 



was 



Mr. Allan G. Wyon. _„ 



the approval of the Committee of the Royal 

 Academy. The medal is included amongst the 

 select works of art of the year, and is on view 



that they have taken a leading part in 

 making the finest Horticultural Exhibition 

 that the world has ever seen. They may 

 at the moment wish that they were well 

 out of it; but for the rest of their lives 



List of Functions. 



Monday, May 20.— Private Press View Din- 

 ner at Holborn Restaurant, offered by tne 

 National Rose Society, at 7 p.m 



■ * 



they will be proud of the unselfish and pat- Tuesday M ay 21.— Reception at Grosvenor 



riotic part which they have played in this Square by ' the Duke and Duchess of Portland, 



■another section of the community which 

 awaits the event with less cheerful feel- 



The organisation of the Exhibition 



amount of 



mgs. 



has entailed 



an enormous 



labour and anxiety on the directors and 

 others. The preparation of the exhibits 



Arrangements for the Con- 

 ferences. — Two important Conferences will be 

 held during the International Exhibition at Chel- 

 sea on subjects connected with horticulture. Both 

 will be presided over by the Rt. Hon. A. H. 

 Dyke Acland, Chairman of the Science and 



has put a yet larger number of people to Education Committee, and will be held in the 



endless trouble and vast expense. Those 

 who belong to either of these categories 

 would be more than human were they not 

 to be seized, now that the strenuous work 



_ Ro\ 



Admission is free, and all interested in the sub- 

 jects are cordially invited to attend. Those at- 

 tending the exhibition may enter the conference 



Those not 



■ u ' -4.W r ±\Z 7 hall from the exhibition grounds 



is all but done, with feelings of regret that ™U ™ .. Mk ^ * mr 



they had ever undertaken such a hercu- 



attending the exhibition may enter the confer- 

 ence room from the Royal Hospital entrance. 



lean task. Mixed with a deep sense of re- The first conference will be on Thursday, the cultural Hall offered 

 lief that the opening day is upon them are 23rd inst., at 2 p.m., the subjects being " Hor- Society, at 7.15 p.m. 



regrets that the time is too short for fur- 

 ther efforts after perfection. At the in- 

 stant when the ship is ready to launch, the 



23rd inst., at 2 p.m., the subjects being " Hor- 

 ticultural Education," speakers: Prof. L. H. 

 Bailey, Cornell University, U.S.A., on " Hor- 

 ticultural Education in America " ; Herr K. 



at 9.30 p.m. 



Wednesday, May 22.— At about 1.30 p.m., 

 lunch to jurors, in marquee on the site. 



** TT or- 



Thursday, May 23.— Conference on » 

 ticultural Education " in the Recreation it a, 

 Chelsea Hospital, at 2 p.m. Visit to the B- <» 

 Gardens at Windsor Castle. Dinner at (Junne 

 bury, offered by. Mr. Leopold de Rothsch i , 

 Dinner offered by the Perpetual-flowering U 

 nation Society, at 6.45 p.m., at the Holbor 



Restaurant. . j 



Friday, May 24.-Conference on -Lec- 

 tion Affecting Diseases of Plants, at v.ou . 

 in the Recreation Hall. Banquet at tae 

 cultural Hall, offered by the Royal Hoiticu 



.cieiy, at) ..xo y.^. ifonrchelte 



Saturday, May 25.-Dejeuner a la *£ by 



and garden party at Burford Lodge, on 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. 







