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THE GARDENERS' 



CHRONICLE. 



[June 1, 1912. 



SlR Harrv VE.TCH.-The announcement that gurated by Mr. Hooper Pearson at the last an- 

 a tohthood has been bestowed on Mr. Harrv nual dinner, is making steady progress. Already 

 ££5 be received with f eelin g s of delight the.mmiUee^d —£.--« £-£ 



The financial statement showed a balance of 



by all horticulturists, for all love the man and 

 admire his work. No honour could be bestowed 

 more worthilv, for no man has striven more 

 strenuously and consistently for the advancement 

 of horticulture than has Sir Harry Veitch. 

 He was at work before many of us were born, 

 and his work continues to this day. Long may 

 he remain with us to adorn the rank to which 

 ho has been called. To describe the range of the 

 activities of Sir Harry Veitch were to write a 

 history of contemporary horticulture, but what 

 will most touch the hearts of gardeners is the 

 generosity and devotion which he has displayed 

 in the interests of the gardening charities. For 

 more years than we care to remember, Sir Harry 

 has been Chairman of Committee and Treasurer 

 of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution, 

 and it will be within the recollection of all that 



r* e ;l L W ' hirpeTto aT £ ™-l ferred to the past year's loss of true and tried 

 Jest*:, of that institutl the subscriptions »„, friend, of tk. brotherhood, and more £ta» 

 of a larger amount than on any previous or subse- lady 



Renovation of the Chelsea Gardens.— 

 It must be apparent to all who have visited 

 the International Exhibition that the neces- 

 sary renovation of the hospital gardens is 

 matter requiring immediate attention. Mr. 

 Edward White informs us that the work will be 

 greatly facilitated if the Directors have at their 

 hand a supply of trees and shrubs to present to 

 the governors for immediate planting. A few 

 firms have already made useful contribu- 

 tions for this purpose, and it is hoped that others 

 may be able to help in this connection, for ex- 

 hibitors have every reason to be grateful to the 

 governors of the hospital. Those who can help 

 are asked to intimate this fact to the Organising 

 Secretary, Mr. Geoffrey Henslow. 



Gardening at Delhi.— Mr. Griessen, Super- 

 intendent of the Taj and other gardens at 

 ' Agra, is in charge of the horticultural and gar- 

 dening operations in connection with the new 

 capital of India. He is assisted by Mr. R. H. 

 Locke, Superintendent, Government Gardens, 

 Delhi, and also Mr. Dodd, Delhi. All three wera 

 the death of Sir J. D. Hooker. f ormer ly members of the garden staff at Kew. 



£27 4s. 6d. The chief items on the re- 

 ceipt side were the surplus of £43 lis. 5d. 

 from 1910-11; annual subscriptions and sales, 

 £11 7s. Id. ; and advertisements, £14 10s. 

 The Director of Kew, Lieut. -Col. D. Prain, 

 C.M.G., &c, who presided at the dinner, was 

 supported by Mr. J. H. Burkill, M.A., 

 Mr. R. J. Lynch, M.A., and 116 members 

 and guests. In the course of an admirable 

 speech, the president expressed his gratification 

 at being present. He said that it was just a 

 quarter of a century since he first became con- 

 nected with Kew men in India, and his six years 

 of Directorship of Kew had served to confirm the 

 high opinion he had previously formed of Kew 

 and her sons. Col. Prain sympathetically re- 



quent year. Sir Harry is a fitting subject for 

 the honour of knighthood. Direct and simple, 

 with sympathy and steady purpose, he has done 

 a man's work in the world. 



This was the sad side of the brotherhood of 



Rhododendron Exhibition.— An exhibition 



Supplementary Illustration.— The sub- from Indiaj Mr w j Tutcher, from Hong 

 ject of this week's coloured plate is Primula Kong, Mr. F. S. Sillitoe, of Khartoum, Mr. J. 

 Knuthiana, which was collected by Mr. Purdom Berbow> f rom La Mortola, Italy, Mr. H. J. 

 in Northern China, and exhibited by Messrs. DaV ies, of Lucknow, and Mr. W. H. Patterson, 

 James Veitcu & Sons before the Floral Commit- from gt Vincent, West Indies. Such gather- 

 tee of the R.H.S., at a meeting held on March 19, ings Droug ht to the memory old associations, and 

 when it received an Award of Merit. The plant, they p rov ided the means of forming new friend- 

 which was named at Kew, has flowers of an sn ; ps The members of the Guild mighty be 



Kew men : there also was, he said, the pleasant "^J"™" " M J, "^Z Twaterer 4 



side, as illustrated by that evening's gathering, «£°g?^£™ ^"nic 



which brought together many members in our Sons, .Ltd., is now open i 



ilSs and lose f r^m overseas! like Mr. Bhrkill, Gardens, Regent's ^«^^ 1 ^ * ® 



,__„ t-j:- at, w t Ttt^tt™ from Honz maintained for two or three weeks. 



attractive rosy-lilac colour, and leaves which are 

 somewhat mealy. P. Knuthiana is included in 

 the FarinosfB section of the Primulacese, and is 

 closely allied with Primula frondosa. The plants 



divided into two groups— those who, for various 

 reasons, were unable to attend that annual func- 

 tion, and those who were present. This being 

 so, the toast of " The Kew Guild " meant the 



exhibited by Messrs. Veitch show considerable t t of absent f r i en ds and themselves. Mr. 



variation in the shade of their flowers, and, 

 indeed, P. Knuthiana appears, from the de- 

 vary 



J. H. Burkill, in replying to the toast, said that 

 he felt most fortunate in being home in time 

 to attend the dinner. Probably the home 

 members could not realise how much - their have a mealy interior. 



W ^*— — m— — — -— — — — ». w 



considerably. ; 



Royal Horticultural Society.— The next overseas brothers looked forward to the ad- 

 meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will vent of the green-clad Journal ; how eagerly it 



__.._,. . ~ wag scanne( j f or news f absent friends ; what 



„ OT uiuuoi; C x w~ v^v, -, — ■ reminiscences the portraits called up; and how 



meeting in the lecture room the "Eighth Masters' the Journal was read from end to end, and prized 



Memorial Lecture M will be delivered by Pro- as a treasured possession. He was glad to have 



fessor I. B. Balfour, F.R.S., V.M.H., the sub- the opportunity of expressing his appreciation of 



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

 Westminster, on the 4th inst. At the 3 o'clock 



ems 



journal as it now was, and he referred also to 

 Kew Guild Annual Meeting and Din- t*ie debt the Guild owed to those hard and enthu- 



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N e R. — The annual general meeting of the members 

 of the Kew Guild was held at the Holborn Res- 

 taurant on the 28th ult. Mr. R. Hooper 

 Pearson presided. He referred to the resigna- 

 tion of Mr. W. Watson, Curator of Kew, from 

 the chairmanship of the committee, and, in ex- 

 pressing the deep regret of the Guild, stated 

 that Mr. Watson was not only the founder, but 

 he had done more than any other member to 

 forward the interests of the Guild. These re- 

 marks were received with applause. It was de- 

 cided that the office of chairman of the commit- 

 tee shall be a triennial one, and that the retiring 

 chairman shall not be eligible for re-election. 

 Mr. A. W. Hill was elected chairman for the 



siastic workers, Messrs. W. Watson and Hooper 

 Pearson, and others, who, ]8 years ago, did so 

 much to establish it. Mr. Iuwin Lynch referred 

 to the inception of the Guild as being quite an 

 inspiration. In proposing the health of the 

 president, Mr. R. Hooper Pearson expressed 

 the pleasure all felt that. Col. Prain had con- 

 sented to become president of the Guild for 

 the ensuing year. He alluded to the sym- 

 pathetic speech which -the president had de- 

 livered. It was, he said, the speech of one 

 genuinely anxious to forward the interests of 

 Kew and its Guild. Kew men were proud 

 of Col. Prain's attainments as a botanist, 

 but it was not as a botanist that they welcomed 



Manna. — A recent issue of the Phar- 

 maceutical Journal and Pharmacist gives in- 

 teresting particulars of the Manna of the 

 Bible. The plant, Lecanora esculenta, is found 

 . over a region covering south-west Asia, ex- 

 tending to south-east Europe and to north- 

 west Africa. It appears on small ston pre- 

 ferably small chalky pebbles, first as th.ck, 

 wrinkled warty crusts, greyish-yellow on the out- 

 side and having a white mealy fracture. Later 

 the flakes become cracked, detach themsclvei 

 from the stones, and roll up ^to bullet-shaped 

 or warty masses of about the size of a Hazel nuu 

 When the rain comes the Manna quickly absorb 

 moisture, and bursts into large flakes » jhicj 



When we consider tnai 

 the dry Manna plants are carried considerable 

 distances by wind, and are often blown , t o| i 

 in considerable . quantities, this rapid change 

 from hard, dry, almost Btone -like substances ^ 

 a flaky food may well have induced he bd£ 

 of the Israelites that the Man na fett ^ 

 heaven. , In Persia Manna is ™f»*££.\ 

 is also given under the name of Chi zac i 

 feeble and ill-nourished mothers as a laetogog^ 

 in daily doses of 150 to ™*™™>- ^ of 

 value of Manna lies in its ZU^ per c 



lichenin. 



Gauls. -Students of galls will find an interes^ 

 ing summary by Doctors W. ana J- 

 Leeuwen-Reunosan, of their investigations 

 the galls of Java in the Bulletin d« J«* 

 Botanique de Buitmzorg, 2me «ne, n. , £ 

 1-52. Some 350 kinds are described, o^ o( 

 corded alphabetically, under the n ^ 



the plants on which thev occur, and « 

 figures of above fifty. The enumeration .*f 

 ceded by an introduction dealing with so* 

 the more important facts establish dj ^ 

 author's researches. ™™° "> to acC ° U ' 



term 



The members of him there that evening, but as the Director of 



committee who retire this year are Messrs. C. W. 



Mayhew, A. Garnett, F. J. Cole, J. C. 

 Wallace, and H P W. L. Southgate. Their 

 places are taken by Messrs. Mayhew and 

 Garnett (re-electedj, A. C. Bartlett, G. 

 W. Butcher and S. J. Normanton. The 

 committee reported with regret the deaths of the 

 following members : Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 

 Philip MacMahon, William Don, James Muir, 

 and John Deacon. The benevolent fund, inau- 



Kew and President of the Guild. It was 

 pleasant to hear the director refer to his experi- 

 ence of Kew men at Calcutta, and to hear that 

 he had formed so good an opinion of them 

 even before his official connection with Kew. 

 Mr. Pearson recalled the fact that it was 

 just 12 years since the first annual dinner of 

 the Kew Guild was held in that room. The 

 toast of " The President " was received with 

 musical honours. 



Taking ^^ -— . t j, e 



great diversity in species of ^ ™^ 

 tropical forest, there M* ^ ■ tfci 



greater variety of galls than «m» ^^ 

 temperate vegetation of Europe. . inf 



cation of the galls it is shown «»« P e o{ 

 the galls caused by Acarids are as t ^^ 

 those caused by Cecidomyids. in than re- 



virgin forests the proportions are { ^ 



versed, being upwards of three to on ^ ^ 



of the Cecidomyids. Mangrove fores ; ^ ^ 

 galls, the number discovered being ^ rf 

 dozen, seven of Cecidomyid origin 

 Acarid origin. 















