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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



EDITORIAL NOTICE. 



ADVERTISEMENTS should be seat to the PUB- 

 LISHER, 41. Wellington Street, Covent Garden, 



Letters for Publication, as well as specimens of plants 

 tor naming, should be addressed to the EDITORS, 

 41. Wellington Street, Cevent 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. 1/ desired, the signature will not be 

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



APPOINTMENTS FOR JULY. 



TUESDAY, JULY 2- 



Royal Hort. Soc. Summer Sh. at Holland House (3 

 days). Gloucestershire Rose and Sweet Pea Sh. Scottish 

 Hort. Assoc, meet. Royal Agric. Soc. Sh. at Doncaster 

 (5 days). 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 3— 



Croydon Hort. Soc. Fl. Sh. Hort. Exh. at Doncaster 

 (4 days). Penarth Rose Soc. Sh. Weybridge and Dis- 

 trict Hort. Soc. Sh. Dover Hort. Soc. Sh. Ealing 

 Hort. Soc. Sh. Southampton Royal Hort. Soc. Jubilee 

 Garden Fete. Hanley Floral Fete (2 days). Colchester 

 Rose Sh. 



THURSDAY, JULY 4— 



Ipswich & E. of England Summer Sh. Norwich Rose Sh. 



FRIDAY, JULY 5-Gloucester Rose and Sweet Pea Soc. Ex. 



SATURDAY, JULY 6— 



Soc. Francaise d'Hort. de Londres meet. 



MONDAY, JULY 8— 



United Hort. Benefit & and Prov. Soc. Com. meet. 



TUESDAY, JULY 9- 



Nat. Rose Soc. Sh. at Regent's Park. Nat. Sweet Pea 

 Soc. Sh. at R.H.S. Hall, Westminster (2 days). Wolver- 

 hampton Floral Fete (3 days). Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Soc. tx. at Cupar (4 days). 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 10— 



Torquay Sweet Pea Sh. Hereford Rose Sh. Elstree 

 Fl. Sh. Bath Rose Sh. (2 days). Woodbridge Fl. Sh. 

 West Surrey Hort. Soc, Fl. Sh. 



THURSDAY, JULY 11— 



Rose Show at Helensburgh. Streatham and District 

 Sweet Pea and Rose Soc. Sh. Ousecliffe Rose and 

 Sweet Pea Sh. Newmarket Fl. Sh. 



FRIDAY, JULY 12— 



Manchester Botanical and Hort. Soc. Sh. (2 days). 



SATURDAY, JULY 13- 



Nat. Sweet Pea Soc. of America (2 days). Edgware and 

 Little Stanmore Hort. Soc. Sh. 



TUESDAY, JULY 16- 



Royal Hort. Soc, Corns, meet. (Lecture at 8 p.m. by 

 M. E. A. Bunyard on "The Flowers of Apples and Their 

 Aid in Identifying Varieties.") Southampton Royal 

 Hort. Soc. Jubilee Sh. (2 days). Brighton and Sussex 

 Hort. Soc. Rose and Violet Pea Sh. (2 days). 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 17- 



Bishop's Stortfoid Fl. Sh. Cardiff and County Hort. 

 Soc. Sh. (2 days). Caterham Hort. Sh. Tooting, 

 Balham, Merton and Mitcham Hort. Soc. Sh. Sussex 

 County Agric. Sh. (2 days). Saltaire, Shipley, and 

 Dist. Rose Sh. 



THURSDAY, JULY 18— 



Horticultural Club, annual summer outing. Dunferm- 

 line Fl. Sh. (2 days). Deal, Walmer, and Dist. Hort. 

 Soc. Ann. Sh. 



FRIDAY, JULY 19— 



Nat. Rose Soc. Sh. at Belfast. Birmingham Hort, 

 Sh. 2 days). 



SATURDAY, JULY 20— 



Royal Bucks Sweet Pea and Hort. Soc. Sh. 



TUESDAY JULY 23— 



Nat. Carnation and Picotee Sh. at R.H.S. Hall. Brighton, 

 Hove and Sussex Hort. Soc. Sh. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 24— 



Leamington Fl. Sh. (2 days). Normanby Fl. Sh. (2 days). 

 Bishop's Waltham Fl. Sh. Royal Botanic Soc. meet. 

 Haywards Heath Fl. Sh. Tunbridge Wells and South 

 Eastern Counties Agric. Soc. Sh. Eastbourne Sweet 

 Pea and Rose Sh. (2 days), 



THURSDAY, JULY 25— 

 St Ives (Hunt.) Fl. Shi 



FRIDAY, JULY 26— 



Huddersfield Hort. Sh. (2 days). Cheadle FL Sh. (2 

 days). 



SATURDAY, JULY 27— 



Fife and Kinross FJ. Sh. Western Rose Soc. Sh. 



TUESDAY, JULY 80- 



Royal Hort. Soc. (Lecture by Mr. Hooper on "The 

 Pollination of Fruit Blossoms.") 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 31— 



Dinas Powis Fl. Sh. Llanelly Fl. Sh. Chesterfield 

 Fl. Sh. Bishop's Waltham Fl. Sh. 



Average Mean Temperature for the ensuing week 

 deduced from observations during the last Fifty Years 

 at Greenwich— 61-7°. 



Actual Temperatures: — 



London. — Wednesday, Jun* 26 (6 p.m.) : Max. 70° ; 



Min. 54°. 

 Gardeners' Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 

 Covent Garden, London. — Thursday, June 27 

 (10 a.m.) : Bar. 29*8° ; Temp. 66° ; Weather— 

 Overcast. 

 Provinces.— Wednesday, June 26: Max. 66° Ely; 



Min. 65° Ireland, W. 



SALES FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



WEDNESDAY— 



250 Orchids, by order of Messrs. Sander & Sons, at 

 67 & 68, Cheapside, EX., by Protheroe & Morris, at 1. 



THURSDAY— 



Orchids, at 1; Fare and Old Dwarf Japanese Trees, at 2 ; 



at 67 Sc 68, Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe & Morris. 



[June 29, 1912. 



The announcement made 

 The by j£ r§ Runciman, and re- 



Horticultural l-j •_ i , 



last 



issue, 

 with respect to the new 



Branch of 



Branch of P Drted 1D 0UI 

 the Board of 



Agriculture. Horticultural 



the Board of Agriculture 

 has produced a painful impression on 

 horticulturists. 



When Mr. Runciman stated that it was 

 proposed to create a Horticultural 



Ento- 



of Agriculture in the past has arisen from 

 a failure to recognise this fact. 

 To give an example or two. 

 mology has rendered useful service to 

 horticulture, but entomology is not horti- 

 culture, nor is a specialist in this branch 

 of science a suitable man to direct a sub- 

 department of horticulture. Similarly, the 

 study of fungi has led to useful advance 

 in the cultivation of the higher plants, but 



Branch of the Board, it was, of course, a f ungologist, who is an expert in the' cul- 

 assumed that not only would the Branch tivation of the lower plants, is not for that 

 be put under the charge of someone of reason a horticulturist. 



authority in the world of horticulture, 



Only if it can be proved that practical 



but that a definite sum would be set horticulturists are ill-educated and cap 



aside out of the funds of the Department, able merely of manual work should they 



for the work of the new Branch. b e passed over in the selection of a head 



It is true that the President did not of a sub-department. Above that head 



promise any such allocation ; but it is who, we maintain, should be an expert 



true that without a fix 



work of the Branch must be hampered at 



every 



there is the Permanent Secretary, and 

 above the Permanent Secretary there is 

 the President, both of whom can chasten 

 be made, there is no guarantee that the the expert's over-eagerness and remedy 

 sub-department will stand for anything his narrowness of view by reason of their 

 more than a system of book-keeping, immunity from the complaint of expert- 

 convenient perhaps for the Board itself ness. Thanks to the funds of the Develop- 

 but useless for the advancement of horti- ment Commission, the Board need no 

 culture. 



It is quite true, as Mr. Runciman 



longer confuse horticulture with the study 

 of plant-pests. The latter work is pro- 



points out, that agriculture and horti- vided for in the endowed institutes to be 

 culture overlap ; but it is equally true financed by the Development Grants and 

 that there are many branches of horti- one such institute is to deal with insect 



pests and another with fungous diseases. 



To the former of these institutes the 



Board might transfer its expert entomolo- 



may mention fruit growing, market work gists, and to the latter it should relegate 



culture which are sufficiently distinct 

 from agriculture for all practical pur- 

 poses. Of such independent branches we 



and horticultural education. 



chance can attend the horticultural 

 Cinderella of the Board if it is at the 



What the task of collecting statistics about 



Gooseberry-mildew 



and 



enumerating 



sole 



mercy 



of 



the 



Agriculture 



scabby Potatos. It would then be in a 

 proud sister position to turn its attention to horticul- 

 ture ; to tackle the problem of horticul- 



It is evident that the proper course to tural education ; to study the question of 

 take is to analyse the overlapping and to small holdings in its horticultural bear- 

 ings ; to aid the producer in his export 

 and home trade 



ascribe the several common grounds of 

 agriculture and horticulture to the 



Department or to the Branch. By so an active 



; in short, to develop 

 horticultural 



policy. 



We 



doing it will be possible for the new believe, as we have said on more 

 chief of the Horticultural Branch to than 

 obtain a clear view of the problems which 

 he is called upon to solve. When he has 



can 



one occasion, that the present 

 is a moment of splendid opportunity 

 for horticultural advance. We are con- 

 vinced that that advance can only be 



penditure which is involved in effecting made if it is led by men who know the 



solutions 



needs of horticulture and who have the 



with his programme and estimates he can confidence of horticulturists. We appeal, 



,pp roach 



therefore, to the President, who is known 



partment, who in turn can tell him how to be anxious for the welfare of horticul- 

 far the finances will allow of the putting ture, to see that the prospects of this ad- 



in operation of the programme. 



vance are not thwarted by lack of sym- 



lm 



On the subject of the staffing of the new pathy and co-operation between the Horti- 



Branch we wish to speak in a perfectly cultural Branch and the horticultural com- 



personal manner. We are convinced munity. That sympathy and co-operation 



that the difficult work of organising the can only be secured by the appointment of 



several departments of horticulture— in- a practical horticulturist to a responsible 



dustry, art, science, economics, and peda- position in the new Branch, 

 gogics — can only be carried out by a man — 



who has had long experience of horticul- 

 ture from the inside. In other words the 



Supplementary 



Banun- 



head of the Branch should be a horticul- 

 turist. 



Horticulture is 



and 



an applied art 

 science ; but it is also what the 



philosopher would call 



a thing in 



itself." Horticulture impinges on many 

 sciences ; but a master in one or all of 

 those sciences is not a horticulturist. 

 The fundamental mistake of the Board 



Illustration. — 



cuius Lyallii is not new to British gardens, for 

 specimens were exhibited by Messrs. James 

 Veitch & Sons at a meeting of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society in 1880. The inflorescence and 

 foliage were illustrated in Gard. Chron., J" n f 4 ' 

 1881, fig. 131, and in the Botanical Magazine, 

 tab. 6888. The plant is known as the Mountain 

 Lily in New Zealand, and was first collected by 

 Dr. Lyall when on a surveying voyage in EM-R* 

 " Acheron " (1847-9). In a wild state it is con- 

 fined to the mountains of the Middle Island, 



