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THE GARDENERS’ 
THE NaTurRAL History OF PLANTS.—The 
eighth part of this valuable and comprehensive work, 
the translation of which is issued by Messrs. BLACKIE 
the several classes of the vegetable ki 
trated by excellent woodcuts, The structure and 
nature of the ) ovary and anthers of flowering planta 
appearances, T do not, however, see in what 
particulars Professor Kerner’s notion as to the 
nature of “inferior ovaries differs from the current 
views of the best authorities in plant morphology, 
many of whom are, we should have said, in full 
accord with Professor KRRN EA. May we hop A 
in addition to a full index, a comprehensive synopsis 
of contents will be added to the volume when 
complete, 
PALM S£EDS.—Raisers of Palms, says one of 
our Riviera correspondents, are perfectly ni that 
dependent on the freshness of t 
it pom 
ua) the Riviera gardens is so little in 
de mand. Probab bly the reason is either that it is 
not known, or that the south of France is insufficient 
to convince those who are not acquainted with its 
Angel conditions to form an idea of the gigantic 
specimens to be found here. Seeds obtained from 
native dee often lose their p 
menced to produce seed, which then sold at the rate 
of 15s. to 20s, per 1000 (and chiefly to German firms), 
but now, owing to the quantity produced, they have 
fallen to 1s. per 1000, and are very little in demand, 
One tree will pred or 4 cwt., the great clusters 
often breaking ets psa their weight. Phoenix 
reclinata also 
is rarely any Wa for it. Livistona ele is 
one of the most productive, and the seeds, if allowed 
to remain, will germinate before falling to the ground, 
Livistona (Corypha) australis, 2 not s0 pro- 
ductive as the former, may had in quantity in 
some of the gardens. sits the? have obtained 
Saiit ee The seeds of this species keep 
but a ve time after ripening. Cocos flexuosa 
and its e are now producing seed in quantity, 
and had it few years ago, there would 
not be the scarcity of plants of a decorative size as I 
am now aware is the case. Chamærops humilis, and 
C. excelsa bear fruit when very young. All the 
Sabals fruit freely, and Areca sapida and Brahea 
nitida will produce sufficient seed in one year to 
supply any demand. Each year sees the flowering 
and fruiting of other — the plants having 
attained maturity, and under the influence of a 
tropical zun during the summer, they are as as prolific 
a nis their native habitat. 
1 15 Mesene. J VEITCH & SONS. — Messrs, 
1 s. of eee Exotic Nursery, 
Wan “ore tg WoORKMEN.—The gar- 
deners engaged i the Springfield Nurseries at 
commute — to Messrs. Donsie & Co, ae 
social evening on Friday the 28th ul 
ant waki Was act ttended e n 
* 
ö . in the lesser public hall, and was 
en enjoyed. 
Emigration. .—We take from the 
the circular d 
31, Broadway, 
ing particulars :— 
hould prepare to start in 
; the only e is for domestie 
5 ced labourers, and for men 
5 — aa Ia New South Wales there is no 
ee wanne This i is not aali, but if so, it is strange the m 
dema tfor domestic servants. 
South Australia and Tasmania are fully supplied 
with all kinds of labour. There has been a great de- 
mand lately for land suitable for sugar-gro wing along 
the north coast of Qicensland, at Mackay, &c, the 
sugar industry being in a prosperous condition. 
Land about Bundaberg also, in the south, is being 
taken up by farm labourers and others for sugar- 
growing. In Western Australia the gold-fields have 
been very busy, bat only experienced miners with a 
little money can hope to succeed. Work in New 
Zealand has with the return of spring become much 
more plentiful, and there is a large decrease in the 
number of men travelling ontheroad; with theexcep- 
tion of Western Australia, it is the only Colony which 
offers a fair opening to mechanics and opnar skilled 
workmen at the present time. The syst open- 
ing up the Crown Lands in New Zealand, eat letting 
them in areas of from 50 to 100 acres to working- 
men, the Government paying for felling the bush 
and adding the cost to the price of the land, has been 
a marked success. Nominated passages to Cape 
Colony have just been withdrawn from mechanics 
sans, and female domestic servants are now 
Tah * 
Emigrants to that colony 
ab the ordinary trades, such as 
those of brickmakers, navvies, bootmakers, an 
miners, N ting W waiters, etc., 
to some extent in the hands of Indian coolies, or 05 
coloured ie Sakk for low wages, 
FASCIATION is one of the commonest of mal- 
formations, but the reason of its eee is not 
clearly made out. Recently M. G. Cuzont, in the 
Bulletino della 93 mga Italiana, has seen 
fone to paige appearance in Spartium 
junceum to the ae of a mite (Phytoptus 8 
should not have been discovered before. Gowa 
of Cockscombs would surely have detected the 
creature were it generally present, 
PRESENTATION TO MR. J. D. ABBOTT.—A ve 
1 meeting took. place at Eynsford on the 
scat address to Mr. J. D. A ABBOTT, on his vacating 
the position of head-gardener at Lullingstone Castle, 
the country seat of Sir War. Harr Drkz, Bart., 
M.P. There was a large gathering of msa and 
neighbouring gardeners. Mr. R. Can 
unanimously elected to preside. 
SOCIETE Peete ET CENTRALE D’Hoarti- 
CULTURE DE FRANCE.—M. D. Bois, one of the 
assistants in the "Boraks Department at the 
Jardin des Plantes, has been elected editing secretary 
to the 91 Society, in place of the late 
Dock 
. 
FORESTRY HONOURS. tuyi “honours diploma ” 
for the science and practice of forestry has been 
. JAM 
my of Vorestry 
he has been studying. As his name indicates, this 
the seed and nursery firm of 
l Nannen Carlisle. 
eee r neat little morocco-bound 
enumeration of 
hybrids, has just 
2 1 Cambridge 
„Whose gar- 
et- catalogue e ning a 
Cypripediuma, both aia and 
been printed by R, I, MrasuRres, 
Lodge, Flodden Road, Camberweli, S.E 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 5, 1895, 
is 
dener, Mr. H. J. CHAPMAN, ee, the laborious 
task of ans it, taking as a basis t 
are specially interested i in Cypripediums will be glad to 
knox that ar can obtain copies at 3s. 6d, (postage 
n it is considered that the prime cost 
of po bes is ls, 8d., and that Mr. Measures 
arranges to give 18. to the Gardeners’ Royal Beneyo- 
lent Institution, and a similar sum to the Gardeners 
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others in the study of the subject, and to render help 
where it is needed. Over 850 species, varieties, and 
forms are enumerated under their registered names, 
and the work is as perfect as one in which the name 
of the plant is given in alphabetical order can be, 
But, unfortunately, the same crosses have sometimes 
certain cross has been 
Mr, Cuapman or some other patient individual should 
name of 
. ba 
on, until all the crosses with each have 
enumerated. 
IMPORTING LAWNS.— This is the latest phase of 
American cuteness. With the increasing develop- 
ment of c ivilization i in the States, there is a pressing 
demand for lawns, such as adorn our country 
residences and ale 5 N villas; and as the American 
gardeners find it extremely difficult to raise lawns 
from seeds in many parts, one of their government 
experimental stations has actually voted a um 
approaching £200 to meet the expenses of an ae 
who is no 
and actually taking turves from our old parks and 
commone—choosing the choicest piece of fine Grass 
Here is an impressio 
surely we cannot allow our lovely islands to ar 
away piecemeal in this manner ! 
“ DICTIONNAIRE PRATIQUE D'HORTICULTURE. 
We have frequently had occasion to allude to the 
French a lation of Ni 
which h 
The éekuatitor M. Morrer 
1cHoison’s Dictionary, 
, has incorp 
rated mach 
new matter, so that the work is adler = x 
those familiar with the French language 
published by M. O. Dərs, Place də l'Odéon, Paris. 
INJUDICIOUS HYBRIDISATION. — 
suggests that the decay observable in the persistent 
leaves of many. plants of Cliveia may be 2 4 
W N the leaves of which are ci 
nious and feasible e f 
to the employment of pollen from Am 
very inge 
N of 3 could easily be tes 
SPRAYING Crops.—Some day our 9 5 
will rec 
recognise the desirability of spraying the 
* ene ee already do, and will then be ae 7 
o the pages of 
EED, i. know why, when, and how. 
contains little more than a 
hundred ne 
well illustrated. It is published at New York by 5 
Orange Judd Company, M a low pipo may be 
obtained from Messrs, WILLIAus & Nore 
w on a foraging expedition to this country, © 
ow reached its iiy pe livraisom. i 
-sM Robs as 
the Director of the School of Horticulture at Ghent, 
