116 
or ge eee 
geniculiflorum of — sande and Chrysanthe- 
Gaaton 
quite enough, though we are getting used to 
it; but then have we imp ved ma y naming 
herze um Davivieri 
ways in r 
“ Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!” Man s to write, 
his name wherever it vill catch the 
ts, church~ 
at 
mentary names, uld 
extent cured, red. Why e I have to make a fool of 
myself because mamoe 1 a pretty little 
plant Tchihatchewi age ignorance over 
auch aya as Chrysanthemum VEnfant des Deux 
es 
leas than criminal, What a pleasure, on th aaie 
are such names as Rosa a metea, 
Nymphea alba, V 
These names fit the 22 them. Could 
planta 
we love the Viola, had it vesp the name of its 
n cousin, tee or the * 
had it been called Blastemanthus? Do, 
i ive us simplicity, fitness, 
you like, ia the 3 of 
opi if 
planta we are to live 
vith Mr. Gardener, think only — 
the plant when you are naming it, and forget for th 
is or that customer or friend, 
com 
y Cypripedium No, 309 
appropriate as C. Perce C. Mrs, Jim Smith, or 
OM Madame Angèle Jollifat. W, 
D GAME AND TREE- e- — The 
cle on this subject, p. 73, 
Forbes, will be read 
During the last fortnight, I 
in two instances, In th 
place, I was led to believe that Corsican Pines w 
a tree to be * Now, I h cae 
Sette af tee sae, 
ough t 3 — Pine as much 
the Austrian species, they commit far greater Wen 
than is generally thought tobethe case, My second ex- 
perience is, that eve arches have been planted 
‘ie years, an e inches around the stem at 
base sate: Darin, 
of the year, I Pri a the wire netti g from a oon! Le rk 
tion m since, and 
away a fortnight, several of the 
nearly all the way round. After suc 
is nearly 
ears si 
and it has been ed since that time. Like Mr. 
Forbes, I find that rabbits seem able to get into an en- 
closure er too easily, I generally aa ps 3 fi 
inwidth, and sink it 4 inches belo he ground ; * 
then ho r2 ve ground 
uite 
ve seen them do this without an 
t exertion. I have never seen them jash 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
some which stands 3 feet 6 inches above the ground, 
the wire. 
As Mr. Forbes points out, aoles do occur in ; 
and i fear in many i instanc as not 15 a fair manner 
either. E M. 
SINENSIS —In reference to your note 
. Gardeners’ Chronicle, concern- 
sinensis causing irritation of the skin iI 
I have suffered a great deal 
On one occasion, after K y eee, of 
plants, I could scarcely see, and I had appear- 
ho was suffering badly og en 
i eo 
obconica from twelve to fourteen 
that I ee rs obconica is, chal yon may see that 
I have not confused P. sinensis with P. obconica, 
Frederick Beilaiag, Baroda Helis, Kensington, W, 
pire LABELS.—Mr. Easter, in your last issue, 
has apparently overlooked my description of a cheap, 
simple, and absolutely peers 3 9 suitable 
n the Gar 38’ Chro Teer 
can be made * a low 
ais easy to read, nui 
as 
prc eae I can 
alao at the top, for ‘ae with half-hardy plants which 
require protection in winter. he poin top 
draws instant attention to any which have been over- 
looked, thus preventing accident and loss, 08, 
Flet 
THE GARDENING CHARITIES —The recent cor- 
opted. The 
found in the forms of canvassing for votes. It may 
be said that what is fair for one is fair for another ; 
but that is very far from being so, as those familiar 
: ow is — 
for votes — checked? It is but to make 
the effect that any canvassing of nden by 
circular or pera! for votes, or voting-papers, o 
behalf o candidate for election, should disqualify 
such shed te for election ; g7 that would settle 
would leave sub- 
the friends of certain candidates 
certain mt trade aane. 
of little tho w 
1 s. All depends pe — infinence behind 
ea 
Unhappily, it is 
c of 
up signed but non-filled ballot-papers to poised 
hak porn them to fill them in as they 
1 ubseri h i 
hal r who is guilty of s n 
8 di 1 
every subscriber should . ets rine 
paper to the Sec 
ce 
v -papers brought at the last mom 
2 in just as they may ed arm | 
Candidate's election safe, Then, Noo one of the 
appointed scrutineers should be a ber of the 
committee. I have no 
the rules, — 
t body of subscri 
executive. Then these three persons should have 
- searche 
. 
| JANUARY 26, 1895, 
all papers handed to them © secre: 
tary, As n as elected, they should 1 
authorised to lock themselves in a room t 
hich other person shoul access, ani 
they should i 
all other persons from the counting-room except tha 
scrutineers, and to refuse acceptance of any paper 
not filled in prior to mmencement of the 
present methoc of conducting elections which check ! 
that support to which otherwise the 
charities are so entitled to receive, Censor, 
THE oe ger ane mapa py —I cited Parkinsons — 
figure as the oldes wa to me in an English book, 
in continental books, I ma a no 7 
eight years earlier than that 1 by Mr. 
Wolley Dod. is in the Hortus Florid 
(otherwise Da P 
contains Eo tly drawn and e 
us Narcissi, ani the Nor- 
edition of 
te 
. the title A Gard n of Flowers 
gures are 2250 reproduced in De Boo 
erbarum ac Fructuum Select iorum 
lished at Bruges I 
d the old authors, but I dare 
other even older figures than those cited. if 7” 
Hemsley. (See p. 114, col. c). 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTIC OLTURAL 
Scientific Committee. 
January 15 mm 
Rev. W. Wilks, D 
Hon. Sec 
. Bonavia, Rev. G 
Primula eee and P. sinensis causing e he ; 
fact that the — 
—Farthe rvations were made upon this 
brought before the last meeting. The 
ose occasionally produces w i 
effect P. obconica has been 
1 by some writers fo eri 
ittle too licit? h that “ the 
— icit = wee ha? il members 
hemum is quite, if 
fertilised — ieee i crossed. 
the seed resulting from the self-fe 
00 roundsel, being 
never visited (by 98 at — 
the s inferiority ” 
e say there stè 
as), published at Ame ia 164, 
] 
nt: Mr. Michael (in io ! 
