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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Fesevary 9, 1895, 
EDITORIAL NOTICES. 
Advertisements should be pat to the PUBLISHER. 
Newspapers. Correspondent newspapers should be 
careful to mark the tase he te the Editor to see. 
Local News.—Correspondents will greatly oblige by sending 
to the Editor early indigenes of local wits likely to be 
to 5 any _—s ten it is 
e 
tions. The Edi itor jui thankfully receive and select 
photographs or U a T suitable for reproduction in these 
or of remarkable plants, flowers, trees, 
for loss or injury. 
Letters for Publication. — AU com 
Jor publication, as well as specimens ond plants for naming, 
Wellington 
take to pay for any contributions, or to r 
munications or illustrations, unless by special arrangem ent. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, 
MEETINGS. 
Royal Horticultural Society’ 8 Com- 
mittees. at — in Hall, James 
ee! estmin 1 
rt. Club, Annual Mee 
SALE 
berge ind Est stage L 
Sal Jo of Nerz mek eck i k 
e ursery Stoc àt Prettiog: 
TUESDAY, Fes. 12 ham’s Nurseries, Stapleford, near 
by Protheroe & 
L Morris (four. days). 
r Gladioli, Carna- 
WEDNESDAY, FEB. Dir: G &c., at Protheroe & 
Morris’ Rooms. 
FRIDAY, 115 1 af ape * — Established ‘ene 
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK,— 
Royal Tue Report which will be pre- 
Horticultural 80 to the 7 on Tuesday 
Society. , does not call for much re- 
mark. The Society has got out of its difficulties 
were made to set the old Society on the right 
track, and who they were who made those efforts, 
The fear now seems to be—we trust it is merely 
imaginary—that a period of apathy and in- 
action may set in, and that the Council may 
once more 3 f fact that the promotion 
of horticultare is its primary object, and while 
sticking to psa programmes, ignore those ele- 
ments of variety and progress which are essential 
to vitality. From this point of view we 
at 
in a con accessible form 
body of information which was 
able, and highly Sant es the 
its officials, 8 
a 1 85 
dere valu- 
iety and 
er doubtless, 
Successes, but 
matters is mt measured b 
t of gate-money rece: or can the 
lectures at the Drill Hall be ee. as by sa 
means adequate substitutes for these conferences 
of comparative trials, it 
cannot be said that the garden, or the work done 
in van are abreast of the necessities of the times 
juately represent what should be the work 
asa reporter ; but very frequently 
of a National e enn Society. To carry 
ou imental horticulture 
to meet new conditions, all this, no doubt, necessi- 
tates a permanent endowment, At present the 
income is a fluctuating and precarious thing, 
dependent on the pleasure of a large body of 
Fellows, the majority of whom know nothing and 
care less for the higher aspects of horticulture. 
The Society has done, and is doing, such good 
work that it might fairly claim to receive some 
outside aid or endowment from the Government 
or ‘the County Councils. 
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during the last quarter of a century, the 91 
large field open for further development, are 
points which require to be pressed home, not 
only on our statesmen, but, we fear, also on the 
governing bodies of our societies, Councils and 
governing bodies appear to us not adequately to 
realise their duties to Horticulture, nor to be 
aware of the pee 3 of commercial 
enterprise, nor to gauge the possibilities i in the 
mediate future py a still lar arger increase. To 
influence, mould, and direct this to the public 
advantage would be a noble aim for the Society, 
and who shall say the idea is chimerical ? 
Again, foreign competition is bitterly com- 
plained of—but is not much of it quite un- 
necessary? If some of our readers could see, 
as we do daily, what large quantities of pro- 
come from the Continent which might 
ame well be grown here, they would think 
th 
sion was self-inflicted and amply merited, and 
they would think that a national Horticultural 
Society „m to exert some influence in arrest- 
ing so much of our dependence on foreign 
supplies as is siaha and unnecessary. 
One subject alluded to in the Report. demands 
attention, and that is the nomea of a code 
of rules for tbe guidance udges at flower 
shows, In principle this is Aot at all a difficult 
matter, but in practice—oh, that is indeed a 
different thing ! ! One thing especially is needed, 
and that is clearness in the construction of 
schedules. Many of the difficulties arise from 
the varied interpretations put upon the terms 
of the schedules, In case of dispute, a final court 
of a i , and no more fitting one 
could be mentioned than the Society itself, 
At present the horticultural press acts as 
court of appeal, and this is right enough aie 
no member of the staff has as a judge or 
now-a-days a 
not consider himself 
a judge. 
now about 
reporter for a paper 
* from acting also as 
ot desire to say anything 
success, but no d 
—ͤ —U 
We cannot leave the subjeot without expressin 
ARRON, Mr. WEATHERS, and their n 
nates will come in for a dae share of grateful 
appreciation. 
ONCIDIUM AMPLIATUM MAJUS.—Oar illustra 
tion (fig. 26), taken from a Photograph of a speci. 
men which flowered last summer in the gardens of 
extibition Orchids known, 
its wealth of bright yellow flower, is O 
e at a 
elevation, the plants found at erat elevation, as & 
tule, having the 8 flowe 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The next 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will take 
place in the Drill Hall, James Street, Victoria 
Street, on Tuesday, February 12. The variou 
Committees will assemble at noon as usual, and st 
3 o’clock the Annual General Meeting of the Society ) 
will be held at the Society’s offices, 117, Wan 
Street, Westminster. 
THE GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENT AO 
GARDENERS’ ROYA 
ana jis vantages 
and discusse was p 
societies paid wey in the sha 
persons residing in the county, 
money than -j county subscribed, 
2 fun was also shown that 
of 6d, wat week, contributed by a membe, 
ee = membership to both societieh 
viz, one guinea per annum to the 
5s. annually 5 the Orphanage. 
o charities were pointe 
ved also 
ce 
as 
eral com? 
Anddsidan l. 
man in the 
1 
more, the meeting resolved itself into a 
mittee, 5 vass every in 
s also proposed and carr! 
gardener th respectfully draw the attenti 
employer, as well as other patrons al h 
the movement. It was agreed that pr 1 
upon that day month. The question of a 
black-book of absolute peti for further ne schent. 
ec yr ter and the oasis? bg of t „ 
were mpleted, whilst enthusi 
3 T 
SCIENCE IN Aamo AND 
TURE.—Professor WARINGTO E newly- ; in th 
Sibthorpian Professor of Rural E mae 
University of Oxford, delivered N 1 
on February 4. The subject chosen 
Relations of Agricultural snd Nat 
luding 
After showing the great et ace! the maf . l 
adoption of scientific meth 
— 
L ORPHANAGE INSTITUTION, 
—The gardeners of e says & Wee 
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