Fesavany 16, 1893. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
Se 
ead dates into a department, engaged, probably for 
as his . are required; the e consequence 
work, and uninterested in his 
of the 
. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
la the notices to Fellows found on the 
of any stronger reason 
found ia the Journal i oa during the year. Perhaps 
some may put th l Hall meetings m but 
these are not ace, 5 those res 3 a dis- 
utilised in such case but sate 
wand the 
To some others, perbape, the Temple Sho 
stal ows may haye ere we and 
i and enjoyed in the winter months 
other garden attractions are few. When, 
however, all ad a are summe 
ast year, and these reports 
serve to indicate, in a marked degree, the wide 
ground that such a society as the Royal Horticul- 
tural covers, because the subj ects are 
n the re Ne 
in 1 and in fruit 
clare, full ms the deepest intereat, A special value 
the papers published in the 
nd! n their suggestiveness. No one of 
pe e can read them without deriving 
them eas, and having new thoughts 
1 suggestion s aroused. Papers of this nature 
ve a fulness and body that cannot be furnished 
wo discussions were rather left to ere 
have made particular subjects a speci 
n in that 1 that the 
— : ten gives to Fello nformation 
pers derived from specialists who would 
oo” heard or read. T nal also is 
fore local audiences, passed a 
— el and capable [if not quite honest] ye 
N re DEBILIS var, CUCUMERIFOLIUS, — 
l — o of this very use 
: "yg ag 
ing ap ere the 
2, W. Thompson h. 
wt morose — VEGETABLE EXHI- 
ng of t 
( At the Royal Av “Aquari e general committee 
th la Mr 
ng 
„reported as to the 
hr 2 U to the seed-trade for special 
— hilat the response was not al 
3 „yet 80 seedsmen wished 
asses of their ow Swing: accom- 
the rictive conditions, that the com- 
“u that ading a onal ve e 
eee sort which w be but a mere 
> Was out of the —— It was 
ao to defer further consideration of 
another year It — stated that 
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209 
before finally issuing their schedule of ee for 3 
proposed ve vegetable exhibition at the Drill Hall, t 
Council of the Royal 1 Society W 
3 meeting. It may 
the Tana will pro- 
ceed with their 35 although it is evident that 
the Drill meee will not offer 
for a vegeta show. It is not too 
that the i show be held early in September, 
and at Chiswick, where th 
"ry egla oe Ages a really national exhibition. It 
the e desirable 5 is very late f or 
88888 pai oie is absolutely and most strangely 
no ordinary meetings of the n A at the Drill Hall 
or elsewhere fixed for Septem 
FLOWERING OF PHAL/AENOPSIS APHRODIT 
It will 7 5 to know that the fower-apikes 
of this Orchid do not always take = 
In November, 1893, a plant in e e gar 
fifty expanded flowers, had the spike wazae nd branch- 
ing, similar to that of P, Heigl kane 3 e. 
e same plant had a spike fourte 
expanded flowers, but this time sin —— 
spray, similar to the one mentioned on p. 110, which, 
utifal than a branched 
in my opinion, is more bea 
spray. It will be interesting to know the form of 
Mr. Coomber’s spray with rs flowers, 
G. W. Eden, Henham, Wangford 
E ST.—Whilst we hear in all directions 
of previous Fook depths being 
zero freely registered, it is we 
such 
dive and v often ing instruments, the 
information 5 E not always reliable, All th 
same, without assu that previous records have 
been beaten, it is 8 that the froste have been, 
for England, intense poi penetrating. — 3 
owing rivers like hames are frozen over 
not mig k all navigation Kiuri. but 
rs most merri 
affected, but it will be ere indeed if myriads 
of things s outside, and commonly regarded as hardy, 
escape inju t is many years since our Baye, 
Laurustinus, and other shrubs suffered severely from 
frost. 
N eo ou 
erfal, Naturally, gardeners’ thoughts are 
oe 55 i i 
tively — one of finding low- eee records. 
The prospect is full of grave anxiety, yet everyone 
hopes that the anticipated worst 2 be a long way 
remoter than will be the reality. 4. 
THE WEATHER.—The frost in this part of Susse 
has been very severe, considering its — 
th Our 5 
t from 
Febru 
3°; Febru wary 10, 12° Fahr. The 
since January 24 was that of A nach 31, when the 
erhaps the above i is not 
—~ Hexham—As we ‘a eee, core e 
ings with care and regu 
Hexham, those eh the last 
below zero, 34° o 
lowest reading 2°, ‘30° ‘of rout: W. : 
— Market Harborough. 5 
trusty egretti and Zam bra instrumen nt, gave the fol- 
lowing degrees of cold for the — on which there was 
frost in January and the present month Jan. 10, 
19° of frost; 27, 23° of frost; 28, 20° of frost; 29, 28° 
of frost; Feb. 4, 7° of frost; 5, 28° of frost; 6, 37° 
of f frost ; 7, 38° fr i : "40° of frost; 9, 33° of 
frost 10, 34° of fro 11. 11° of frost. "Ad 
Dalai, Nithsdale Bo use, Market Harboroug 
—— Burford, Dorking.—It some 
interest to you to know the outside temperature 
taken here during the severe fros ari ednes- 
fe he lowest figures given in last 
week’s Orchid 8 . White, 
a note of weather 
below zero. The le n 14sh and 19th was 1° of 
frost, and 15th, 2° of fros he frost on the other 
days ranged fro to5°, There were nine days 
without sunshine, and s teen o hich snow, 
sleet, or rain fell. welve days wind from is, RE 
.; the other days N. E. . A blizzard came 
from the east on J The river an ozen 
8 still ice- 
over on llth, and again on the 28h 
bound. All outdoor gardening p ed, e put- 
ting on manure, turning ditto, and leaf- mould, and 
indoor jobs. J. Page, ee 
— Marazion, Cornwall. — We have had 
average of 10° of frost — the past re waaki 
On the 6th inst., ie, were ee . Laa change 
rom o ur usually m eli . Mae 
3 eee. e wales 5, the 
thermometer has ec: 
th w 33° 
had 
such froat since February, ie 3 on the 17ch of 
that month, from 6 till 8 ax gistered 42° of 
frost, which was recorded in a ardeners’ Chronich 
of Febru 1892, from many ofthe country 
at that time; it cut do the Laurels and Tea 
Roses on the west wall, and several Apricot s on 
south-east wall. Our th oe 8 4 fe from 
lake, about 40 feet above the othe H. 
Fineshade Abbey G de Stamford, 
—— Thetford—In a properly- een double 
Louvre screen, 3 feet above ground, containing four 
tes * have 
wet bu e very closely beige 
I think the above figures may be taken 
eee of the Arctic 8 recently epii 
ced in Suffolk, Alfred Lodge, Elveden, Thetford. 
frost is such as we have not ienced for 
many years. On Friday reo . the ther- 
9 a.m, indicated 8° below zero, or 40° 
there is even now no sign 
We have cause to fear that ‘it will l play * with 
our shrubs. John Brown, Delgaty Castle, February II. 
—— Dun ree four successive nights 8° 
below s zero. W, G. S. 
—1 herewith send you roms from 
