wan Ripe seek Pee aes See eee te ee 
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guests allured to the flow 
Fesevary 23, 1895. | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
the society is much indebted to those patrons who 
placed Be donations towards the prize fund at 
The so ociety is conducted 
— horticulture with — athltin, 
and the like out-of-doo 
who care to visit the shows, especially the one held 
on the August Bank Holiday; and in certain direc- 
jie sae ne with doubtless 
c wanted at pa 
the exhibitors, the best paa seeming to us to 10 
to nearly — same lot of men every year, a fact 
n time tend to the e ne, of 
ani. 
“DICTIONNAIRE PRATIQUE D’HORTICULTURE.” 
a 
Lson’s Dictionary, with many 
additional illustrations and articles. 
SEED ORDERS AND SEEDSMEN.—A corre- 
execu- 
tion of seed orders, writes, You will Gak a 
us poor seedsmen’s assistants if you 
tically we are ent idly waiting for the 
work which es —— us directly the frost 
I do not write for the benefit of my firm in 
particular, but for the entire seed trade, 
“THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS,”—The 
; ri is a chapter of 
abounding interest to plant 10 0h and gardeners. 
THE STUDENT’s ENGLISH DICTIONARY, by Joux 
3 1 by Dr. CHARLES ANNANDALE, 
hed KIE & 875 Old Bailey, may 
etn e to ung gardeners and 
‘ad small, but clear woodcuts, The botanist 
gardener will hardly look to this dictionary for 
translations of commonly 
pam foreign languages, and various 
rmation, combine to render this 
work, laue encyclopedia. 
essere, PAXTON SOCIETY.—At a well- 
mae? Meeting of this Society, hela on Thursday 
8 14, an excellent paper was read 
Osx, of York, on the “ Cultivation of 
pr paper dealt at some length 
s Was 8 to Mr, 
C 
RGH BoTaNicaL Society.—This So- 
met on the Lach inst. at St. Andrew Square, 
Mich a fair number of members present. 
8 
not a sing 
January 
CHRONICLE. 
239 
Surgeon-Major H. JOHNSTON was proposed to 
occupy the ace afterwards Occupied by Mr, 
Lymineton Grieve, Vice-President. The principal 
paper read was that by Surgeon-Major H 
JOHNSTON, being a * on the Flora of the Out- 
lying Islands in Mahé g Bay, Mauritius, with 
Exhibition of Specimene Collected. ” Thirty-eight 
species were found u the six islands visited, 
which sted of 1 en Dicotyledons, ten 
4 Monoctsledons, and eleven Cryptograms. 
On and a speci 
ably p. race Meerschii, 
informed by the ane had bee 
dant upon the island, had been cut * the 
fishermen for fire-wood, i one specimen remain- 
ing at the 5 5 the collector's visit. The 
reader was ar a hearty 
for his viliasi contribution. Dr. W. 
s 
JRAIG ia 
in Augus 
A Vote of Thanks was passed for the communi- 
FIG. 33.—GERMINATION OF OREODOXA REGIA. 
cation. From the Royal Botanic Gardens, Mr, 
Linpsay showed branches of Ericas split by frost; 
and mentioned in hia report on the vegetation, that 
lant had flowered outside during 
ile, in the corresponding month of 
ad flower. Mr. R. L. 
us 
exhibited several specimens, Iu the meteorological 
observations taken by Mr. A. D. Ricnarpson duri 
the month of January, the following are a few of 
he mean ing of the 
inches, 
month of January for the past four years, The highest 
when 40 7 was read, the lowest was on the loch, 
when 15 4 was reached. The mean of the month 
being 3169, or 5° below the average for January for 
past four years, Frost occurred on 25 daya, on the 
grass on 30 days, the minimum being 10:8°, 
The 
total record of sunshine was 34 hou 
urs 55 minutes, 
17th, this 
being 0280 inch, The meeting then adjourned until 
March 14 next, 
EEHAN’S MONTHLY” for February has an 
© 
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kas 
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relet wire ro 
8, y sado this wire 2 a ue petals to 
rae it around the flower-stalk, 
M. TRUFFAUT.—French horticulture has lost 
one of its most distinguished representatives by the 
deceas e of M, Trurravr, of Versailles, at the age of 
to båse his practical studies on the sure basis of 
vegetable physiology. 
CATASETUM —The two syapa x = Lindenia 
r January and Februar 
attention to it. 
and the English version yt 
commend it to all Orchid lov 
The French pem is already issued, 
eedily follow. We 
PROFESSOR GREENE, of the University of Cali- 
the 
essor GREENE intends, however, to 
continue his work in connection with the botany of 
California 
PUBLICATIONS TED Inder seminum in 
hortis Musdei Parisiensis, anno 1894 collectorum. Ex- 
change list of seeds. 1550 to the Director of the 
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Rue Cuvier, 57, Parir, 
— Delectus seminum que hortus e 
Rheno Trajectine pro mutua 
Exchange seed list, Botanic Garden, * (J. K. 
Buppg, Curator). Delectus seminum, St. Petersburg 
of photographic reproductions, 
SEEDLINGS OF OREODOXA - 
A QUANTITY of seeds T 
— to ys 
and thirty-eight es 3 ian ier 
