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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 2, 1895, 
EDITORIAL NOTICES. 
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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
WERTING. 
Manck 7—Linnean Societ: 
SAL ES. 
(= urmese Orchids and Lilies, at 
f Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms 
| TUESDAY, Mar. 54 ern Tuberoses, Begonias, Spi- 
ar 1 at Protheroe 
THURSDAY, 
E Morris 
apanese Lilies, deter Plants, 
WEDNESDAY, Mar. 155 penal = „at Pro- 
W she pene is Pl ts 
THURSDAY, w! Roses, Begoni:s, Kc. Pro- 
theroe & Morris "Rooms, 
Orchids, from Messrs. F. Sander & 
Protheroe & y 
FRIDAY, MAR. 3 Co., at Morris 
Rooms, 
CORRECTED nen TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF OF TORTY. THREE YEARS, AT HIS WICK. 
Onzy too well = realise from 
8 3 After former experie ow great the 
losses of saith és are tial to be this 
winter amongst our Roses, ot only will the 
Usually a mulch or a moulding-up of the dwarfs 
serves to preserve life in the lower portions of 
the branches and root-stock, but with the Fah- 
renheit thermometer at zero rp below it, sach 
pona pa of protection must have been ren 
dered nugatory. Some careful rosarians, vith 
the foresight born of experience, 
ar, r, would 
ability of the ordinary cattivalor: ishing the 
use of large angers of litter, Fern; or tree, 
besides Fir boughs to place over Ps Roses to 
save them from being crushed by the weight of 
the litter and leaves, That is the continental 
method, and it has its advantages in countries 
with steady cold weather during the entire 
winter. 5 it is much less practicable, giving 
as it does, too much protection in mild weather, 
and thereby 3 growth in darkness, and 
making the garden wear an vaiki appearance 
at those times when snow does not cover the 
ground, can snow lies all the winter long, 
visible, 
a, i 
viz., heaping ap earth with a mulch over that 
We say laying in the lower parts of 
because it is most undesirable in our climate to 
bury the whole crown; the tips of the shoots 
should be left uncovered, so as to afford an out- 
let for the energies of the plant in the event of 
growth taking place in continued mild weather. 
Should these exposed shoots get killed, there 
is no harm whatever done, as they would in any 
case be sacrificed at the spring pruning. hen 
a standard is bent to the earth, the stock should 
be wrapped round with hay-bands or bracken to 
preserve it from injury by frost, for although 
the -rose is seldom hurt by frost in this 
country, it does suffer at the top of the bend if 
the frost gets down to zero Fahr. 
of a tender 5 on walls, fences, 
arbours, &o., may own, and th 
branches laid at the foot of the walls, Co., and 
covered with earth or litter. This is a much 
surer kind of protection than matting dann as 
they stand, and although it may entail a little 
more trouble i in securing them in their places in 
the spring, it may be carried out in such a way 
that it is not an eyesore. 
Where there have been many ‘losses in 
the beds, the taking up of the whole of the 
plants, and trenching and manuring the soil 
a re desirable proceeding than a 
mere filling up of blanks would be. 
would at rate admit of an uniform 
3 
if this be sag the removal of soured 
because over-manured soil, and its substitution 
by sound loam in a fresh state, would all be 
made easier of performance when all the plants 
are taken up. 
Gaour. OF SOUVENIR — LA MALMAISON CaR- 
NA 
Ls 
s ¿O — 
de la Malmaison 
ation, —— ma the pink and blush-white 
varieties growing f ALFRED DE 
CHILD, È 
of blooms was 319, These 
old, dwarf and bushy, a point which Mr, 
the gardener at Halton, remarks, is always 9 at, 
s which is the result of cultivating the plants 
ar the glass, and of admitting air freely at all times 
cert the weather is not actuall 
winter, but dari spring and early summer 
water and ana aids are freely 5 
Syringing is also very sparingly d soil 
employed consists of of good loam, * and 
“LINNEA N SOCIETY.—At the meetin 
W It, C. 5 Grasse, F. R. S., n in the 
chair, 'KeLL was admitted a Fellow, 
Mr, G. — exhibited some eee 
of Giocosiphonia 3 and other Algæ, ime 
panying a . and gave an poy 
of preparing slides W 
On behalf of ie J. eee the President 
ief points in a paper com ni- 
= s i GAERTNER at 
century in his famous work, De 
et Seminibus Plantarum, but hitherto unde- 
termined, From the researches of Mr. BoerLAGe, it 
now appeared that it was evidently — to 
Kurz. This made 
On the occasion of the meeting to 
on food : —— at 8 0 
read 
Max T. si 
Insects, Arachnida and Crustacea, ira aig 
Mr. T. rit Peg ree to ee 
by F. Fe. B., 8 die R. J. 
Pocock. 
LORD ABERDARE.— The death of this noble- 
man is announced, Lord ABERDARE was not 
an accomplished scholar, but an excellent man of 
business, gifted wen ET — and er For 
these reasons, no exp her 
desire that he sh Ares pan 5 r of the 
Royal Horticultural Society at the time when the 
Society was in sore straits, and at the relations 
between the Society and the Commissioners” were 
Unfortunately, Lord ABER - 
ac 
of the Society, and after holding his office for a few 
years he resigned, To what an a 83 it 
is not w to revert; suffic say, that 
r ARE Will always be en by hor- 
Wen as one who endeavoured under very 
difficult circumstances to do his best for the Society, 
and personally will always be remembered with 
respect. 
HAILSTORM INSURANCE.—Under the title of 
„The Nurserymen’s, Market Gardeners’, and General 
Hailstorm Insurance Corporation, Limited, x a com- 
ect of the i sery 
and garden-glass oe damage by hail. The 
rates at perei o harged are mostly prohibitive. 
such enormous extension of late years as to fully 
Justify 
intended that the Society shall consist entirely—or, 
as far as possible—of those engaged in the trade, 20 
that both shareholders and directors shall be men 
with pers nan knowledge of the subject, and per- 
sonally inte in it. The very strong 
will give — 20 we genie that the 
scheme will prove very succe 
Drrectors.—Chairman, oe J. Veitch (James 
Veitch & Sons), Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea; 
James Backhouse, The Nurseries, York; Thomas 
ee Providence and Trinity Nurseries, ae 
Herta; Wal 
ries, Whets iddlesex ; 
Veitch (R. Veitch 1 Son), The Royal Nurseries, 
r, Devon; James Walker, The Nurseries, om 
Common, 
urrey. 
as. — The London and County Banking 
. Limited (Covent mene ee * 
Inn, W. C. 
AvpitTors.—Mesers, Baker & svat, TH 
morton House, Copthall Avenue, E.C., 
Accountants. Alex. 
Generar Mana BETARY. ~~ 
Sec 
James Monro (pro ey to whom all enquiries 
dressed, 
should be ad Street, 
istege Orricus,—] and 2, King 
ene 
the formation of the Corporation. It is — 
