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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 9, 1895, 
good e, and the reading of the lecture was 
cm with ta attention. After the meeting a 
rt discussion took place. 
SHIRLEY GARDENERS’ AND AMATEURS’ Mo- 
TUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.— An extra 
meeting was held in the St. Deny's Parish Hoot, 
rT on Thursday last, Mr. L 
HAM R. H. S., . over a fair attendance of 
the members, * mys, gardener to the Hon 
gave an interesting lecture on 
7 Rotation of Cress for Cottage Gardens and Allot- 
m hearty vote of thanks was accorded to 
the lecturer at the close of the discussion. 
ISLE OF WIGHT HORTICULTURAL IMPROVE- 
Assoc. ATION.—The monthly meeting of the 
e was held at Warburton’s Hotel, Newport, on 
day last, when Dr, Groves, J. P., zm esided 
over a very good gathering of membere 
attended to hear an address on the “ —— of 
— for Market,” by Mr. Banknan, of Have 
Mr. Baaxuam, however, decided to waive 
the 1 subject, and to give a few practical h 
ateurs and cottagers on The General Culti- 
vation of the Vine,” this he did in a very lengthy 
of N 
port Nursery. staged a nice group of plante, including 
Orchids, barns: Palms, Dracenas, and two Orange 
Amongst the Orchids he had some 
anceps Morado, Sophonitis grandiflora, and Oaci- 
dium Ca um, for this collection he received 
2 Association’s "Cortificst e for Cultural erit, 
papers be r 
Judging Chrysanthemums,” “ Cultiva- 
tion of Vegetables, % Tuberous Begonias,” “ Mush- 
room Culture,” &c, 
oc a 
f Violets 
f and Cycl 
unusual, come from Mr, Smiru, West a pats 
Chichester. We do not remember to hav en 
larger Violets. The plants of pexis ae Victori ia 3 
have been grown in e wes = h double mats 
as covering, and som ter ses ro 0 the aa: 
The variety should se te mistaken for the Victoria 
ed ually 
its much longer flower-stalke. 
all from two-year- old plants, Some 8 Paans 
sinensis fimbriata blooms come from Mess =B S: 
ILLIAMS & Sons, Holloway. A fine bloom of the 
beautiful C 
garden. es is a — too seldom met with now-a- 
the assiduous 
Fra AL 
mber seventy- 3 
work of about two years spent in Italy, 
Spain, Ireland, and England. The subjects of h 
fanc those old-fashioned gardens in e 
i overflowing borders of hardy 
erg sare and annuals, afford great patches 
of e o dear to most t of us, as well as 
wilder of ths brush. When these delightful borders 
re eet off and contrasted with ancient he of 
w, Cypres?, and Box, and margined next the path 
7 ‘edginge of Box a foot wide, and very suggestive of 
battlemented hedge at Rockingham Castle looks every 
bit as ancient as the yellow-and-grey lichened walls 
of the castle. As tit-bits of gay borders we may 
instance those at Abbey L«ix, at Clontarf, the mass 
of Sweet We at the Villa Aldobrandini, Fras- 
of Moon Daisies (Chrysanthemum 
N A 1 the masses of unrestrained 
d Italy, with sometimes Date Palms 
a bed of Phlox, Poppy, 
bit of 
or Chamer 
first rine they not been rigidly staked and tied. 
WATERFORD HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
se * general meeting of this Society was held 
e 27th ult.,in the City Hall, Since last year 
the Societ ety has been ironia by the amalga- 
mation with it of the Waterford Amateur Cottage 
and Window Gardening Society. The affairs of the 
amalgamated association will be conducted by a joint 
committee and two 1 on aries, Mr. W 
Ricuwarpson and Mr, D. Can It is intended 
to hold two exhibitions daria ‘che N year, one 
in July and another in November 
VEGETABLE ASSIMILATION AND REGPIRATION, 
—The Proceedings of the Royal Society (vol. vir, No. 
342), published February 20, include papers on No. I, 
„Experimental Researches on Vegetable Assimila- 
tion and Respiration; No. II, Oa the Paths o 
Gaseous Exchange between Aérial Leaves and the 
Ateari sia E 8 The following con- 
clu at: — 1. Under normal e 
üitionn, practically aa sole pathway for CO, tes or 
of the y stomata, Since oxygen 
Aae ake peee than CO, through fine openings, 
the same probably holds for oxygen m ER whole 
of the gas exchange. 2. Under abno con- 
ditions, when the stomata or — ee, are 
blocked, and the surrounding tension of CO, is 
great enough, passage of CO, by osmosis through 
the cuticle may take place, 3. That such closure 
of stomata as is held to take place in darkness does 
not prevent the distribution of gas exchange closely 
agreeing with that of the stomata, 4, That th 
exhalation of CO, in = apa by a 3 ene in 
GakREAU's well- kn now @ ex- 
pression ai g nhyélotogieal “truth by or =a feat but 
is only due to the 3 m a ge SPOR to 
the presence of imm r of tissues not 
sufficiently green or ay fally ‘lente prm 
isolated green leaves fally illuminated, aseimilate 
the whole of their rg CO., and allow not any 
to escape from the 
THE REO CEDAR (JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA) — 
rld, every man of letters 
every school-teacher, all the bankers, lawyers and 
her men of affaire, the men and women who 
control the world, and all the echool-children who 
are going to 8 it, hold Pia? day in their hands 
a piece of this uld be interesting to 
know what ee eee of bine men and womer, the 
most e and best-educated of the human 
race, knows anything of m origin of these little 
cylinders of wood, of the character and appearance, 
the name even of 125 tree that builds them 
w» in its long life of slow accretions,” Garden and 
rest, 
E 
OacHips IN BRUSSELS. — I noticed in M. 
Prerer’s establishment that “ oimh of Cypripe- 
dium Chamberlainianum show ap at the 
‘Antwerp Exposition . in bloom 
and bearing bads. Also in Wee were e 
nobile var. Ballianum mpoki three specimens of 
88 
streaked with the same colour. 
Trianzi bore a large sonm of good for 
lent habit, the lip large, 5 and re- 
markable for its e colour. v 
Odontoglossum guttatum Hyeanu 
raceme of twelve — pure white, spotted with 
reddish-purple, the form good and general effect 
excellent. The rare O. pardinum was also in bloom, 
Ch, D. B. 
REPORTS ON AMERICAN e ee 
have received nA following reports relative 
ture :—From the United vol 
American agric 
Department of — énitiró; Washington Report 
No.6, on the Fiber Investigations, and devoted to 
the Uncultivated Bast Fibres of the United States; 
Michigan, F 
Department, Bulletin 
from the New Yor 
No. 76, ie ntaining Note 
from the University of "California, Agricultural Ex- 
dale Station, Berkeley, Cal., Bulletin No. 104, 
devoted to Investigations of Californian Olives and 
Olive Oils; and Bulletin No, 105, relating to 1, The 
Canaigre or Tanner's Dock; 2, Australian Salt 
Bash for Alkali Soils, Also ‘om the University of 
Wyoming, Agricuitural College Department, Bulle 
tin No.19, on Squirrel Tail Grass (Hordeum pem 
one of the tote pests of Wyoming. 
PHONOGRAPHY.—We recommend all interested 
in this study to send to Sir Isaac Prrman, Bath, 
for a circular“ Raspecting the Fonografik Improov- 
ments which that most industrious worker i is pro- 
si 
connected with his name. 
kanot heer enter inter eni pertikiulars ov the 
Improovments,” but can only say that they tend to 
still further simplify phonography to the decipherer 
without rendering it more elaborate to the writer. 
will despatch a committee 
month to ene a India, Ceylon, China, og Japan, 
ff, to South 
other tropical rae 
it is believed, i sie practicable in the Caucasus. 
FRUIT CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA, aie sg io 
e 
to fruit culture, from which 400,000 to 
over forty millions baskets of jipe per ‘sna ts 
at 
ee ng now taught that a rent ' i 
can done, the refrigeration process enablin g 
8 
20 is ig 
several millions of pounds of dried Fot etiabcd 
least one million cases of tinned fruit. og 
with their achievements at home, thes? wea 0 
horticulturists now pushing, thelr | their fruit 
the sea into England, Trey n 
