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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
[Marca 23, 1895, 
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or of aclu plants, flowers, trees, 
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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, 
MEETING. 
Royal Horticultural Society’s Com- 
mittees, at the Drill Hall, James 
t : 
TUESDAY, - MARCH 2f 
Street, Westminster. 
SHOW 
Brighton and Sussex New Horticul- 
Marca 26 f tural Soc. Spring Show (2 days). 
SALES. 
Lilies, Palms. Begonias, 3 
Mar. 25) &c., at Protheroe & Mor 
Fooms 
TUESDAY, 
MONDAY, 
Established Orchide, at Protheroe 
& Morris’ Rooms. 
. whet Pep ns 21 of Lilies 
from Japan, Plants frem Belgium, 
and Palm Sante. cag Se Fruit 
grees, Tu Pro- 
& Morris’ 2 
TUESDAY, MAR. 26 
WEDNESDAY, Mar, 27 i 2 
Un preserved Sal e of the Live and 
t ` Dead Stock p the Hook Hill 
THURSDAY, MAR. 28 —— Woking, re W. Jack- 
$y — by Protheroe & 
; ba Mion Messrs. H. Low 
FRIDAY, Man. 29} Co., at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
CORRECTED AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.— 
masala Amid all the vagaries of recent 
Nomenclature, 
tion for naming plants, it is refreshing to read 
the declaration of the commission on this 
subject, appointed by the International Botanical 
Congr t met at Genoa in 1892. It 
appeared in the January number of the Oester- 
reichische Botanische Zeitung, and has also been 
widely distributed in a separate form. This 
document is an admirable specimen of brevity 
and conciseness, the whole occupying less than 
Spee: and if itis somewhat less $ conser- 
an the utterances 
from en 
e 8 tions put 
1. The vals tat a name once employed, and 
subsequently spawn ac invalid, should not be 
used in, is recommended for future obser- 
aga 
vance; but a eee e application of the 
diotum, “once a synonym, always a a synonym,” 
is rejected as leading to a vicious alteration of 
names. 
2. Te transferring a species from one genus 
to another, the N. d specific name is, as a 
rule, to be reta 
3. The year 1758 to be the starting-point in 
priority both for genera and species, 
4, In the naming of species, the principle of 
priority is to be — save that a 
name is not to be displaced by a doubtful one. 
5, In naming genera, a name that has been in 
oblivion for at least fifty years shall not be 
revived to replace a current name. 
But this rule is subject to the exception 
that where such name has been in use for at 
Pit * years since its revival, it shall remain 
"tt ebe be explained that the foregoing are 
ions to 
on the whole, so reasonable and practicable, that 
we should be glad to see the leading botanists 
of this country support them, not alone in prac- 
tice, as they actually do, but 1 4 making known 
their adhesion to some such r 
The second proposition is fae one that will 
doubtless encounter the greatest opposition in 
this country, in its present form it 
makes no distinction between the botanists, say, 
who regard Batrachium and Ranunculus as dis- 
tinct genera, and the botanist who, by mistake, 
or sheer ignorance, places a true Ranunculus in 
Anemone. To give an instance of what we 
mean, the late Dr. Hance described a Chinese 
plant under the name of Hedyotis longidens. 
Some years later the same plant came under the 
notice of Professor OLIVER, and he, w 
sume, without any knowled : 
Hance had done, published the plant as Wend- 
landia Henryi. Now these genera belong to 
ifferent tribes of the Rubiaceæ. When Mr. 
HEMSLEWY came to deal with these plants in 
his Enumeration of Chinese Plants, he discovered 
that they were the 
the first name as a 
had he e ee the pai of priority in specific 
names, wo have called the plant ‘ese 
Indie: Pein Hemsl., thus adding eces- 
andi ignoring the ‘olin 
of the botanist who first correctly determined 
the genus of the plant in question. Of o course, 
we are assuming that OLIVER was right, and 
Hance wrong, as to the pre! it is not a 
matter of Opinion in this instance 
Some bitter complaints have been 
Se set forth by London suburban 
greengrocers as to the effects 
upon their trade exercised by the ee 
of 
a very simple matter. Residents in the suburbs 
having connections with these places of business 
have only to select from the list, make up their 
orders, enclose a cheque or P. O., and 
in ashort time the goods are at the door—of 
the best quality at the Prices, but this possibly 
not the lowest quotations in the open market, 
the greengrocers’ way of doing business 
ore. oe the best, for a com- 
parison of y writer at various 
— in an extensive suburb showed that what 
was most noticeable in 8 Deicke eet, 
Potatos, Grapes, Seakale, and other vegetables ; 
h to provoke s 
eet of course, is — so much nonsense, 
noticed in one instance that Wiles the “ Stores” 
cleared £1 on a delivered ton of Potatos the 
greengrocer was olearing thrice that mon ney. 
This is on one side; there is no doubt that there 
are grievances a affecting the suburban tradesman, 
but it is possible for him to alter and improve 
are to be found th 
heads together, and draw up a plan, p all the 
Six Home Counties Directory, call on 89 for 
market to give them their help or advice, which 
would gladly be vouchsafed, for they could see 
their way to planting dozen of “ pitches,” instead 
of seeking the limited number of metropolitan 
markets, to which “ pitches” the vendors could 
easily find their way at the least possible expense 
of time and horseflesh. The County Council 
would doubtless be glad to help here; it would 
be the commencement of the realisation of 
their great scheme for market extension 
in which the convenience and profit of all 
e first e, The 
could have no reason com- 
plain; certainly, their customers would ri the 
advantage of contiguity of markets, freshness of 
goods, and possibly lowering of rates. We re- 
commend this rough outline of a scheme for 
“ betterment,” in the belief that all concerned— 
grower, vendor, and purchaser—would find profit 
in it, 
EUCHARIS STEVENS! X.—This hybrid was raised 
by Mr. Srevens, of alton Grange, Stone, 
Staffordshire, from E. candida, by pollen of 
Sanderi, and was originally described in our 
columns by ROWN, May 24, 1890. 
The perianth 
eg 
tube longer than in E. can The corona is 
about half the length of that species. The leaf 
characters are those of E. Sanderi. It is stated to 
be very free flowering. The plant was raised in 
1883, and sent to the Royal Horticultural Society, 
where a was then considered to be the same as 
E. Mastersii, from which, — it differs, It is 
said to hare ‘the great advantage of not being subject 
to the attack of mealy-bug—an advantage indeed. 
Our ee (fig. 48) was taken from some speci- 
mens exhibited at the last meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society by Mr. Brain, of Tre 
RoYAL HORTICULTURAL Society.—At the 
next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
which will be held in the Drill Hall, James Street. 
Victoria Street, Westminster, on Tuesday, March 26, 
Mr. T. H. Crasr will read a paper on “ Lifting Large 
Trees and Shrubs,” at 3 p.m, The vacancy ae 
on the fruit committee by the lamented d death of 
x , has fled by Mr, Iccuupey’s 
SER by the Cou The vegetable mye 
has now been definitely ized ‘for Sept. 10 (instead 
Oct. 15), and will be held at Chiswick Gardens ; 
instead of in the Drill Hall, as stated in the na 
“ arrangements” for the year, The show at the D 5 
Hall, —— on Oct. 15, will be an ordinary 
nightly meeti 
THE 1 Rose Soci 
of the National Rose 
ede the following list of special Faas 
which have been placed at ye disposal of the be 
mittee for the present year: For competition at of 
the High Sheriff 
p of the value 
J. Jefferies 
present a S 
peso) Challenge Cup; the Mayor and 
louceste W a a sot 2 The 
Frait and * e p 
Moss, Garden and single vt = “Boses; more: be offered 
hbourne, Messrs, J. 
holm Nursery, Gloucester; and 
