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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Maron 23, 1895. 
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; joint secretaries, 
Shaw and Mr. Russell; and the following committee: 
Messrs, Jno, Gough, Henry Crawford, James Colgan, 
Thomas Gough, R. McCraw, Donald McKinnon, and 
Robert Singleton. 
THE Swiss NATIONAL, EXHIBITION.— We hav 
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uisse, Geneva, 1896, to publish 
the following announcement. The Geneva Horti- 
peri in sap with the terms of 
e by c Esrarra in 1893, 
r in eee e with the Swiss 
National Exhibition for 1896, an international com- 
petition under the following Gadki a:—lat, A 
pia l of the value of 
nes (£36) in cash, 
to the finest eet of flowering 
plants, Lor species prasy ember into 
Europe, 2nd. The plant t have n for at 
least one year in the eee pA the ate and 
cultivated in his establishment. A for decla- 
ociété 
competition should apply to M. Micuettr 
fae ‘Presiden t of the Society, and President of 
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op exhibit, as well as the approximate 
* ah pe for its 3 either under glass, in 
tent, or in the open 
R. MARTIN HOPE SUTTON.—To very few is 
it we. after an active and successful business 
career, and a life spent in works of usefulness, social, 
philanthropic and religious, to enter the threshold of 
bee ager es An hono 
besid number of congratulatory visits from 
friende i in N Addresses were also Pee: 
others, by the Church of Englan 
ing and District 
present 
Martin partne 
for the past twenty T years, with two other sons, 
Mr. A. W. Surron and Mr. LEONARD Surron, and 
his nephew, Mr, ee Surron. The heart 
congratulations which Mr. 
anniversary will be e e, together 
with the wish that his life may still longer be spared 
to his family and friends, 
CANKER OF THE APPLE.—According to Krr- 
SCHNER, there is a fungus canker and a frost canker, 
The first is caused by Nectria ditissima, and is dis- 
ished by the appearance, usually in September 
and October, of small red warte—the fruit of the 
fangus, at the margin of the affected parts. Frost 
canker is due to the death of a shoot from frost, and 
usually appears as a wound, or when it is 
firm, consisting, of his Mr. 
J. Boroa, who has been managing pa er 
shows cankered margins, which in conse- 
Gdine’ * repeated severe frost continue to die back. 
ee IN SEASON.—We have received a few 
s of Messrs. B. S. Wil 
in hae varieties, n 
dark crimson flower, with fringed but flat segments ; 
a blue variety, or shall we say rather, violet, the 
tint a pleasing one; and alba magnifica, a Ta 
pale pink bloom with yellow and green eye, and o 
wavy outline, Meteor is a * ark crim- 
The varieties of this 
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well e w have the labours of the raisers of new 
varieties been, that really . or poorly- 
coloured We are seldom met with 
THE VEGETABLE SHOW AT CHISWICK.—We 
are delighted to hear that the Council of the Royal 
Horticultural Society has determined to hold a great 
tember, Subject, 
locality, and time are all leie 
We have no dondt the gardeners 
make a fine display as to quality, 
Quantity is of minor importance as compared with 
i novelty. We earnestly hope a that 
new vegetables—not new varieties of old ones differ- 
ing as little from one another as tweedle- iis from 
tweedle-dum—will be exhibited, and that every 
effort will be made to make the show useful to the 
gardening community, and a powerful means of pro- 
moting novelty and 8 in a department where 
routine reigns even than usually despotically. 
The vegetable trials "A v Chiswi ck will in consequence 
this year be invested with additional significance. 
BIRMINGHAM e DISTRICT ee GAR- 
ERS’ A8SSOCIATION.—Mr. N read an 
instructive and iioa paper or the members 
of the Birmingh A 
n three sections—flower S 
fruit a vegetable garden, and greenhouse 
SHIRLEY one MUTUAL IMPROVE- 
attend- 
a a showed 
the receipts to have been EA 7s. 9d., and the expen- 
diture, £20 6s, re was an exhibition of 
spring-blooming plants, &c., contributed by Mr, 
. Lap HANS, F. R. H. S., Mr. J. . Witcox, Mr. G. 
Wark: and Mr. H. Curris, 
Semang bree A new method of freeing 
Apple m American blight is published in 
e Nützliche Blatter, The substance employed 
is resin or rosin, dissolved in spirits, with which every 
white patch of the blight observed on an Apple-tree is 
tone hed by means of a small brush, The result in the 
badly infested was oe Pa 2 
following summer sale four groups o 
seals over t 
being killed at once, and the latter lose their 
The materials should be mixed together ina 9 85 
epan or glue-pot, with w. 
sistency of thin paint. The mixture should be poured 
into i ei ese hed bottles, a nd warmed somewhat 
before used. It is form an excellent 
Hia ee to ae over the wounds left by 
the pruning-knife and sa 
EDINBURGH BOTANICAL SOciETY.—The mem 
bers of the above society met on the 14th inst., in 
their rooms at St. Andrew Square, Surgeon - major 
H. H. Jonxsrox occupying the chair. The ballotting 
for a number o hed wee, eee. 
proposed by the council as Hon itish and 
Foreign Fellows, and others a Corresponding 
Fellows, took piace, the result being the unanimous 
election of all proposed. chairman brought 
before the ene notice the death of two mem- 
bers of the society, Dr. A. G 
his last 
tion to the society through the press 
Flowers fr za ae Maen bell, of Ledaig, Argyllshire, 
f ed prongs ists 
nock, who ha f. 
Dr. D. Christison, through whom the Pose on 
was made, gave some appropriate remarks upon the 
trees figured. Prof. I. B. Balfour, keeper of the garden, 
some additions to the Flora of Mauritius, as 1 
in Baker’s Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles ; 
Vote of Thanks being accorded to the exhibitor 
arde 
Aena and bet OE no plants had flowered during 
Febru The following 
tie of the meteorologie notes observed in 
chardson, for February, 
= 80'071 
inebes, The highest reading of the protected self- 
registering A cana was, on the 23rd, 47°4. 
Lowest on the 10th 19˙8. The mean for the 
month 31°°0, Hygrometer at 9 A.M., f dry 
29.3; „ lb 289%; pie int 2309, 
mean humi ‘4, The highest reading by the 
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are a 
occurred on the Grass on twenty-eight days, Total 
amount of sunshine for the month was 754 hours, the 
sunniest day being the 21st, when 84 hours were 
recorded, Rain or snow fell on seven days, the total 
fall being 0460 inch. The usual notes on Plants 
in the Plant-houses = read by Mr. R. S. Harrow, 
and the following plants were exhibite d: Impatiens 
auricoma, Burchellia capensis, Thyrsacanthus ruti- 
125 s, fi “a - Wilhelmia speciosa, and other cut 
WINTER SPINACH has survived the rigours of a 
winter which has been very fatal to all the Brassica 
nus, 
MMERCIAL F IBRE8.—The first of a series of 
ure, e 
he most important in this country. 
The total turn-over during 1893, ree imports 
aud exports, was of the value of on ed and 
nineteen millions sterling. Of this N aon 
British possessions contributed only about five 
ion. Canada could grow excellent 1 
The Phormium fibre of New Zealand was capab 
was available 
Hie: built n. C. 2500. 
Mataco Indians made an arrow- proof 
e floss or vegetable silk of the Tan 
i in water. 
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DEVONPORT ROYAL TU — 
—At the eleventh annual meeting of this soc. 
held on the 14th inst., it was unanimously * 
thetic attitude of the Devonport inhabi 
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