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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arar 6, 1895, 
advises the temperature in the resting rece to be 
50° to 60°. This, in my opinion, is too . I think 
more A for if the 
e 
withheld during the whole of the season. 6. Bee, 
Warwick College, 
EDUCATION OF GARDENERS. — Mr. H. 0 
writes very sensibly on 369, and I agree with m 
of what he says, I mu t, however, take — — 
lish 3 in 
A t What 
few days 
ago I received a letter of twenty words a a Scotch 
— in a leading place, in which there were 
five mistakes in spelling! What does Mr. Elliott 
say to that? Sassenach, 
COMPARATIVE HARDINESS OF SHRUBS.— In 
the shrubbery of a garden in 8 I recently 
noticed five shrubs growing in a lin rota all 
appearances ander exactly similar conditi ey 
were all lar, 1 and had evidently 1 there 
for several years. They grew in the following 
ord 
80 great a 
saseta at frost in the S. E. and 'the 10 SW. of Rugland. 
LAW NOTES, 
e . TOY 
B fore his Honour Judge Austin.) 
APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. 
Eneuisu (trading as H. 
COURT. 
We learn from the 
r. H. Holman Gregory applied for the debtor’s dis- 
charge. Ths Official Receiver reported that the 
debtor filed his petition in Jaly, 1893, Mr. J. Heddell, 
of Clevedon, being appointed trustee. The estate 
paid a dividend of 2s, 83d. on £2602 worth of debts. 
The Offizial Receiver said the assets were below 10s, 
in the pound of his unsecured liabilities, and he had 
not kept proper books. The alleged cause of failure 
Was drought A 
the Judge said the discha 
ject to two yeara’ ee 
it less he would have don 
ould be grauted, sub- 
15 he could have made 
TRADE NOTICE, 
W. F. GUNN & CO, LIMITED, 
which was registered on 
managing director, — he has agreed to act in that 
capacity for a period of five years, 
SOCIETY, 
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ROYAL HORTIC OLTU RAL. 
Scientific eres 
„ M. T. Masters in Mo 
26.— Present: 
5 JT Sat 
ARCH 
chair; Mr. McLac 
5 Müller, and Rev. G. Henslo 
Lea ves e oen mh. report from Kew upon 
the speciile 01 20 e last m 
follows :— —‘ Fungi and . ria are 
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by the activity of the roots being in excess of that of 
the leaves. Less moisture at the roots, and a circu- 
ey | with a not too damp atmosphere, is the 
medy. 
n with Two wear —Dr. Masters had ex- 
amined a flower of the plant exhibited 8 9 — last 
meeting, and found that the extra lip w 
panied with a bifurcation of the single l cord 
belonging of . normal labellum, so that it was not 
d of two organs, but to multiplication 
Mice.—Mr. McLachlan described 
the injuries done to Ferns during cy hard f 
Mr. Morris attributed it to a want of water, 
EŞ 
ship, when a consignmen 
plants was sent from Jamaica to 5 
was much injured by rats and m By p 
pans o ioe? among them, teh no further 
injury occurred, 
Aspidist vi attacked by Fungi — Dr. Masters ex- 
hibited a leaf much decayed in parte with breitt 
marks upon it. It was referred to Kew for 
examination. [See our Notices to Correspondents 
last week. Ep 
Odont 
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oglossum cirrhosum.—A specimen was sent 
by Mr, Smee, ee for the flowers being 
associa’ ated with lea 
Hyacinth Malformed.—A peculiar specimen waa 
sent by Sir Ch. Strickland. The veed- 
double, api 
W 
s on Eei mum,—Dr, Snead: showed a 
e of these received from Baron Von Müller 
from Australia. Mr. McLachlan undertook to ex- 
em. 
Schinus Molle.— A photograph of a remarkabl 
y 
fine e 5 some 25 1 57 U n height, growing 
in Gra s Town, was show A r. Masters. 
Bulbo piile um eg Bo m, Ön. 422 a 
nd 429, — 
25 remarkable Orchid was exhibited by Sir Trevor 
wrence. It is 7b by far the largest flowering 
apecies of this genus, Its peculiarity, however, con- 
sists in the absence of petals, as there are only three 
reig A iia sepals, the posterior one being spotted 
wit it 
NURSERY NOTES, 
— 
3 J. „VEITCH anv SONS, CHELSEA, 
aspect of the beds and borders of the 
e house s 3 the 1 
is n 
best, and given the present dull an 
it will doubtless present a — spectacle for 
some few weeks to come. There is 
lossoms, and 
& more general evenness of contour and regularit y 
x Erm ne t = we remember to have remarked in 
—the — without doubt, of 
Mr. J Henles — in erossing. By the practice of 
constant selection, the radiating segments with 
ws o pointed ti ips natural to them have por tte 
tend to form a flower with a smooth circular sais. 
There ose who will object to this, as an unde- 
sirable monotony of shape, but:the ie ara will have it 
so, and there isan end of the matter, Iti i 
We will give—like the sporting — our selec- 
tion of beauties for the present season for the benefit 
“disfigured, are shedding their leaves. 
— ä 
of our readers in the country, who may 
what is being done with these plants, — 
all, or nearly all, are varieties a — flo 3 
for the first time. taw ae 
which are scarlet flames; Ollerton is a gt 
coloured flower, with remarkably rounded se 
Agathe is a white, r z 
G 
segments; 
u 
soms hade of 8 ate — 
Para iss bright scarlet stripes on white; 
a fine bloom of gre 
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rosy- red, with pointed stripes on a white; N 
is of bright crimson, with pointed segments; Armoire 
is a fine white, with red stripes ; Condor isa neat 
crimson flower; Perle is white, te 
ard, are rem 
wilt rmed crimson- seoloured ridden Philomel 
is tessalated hae cerise on a white ground, and has 
a green throa 
In other bi there were noted a 
new Caladiums, ni apparently C, 1 . 
them, dwarf of stature, charming as — 
plants for the dinner-table, and the deco 
apartments, The increase of the plants — 
this set is being busily pushed on, The large show- 
Staphylea, 3 Genies, Dutch Balbs, Erieas, 
Boronia megastigma, Acacias, Deutzias, Spiræa, 
Mignonette, &c. he various Cliveias are full of 
1 s and solid-looking. 
The Camellia-house will soon present a picture 
of floral loveliness The plants are late in blooming 
coming nerally, and 
many grand pieces of Angrecum sesquipedale, 
Cypripedium Aphrodite, a pie thing obtained 
from Lawrenceanum X niveum; and the continuous- 
flowering C. Lathamianum. 
Dendrobiums formed a numerous flowering con- 
tingent, but it must suffice to mention D. Cybele 
nobilius, a cross got from D. Findlayanum and D. 
nobile nobilius, very pretty in its mixture of rosy- 
attention at once. The other cross in a aa 0. 
eburneum is the seed- parent, is much lighter 
in colour than the firat-named, A good mas 
f the pure white Coœlogyne ta was noted 
n the rock-house, as flo ; 
great Cattleya-house have, in our opinion, 
appeared so healthy, so green in foliage, and ea a n 
up for 
The n uarters here, i 
2 Dosen cover about 8 acre 
s 1 acre. 
site is low-lying, but the soil is good, ae 
upon a bed of sand, which suits mont ofthe 
greens and Conifers grown 
affected. The passin of whi 
assortment, have m 
hardiest of the 9 race, if not 
