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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arrn 13, 1895, 
THE NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE SPRING SHOW will 
be held in Olympia on Wednesday and Thursday, 
24th and 25th inst. Last year the show was a very 
groups of Plants and 
Roses; Aa prizes in ee Cat-flower Classes have also 
been i mmittee also endeavour to 
give . ao er ee from a distance. 
SCOTTISH HORTICULTURAL Assoc 
At an ordinary meeting of the Scottish Aae 
held on Tuesday, raat ril 2, at 5, St. 
te W 
Bs per of their beau- 
tiful flowers, and of the method of cultivation. 
N exhibits on the dais included flowering herba- 
ous plants, from Mr. Munco Cuarman, Easter 
2 Begia Niel Roses in bloom, 17 
Mr. T. Fen Cultoquhey Gardens, Crieff; 
1 n ower, from Messrs, R. B, LaIRD & Sons, 
Edinbur 
cota Mr. Massee announces in the 
tany for ppa that the brown spots so 
d Orchids are due to the pre- 
— s—Plasmodiophora orchidis— 
of which a description is promised later o 
THE Surveyors’ INSTITUTION. — The next 
pieg general meeting will bə held on Monday, 
Apri 
D 
Forestry, at the last te will be resumed. 
The chair to be taken at 8 o’cloc 
THE ACTION OF GLYCERINE ON PLANTS.—The 
Revue Hort that a German naturalist has 
discovered that if — deprived of ita starch ea 
be watered wit 
planting, glycerine 
a thousand parts of as, and exposed to light, Èr 
starch soon appears; but as this would happen in 
any case under exposure to light, we do not see what 
part the glycerine plays, 
OYSTER-S8HELLS,—The use made of these sub- 
stances in — leads us to mention the 
analysis of the of various Ap of oysters 
made by MM, oe & Monrz as culti- 
vators are concerned, the Wincipal thing to nh noted 
is the large proportion of lime, varying from 48 4 to 
per cent. of the dry matter. _Phosphoric acid 
the Marennes 
90 in the Portugnese oyster. The 
presence of minute quantities of iodine and bromine 
goes towards em- the use of oyster-shells in 
medicine in olden times 
DWARF SWEET PEA.— Messrs, Allee, Burpee 
& Co., of Philadelphia, announce a Sweet Pea which 
not climb, but attains a height of only a few 
1s Te tae ae a a recent iseun, te there was an an 
paper on the 
Ireland,” was 
Royal Horticultara Society, but i 
ess, accompanied by 
an ere map, which is superior to the one pub- 
lished in the Contributions towa a Cybele 
Hi Sirs 
. 
STOCK-TAKING: MARCH.—The month closed 
with the announcement that the pa for the 
financial year was in excess of that for 1893-4 by 
some £3,400,000; that the receiving orders issued 
during the past quarter showed a ae decrease 
ose issued for th si 
1893- and 1894; and, further, that 1 bankruptcies 
for the 8 months showed such a decrease, as to 
was of a more healthy order than 
e, Flora, and Crops of 
ished, ot in es report of the 
£653,553, whilst exp 
same period —— . 2 2424, 127. Here may be 
placed in evid usual excerpt from the 
j we t table of apoti for the ont of March : 
Difference. 
IMPORTS. | 1894, 1895. 
PR £ 
Total value of imports | 35,327,037 35,980,590 +653,553 
(A.) Articles of food 
pees drink — dut | 
“ad 11,079,892 | 10,691,199 —388,693 
ae iis of “ae | 
and drink—dutiable| 2,101,530 | 2,450,617 +349,087 
Raw materials for 
textile manufac- | T 
es ae 7.264.173 8,049,763 | +785,590 
Raw materials for 
sundry industries | 
and manufactures , 2,450,049 3,131,237 ＋ 881,188 
(A.) Miscellaneous 
articles 1,679,271 1,239 5°5 —439,766 
(B.) Parcel Post 75,967 81,853 | +5, 886 
It is pleasant to have to record a rise in the he 
of imports, because there was a decrease to ma 
amounting to £6, 889 425, oe we can only trust that 
of being obliterated, 
well as increased 
quantities. As to the imports ar fruits, roote, and 
vegetables, we give the following from the general 
mass of figures 
IMPORTS. | 1894. | 1895. | Difference. 
Fruit, raw :— | 
Apples „bush. 217,714 | 219,373 1,659 
Oherries e „ we tee | 205 
Plume e a 14 +14 
Pears Pa eat: 4,464 | 4,247 —217 
Grapes see), y 1.240 2,131 ＋ 891 
Unenumerated ... ,, 25,853 | 29,679 +3,826 
Onions „ 7 x 259,594 | 425,666  +166,072 
Potatos .. . ewt.“ 23,205 372.261 +299,056 
Vegetables, raw, unenu £ £ 
merated . s value 64,028 | 74,574 710,546 
Some of the figures in the above extract are of a 
rather extraordinary cha racter, and in yi he of 
di 
mixe * 
Use 
less to quote them against the 5 pa of 
h Fis pori 
first quarter of the year by us, not 
light een all over the 1 to fac 
port, and the m population are pe grateful 
for, on the whole, cheap ben In the face of 
the present price of Potatos, the foreign cultivator 
manages to get rid of his Magnums and Chardon 
at a fair price; and there can be no Taha to his 
getting 60s, when our salesmen get 90s. to 120s. per 
ton. As to our 
8 
our Pa ust aider 
Our friends on t 15 other side of the 
very seriously eae cae the question whether the 
Melin Tariff is the best of all possible tariffs, and 
friends of wae political economy are placarding 
France with some most valuable fac he 
existing state of taxation in that much- taxed coun- 
try. This is not the place to publish any of these 
oe we imagine that Frenchmen must 
tory, 
Channel are 
ast culminate 
es to 
in an early peace, the com a 
to the s share of our manufac- 
follow will larg ely 
turers and Ripper 
mi ame IN PARIS.—We eite from the Revue 
orticols the g the number of 
trees planted in lines (avenues) in Paris, The total 
number at the end of December, 1894, was 97 
The species made use of were a 
ive round numbers only: — Plane 
15 
sinensis, 25 Planera crenata, : 
Canada Poplar, 4 ims 1 Catalpa, 1 Oak, 1 Paper 
Mulberry, 1 Sophora 
A JAPANESE mots AS Fir,—In the gree 
r Feb, 20, is 
au altitude o 
SRIRASAwA puts hi 
gee gn. Pseudotsuga. 
e gives (in German . and eats: ally the 
illustrations, leave no doubt as to the f 
Mr. - SHIRASAWA’S identification. The original 
Douglas Tir, as is well known, is a native of 
North West America, and so far, has been the 
only representative of its = s or 
a Japanese form should occur 
It forms a parallel case to is occu 
Mertensiana and Tsuga gigantea in "California, &e., 
and of Tsuga Sieboldi, Thuya japonica in Japan, 
and there are other cases of parallelism in the floras 
of the two countries known to botanists, which far- 
nish ground for interesting speculation. The newly- 
discovered tree grows in association with Tsuga 
Sieboldi, Fagus japonica, Magnolia hypoleuca, * 
others. has an erect straight trunk, horizon 
spreading branches and conical top. The height is 
iver òtres, with a circumference of 
3 métres, so that 
8 by its ert congen 
CHESHUNT, WORMLEV, AND DISTRICT HORTI- 
CULTURAL MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.— 
The Society under the above title has recently been 
inaugurated, and already gives promise of being a 
very successful one. Papers have been read, and 
discussions initiated, at the technical classes at 
ts proceed- 
at the Wormley school, to fram 
elect 5 The er, gti have con- 
Y, Esq., President; and 
r, Esq; 197 W. 
committee was elected, with Mr. F. S. Hutchinson 
as chairman. Up to the present time fiye meetings 
ir been held. 
US ON ASPIDISTRA.—A short time 3 
i 
8 8 
EE 
bably have LSAS this du 
sation of moisture, m 
distræ, and to recommend that all diseased ee 
should be burnt, as the spores of the funga 
numerous, and germinate very readily. 
Isaac SpRaAdUE.— America 
ings were valued for their strict accuracy 
3 ei Asa Gray’s works were flat 7 
‘Waa LFORMED CyPRIPEDIUM. — ‘st 
LINDEN has b d enough to send us 8 i 
f 
y pripediu 
some interesting peculiarities, M. LINDEN 
notes that the lip is imperfectly 
developed, and 
ipedium callosum, rnc e 
n papers record the 
death of this famous botanical artist, whose 420 
