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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MEETINGS. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 27—Royal Botanic Society. 
U. 7 Y 2—Linnean iety. 
May 3—Royal B ty : Lecture. 
HOW. 
Spring Show in the Gardens of * 
SATURDAY, APRIL 11 8 Manchester Botanic Society, 
Old Trafford. 
SALES. 
Roses, Ferns, Begonias, &c., at 
anne Ar. 294 Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Renee . Lea mr 20 | Rooms. * eats: ©, & Mortis’ 5 
Plan g Shoe 
WEDNESDAY, ut 1 * | Lilies and Palm Seeds, 
Morris’ Rooms. 
ae from Messrs, F, Sander be 
Morri 
Orch 
FRIDAY, May a} Co., at Protheroe & 
Rooms, 
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
@ WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.—651°.1. 
oo THE culture of Pine-apples, to all 
ere 8 is f 
we, in spite of our ab coal, cannot, for- 
grow them at a 5 t! The thing is 
absurd; but whilst the notion continues to find 
believers in this country, fine-flavoured fruits 
are, and will be, bad to get at any shop. 
cannot well be otherwise, with fruits cut ten or 
twelve days before they reach the consumer, 
What would be thought of the “ igent gar- 
his 
th a severe check—at least for the best 
markets; the connoisseur wou able 
obtain well-favoured, juicy fruit, leaving the 
imported fruits to the barrow-men and low-class 
trade. 
As for private garden culture, it can be greatly 
1 using ordin * garden- frames 
laced over a thick hot-bed of tree leaves, or 
— stable 8 or tanner's bark, where 
we the root 
and —— ' 
at Pro- 
that material is to beobtainedcheaply. There is no 
need for briok-lined holes ; a simple excavation 
hotbed that projects beyond the sides. 
frames can be used for the whole of the young 
stock from March to October, and if they were 
fitted up with detachable piping fixed to a port- 
during the winter season, if cove 
to utilise the heat to the uttermost, 
frames grow excellent stocky plants, which 
being close to the glass, never get drawn. A 
fruiting-house or pit, and pits for ar successions; 
provided they are well furnished with top and 
bottom-heat by means of = hele should be 
available for winter use. There is no absolute 
nec essity to use pots for the 8 truiters,” although 
it is handy to have the successions in them, the 
planting out in beds of loamy soil being m 
the cheaper method. Pot oulture is entirely 
artificial, and consequently KiE and plant- 
ing out might be practised instead, 
The preservation of the ball of earth intact 
when shifting a Pine plant, is looked upon 
5 is i P The older 
practitioners did not think so, for they shook 
off the soil from“ fruiters ” and “successions,” cut 
off the lower end of the stem where the roots were 
the oldest, and sunk the stem 6 inches or more 
into the soil, after removing several of the lower 
leaves, so as to set the roots free. As they did 
it, it was a time-wasting process, and it w 
rare occurrence for a Pine to be out from a plant 
in less than two years, and the Providence 
variety would take three years. By penting 
8 and moulding up, instead o 
the plants, and not interfering with the Potion 
of the stem at all, but merely setting the upper 
roots free by the dener of the leaves, there is 
no check given to growth, and oonsequently no 
oss of time. 
Some cultivators advocate the TN of two 
or three of the best suckers on a planted-out 
Pine after the fruit on the mother-plant has 
been cut; but as a — of general e it 
is not to be recom ended, surroun it is 
with the difficulty of conveniently en eee 
these suckers, o igi 
removed, as in the mother-plants, the heap of 
soil required to oover the part of the stem where 
the roots emerge would have to be at least 
12 inches high; and to be able to keep this 
mass of soi] moist, it must have a level surface, 
which is only obtainable by surrounding it with 
pieces or a wall of sods. To a certain 
extent the sucker draws nutriment fope the 
Hither- plant, and will exist withou 
but the f. 
i tne of ator was went 
by Mr. W a recent issue, therefore there 
is no tit in yita into that subject on this 
occas 
ä ͤ —— 
LINNEAN SOCIETY.—An evenin . ill 
be held on Thursday, May 2. 1895, 1 8 v . 
paper by the late Jonx Bart, M.A, F. R S. ' with an 
a, C.M.G., 
EL. M. 
will be read on ios Distribation of 
Plants on the Southern side of the Alps,” 
e 2 i 3 is in bloom 
ew. The y of bulbous plants 
beautiful also, i oe 
SCARBOROUGH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Scalby 
o 
and Newby 8 3 er H 
Society was held o N 
Newby. The President (atau Ca * 
resided over the 2 
decided to hold the show on August 
spring flower show of the Darlington H 
DARLINGTON SPRING FLOWER SHOW, —The 
2 was held on the Ich inst., in the 
severo season 
n magnificent collection ¢ 
Narcissi, sent by Mr. Ware, of London, and Me 
Barr & 
CHILDREN’S GERANIUM (PELARGONIUM) Crus, 
iss Evita Heatuer-Biee writes from 14, 
Place, Hyde Park, to appeal on behalf of the Chil 
dren’s Pelargoni hich 
Shoreditch Board- schools. 
in the early summer, and at the end of the season an 
exhibition is held and prizes awarded, the flowers in 
the meantime having brightened the homes from 
which the children come THER-Bice 
will be glad to receive contributions for the purchase 
of plants and in aid of the expenses of the exhibition — 
FLOWERS IN HYDE PARK, —I hare 
e. much, says Mr, Priusort in the Standard, 
of lovely tints ; in Mesopotamia, e 
lovely Ericas [?]; in Switzerland, 4 
jeeling, and also in Ceylon, Rh aes: 
large as Seotch Firs, loaded with im 
rowing w ild and unte 
now travelled (to and fro) more than ie to 
or persons wishing to see this u ih 
it may assist if I inform — (if they 
omnibus) that the Marble Arch on one 
Hyde Pisa Corner on the other, are the P 
make 
BRIGHTON AND Suasex H 
Morus improvement A ? 
the 18th inst., prizes were 0 
twelve blooms of cut Daffodils, shown in 
open, and a specimen Auricula ear by 4 
th 
illustrating very 
illustrations in colours, A 
