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Chrysanthemum exhibitions are tes be held. Mr. 
J. S. Jonson, formerly with Messrs, Hurst & Sox, 
seed merchants, Houndsditch, Somos is the Hos: 
Secretary, and Mr, Rureat Muitize, the acting 
Secretary. 
A CHILDREN’S FLOWER Snow A WHITE- 
CHAPEL.—There is in connection h St. Mary’s 
Church and Schools at Whitechapel a ag Raveena 
Society, the object of which is the encouragement 
of the cultivation of plants among the ogee 
attending the day and Sunday schools. Each c 
pays a small e ce-f xhibit, and the 
spring show of flowering-plants—Hyacinths, Talips, 
Narciasi, Crocus, &e lace on the evening of 
the 18th inst, in the Davenant Schools, Mile End 
R and a considerable number of plants were 
staged, though ad out of flower, 
thou they were seen to advantage at the 
their plants in many instances in close, 
certainly satisfactory. 
down simple rules for their guidance in the manage- 
ment of spring- flowering bulbs and other plants. 
short time ago, an address on this topic was given 
by Mr. F. A. Peary, the 22 secretary of the 
Society, and 3 . were g to the children, 
containing a 
forty of these papers were eee and the replies 
in most instances orthy. As an exhi- 
bition is held in the Coane at the close of the 
address on ho Sat meme e eee 
A were so disposed 
d exhibited a 
sane * ae duly sealed and registered. This method 
of teaching and encouraging the youngsters to culti- 
vate plants is one well worthy of imitation. A 
quantity of seeds of annual flowers are also supplied 
to the children, As the ede 3 is 
affiliated to the People's rticultural 
ae each member has the privilege = exhibiting 
e Palace shows also 
“ CHAPMAN’S MAGAZINE.”—A monthly journal 
of this name will shortly be published by Messrs. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 27, 1895, | 
Rooms, Shirley, Southampton, on Sane, the 220d 
EU 
inst., the President, Mr. RANGES pre- 
siding over a fair attendance, “Seeds, their Co om- 
position, owth, Structure, and Germination, 
W. F. Peexins ; “ Cariosities of Seed-life” was also 
dealt with, and enabled the lecturer to exhibit some 
of the various devices by which seeds are distributed 
in Mr. Perxins and Messrs, Toocoop 
Sons exbiblted a number of seeds in illustration of 
the pat and a curious pod, name unknown, was 
shown by Mr. W. H. Roaers, containing hundreds 
of beautiful winged seeds, each about 1 inch square. 
There was a show of pine plants, e. &c., 
by Mr. B. LaphAus and o 
PINE-APPLES IN OLD CALABAR.—I think it 
may interest some sae your readers to learn, writes Mr. 
3 INGTON, Curator of the Botanical 
apples, a 
Royal Gardens, Windsor, has just been cut, measuring 
grown in the 
Niger Coast Protectorate, two years 
shows that a good result may be expected in Old 
Calabar from the experience gained in the botanical 
gardens, 
SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA.—Mr, Ernst Benary 
sends us flowers of this pretty little Gesnerad, 
showing considerable range of c ight 
blue, dark blue, and purple. 
difference in the size of the flow This pretty 
little plant was shown first by Dr, WENDLAx D, at the 
last Ghent Qainquennial, and its history was referred 
to in our ns so lately as April 13, p. 461. 
was figured in the Botanical Magazine, April, t. 7408. 
In the Lilustration Horticole, 5, p. 109, our 
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considerable resemblance with that of Petro- 
cosmea sinensis of Oxtver, Icones Plantarum (1887), 
t. 1716. There are, however, points of difference 
between the Chinese and the East African plant, 
which should make us hesitate in putting the two 
us with a letter stating his opinion on the matter, 
Caaruan & eee The he pages pin to be devoted to an opinion which derives exceptional value, as Mr. 
short stories and “ fiction pieces by well-known and C the nographer and acknowledged 
pe auth o 5 onal poem will also be uthority on the Cyrtandreœ. F easons, which 
included therein. The —— OswatpCRawFURD, need not b given here, Mr. Cranxe thinks it not 
Her bajeaty s lat late at Oporto, and the „list of advisable, at present, to abandon the genus Saint- 
*** orking 3 pa aulia 
thei 
the date of their appearance, as well 
tables indicating the seedlings pee from each 
i &e. It will, there- 
hybrids, or of pe = the | per- 
n of new varieties, The Dict is com- 
piled by E. Bounnor, and the re is Octave 
Dow, 8, Place de L’Odéon, Paris. 
SHIRLEY GARDENERS’ AND ac He 
MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. — 
firat meeting this session was held at the Fa 
into the ‘rapidly-increasing ee “of new forms 
which are accumulating in herbaria, 
~ MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TIME: A nied 
{ OF CONTEM MPORARIES.—A f 
. don & Sons. A 
al wa ways s indlade some names that 1 as 
wet have been omitted, and must always omit others 
that it would have been boter to have inserted, 
These defects are not to be laid to the charge of the 
editor; and the utility of the book is so great that a 
few im coc peg of this e are lost smid 2 
mass. nd no mention rofessor MICHAE 
Foster ; ts in ae 5 jint, of the late Presi- 
dent of ‘the College of Sar, s, Mr. J. W. How 
On the other Sand: the — of“ Argon” nda 
a place under the names of Lord Rayteicu and Prof, 
Ramsay, 
Sarpa RECEIVED.—A Lecture on Fu ngi, 
Kia 5. W. G. a en Horticultural 
= .—The A Methods : Botanical Work 
D a, by 
th the par 5 fungi 
dealing w 
— and — best remedies for such pests, (From 
rr 
the 3 of the Secretary of the Board of Agri- 
culture, 1893.)—Conditions Favowring Inception ang 
Spread of Fungous Diseases, b grt C. Sruadis of 
New Haven. (From the Report of the Seer W 
the Connecticut State Board of Asricalture, 1 
—The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 
Eighteenth Annual Report for 1894, Part II. fje n 
on Fungous Diseases and their Treatment, including 
oy Blight (Micrococcus amylovorus), Experimenta 
nti of t cab, Scab upo! 
Puri the Early Blight of Potatos, Experimen 
on t of sab ( pe 
pirinum), Miscellaneous Notes on Fangi, and Som 
Injurious Ineects, all by De. W. Srorais,— 
Vermont 5 Experiment Station Bulletin, 
No. 44, December, 1894, on Spraying Orchards and 
Potato Fields, and considering the Relation of the 
Date of Planting Potatos, riety Scab and 
its Prevention.— United States Department of Agri- 
culture, Division of Vegetable Pathology, Washington 
Bulletin, No. 6.—Bordeaux Mixture as a Fungicide, by 
D. G. Farecuirp, A careful repor of the origin, 
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k Gironde, and of its effacte o 
8 certain i 
rat one Le E. Bohnhof ( Paria, O. Doin, 8, er 
de Odé 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE, 
HEIGHT OF SOME TREES AT COMPTON BASSET, 
ea be soon opted to some of your readers to 
learn t the height of so 
w 
= 
wef 
for building purposes, and some of it h 
upwards of 300 years. It is very grate e ge 
Easter Monday, and the height haini c 2 ae 
sextant :— Cedrus deodara, 70 feet, planted i in 184 
Cedrus Libani 77 feet, planted in 
the ground, 17 feet 8 inches. 
fine ns cog in the park, bat t 
show what fine trees Wan are Com 
it is really surprising that su 
pox so well in the chalk rock pr tt arf 
oots find their way amongst the ee is wond oe 
W.A . Cook, Compton Basset, Wilt ! 
er i have 
on, go! far oe e 
reference, and he 
weekly after I ah read it. 
e attends all local shows, and makes 
visit to Kew Es — the firat cost of the 5 
the total cost does not reach £3 per annum, -~ 
the most — ont profitable method of : 
ing £3 I have yet discovered. Unless something 5 
second-rate hearsay, and h 
come more curious than n A garde 
a is of far more practical vss tkan his 
were entered were any of the 
that the general condition of ranks an 
for many miles round London? What is 
