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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Mar 4, 1888. i" 
EDITORIAL NOTICES. 
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Local News.—Correspondents will greatly oblige by ae 
to the = early intelligence of local events likely to 
of inte rest to our readers, or or of any ‘matters which 3 is 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE MONTH, 
MEETINGS. 
FRIDAY, May 10—Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
SATURDAY, May 11—Royal Botanic Society. 
Royal Horticultural Society’ s Com- 
TUESDAY, May u mittees, at Drill e James 
Street, Westmin 
FRIDAY, May 17—Royal Botanic cian Lecture, 
mar. ax 4 Limnesn Society tory Tobie 
SATURDAY, May 25—Royal Botanic Society. 
FRIDAY, May 31—Royal Botanic Society. 
SHOWS. 
Royal Botanic Society’s Summer 
i at Regent's Park. 
Grea mple Show of the ec 
May 214 Mortioultaral Society (3 days 
Devon County Agricultural — 
WEDNESDAY, May 22 —— 25 — 
Botanical, 
WEDNESDAY, May 15} 
TUESDAY, 
Show of 
Birmingham 
Pansies, &c, (2 days). 
THURSDAY, May 90 pepo West, and Southern Counties, 
at Taunton (4 days). 
FRIDAY, 
May di iaiki Botanic Society. 
SALES FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MONDAY, May 6 Lilies, — ye ees &c., at 
TUESDAY, May 1 — at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Prot 
Lilies, Palm Carnat 
WEDNESDAY, May 8 et Planta, ko., at Pro- 
sion — pi p= eaae 7 Plantes, at 
the Manor Honk High Street, 
Sutton, by Protheroe & Morri 
fe of eper eat eg rene 
s Bar, and 
May 10 
Clayga ota 
FRIDAY, Leytonstone, at 
Morris’ Cheapside Auction Mart. 
| ori, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms, 
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT OHISWICK.—52°.7 
THOSE amongst gardeners of the 
o are old enough 
to remember the first 2 
machines and to have used them, will 
lively recolleotion of the severe strain to the 
muscles of the back, * and legs, entailed by 
having to push and drag 
Lawn 
Mowers. 
torturin g sounds, e 
and much difficulty e so as to cut the 
grass properly. Even so recently as 1870, easy- 
n mowers were not common, although 
goi 
they were rapidly making way; and a trial of 
several makes was held at Chiswick by the Royal 
Hortioultural Society of London in the year fol- 
lowing—a figure of one of the best, the “ lo- 
American,” appearing in our issue for August 26 
in that year. This mower resembled an ‘earlier 
machine, the Archimedian, on which it was sup- 
to be an ng he tia ; it had two driving- 
wheels, and the handle was in a direct line with 
the axle, The Climax was a mower of about that 
uso, 
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saris 
by being made more simple in all their parts, 
lighter, and consequently of easier draught; and 
also fitted with front bearing-wheels standing 
close to the pA thus enabling grass to be 
mown close up to plants and shrubs in beds and 
borders, and rendering the use of the scythe — 
needful in completing the — of a gras 
plot. An improvement to the same end, an nd 
one greatly needed, was the general adoption by 
all makers of the protecting casing over the 
toothed-wheel and chain gear on the sides of the 
pares In the old kinds of machines the gearing 
was unprotected, and the damage done sometimes 
by the cogwhe els was irretrievable. So great 
was the noise caused by these cogwheel machines, 
ost establishments they could not be 
used whilst the family was in residence before 
9 A. u., when the inmates had risen. In this 
— of substituting the watch-chain gearing 
heel and reducing the number 
n 
siderably reducing friction. 
mostly to require now is a 
prensa fe which is a want that we hope soon 
to see met by our clever machinists, The steam- 
driven mower is already in existence, but except 
for the heavier kinds of machines now drawn 
by powerful horses, it is not probable that 
it will get into very general use, owing chiefly 
to the great addition to the weight of a mower, 
its costliness, noise in working, and the necessity 
of its being under the control of a man acquainted 
with the use of steam machinery. The older 
makers erred on the side of making the grass- 
collecting box too small, involving frequent 
toppages to clear the knives by pushing the 
grass into the back of the box or for emptying it. 
This fault has been remedied by some makers by 
providing larger boxes, or fitting them with some 
light kind of a rake by which the grass is removed 
from the vicinity of the knives till the box is 
filled, without the attendant having occasion to 
frequently stop the machine. This is a decided 
gain in point of time, and the horse is much less 
distressed. Moreover, the revolving knives, 
being unclogged by the grass that falls into the 
box, are not likely to be broken or strained, nor 
mower driven by 
springs so as to fit it for mowing un 
is well spoken of by those pr 
have had it in use for a season, and all of 
them say that the springs form a great im- 
provement, doing away with all jarring and 
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haking, rendering the working smooth and easy, 
tending greatly to avert breakages, and lessen the 
draught. 
THE TERRACE IN THE GARDENS AT POWERS- 
tary 
illustration we are 
to the proprietors of a a monthly illustrated 
paper, published in Dublin, The Lilustrograph, 
The view was taken from the top of the mansion 
and is considered a very good pre Those who have 
never visited this fine place, will note thə beau- 
tifal surrounding landscape for viens this part of 
the country of Wicklow is famed, The mountain 
seen in the distance is the Sugar Loaf, the 
most prominent of the Wicklow range. In the 
valley flows the river Dargle in circuitous wind- 
ings — a 
The 
are ve, having an area of about 40 acres, 
They were laid out Planted by the present 
Viscount Powers , who is an enthusi gar- 
dener and forester, and justly proud of the thousands 
of the fine Conifers and choicer shrubs Which 
ceed so well on this estate. The planti 
and shrubs was begun about twenty-five 
and his lordship bas thus been enabled to 
Powerscourt, who has also aed 45 — 
mountain with hundreds of acres Theda 
park contains about 1000 - 
ancient Oaks, In this park is the famous 
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on an extensive scale, fruit growing under glan 
being a leading feature of the place, and carried oa 
with very satisfactory results. The cultivation of 
Roses is extensive, the demand for cut blooms in 
Close on a thousand 
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bedding ker: 
and early autumn-flowering — aki 
these being Lady Powe 
and at the present season the borders are gay 
with Doronicums, Anemone i 
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intrusion of myer, but they are freely opened to j 
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THE NELUMBIUM IN EaypT.—As the question 
of the pama of the Nelumbium in Egypt has one 
more been noted in peesi columns, we applied to : 
Professor one Peruie as the gentleman ofal 
a 
opinion, Professor Furrnpers PET 
answers our enquiry as follows: “I do ok know of 
any decisive evidence for the Nelumbium in pi 
Among the conventionalised and e ce 
tions, forms occur which might perhaps be 
it, but I should hesitate at deciding * 
anything beyond — sports on 
Wu. Furvers Per 
LINNEAN SOCIETY.—At the pe we 
Thursday, April 18, Mr. C. B. Craze FRN 
President, in the chair, a 
was admitted, and 
a Fellow. In view of the approaching 
meeting, the election of auditors was next 
with, when Mr. A. D. Micuazt and e 
Green were nominated on behalf of the 
Messers. E. M. Homes and H. Grover on 
the 3 Mr. T. B. Brow ex mage 
er-weed, Mourera 3 
they 
country the author had made a short 
After remarking that in Ceylon ou wert, " 
Loranthus have large and consi e 
the eorolla-tube brightly ooloured, Ai 
tubular and lobed, he pointe e a ver 
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tions ical regal: isin p 
were corelated with the mode of ferti l 
