Mar 4, 1885] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 557 
flower by sun-birds (Nectarinem), and this was made been enrolled mbers, Several elementary able, and will compensate for 
clear by diagrams and some excellent coloured lectures on — ragag wa delivered, the average changes, Combined as Maaa — more 
drawings. Discussing the mode of distribution of attendance has been about 200, the members minute study of the life history, or 
the seeds, KEEBLE uoted the views of show their interest asking many questions, The customs of plants, and their relation to * 
Exgtxn and NTL, pa exhibitions held — the past year were very 
Pra d the remarks in Kerner's 
-flanzenleben (English 5 on the dissemi 
torial disc; the paper concluding with some rem 
— dar of fruit and seed of Ceylonese 
of Loranthace m. REVO! 
and made remarks upon a collection of plante 
obtained during his sojourn on the Island of Kolgueo, 
** HOOKER’S ICONES PLANTARUM,” now edited 
for the Bentham Trustees 
Oxtver, comprises in its last 
part iii., some twenty-five lithograph 
of new and rare plants contained in the Kew her- 
barium. These are mainly of — interest, but 
some of them have a prospective interest as 
tivation also. 
dalle 
PARIS INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL Ex- 
prospects of this exhibition are 
b the amount 
of 30,000 francs * are to be awarded. 
Customs regulation entirely suppressed in 
favour of — cahibivers. The 1 of the 
jury are chosen from the sommité du Monde 
Horticole.” Unfortunately, the date fixed coincides 
with that of the Temple Show in London, though, 
the P show is of longer duration, t y 
be time for some both. 
_EASTBOURNE BATTLE OF FLOWERS: April 24. 
parade on this occasion, and were treated to a sin- 
gular nen The N streets of the hg 
and almost the whole of the front, were 
ial than than real flowers were 
tiful; next to these were Hyacinths in various 
col 
themselves. The 
Palme, Spiræas, Az se &e. —than others, 
the sides, 
Palace in 1893. It was started 
year, and by the end of Decembgr 237 persons had 
a 
— —— —— 
ful; so much so, that aspring 145 was added 
— the bars, re "The —— position of the 
Society is guy show will 
take nce on = 11. 1.12 and 7 * 
themum show on October 31 and Boua 1 and 2, 
In moving the adoption of the report, Mr. C. E. Sun 
even more satisfactory, The success of the Society 
depended mainly upon ya number of members, and 
if each one would brin other, it oge become 
firmly — The ow awarded a spring 
show were nd the medals 1 — Society 
handed to the or am ofthe same. A proposal for 
an excursion to Kew Gardens was referred to the 
committee, 
SpPaces.—At the monthly meeting of 
Association, 83 
to open to the 
—— burial 
grounds of St. hees Walworth, and St. Mary's, 
Woolwich, lately out by the Association. It 
public towards the end of May the 
was announced f mesian been placed on the 
Main Drainage 5 — E, and by the river 
at Chiswick, W. to itional 
seats for Hackney — and to offer some ſor 
Hammersmith Churchyard, St. Peter's Churchyard, 
Cornhill, and a garden in Stockwell Road. Attention 
was drawn to cases of building operations on disused 
urial grounds in apparent contravention to the 
Disused Burial Grounds Act, 1884; and it was 
decided to take steps to ensure a full inquiry into 
each case, in order to secur observance of the 
law. The completion of the tree-planting in White- 
chapel Road, and the laying out of Allhallows’ 
Churchyard, London- -wall, were announced, and it 
was agreed to ae 
a 
ying out of Bromley N R , and St 
pede s school ground, Bow, E. 
“ THE TALOGUE OF 
. * .”—Ninth edition (George Bell 
& Sons). This is a publication we are 
t, we are glad to announce the 
represent th 
critical study of British plants, and the researches 
n nomenclature made during the last nine years. 
my, the Inder Kewensis, and Mr. 
y can but greatly augment our 
knowledge of — natural history — 2 
varieties, aleo 
which indicate the relati uency of 
or variety ~ 3 districts, Perhaps the 
as Mr. Haxnony has done, 
for the 
plants are here enumerated, forty-seven 22 and 
8 1 Yharacem. The common Elm we see 
is ted as a native, but under an unfamiliar 
name, — of Ulmus surcalosa, 
volvulus, The species of Hieracium and other large 
and contested are in groups, If 
these ps be natural, their adoption is much to 
eater to Mr. Hawnvny and his assistants, who 
comprised the keenest critical botanists of the 
rd 
BeLaian HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT 
AUX.—On May 18, under the sence dome 
Horticultural Ex 
likely to be of 3 — 
n bloom, sent from the principal 
amateurs and — of the country, fine orna- 
ere passed to 
— annual dinner, to the donors of plants and 
flowers; Mr. Barros reported that the fruit 
and flowera remaining at the close of the dinner 
were sent to the Hospital fo Be Sick Te in Great 
0 Street, 1 
ea his ex- 
