590 
THE GARDENERS’ 
which have been constructed by Mack RNZ & 
Moncur (Limited), are of a „licht and airy aie 
23 alre e: 
eateat benefit from the Wit ec con- 
ation thereby afforded. Many of them are growing 
r seen before in the old greenhouses. 
The ee which are connected with a 
central system, are carried under the paths in a 
tunnel large enough to admit a man going along it 
to examine them periodically, The paths are laid 
ithic E vement, and under the 
e is a shallow trough with 
water, to keep t moki and cool, At the back 
of the conservatory a onal annexe has been = cape 
set apart for the cultere of Filmy Ferns, and at 
extreme west end of the greenhouses an 8 
house will be built as a fernery. To bom north of the 
room 
for the foreman gardener, The cost by the new houses 
has been £1800; they have been carried out paier 
hopes to have the corresponding houses at the she 
end of the corridor oe this year. The o 
space between the tw w houses has bee x aah 
as a Daffodil and Geib warden that at tha south 
aide of the west-most house will be a Veronica- 
verely o n 
air—even the Ivies having pe brow ne to quite an 
u t. he long s ; 
shrubs and trees in the old pinetum, in the vicinity 
of the rock garden, and in other parts, to complete 
the circular walk now connecting the nic Gar- 
dens with m, and to a boundary 
walk which will extend from the Arboretum-gate 
ens at Inverleith Row. 
For » & defini of ting 
trees has n it will 
ot be proceeded with for a short time a pas 
50a recently perked for them has me 
degree consolidated. 
NATIONAL ROSE SOCIETY.—A 3 of the 
committee will be held, by permission o the 
— Club, at their rooms, Hotel Windsor, 
Victoria Street, Westminster, on Tuesday, the 14th 
inst., at 3 P. x., to draw up a list of judges for the 
three exhibitions, and for the transaction of other 
business. There will be no meeting of the General 
Parposes Committee, 
VEITCH MEDALS.—We learn that the presen- 
tation of the Veitch Medals will be made at the 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on Tues- 
day, June II, at 3 M, by the President, Sir Trevor 
Lawerence, Bart. 
COLCHESTER Rose SHOW.—We gather from 
the East Anglian imes that one of the great 
local events of the coming summer will be the Rose 
Hortieul 
G. 
wn amateur and Mr. P. R. 
, are Hon . Secretaries, have just issued the 
93 of prises, 
AN ANONYMOUS DONOR OF £80,000.—Th 
Parks and Gardens Committee of the Liverpool Cor- 
poration met on Wednesday last and visited the recrea- 
tion ground in Wavertree, presented to the city by an 
anonymous donor at the last council meeting. Votes 
of Thanks were passed to 
was stated that he had expended over £80 
on the purchase and laying out of the land, 
RVEYORS’ INSTITUTION.—A general 
——— 27, 38, 39, 58, 57, 62 
64, and 65, as unanimously passed at a general 
meeting held on Monday, April 29, 1895, and a 
forth in the Agenda-paper 3 headed. The n 
ordinary eis meeting will be held on —— 
May 13, when a paper will be read by Mr. R. E. 
. TON = (allow), entitled „Village Water Sup- 
plies.” The chair to be taken at 8 o'clock, Notice 
is given that re F e Dinner of the Institution 
will take place 85 1 Holborn Restaurant (Venetian 
Room), on Monday, May 27, 1895, at half-past 6 
o’clock pr eee "Se everal of Her Majesty’s Judges, 
and other distinguished persons, are expected as 
guests, Member's dinner tickets may be obtained at 
the Institution. In order to provide for the comfort. 
of the Members, it is * eee that the intention of 
being present at the dinner be intimated to the 
Secretary on or before Monday, May 20. 
“ BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,”—The plants ‘figured 
is b beor: Te are: 
iphofia Ni , Baker, t. 7412.— The most 
R rand i Aloette ‘of all the species of this genus, 
Graham South England. Kew. 
in 
See 8 Chronicle, 1891, vol. ii., p. 66. 
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, t. 7413. Leaves deci- 
duous, corollas elongate, petals ultimately revolute, 
berries globular, blue. Alleghany Mountains. Kew. 
14 
r D. Don, t. 7414.— A 
remarkable Chilian Bignoniad, with an _ erec 
tuberous stock, fro ich proceed herbaceous 
i pinn 
hairy leaves, and terminal ‘heads of yellow flowers 
Each stola i is golden-yellow, with blood-red streaks; 
tube 1 inch long, glandular pubescent, narrow at the 
base, then dilated, ansub campanulate; limb 
14 eo in 1 w. 
. 7415.—An erect 
eee, 2t oe high, with aan imbricate, * 
like, broadly-ovate leaves, = 3 of pale * 
25 of 7000 t 
flo ower; New valand, at an altitu 
8000 feet. Edinburgh Garden. Doar. 
Cypripedium Charlesworthii, Rolfe, t. 7416, Gard 
Chron , 1893, ii., fig. 70. Arracan, Kew 
“Science Gossip,” for May, published by 
Srmpxin, MansnaLL & Co., contains many sacl 5 
interest to ee lovers. The Ray 
LINGER has a note on “ Melicerta ringens,” — 
by several — drawings of this small though 
interesting denizan of our NKLYN 
& Cooper write “ Ar 
pa an article on a pre of the Isle of Wight; 
Dr. Gurry tes on “ ete of Plants and 
Basa ancy of Seeds, n F Bezr h 
interesting illustrated e on a * Robt Nodales on 
Leguminous Plants,” ides articles there are 
reviews of books, science gossip, and accounts of 
science abroad. The botany, geology, microscope, 
and zoology sections seem to be well appreciated, 
T FROM THE ANTIPODES.—Since our last 
issue, one of the P 
has arrived from Hobart, Melbourne, and Adelaide, 
From Hobart there are 22393 cases ni 212 half- 
ania from Melbourne, ases and 32 half- 
; Adelaide sends 121 cases; or, altogether, 
23,408 cases, and 244 half-cases of Apples, f 
BIRMI 5 jessas DISTRICT Ay Gar- 
DENERS’ ASSOCIATION.—Mr. W. B. Cur 
Green) read a e on The A 
There was a * show of plants and cut 
— 
THE LATE Frost,— e injury tò shrubs and 
trees usually considered paaro and of co 
known half-hardy shrub 
is advisable 
CHRONICLE. 
r. HENsLOW’S eee report a 4 105 
— of 1879-80 and 1880-81, r ail 
on the present Par anyilignl = than 
Olearia Haastii has suffered in some “org 
“ FINGER-AND- T OE.”—In the last n 
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Mr, a ; 
interesting paper on the Slime-fungus (at d 
phora), which causes the disease in the roo 
Crucifers. Healthy seedlings grown in soil that hy 
previously produced diseased plants s etn 
the disease, whilst those grown in ater 
remained 
h > 
from hedgerows near Turnip-fields, 
would not exclude Wallflowers, Stocks, or 
from our gardens (the first is certainly attacked by 
the disease). The development of the slime-fangy 
is favoured by acids, and checked by alkalis; henc, 
a dressing of lime, or the application of a pale 
manure, are recommended, 
IMPERIAL HORTICULTURAL sai 5 
VIENNA. Dr. Masters has been elected a cor 
responding member of the Society. i 
“THe WILD FLOWERS Couteeriidl 
The Sketches and Directions prepared by 
Hume, F. C & 
This publication is issued in Parts, each 0 
ntains an illustration and shor 
place of his discovery. Short clear 
preparing the specimens are included in the intro 
duction to each part, and the series, as a Wi 
well tempt those who like plants to gathe 
arrange them thus. We hope it will not 
collector to neglect more eae works, 
tell him the botanical names a 
aad life- histories of hie ‘avait bub r 
work if the student were encouraged 
draw the details of the several flowers. At 
no 
sketches are not 
accurate ideas to his own min 
ISLE Wa THANET HORTICULTURAL 
CIA scot . WALTER 2 aioe 
— Aee August 14 next, 
a number of prizes for cut b 
id th 
returned to the senders. 
have prices affixed to them, and be 
“THe {ENGLISH DiALecT Die! 
may well be imagined ,that a work 20 gone 
further defined as being The 
of all Dialect Words still in use, OF 
been in use, du nog the last two be 
no small one, either in scope or "a 
is computed that the dictionary * 
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