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May 11, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 591 
eight years after its actual commencement, and this 
time seems short rather than long when we hear 
that the American dialects are to be included as 
well as those in use in Great Britain, ae have 
e being studied and noted with a 
view to — by the English B W- 
and other workers. Philologists will 
Dialect RI aii most valuable; so, folie: — 
other thinkers wri Loca 
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The editor, 
et 
; other parts to 
follow at intervals of six months. 
IMPORTATION OF BANANA8 INTO 
recent Consular report from Balti- 
there in the largest quantities. Its cultivation for 
the foreign market in Jamaica only dates back about 
twenty years, and it is from that colony that fully 
hose 5 in t 
Atlantie States are now derived. Ther 
present four steamships errant employed in — 
Banana trade with the port more, and whic 
can land their fruit from Port ar poor in a — 
over five days, me 2 as fresh and green as 
when cut. A pro n of each cargo is disposed 
of in the city of — e, but the largest part is 
transferred to heated or 3 cars, —— 
to season, and sent by rail as far west as Chi 
In connection with the 2 l in "Florida, it 
is stated that the crop which is the chief source of 
the eastern States was completely 
he severe weather, and that the 
ng Oranges in California to 
meet their engagemen 
HORTICULTURAL INSTRUCTION.—An interest- 
ing experiment in teaching practical gardening is 
some tried at Bournemouth, thanks to the liberality 
f T. G. Rooper, Esq., one of . Inspectors of 
Schoo ls, who has undertaken to defray the expenses 
Twelve pupils of the Boscombe 
have each a plot of ground (20 feet 
tendence of a skilled instructor, Mr. W. Hearn, 
wW ages ran om twelve to sixteen, 
work on the ag g from 3.30 to 5 o'clock on 
eek, and although operations 
were only com H on March 25 last, the land has 
been th A i cleaned, and seod-sowing is in 
progress. y has a complete outfit of tools, 
manure, seeds, &c., are provide 
Miss C. Acyes Rooper, who is much interested in 
the work, frequently “visits the plots, and gives 
valuable hints and suggestions, 
ORQUAY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — We 
regret to learn from the Exeter Evening Post of 
May 2, that owing to lack = interest on a ts part of 
to be wound we 
the chairmanship of Mr. 
man stated that the Society had been in existence 
hose who had unde 
affairs. The chairman concluded by moving that 
the Society be wound up, which was duly seconded 
and carried. A sub-committee was appointed for 
this purpose, and if there is an 
be handed over to the Gardeners’ Relief Fund. 
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A rl STRAWBERRY.—We received lately 
a few of Messrs, Laxro aE N ú pe 
variety a eee. ai tA ader 
result of a their ba mà 
Noble, is of conical * sometimes cock's- comb 
shape; as to colour a bright N Er; 20 
we could j idge from h-damag ruit, 
the ed fru 
injudicionsly — — in — — it is of a 
very sprightl 
as 
oors. On this last point we 
speak at a future time, It is, as regards colour 
and flavour, an advance on some recent varieties 
sent out. 
Sisal Hemp yang nan * 2 
re por trade 
commerce of Vera ri ruz, referense is sala to — 
Henegren or * hemp, w as become more 
generally known of late as — cone to be fro 
sad fact that the fibre was firat exported — a 
mall coast port about 27 miles west o reso, 
ini view of the low price oy bas ruled for Galt hemp 
for some time past, it will be of interest to know 
that the export from vor Cruz varies from 19,000 
to 45, bales per month, the average 8 of 
each bale being about 350 Ib. It has been remarked 
that this year 1895 will have the maximum quantity 
1 and 1 of the 
f the farmers are planting 
A ary hemp. 1 lands, as 
well as old 3 areas, are now being used 
for growing Maize and other products. 
GLASS Bricks FOR CONSTRUCTING PLANT- 
HOUSES.—Some — bricks of the system Falconier 
were ex xhibited f he glass works, Adlerhiitten, 
n Penzig, Silesia, a e meeting of the Vereins 
zur belorderang des Gartenbaues in Berlin, These 
ks are intended used in constructing th 
of heat. They possess internally a hollow of about 
one-third of zheir entire contents, which being filled 
with rarified air, acts as a non-conductor of heat. 
They are joined together with cement, by which a 
rigidity is obtained which points to the possibility of 
tieir being employed as roofing in semicircular 
form, without any use being made of iron as a sup- 
po structure. In houses built of this material, 
there must be many advan nable by 
er modes of er materials, 
including greater economy in heating. No windows 
3 although for the purpose of enabling 
a person to look outside, these fittings might be 
supplied. 
“THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICUL- 
TURAL SOCIETY.”—The * ee * published 
is perhaps hardly equal to some o redec 8 
nevertheless, it comprises some dae paper 
such as Mr. PRrrianzw's account of the 8 
and Wine Making at Cardiff pn d Mr. Suexa’s 
lecture on Chrysanthemums, Mr. Bacxnousz's lec- 
ture on Filmy Ferns, &c. 
THE Kew Museums —An official guide to the 
Museum No. 2, which contains the Monocotyledons 
and the Cryptogams, has been 1 at the cost 
of a few pence. It may be had at the gardens, 
Messrs. Srortiswoope & Co. As it sehen 
products derived from Palms and Grasses amongst 
piara, 1A Wl be ae yy el aera t instalment is 
important one. A thoroughly eee 
eee nomie botany is still wanting. The 
n might well serve as the nucleus 
for a a work 
s “ALL 
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BEETON L ABOUT GARDENING. 
‘new “ Dictionary of Garden Work” is really a — 
and enlarged n of a popular book. It — aro 
letter - press and over 
near] 500 
tions, and the re is only half-e-crown, The +f 
formation contained in it is reliable, succinct and up- 
to-date, but we would care should 
d to the 
have preve such errors as 2 cucoram (), 
or Cneorum, Arabia for A —— many — 
ones Both professional and am 
teur gardeners wil 
however, find the instructions — in this vom 
useful, and will 2 this revised edition. The 
publish are M arp, Lock, & Bowpen, 
Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E. C. 
NATURAL HYBRIDS OF ee e 
sending pam wt g ke , Enoreneart 
Barer, “ Narcissus, which I think will ine 
rest y we ite history, well 
with the plant called N. triandrus — It 
has been for a very long time in — though 
a scarce plant, and has always been down asa 
variety of N. triandrus, sy fare —— Ten or 
twelve years 
pr 
obably a natural hybrid between N. triandrus and 
N. jonqu l pposition by 
3 it had a perceptible jonquil-scent, also 
it sterile, N. triandrus 
that abundantly 
fertile, — hybrids of * (e. g., N. odors) 
being sterile. Mr. Maw and ot or this vie 
raise plants ba 
so I set to work ten years ago to 
N. triandrus x N. Jonquilla. Batch after batch of 
my seedlings died before flowering, for I have found 
hybrids of N. Jonquilla very difficult to raise. At 
peculiarity of the coro 
Jonquilla, There is a wild plant, N. Jonquilloides 
(I think of Willkomm), which 
with rus 
re EGG-PLART, — Mr. * — 
from Trin —“ Among seedlin of 
3 or 5 — . s 
there lately appeared in our gardens a plant with 
the shrubby habit of the Aubergine, or Egg-Plant, 
and with similar flowers, but bearing fruit having 
the exact form of a deeply sectioned Tomato, and of 
a bright red colour. The size of the fruit is about 
eee in its widest 3 The interior of the fruit 
has more the e appearance the Egg Plant than the 
Tomato, but there is a iene to both. It would 
make a very good decorative plant, as the fruit 
appears to be of a more ding character üa either 
the Egg-Plant or the Tomato. I should be glad to 
now if anyone has seen a similar 8 s 15 
Hart, Supt., Royal Botanic Gardens, Trini 
PUBLICATIONS beet — Bulletin de 0 Associa- 
tion pour la Protection des Plantes, Geneva (1895), 
containing prose at verse co M. H. 
F A W. 55 al: ve No. ab includ- 
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