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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
EDITORIAL NOTICES. 
“pina should be sent to the PUBLISHER. 
ewspapers.—C pers should be 
careful to ark a the paragraphs they . the Editor to see. 
Illustrations. Ihe Editor will thankfull 
Local News. —Correspondents will gr sending 
to the ning early ne of local ee likely to pa 
of interest to our readers, which 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MEETINGS. 
84 AY, Mr 25—Royal Botanic Society. 
FRIDAY, May 31—Royal Botanic Society: Lecture. 
SHOWS. 
= 3 — — aa Counties 
ety a un (4 days). 
THUBSDAY, Max 3 e of Pansies at the Bi al 
c Gardens (2 days). 
Opening Day of the Manchester 
FRIDAY, May a} berry Society’s Whitsuntide 
8 AL ES. 
TUESDAY, Mar 28 {iw 1 3 at Protheroe & 
deere deer Messrs. F. Sander 
FRIDAY, May 8 Oo., at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
CORRECTED A E TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, * FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.—57°.5. 
Crirics will this year have had 
an excellent opportunity of com- 
paring the continental method of 
ourselves, It has been quite possible, for roma 
to have seen the Temple Show on Tuesday, and to 
of the Tuileries in Paris on 5 following day. 
Reports of both will appear in our columns, indeed 
a large portion of our spire this eek is occupied 
with the details, with as many Illustrations as 
time would permit, a pres Temple Show, and next 
week we shall to be in a position to record 
some of the leading features of the Paris Exhibi- 
tion. Speaking now of our own display, we may 
say in general terms that it was larger t than ever, 
that there 
stuff, and of plants that may be seen in Gaita 
Garden i in bulk, or at any florist's shop in smaller 
is still case of herbaceous plants 
As to the e was little or no 
improvement former Individual 
groups were good, bat as to broad g general effects, 
such as our tal friends delight in, there 
were few; neither were there the i 
the Palms, the Tree Ferns, 
Crotons, the Aroids, were not at con- 
ous, with one or two exceptions, unless by 
spiou 
their absence. We know that big tents, ordinary 
staging, and flat surfaces do not lend themselves 
readily to this style of exhibition, yet when we 
remember what our friends at Ghent and Paris 
to do in their annexes and supplementary 
Weg we feel disappointed that we cannot, or do 
not, do like ewise. We may be told that we have 
remain the annexes and the tents which offer a 
fair com; n with our own from this eran of 
view, ab ae e less we say the bette 
we come to cultural details, we — no 
reason to shirk comparison. The Orchids, the 
Roses, the Clematis, the fruit, the vegetables, 
and a dozen other things that might be enume- 
rated, show that our cultivators need fear no 
competition. The Orchids which always form 
the principal feature of the Temple show were 
able ind' vidually as wehaveseen them. Sir TREVOR 
Lawrencr’s Epidendrum Stamfordianum, 
species difficult to grow, was perhaps the most 
remarkable plant exhibited, and seoured the 
award of a Silver Flora Medal. A like award 
was given to the beautiful specimen of Cypri- 
pedium Stonei platytenium. ron ScHRODE 
showed a finely-flowered specimen of Masdevallia 
Houtteana with no fewer than 300 flowers. 
From Orchids to Peas may seem to some a 
long jump, yet the exhibit of Messrs. Surron 
y deserves special mention, and their en- 
deavour to secure an early race with the flavour 
of the later sorts is deserving of all encourage- 
. Warn’s exhibit of vegetables, espe- 
Sally his method of showing Cucumbers trained 
as standards with a spreading head from whioh 
the fruits depend as in a pot Vine, was a welcome 
break from the monotony of vegetable exhibits. 
Messrs. PAuL & Son and Mr. Mounr of Canter- 
bury, by-the-way, showed a similar laudable 
attempt to vary the 1 of Rose exhi 
Messrs. BAckHousk's rockery was, as usual 
oharming - backed up by olga hardy Bamboos 
it formed one of the most delightful features of 
the exhibition. Messrs, Vxurrcu’s hybrid Cereus 
and Phyllocactus, and Messrs, BIRKENHEAD’S 
Ferns were also worthy of special note. 
We must refer to our special report for the 
full details of this excellent exhibition. Its 
— 
uty was 
the dull somewhat foggy atmosphere, but this 
fortunately did not interfere with a large attend- 
ance of the public, 
Tux controversy over the manage- 
Epping Forest. ee of this forest still waxes 
ially such of it as 
touches upon the e matter of outting 
trees and underwood, There are those who, 
skilled in woodcraft, would gradually remove 
superfluous trees, more ially those of little 
worth, with the knowledge that such thinning 
of the timber must result in benefit to the pea 
and the wild plants which remain. These 
cates of judicious thinning would not remove 
even an ugly pollard if it did not spoil a near 
or distant view, or injure a neighbouring tree or 
large bush of better quality, or hinder the 
development of healthy seedling trees and 
other vegetation beneath or around it. They 
would open out vistas and grassy roads in 
the denser parts, so that the ordinary pedes- 
trian, clad i ts, might 
now only accessible by cironitous tracks, scaroely 
wide pore ig for two persons to walk abreast. 
These and alleys, if not kept to rigidly 
straight + Hess sili: by the way, the inno- 
vators have no desire to make - would bring out 
at once many finely-shaped, unpollarded trees— 
Hornbean, Oak, or Birch—which cannot 
now be properly seen owing to the surrounding 
trees ge brushwood. The maintenance of a 
canopy of tree foliage, and of considerable quan- 
tities fri under-growth, in a pe —— natural 
condition, such as 0 , Vibur- 
num Opulus, Heather, Furze, — Pa Ko., 
in parts of the forest where the healthy trees 
are, for the most part, of no great age, is very 
desirable, Of course, there are parts of the forest, 
as for example, that which comes close up to 
Chingford, where aged Oaks and o 
fair proportions, standin e 
the old pollarded trees, the outcome of 
custom of providing those oe 
others, ne 
them of light, air, and nun 7 N 
the soil. f 
pig preserve, but enhance the — 
forest and increase its charms to the 
In view of the conflicting views a 
members of the Essex Field Club and 5 
friends, to the number of more than one hundra 
met at Chingford Station on Saturday, 
the first that was 21 
small, and from 80 to to 150 y 
only were removed last 
observation, the wood has entered 
ence, as proved by the dead 
branches, ‘the stagheadedness of the 
great many of the trees, and the 
the foliage. The trees could not pr 
could the undergrowth, owing to o 
and the dense shade. We think 
and much natural growth it 
which is a marked contrast to the pollard’ 
growth of 
been made by fire or otherwise. 
the forest Biroh is likely to be the futare® 
there isnone prettier. sone Wood, 
to allow the young stuff 
Machi discussion 
columns of the newspapers in 
clearings that have been rT 
this road, One of the weig 
