May 25, 
1896.) THE 
GARDENERS’ 
against the forest e nora fi was ae they 
because it carried on ina straight 
line an ugly artificial clearing, the monotony 
of which required to be broken u 
Honey Lane Quarters is a wood consist- 
Fia Y¥3.—eLDENDROM STAMFORDIANUM : 
As exhibited at the Temple Show by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
ing mainly of pollards of Hornbeam in = 
ranks d, a 
suggestion is rightly made, we think, to clear 
them away, but to preserve the finer pollarded 
Oaks wherever found in ore forest, provided better 
trees are not spoiled by ; 
In Epping Thicks, the — part of the woodland 
visited, one finds the most beauty, the finest glades 
and most distant peeps into the interior of the 
woods on either hand, and the best timber. A 
little rn of Hornbeam pollards has been 
done, bu night very well be followed up 
with * ane efit to the undergrowt 
The Forest is extensive anoügh to admit of 
varied eee waeren to soil, aspect, and 
the exigencies of t ar 
might be left at art be carefully 
tended and judiciously thinned, part even might 
be converted in n arboretum, The Forest is 
not intended 3 faddists, nor for any one class 
in particular, but for the public, and the none 
includes folk of many tastes, all united, how- 
ever, in their desire to preserve — Forest. 
President of the Royal Horticultural Scciety. 
BRITISH AS8OCIATION,—The next meeting will 
be held at Ipswich, on Sept. 11 and ne "e 
Sir 
of the Marquis of SALISBURY. Section K, 5 ny. 
will have for its president Mr. W. T. — 
C. M. G., Director, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
VIOLA CONFERENCE AT BiRMINGHAM,—The 
second annual Conference of growers and others 
interested in Violas will be held on the first day 
(29th inst.) of the Pansy — aes Show in the 
Pet 8 bap t 4 o’clock in the 
roo Tr will be chair- 
man, ery the 3 papers will be contributed : 
— The Genus Viola,” by Professor HiLLEOUSR 
FLOWERS FRAGRANT, YELLOW, WITH RED SPOTS AND GREEN EDGES; 
Nu uber of s; ikes, 13; 
CHRONICLE. 655 
by Mr. — Dax; 
“Older V arieties of V rey 
rts,” Mr. J. D. Srvanr; 
Viola Spo 
„by Dr. Sruaur; Winter 
Treatment of Violas,” by Mr. A. J. Rowzerry, 
THE GARDEN CINERARIA —The following ex- 
tract ee Dr. Focke s Die Pfann en N 2 will 
be r with interest just now pasing of 
8 cruentus with S, pops ee non 11. gave 
as issue the so-called 9 of g Accord- 
ing to A. Orro, the rst h 
bicolor, coolestis, formosa, H ndersoni, pulchella, 
and Waterhonesiana. The Canary Islands are the 
LIP WHITE. 
number of flowers, about 700. (Ses p. 642.) 
home of the parent species. Afterwards several 
ith 
from two cultivated goth of these sition . — 
in proximity to each oth 
NATIONAL Rose SOCIETY.—At the committee 
meeting of the National Rose Society, held on Tues- 
