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THE 
GARDENERS 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE MONTH. 
MEETINGS. 
THURSDAY, June 6—Linnean Society. 
FRIBAY, JUNE 7— —Royal B Botanic Society, Lecture. 
al Retna 8 hth 's Com- 
Bora ia at Dri es 
TUESDAY, JUNE 11 _ Stree t, , Westminster. z 
FRIDAY, JUNE 14—Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
SATURDAY. JUNE 15— Royal Eoceno rT 
THURSDAY, JUNE 20—Linnean Soci 
FRIDAY, NE 21—Royal Botanic Becta ety, Lecture. 
TUESDAY, JUNE 25 ve gen e Society's ponte 
FRIDAY, JUNE 28—Royal Botanic Society, Le 
SATURDAY, JUNE 29—Royal Botanic Society, Mosting. 
SHOWS. 
Royal Horticultural Society of 
MONDAY, JUNE ad Southampton, Wer Show in 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 Jna pet potag Society, Musical 
Floral Fête. 
Royal Botanic Society, Musical 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 Promenade. 
sig as 4 days). 
Horticultural and Rose 
Royal B ‘Botanic Society, Musical 
om 
Richmond Horticultural and Rose 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 a aF “Botanie Society, Special 
TUESDAY, JUNE 25 
Society, Southern 
in connection with the 
„ Gloucester one Bg ptt Society. 
avira Rose and Horticultural 
oa 
Devon 2 —— Horticultural 
JUNE 28 — Rose and General Floral 
Joun 20 {Windsor Rose and Horticultural 
THURSDAY, JuNE 27 
FRIDAY, 
SATURDAY, 
SALE FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, 
CORRECTED AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED hee THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.—59°,3, 
Paris mIs exhibition, which was partly 
tional Hortieul- held on the same days as our own 
tural Exhibition, 
Temple Show, occupied several 
tents, one of which was 357 feet in length, and 
90 feet in width, considerably more than double 
the size of the big tent at the Temple. The site 
was the Tuileries Garden, parallel to the Rue 
rt of Paris, The 
international 
of Rhododendrons and Azalea mo'lis from M. 
Moser (which gained the prize offered by the 
President of the Republic) ; miscellaneous green- 
house flowers, numbering 150, from M. Trur- 
3 new Bertolonias from M. BLEU, fine and 
interesting new plants from M. L. LINDEN, 
& Co., which were 
or ty worthy of a second prize, a e toe 
In MM. Linpen’s exhibit, the following 
shown :— 
novelties were 
Begovia Faures en 2 Brasil, 1895, 
Miconia vericaria ru, 1894 
Hemite lia Linden}, Ta, 1894 
tiom of al vegetables U8 Vines 
Anthurium van Wambekianum (A, Lindeni x 
A. Andreanum 
S lineatum, Brazil, 1895, 
Cyathea 
Davallia Mruffantlana eru. 
Adiantum Claesian um, Brazil, 1895. 
Tradescantia superba, Peru, 1 
7 ndis, Borneo, 1895. 
Philodendron Devansayanum, Pera. 
Alsophila Marshalliana, Peru. 
Geonoma tenuifolia, Peru, in addition to 8 
ianum, N . 
indeni, Congo, 
Messrs. SANDER’S collection contained the 
following: 
Anguloa Mantin 
Cypripe ~~ eee Endressio 
Wallisi 
ga 
Od A mT crispum “ La Fran 
riesea tesse var. . 
Richardia Lutweychei, Congo. 
rg ajah, 
cuala Kersteniana, Mad 
Alsophila atrovirens, trop. America, 
rinum Mooreanum variega 
Bougainvillea glabra Sanderiane, Brazil. 
a, 
Ptychorachis fee e E. Indies, 
1 eræ 
a var. nobilis, Borneo. 
Seedling Croto 
Bentinckia nicobarica, 
Dracena Godseffiana. 
Lelia purpurata, Ernest Bergmann. 
Salmia Laucheana. 
Podocarpus pectinatus. 
A hybrid Cypripedium was shown by Messrs. 
Low & Co.; a splendid lot of Phyllocactus from 
M. Simon ; Anthuriums and Bromeliads (hybrid) 
from M. L. Duval; Crotons and Alosasias from 
M. CHANTRIER ; Annuals from MM. VILMORIN- 
jary, numbering many 
over by Count DE KER- 
CHOVE. On the 23rd inst., the exhibition was 
visited by M. FELIX Faure, the President “i 
the Republic, Madame and Mademoiselle Faun 
ed, and the success of the arising 
tion was thoroughly ensured, 
The Horticultural Congress was opened on the 
24th at 2 o'clock, in the Society’s rooms, Rue de 
Grenelle, in presence of a numerous assembly, 
Among the foreign delegates was Mr. Moonk of 
Dublin. Resolutions were unanimously adopted 
giving expression to the following wishes: 
5 That the French We ae should associate 
accompanied by 
certificate of origin. That the Postal Adminis- 
— should return to the old reduced tariff 
of which periodical publications on horticulture 
have hitherto had the advantage.” In the even- 
ing, at 8 o'clock, the officials rin rw. Union Com- 
of France, held a concert in — — — of 
the Eiffel Tower, for the entertainment of the 
members foreigners then in boil who were 
also “banquetted” and ucted on various 
excursions, as to the School of Spaa ral Maes at 
CHRONICLE. 
that this show was prod 
(Jove 1, 
In our brief remarks on th 
The Recent epe ow of the Royal H 
Soc 
Temple Flower 
Show. 
commendations of the horticultural v 
exhibited :— 
„A very marked feature of this very } 
able show was its representative character, 
resources of horticulture are great, but 
are those resources more 8 i 
than in the furnishing of a great e 
of this nature. It is not so much in ref 
to the bulk, which, of course, « 
hibits, which seemed to compr 
gardens that is cultivable, and yet still 
oe RRAN because not then in 
indeed a severe task were any 
t to 8 up the whole of the diverse p 
flowers, fruits, and vegetables there di 
yet all this was the product of our own 
and absolutely without the aid of anyt 
sometimes is, and as so often happens 
directions, so in this one, by her own child 
yet here we had presente excell 
— of horticultural material. 
an unusual experience, as sometimes, 
it happens that at ordinary shows 
staged that it would have been much b 
have left at home. In all cases where 
was distinotly in oe as in the case 
he marked 
or Bean eans, and — in i pois re 
the Apples in many 
May, finer than the best from a 
vegetables excellent ! 
Then there was the other marked 
without 
of a single half-penny in 
re lovin = 
whilst these may or may 
tive, there remains the fact that the 
of the horticulture of this country | 
freely at the disposal of the Royal 
qualified to judge. Itis, 
that excepting always peo: Or 
very few amateur 
illustrative of market 
in evidence. Whilst always P. 
