Juse 8, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
717 
Horticultural Operations and Practices by Mr. J. 
aaa R (late of Kew gardens), editor of the Gardening 
orld, accompanie y en 
eee and individual tong work by the 
students. 4. Two demonstrations on 
Diseases of Plante due to al 5. A lecture and 
demonstration on Injuries to Plants due to Insecte, 
In our next we hope to give farther details, for which 
we have not space on this occasion. 
RICHMOND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—This 
Society, which embraces as its field 
A 
*. inasmuch as income balances expenditure, an 
position generally is satisfactory. The exhibition 
was 1 well maintaine in the quantity and 
rre of the exhibits, The numbe tries ex- 
ded those of any previous year. The s 
— are numerous, and they are so subdivided as 
to encourage competition between equals. The ex- 
hibition this year will be held in the Old Deer 
Park, Richmond, on Wednesday, June 26. 
ON VITIFOLIUM,—We have just received 
flowers ny this exceedingly pretty shrub from Mr. 
Ard 
5 
TLAND, $ 
f the variety described 
GuMBLETON in the Gardeners’ Ci 
September 29, 1894, as th 
owers, and i 
e 
rom the garden 
HarrtLasp, The delicate colour of the 
flower, together with the free-flowering habit of the 
plant, 
ornamental of its foliage, 
seem to make it unique among hardy shrubs, Mr, 
N has seen plants of it — . hed frost, 
and quite roa be ed; and Mr, HARTLAND says that 
it makes a umg 80 1 that birds — nest 
in the branch 
HOW. ave 
owe sat of the National Co-operative Society, 
be held simultaneously with the Eighth 
Crystal 
ARD Owen Greenine, the 
inforins us, is the only workmen’s 
bb of national r, and is now 
the largeat flower show held in the kingdom. 
attracted 
The attendance by it last — was the 
greatest ever known ened Crystal P alace with 
one or two exceptions. 
8 eee Society OF ABER- 
DEEN.—A meetin the directors of this Society 
was held on — perro 4th inst., in the office 
the Secretary, Mr. A. M. Byres, C. A., Aberdeen; 
to thank t the Aberdeen Town Council, * r of 
y, for l granting the of th 
Dathie — Park, e occasion of their floral 
Fete to be held in ee and also for the donation of 
£10 to the prize fund. Judges were appointed 
féte. Owing to the Town Council affording the society 
the entire use of this large park for the three days 
considered it would 
SHow.—By the per- 
mission of Her Majesty, the Windsor Rose Show, 
fixed for the 29th inst., is to be held this year in the 
the 
that the exhibition will 11 be honoured with a visit 
from Royalty. 
Roval HORTICULTURAL TURAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. 
—A meeting of the Council of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society of 4 was held on Monday, 
May 27, at the offices of the Society, 61, Dawson 
Street ; Breese D’Orrer, Esq., in the chalr, 
Rose show will be held by the kind permission of 
Lord — in his grounds off Harcourt Street, on 
Thursday, July 4. A letter wae read from Mr. R. 
Owen, Castlehill f Maidenhead, offering 
prizes to be com ö 
Sout show in * 1 ecided to 
EARLY OUT-OF-DOORS STRAWBERRIES.-—The 
earliest fruite this year to the London market were, 
says The Western Merry, went by Mr, Tuos 
Abaus, market gardener of Calstock, Cornwall, on 
Bey, May 24 He forwarded fourteen baskets of 
choice fru 
SeFuL Books. — Messra. Macuitszaw & Co. 
have in the press two little manuals on 3 
viz., 4 Primer of Garden Flowers and Plants, edited 
2 Mr, J. Waiour, author of. A Primer of Hortioul- 
rely Mr. Cuarces 2 gans Greenhouse and 
Window Plants: Propagation and 
Management, Both pre wi ats illustrated. 
LOWERS IN 2 qo M Ea iih v 
Sows, Hassoc , Susse 
smal! plants in 72's piy 2 bilobs Ai ag 
i eh i sie lab ait e tein: 
species which 3 The single 
truss of brilliant blue flowers, of a large size, borne 
by each, indicate many u ——ů — 
Seah sinai piii —— nature, 
THE LATE Mas. 
the Treasurer of the Roy Society, 
will 3 the 2 sympathy of his friends * 
e loss of his wife, Pete 
Waddon — Panta gag Jane 2, aged Pk 
eight. 
nh B RD,—We learn with tiga ete 
t Mr. Bouxyarp, of Maidstone, 
parti ir jury from a fall, but is happily 6 
* 
IT FROM THE ANTIPODES.—Since our last 
issue — Peninsular — Oriental Company's steamer 
Australia brought the peice. e cases and 
pples 
one half-case o rom Hobart 
from Me Ade 
ni 36 100 tons, but owi 
prices, the value in 1804 was onl £93,450, against 
Should wood-pulp 
; 197 cases 
total of 
THE PEA AND BEAN WEEVIL 
(8 
— — 
Tue Donni af A a c= 
of damage bring bes Gone to eat by wel 
a feeds upon several leguminous plants. This 
-y 
ct is recognised as the Pea and Bean weevil, to 
which attention was drawn by — Board in — 
Peas and Beans are 
this insect, but the injury te + neque a — 
uted to slags, the weevil not by 
any means easily seen, It aes a Jig a and 
The weevil 
a and ite larvm devour their roota, It 
is often most troublesome in market gardens 
and in some years an 
Peas and Beane has 
k Sweet Peas in na, 
er injares Red Clover * ite early stages, aod 
ite small white maggots, or larva, also epoil second 
cuts” of Clover by eating th ps ge ig a 
P 
and sto their growth, Trifolium, too, suffers 
considerably, particularly in ite early stages, from 
he attacks of this weevil, injory is 
y attributed to slugs and 
Lif Bean 
scales, which in some » are 
greenish shade, There are three lines of this grey, 
or grey-green, hue on the , and many lines on 
the wing cases, antenne are of a red colour, 
poured and there change to pups. 
the weevils pass winter in weevil form, 
aleo may be used in th ications 
utions of pet, with a little soft soap, 
