798 
he 
and admirably-arranged collection of the plants, 
d foliage, of exceptional merit, which 
resentation w 
made by J. M. Kipp, Esq., the President of — 
e presence of the Mayor of Brighton 
and other leading townsmen. 
THE NuRSERYMEN, MARKET GARDENERS’, 
issued on 6,720,832 squ t 
£80,542 2s. 8d., and producing £415 11s. 
d be considerably 
Michaelm 
8 had 
was considered very satisfactory. 
J. Verrcn, James Sweet, and James WEBBER were 
appointed trustees, and the meeting closed with an 
unanimous vote of thanks to the chairman. 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATI IN ABE! 
VERSITY.—Rev. Dr. SMITH, ewe Aberdeen 
shire, convener of the Committee on Educa 
Agriculture of the Aberdeen Universit joie has 
issued a circular on the sabject to County Councils 
points out that the Ordinance bs the Sco 
Universities Commission, which i ted “y re- 
ceive the Royal assent, and so anA law in the 
rze of a few weeks from this date, lays down a 
systematic course of study for the B Se. degree in 
Agriculture, extending over not less than three 
academical years, an and EES in 3 such 
shall be 
er in the 
following subjects, viz.:—1, Mathematics or biology 
(i. e., zoology and botany); 2, Natural Philosophy; 
3, Che ; 4, Principles of Agriculture c e. “ 
nd Raral oe ; 5, Agricult 
ary eie 2 
10, Economie Science as applied to Agri 
A course in one of the following (a) Forestry, (b), 
ing field work. The above 
uate field out of which to construct 
fen AV 
bare deen ascertained, to organise such courses 20 on 
A conference of public bodies interested will take 
place in Aberdeen University Buildings on July 12 
next, 
A HORTICULTURAL PALACE FOR PARIS IN’ 
1900. —At quet connected with the Paris 
Internati ibition, M. Pr the Commis- 
saire Général for the Exposition Universelle to be 
held in Paris in 1900, announced to the guests that 
wae Nis, aa h apet iS ba abe 1o pont HP hor- 
We will reciprocate, said M, Picanp, biy be 2 you 
palace SS tion you 
a fine 
may pay us in sending us b gars. for 
exhibition. i 
THE GARDENERS’ 
be erect KRANKHEITEN” (Diseases of 
Plants).— FRRHEAR vox TUBEUF, of 
Munich, ted e published a valuable trea- 
tise on the diseases of plante caused by parasitic 
rganisms, with indications of the means to be taken 
e a a s 1 8 and 
parasit and h e dealt 
with, and a 
added. The ‘book i is rate by Jurus vice 
of Berlin, and may be h 1 
Norears. We shall — to it at greater — 
on another occasion. 
BROOMFIELD ORCHID SALE.—The first day's 
sale of Mr. WELLS’ . brought to the hammer 
by Mr. PRorRREROR on the 26th inst., realised about 
£2045, being about an 1 of 6 guineas a lot. 
There was a large company of buyers 3 the 
best Orchids being briskly compete ted for. Among 
the plants bringing the << figures were Odonto- 
glossum crispum ; Cattleya Hardyana, 
8 variety, 56 pi en 
, purpurata X C. gigas Sanderiana, 44 guineas ; 
Geri tari Rothechild x C. agp Xx aurea, 
60 guineas; Cattleya Mossiæ alba, plants, 
guineas ; Cattleya labiata alba, 50 
eat Odontoglossum crispum m Wrigleyanum, 34 
as; Lelio-Cattleya Arnoldiane, ex guineas; 
C. exoniensis 
ELLS gardener. 
* 
IRIS KEMerERI.— Messers. BOEHMER & Co., o 
Yokohama, who have large fields of this Iris under 
ao: give the following Droste for its cultiva- 
hese clay soil, and 
season, which extends from April to Jane, By 
advantageously 
soil that covers them duri 
water should only be left over a during the day- 
ti nd be turned off and allowed to soak into the 
soil during the night. They should be planted in a 
very sunny spot in the garden, and should occasion- 
ally be fertilised with liquid-manure at night time. 
They flower towards the end of June. These should 
be cut while still in the bud, and allowed to blossom 
out in the vases wherein they may be placed, 
Blooms cut for the market should more especially 
be cut inthe bud. In winter-time the roots should 
be kept almost entirely dry ; and in colder countries 
they ought to be protected from the severe frosts by 
r other sim line 
PLANT PORTRAITS. 
R, Garden, May 
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA, eri Mont pre May. 
Braonta Faureana, Illustration Hi ne t. 34. 
at the Temple * — — (? 1894) as B. platani 
altered by rea: o that 
to another spe reo 
BLAND om  PLAMMRA, 
Garden, 
ps anten MADAME SrEPMAN, Revue de 
e 
lge, Jun 
CYPRIPEDIUM CHARLES RICKMAN (by bellatulum var. out 
of Sokerin 5 Revue de de Belge, June. 
GESNERA DONCKELAARIANA, Revue Horticulture Belge, 
| 
olia, but 
me having been 9 applied 
NOBILIS, AND MARGINATA, 
V. 
— eee ee e aer Horticole, ered 16. 
PaxLaANUM, „ nov. spec., in Gartenflora 
t. re —A 1 South Brazilian ‘species, wi with tufts of broad den- 
Son man we leaves, the innermost surrounding the flowers, tipped 
ome ae Pave OF WALES, Bulletin d Ar ng gS So., May. 
ROSE BELLE 3 Rosenzeitung, M: 
E CHRISTOPHE Ger ‘Rosenzeitung, 
May, 1895. 
RUELLIA Makoyvana, Revue de V Horticulture Belge, May. 
iif 
CHRONICLE. 
de Horticulture 
[Jun 29, 1896, 
EAA 
EARTHQUAKES AND ORCHIDS 
(Sun Fie, 124.) í 
xps have written to me from England that 
they Po read in the papers of the — of the 
collection of Orchids at Poggio Gherardo b 
the ground floor. 
side of the house, whereas the Orchid-houses were 
on the south terrace. 
The . uses themselves presented an extraordinary 
he plants 
e e and ef is then fouad that the material 
damage was not 
I do not ar at — — any idea exists 
of the severity of the shock nor of the damage 
utterly ere others rendered uninhabitable, and 
hundreds damaged. The shock was accompanied 
by a deep ru ‘cities sound which was accentuated 
by the sharp noise of the cracking of om walls—and 
they were walls of stone 2 to 3 feet t 
Many of the public buildings have aufe red, One 
side of the cloisters of the famous monastery of the 
nother is threaten- 
n two. The ete of the Signior, and the national 
have to be repaired, and at the 
town is that o 
bardment. There great beams shore u 
angle, here the masons’ platforms cover ths fronts, 
while loaded carts are to be seen n everywhere trans- 
porting long iron bars to tie back the walle which 
have 5 driven out of the perpendicular. 
The shock had three movements, as you will see by 
the fac cart I enclose of the markings made by the 
8 —saltatorial, — e 33 gyrating, 
—and it is believed that had i nother two 
seconds half of Florence must 15 “ales It 2 
of the kind elt here 
the most serious . t 8 
oe just before 10 0 clock, no one was i wild 
many, as customary in these countries in 
ve eather, were outside their doors. Some thirty 
shocks or tremors have since ge bat few were 
H. J. Ross, June 21, 1895 
HOME e 
THE NATIONAL ROSE 800 
CHESTER IN 1896.—Sarely it would be a gracion 
act for the National Society 
e 
act, at on 4 rai: naan be; 4 . 
mercial 8 success 3 
to the further 
out the county. A great Rose 
under the joint a 
iety, and such a strong 
