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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(Jury 6, 1895. 
The general scheme of arrangement was one pre- 
cisely adapted, as regarded some parts of it, to the 
summer season, namely, to fill up the fireplaces 
with plants, to flank all doorways with sma!l 
groups, and make assemblages of plants in spaces 
that admit of its being done by their remoteness 
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The only departure from these 
ideas was that remarked in St. George’s Hall, 
which will be noted farther on, 
staircase, with its white marble 
Оковов IV., and bronze figures of naiads, was beau- 
tified by a gr 
foreground being filled in with Codiaums (Crotons), 
which have foliage with yellow colours predomi- 
natiag, such being considered more cheerful-looking 
in the half-light than the richer-coloured varieties. 
an Sprays of the variegated- 
leafed. pps and Ivies possessing small foliage 
hung down over the solid, low walls of the staircase ; 
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guerites, and the seldom-used Humea elegans, pro- 
fusely-flowered sprays or plants of Rosa Félicité- 
1 ом the small pillars, which gave a 
finish to head of the stairs, The wall behind 
was dier masked by slender Palms, as far as 
regarded the large bare spaces between the lancet- 
window: 
s. Small groups were disposed on 
either hand a little further on er the arch, 
nea! which ^ the approach to the ante-room. 
In room ge fauteuil was topped with а 
cluster of deditus Caladiums of moderate size, 
surmounted by а nice specimen of Pandanus Veitchi. 
A doorway was here masked by a fine piece of 
Alocasia 
zome Codiæums, and 
Kalosanthes coccinea, with a bordering of Pilea 
muscosa, Ferns, Selaginella denticulata, Isolepis. 
and other dwarf plants. The vestibule leading from 
this to the next one—Nelaon’s room, so called from 
& white marble bust of the ge perched on a piece 
of a mast of the Victory, w nked on each side 
of the two doors with Falck and a few flowering 
plants of a kind to pen light up the rather 
darkened place, An imposing group, consisting of 
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2, guerites, dizams, 
filled “a 5 ia PF Nelson-room, and a 
a the opposite 
w on 
E бео» Hall is rel from this last 
consisted of a nde variety of Intermediate Stock 
(spring-sown, as Mr. Tuomas rem arked); Cassia 
corymbosa, the only yellow flowers employed for 
this purpose; Sweet Pea Her Majesty, a deep pink, 
profuse-flowering variety, which filled five of the 
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an almost ideal plant for indoor use; Spiræa 
Aruncus and 8. Bumalda, Dracenas with 
coloured leaves, Francoa ramosa, Gladiolus The 
Bride, with Ferns, Isolepis, &c., A а finish. 
з A group of Palms, Codiæums, Draesn , and mis- 
subjects made an effective айй for the 
enormous а which finds а place on the side 
оё the Hall op 
illea was remarked, which being new to ur, may 
i A Kentia or some such 
species of Palm about 5 feet in height is selected, 
and into the axil of each leaf a long е shoot 
of Bougainvillea spectabilis is stuck, the 
ing a very pretty kind of floral fountain. 
THE GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTI- 
TUTION.—The fifty-sixth anniversary festival dinner 
of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution took 
place on the evening of Friday, Jane 28, in th 
Whitehall Rooms of the Hôtel Métropole, The 
Dake of Fire presided, and the numerous company 
included Sir Trevor Lawrence, President of the 
Royal Horticultural Society; and Messrs. С. A. 
Dickson, N. N. Sherwood, W. Gibbs, T. Ellis, Ed. 
Stern, G. J. Brackenridge, David Syme, G. Monro, 
Jas, Webber, T. F. Peacock, F. S.A.; G. W. Dawes, 
W. J. Jeffries, E. W. Cathie, G. Bishop, &e. In 
proposing the toast of “ Continued Success to the 
Institution,” the Chairman said that in these days, 
in spite of universal depression, enormous sums were 
spent every year in charity, and last year in London 
alone there was disbursed by the different societies 
and agencies which existed for the purpose no less a 
sum than 000, to say nothing of the very 
considerable sum which could not be calculated 
that flowed along the hidden channels of private 
benevolence, Bat, unfortunately, these huge sums 
did not bring about the beneficial resulta which we 
all desired, because there was not sufficient concen- 
tration in eharitable effort, and because there weretoo 
many societies doing the same or similar work. Ніз 
remarks, however, did not apply to the Gardeners' 
Benevolent Institution, for it was, he believed, the 
only society of its kind in Great Britain, Ite prin- 
cipal object was ah ^ the T m and infirm 
by means of pensi and i culcated the 
admirable principle of salt hatp by 1 preference 
to those 
days it seemed as if all parties in the State h 
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sed to do for 
everybody. The life of a gardener was not entirely 
a bed of Roses, Many had to toil unceasingly at all 
times of the year, and in all weathers, and the result 
of their toil was to provide us with some of Nature's 
choicest gifts. But misfortune sometimes overtook 
them, and it was to meet cases of this kind that that 
Institution was established nearly sixty years ago. 
ince then pensions and gratuities had been granted 
to the amount of £65 000, and at the present moment 
156 persons were receiving the assistance of the 
Society, 77 of them being men, and 
list 
which wae heartily 
received, wae responded to by Mr. G. A, DICKSON ж 
Mr. W. J. Jerrrizs of Cirencester gav 
the toast of Horticulture,” which was NECI M 
by Sir Trevor Lawrence. The Secretary, Mr. G 
J. Incram, having announced subscriptions amount- 
ing to over £1900, including £30 from the Dake of 
Firs, £105 from m Rornmscuirp, 10 guineas 
from ALFRED DE RorHscHILD, Esq.; and £10 from 
the Hon. WALTER вонь але 521 
woop, Esq, and from Messrs. JAMES ers 
Sons ; the proceedings closed dh the toast of “ The 
hairman, proposed by Mr. N. Ѕикауоор. The 
Dake M: разтапя, has increased h 
m to the Institation, of which he is 
Баа н £15 15s, 
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. — On the 
evening of the 27th ult., the President and staff of 
this Iustitution gave a largely attended and brilliant 
conversazione, The scientific and econ depart- 
ments of the College, cem the Slade school — fine 
arts were all in gala a The n t of 
botany was well to the — and its exhibits mt 
superb collections of plants from - known 
growers, Messrs, James Уктсн & Son sent an 
interesting collection of insectivorous ere hybrid 
Orchids, and other plants. The hybrids, being 
grouped with their parent forms, ce & particularly 
interesting exhibit, Messrs, Wm, Paul & Son had a 
fine diplay of Roses in the south аыр; the flesh- 
coloured Clio, Duke of York, Hon. Edith Gifford, and 
the yellow Medea being particularly admired. A large 
collection of Cactaces and other succulents did full 
— - Messrs. Henry CANNELL ONS; whilst 
Mesar Pind LIAMS & Son and Mr. T. S. Wang 
не attractive and well-selected exhibits, In 
ormer members o 
large crayon portrait of the late Prof. 
(lent by his son Lord Justice LirwpLEv), a head in 
oils of Professor D. Отлукв, and photographs of Pro- 
fessor F, O. Bower, Dr. D. Н. Scorr, the Rey, 
Grorce Henstow, Professor F. E. Wiss, and others, 
forest vegetation (lent by Dr. D. M 
Director, Royal Gardens, Tam» and photographs d 
plants at Kew, by Mr. рак. Onthe tables 
were exhibits of ака. interest, and a few 
slides of fossil plants from the collection of the late 
Professor ILLIAMSON, Of special note were 
the large models of dividing cell- Маг exhibited by 
Professor J. B. F. 
decorated by the lady students of the department, 
and the banks of flowers which they had arranged, 
and which were illuminated by the electric light, 
were singularly effective, as also was a tank of white 
and yellow Water-Lilies, A series of living Seaweeds 
and other aquatic plants, shown as e by 
this department were mire 
naria, Cladophora, and Ucricalaris, we ere erh 
most beautiful. Othe 
photographs and tables illustrating the fixation of 
free nitrogen (lent by Sir Henry Сбїгвквт, Е.К.5.); 
plant skeletons, by Mrs, Норакіхѕом; and artificially- 
coloured flowers, by Ww. Ввосквахк, Esq., F. L. S. In 
the Slade school we not oted an effective combination of 
were soirée was 
attended by several thousand penes including many 
well known in literary and scientific circles. 
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY.—A«t a meeting of the 
council of this society, held on Saturday last, it was 
decided to open their gardens in Regent's Park to the 
public on every Monday in July, August, and Sep- | 
tember, at an admission fee of ls, 
AN OUTING ОЕ THE NATIONAL AMATEUR 
ливене" AS8OCIATION.—On Saturday, June 22, 
in response to an invitation from Н, Носкѕ Отввѕ, 
Esq., upwards of 150 members of the National 
headquarters of this Society 
are in London, and meetings are held the first 
Tuesday in every month at the Memorial Hall, Far- 
onths to various gardens and 
nurseries, The gene Society numbers between 3 1 
and 500 members, besides branches in different 
parts of the country, 
and conducted by him round the lovely gardens. 
HERBACEOUS PLANTS.—Now that these are іп Е 
head gardener at Aldenham, . 
some amateurs resident in the nei urhood, . 
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1 season, we hasten to announce the publication 4 1 
but may mentio n dum it may be obtained at the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, at the cost of one shilling. 
THE NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE HORTICULTURAL 
SociETY. TES summer show of this society will be 
Recreation Ground on 
held ia 
Ог vegetable 
pared, as we are informed, to give increased fi 
to attractive trade stands. 
