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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jury 13, 1895. 
will be exhibited as they left their owners' garden ; 
but not so the Rose, the long railway journey, or 
that he actually requires, and with which he can 
replenish his boxes on the morning of the show. 
It is this enthusiasm which tends to keep the 
National Rose Society alive, and every year to 
extend its operations. 
CATASETUM TABULARE, Lindl, VAR. RHINO- 
PHORUM, Rchb. f.—The species is one of the most 
interesting of the curious genus Catasetum, and the 
interest in its curiously- “construc ted flowers is still 
pe was described by 
several dia- 
being one with greenish flowers, slightly blotched 
face of the callus is 
broken in innumerable, игерш, transverse-toothed 
lamellz, of white emi with spots of ' burnt sienna, 
a lehene the name 
tabulare is the 
broad, fleshy table-like callus мет occupies the 
r part of the lip, the toothed or bristled к 
of which is turned up around the raised table, t 
ied : gallery which traverse how he may jon ad 
the in romenader to the setæ, which spring and 
— d pollinia. The colour of the large Taised 
callus is eed white, and its surface is generally 
the instance illustrated it is 
rough and ithe the other parts of the flowers 
spotted with red - brown various shades, 
The are fast inereasing in favour 
in Orchid collectione, and as 
h ant from 
which our Rcg yen (fig. 8) was taken was хый 
by Messrs. J. Укттсн & Sons, Royal Exotic Narsery, 
Chelsea, on June 25 last, at a meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, 
BLANCHING, — The announcement that Mr. 
Fraycis Darwin was c leeture at the Royal Horti- 
tural Society 
the Scientific Committee than miscellaneous 
groups that constitute the “8. o'clock meeting." The 
publication of the lecture in the Journal will be 
awaited with intereat, e 
THE ROYAL GARDENERS’ ORPHAN FUND.— 
3 5 Rose Fair in aid of the Royal Gardeners 
Irphan Fund, was held in оа with the 
Croyd Horticultural on Wednesday, 
flowe 
,M.H N, M. W. Maas: 
EwBERTON. Mrs. W. G nd Roy J. H. 
UNNER in kindi È 
took the sale of the flowers чып perde 
к. 
GARDENERS’ Roya T INSTITU- put u 
| 
i ‘TION —The Worshipful Company of Skinners have 
given a donation of £10 10s. to the funds of the 
Gardeners’ Royal B:nevoleat Institution. 
a eg arque PRATIQUE D'HORTICULTURE 
ET DE Mega —The be translation by 
f уай has coms to be known as 
Nicholson's Dictionary, has now d its 39.h part, 
which brings the work up to the berate Met. The 
translator has added to the original text, and 
enhanced its value. Additional ыен ire also 
supplied, 
STOCK-TAKING: JUNE.—Every day's experience 
in the matter of qum me зв to convince us 
ids Pore, in his Essay o y^ m the mark 
wW 3 never is, dua ways to b 
blest, ” for Mis we not been looking viii not 
M 
go our calculations, 
5,095, 
cent, as compared with the пече * Ju une, 1804. 
Here is our usual extract from the Summ ary of 
Imports: 
IMPORTS, | 1894, 1805. Difference. 
£ | 2 £ 
Total value of imports | 34,229,679 | 33,884,584 —845,095 
з, Articles of food | 
drink — 8 
.| 12,414,987 | 12,585,318 | —829,669 
is аннан = foo 
and dr „ 1,439,023 1,551,788 +112,765 
Raw 1 for | | 
bead = | | 
tur 4,390,045 | 5,219,880 | -++829,835 
Raw „ 
sundry industrie 
and manufactu 4,362,931 3,676,176 —686,755 
(A.) Miscellaneous 
articl i «| 1,110,035 1,213,218 +102,583 
(B.) Parcel Post RT 96,808 70,371 — 26,435 
Wheat has оні 1 534 240 cwt. over Jane 
last year, but this has had no effet on the price of 
the loaf other than to raise it: the price of Wheat 
on the market has gone up som yn 65. in about as 
many weeks, and it would be interesting to note 
what the changes (and charges) have been during 
the past hundred years, but space will not permit. 
ea shows a rise of £79,000, and £95,000 in coffee; ; 
spirite have gone down by £60,000. Other food 
supplies fell off some 
though the ia gue dapes 
doubled, Batter sg Australasia has р 
fr 
exceptionally 
over June, 
1891; cotton went up £293 490; while flax inereased 
by £: 66,405; wool went up #170, 000. Mannfac- 
tured — mainly silk stuffs from France, show 
an increase of £233,153—but leather and woollen 
manufactures foot id “ abou: a third. Fruits, &e., 
now claim attenti excer 
. 
ЖГ. 
Fruits, raw :— Me 
pples . bush. 38,196 | 50,558 | 12,360 
Cherri » 1 B 115,70 | —77,561 
Plums n ыйы 3,731 4,660 +929 
Pears : hy 15 сре 
те ш p 4,036 3,085 1.001 
nenumerated .,, „ 245,697 155 451 —90, 246 
Oni ý iN 328,518 | 318,021 — 10,527 
Pota „ewt. 1,253,263 | 954,735 391,528 
Mere raw, unenu- £ £ £ 
value 170,550 | 199,746 429,196 
Qomantf*k 8 ыш 
may now be agreed that the new eee Ринок 
success; іп опе day 300 tons bis foreign fruit w. 
was done Ms pne 5 000 paekages of FYN and we 
re inform new line of steamers—the 
aelph—will be т on the PR ae line, for 
the carriage of agricultural produce to Manchester, 
Tue Exports 
foot up at £17,800,100—a decrease of £109,055, 
ader the head of manufactured articles,” there is 
a gain of £485,000, of which £333,000 is due to 
arms and ammunition. Metals went down £245,721, 
telegraph-wire figuring for nearly all this amount, 
Cotton goods fell off considerably, but linens went up 
—America also buying largely in the woollen and 
worsted department. Coals fell off to the amount of 
£123,729. Manure fell away to the value of nearly 
£75,106. The exports for the six months show a loss 
of £106,117,516—the decrease oon £765,959. We 
can only hope for improvement ur next report. 
“THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE for th» present 
nth contains descriptions and coloured figures of 
the pres ng plants :— 
Senecio Hualtata, Bertero, t. 7422, — A noble 
Senecio from temperate Chili and Argentaria, It is 
& tall herbaceous plant, with bold cordate-oblong 
leaves hat 1 dab hi inf T 
bearing numerous cream-coloured flower-heads, each 
about 1 іпећ in diameter, It is hardy at Kew, and 
flowered in that establishment in June last. It is 
allied to S. sagittifolius, already figured ; the specific 
name is an adaptation of the appellation generally 
— than of a Pyrus, S TM le 
t 
hose of P.t nalis, but the inflorescence is lax, 
&nd the pedicels long and slender. Kew 
Aristolochia ungulifolia, Masters, t. 7424. — Å 
curious Bornean species, figured in these pages, 
1880, vol. ii., p. 116, fig. 28, 
Newwiedia Griffithii, Reichenbach, t. 7425.—A 
highly interesting plant, linking Orchids to Ігійв, 
The leaves are plicate umerous white 
в. 
. 7426, А Chinese 
cies with pinnate leaves, Р beneath, 
the nerves being of a pink colour, The flowers are 
in loose cymes, each about 1 inch in diameter 
purplish, Hardy at Kew, 
8588. W. P. LAIRD & SINCLAIR. —The — 
on Wednesday, 3rd inst., a very enjoyable day being 
spent. 
Eating HORTICULTURAL Society, — The 
annual show of this Society took place on the 3rd 
inst., in the beautifal grounds of Gannersbury Park. 
The number of exhibits was not в о large as usual 
in fact, the enge iP this — do not compare 
favourably for reason with its earlier exhi- 
Harris, Esq, 
r. Long, gardener to E, P. Oakshott, 
а 8 For twenty-four distinct 
apes S cut Roses, the 1:6 prize (only entry) was 
Mr. C. Turner, Slough. 
sition она in the prizes off 
Ros 
в (not fewer than twelve varieties); let, Go 
Medal of the National Rose Soci „ Mr. Elwards, 
to W. Oven, Ез; 2ad, gue que Medal, 
National Rose 
t 
onal Rose Society, Mr. S. Lowe. 
An excellent dupla of с produce was made 
the cottagers of the district 
PRACTICAL олен IN EGYPT. 
Water Draper has bee 
at Ramleh on this subject. The lectu 
the following matters : 
plants, climate and soil, trees a 
— Mr. 
n giving a course of WT : 
Ж 
Botanical i Ф 
arrange- 
