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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
99 
low vases containing the dwarf Polyanthus would 
have added considerably to the effect, It is 
evident that we have very much yet to learn in 
the esthetic arrangement of groups of Roses— 
we call to mind a collection exhibited at the Drill 
Hall some two or three years ago by 
Epwarp Maw ey, of Berkhamsted, from which 
a good deal might be learned by those aspiring 
to direct taste in such matters. 
It will thus be seen that the projectors of the 
Derby Show have reason to be satisfied with the 
result of their appeal to the Rose-growing 
public; and, although one may assent to the 
opinion of our champion amateur, that this has 
been a most disappointing season, we may 
the same time add, that it was a far better one 
than the mournfal complaints of growers after 
the hard winter, and again after the lengthened 
drought, had led us to anticipate—some even of 
those who drew these pictures coming out as if 
nothing extraordinary had happened to them. 
MEETING of the Syndicate of 
л 13 Rais horticulturists, and one of 
special importance, is convened at 
the Casino, Ghent, on August 4, — 11 A. u., to 
oonsider, at the request of the Belgi n Govern- 
ment, the 0 of the desirability of rei 
the Berne Phylloxera Convention К 
from the first, rens against the futility of 
these regulation 
gratuitous injury err 
only on commercial horticulturists, but upon 
amateurs desirous of transmitting plants from 
ene country to another. 
The Italian government has at length pro- 
posed a meeting of the nationalities concerned i in 
the Treaty of Berne with a view to obtain the 
entire abrogation of so much of the convention 
as i the circulation of plants other than 
Vines. This subjeot was informally discu 
by us | with some of the Italian authorities so 
ong ago as the Florence Botanical vin tn 
when the absurdity of the 
pointed out, i 
to the convention, but our nurserymen have had, 
like others, ens put up with the vexations and 
im pedi iments uselessly oreated by that treaty. 
It is surely time they took steps to support their 
brethren of Belgium and Italy. We may fairly 
ook to the authorities at Kew also to lend their 
potent aid in this matter, 
THE generation of botanists that 
Dae Ba Car- put its faith in“ BABINGTON ” is 
JJ not yet LL nor indeed—su 
have been rvices to British 
botany—will his name ict d work soon be 
forgotten. The state of — teaching is 
wonderfully different from what it w 
BABINGTON was in his prime, but he pee 
g the duties of his iee 
in 1861. 
He is best known by his Manual of British 
Botany, the value of which as a field manual 
important characteristic of the book is the 
strenuous effort made to keep zin line with the 
great European floras of Косн and others, and 
to harmonise the nomenclature of British plants 
with that in use on the Continent. BABINGTON 
was very keen in discriminating slight differ- 
ences, the value of which has been greatly en- 
hanced since the general acceptance of Darwinian 
views of evolution. His tendencies in this direc- 
tion led to his being classed among the “ split- 
ters" rather than the “lumpers,” by a former 
8288 less e of the signifioanoe 
ok minute differe G 
e uae were 
study of British Brambles. 
in his efforts to disentangle the complications 
that arise in the study of these protean plants, 
апа reduce chaos to order. He seems to have 
done this purely from the point of view of a 
systematic botanist without concerning himself 
greatly with the philosophical deduotions which 
might be drawn from such materials. To aid in 
the discrimination of these plants, BABINGTON 
used a large number of them to be cultivated 
was h 
but he collected in Iceland and published his 
researches into the flora of that island. In 
addition, he was well known as an antiquary, 
and f the very oldest of our own 
contributors, though, of late years, we have had 
little «r nothing from his реп, In social and 
private life, Professor BABTINGTON was one of 
the best and most amiable of men 
S олени FLY.—From the Board of Agri- 
culture we have received a pamphlet тертеу of the 
гнаі ог flea (Phyllotreta pomora of the 
best methods of coping with t — їз iii is 
eally а beetle, small in size, but 28 when found 
in numbers, of destroying rapidly entire crops of 
Turnips or Swedes. In view of this, and of the 
enormous expense entailed by losses on so large a 
scale, many methods of preventing the scourge ar 
* 1 
xtirpating 
Croce which encourage the beetles; and, in some 
cases, sowing with the other seed, аз the 
fo e germinating first, is devoured by them in 
preference. Drought is found to be more favourable 
beetles 
to the than is moisture of atmosphere and 
soil. Where the Turnip-fly already exists, the pro- 
posed remedies of soot, lime, paraffin, 
are dressings о 
and other detergenta ; lightly rolling the ground, or 
pushing over it a light wide framework upon 
wheels with well-tarred board 
scraped off, and thie — 
TOMATO DUKE OF meee Messers. FELLOWES 
& Күркв of | Orplágion have submitted specimens of 
а new Tomato under this name, The fruit is of 
medium or large size, handsome, symmetrical, of 
rich оста, colour, чир. дех and full, slightly 
acid flavour, presume t 
that it is 
recently a fourth series has been commenced, and 
the size S. the journal increased to quarto size. 
Everyone interested in such matters must sympathi 
with the at a endeavours on the port of the 
Society to place pharmacy оп a proper b 
SCOTTISH HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. -A 
paper was read before the Association on the 2nd 
inst., by Mr. M. Cuapman, Easter Duddingston, Por- 
ee on the Gardens of Antiquity." Mr. Cmar 
AN passed in review the gardens of Babylon, Hoy 
Pila Greece, and pointed out the principal causes 
of the pus progress of horticulture in modern times. 
OHN'S PORUM: SHOW. —The St. 
4 8 ) Cottagers and Gardeners’ Horticul- 
tural Society held their annual show of flowers, fruit, 
and — on Wednesday, July 17,in the grounds 
of Mr. R. Box» (one of the vice- presidente), who had 
kindly placed them at the disposal of the Committee. 
I 
n comparison with previous years, the exhibits were 
wel the av e, but, owing to the time of the 
year, were perh not quite so numerous, The 
prize list was divided into three classes—cottagers, 
gardeners, and amateurs—and in addition, numerous 
special prizes were offered 
THE JERSEY POTATO CROP.—The winter of 
1894—95 was, we learn from а correspondent, 
keenly felt in the Channel Islands, and for the 
third year im succession a large quantity o 
Potatos was destroyed by the frost, The loss 
of quite а fourth part of their Potato seed z — 
cause was nothing less mete ity to 
Jersey farmers. Moreove e frost — 
„ that planting was саа for quite a month 
beyond the time, the ly districts, 
planting did not commence until the second week in 
same date in 1894 the young 
ae that the Potato fields showed various 
* misses," owing, no doubt, to the planting of seed 
and which 
which had been injured by the 
to inate, The outlook fro was 
therefore far from promising, and continued dry 
ather кезектин general . y 
distric а ma f fact, fared v 
poorly ; 
their yield v was extremely light, and only for a very 
few weeks did prices continu 3 
On the heavy lands, on th е tubers 
benefited greatly from a e, on on Wait ‘Seley, 
and a heavy crop made amends, to some extent, for 
bad returns. n, however, — the com- 
mencement of the English new Potato season, prices 
in Jersey fell to a ruinous figure. It is estimated 
that the value of the Potatos exported from Jersey 
has this year not exceeded £300,000, whereas it 
reached almost £500,000 in 1894. 
CLOVE CARNATIONS, STOCKS, AND ZINNIAS 
IN THE EMBANKMENT GARDENS, CHARING 
ROBS.—The first of these have thoroughly estab- 
lished their fame here as hardy town flowers, 
flourishing in the midst of smoke. Masses of them 
these gardens, and their handsome ап 
flowers cannot fail to evoke warm admiration. The 
Stocks are even more charming as bedding plants, 
HORTICULTURAL MEET! T GHENT.— 
meeting on July * che —— mes 
ertificates of Merit par 
M. Jores Hye, for Cattleya Arnoldiana x, а 
fine hybrid between Lelia purpurata and Cattleya 
