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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
served and fall justice done to it, the houses, gardens, 
whole of the 
features in the gardens calling forth well- ашё 
praise. Мапу then found their way to the mit 
of Box Hill, while others, at the kind tinvitadlon of 
Lady Lawrence, looked through the mansion, and 
at five o'clock the whole party assembled for tea on 
the lawn provided by Sir Tazvor and Lady Law- 
RENCE, ver, h M: ng was held in Hr of 
the rogat at which Sir Trevor LAWRENCE pre- 
sided as of E “iw presient of the Ead 
and í eq name of the members presented to Mr. 
Жы, BALLANTINE, the i chairman of the com- 
mittee, an illumi dreas m a handsom 
silver inkstand, the first havi d upon it 
the resolution passed at the ann see general meeting 
in February last, recording the oe = the mem- 
bers отла з great services to the 
society in that ee and cud nd also bore 
a suitable insc M-. LANTINE ee re- 
d to Sir 
Trevor and Lady LawaENcE, emphasised by three 
hearty cheers, and the company returned to town 
late in the evening, having experienced one of the 
most pleasant outings yet arranged. 
CiperR.—The hot weather reminds п 
fresh, clear, sparkling kinds, but the “driest” were 
There is no doubt that with 
nereased care in the manufacture, the quality of the 
cider may be Күч improved and rendered more 
uniform, Gaymer evidently are abreast of 
the times rage m ий Tasting their cider in 
comparison with some of a similar quality from 
Devonshire, Notis woth k the palm. 
ОУ. ен AND RESPIRA- 
TION.—Mr. T BrackMaN publishes in the 
. тые уя ons, 1895, В, р. 503, an 
account of his experimental researches on this sab- 
or leave the 
leaves; that is to say, whether through the cuticle 
or "itae the stomata. The general results are as 
follow: 
1, Under normal conditions, practically the sole 
pathway for carbonic acid gas into or out of the leaf 
is by the sto 
2. Ia eme leaves the cuticle seems to be more 
[stems carbonic acid gas than in mature 
appreciable osmosis of 
po yl the cuticle, provided that th 
of the es піс acid gua be great eno е tension 
З. If the stomata be mechanically blocked, an 
of carbonic acid may take 
eo — 
for on the structural ural porosity 
of the leaf, те еч thie be reduced by blocking 
the even 
ure carbonic acid ma 
quite effect optimal assimilation, зве у 
imum of carbonic acid gas 
it was 
Tus Evou 
manages to 
in her own мат, трн, at orn 4 
though in relation to surroundings often as bold and 
effective, and sometimes even more ornamental. 
There is to be seen just now on Mr. Bertram W. 
Соввгтҥ'з ks estate of Minley Manor, North Hants, 
a good example of the process of evolution in lake 
formation quito 
like character, and prior to the commencement of 
operations, about as unpromising a site for the 
creation of ES artistic as could well be con- 
ceived. The idea seems to have been Mr, CunRIE'S 
ота and the ents of it out that of his bailiff, 
Mr. G. Paorrr. Tae water area, almost the whole 
of which is completed, though began but some 
sixteen months since, ie about 50 acres, but it 
looks to be fully double d expanse, The 
margin is of most circuitous outline, the 
ground having май managed so that where 
highest capes or promontories have been retained, 
t 
the formation of so marked a kind that the entire 
circuit of bank can ba hardly less than 3 miles. Some 
islands have also been formed, that will be planted 
next autumn, as also will the extensive margins. 
Footpaths and a turf carriage-drive will encircle the 
lake, On one bay a fine boat-house is being erected, 
The entire surface is now full of water that will 
in flood-time rise some 2 feet higher, The banks are 
of peat clods, solidly built, and into the turves 
Willow slips have been thickly inserted, The soil 
is of bog, sand, and clay, In a few years а large 
area of swamp will have been converted into а 
grand ornamental lake. 
New PUBLICATIONS, — 
W: P, P. 
entitled 
first part of this т is devoted to organic manur 
and mineral fertilisers, and the second to the Session 
and utilisation s" Miren in the soil. It is specially 
stated that the instruction given in this book is of a 
thoroughly practical expe and that it is not merely 
thoroughly up-to-dat 
We understand that 
Diateam has just published а book 
is, Les Ferments Terre, н 
classes of readers, The publishing-house is L 
Libraire Regrr ЕТ Cre, 116, Bou'evard St. Germain, 
гів, 
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COLONIAL NOTES, 
JAMAICA, 
Tue Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica, 
for Jane, oe eee among other interesting 
matter, papers on “ Coffee Peelers for Hand Power,” 
and on Coffee, Separators.” I5 also includes a 
hemical analysis of the Oran d 
— oe acid being the chief constituents of the 
fruit, an article on “ Pimento and its Insect 
as well asthe result of — 
strations given hout the parish of St, Mar 
ы! Mr, WC Cradwick, who un travelled with the vd 
work is done in 
unworked, 
oo — 
KEW NOTES. 
UTRICULARIA 
RENIFORMIS,— A 
Bladderwort, obtained a few years years ныл oscar ado 
F, Sander & Co. as U, Humboldtii, is is now flowering 
at Kew, and, as I believe, for the first time in culti- 
vation. It is a native of Brazil, G 
found it in 1837 in the Orman ' ies = 
altitude of 5000 robably M. Sander » 
. Obtained it along with Cattleya labiata. It has 
high, which spring from eres 
bearing hair-like roote and s си 
Тһе тен! is more than 2 feet high, and ak M 
four or six pale — flowers 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avausr 3, 1895, 
at the apex 1 inch long and wide, the apron. 
like lip notched and channelled in the шй 
with an inflated chin-like crest bea n 
streaks of white, margined with purple, ап and the 
short hood-like upper segment is blotched with thy 
same colour. The plant is likely to be more | 
by botanists than by gardeners, for it is not ao good | 
a garden plant ав U. montana. e Ror: oraima specien, - 
U. Humboldtii, differs — the above in | 
spathulate leaves 4 inches wide on stalks 9 f 
ong, and & scape 12 to 18 inches ы. „ | 
about twenty flowers, which open 
together, and are of a rich purple-blue et. fy 
twice the size of those of U. reniformis, Mr. Im Thun, 
who collected U. Humboldtii on To aay tht ' 
it grows among rank grass in wet swampy parte, the 
flowers mingling with the grass, and ie roots inthe - 
ground. Here it is far more beautiful than when | 
the water contained in the sheathing leaf. bases of 
са с тотуну" to which it is strictly cor · 
fined in some parts of British Guiana. We have h! 
it eber in plants of the Brocchinia, but it ner 
did any good, although the host plant lived, and i ; 
now represented 49 fiae examples in the collection | 
of Bromelias at Kew | 
LI 
AMASONIA ERECTA, | 
This plant differs from A. calycina, €— 
and distributed a few years ago under the name 
г, r, who importe 
ag 
from Brasil, says ee it 
bein 
as forming a shrub 2 feet high, and as being commo 
in woods Rio, A specimen collected in Britt 
Guiana on mountains near Kaieteur is labelled В. 
rowing to 4 or 5 feet in height, Possibly wea 
wrong in keeping A. erecta in a hot stove. 
3 
Cau1NUM Боти 
the purpose of identifying it with the piast f 
duced from Jamaica by Mr. 1 T pi | 
by him in his Notes on Amaryllidee ’ 
y is y dem 
var. The typica! С. Roos nianum and Mr. W 
plant have lately flowered side by side at pec 
they are exactly alike, Оле of the Kew d 
an umbel of twelve white flowers, each 
across, ime d 
reconm this Crinum as an easily- 
flow — — plant, first-rate in every point. ae 
HiPPRASTRUM BRACHYANDRUM, 
When Mr, Baker дем ak diim li 
Gardeners’ C 
асе ча le, 1890 (2), P. 
we knew ad only as having | tows “it aaa | 
" half of the i 
deep blackish red in the — к ak ae 
Plants of it flowered in the open ol 
proved to be nearly hardy, and а papis 
published in the Botanical Magazine ln 
gs rai в * 
Parana in South America by Mr. 
of Reading i in 1890. 
EUGENIA NW 
There is a fine speci 
handsome tropical shrub in the 
which has borne annually for the 
fruits, Thie year it bas been 
prolific, the lower branches being 
feet. bigh 9, 
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