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we get a fairly IL idea of the origin of hi 
, had at hie disposal choice 
make too much of 
common error of 
ming groups, though only 
ч di real decorative artiste 
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thankful for so much. day, perhaps, in these 
things the higher tastes may азе prevail, 
A, D. 
LUCULIA GRATISSIMA,—This handsome shrub, 
when grown well, may be described as one of our 
beat 
growth. Opinions 
pruning of Luculias, but Mer enough, if they 
e plants 
p 
enelosed under a bell-glass, Seedling ee eee 
very rapidly, but seldom flower во weil as e pro- 
duced from cuttings. Geo. Burrows, Warwick С College, 
LARGE CE OF LEBANON,—Apropos of the 
enquiry which 8 к» pages a few ч 
ago, I may say that some "of th е fineat 
this y are to be 8 at Bere 
= ek book I have before me I e I find 
1000 Cedars in various 2 of 
his domain, the plants being then four years old. 
f has ave 
succum to gales and other mishaps, but many 
noble and appear to be in great 
tme forming one of the ies of Goodwood. 
specimen in particular is a very grand опе, ап 
it is figured in Messrs, J, Veitch's work on the 
evi 
ine find, 
round it to-day, the girth, at 3 feet from the ground, 
f tr а diameter o 
an n oed 
find is n th 
19 feet 7 inches; 1863, 20 feet 4 inches; 
7% ine Parker, Gardens, Goodwood, 
danti Я 
соррегу or dark foliage with veins in the leaf; No. 2 
isa seedling yA ye year, and should prove a very 
telling variety, the colour being quite novel, August 
th month in which to шешн Neon. 
in ths colour 
Heavy RAINFALL IN YORKSHINE:—Hea 
sale e S S 
— — and che 
the most that fallen he fallen hero in inches which ia 
in my recollection, The heavieat fall occur ‘oeearred in 
THE GARDENERS’ 
the afternoon and evening, and was accompanied 
with thunder. = it was merely local I have 
rt ; but it is [e that such & 
3 peter for a few miles around. Th 
many years, J. 
NATIONAL CARNATION AND PICOTEE SOCIETY 
outhern Section).—I notice in — report of this 
— the question is asked, for what purpose are 
ns shown with а single apray of foliage? 
s of any single Carna- 
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pages, that 88 Carnations on cards is very bad 
taste indeed. It was, therefore, suggested that the 
plant, with a spray 
showing different varieties with foliage might suggest 
to those interested the best varieties * this зачы 
and to those Еу in the cultivatio a of Carn 
tions, it would show the flowers just as they ie 
Varieties that б "the e are no use to exhibit 
with a spray of foliage, Jas, Douglas. 
U PHCENICOLASIUS (WINEBERRY).— 
Within fifty yards of West Malling gas-works, in a 
private garden, pes produce of which is s 
town adjoining, “age a row of the Wineberry of 
the Japanese 3 п the finest luxuriance, 5 to 
6 feet in height, and clothed to the ground with its 
clusters of fruits 
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waiting nine months, the plants here с 8 
оные to the 
it that the dry summer has been f 
growth of this ? Seen as it is — growing, one 
cannot but thi it is not grown in the herbaceous 
border and in our shrubbery borders, for soft 
copper · colour tints of the stems, and the whiteness 
of the under- side of its Raspberry-like 1 3 forms an 
object that the eye catches at once. My informant tells 
me it fruits abu н, and that the Mulberry: like 
fruits are relished at the end of Auguat, when they are 
either sold or m d wee of by the proprietor. 
Propagation ap from seeds or : 
there do not appear K be many suckers from the 
botto LÀ . 
eas PHYLLOXERA LAWS.—It is to be hoped 
ing p for the express purpose of expunging or mode- 
ting the obligations and restrictions hitherto 
m by the Berne Convention many 
ye а — d will now endeavour to free 
herself from ihin burdensome regulations, and not 
fai w her inf 
of securing the free exportation of plants 
into all countries, Nurserymen and cultivators of 
y for absenting ехе from the shee 
gon ing it and showing the 
likely to spread the Phylloxera. Even у 
gardens bave since had a janta 
ruthlessly returned by Vine-growing cou р 
ог E s well 
convention 1 
been duly е 
" yis the Mun of 
е 
societies, as well u the horticaltazal hans ies 
will lose no time 
the 4 py m 75 
е Ach of this month, t in doin Ж t 
eir power 2 › confine t the tara ti ne it pops si 
y, 80 that pla jd d 
may go free from ali etg and fon M 
expense and obli H. igi Swanley, 
м, ; and as 
leisure, T mira E of all eos nur- 
series of any note; "Mr. A, 
Ot these, 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avevsr 3, 
Mr. Miller had about 110 species and 
js that was 
I saw som 
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carlet. І still remember it as а ві IE 
witnessed befo Of course, the 855 ü A | 
ing e ro y аш t. But, 
copjectur | 
were rin te! в, but this particular lot must have ben 
several generations old even then 
my impression, or I was told во, perhaps, } 
as I knew it at the Durdham п — 
a much a habit tha 
е Cineraria, and had no * to the | 
contrary. Guage Lee, F N. H. S., Clevedon 
WHEAT-EAR PELARGONIUMS 
Mz. C, G. Txnax obligingly sends us а ge 
cimen of a zonal Pelargonium (fig. 28, р, 135) k 
ieh e r of i y 
speak of Wheat-ear Carnations,” and we 
extend the epithet to Pelargoniums. 
DEVON AND EXETER GAM 
DENERS' ASSOCIATION, | 
Тнк fourth annual outing of the Associaton Юй 
place on Wednesday, July 24, when about sity 
members started from Exeter in brake, Mi- 
visited Poltimore Park, Bradfield, e Koigi | 
canopy of foliage, was worth going & 
to see, 
The avenue of Cedrus Deodara isa ineo 
trees averaging 65 feet in 1 * and к 
girth, Several of the trees w 
having 100 to 200 on it. Т 
timore are well known. They w 
planted in this country. 
high, with a girth of 16 me and another ™ 
with a girth of 20 feet 
56 feet, with a girth of 9 feet ; 
ashioned 
clump of Osmunda regalis, quite 10 
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