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ТНЕ 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Avevsr 3. 1895, 
'The wilderness and the solitary places shall be glad 
for him, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as 
t А 
Мг. Rabone rarely came among his Metropolitan 
colleagues, but he was well known among them as a 
good gardener and a most e sympathetic 
mah, ever ready to do good to other: 
MR A F. PERRON 
RETIREMENT. 
THE announcement my Mr. Barron is shortly 
to retire from the direction of the hallowed 
gardens at Chiswick will come as a surprise to 
o doubt the 
Council of the Royal Horticultural Sosiety have 
the matter the most anxious considera- 
emselves of the 
expediency of the step in the interests of the 
Society and ot Horticulture generally. More- 
cann 
BARR 
retiring Penne offered to him will doubtless be 
proportionate to the means at their disposal 
and to at sense of the value of his services. 
The older members of the Council have surely 
not forgotten the staunch, unwavering loyalty 
which Mr. Barron displayed during those 
wretched years of the South Kensington manage- 
ment, when Chiswick was allowed to fall into 
a miserable state of disrepair. At that time 
— direotion of the garden must have been a 
t source of depression to the Super- 
юг) intensified as it was by an abiding 
sense of the precariousness of his position. This 
state of things has рр, раззей азау, 
Chiswick has been put into good order, and 
it the exponent of 
progressi rtioulture, and the trial ground 
for all that is — and instructive. 
— long der see i 
the services of the staff might be more profitably 
employed than in growing for distribution among 
the Fellows plants which are readily to be 
purchased for a few pence at the nearest florists, 
But leaving these matters aside for future 
consideration, the one uppermost feeling in the 
minds of those who are familiar with the work 
of the Society is, that Mr. Barron should not 
be allowed to retire without a tangible expres- 
sion of goodwill. and admiration on the part of 
i is efforts or 
has bee 
devotion to duty, 
whilst outside’ his official duties his work as the 
author of the most popular beok on Vine culture 
and his services to the Gardeners’ Orphan Fund 
seid given him a claim to the warmest acknow- 
on the part of his friends and asso- 
expressing the feelings of many others, 
eedless to to say that we 
жы ita privilege to Va prih in the matter 
to assist in 
" NURSERY Tum 
MR. DOUGLAS'S CARNATIONS. 
IW» i Belay ah of nas on the L. & 8. 
Mr, Dong arnations we journeyed to see last 
week, won „жд as we did so, what kind of a display 
e should witness af extraordinary cha- 
racter of the weather since Christmas. A рее 
i th rst 0 seen, however, 
was suffi to assure us that the result of 
after passing through two of these all filled with 
excellent pot planta, with large atout n 
£ ne that tha 
ing quality 
journey was little сен with the return to be 
found here, which was such an one that any admirer 
of these flowers would be satisfied with. Mr. Douglas 
ong been known ав a raiser of new Carnations, 
m 
seedlings this season, he will be better known in the 
future; but the varieties at present superior to any 
ot thers of their sort are those which have been raised 
h de 
the effect each compared with the г 
сап easily rs. Егіс Hambro is 
the most meritorious of all. Its flowers are 
pure white, very large, being inches in 
diameter, and of the most perfect form possible; 
the petals are flat, and the bloom nearly circular. 
This handsome new variety is one of the finest white 
varieties ever sent out, and the habit of the plant is 
strong and free-flowering. Lady Ridley will, perhaps, 
be equally admired ; the flowers are not smaller than 
the one just described, but the form is not quite so 
perfect, and the colour is less pure, inclining to 
cream. Its habit, however, is very commendable, 
especially the stout footstalks, which make the plant 
so erect in flower, A charming new rose-coloured 
variety is found in Sadek ; the rose is rich and deep, 
rather peculiar in tint, and very pleasing. A large 
gueu of bloom was in perfect condition, and its 
rect and vigorous habit make it specially desirable, 
flowers, grows 
many kinds, but in habit it is very aturdy, 
erect, как» vigorous. Braw Lass has brighter rose 
Anwara than Sadak andth #1 : 3 3 
form. Some of the very largest had split calyces, 
seen at all in cases of secondary or smaller =j эзини 
2 Only tour нм мос - ground. Carnations and 
and of pog were noticed George Cruikshank and 
split calyces; the blooms are 
and apparently the ate one, as there 
were fewer blooms expanded on these plants than 
others. Cruikshank is an excellent 
Сагай. of the type of — эч ——Á dis- 
tinct from Cardinal Wolsey, w 
last 
ed with crimson or blood 
owers are very large and extra full, calyces 
good. In addition Aa these that have not yet been 
sent out were the collection of the new ones 
last ardinal Wolsey, 
King Arthur, an exceed- 
ingly large flower, 5 inches in diameter, of acarlet- 
crimson, extra good for а border, Other good Car- 
nations are Snowdon, a large white flower of rather 
—ͤ᷑]ĩÜ¾i 
indifferent form, but valuable for a border; ; Eudoxia, 
a large ce flower of salmon-rose; Pride of the 
Garden, another rose-coloured variety, specially 
suitable ^n телу These last three were raised by 
Mr, Douglas, as were also the fo ollowing Picotess : 
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Mrs. Douglas, опе of the most attractive, having apale 
yellow ground, with rose edge, and of very fine form; | 
Mrs. Dranfield, with yellow ground, is rather heavily 
edged itipalercen Anewvelvety-crimson Carnation 
of exquisite form, named Henry Irving, € raised by 
а season remarkabl 
healthy, the plants are well flowered, and there an 
ulated temperature” indicates the aggre 
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E following summary record of t 77 = nishe! 
the fritieh Islands for the к endi — | July , b 
from the — ical Office: : 
ather was again dull bend unsettled 
vy rain in nearly all posta of 
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deficit amounting toas much as 3° in * Scotlands 
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