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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Aveusr 10, 1895. 
eie is assisted by Mr. CawPzELL. The plate 
characteristic, and the letterpress popular but 
verbii including descriptions of the plants and 
indication of their use Waratah, Telopea 
speciosissima, Eucal ptus corymbosa, the blood 
wood, Actinotus Helianthi, the flannel flower, the 
Acacia es dem the coast Myall, are the plants 
figured in the first 
THE GREAT FAILURE 
MANG “ж meet the above, Mr. MAURICE 
ага ДИД f Mallow, Ireland, writes:—‘‘I have 
y hu Pu of millions [!] of ы жылы plants in 
will give away to anyone who ma 
Scotch and Eaglish seed risa 
z not take them, being disappointed in we getting 
cial traffic rate, and farmers and {ел may as 
ай have them as for me to plough them in.” 
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IN TURNIPS AND 
— A very ere 
by zome of {һе members 
Club and veig friends on a РА last ; о Ба 
visi ymar, Finchley, one of those 
extensive establishments which have of la 
j ood o 
rapes 
When they are ripe it must be а wonder si at 
present they are just vere colou е 
рагбу, Сои forty-three, ospitabl 
tained by Mr. Perer Kay ak 3 after Wh 
they drove кА Hatfield, where they were носа 
through the park and gardens by Mr. Norman, hea 
was ah unanimous opinion expressed as to its ‘being 
‘one of the most excursions the Club had 
ever made, and them узок, гоча ly indebted to 
Mr. Kar, who undertook all the arrangements, and 
under whose able cesis everything went off 
pleasantly. 
PLANT PORTRAITS. 
nul. Garten Flora, August 
HIZA, Bentham, Z//ust. p LE July 30. 
бекм doimati А ара nd Forest, July 24, 
UM MAN, yellow Japanese 
ABETH.E, Revue de Г Horticulture Belge, 
dure rea GILBERTI, Revue de I Horticulture Belge, 
LAMOUROUXIA PRINGL 
Forest, July 10. 
(ERALCEA 
LEI, Gardea and 
4 ABUTILOIDES, Garden, July 20, 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE, 
THE LATE J OHN WILLS.—All your ld 
will endorse R. Ds" genial esti en hg oh 
this 
у which Mr. and Mrs. John Wills ma be ым 
oader basis and more artistic 
corresponden t 
“А, H.“ says it is. * stands dry оне miete 
have sown Early 
Cham aclean, Veitch’s Portection, and 
other — gathered their crops of pods, and 
cleared the ground of them, one or two 
season and 
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dry 
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these Peas passinz 
however, has me d well. 
in coming into use than some others 
the pods die "dt 727 table it continues for a lon 
time in bearing. ods are well filled, eight or 
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and this is ee a useful pe. 
producing a Mme erop of f podr, tender and sweet- 
flavoured. Sutton’s Epicure and Tender and True 
Bean are also — ‘desirable: — The French 
Runner Bean I obtained from R. Veitch and Sons of 
Exeter. F. Swan, Bystock, ae 
А RED MARECHAL NIEL ROSE.—I noticed а 
paragraph in your issue for Jaly 20, p, 64, an abstract 
n horticultural papers, of 
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the result of a cross be he above and General 
acqueminot. hat & lovely Rose this must be, 
nd what a great pity if Dr. Mü'ler does not send it 
out fo 
use of the ume public, and so put it 
within the reach of all. What & charming flower it 
must he. i it have all the characteristic of the type ! 
s Adare Manor, near rick, 
CATTLE att ges BY THE COMMON Y 
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many ы do A p undéstand about the poisonous 
quality of Yewa, In that article it is hat 
animals which have — access to 
eating it, knowing it t isonous, 
untrue. Oa th 
s stated 
to Yew avoid 
t they do it for, that they give it to 
make the 323 eat their corn, when they are only 
getting corn and are tired of it. Now dried Lew 
tedly more poisonous than green 
leaves fresh from the tree, меен = they LE the least 
bit too much of it,.espec f the 
accustomed to eating ‘ow pot it is | able to kill 
to animals which get ace to them 
suddenly, and when they are not accustomed to 
А 1 the cases of Yew poisoning that I have 
known or h of have th kn 
of many pl where there are Yew trees in the 
н -fields and in the edjoining hedger, and any 
will take the trouble to look at such ones 
. we see that they are habitual | er by the 
cattle, I ve safeguard against 
Yew poisoning is always to have Yew trees within 
reach of the — and I therefore constantly plant 
Lew trees in the in the 
fields themselves. C. W, Strickland. 
 GLOXINIAS AT TRING PARK.—Few 
иы tT 
the NS, мә d 2d 
ke нөн V E Isolepis gracilis, the — iio 
forming an edging to wW e 
placed, 
bring во many Gloxinia 
m rs erg but they are well worth the 
RICHARDIA PENTLANDI.—As bearing on the re- 
nished by Mr. Chae. Avres of Cape Tow 
Chronicle, Jane 22, p. 7 
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ee o have been ected together, for both 
ppear in the batch соке A ape Town, The 
spathes, although seeming to differ slightly from 
those of the fo orms 5 in cultivation, are very 
handsome, a mo a more or less фе 
urple eye is at the base of the spathe. Mr, Hill, th 
gardener at Tring Park, pots them in good Tough 
house, J. O'B. 
TABLE DECORATIONS AT THE NATIONAL САВ. 
NATION SOCIETY'8 SHOW.—I: appears to me that 
the committee of such a society м ре above- ай 
when off-ring prizes for the bes алдей dinner 
more di 
crim g the judges, and should alt 
word their schedule more explicitly, stating whether 
the object to ay attained is quality of the bloom 
e other hand the display of taste 
— of flower, 
ngement. Incla 
„ the lst prize w 
. although containing some superb blooms, vit 
person of taste 
qualifications. 
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all- staal satisfactory decisions coming i from the 
who have had years of experience in ed 
art of table decoration ? F. W. Seale, Vin 
Sevenoaks. | 
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THE SWEET LITTLE. DEAR отти, ў 
OF IRELAND Mr. Baylor Hartlan 1 
from Ireland in December last, saying te йн 
newly broken ground in his garden that be 7 
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