Avavsr 24, 1895.] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CARONICLE. 
215 
CHISWICK — Tae garden is now looking par- 
ticalarly well. The collection of Phloxes is a sight 
to be seen, whilst the beds of Zinnias, Tea Roses, 
Begonias, and о 
The fruit crops аге generally satisfactory. 
the houses are full of Fachsias and Cannas, so that 
a visit just now will well repay the gardener. 
NEWCASTLE AND DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL 
MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.—The monthly 
meeting of this society was held at their room, 
95, Westgate Road, on Tuesday, August 13, Mr. 
Lankg, North Dene, Gateshead, presiding over а 
The secretary, 
and August, or as soon as it was ripe, in preference 
to the spring. discussion followed, in which 
many took part. 
Mr. SOWERBY. PP with the retire- 
of 
ment of Mr, Barron from Chiswick comes news 0 
the withdrawal of Mr. er y the manage- 
ment of the garden at the Regent's Park, with 
which he has so long been connected. Mr. J 
Ѕотеввү succeeds to the post vacated by his father. 
. 
WOBURN EXPERIMENTAL FRUIT FARM — 
vi jan fée ove farm on Tuesday, August 20, by 
permission of his grace the 23 of BEDFORD and 
эне PickERING, Esq. hey were conducte 
over the grounds by the manager, Mr. Castts, and 
the general scope of the experiments already com- 
menced was ve lained. Much interest in the 
work was evinced by the viaitors, n were chiefly 
schoolmaaters engaged in the county, and who аге 
qualifying for «od "dis under the technical 
«Чеш departm 
HARDY PLANT COLLECTING.—In the columns 
tea the forma- 
tion of r co-operative eociety for th 
purpose of defraying the ex "s resident 
collectors in various countries, In this way the 
services of consuls, missionaries, and wien could 
ded, and 
likely countries and desirable plants, and to identify 
them when not are also desirable. 
ADDITION TO THE LINCOLN ARBORETUM.— The 
formal ceremony of opening the new кн recently 
added to the Lincoln Arboretum took place on Wed- 
Inside the entrance- 
forth that the land was de gift of Mr. М. C. Сос 
The coat of T work is about £1000. At a open- 
ing ceremony, Mr. acy, chairman of the 
Arboretum Comm ittee, 5 тани the Mayoress, Mes, 
‚ W. Hatt, with a go vil key, which fits t 
lock to the entrance 
of the land, to the Mayoress for her and 
Mr. H. E. Мпхев, of Westminster сов farnished 
the design), were passed. Ihe Yorkshire Daily Post. 
PONOGETON DISTACHYON УАН, С 
—This is a seedling variety, 
Oullins (Rhone) by М. Lacranae, It differs 1515 
the type in its reds leaves, purple on the under- 
surface, and in the floral зари being и. а dull rose- 
colour. A coloured figure is given in the Rev 
Horticole for August 16, 
RUBUS CAPENSIS et ves Garden for Aug. 17 
is an illustration of th resting spe from 
a photograph received from Mr. Воввамк, Santa 
Rosa, California. The leaf is palmately 5-lobed and 
rugose, like a Mulberry-leaf. The fruit is wein. 
and of excellent quality. It is supposed it may be 
the Rubus of which SrAwLEY speaks as growing in 
places in tropical Africa. 
WINTER IN NEW SourTH WALES — Britons are 
apt to think that the Pes to а peculiar and change- 
pup: climate, and the MS of making it the topic of 
veryday conversation, exclusively their own. 
Oar corres 3 sy all parts of the world often 
ts us in session of information proving that, 
in witha Lr err th are they different from their 
brethren in what are considered more favoured 
climes, for everywhere peculiar weather looks in at 
times, and those experiencing it think it is fair 
game to talk or write about. 8 from New 
South Wales n date July 8, 1895, our corre- 
spondent, “J. Н. says :—“ I think this is the 
most severe winter Т have 5 in this country 
during the long time I hav here. Every 
morning during the past week pues have been 8° to 
y some of our shrubs 
d ae kr are un- 
hardy old 
ces growing 
tomas in particular. The 
i I am surprised to find w 
this season, but previously, and come out quite un- 
harmed. My experience is, that Prg more exposure 
it gets the freer it bloom 
LAWSON & SON, LIMITED.—At t 
ve per cent. ahh r 
of income tax, 8 be ple on аел ег 2, | and 
that the balance p: 21058 0s. 34. be carried forward 
to next co 
James S EasrES, — pee Ken 
Parznsox, E:q , C. A., Edinburgh, ware perpeti 
ISA GRANDIFLORA.—We have had sent for 
icon are admirable, lasting in water 
еек. Mr. Barrer has been а ^; in i cet 
dhas plants for the past twelve years. 
2 cur дешч” MAGAZINE."—The August number 
contains aine W and descriptions of the 
following plants 
Prochynanthes “Бай, ve 
the plant described by Mr. 
4, ii., 328, as Bravoa ia. 
intermediate between Polianthes and Bravoa, having 
bell-shaped purplish — curiously bent down- 
wards in the middle. native of Mexico, and 
кешыр at Kew in 1894 
Saccolabium Mooreanum, Rolfe, t. 7428. 
Spirez осе Sabel, t. 742 Japanese 
species, which has been called in gardeni S. media 
za анымы or S. ru var. media, We 
the nomenclature may now be considered 
indi 
t. 7427.— This is 
ры 
oo 
Pyrus sikkimensis, Hook. f.—A Himalayan Crab- 
apple flowering at Kew, and rea introduced 
from Sikkim by Sir Jcsspu Нооке 
Pleurothallis Scapha, Rchb. i 
Chronicle, 1874, vol. ii., 162. 
in Gardeners’ 
MELON GROWING AND ARTIFICIAL MANURE.— 
The gardener at Minstead Manor forwards a photo- 
graph of a Melon-house under his care, to show the 
ff. et of the Chelsea Manu T he sa 
soon takes effect, and he was enabled to cut 175 fruits 
from fifteen plants on which i е total 
weight of which was 4 ewt. 1 ч 2 ж 
М. J. VESQUE к hear with great — of 
the death of M. Juries Vesque, one ndn 
accomplished botanists pr France, M. Ves 
great attention to physiological тү, ia its май ме 
tion to agriculture and gardening. Tne relation of 
minute structure to "i ut i xd. tbe adaptations to 
altered conditions were studied by him with success. 
Oae of his latest "o was a volume of the Zune au 
Prodromus, devoted to 
which the завет structare of the leaves is fe 
use of as a character to be utilised with others d 
the aii e and delimitation of species. 
oubt that similar monographs will in had 
THE SUPPLYING OF BULBS TO THE LONDON 
я, JA 
PARKS.—Messrs, James Canter & Co, seed mer- 
chants, 237, 8, 246, and 97, High born, 
London, W. C., agai en honoured with t 
mmands of Her Majeaty’s Commissioner of Works 
and they have also received a simi 
the London County Council for the parks, gardens, 
and open spaces under their control. 
Book NOTICE. 
A GARDEN OF PLEASURE. Ву E. V. B. 
(Elliot Stock. ) 
Tue pleasant articles in our columns nena — 
a Buckinghamshire garden, and grape under 
are still held i in 
They are not meant to be criticised, but merely E 
be read and enjoyed. Оле or two points we may 
permitted to allude to, and first as to the rt 
r ee of - qum 
E as sieh 3 and by m the last yum is pea 4 
be the most important, a word must bs said for the Chief 
i rden, in whose ate i the gappi of 
many would, 
the garden, i pointing toa * age or a Curran 
ive the order thus :— Dig a hole and plant that Currant 
head downw 3 ва б forthwith the ma was 
told without a word, engage him on the spot! Yet I believe 
such imperi ess does exist, d then—is f 
en. e ove dearly our flowers; 
: think we аз но, everything about them, and call them 
ll by their e ma preci we aster, а! 
give him a 
under | his control. Give ** 
S 
planting g and іп arraugeman niet сло 
nt interest init; аа ait 
wor t in a 
garden and the gardener will grow, as it ei 6 
one another, you trust ani understa both, 
while your content ani g'ainess in the но will increase 
and grow with the years’ increase. 
“Апа here a grateful tribute must find place, for the gar- 
dener, JESSE FOULK, by whose rare skill this m ot €— w into a 
iniit of Pleasure, whose ceaseless care has ntained its 
charm for three and twenty summers, aad 2 completes the 
y (1895), 
with which well-omened date I close my Preface.” 
such reciprocal polio Кери bets ry ced 
оа 
horess may 24 
. to the нос "t the Pine- 
apple to ge country, there are some e discrepan 
% E. V. B." here tells us that John Voti lived 
once at void Court, near Maidenh 
“There is 80 e tradition that there he presented his Pine- 
which represe 
garden presenting 
Tradescant kneeling 838 the King i in a 
his Pine-apple.” 
