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the Versailles kitchen-garden to that state 
perfection for which it was renowned. The 
garden was begun in 1678, and was not completed 
till 1683 
The enclosure placed under Quintinie’s direo- 
tion contained twenty-nine gardens, separated by 
the gardens by the happy idea of the organiser, 
which was to surround the large squares in the 
middle by terraces, so as to protect the plants 
against the wind, to reflect the heat of the sun, 
and to afford large surfaces for fruit-walls, 
Quintinie was а great authority on all kinds 
of fruit-trees, but the Pear was evidently his 
priis. In eash PA the P 
if an spate | 
Quintinie himself in scat one of these t 
more than 200 years old, is nearly 30 feet high. 
Louis XIV. was very proud of his Potager 
de Versailles.” He liked to take walks in it, and 
would interest himself in the cultures, He was 
a very heavy feeder, and, as the chronicle tells 
er, 
Radishes and Lettuces in January, Caulifiowers 
in March, Strawberries in April, fresh Peas in 
May, and Melons in June. Quintinie exerted 
himself to satisfy his royal master, but it will 
easily be imagin at it was not always easy to 
do so. When the great gardener died in 1688, 
the king is reported to have said that he had 
experienced a great loss which he never expected 
io have repaired. A statue of Quintinie now 
stands in the gardens which he crea 
The École Nationale d Horticulture 
pies , gardens, and other places 
n 
occupying a 
me 24 acres. Part of this space is 
taken up with kitohen gardens; besides these 
there are the plots for fruit à experimental 
culture beds, greenhouses, an oranger у, а winter 
garden, а school for the botanica students, &o. 
There is also a little model nurse 
The object of the school is to train gardeners, 
and to instruct them in the theory and practioe 
of horticulture; to provide teachers of horticul- 
ture for the practical and normal schools of 
agriculture, to train professors of horticulture 
‘and landeape gardeners, to turn out well-educated 
agents for public or private offioes in a word to 
provide | 
students who have satisfied the Minister 
of of. Agrioulture as to the conditions of admis- 
a , and who have passed the preliminary 
receive a three years’ training 
The udes 
are of fruit trees 
methods for getting adir fruit. Besides едо 
special studies, the pupils аге instructed in 
^ mathematios, topography, drawing, &c, 
ie pupils are not simply gentlemen-gar- 
work and in looking at 
k, but they are ех 
and 
and noxious animals, models of implements, casts 
of fruits, &c. 
The orestion of this school was due to the 
initiative of the late P. Joigneaux, an eminent 
agriculturist and a deputy, and its organisation 
to the late Auguste Hardy, who was one of the 
first horticulturists in France, To-day it is 
under the direction of M. Nanot. 
For many facts іп the above sketch we are 
indebted to an article that recently appeared in 
La Nature over the signature of E. Hennebert, 
НЄ Е 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
CATASETUM FEROX, Kranzlin, n. sp.* 
Ir not beautiful, this is certainly a very striking 
plant, in habit rather like the other Cataseta we have 
in our stoves. The spike bears about twenty flowers 
of dirty-green colour outside, and pea-green inside, 
more or less spotted with small purplish spots, 
The sepals and petals are of about the same size and 
t urum, Nees, for instance 
inapertum, Hook.) The most 
peculiar part of these flowers, and the one by which 
they can easily be distinguished from other species, is 
the lip. This part is rather small for a Catasetum, 
and looke very like a lower-jaw with a prominent 
chin and teeth ; on both sides there are two rows of 
molar teeth, not very long and prominent, but broad 
хы stout; а little behind the top is а row of 
x} very prominent 1 ы middle ones co- 
Mrd except at lant was intro- 
esars, iin Sander & Co. St, Albans, and 
flowered in midsummer, F. Krünzlin 
IX MiQcmorrrzu, e n. sp.t 
rer NE the kindness of Mr, 
Mad Баш. епа 
а species of the 
though the original and t-known species, L. 
Wendl., is a native of No rthern 
The present species is unique in its 
genus in being quite stemless, the wedge-shaped 
leaves rising erect from the ground in a large tuft; 
they are upwards of 4 feet in height, narrowed into 
& petiole at! the base, and broadening upwards, and 
end in a pair of long acute points, The spadices are 
тыы, slender and elegant, and зге remarkable 
* Catisetum faror, Krzl,, n. Dee cn aeree 
minorum, racemo elongato plurifioro — 
cum Lancer paullum latioribus 2 initio crasso posti 
antice saccato mentum formante leviter 1 
lobis lateralibus nullis margine i 3 омо, е 
multituberculoso (quasi dentes molares veterente), lobo inter- 
medio quique majores 
us 
viridia ; r- 
um le:e viride albo- marginatum, 
ү 1 Linotpadiz Micholitzii, — e —Acaulis s esespitosa, Folia 
ta basi in petiolis atten ti 
proinde bifidis, laciniis 10 PNE ces longis осте abe 
a crassi la rvis elevatis (ad 22) subtus bru 
ptus, р pella longa, 6 polli lata 
E 
ped ces 8 Mine 
gracillimi; peduneuli 14—24 longis 
spicis — ad 10 pollices longis vix incrassatis b; nneo- 
furfu uraceis, u unisexualibus. Fi iter dispositi minuti 
ovata insqualia imbrio; etala gun denm 
e te 
ger intus fibroso ; ee 
on endi p EA r^ S ee of New Guinea, 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. [5иртвмвв 7, 1895, 
а 
1 H i l, the male and fe le fl 
a meteorological station and fine collections, іп being unisexua male flowers 
which include plant-albums, herbaria, specimens being on different spadices. The fruit ig ong 
of seeds woods, a little museum of useful about half an inch long, Pright red, the album 
the seed white, and very hard. The plant inhi 
the wet ravines of the їйїрї slopes of the 
mountains. 
THE FRUIT CROPS. 
[For Жө lg up 5ге m 119.] 
uded from 
5, SOUTHERN COUNTIES. 
BERKSHIRE p nten Mk the Pa which 
prev vailed m r less up to Ju 
sons, heavy crops. 
arance í 
the beds, after severe frost in spring was deplorable 
—not a leaf left, and I had doubts whether many of 
the crowns were not killed outright; however, when 
growth commenced, they soon recovered, and showed 
str bloom. Unfortunately, May was very dry 
and hot when fruits were set and swelling. and this 
checked the crop considerably, Only 36 inch of 
rain fell here during May. Small fruits are abun- 
dant. Gooseberries formed a remarkably heavy 
crop. Raspberries were plentifal, but the fruits 
rather small. erts average crop; Wal- 
nuts the heaviest crop I ever saw, and the branches 
are already bending with the weight. Owen 
ndsor, 
DonsETSHiRE.— The Apple trees and bushes give 
promise of a very fine crop, and the best of them are 
Annie Elizabeth, Beauty of Kent, Bismarck, MES 
Reinette du Canada, Ribston Pippin, and Warners 
King. The best Pears are Beurré Rance, Beurré Diel, 
Glou Morceau, Marie Louise, Williams’ Bon Chrétien, 
Thompson's Seckle, aud Catillac. Raspberry Super- 
lativeshould b» more known, as it isa very fine variety, 
much ear 1 in quality. 
Garden, Blandford, 
H а аге an атр cr 
whole, some varieties, as for instance, 
Lord Grosvenor, Warner’s King, Bere Ors 2а с 
Cox’s Orange Pippin, and tie Castle; Mére 
Ménage, Irish Peac 1. diro 
Devonshire Quarren ides, are A iis eavily 
É y Sa ismarck, 
SHIRE —Å pple 
Lady 
varieties s have borne imme 
p — frait . diese and Sir Jor 
y. Raspberries suffered from M 
Р. ‘ave Swanmore Park, Bishop's Walt 
‘op on the 
ord Saffield, 
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