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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
(Szprzmere 14, 1895, 
PANCRATIUM CANAR 
Those who have before them 'the > recently-iasued 
ts and ойе of the Canary 
w that Pancratium 
one d the three species of 
plant it is decidedly pretty, but without much 
It is quite а distinct plant, most nearly 
юн; re. though 
e longer асаре, ап 
mmon rom eri er es that has idi 
In a 6- "e * we have one flowering bulb 
several others, which bear ensif 
leav ves about 14 inches long. 
specimen 
an intermediate-house, and flourishes 
with usual treatment, R, J. 
BROWALLIA SPECIOSA MAJOR. 
This char ins  greenho use plant was seen in ex- 
cellent charac he recent exhibition of the 
Trowbridge — ne The foliage and 
flowers alike „ bolder, and more 
deep hue of blue in the flowers makes it valuable for 
associating with other plants in the decoration of the 
чарт ouse, It is one of the novelties introduced 
зага, F. Sander & Co, and it gained an Awar 
of ке Аа the Royal Heitin Society in 
1894. It requires to be known in order to be 
widely grown. 
' 9 Mabaux CHARLES 
Kozna. 
The value of this variety for cutting тт 
is shown by the fact that Mr. W. Richardso 
manager at Messrs. Balchin & Sons’ тун at 
Hassocks, has cut during the space of twenty weeks 
Ф 
is, that it is in great dem 
Fu INEA, 
Whether or no this represents the original species 
which Mr, James Lee purchased at Wa apping яо 
many years ago I cannot say with certainty, but I 
call attention to it for the purpose of saying what a 
pretty shrub it makes in th 
I saw 
3 * ot the’ 
poser oc E of last winter without 
any harm to the root stock, R. D, 
CHRYSANTHEM SEL x PRINCESS 
Іх our issue for "з ы special mention was 
made of a very fine collection of new single-flowered 
hybrid e A — — which were exhi- 
prn . 
di 
BOTANICAL SECTION OF THE 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
Tue annual meeting of the association is in pro- 
gress at Ipswich. The public business was opened 
on Wednesday by an Adress from the President, Sir 
Douglas Galton, who gave an account of the progress 
of science generally during the last sixty- five years, 
rks on the career and 
thé Royal Gardens; Kew, the r of which we 
give in ре in the following colum 
Rer ECT.— confess I found it a Se tempta- 
tion s ані к imperfectly, the history and 
fortunes of our subject while it belonged to section D. 
But to have done so would have been practically to 
have written the history of botany in this country 
since the firat third of the century. Yet I cannot 
pass over some few striking events. 
AND ROBERT Brow 
Ithink that 5 earliest of these ik t undoubtediy 
m mean the 
by Robert Brown.* s difficult to сеа that 
this may be within the рес: ЫМ of some who are 
now living amongst us. It is, however, of peculiar 
interest to me that the first person who actually dis- 
tinguished this all-important body, and indicated it 
in a figure, was Francis Bauer, thirty years earlier, 
n 1802. This remarkable man, whose skill in 
applying the resources of art to the illustration of 
plant anatomy has never, I suppose, been surpassed, 
was “resident draughtsman for fifty years to the 
Royal Botanic Garden at Kew.“ And it was at Kew, 
and in a tropical Orchid, Phaius grandifolius, no 
doubt grown there, that the discovery was made 
as, I confess, with nolittle admiration that, on 
— · 
refres Lasting my memory by a reference to Robert 
Brown's paper, I read again the vivid account which 
he gives in a footnote of the phenomena, so painfully 
familiar to many of us who have been teachers, exhi- 
supreme importance of this observation, . ding 
to undreamt-of conceptions of the fundamental 
phenomena of organic life, is acknowledged by all 
investigatore." I5 is singular that so profound an 
observer as Robert Brown should have himself missed 
the significance of what he saw, The world had to 
wait for the discovery of protoplasm by Von Mohl 
till 1846, and till 1850 for its identification with the 
sarcode of zoologists by Cohn, who is ati — I am 
happy to say, living and at work, and to 
year the Linnean E did itself the — of 
presenting its medal 
The Edinburgh meeting of the Association, in 
1834, was the occasion of the announcement 
another memorable "eth of Robert Brown's, I 
will content myself with забав eg saw 
account of it. Robert rt Brown w е discoverer 
of the polyembrony of the al 
period of the forties, just 
trospect as one of 
LE] =A the ans 7 the 
e, the 
n s — his master, 
847 the conju- 
п — indicated,” 
that conjugation is the primitive 
roduction,” 
yea 0 
splendid discovery (1848) of the archegonia of the 
* Misc. Bot. Works, i. 512, 
1 Proc, Linn. Soc., 1887—68, 85, i 
1 Higher 
$ Memorial Sketch, ^de; 
EN 
Fern, the antheridia having been first seen 
Nazeli in 1844. Carpenter“ gave me, man M 
after, a curious account of its reception, 
Council of the Ray Society, at which,” he said, “I 
vegetable reproduction, 
—and the complaint is pathetic—" that the mea of 
the present generation, who have been brought up i 
|] 
the light, quite apprehend (in this as in other { 
matters) the utter darkness in which а 
groping, or fully recognise the deserta of 1 i 
helped them to what they now enjoy.” This wasin f 
1875, and I suppose is not likely to be че e 
, 
Dar U 0 
The Oxford Meeting in 1860 was the scene of th | 
memorable debat te on the origin of species, at F | 
that occasion Section D reached its merida 
as Homeric, However little to th 
taste of its author, the launching of his gr 
was, at any rate, dignified wi 
ink, be claimed ai 
purely Eoglish eder. EE 
Hrxsro i 
Addressing you as I do at = 4 e 
name written in the annals of our old Section a 
І cannot pass over—that of Henslow, He was s 
Secretary of the Biological Section at its first m 
Professor Henslow during his voyage round the 
world overflow with feelings of affection, veneration, | 
to hi ‘ 
retained with no diminished i i A 
imself to say, before he knew Profese 
e only {в he cared for were foxes and pat- 
Darwin from his childhood, as is usually the cat? a 
gme naturalistas,” to use Huxley words; 
have borne its usual fruit in after life, in ponti 
events which culminated in the great work 
life would never have been started. It é 
me, then, that it would not be so ориг ' 
me with several texts, which I 
‘anes oe 
e RS dne 
a ‘a b shall have . occasion to q t " 
t Memorial Notices, 13e 
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