304 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[SrPrEwBER 14, 1895, 
The white variety seldom or never grows, like the 
his seems singular, but 
variety of Wistaria sinensis never, во far as my expe- 
proaching the same 
area as the 
of the Gardeners’ Chronicle ever w is- 
taria in England covering an area of 200 feet, or 
double Wistarias of any colour rivalling the single 
one in | vigour or amount of growth ? With the single 
of the blooms sof Wistarinisadoubtfal i benefit, lined robs 
them not a little of their meS an uty. me 
to say in conclusion, that the esték р is the 
best pair and prop for gon Wistaria sinensis; these 
of themselves on lawns or in landscapes. The only 
objection to such 7 for effect is the disparity 
of * between the two. For while in our e 
the common Wistaria will live for centuries, ее 
гр нын. is comparatively ганаро It will liv. 
much longer, 8 and bear he additional 
burden of its bea “ag 1 кана Ar he better if 
the seed-pods o aburnum аге picked off soon 
after the Бен аа D, Т, Fish, 
THE FRENCH Болна BEAN.—" Н, Е,” 
‚ stat pity the Fruit 88 
M. should have rained ye question as to whether 
Messrs, Veitch 
r Messrs. Su 
have the prior clai 
TT оь the eer have done nothing of 
both wer 
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HE 
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ane that much was within its m to — 
mine. As to the rightful name, the committee hay 
nothing to do. That may be or may not be а бет: 
ruit Com- 
mittee neither raised, nor 2 it had claim to 
raise, such a question. A, Dea 
ND MR. BARRON.— The treatment 
(good or bad) which Mr. Barron has received from 
Council of the R. Н, S. is the leading topic of 
0 like! 
TET or at Ww 
now, without any ambi it is 1) W 
the retirement of Mr. M a) UN bo initiated 
2.) Who were the “committee” of деа 
who veste 9 gen 
on there, and what he nature of 
their aet and "d What кз the Council. 
ty will derive from the transaction 
think th 
— their ends be accomplished ? A lain answer 
top society than any such suave 
t 2 been treated to f 
nd, - 11, 1895, br d the Council, 
magnitude, importance, and the necessary date 
eations for control and direction, the vate 
garden comes out an easy firs There n "but 
few gardeners, now-a-days, so ill. inf formed as not 
the impression that he is a man wit 
to grind.“ What is the regular aed work of a 
лын garden,toa gardener any way, in comparison 
ith the every-varying, ever-widening, systematic 
and scientific opera ations— I nearly said fads—of an 
experimental garden, as Chiswick 
reds of these E trials, &c. 
yearly — ith the greatest 
exactitude, and the whole recorded and tabulated for 
ran reference. Irrespective of all this, there is also, I 
mit, an immense amount of routine work 
is be done, sufficient to tax ru abilities of many o 
our best gardeners, Under the system upon which 
iswi and is аа on, this routine 
of th М W and to all 
welfar er Council 3 now — to intro- 
arried out in a spirit of AUN 
and of t| ү! e ce both 
Соња pe Mr. Barron, all will be satisfied. yn 
Mà cu * let us Tope that the reorganisation 
“Арн К may be оп the very broadest lines for 
advan ней ent of ar e e п its a minis- 
w 
and that of France furnishes us with a model for 
curriculum equal, at least, to 
of Versailles. The nucleus of such a school 
. M although admittedly of small extent ; 
but i se days of cheap land this should prove 
ut ^ си obstacle, to be overcome at will, with 
— € à зү tages. Such a school 
nised and subsidized i the State, 
this to = ann 
p per um, or and а house, 
—— As a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural 
"T don, I «c d не and 
regret" the half-hearted and pology 
published by the Secretary Y о order of рэ Ова. 
As an explanation it is lamentably weak 
detail, about which most of us are agree 
come. me 8 within their rights in desiring 
e Mr, of the paid 
8 
d 
o 
pro 
only has the Chiswick Board | — 
far {= but al — 
usin 
r 
services on behalf of 
—4 Society. Something very much of the nature 
а secret conspiracy appears to have 
айша, and ав опе result, an adverse ге eport seems 
— 2 
to have been drawn up and — by 1 
members of Council and othe с ищ 
existence, seem to forget that something more 
is due to Fellows of the Society, and to o | 
generally, who a {фе | 
they have been underhanded aad indie en mi 
not actually discourteous, to an and lp] - 
official, and also, roug im, denen 
generally. We wish to know the die the whole 
truth, and nothing but the truth of this m miserably | 
affair. is a principle that is involved, шщ 
not іп any way a merely personal matter, Whenj 
the report that was drawn up and si 
run 1 Is 
ofa ине. mugger po eme society must be like 
Cœsar's wife—and to risk its power for good, ШШ 
allaying the discontent now ue would 
in the extreme, F. R. Н, S, Ireland, 
RUST” IN BEGONIAS.—Having charge ies, 
i found 
mentioned in [оч last issue by 
t m, I have bid dt Кайа w i 
4 
Begonias, as Achimenes, Eran 
= pes suffer in the es: manner, 17 
e lied for — — of E longa 
with Bermuda, 
© 
alls us if the pro 
bare ptg ever left its shores be 
me? Mr. Bal 
here, and directly our large market gro 
it ral bulb fir btained it exte 
the demand has been eg until the 
ө: Chi smart 
M 
plantsman has initiated. : a syndicate in 
the combination g enough к 
ninety per cent. of the тай ве 
that sh 
— ы nek things should be, 
THE a TRIALS.—In reading " p 
294 the amount of time 
devoted to the trials of flowers and 
at all for garde de 
in such work, especislly seeing Ee 
&re practically of no use E 
e trade. It well-known, 
gardeners stick to a few well-known varieties | : 
ves or their neighbours 
1 
up promiscuously any nurse 
tton's—you see that it is not the 
ials they rely upon, but 
gardens and pre dd dn 
very page. any ч 
applications to test garden — 
insecticides, — than they can e 
eà rain, 1 
sense or reason is there in encumbering T 
— ibm . the heights ee 
