372 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. — 100, 
Error 
known. Why Mr. Woolford should have thought 1 the Council to establish a kind of Bureau for profes- many ak . b erre. throu 
— v with this species, I cannot i — ne. sional derbe ready and capable to undertake the it would re sooner à be m more w vid ny dant 
Reichenb ach 
at fault, ** cinnabar- Apes эй 
s colour occurs in several others, 
е 
at all, which in 
or аз Loin cinnabarina is like Broughtonia 
— . sanguineum is the only species yet 
own T me with blood-red flowers, Л, A. Rolfe. 
E RETIREMENT e 55 BARRON.—It is much 
to be regretted that Mr. Barron’s name should have 
lately become the subject of — conversation, and 
the Council so much censured for what may yet m 
f 
much better position, both publ an E gebe 
than at an e previously, and for which I a 
3 
tion of their 
an 
horticulture generally. I am not in possession 
of any mbat neither do I desire to shield 
the guilty o any wrong actions w 
be plain lain to al, looking at 6 the useful and important 
re 
suitable man quickly engaged. 16 may yet pro 
S Ey of this kind is in contemplation, and E 
am of the opin ion that 
ly 
ae is g нен about throu h no 
faults of their own—that there a ir 
cultural centre e е. them shen t go to. pt ged d gen- 
their being in readiness 
personally api 2 Fdo ел what they required, 
to me Chiswick | 
=з 
pet a notice to quit, in all pro- 
bability he 5" 2575 often than not 5 or 10 is 
e 
dually dwindli 
Cases а real savings gradual 1 — — 
to accept =ч quite — to oie 
t eon 
and Kew 
y be 
the de cenas Of his Ла 2 A 
management of either large or medium-sized places, 
at once if. require , and which would certainly often 
be nvenience to корн. I would gladly 
double my subscript ion, and no doubt many о us 
he same, to enable the Council i але 
such an institution аз I have foreshadow sug- 
gested. wou be а boon to stil am 
repeatedly ger for в certain class of man—and 
time is all im After writing . 
ith, sey veral men out of place, 9 
be independent ai of the nurserymen, 
and would allow hi е free as to hi 
future dealings, Henry Cannell, Seat 
—— By an advertisement in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle 1 notice the Royal Hortionltaral Society of 
Lo: want of a new Superintendent, one 
ha олак а thorough осе апа scientific 8 
of all branches of horticulture. Salary per 
annum. Го an ordin E gardener this amount seems 
liberal, but to a scientific man I should say it is de- 
cidedly small A scientific NR: Кд mA MS 
towards the rent of a decent house, 
rates, taxes, &c., in addition, leaving less probably 
an i mai 
mily, before the glaring Heus of a 
very exacting Бен icultural world. wo, I 
should much Sew тее the retiring-money offered 
x 
strong, во active, so practical, and so елата 
scientific а man as Mr, Barron оп £1 year. 
will take p subscriptions of а good many Gui 
Fellows to make up this sum. 
rene he new man=£380 in all. 
Ba s, there are rich men among the Fellows, 
and one “re ther of these may come forward and say, 
“ We will pay it all,” but this much has yet 
d, and until i has been said, are 
ch of this is what 
е, too, when the 
d almost reached that stake of dissolution 
nown as mors extrema, r, Barron’s na 
ю 
чч 
Ф 
4 
2 
@ 
з 
6 
Ф 
tg 
i: 
mn 
о 
я © 
Fic 
OG 
[2] 
о 
э 4 
E 
2 
hen the tin proceedings 
were at the loweat poteibts ebb, That is the opinion 
country had of it. h 
ould be turned out is a 
g im the sympathy 
* ot his fellow — N 
he shakes the Chiswick d 
& Warm welcome amongst his 
cultural friends, whether they be scientific er 
common- place practical. 
make up even а good-work 
science of plant culture and botany is w. 
in the Royal 
ional — 0 the inner 
p> of the unes Horticultural Society here 
e ur? i 
ecome & Guinea Fellow, I 
€— no — re the iety. True, they sent 
исши ts of — — . of which 
pem 
I —— н "e De а 
— is so — 
i for b being a а Council than ‘it is 
D 
he 
" known nurseryman, of Ghent, 
announced, 
Pity saying ‘sho uld Барба 
8 речи position, for without "t 
Hall—a place I have ne and ite Drill 
become of the outlet for the many little 
brought there from such people 
the Bunyards of 
58 
E 
mold ed 
xu 
window. l the exceedingly 
Ма җы y: Hiller, Ран 4 A. 1], 
E STRAWBERRIES.—I have this day (Se. 
picked twenty-three l u fruits of 
Leatherhe ad, ! 
THE HERBACEOUS BORDER, 
ASTER CORYMBOSUS, 
Tuts belongs to the small-flowered section; and 
во small is it that many persons might consider it 
insignificant plant, it being but 14 feet high, It is, | 
however, very useful for mixing with othér flowers i 
of а larger and stiffer habit of growth, its slender | 
sprays —— up and improving the appearance j 
| 
of other things. It isa n M Es culture in the 
88 border. W. H. р 
EnrrercHrUM sTRiCTUM (Р. 3360). 
This plaat grows freely here, сой пр wheenr 
under this name, and seed of the x is 1 
for sale by several English firme. The 
flower approaches, in my opinion, that of the А 
ruff ( Aspe ) 
Divers, Belvoir Castle Gardens, Grant 
Obituary, 
HERMANN STENGER.—Hermann Stenger,“ 
merly a familiar figure in the hortiesltani. world, 
died suddenly at = residence, 33, C 
West Dalwich, on Monday, the 
age of sixty-seven 
of the principal centres of the nursery | and sel 
р р e. country 
Co., representing that fi = 
— four or five years’ service, the alo 
ing for * time, 
to a wheel - chair. In spite of his ud tion gene 
chee od нй he enjoyed £5 les 
health, and, liberality ^ 
Vilmorin, he — Mis ries in comparative ED. 
ISIDORE VERVAET.— 
