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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Остовкв б, 1895. 
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APPOINTMENTS FOR OCTOBER. 
— 
MEETINGS 
oyal Horticultural Society's Com- 
TUESDAY, Ост. уна mittees at AE nster; Horti- 
cultural 
TUESDAY, (ст, 29 ‘ Roya Hotel Societ y’s Com- 
SHOWS. 
( TES g f National Chrysanthemum Society, 
TUESDAY, ост. 81 at the Aquarium (three days). 
TUESDAY, Ост. 29 — Havant Chrysanthemum (two days). 
WEDNESDAY, Ост. 30—Jersey Chrysanthemum (two days). 
THURSDAY, {Highgate Chrysanthemum (two 
Cor: * Фу). days). 
SALES FOR THE EN ENSUING WEEK, 
Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’ 
MONDAY, Ост. | 
Rooms. 
TUESDAY, Ост. 81 Dutch теа гада аб Protheroe & Morri.’ 
WEDNESDAY, Ост. 9 1 Dutch До at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Mera Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris' 
THURSDAY, Ост. 102 Sale of de of 20, 000 Fruit Trees at the 
by order of J. R. Pearson & Sons, 
FRIDAY, Ост. 1 and Dutch Bulbs at Pro- 
SATURDAY, Ост. 12{ — i Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’ 
CORRECTED AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
T OHISWICK. 
THE greatest benefactor to the 
PASTEUR. эте race in our age, or perhaps 
апу other, has been removed by 
death. On "dar 28 died Lovis PaAsTEUR. 
He was in his seventy-third year, and had been 
in failing health for some time, His own life's 
work then was done, but its results and its ever- 
widening consequences are the inheritanoe of 
the ages 
PASTEUR was by education a chemist, by 
nature an experimentalist and a reasoner, His 
advent was timely. Men could not fail to ime 
nise the progress that science was making 
AER So sin, on the work of th as 
trifling. нт аа iating its 
indulge in mild ri Sepang 
patient labour of the observer. 
PASTEUR, in the ders rd 
—— 
ese 
France, it is said, was enriched by an amount 
exceeding the war indemnity paid to Germany. 
The silk industry, on the verge of ruin, was 
restored in consequence of his researches on the 
Tes . or r The cultiva- 
tion of a pur ixed t, and the setting 
forth of the ne Еб э which brewing and 
distilling can be successfully carried on, have 
proved of enormous benefit to those industries. 
The means he has placed his our hands for the 
prevention and neut tralisat of diseases like 
h 
Pasteur of the epithet with which we com- 
та this note. Following up the 1 
made known by F mm our surgeons, headed 
by Sir JOSEPH LISTER, form with con- 
fidence and success ersten from which even 
such consummate operators as Fxnav USSON or 
EURS successes h 
the result of his patient study of the minutest 
of living bodies, Whether we call them germs, 
microbes, bacteria, bacilli, spirilla, it matters not ; 
the point is to observe 
to their development, and, as MARSHALL WARD 
has done, the circumstances prejudicial to them. 
Their life-history has to be unravelled with all, 
and more than all, the minute accuracy that a 
— would employ in tracing the oareer of 
a criminal. With the knowledge thus obtained 
а basis for experimental proof is afforded, and 
these experiments have, as we have seen, even- 
tuated in the most signal lasci io the animal 
kin and to the human 
gdom, 
To the practical gardener i may be of interest 
to point out that the “cultivation "of the ` 
germs, the seleotion of some, апа the rejeotion 
of others, and other methods adopted in the 
study of baoteria, are, so far as pr inoiples go, 
identical with those that regulate the procedures 
of the gardener. 
To the gardener and the agriculturist, again, 
the results of the study of the bacteria of the 
soil are of primary importance. We do not 
recall that PasrEUm himself took up this part 
of the subject, but it is so intimately connected 
with his researches, that it is ET to associate 
his name in connection with t 
The distinctions of race, оё, uA 
from one point of view, are effaced i in the 
of such a man as PAsTEUR, We may Warn 
late Franoe on her distinguished son, but we feel 
that he belongs to humanity, not to any special 
country. 
On the quay at Boulogne stands a statue of 
our own JENNER, raised by grateful and sympa- 
pathetic France. How graceful and a appropriate 
thing it would be to erect on our own sho ores a 
monument to Pd їп many ways the lineal 
descendant of Jenner 
DEND DROBIUM PHAL/ENOPSBIS VAR, HOLO- 
LEUCA.— The quantities of the handsome Dendro- 
bium Phalsnopsis var, Schroderiana which have 
been gonna during the last few years have brought 
varieties, and among them a pretty c 
varieties, more or less tinged wi 
Lee lilac, and which go under the common denomi- 
“‘delicatum ;” bu; the number in which the 
3 petals are pure white are very limited, 
December 3, 1892, p. 
D. Phalznopsis 
Рћһа! а 
wie yar tr ж Р д ænopsis 
alba, but in that were some pink lines in the 
the conditions нобаш ? 
lip, The Moped hololeuca, which we Шашы, — 
fig. 72, appears to be the first Dee — 
d it was Кыны by J. pu 
Beechen Cliff, Batb, at the he pr 
Committee of the Royal Harde ө, 
дарий. 13, when it was awarded a First- 
loured markings on 
the lip, the contrast between the lip and the white 
sepals and petals being very remarkable. 
HORTICULTURAL CLUB —The following “м 
arrangements for the conversaziones for 
three months. October 15, Bot iet Raten 
Lapland and Novaya Zemyla, by Mr. C. 
illustrated by specimens of the flora Nong 2 
* Flowers, Fraits, and Plants in the Life and in the 
Home,” by Mr. T. D, Ен; and Tae Fruit Sappy 
of Covent Garden," by Mr. Geo Monro 
Lf 
GARDENERS ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION, 
ult., in aid of the Gardeners’ Royal Вепето- 
lent Institution, 
NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SociETY, –А 
largely-attended meeting of the General 
presided over by Mr. Beran Wynne, took place at 
Anderton’s Hotel, on the 30th ult, The secreta, 
Mr. R. Dezan, brought up a circular relating to the 
Jubilee celebration in 1896, which had been approved 
by the President, Sir E DWIN Saunpees, and by Mr. 
issued ; and r that 
prizes is in preparation, ma 
special prizes had been prom 
correspondence from the Co olonies was read; ons 
correspondent writing from Timaru, New Zealand, 
said some very fine new varieties of Chry 
had been raised in that locality, and it wae hoped 
that blooms of some of the best, frozen in ic 
xt, The 
arrang ti 
кєз to clothe the two ae with flowers " 
frost held " 
r р" 0 
the Hertford 1 Horti 
a оп, 
CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW.— 
Mr, NxLsox, the honorary e pe 
of the fact that the committee is ees the 
nesday, November 20, to eie 
an alteration called for by € forward state 0 
flowers of the Chrysanthem 
CE fers SHOW.— 
AT THE e T “Yon seem 
buttery texture,— C. V. (scratch 
„Ab, dang it! I 
has the Diel to do with Реагз?”. 
it is merely а dedicatory name.” »—0. $ 
s0? Well, I think Pil go now." 
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