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riences in actual practice, 
decided b affiliate with the Royal Horticultural 
Society, are now associated with that Masten | 
membership conveys namely, copies of the | proceed- 
ublished to ite fellows, a trans- 
etings an 
em to be ranked as a Fellow of the Society. 
By resolution, Mr. ANDRE] Hore was nominated 
and elected to represent the Asacciation. The 
autumn progr f ibé session 1895- . T 
am 
the annual business meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 2; 
u oe p^ a ion — ' Fruit as T » by 
Exeter, on nesday, 
us _ оп н Oct, 30, a дыл having 
as its Uma * Window Gardening, and the Selection 
and T ent of House Plants," take place; 
Dawcam, president of the Training 
“ Carnations,” on Wed- 
the Rev. р, 
College, will give a lecture on 
nesday, Nov. 13; on Wednesday, Nov. 27, there will 
be a discussion on Judging at Flower Shows,” which 
will be opened by Mr, W. Rowtanp, of Parkerswell 
Gardens; Mr, J. D, Nanscawen, Whitew: в rige 
will give a lecture on Wild Gardens aai Plea 
Grounds," on Wednesday, Dec. 11. 
—— At the Carnival held at Exeter last week in 
aid of the hospitals of that city, this Association 
was represented by a floral car artistically E 
with fruits and flowers, the sides being trimmed w 
Bamboos, golden-leaved E opsis, d 
other gay-colon red foliage. 
pin representation of Flora which, as a tableau 
was amusingly effective, the make up being 
highly мален Flora would ре 
more easily recognised by habitués of Covent Garden ; : 
but he sustained the ма hem commendable gra 
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alien. se and in the report of the Carnival e 
mittee is “ highly. commended,” — 
MR. C. P. Sree —The death was announced 
a few days ago of Mr. C. P. Stocomss, who w 
one time a Fine Bs etcher and a master in the 
National pin Training School at South Kensington, 
He had for some years been in а bad atate of health, 
and had cae! been unable to 
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stant freqaenter of the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s ee di at Kensington and Бене 
and contributed eene [y cine of plant 
owers, &c., to t ners' Мад when it was 
edited by the late rein Ніввевр 
THE Torquay District GARDENERS’ A880- 
CIATION is a very vigorous body. The programme 
he comi from y 
September 21, issued by Mr. Е. C. 
one, The 3 
at the 
towards TO end of October. This will take the 
place of the exhibition hitherto promoted by the 
now Hide [чис ацы society. 
“THE HISTORY OF GARDENING IN Ема- 
LAND.”—This w 
of the gardens, what flowers 
were grown in them, the chief horticulturists and 
388 period treated of, as 
eden, Par, п the culture of "fruit 
THE GARDENERS’ 
The association havin ng ` 
vity 
бета - 
trade in Great Britain and the Australian Colonies, © 
[Остовкв 5, 1895, 
CHRONICLE. 
BOUQUET-HOLDERS.—Mr. TnzsEDgR, 
Cardiff, tells us that he has had in use for the lat 
fifteen years a similar appliance to that fi figured in 
our issue for September 21. 
centuries, are also here prinbed for the first time. 
The book will contain sixty-five aE of 
gardens, from MSS., багаш, ен tch and 
photo ographs. The work also com за ‘copious 
APPLES IN eis UNITED STATES.—The latest 
reports to hand from the best-informed quarters in 
the United State variable in their character, 
a list of the authors, placed alph е fi 
Some five States commerce pee e in the fruit 
good index to the whole book. 
sists of a reprint of the portion of the Parliamentary а alf a 
Surveys of Wimbledon and Theobalds, giving full D шсш: им W705 н 
descriptions of the gardens there іп the year 1649. are about average, and others are ex 1 
The book will be published by Mr. BERNARD 
Qvanrrcg, 15, Piccadilly, London, at a cost of 15s. 
if subecribed for, the price to be raised to a guinea 
on the day of publication. to Ml 
a outcome of the crop, no one appears to si 
any ada of certaint 
Turm PARK, HIGHGATE.--We whe 
LATE STRAWBERRIES.—Last week we noted 
fiae ripe Strawberries from his gardens, They were October 5, from 10 А.м, until dus 
product of a seedling Strawberry named the Duke 
NURSERY NOTES, 
A MIDLAND SEED FARM, 
on Jane 10, ae we will have fruit until the plants Durixe a journey from Birmingham through ths 
are killed EA rost. notorious “ Black Country ” to Wolverhampton, 
{ п instance of the 5 weather the traveller's attention is inevitably engaged by the 
which has зали in Cornwall this summer, it great chimney stacks as they belch forth volumes of 
is stated in the Daily Telegraph that: Strawberries vile smoke, or are surmounted by a weird blaze now - 
were on rale in Penzance market on September 20, disappearing from sight, app from exhaustion, 
One gardener informed a correspondent that he and again starting out as if making a determined 
had gathered a fourth crop this season. effort to rise higher than um EO either side 
trees oe fruit are also in several instances still of the railway, the face of the land is covered with г ] 
blooming. huge stacks of coal, or with vast cinder heaps aad 
FLORAL DECORATION OF RAILWAY STATIONS. fis from Ma miope and irene — 
—To encourage the cultivation of flowers at the rail- 905-9, Mi Mane jo of, chis дын m 
way stations on the Midland Railway Company's 
2 that Companp, says the Morning Post, offered 
Lure among their station-masters, There 
were ар ds of 200 entries for the competition, and 
ba the first prize was зера м the jadges 
to the station-master at Matlock Bat 
POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BOSKOOP.—At the 
meetings in May, June, July, and August, the under- 
mentioned plants obtained First-claas Certificates:— 
are 
petuai- bearing ET erry ever 
“ Ме beg Mr. М 
time. ," says ACFARLANE, “ pulling 
mentioned, and instead the genius and en 
man has been devoted to obtaining the 
hidden in the earth’s bosom, Agriculture m auch в i 
district seems oat of place, as indeed it is, yet it has jr 
not been driven so far away as the traveller would E 
suppose, 
Only a few miles from 85 oer Junction,? 
station not very far from the two m towan 
K. Wezelenburg, of the f Vos, 
azerawoude; Pic pungens glauca pendula centre of a fertile country of the most pict 
(Koster & Co.), from Mesere. Koster & Co., Boskoop; character. 
Cratzzus oxyacantha foliis aureie, from Mr, van 18 
der Kraats, Liz, B 1 agnolis Alexandrina Тив Евтавіләнмент at Wonveis® how- 
is made of the seed farms, 
folia váriegste, from Mr. J. Walraad, Jr., Boskoop ; inspection 
Clematis M. Koster, from A. Koster, Boskoop; ver, ;the visitor is likely to be shown the Te 
Spiræa Bumalda Anthony Waterer, introduced by men es ebb & Sons at тод the 
Mr Wezelenburg; Chamecyparis Lawsoniana extent of the business done by к ay measure 
glauca Triomphe van quee. from Mr. D. Grooten- &anual growth of the same, may be here ge for thè 
vorst, Boskoop. Azalea Machtelina Alberta, ийни сыш ommodíoas и 1 bete i 
storage of grain and vario seeds, ВО 
from the firm of G. 
Second. 
raised from seed 
by Messrs. Koster & Co.; and 
l1 Ра semperaurea, from Messrs, O:tolander 
& Hooftman, being plants fully worth y a 
class Себа, could not hay 
to their having been 
Р, A, Ottolander 
First- 
ve this award owing 
too long in commerce, 
equally large warehouse now nearing com 
oniy fault of which, in the words 
managers, who finds lack of store-room to 
inconvenience, is that it is not —€— noh. M 
Webb do a large reciprocal trade wi 
tural patrons, and pashan: space is ! 
for the storage of Ho ops and wool, an 
Sweet Pea CuUPID.—Oar readers will remember 
the illustration of this beautiful dwarf white sweet 
Pea, exhibited on June 25, at the Royal Horticultural 
Society, by Mr. Dovatas, for Messrs, Воврев, A 
ae o of 3 of a field of seven acres is which was in sto a week or.two ago 
Pias — а * ч rii чагу that ces eee trade is an extremely: манро and. Bo 
checked by the ‘frost, 9 of May, till firm lose this article in some 
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be added that the visitor will assuredly мё we 
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he plant does not grow over 5 inches in height: . . "Wh ihspecting these warehouses, for the 
