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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Остовкн 19, 1895, 
within the limits of the city of Boston, and is n 
more than 4 milea — the centre of eee 
being easily riam coi he b 
two lines of e cA while parkway which 
unites нед diferent parks of the Ойу "Park System, 
starting Publie Garden, in Arlington 
Street, in — Te of the residential quarter of the 
city, skirting the town of Brookline and enclosing 
Jamaica Pond, forms its eastern bound nd con- 
tance from the Gonaden to the 
Arboretum is 6 miles. 
THE EFFECTS OF THE eng AND DROUGHT 
ON BRITISH MEDICINAL PLAN —The intense and 
onths roll round, th 
not been confined to garden crops. 
British culture, about which little is perhaps 
generally — ^ а * 7 of medicinal plants, 
which are most part cultivated at 
Hitchin, Бойго, — and in Lincolnshire, 
A most interesting report on the state of these crops 
was recently given in our contemporary, the Chemist 
and Druggist, from which we d the following 
re 
other parts of the country, proved fatal to the gr-ater 
number of the older plants, and whole fields which last 
0 
very little flower thi eppe 
severely from tne dry weather, the plants bei 
short, and the yield of oil per acre being therefore 
considerably below the average. R мера which is 
described as the m the culti 
almost entirely destroyed by the frost. 
Bulladonna eun well in the early part of the 
large crop was anticipated; the 
od pfer i diminished the growth, and the 
prospects of а good crop accordingly. The old 
plants of E aterium are said to be маа all killed 
by the severity of the winter, but you g plants 
were abundant, and the field of fruit, — late, 
was anticipated to be ves good, Henbane was 
reported to vary much in different localities; in 
damp, low-lying situations in Hitchin there have 
the second biennial Henbane, and as much of the 
Belladonna; the only bright picture of the medicinal 
Lene in that Raubarb, 
one remarkably well. From the 
Mika district the report states that it would ba 
necessary to go back more than ten years ada 
season 80 disastrous to the чос of Mint, 
; theru 
ee, and Rosemary 
wint plants 
red, у half the usual hary 
pected, бо seem to have stood the 
ike, and on the termination of the cold weather 
the plants assumed a healthy appearance, and a good 
crop was almost certain. 
ASSES OF TENNESSEE, — е Agricultural 
The 
Experiment Station of the University of Tennessee 
has publish 11 5 
and 
ptions 
of Agriculture at Wash- 
асса — such e лое sufficiently 
Department, our Agricultural 
Fault PRESERVATION IN TRANSIT.—We t 
е 70 
— 
despatched — Sydney at — end ‘of J aly, which 
has been preserved in transit not in an ice chamber, 
but by an innocuous coating which excludes the air 
thing of f collodion, and Oranges, 
Lemons, ы Рїпе- bur i by being simply CN in 
d are € with the preservative, which easily 
d is said a cause no deterioration in the 
sunlit of the fruit. Of course, only hard fruit can 
be thus treated, and at present the method is in the 
experimental stage, but its development will be 
watched with interest, in view of the large trade 
which has sprung up with New South Wales and 
Australia generally in fruit for winter and spring 
consumption in England, 
8 ORTE O 5 ый C 8e 
ave received NCESCHI dien 
кан. ша ненә 22 ЗА poses Flor 
Handbook of Plants from Foreign Countries low at 
Santa Barbara, California, This descriptive cata- 
logue of plants speaks well for the climate of their 
new country, as natives of such diverse climes there do 
& 
whose careful Handbook should serve both now and 
in the future to prove what has been vis and what 
may yet be accomplished in this directio: 
—BS«iüor J. BaRRO-A 
* HoRTU 3 ENSIS.“. 
nder the above title, a 
d 
е 
А де escrip- 
tive liat of the principal species ae arranged 
under the natural ordera up to mpositz, is given, 
and зн rob ha ене, serving to show 
the beauty of this renowned g The famous 
Palm ind was planted in 1843. 
RosES.— The publication of an eighth edition of 
Mr. —— Pabr's book on Roses and Rose Culture 
is in itself proof of the utility of the work. We са 
therefore heartily commend it to such of our Rose- 
loving readers who do not already avail themselves 
of dis — contained in it. The ee 
are Simpxin, Мавѕнатт, НАмиточ, Kent, & Co. 
PRESENTATION.— On Saturday afternoon, Oet. 5, 
а deputation of the Chippenham Horticultural 
Society waited оп the president, Joun GLADSTONE, 
Esq, at Bowden Park, and presented him with а 
Silver Medal in commemoration of the silver anni- 
Mose А of the society. The medal, са - richly 
and inecribed, was pr 
the secretary, and er 
у Mr. A. 
б ira né — 
o- 
ave no living repre- 
sentatives; the Lycopodiacem were — by 
— and  Lepidodendron, which, however, 
possessed cambium. Тае Lyginodendres consist of 
MUR host the foliage of Ferre, but, оер to 
n Nature, with atems and roots resem- 
bling аа of Cycads, In this SR ЖЫ the 
existing Stangeria is of interest. 
PANGIUM EDULE.—The euren ncipl 
e of 
this plant has been shown ver Fudge acid, 
. Treve, the Director pe — Botanic Gardens at 
l 
Buitenzorg, is of opinion that 4 acid ig 
one of the firet substances in the m 
proteids, and the first visible result of the absorption 
of inorganic nitrogen. 
£g 
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. —We learn 
other spec nerium jubatum is a пайте of 
Ecu ve and was first — | in the Revue Horticol, 
1878, 
“ CIDER."—This is the title of a new illustrated 
monthly journal devoted to the interests of cider 
and perry, and i is the official organ of the National 
this magazine : 
growers, vaa в, and sellers of A 
rinted pages, 
interspersed here and there with an illustration, 
“THE CASE AGAINST BUTCHER'S MEAT,’—A 
pamphlet has been sent us which bears this name, 
and is written by Mr. CHARLES W. Fonwim 
(London: The Insurance Paviscation Dapô; 6, 
Dorset St treet; 
8. 
a 
satisfaction many reasons, based on 
of health, humanity, and morality, ben а dist “сы, 
butcher’s meat is wrong for mankind. 
author recommends mead, when pr 
the consideration of all connoisseurs, and he quote 
the opinion of former generations as confirming his 
own, Several recipes for preparing mead 
and satisfactorily are given, The lenfet ам 
speaks highly of its dietetic and other vir 
advises the use of it warmly, and aleo gives Á de 
for various dishes, which include this dainty. The 
author writes clearly, and to the point. 
FE AT AN EOINBURGH Nursery.—A fit 
took place last Thursday at the nursery of 1 — 
R & Sons, Pinkhill, Murray field. 
would ſeel о 
friends who may read this paragraph partes 2 
any orders they may have given for 
delivery 
A writer in a morning conten 
LEMO 
tbis week makes mention of a fine consi 
happens, AN that there are just 0 й 
good samples of Neapolitan and Palernitan . Le 
on the on ma modera! 
accruing to being first on the mar 
Manchester or London, мб 
THE LUTOVKA CHERRY.— Ad 1. station | "c 
little-known Cherries received most pro” 
recent years, the Lutovka is one of the aa wien 
mising of the late sour varieties. 
Italian Wende have been elo т to he adv 3 
fancy they are pretty well alive to SN i * 
