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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MEETING. 
Royal Horticultural Society's Com- 
TUESDAY, Ост. ai mittees. at the Drill Oe James 
Street, Westminster 
8 WS. 
TUESDAY, Oer. — (twodays). 
nthemum (two 
days 
WEDNESDAY, Ост. 30 Kent к ty Chrysanthemum, at 
Blackheath (two days). & 
themum wo 
THURSDAY, Ост. 31 { Higheste — 
pee Show, 
[ Crystal Palace 
1 ~ ndon ‘Euan Chrysan 
nd Horticultural 8 ves 
at the 
FRIDAY, Nov. 
SALES 
| / Dutch Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris 
ms. 
MONDAY, bé 28 A oa M Belgium, Roses, Ferns, 
La & Morris’ 
d 
ref Unreserved Sale of several ас”ез of 
4 
DTI 
2 
6 
$ 
3 
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= 
Ed 
558 
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ess t, 
by Protheroe * Mo rris (three 
days). 
Ducis Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris' 
Rooms. " 
TUESDAY, Ост. 29 
8. 
Morris (two days). 
* Dutch Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris 
Уто ах, ocr. 20 
ube, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms 
Plants from Belgium, at Protheros 
& 
Morris’ Rooms. 
well-grown Specimen Shrubs 
Sale of 
THURSDAY, oer. m and Fruit Trees, Roses. and Н vas 
X baceous Plants, at the Floral 
series, Castle Hill, Mai lenhead, 
by order of Mr. R. Owen, by 
& Morris. 
an Dutch Buibs, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
FRIDAY, Nov. 1 Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms, 
SATURDAY. Nov.2 1 s em at Protheroe & Morris’ 
CORRECTED AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU. 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT OHISWICK.— 46".2, 
Ышы ut THIS week the Institute of France 
e Institute 
Frenceinits celebrates centenary, havin 
» ounded—or rather reorgan- 
Botany an ised, for a somewhat similar 
Horticulture. institution dates from the time 
of RicueLrEU—On October 25, 1795. With 
the general constitution of this assembly, with 
its history and position at the present day, it is 
not the purpose of this article to deal. Our 
intention is to give a short sketch of some of the 
cadémie Sciences, and 
especially with the eighth section of this body, 
viz., the botanical section, that we are chiefly 
concerned. In this section there are six members 
found the names of Sir Јоѕерн mie 
1 N. Рваіхеѕнк1м, Dr. МАх кл, T. Masters, 
: and toy ae the botanical garden at Buiten- 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ocrosza 26 1895, 
Mélicocq (awarded every three years) for the 
best work on the botany of ah per rth of 
France; and lastly, the Prix Mon 
The Academy of Sciences eor pet in the 
5 century, in a private society of 
scientific men, who had for some thirty years 
been accustomed to meet at various houses. The 
idea of 57 an official status to this body was 
due to Lovr V. and his Minister COLBERT, 
At the del the members were divided into 
two sections, the mathematicians and the phy- 
sicists, and under this latter heading were 
grouped together naturalists, botanists, physio- 
logists, and those men of science whose province 
was the study of natural philosophy. 
At the time of the Revolution, we find that 
the members of the National Convention had 
not much better ideas as to the classification of 
the sciences than its earlier patrons. They evi- 
dently meant to keep a tight hold on the Academy 
of Sciences, and to assume direct control over the 
members, They allotted to the same section two 
sciences so distinct as botany and general physics, 
at the expense of the State for the purpose of 
collecting observations upon farming, it was 
decided that six would be sufficient to glean, in 
every part of the world, the facts which related 
to all other branches of knowledge, including 
“Tt is well known that ata ime 
says 
writer on this period of French history, * ihe 
horrors of famine had spread over the whole of 
rance, the adopted a language of 
hypocritical sensibility, borrowed chiefly from 
agriculture and gardening, and which would 
sometimes have led a stranger who entered the 
chamber of the Committee of Public Safety to 
believe himself transported to happy Arcadia,” 
In the chronicles of the time we find it written 
that ROBESPIERRE might often be seen walking 
with a large bouquet of flowers in the garden of 
the um, which had been planted with 
Potatos 
8 were then held in great honour, 
and were introduced everywhere, even into the 
almanack, Every day of the year had a separate 
title given it by the National Convention, and 
these names were as often as not taken from the 
farm; one was called Carrot, another Cabbage, a 
third Ass, a fourth Hog. Butspace will not allow 
us to linger any longer on this stirring period 
of eh history. Our business is with the 
boi and the science to which they devote 
"saria It is related that the illustrious 
botanist, SON, à member of old 
Acaden, iences, who en 
reduced, during the reign 
by the eus glimmer of his scanty fire for 
want of a lamp. When the Academy was re- 
founded and incorporated as a section of the 
Institute of France, he was summoned to take 
his p'ace as one of the new members of this body. 
He replied to this invitation that he was unable 
to attend for want of a pair of shoes! NAPOoLEON 
extended his patronage to the Institute, though 
he made its members feel the power of — sway. 
One of the earliest botanists who w 
his memoirs are to be found in the 
of this body, of which he was Mie ERR 
in 1692, Sad to relate, he met his death when 
on his way to take part in one of the meetings 
of the academy. Somehow or other his breast 
was pressed by the axle of a carri 
died in 1708. Не is universally 1 b 
to have been the greatest botanist of his time, and 
it was by his skill and care that the King of 
France’s gardens, almost quite neglected and 
abandoned before, were afterwards holden in 
honour, and thought worthy the attention of al 
the virtuosi in Europe. 
Another of its earlier members was А, 
DE JUSSIEU, and his brother, — 
as the y 
for mere arbitrary enumerations of р! 
жане groups. i 
STIN DE CANDOLLE, strange to Say, neret 
was elected a member of the Ee ШШ 
he was certainly the most distinguished bot | 
of his age. His son, ALPHON NSE, i 
tinguished, was, however, an associ 5 : 
this body. ёй 
In recent times, among the more more celebrated 
botanists have been — а 1 
whilst DECAISNE, DUCHARTRE, | 
have special claims upon hortioultarista for dis 
cation of scientifio knowledge to horticulture, 
with those branches of ee 
sciences, and takes n 
Ф 
B 
et 
BE 
Ф 
those of the miis receives a small 
of £60 a yea 
In donclusion а word may be said as to 
Comptes Rendus published by the Ac 
Sciences every week. · Неге are to be 
long after the reading of the papers. 
Wut oc learn from a ciroular 1880 
— by the National Chrysanthemum 
ysanthemum А ded 
Society's Jubilee Society, that it is in me 
in 1846, this energeticall y-conduoted $ 
grown so rapidly of late years t 
sesses 
dr 
in the United Kingdom and the 
It has Sir EDWIN Бараа for its 
Trevor LaAwnENCE, Bart., 
Bart, Sir Jou D 
LEopoLD DE ROTHSCHILD, 
influential gentlemen. The 8 
by means of its —— 
No one К ation 
of tbis 
to no small extent. 
general advances made in the с 
plant will question the correctness 
