\ __ TUESDAY, 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
522 THE 
MEETINGS. 
z Í National ре! mmt mi Society 
TUESDAY, Nov. 5 51 at Royal Aquariu 
SATURDAY, Nov.9 ee Botanic Society 
8 Society Com- 
TUESDAY, Vor. 12 4 at the Drill Hall, West- 
: bert 
SATURDAY, Botanic Society. : 
TUESDAY, Nov. 26 i abun. forticultural Society's Com- 
SHOWS. 
| Crystal Palace Chrysanth 
SATURDAY, Nov. 2 Loughborough Chrysanthemum and 
r St, qe s Chrysanthemum. 
MONDAY, Nov. d Battersea beef ал ешиш. 
themum Shows at Hereford 
(tw E dn) ЗошВа — алата ped 
4 е (two days). Brighton (two 
TUESDAY, Nov. 5 «A ya), and. Wattord (two days). 
Chry em 
Royal Aquarium (three aly 
12 Chrysanthemum „ 
Ware, Coventry. 
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6 ton, Tamworth (all two days), 
Ascot agen eld. 
Cue nthem hows at Exeter, 
THUBSDAY, Nov. у Hite Hitchin, Birbechesd, and Harro- 
threats Sh t Reigate, 
Chrysanthemum Shows а iga 
FRIDAY, Nov. 8} Waterford, Windsor, and — 
MONDAY, Nov. 11—Gloucester Root, Fruit, and Gra 
rysanthemum Shows at Geena 
(two days), Louth ( гсм days), 
TUESDAY, Nov, 124 ui ciem wie Nn уе) A A 
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Chrysanthemum Shows at Birmipg- 
| ham, Ta, fle ot — we 
T Hertford, Hull, anet, 
WEDNESDAY, Nov.13/ Reading Lewes en versham 
E y, Barns V two days), 
вау, Chelmsford, A vil, 
enen e ‘show T alee 
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THURSDAY, Мот, 14 Guildford, Firchley ca 
we dign. and Caterham ап 
Cambrid, 
1 Chrysanthemum Shows at Bolton, 
Sheffield, Bradford, Stockport, 
FRIDAY, Nov.15 Hinckley, aa d Chorley (all two 
х ауз), 
Chrysanthemum Shows at , 
SATURDAY, Nov. 16} Crewe, and Bacup. prin 
* Paxton Chrysanthemum 
А Pi 36 (two days). 
TUBSBAY, Nov. 19 3 chester Chrysanthemum (two 
( 3 
ork 
| 8 g y Shields m 
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20( days. Dundee (two days), Ton- 
} ge (two days), and Helens- 
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( Chrysanthemum Shows at Norvich, 
THURSDAY, Nov. N 8 tem Glasgow, and War 
FRIDAY, Nov. n I 0 ester Chrysanthem 
TUESDAY, Nov. 26 ге — (two 
усуе Edge Chrysanthemum at 
— € " Wilmslow (two days), 
SATURDAY, Noi ine Chrysanthemum 
v. 30—Dunferm 
SALES FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Dutch Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
4 
та from Belgium, Roses, &, 
at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
MONDAY, Nov. 
Nov. 5 
COM 
Dutch Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Sale of t fhriving Nurse Stock, at 
the Cart House н. Nurse 
WEDNESDAY, 
Neve | Pitch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris 
*. Nov. — 
In connection with changes, pre- 
Chiswick, 
deners with s аны The Council 
of the Royal Hortioultural Society has informed 
the publio that changes are contemplated, but 
up to the present it has vouchsafed not a particle 
of information as to what its policy is likely to 
e need not do more than make passing 
allusion to the glorious history that tX to 
T the plants that were introduced from 
ther ‚ the collections of fruits that were Ё 
toge ae in y 
old gardens. But this is all ancient history ; 
and the present generation, and still more the 
coming race of g ers, is, or will be, if not 
wholly ignorant, at least indifferent to what has 
been done. There was a time when even the 
Council, extraordin seem, were 
compelled to negleot Chiswick. Owing to finan- 
cial troubles, the garden was first reduced by 
more than half its area, and then the remainder 
was left pretty much to -— care of itself. 
When brighter days cam e Council very 
properly set to X to — — the dilapidations 
and ruin caused by years of neglect. Of late 
years the expenditure has been large, but the 
result is seen in the general good condition of 
the buildings. Only two of the old ruinous 
houses remain, and these have long since been 
condemned by the Chiswick Board. 
The Conferences on Apples, Pears, Ferns, 
Conifers, Roses, Pinks, Chrysanthemums, 
Dahlias, and other subjects, which have been 
held of late years in the gardens in connection 
with exhibitions, have been singularly valuable 
and instructive. Some of these, no doubt, could 
аы been аз m held elsewhere as at Chiswick ; 
evertheless, act remains that the Confer- 
ences held at Chiswick have been . the most 
successful of a mean, of course, so far 
the fulfilment of the object of the b 
conference was concerned. 
The work done at Chiswick at the present time 
is varied. As every gardener knows, there are 
each year numerous trials—now of this flower, 
now of that; now of this vegetable, now of that, 
whilst standard collections of fruit are main- 
tained. The trials, so far as they go, are well 
carried out, and the results are carefully recorded. 
Especially are they conducted with sorupulous 
fairness and absence of bias. Complaint is 
made, and with reason, that the publication of 
these records is sometimes delayed so long, that 
their value for commercial purposes is seriously 
impaired. That із a defect which can easily be 
remedied; and, moreover, commercial con- 
siderations are better left to the great trade- 
growers, who have their own trial-grounds, It 
is obvi: 
VOLO ul 
cursory examination made of specimens exhi- 
bited at the Drill Hall, and of much more im- 
portance than the opinion of individual gardeners 
gris in trade catalogues. 
me cases the trials aresuperfluous. There 
is little bres now-a-days, in the Society grow- 
ing a ection of Chrysanthemums, Pelargo- 
niums, ped or tuberous Begonias. These 
have long since passed out of the experimental 
tage, and the trade may be trusted to make 
their trials on а larger and more complete scale 
than can be done at Chiswick, Cannas,on the other 
hand, ate at present relatively new in га 
апа 
it is desirable that the Society should grow v iie 
of culture decided on 
[Novenser 2, 1895, 
trations of the various types, under various 
methods of cultivation, until they become gene- 
rally known, and the most appropriate i: 
A very large portion of the resources 
most p Ё 
hortionltural 1 in themselves, nor does 
cultivation they cannot reach the standard 
attained by 
superb specimens of special things 
can devote an 
which is not practicable at Chiswick. 
sale of G 
the market growers, 
who grow 
because 
ndivided attention to then 
able departure from the legitimate work of such 
a garden, and an unjustifiable trespass on the 
f unotions of business establishments. 
x to neglect the one department, and to conduct 
e other unsatisfactorily. All over the world 
culture ae: 
himself, or which it may be, for the 
inexpedient for him to attem 
time being, 
be a great reference, 
where authentically-named specimens of the best 
fruit trees, and the best Ms tr should be 
gro rison., Many 
for reference and o 
questions of disputed Som which 
now-a-days are difficult or impossible to solv, 
might readily be settled in this way. 
In like manner, diverse methods of pruning, 
and Ma sens in cultural methods generally, 
should be 
So far as possible all new 
methods ni “all new inventions should be ^ 
jeoted to trial at Chiswick. New plants of 
kinds should be grown, and their value for horti- 
cultural purposes be tested, With з 
uoh a large 
constituenoy and so many foreign members, 
in a few 
be grown to 
be sure to turn up. As it is, we do not pot 
a single new plant to have been 
still less а эт = ye 
Chiswick for man What 
made known, 
agency of 
contrast 1 
what was the case thirty о ог forty years ago! 
sideiibla an item in the yearly budget, 
fear in the absence of other support 1 
be sanctioned. We do not forget 
research are, We 
so oon 
et, that we 
it would not 
| 
years ago more than one series of @ 
be mingled with those or horti- - q 
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