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their rr Fruit and Chrysanthemum pres The 
show will held in the premises of the R 
hen Society at Ball's Bridge. en special 
prizes are red for competition, inginding three 
challenge E resented by Lord Arpitavn, Mesare. 
WATE & Co., and by the b crum of Ireland. 
Slver | ad diui жей; and many 3 
and money prizes will alao be compete ted for. The 
с 
"чай who might wish to attend the show to be 
held in Balfast the following week, m "d to allow 
of growers from the north competing h 
THE n 8 NV.— At a meeting 
> en Master 
А.) pre- 
ae the clerk, Mr. R. Gorron iic зан в 
to place seat: р 
convenience of the public. 
bled to make ff 
be 
placed outside the City through T Metropolitan 
Pablic 5 dens — The . librarian 
Mr. Снлвгез Werom, F. S. A., read a nie upon n the 
кэш s library V winds nn d the company in 1891 
to the Gaildha'l Library, and Moni by а yearly 
grant from their funds, mber of voiumes has 
"seven, a e number of which 
important treatises on gardening in general, there 
are monographs on the Bagonia, Carnation, Chrys- 
anthemum, Clematis, Pelargonium, Narcissus, Rose, 
Vine, and other s 
Nich 
include olson’s Dictionary of Gardening, and a 
specially fine co ndley’s British Fruits, 
books ai y used by the readers at the 
are already 1 
Guildhall Library, and as the collection is rapidly 
— in — and 11 it aee b 
beco med widely known and appreciated. 
The Sauté of the Gardeners’ Canet ht with 
great advantage "s 0110 by many of the more 
wealthy City guilde. City Press, Oct..26 
THE ROYAL yp. ORPHAN FUND.— 
bes usual monthly meeting of the committee took 
at the Нысаны Club on the 25th ult. 
си МАкзнАтл, presiding. The following 
e 
У 
giving, K ennett, Burton-on-Trent, 
6 6s.; Messrs. J. Crispin & Sons, Show R Rooms, 
Bristol, per Mr. J. H. Vallance, £5 5s.; Mr, Arthur 
Miles, Dadley Villas, Southampton, £235; colleeted 
at Woodford Flower S 
r Mr. W. D. Wil- 
Ts sums were obtained : 
iA . ger, „ M be? M . 
J. MeInd * Hall, Guisborough, £5; Mr. 
T Sutton, "Choveniag. Sevenoaks, el bin Mrs, 
B. Smith, Ealing, 7s, 5d. ; don Miss McR ‘onald, 
oe 75 In — e 
‚ per the Editor of 
THE 
ERDE HEE 
THE SOUTH SHIELDS AND NORTHERN COUN 
TIES CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY'8 exhibition will 
take place on November 20 and 21, in the Royal 
Assembly Rooms, at South Shields. The schedule 
now before us includes fifty-two classes, and there 
are in addition to gre classes, others which are open 
to all comers. Mr. BERNARD Cowan is the Hon. Sec. 
ManniAGE OF MR. JACKMAN.—On the 17th 
ult., the nuptiale of Mr. A. G. Jackw 
man, Woking, with Miss FLORENCE 
Leicester, were celebrated, and in en ee posi 
with, the employés of ape srs, JACKMAN & Son 
were борай er, to dinne 
. VERNON HEATH.—We learn with regret 
n pe well-known photographer died in London 
п Friday, October 25, at the age of seventy-five. 
Mr. fci landscape-photography and his views 
of country-houses * to a high degree of excel - 
lence. A number of them are in the Guildhall 
Lib As mong some K the best he ever took 
were those of Burnham Beeches, a series E MR 
be attifal views. Mr. HEATH, a few years m- 
piled a volume, entitled Fifty Years’ Bectetion, 
which was pleasant reading, and contained ma 
good stories, 
AGRICULTURAL RETURNS.—Farmers and others 
interested in the cultivation of the soil, cannot but 
agree that they are em attended to by the Board of 
griculture in the matter of statistics and other 
contributions to the literature of the day selected 
for their and d 
as the Board of Trade returns * every 
month в supply the same gentlem m 
апан to give them pause,” List week t 
ed by the Agricultural раена termed 
м «Statistical Tables,” showi 
and grass, number of horses, emt sheep, and 
pigs in the United m, wi i 
each county " — — liit - the 
annual and completed report fi e year, to be 
р 
to Ке: ps Idi to orchard cultivation, As 
dens the 
1 55 92,837 acres, as адаан 88,210 last year. ва 
must not be supposed that all of this land was with- 
mrs from other culture, for those who read of land 
sales, know very well that large estates are ai 
broken up into small farms, which produce bette 
m grand e, en 
buyers. As for fruit, there is no 
breakfast- table in the land 5 its jam-pot—jams 
of all sorts, single and compound, are in great 
ognised as 
doubtless, our friends of the Agricultu 
ent will M and more see their way to ei 
their field o y 4 the matter of 
—especiall, 
marts for ы. and the results їп the of land 
and crops. 
T WONDERS OF Fer RNLAND. — At the 
Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, on November 5, 
under the auspices of the National Amateur Bride 
ing Society, Mr. Снлз. T. Davery, F. L. S., 
a lecture on this subject, illustrated wi sci 
lantern slides, showing photographically and неу 
the wonderful filins of Fern life generally, an 
more санг - British Ferns, and their most 
beautiful varieti 
COLOURED eth t AND STRAW 
read in Inventions о 
ACHAREWICZ, of Vaucluse, France, has obtained the 
antes results :—Or rdinary Clear glass gave the 
dest and earliest fruit; orange glass increased the 
CHRONICLE. 
vifolia and Y. Desmetiana, the for 
leaves from 6 inches to 1 long, ап 
&n inch broad, the r with rec 
twice that width, and either of & 
when young, or er ha 
"pale margin. The p t species 
of all, its leaves are ensiform, 
[Моувмвев 2, 1895, 
THE WORCESTERSHIRE RS 
Garoeners’ ROYAL B 
The inauguration of th 
at the Guildhall, Worcester, on Monday, Nov. 18, 
BRAU Mayor elect of Worcester, at E 
Serra ‘indaentiat gentlemen have pro 
sees dit are cordialiy invited to be present, 
THE Late PROFESSOR Huxcey.—A 
of Prof. Huxtey is being prepared by his son, Mt. 
interest will forward them to Charterhouse, 
Godalming. They will be ceed reparned after 
being copied. 
YUCCA GUATEMALENSIS, Baker. 
Tuis species, the subject of a ee 
is perhaps the * гелен. of ery orn 
t belon 1 were 
referred to, is about 6 feet in height, and about 7 feet b: 
in circumference at the base, whence it decreases in 
size to about the middle, again e somewhat - | 
towards the point of branching. Thefl owering-shoot 1 
measured about 18 feet, poe de panicle, the 1 
height of which feet 6 i 
specimen, it w 
panicle of flowers is rhomboid in shape, & p 
on account of its density, the flowers seeing | | 
may be described as ivory-white, ап speaking 0 
the panicle, as a whole, it could not “easily be t 
passed in magnificence, il А 
асса guatemalensis ongs fo 4 
half-a-dozen species, which is characters bI 
— 
without question. Though re 
by its name, this species i is айо! a 
R. J. L. 
