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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Мотғмвев 9. ш: E 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MEETINGS. 
Nov. 9—Royal Botanic Society. 
Royal 1 8 ari Society, at the 
Drill Hall, Westminster. 
SATURDAY, 
ESDAY, Мот. 12 
SHO weber 
Nov. 11—Glouces and Gra 
Chr Ep m Shows ni at Croydon, 
—— ymouth, Kingston- on- 
Nov, 13 (all two days) and 
ы 
Tham 
Chrysanthemum Shows at Birmipg- 
Nov. 27 
MONDAY, 
TUESDAY, 
Far к 
am, Bournemouth, Bristol, 
WEDNESDAY, € Hertford, Isle of Thanet, 
THURSDAY, Nov, 14 
and Caterham and 
ge. 
— um Shows at Bolton, 
ы, Bradford, Stockport, 
M nckley, and Chorley (all two 
бога, Fivchley (all two 
wi 8), and Cam- 
FRIDAY, Nov. 15 
"sra НЯ Shows at Batley, 
SATURDAY, Мот, 16} rewe, and Bacup. 
SALES. 
же 268 Bulbs аё Protheroe & Morris’ 
MONDAY, Nov. uf 
Plants fins Belgium, Roses, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris" 
Nov. 124 , Booms, 
kapare Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris Rooms, 
13 pr races "Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris' 
TUESDAY, 
Nov. 
‘Dutch 1 "Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Nov 2s 
WEDNE3DAY, 
THURSDAY, Plants ho Be' gium, Roses, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
| Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’ 
FRIDAY, Nov. 15 Denia from Messrs. Е, Sander & 
| on аб Protheroe & Morris’ 
Debts Balbs at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Sale of the remaining of the 
Normandy Manor es Gui Guila- 
ford, at the White Lion Hotel, 
Guildford, by Protheroe & Morri 
SATURDAY, Мот. 16 
TURE Е ENSU- 
THE OBSERVATIONS 
ОР FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT OHISWICK.— 42°,6. 
National IHE great — fa Chrysan- 
Chrysanthemum themums by the Nat 
Exhibition. has passe 
tending competitive displays of this 
ansferred from the Metro- 
ial towns, where it will surely 
varying degree, until the 
week at the Royal Aquarium could have been 
in а season unpropitious to the growth 
of the Chrysanthemum, and that 1895 has been 
a favourable year has been clearly proved. 
me ese consi 1 
umber of novelties, proving that in regard to 
гау progress is still made іп the deve- 
lopment of larger and better flowers, for the 
ке part upon Nos which have existed for 
ti ord of warning is needed 
ма raisers and jodges alike, that mere size of 
à Doni in this respect there would appear to be 
; г disorimi ination exercised than was the 
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enthusiasm for this seotion, whioh is probably 
because very much greater oare and skill are 
required to bring the blooms to perfection than 
are necessary in the osse of Japanese varieties. 
bloom with incurved petals. 
a perfect incurved flower is not devoid of attrac- 
tion, and it is certainly worth encouragement as 
being a very distinct type of flower. A few new 
varieties are -— ty this geason, but the 
i i mparison with the 
n this r respect it is satisfactory 
that the National Society recognises the desira- 
bility of encouraging the cultivation of every 
form, her or not they are to be 
seen in general collections, the Pompon, the 
Anemone, Reflexed and Single-flowered varieties, 
may be always found at this exhibition in more 
or less, сма png satisfactory, degree of 
types are pretty, and at least 
attractive, and growers 
would be wise did they give them a little more 
1 than is their wont. 
ained Chrysanthemum plants have always 
a phis at the Aquarium Show, and to many 
persons they form attractive exhibits as repre- 
senting а great deal of careful and skilful work. 
A well-grown naturally-trained bush plant, not 
mercilessly, but marie disbudded, is how- 
ever, an equally pretty objeo 
The table decorations жы: various devices for 
Рта the decorative usefulness of the 
Chrysanthemum were deserving of great praise, 
It is interesting during a series of years to 
observe how different growers come prominently 
to notice, and for a time hold the field with 
conspicuons success, At the show under notice, 
the leading class for Japanese and that for 
by the Southgate Chrysan- 
themum Society, and in this case also the whole 
of the forty-eight er were furnished by the 
ame grower. The two leading classes at the 
Crystal Palace this Ae and the same classes at 
the Aquarium last year, were spoils to the 
same exhibitor. In 1893, he took the leading 
class for incurved flowers at the National 
be shown at Edinburgh, with what success 
remains to be seen 
Or all similar gardens known to 
Paris Notes. us the Paro Monceaux at Paris 
easily takes first prize for town-squares, It has 
more than once b tioned in these col 
but its grassy mounds, noble trees, and interest- 
ing flower beds, are alwayscharming. Theconsti- 
tuents of someof these groups may be enumerated, 
One consisted of a bed of Rhododendrons, with 
tall deciduous Magnolias interspersed. Another 
shrubbery consisted mainly of purple Hazel , kept 
topped, intermixed with Weeping Silver Birch, 
surrounded by a line of Scarlet Salvia (S. ао. 
gans) and bounded by a mixed edging of 
Tagetes, zonal Pelargoniums, Ageratum 
bena, Golden Feather, and other plants of like 
ономе, Another very effective arrangement 
composed of a centre of tall Papyrus ( Papyrus 
кетты нын m), surrounded by Cyperus alterni- 
folius and Panicum plicatum, and with a 
edging of Centaurea candidissima, alternat- 
ра with plants of pink Iresine., An ad- 
joining bed was composed entirely of Cannas, 
and the contrast between the two Was к 
lightfal. The frost, however, had given nolim 
that it was time to take up the ; 
and the hint was taken in the ]ast 
Generally speaking, there does not appear to 
be much novelty in the way of garden decorating, - 
The beds near the Louvre are much a they 
were in the days of Lours Purrippg: 5 and the 
same fine “sub- tropicals which were re Used inty 
days of the Empire, are still employed elsewhere 
such as the e Wigandias, Ferdina 
Musa-Ensete, Phoenix, Ko. These are u 
plants for "s purpose, but we have got mo 
r less accustomed to them, and it is tine 
to look about for others, Our own 
parks are not so much, if at all behind nor, 
unless it be in grouping and i in the 
of colours, points in 
o use, and very distinct and beautiful they 
16 is obviously, possible to have too much 
a good thing. * Ondulations" are everywhere _ 
advertised i in Paris by the coiffeurs for the benefit 
Why, for instance, reproduce in the small garden 
of the Elysée the swelling mounds of the Pan 
Monceaux : | 
The Limes and especially the Horse- PE 
oases a miserable aspect. In consequence 
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young growth to tinder, the frost of the 
days has seriously hurt the fresh 
Limes. What will be the result next sp 
will be curious to see 
owever excellent the Plane may be as a% 
tree, it has its defects. In the first place it 
forest- tree, and as suoh is out of place in 
avenue, where it speedily grows too big and! 
be tortured into shape and out into 
dimensions. Then, a: in the oase of our 
Thames Embankment, the planters f ers plan 
they omitted tot thin them sufficiently early, and 
many of the vaunted street avenues 0 of Paris 
planting, b y are 
able, as the nurserymen do not keep 
stock, gus linearis (if that 
in Cr 
right name ?) 
false-Acacias are well 
also small baskets (say, half а 
potting-soil can also be obtained. 
to do with amateur gardeners, or V7 
great cities, well know the difficulty 
g proper mould, Th arisians 
solved the difficulty. 
The meeting last month of the five. 
