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7HE GARDENERS’ 
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which conjointly form the Institute was а grand 
e President of the Republio was 
embroidered coats and cocked hats, the doctors 
and professors their gorgeous and variously- 
coloured robes, 
the 
ation, but with this very important difference, 
that whilst noise and rowdyism charaoterise the 
behaviour of too man i 
which it would 
have been preferable to have taken as read, as 
when read it proved most interesting. 
«oue 55 GLUMACEA, 
me 
of e BEVOR pew hang Bor alori Device. 
and carried more than one hundred flower-spikes 
The cultivation of the plant is querens easy, 
be grown either in а basket well- 
In potting, a layer of sphag 
and it may 
drained pot. 
e 
East Indian-house and placed near the roof-glass, 
The са requires, when growing, зй а 3 sup- 
plied with water st the root and cverhead, and the 
undersides of the leaves occasionally syringed, to 
dislodge red- spider, with which it is very liable to be 
infested 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The n 
fruit and floral meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
uns on “Sabstitutes for Larch,” 
The committees will meet as usual at 12 o'clock, 
A History OF ENGLISH GARDENING — The 
Hon. Miss aan Амневѕт' history of Gardening i 
England, 1 vol, 8vo, with sixty-tive illustrations of 
old English gardens, wil be published by Mr, 
QuanrrCH towards the end of the present month. 
NATIONAL AURICULA AND PRIMULA SOCIETY. 
—The annual general meeting of this Society was 
held i in the rooms of the Horticultural Club, Hotel 
Royal Horticultural 
held in the Drill Hall, James Street, 
nster, as ады ге. ull statement of 
and schedule of Lo will shortly be 
published. J. eee Hon 
TADO CARNATION SOCIETY (SOUTHERN 
SECTIO 
sion of the members, on October 30. Mr, Мавтіх 
Rowan presided, in the unavoidable absence of 
Martin Бмітн, Esq, des eai "a nt. The financial 
regret’ a а balance in hand from last ug 
of £159 138. 7d.; тте бс £241 15s. 64.. in 
clusive special prizes; entrance-fees, 7s, 6d. ; 
total, £401 16s. Td. The expenditure was 
£205. 17s. 6d., ке п a balance in hand for the 
present year of £195 193, 14. Twenty-six members 
have been lost during the year Аза - Ert erc 
drawal, Against this fifty-eight 
added. It was decided to hold the sides аб 
at the Crystal Palace about the third week in July. 
Mr, Jas, Dovaras is the Hon. Sec. 
eres MOTH.--This pretty but destruc- 
tive moth (Ab as grossulariata) forms the pera 
i aren recently issued by эң Board of Agricu 
tur he caterpillars Pity moth ocoasionaliy 
cause serious injury to ee rry and Curran 
Crops, y are Pas mes also destructive » 
Apricot trees, and are frequently found on the Sloe 
and Blackthorn. These caterpillars are often con- 
founded by casual observers with sa of the larvæ 
of the Gooseberry and Currant sawfly 
ribesii), bus they are essentially у 
this leaflet are to be obtained, free of charge and 
post sie on application to the igi did Board of 
Agricultu 4, itehal lace, London, S.W, 
Letters ss application во addressed 9 not be 
stamped. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM3 AT RAVENSCOURT PARK, 
HAMMEREMITH.—Now that ps н the parks under 
the control of the Londo ouncil have 
suitable d for their 9 Bos of Chrys- 
= sah a real boon to Hammer- 
te Jons SALTER, who did 
or the сү a its 105,000 a 
to have something more worthy o pro 
gressive borough than the present а little 
conservatory attached to the ipai and — 
contains about 150 plants, of good sorts, but grow 
and flowered under difficulties by M+. W. В, не 
the superintendent, 
CHRYSANTHEMUM3 IN THE EAST о F LONDON. 
—Twice a year, in association with the summer 
exhibition at the end of Jane, and the зырга 
тат vl which is held in the early days of 
November committee of the People's Palace 
подне Society offer prizes for the best-kept 
ch case, and espe- 
mber of entries 
show. ntries were 
tendi that die range of the area of the c ompetition 
extends southwards to New Cross, then along the 
north side of the River Thames through S: ‘ерпеу to 
wn, the 
atow, and then from Victoria Park to Whitechapel, 
osa di 
idis most the whole of the greenhouses submitted 
for competition, are of home d small, 
more or less artistic in design, but in which some 
excellent plants are 1 despite antagonistio n sur- 
roundiage о place the compet 
somewhat equal * it has been ka nec Ше" 
to make two a Ta a tha one confiaed to 
the more crowded neighbourhoods Pages in Mile 
Ead, Bow, Berto Toad, S5epn Limehouse, 
Cubitt Town, and such densely- ee Sigh. 
bourhoods ; ; че — class applying to ee e, — 
icto 
Park, at ear e Plaistow, Leyton, апа Wal- 
thamitow. It would surprise a vig 2 * to observe 
how ge enerally t ei Chrysanthem s grown under 
glass, in structures T ina in Каде ty hot- 
water pipes or flue in many by oil stoves. 
Some of the коиды» еч oue at an early hour 
for the City, an nof return till evening, having 
butlittle leisure to attend to their plants. Others 
ose at home, and cau E. 
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favourite plants of the E1stender, in addition to the 
ere 
Me Td dit and clim 
Chrysanthemum, are the Tomato, Facheia, f 
Pelargonium, Plumba o capensis, tuberous-rooted 
Begonia, some си 
ing a wi ne 
Palace Hortienltazal ‘Sodas, ‘nage 
hibitions and lectures, is giving an ao ала 
to plant culture east of the City 
PEOPLE'8 PARK, DEVONPORT — Thie beautiful 
park, acquired a few years ago from the War Office 
authorities, is now the freehold of the [Mini is of 
avonport. The total cost was — about 
£10,000, With characteristic pu 
porations of Plymouth, Stonehouse, 2 Devonport, 
have been liberal in laying-out € new possession, 
nor did they limit the carryin h k 
local effort for while the nai ptt -out was 
executed by local labour, the plan was furnished by 
and the supervision o ers 
ee VxrrCH nurserym The 
ened on Monday, October 28, by the Mayor 
t "yd t, Mr. J. Baicur wende in the pre 
of а large and influential assemblage of the stem 
and borough officials, To commemorate the event a 
Quercus Ilex was planted by the Mayor, i»; ** 
— the language of — craft, declared the 
to be “ well and truly р A public Jun- 
ais followed, at which — Sr. Lava AN "(the Lord 
of the peri General Sir Rionan Dp Harrtson, ең 
May, the Mayor, сЕ other publie officiala wer 
speaker. The park is a great improvement ind 
attraction, and its ийла е has been made 
the most of by the landscape ИШ 
SUICIDE IN RD —Оа Tuesday 
сар November 5, at the Charch Room, Rich- 
„Mr. A, Braxton Hicks held an inquiry with 
ROSA to the death of Мга, Lucy 
Bn wsrow, aged sixty years, 
Exe View, Alphington, near Exeter, who w 
found drowned in a pond in Kew Gardens, in 
fi of the on i Mrs. 
ated that the latter was the widow of e 
Maxwett Browntow, or 2 old East I 
pany’s Navy, and who had coms up to pns бо 
consult a specialist, and by whose 
stay with a friend at Kew P. 
from the noise of London. 
on Sunday morning she was ura from 
M а А ** made. drawing-room window 
ations that deceased 
over a fenca 54 feet 
high, and thus got eis the mp Zu body was 
found lying in the water 9 feet from the bank. The 
аса gies a ni of suicide while temporarily 
dence was given that 
her room, 
The 
were indica 
bed 
THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT IN ABER- 
DEEN UNIVERSITY.—The first, and an important, 
step tow ards t 
e 
University College of Wales he 
Fordyce Lectureshi ip on гатара pe Agriculture, 
in а year only, as the 
funds a5 the command of the livia authorities 
being the —— of annual grants, it cannot be 
put on а perm g ith efficient teaching 
їп the branches of the subject, Aberdeen 
t of azri- 
differen 
niversity should form an excellent centre 
cultural 1 2 the new arrangement, the 
Fordyce Lecturesh been very considerably 
enlarged in its scop: ш instead of £40, as formerly, 
the salary is now £5J0 
“GUIDE PRATI UE DE L'AMATEUR DE FRUITS." 
In this work of the nursery establishment of MM. 
Smox Lovis Fnhaxs, of Metz, is given an account of 
the culture and a description of the different kinds of 
hardy fruits forming the pomological collection of 
the nursery apa to Т, ha yer Lovis, 
classed according to thei habetical 
list accompanies i red ot Vs synonyms 
