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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(Novemper 23, 1895, 
EDITORIAL NOTICES. 
Advertisements should be sent to the PUBLISHER. 
ern a рр newspapers should be 
e ты Editor wit күттү receive and seleot 
photographs or drawings, suitable for reproduction in these 
pages, of gardens, or of remarkable plants, flowers, trees, 
&с.; but he cannot be responsible for loss or injury 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
SATURDAY, Nov. 23—Royal Botanic Society. 
Royal Horticultural Society's Com- 
TUESDAY, Noy. 5} mew" at the Drill Hall, West- 
SHOWS. 
тавонис nae Cien 
Alderley Edge Chryssnthemum, at 
тасушы. Кот. 21 Wilmslow (two days), 1 
SALE 
Continental Plants, Roses, Dutch 
MONDAY, Nov, 25 — &c., at Protheroe & Morris’ 
TUESDAY, Nov. 26 { Dutch Bulb, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
| Dutch Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
ms, 
> ow Great пан 4 par Trees, at Perry 
WEDNESDAY, Кот. 27 нїп, F Ro:hester, by 
orne, by Pro- 
— 
— Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris“ 
Nov. 28 . Plante, Roses, 
THURSDAY, 
ein im , Belgium, at € 
Dutch Bulbs, at Protheroe & Morris" 
Rooms, 
FRIDAY, ' сн» оем! fom Messrs, F. Sander & 
Protheroe & Morris’ 
CORRECTED AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.— 41*.4. 
Тнк Royal Botanic Society seems 
The “ Botanic." to have fallen upon evil times, and 
to be going through acrisis similar 
to that which befell the Royal Horticultural 
Society a few years ago. r points of sim'- 
larity between the two Societies may be found in 
the retirement of the Superintendents in both 
cases, and in the abolition of the office of garden- 
Eon at the * Park." 
see that application is to be made to 
маш for a pecuniary subsidy to aid 
in oarrying on the work of 
poet but we imagine that before such an 
application can be entertained, the society must 
be «еа to show some reason for the allotment of 
a vum national revenue for its support. 
The garden is charming, the houses contain som: 
| interesting plants, and useful work has for years 
th specimens, 
in supplying students with 
As peg the flower- -shows, they have become so 
stereotyped that it is not a difficult matter for 
the reporters for the press to concoct a aka y 
f referring 
to the account given of the sorria show 
the year before, An inspection of the prize- 
list, to see if 
es was 
sadly exemplified some some years since at the Royal 
› Which, however, never 
sank quite so low as to offer prizes for the deco- 
ration of donkeys, We have not a word to say 
against such diversions in their proper places and 
at suitable times, dulce est desipere in loco, but we 
demur to any portion of the taxes being devoted 
to their promotion; and we protest against the 
incongruousness of mixing u ch amusements 
with the pursuit of horticulture, and still more 
with that of botany! 
The work that the Royal Botanic Society has 
done for botany is not large; and as for horti- 
culture, it must be admitted that the influence 
it has exerted, and still exerts, is quite incon- 
siderable, as compared with that exercised by the 
sister society. any Government aid is to be 
granted at all, it should be given first, and in 
fullest measure, to that society whose record i is, 
in spite o ny vicissitudes, and occasional 
backsliding, so highly honourable to it. 
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The 
Frait and Fioral Meeting of 
"ra me b will be held on Tuesday, November 26, 
the Dril James Street, Victoria Street, 
committees will meet as usual at 12 o'Clock. 
HORTICULTURAL CLUB—The usual monthly 
meeting and conversazione took place on Tuesday 
evening, November 12; the chair was occupied by 
Mr. Grorce Paur, There were present Messrs. 
PuinrP CROWTET, H. Ѕегғе LEONARD, Gro. М А 
nd many interesting facta 
t its co i 
ote of thanks was proposed by the chairman. The 
table was decorated holen Me gni from the 
Royal pies S e dishes of well- 
grown fruit ue (ee were added im the 
dessert by tle kindness of Мг, James WALKE 
NATIONAL Rose SOCIETY.—A prize of five 
din 
2 are p to — their essays to 
one e Hon. —H. HoxRTwOOD 
Оман перт vues, Ashford, Kent; 
Ертлво Mawtey, Rosebank, Berkhamsted, Herts, 
on or before March 1, 1896. 
NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY.— The 
General Committee met at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet 
Street, on the 185 inst, Mr. В 
ociety in reference to the imperfect 
lighting of the building on the occasion of the 
exhibition at the Aetio especially in — matter 
0 ting up earlier ч the day; and ап amend- 
ment was in respect of this matter, 
Th di 
е reported, that 
to the Challenge and other Caps, Medals, &c. 
the money prizes awarded at the November show 
amounted to £245 14s, and he read a list of the 
medals awarded to miscellaneous subjects by — 
arbitration committee, all of which were passed; 
interim financial statement was submitted of a Hes 
dedly satisfactory character, the Secretary reporting 
that the cheques for the November prize- money would 
be sent out within the next ten days, A statement was 
made on behalf of the Catalogue revising committtee 
by Мг, C. Harman Paxwz, setting forth the course 
— upon by that at body. A atart would be 
made from the e issued at the time of the 
Centenary Celebration in 1890, thus superseding the 
two 8 ental Catalogues issued in 1892 and 
1891; a new alphabetical arrangement will be made, 
the services of some thirty Laree residing in 
various parts of the country will be requested to 
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assist in compiling A Ws of the beat varieties in 
their several section 5 ів proposed to i the 
Catalogue in тарау 1896. Three new — 
and twenty-two members were: e elected, 
proceedings, 
ICAL MAGAZINE, ee. plants figured 
and — in the November number are: 
Angrecum Kotschyii, Rchb, f. 
5 inches aer Sir Trevor La ; 712 
Spathoglottis Kimballia k TÉ 
native of Borneo. Leaves 5—'/ nerved, 10 
(14 inch) broad; flowers 8 cent. (3 inches) acrow, 
segments oblong- ovate, rat ner obtuse, pure yellow, 
internally red, mottled externally, - teral lobes of 
lip ear-shaped, Flowered at Kew; t. 7443, 
Catasetu ad begin Rolfe, in Kew Bulletin (18%), 
394.—4A na of Hede Мези es ot Para, 
here it was LL ered T: r. L2moe, Flowers 
8 male only known; 
Amasonia erecta var, ee Басы .—AÀ Verbe- 
naceous shrub, native of Tropical South America, 
and remarkable for its ovate, rose-coloured bracts, 
from the axils of which proceed short racemes of 
pendulous flowers, with a cylindrical narrow tube, 
and an irregularly 5-lobed limb, with short white 
segments, traversed by pink veins, Introduced by 
Messers. Sander; t. 7445. 
Selenipenium Sargentianum, Rolfe, in Orchid Re- 
view (1893), p. 239; Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1894, ii, 
781, f. 100. F. Sander; t. 7746. 
THE Book GARDENER, —' In my уона S 
writes Mr, Mrrnan, progressive young m 
often informed by the eminently penc youth tak 
he could grow Potatos just as wi 
knowledge of the countries they came from, the true 
nature of a tuber, or the differences between а Cab- 
10 25 and a Cauliflower. Ia many cas es th "T ome 
Meehans Monthly from which we a iain 
the above, is a story 'of s en, 
twitting a companion who was reading his jon. 
Monthly, with, * Ob, is that the ls of gardener jot 
are? a book- -gardener ;' and the 
The unthinking man never i in his profet- 
sion. He is practical still—at the spade and the 
shovel. 
THE REIGATE AND DISTRICT CHAYSANTHE: 
considerable diminution in its gate-money. oe 
the more to be regretted е the psi 1 
Society hands over each year a certain m of mone) Б 
to the Royal Gardeners’ Beseri ition 
Royal Gardeners’ Orphan Fund. In point 
lence the exhibits equalled those of any et 
year groups, cut blooms, and plants, being 
CAMPANULA MIRABILIS,— Under this name 
ConREVON T n the wenn Horticole of & vs 
discovered in the Caucasus by M. Aro, 3 
described in ње Bulletin 2 Pherbier e e 
п. 5. It is described as an exceptionall "ш е 
species, closely allied to С. medium, mi^ p | 
naturally on calcareous soil, E 
the representatives p T 
Connkvox has seedlings, so that we may iui M 
time to make the acquaintance of this We | 
Campanula, 
THe Surveyors’ INSTITUTION. — 
ordinary general meeting will 
November 25, when a paper will » 
M. D. Sauwpzss (Fellow), on Г) 
Tenants in Ireland,” The chair to be ks. 
8 o'elock, 
-Tu La 
