NovxuRRR 30, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
651 
priate | school- “songs, the initial step was taken, The 
To ММ, Окс Mayer and L, Da Suxr-Dvvivizn, for 
great pleasure to him to have planted the first tree, 
and hoped the avenue of which it would form a & part 
would become a source of pleasure to the inhabitants. 
IRISH 5 ASSOCIATION.—Mr. J. H. 
PanxETL, M. P., lately delivered before this Society 
an exhaustive lecture on Fruit Calture in the 
Southern States of North rr E bes 28 of 
which he described the Irish as a cen- 
tury behindhand in fruit-growing, being i in ae the 
same condition as were the inhabitants of the State 
of Alabama when the lecturer m ~ there 
Now fruit-growing was о ost important 
industries of that State. If кө. rit -growers meant 
make their industry ees: “eas nel 
must first of all find out Mr trees what 
the хане о s» and vegetables — emos to 
the local c hen he first began to send 
ons 
owing in Ireland, pointing out that 
pen. were not to be seen than those — їп 
Ireland, 
"2 
TREE PLANTING IN THE ISLE OF MAN.— 
learn that on the cro own lands in the Isle of Man 
— роу 
o., Dumfries, have 
to apply а large number of 
stand Messre. Тноѕ, Ken 
again secured mes 
forest oo for this pu 
HORTICULTURAL MEETING AT GHENT. —The 
hey were С. 
mirabile, macrocarpum, Lindeni, laden, peices 
toxum, Bungerothi cupuliforme, and m 
N sent a Davallia 
Truffautiana, which also ibtd a Certificate of 
rit (par accla Ж nd which is Lm known to 
our readers, С. De Saicuer obtained 
а гай award. for fifteen beaatifally grown 
Chrysanthemums, all good sorts. An equal award 
M. Румлевт, a very ornamental plant, resem- 
bling a graceful Pandanus; t base 
of a beautiful violet-rose tint (see Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, April 8,1893, p. s iter of Merit 
were awarde d as „шй. 
P pulcherrima fo). aureo var., the heaves 
nicely bordered with m giving & very 
effect when the plant blooms, To the same 
exhibitor, for Scolopendriam vitiis scalariforme, a 
Very curious variety, crimped, embos ossed, and undu- 
lated ; to М. Рухлквт, for Asplenium marginatum, the 
а 
М, Joes rig for Lolio-Cattle Diana, L. 
X C. pumila; the lip, which is dark purplish-red, is 
а great advance, To M. L. Dx S 
Cypripedium bellatulum and C. Charl hi, two 
Varieties of each species, То M D 
Herne, for rum Buchneri, a variety of strong and 
; useful for cultivation on a large scale, 
Hypolytram Schraderianum, 
- - s bagi т e % 
growth, and producing, if just sheltered from frosts, 
a — of elegant bright green spikes, very 
decorativ 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT ANTWERP.—The recent 
— organised by the Socióté Royale d'Horti- 
f An made in 
and horticulturists alike staged new 
vated plants. Among the exhibits were the 
ing from M. Tr, Veamevien: Internationale, with 
aaen flowers; Mdlle. M. A, de Galbert, Dac de York, 
M. E. G. Duvernay, harles Molin, M. E. Bo; 
M. Ad. Giraud, Benjamin Giraud, a other varie- 
ties, attaining a maximum height of 44 feet, and 
each bearing from twenty-five to eti flowers. "M. 
ENRI VAN m" staged Lincoln, 4 feet high by 
4) feet across, with flowers; Internationale, 
with fifty-four flowers, near] i s ; 
Souvenir de Jambon 
nearly 5 feet across, an 
the plants a year old should be mentioned Sunset, 
with fifteen large flowers ; Docteur Allard, with 
fifty blooms; Wabsn, а marvel, with flowers nearly 
inches across; M, Benjamin Girond, po — 
в; es Davis, with twenty-fi 
flowers; and L'Etendard, — — nearly 8inches 
across. Among М. Catvar were an 
un-named sort, clear ee не 1 
Secretaire Général Ern, Fierens, dull red, abled 
with yellow; Réve d'Or, pale, shining golden-yellow ; 
and Madame K. Rey-Jourin, lilacy-rose, 
EXHIBITION OF FLOWER PAINTINGS.—An in- 
teresting exhibition of 1 ye їп water- 
colours has just been opened at 293 (over SQUIRE ai 
Oxford Street, by Miss 2 Low 8. 
is already well known as a clever floral artist. Жо: 
some years Miss Low has made a specialty of flower 
painting, and anyone who sees her work at this 
convinced of its exce 
Among the exam 
be mentioned a glorious picture of a mass of Lord 
PENZANCE’ 8 Sweet Briars, which have excited so ura 
last year or two, paver 
h ita — scarlet blooms, ike & 
o do кала A ЙЛ» and a 
many 
ntioned à Mr. А, J. „ 
tin in E soft 
and brilliancy of the бойда, шй 1 the — that A 
can pourtray objects in a very natural w 
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8 —— IES, 
att the rapid ES Eg manner which charac- 
rises Whiteley's business operations, another 
of 21. 
present great 
ооа of covering more 
nd next 
Phe ULM built with & view to every 
possible need in the culture of the plante, by Mr. W. 
Duncan Tacker, of Tottenham, requires more than 
ing attention, for in it are several new ideas 
in the arrangement, and in the ventilation and 
water-supply, most of 
suggestion 
them worked out at the 
f Mr, G. Bethell, the clever and 
ples of her art may. 
well-known 
For example, every 
the interior is either tech 
rip is impossible, and the throsting a dic luy 
pitch-pine timber which forms the wall-plate of each 
pair of houses well tween 
— will give a much longer life to the structures 
by preventing decay in that vulnerable part. The 
hi 
at Whiteleys Na 
оета reeries, 
— мл ві of 
pass int 
through openings carefully re regulated, a 
good feature, he pipes made 
— viz, to габа іп а-и аіг, 
the roof, 
a — 
carry the 
Gene bes sai чый effects 
lating appliances of the houses, 7-а 
for po supply at all dte, and for Ene plants 
from one house to another, and other labour-aaving 
perirent are admirably and economically carried 
out, 
With regard to the —— the new block enjoys 
exceptional natural advantages, for the ground 
о pressing is the demand for space, and 
for the stock to be got out of it, that all through 
Mr. Bethel] has been treadin n the heels 
of the th 
portion of the block ів filled 
filled too, Some four of the great roomy structures 
contain mere of beautiful Palms, among which 
the graceful Kentias of course predominate, though 
Latanias, Ses оны, and Coryphas are represented 
in such proportion as the k 
E 
t 
Kentias are the 
favourites everywhere, and in boxes fast ee 
potting-off, Mr, Bethell has something lik mil- 
lion coming on ready to take the place Ы неф now 
saleable, 
About 14.000 splendidly-grown : m 
occupy several of the other large houses, and present 
а bewilderi ЕЛАТЕ киі 
епд, учы the best sorts for mark or cutting, 
are grown in quantity. Though 1 qid one is tried, 
few succeed in getting on the list e to grow 
largely, One of the beet ever args NS. M. 
Lincoln, and of this Mr, Bethell has vam, both 
tall and dwarf, the large 
It wood, fine lasting foliage, and 
єз flowers, which last long, either cut or on the 
plant, and these qualities constitute a fine market 
variety. Two sports obtained at Hillingdon are 
being worked up, and bid fair, viz,, a bright yellow 
Charles Davis, and a fine white Malle. Lacroix, 
Eynesford White, too, is a great favourite 
Tuberoses all stages, 1 vardias, 
and all kinds of bulbs for forcing, occupy 
the remainder of the ы many of which in their 
season will be fille h Tomatos, a commodity 
with which the sonnei EE seems to get satisfied, 
In the old block, with its lofty covered arcade 
300 feet long, for packing iid other operations, some 
twenty-six houses are devoted to Ferns, and yet so 
pots that t 
rapid is the sale of plants in small e is 
often a difficulty in getting enough for potting-on. 
One house is fall of all pure wh _Cyclamens, not 
in their coloured fo as are the flowering plants 
in their blooms, scores of plants of the 
graceful and handsome Dendrobium Phalænopeis 
um, their fine sprays arching und, 
rh in no неру of the vast тлен is an inch of 
TW Gat portion is thus decribed by the т 
Messrs. Messenger & hes of Loughborough 
The west wall (to right of тоо fig. 150 is 14 pa 
high, and upon this are bu eb the Moves y ics 650 
in length, cw 14 ft. wide. i o mod 
n the centre; but the houses are pad 
seven in aaa thus divided hay — intermediate, and 
