ГРесемвев 7, 1895.] 
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social intercourse with all classes of the people, 
travelling extensively by land 
and customs of 
this peculiar SN and accumulated a vast amount 
f seful and most 5 information, 
e be placed before 
the services of 
tent editor are needed to digest, condense, 
arrange, and in some places to correct the vast mass 
The Chinese name for this plant,” it appears, is 
Anxious Desire, in reference to the sorrow of some 
widow who wept under one of these trees [climbing 
shrub, rather] and died of her grief.” Acacia con- 
ned o 
detergent it вг which enables them to be used in 
place of soap. А. пети is indicated as a sensitive 
— the bark of which is used for medicinal 
purposes. 
THE ROYAL GARDENERS’ ORPHAN FUND. -A 
meeting of the executive committee of the above took 
place at the Hotel Windsor on the 29th ult., Mr. 
Wir Mansnart in the chair, The following 
Fic. 113.— CHRYSANTHEMUM M, CHENON DE LECHE, 
COLOURS: ROSY BUFF UPON A YELLOW GROUND, AND THE TIPS OF THE FLORETS, YELLOW, 
of varied Wee collected by the author. А 
classified ind t the end of the year will also be 
— the s 
of the narrative of Marco Poto, in whose 
singular e" 
racks he 
has in many cases travelled, The items of Munus 
tion presented to us in this first number are so 
n rous and so varied, that we have a diffieulty in 
making any гөбе suitable od our readers, but in 
een of our remark a the need of an 
mention that ка seeds of Abrus 
d are described as “berries.” This state- 
e n а mere technical error, às it leads 
e that Tararinor fell “into the 
d are contained like them in a pod or legume, 
special receipts were announced: Rugby Chrysan- 
hemum Society, sale of flowers, £5 2s, 6d.; Mr. 
158. ; ud Mr. 
on, Hous ste From 
boxes, the following sums were announced :—Per 
Mr. arner, Royal Horticultural Ѕосіебу'в 
Ga rdens, Chiswick, 16s, 14.; Mr. G. T. Cole, 
Charters’, Ascot, 16s. ; Mr, J. MeLeod, Roehampton, 
15s.; Mr. Б. Scott, Bradford, 14s, 2d ; Chislehurst 
Gardeners’ Association, per Мг. J. Lyne, 10s ; Mr. A.D. 
Chriatie, дм, At 58.; oe . 
mum Society, " tt, 218,; from box 
for viewing iex ух файле d d х 
The Grange, Wallington, рег Мг, G. W. Cummins 
10s. It was iere that the annual meet 
and election of orphans to the 3 — take 
place on Friday, February 1 пех sual v 
of thanks was passed to the аа for — 
ЇМРОВТАТ!ОМ ОЕ oit: RADISH.—Of all 
was incidentally referred to at the Drill Hall, on 
Tuesday week last, when Mr. Mason was speaking 
about Asparag 
root of better quality? Not a bit of it! The roots 
less effective, and Mr. Mason declared he could e 
uarter 
radish that will not cause them to 
SURVEYORS’ INSTIT 
ing wi 
a paper will be read by Mr. F. 
D (Fellow), entitled The Working of the 
1 Holdings Act, 1883." The chair will 
be taken at eight о” edt 
PUBLICATI т REC D.— From the New York 
on, Nen No. 91, for August, 
1895, бане wipers on “A New көс 
a oe 1 Blackberries, and Dew 
berries. Bullet of the Botanical эы, 
оча vol, iis] art 9, the contents ада papers 
upon “ Essent 3 of Orange, ation 
—— of the Coco- nut, Chemical — of 
Canes, and Synoptical List of vem ble at Heed ' 
pr Botanical Gardens, Saharanpur and Mus- 
ғоотее, for year ending March ‘31, 1895. тетт 
in spite of an unfavourable season as regards weather. 
—Landbouwkundig Tijdschrift (agricultural journal), 
part volume, and quite 
standard of a a д Notes, for No 
contains as usual many jottings interesting to lovers 
of natural history. 
PLANT PORTRAITS. 
Pierrat e Horticole, October 30 
uneate lanceolate undulate, dark 
ADIANTUM LINEATUM 
Segments of fron ds broad, 
green, veined with whit 
— 7 BULBOSA, Me zhans ugus 
A FAUREANA, Illustration 8 October 15. 
tamer lique . palmately lobed; lob ceolate, 
dark green, mottled with lighter green sp 
COREOPSIS 9 —.— A, Mechans’ Monthly, November. 
CYMBIDIUM E IANUM, Garden, October 5 
CYPRIPEDIUM GEBTRUDE 9 ЫСилошнк x 
BELLATULUM), Moniteur d' Horticulture, October 10. 
LYGODIUM PALMAT 
ns’ Monthiy, A 
BHODODENDRON VI 6164; Hook. f., Wiener Illust. Garten 
Zeitung, t. iii., 1825. 
SOLLYA НЕТЕВОР PHYLLA, Revue de | Horticuiture Belge, 
November. 
SYRINGA EMODI, Wall., VAR. ROSEA, Cornu, Garten Flora, 
p. 500, 1895. 
TRICHOSTEMMA DICHOTOMA, Me:hans' Monthly, September, 
— ы ҢҮ GUN IO SUN 
ЕРГЕ — CHENON 
Tuts is one of "ir ex in moat incre of the 
newer varieties of the Chrysanthemu Its re fi ned 
character will make it popular with oe — 
of encouraging such a class of bloom to the exclusion 
of extra large flowers which combine with them а 
