Ресемвкв 21, 1895,] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
745 
ENew LILIES. —In the N.y-wber number of the 
Giornale Botanico Italiano, are described and figured, 
by? Signor BARONI, two new species of Lilium from 
China. 
d; orange, faintly spotted, and with a few warty 
prominences near the base. Both species come from 
mountains in the northern part of the province of 
Shen-si. 
CHISLEHURST GARDENERS’ ASS8OCIATION.— 
d 
Tnere was a good muster of members on Taes- 
treats also of Equisetums, L:copods, and hardy Sela- 
ginellae, (Pa blisher, Soi Dors, 8, Place de 
author Par first itai the 
atructure, eg werent ion, variation, and 
hybridisation, and geo ographical Pn Rie of Ferns, 
his subject is md 
There is a ful index of namer 
v. is plentifully ы with small illustra- 
в Nhe Agricultural Annual and “ Mar 
Seas Almanac fe 1896. This periodical con- 
tains much of interest to those prota in agri- 
culture, as it includes reports of the 8 д^ 
calendar of events for the coming eise 
hints on such і as Potato blight, den al 
&e. Postal information and similar general contents 
аге included, as usual in such publications, amongat 
which this should take & good place.— mas 
Numbers, The Christmas Number of the Queen is, 
catalogue of seeds gathered this year, and offered 
* distribution to immediate applicants.— Bulletin 
е ciété Française d Horticulture de res 
This is the record of а flourishing society of French 
horticulturists who have found the convenience of 
having a ^nm * д А Ре 1 $a TA 13 a 
Their meetings are held on the first Saturday in each 
month at 4, O'd Compton peter ene their Bulletin, 
besides chronicling lists of rs and other mat- 
ters relating especially to the ers contains notes 
on the cultivation of some of the less - underatood 
oted to the interests of cider and perry, is di- 
к and edi y Mr. E Samson, It sh do 
uch to increase an already thriving industry by 
attracting more wide- -apea ad notice to a palata ble 
eglected 
in some localities. 
EC o a o Me o dr 
Fie, 126.—a DISH OF THE CATILLAC PEAP, GREATLY REDUCED, 
We à 
day, December 10, when Mr, W. СОотнвевт:ох, 
F. R. H. S. (of Мевага, Dossrz & Co.), gave an inter- 
оп “ Pansies and 
e lecture was greatly enhanced by a 
number of coloured plates and drawings. 
GARDEN DIRECTORIES8.—The new issues 
With horticulture, The Horticultural Directory and get 
; published at 171, hee Street, EC, 
Garden Annual Almana and Address Жо, 
published at 37, Southampton тахт Covent Garden, 
Gites names and addresses appears to have been 
эч brought up to the ies date, so far as is 
ible in books of this ma dup 
. PuB.ications  RECEIVED.— Les àres de 
Pleine Terre (Hardy Ferns). This ipe written by 
. Ur correspondent, M. Н. Commxvow, of Geneva, 
as usual, rendered both weighty and bulky by the 
number and variety of its contente, both li 
pictorial. The Happy Hom: a 
Christmas Number, tull ot interesting and amusing 
for ip 
once s0 
3 
тарһіс er oe 
glaring and misleading chromo-litho; 
pop e photograph blocks of vegetables are 
beautiful in their rendering of texture and 
many в some comparatively little known, save 
кн с тее and which, as the above words 1 
re (ff red to certain applicants. Such plants as are 
ы bardy in Paris are ier by an asterisk. 
From the Jardin des Piantes, Montpellier, comes 
pucr PEAR. 
One of the best kno and most usefal c 
Pears is Poles Ww 
properly kept, remains in good cond 
spring. Although not particular in regard to soil, 
the tree e does best in a rich, xar ee deca 
garden of Mr. сеш: Ham of Badlake Farm, ue 
Broadelyet, near Exeter. This ваше garden, in the | 
early years of the century, was їп the 
the great - grandfat 
ather of the nt 
к firm, Mr. Peter Veitch, and it 
s i 
ars ago, 
Beuné Rance planted against a stone wall, with a 
south-western aspect; the D.uré Rance having 
done badly. The tree has for its size, borne well, 
and this year it carried from sixty to seventy fruits, 
which were ultimately reduced to twenty. Five of 
these, weighing 9} lb iod heaviest weighing 
2} ]b.—were shown at the fruit show at Exeter, 
