770 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
[ресемвевї 28, 1895, 
mencing J anuary 16, at 9 P. M., a special reference 
t ' Insti tution. 
Land suitable for ‘Arboriculture—The Draining and 
other preparation of the Land—Narseries and their 
Management—Planting Operations—Thinning and 
Maintenaice — Felling and Barking — Timber 
Measurement — Exploitation and Management of 
Coppice—The distinctive characters of the various 
British Timber Trees. 
Kew SEED LI8T.—In the form of an appendix 
to the Bulletin for 1896, has been published a list of 
regular correspo hes е 
by purchase, The | € occupier: no bo févr than thirty- 
five 8vo pages of double c 
RARE BOOKS AND THEIR 7 s with chapters 
on Pictures, Pottery, Porcelain, aud Postage 
by W. Ковевтѕ. (London: GROROR Repway) Mr. 
Бовеһтғ has here enlarged upon and republisbed in 
book-form certain of his articles which first appeared 
in the Nineteenth Century and the Fortnightly Review. 
He treats of the present-day mania for collecting, 
d its bad sides, and both are 
here touched on, but the book is chiefly occupied 
with mention of rare books, articles of porcelain 
апа pottery, and with quaint and true tales of the 
prices Mg some of these FA fetched at different 
stages of their career. It is п interesting volume, 
both to those who find their bappinens in pursuing 
the collecting to others who prefer to 
watch such enthusiasts with мек and without 
joining them in their pursuits. 
BERLIN INDUSTRIAL icine 1896.—Onae 
of the special features of this exhibition is to be an 
ground and the Marine Panorama, will be opened five 
hectares for the sole purpose of the horticultural 
section. This portion of the exhibition, which is 
completed, is being carried out under 
the direction of the Economy Councillor, Herr L. 
БрАтн, an acknowledged authority on horticulture, 
sented in a more or less peine manner, About 
half of the ground allotted to this group is claimed 
by the tree plantation exhlbitor and by the land- 
900 mé're 
utiliza for original landscape garden 
tennis ground in true pepe se is also pud 
templated. Fruit culture of e 
plav an important part in the Berlin Sind 
industry. 
“ COTTAGE n Vol. vi. of Cottage 
edited by Mr. W. emma is now 
ready. — — Co) It 
treats of the usual ereptus eiim — w an 
town gardens, allotmentr, bees, simple cookery, and 
keeping; snd is quite equal to the previous 
volumes in value and interest, 
ме FLOWERS: OncHID8.—M. LUCIEN LiNDEN'S 
business har, in conjunction 
founded at Ram- 
rance, а оі establishment for the 
growth of Orchids, € 
: | ANCIENT SOCIETY or YORK FLORI8T8.—The 
s annual dinner was held under circum- 
; Stances on the 18th uud tl 
Mr. Alderman A v McKar spre, | 
it was stated that the Society intended to hold an ex- 
i ring пех! 
Oa this occasion the National Carnation 
Society will alao be represented, 
Society are satisfactory, notwithstanding that un- 
fortunate weather attended the recent камын of 
Chrysanthemums, there being a reserva of £210, 
THE RoYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The 
LI 29 1896 have been arranged to take plac3 
з follows:—At the Drill Hall, Westminster, on 
January 14. February 11, March 10 and 24, April 7 
d 21, May 5, Jane 9 and 23, Jaly 14 and 28, 
pies 11 and 25, Saptember 8, ктей 18 апа 27, 
November 10 and 24, and December 15. The annual 
general meeting will be held at the Society's offices, 
117, Victoria Street, S.W., in the afternoon of 
February 11. The Temple Show will take place on 
May 19 20, and 21. A great exhibition of B-itish- 
grown fruit will be held at the Crystal Palace on 
October 1, 2, and 3. 
VEITCH MEMORIAL MEDALS AND PRIZES — 
Аба meeting of the Trustees held on the 20th inst., 
ture — viz, 
ri L. de Vilmorin, of Paris; Professor Sargent, 
Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Bost 
Mr. Е. W. Barbidge, M A., Carator of Trinity 
College Botanic Gardena, Dablin; and Mr. Malcolm 
Dann, of the Palace Gardens, Dalkeith. 15 was also 
resolved to place at the disposal of the National 
Rose Society two medals and two priz»s of £5 each, 
one to be competed for at the metropolitan show 
held at the Crystal Palace, and the other at the 
northern show to be held at Ulverston ; two medals 
of £5 each at 
two prizes the disposal. of the 
National A Society, to be — 
for at the Jabilee exhibition of the Society ; and o 
medal and опе priza of £5 to each of the 8 
provincial horticultural societies, Ulster, Dandee, 
and Derbyshire, 
UANTITY OF WORKED TREES IN AN 
AMERICAN NURSERY, ETC.—AÀs in many other 
commerciallines the amount of trade done in some 
of the Uaited States’ nurseries is prodigious, greatly 
exceeding anything that we can show on this side 
e the Atlantic, and as eee this fact, we take 
the following remarks from the Nat 
have just started into what 
& satisfactory fall season. 
ingly low, and there is no chance whatever for profit 
at such figures, We have made pretty heavy plant- 
895 g that there wi 
stock is marketable, We budded 650,000 Peaches 
this season, and would have doubied it, but ran 
2 of seed. In 1894 we budded 1 150,000. e 
ted 500,000 grafts in the spring of 1895, which 
well ; 
much, and we are almost confident that nearly all 
the growers have done the same thing. "There is 
vos ae s and we do. not believe 
money now is the dealer: he buys at less than cost 
of eripe d od m ee 
We hare ИЙ а season here, and Б 
never looked better. We are digging 
35,000 trees per day without our tree-plough, It ы 
a little too dry to run it satisfactorily.” Our readers 
will naturally wonder what a tree’s roots look like 
after being ploughed out of the land. Other reports 
in the same journal show that the demand for Apples 
will run the stocks of saleable trees very low by the 
arrival of spring. From Topeka we learn that 
the autumn trade is good ; a little above the average 
in volume, Northern and western planters are 
heavy buyers of Apple trees. Colorado trade 
gaining heavily on Ben Davis, Gano, Paragon, 
Arkansas Black or Jonathan, Northern trade still 
insists on Duchess, Wealthy, Yellow Transparent, 
Wolf River, &c. Cherry gives slow sale, prices 
lower.” Apparently the demand for Apples is a 
heavy one in the temperate region throughout the 
U. e growe ма in Great Britain who have 
suitable varieties might M in the trade in 
Apples, Piums, and Cher 
A Curious САВЕ OF NATURAL GRAFTING — 
mersbam, furnished lately to 
ear, the 
severed branch produces fruit year after year, com- 
munication with the leaves and trunk being carried 
on by means of a slender twig, which connecta the 
89, an arm of 
it to see what its vitality would come to p 
duced and ripened two Pears. А іб seemed vigorous, 
I said ‘leave it another year,’ It produced ten fruits, 
I then made a careful examination, and found that a 
small twig about the size of my little fiager had joined 
itself to the old branch on the top of the wall by 
friction of wind, It kept on bearing. Last year [it 
bore] forty-two, this year just under thirty—fed 
orchard, and turned over the wall (one branch) and 
trained down the other side (garden), makes it 
rather difficult to give a real idea of it. 
rom the sketch and photograph, it appears that 
the only direct communication with the roots or 
with the old stem, is by means of the inosculating 
branch. No doubt, as Mr. CuzggsE says in another 
letter, the union was effected prior to the severance 
of the uch. Та any case, so far as the fruiting 
branch is concerned, the entire supply of water must 
pass from the root upwards, till it reaches the slender 
connecting twig, then downwards to reach the fruit- 
bearing h 
е, 
i та” бойда with the 
* ascent and descent” 20 yir of the sap. 
н AFRICA.—A supplement received with 
ап — p the Wynberg Times for November 30 
last gives a detailed list of the classes arranged in 
amason with an exhibition to be held by the 
represen 
farm ajes sgricaltural implements, and South 
African manufactur 
T САРЕ HERBARIUM is now under the 
charge of our valued correspondent, Pro 
plants came into the possession of Dr. Parr, and at 
