148. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jasvany 29, 1887, 
rises, reaches an optimum, and suddenly falls as a 
temperature sufficient to cause flaccidity i is reached 
8. The following reagen 
1 
babl y nitric acid. 
. Dilute solutions of quinine, e quinine- -chlorite 
of carbolic aci 
and one on which chemistry throws but a feeble light. 
толем кми —Mr. MCLACHLAN writes 
il prevalent cre that а hard winter is 
Та гри дун to insect life is erroneous (see ante, 
No rule is without ita exceptions, and there 
bably cases in which severe frost i 
e for their 
r breeders of insects iva expe- 
ies сару with e vem 
ost their only chance-of success 
Ru of-doors, ex al 
scar 
weather they shi eos a b 
freezin, 
ontingencies 
er, and it also directly Miet death by 
he water enters into the bre eathing 
tubes throngh the spiracles, or ае openings, 
апа acts ш precisely the same manner 
any Arctic UM has yet approached ; and it it is 
probable that t 
remain in a tae 
secutive years, as eggs 
a little lower swarms of gnats, &c. 
from the ice 
iculturists should endeavour 
get rid of the old-fashioned idea that a hard 
winter is generally unfavourable to insect-life.” 
CATALOGUE OF DM PLANTS. 
third part of Mr. Ma 
No descriptions are given, 
but full details as to localities T stations. A list 
of additions "s previous parts and а seg aig index 
to the thre consti a th volume 
render the hod very convenient for Сї 
Les PRODUITS VÉGÉTAUX Exori TIQUES.— M, 
NARDIN, the Curator of the Industrial Museum of 
Melle, near vert has published a valuable list of 
words descrip of various vegetable products in 
numerous ae s—European as well as those of 
piles 
other con tinents. He shows how the perversions = 
Thus. the Latin natio has given kesip ug 
guese nacão, the Spanish nacion, French nation, 
Italian nazione, 
JOURNAL OF THE SM METEORO- 
LOGICAL SociETY.—The mprising чы 
ere omen records of Scotland ү 1885, 
atel ni 
h 
its phase of creer toyhood and that it is taking 
po i тоа" and as the best 
an ascertain the 
probability of rain puo in a gives short period. 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON.—A meeting 
will be held on Thursday, February 3, at 8 р.м., when 
& paper will be read on the “Fauna e Flora of 
the Afghan Boundary," by Dr. Arron 
' SCHEDE AD FLORAM EXSICCATAM Neid 
na).— 
t era Ag Е the ы of 
ota бей. Record Club. It is destined to 
accompany the dried specimens which are collected 
in various parts of the Austro-Hungarian empire, 
d distributed among the ists. - A 
containing valuable information on s у, &6., 
to went who have not the accompanying dried 
spec 
THE NATIONAL FOOTPATH PRESERVATION 
SociETY.— The second annual report of this Society 
(42, Essex Street, Strand) records an increase in the 
receipts of 60 cent, the expenses being about 
the same. The repo 
constant watchfulness, and says, wi 
that the new landow 
v. Eve, which settles this question, may be had 
from ike Secretary, as above 
PASTURES.—A | second edition of Mr, MARTIN 
Horr Svurron’s ате and Temporary Past 
has been published. 
e supplied in the present 
edition, which is A by c Pb ADAMS 
& Co. 
THE FLORA OF LEICESTERSHIRE. — 
Flora of the county has just been ы is 
M AMS & Noreare. The work has been 
mmittee of the Leicester 
ophical Бес, who have made 
use of a manuscript vem ared many years ago by the 
late Rev. W. H. Cor 
CRINUM VANILLODORUM. — This handsom 
Crinum is figured in the Z/lustration Hort icole, t. t. 617, 
December, 1886. It is a native of West Tropical 
Africa, and is remarkable for les iuum Eucharis- like 
segments of the flowers. The 
bulb is prolonged into а long neck, and the fowers 
are said to have an odour of Vanilla. 
EDUCATION OF GARDENERS.—We have often 
had occasion to comment upon the superior educa- 
bm rh some etes emen garde ners, ina ly 
о acquire, and w nnot 
doubt th that, е бна Minsk being equal, e men pee 
be preferred to our. own for or many colonial appoint- 
ments. Here is a case in point, one of several 
similar that have occurred to us within the last few 
months ;—A young gardener of our acquaintance, 
after pursuing his studies i gymnasium at 
= e the Royal Gardens at Potsdam, then 
nursery, and afterwards in the ic 
prt ата this time he attended the Univer- 
sity lectures of Professors EICHLER, SCHWEND 
son, and Косн. He then went to the Pomo- 
logical Institute of Proskau, passing thro 
scientific and technical curriculum in three instead 
of four half-years. Returning to Berlin he again 
studied botany under BıcrLER, Magnus, and other 
ispum physics under Hetmuorz, chemis stry with — 
ILE nder BASTIAN, d then went 
— а € perhaps it is; but it is quite certain, 
as Pro 
premacy with 
nations, and that only mune aK are well equipped 
can expect to survive. 
HORTICULTURAL CLUB.—The annual dinner 
will take ^s e on Ее February 1, at 6 o'clock, 
when Sir Tre E, Bart ., President 
of the Royal deed и will. be the guest 
Esq., will oc 
and the general committee at 5 o'clock the same 
day. 
GINGER BEER PLANT.— Professor Barrer Bat- 
structure of this organism at the 3 
meeting on January 20. He sitar ын that, qe r 
bcn known to many people as a means of manufae- 
uring an acid drink out of qur solution and ginger 
had appeal 
except a short note by Mr. Worthington pie in 
the Gardeners’ vien It has the appearance of 
a white Nostoc com i 
(passing through "e forti f rods, , ап 
ments), which apparently ‹ eR ine pr part, 
ass 
r Plant from apa localities, and hoped that 
any Fellow who could obtain it or throw light om 
its history would е with him. 
Bi mie aga TO Mr. Lock AT CREDITON. 
floriculturist. During the last eight years Mr. 
taken 499 prizes, twelve of oe were silver 
cups, and 350 Ist prizes. үзе s at which these 
Wes cds Tor- 
аа Vana 
The presentation 
remarked 
TH 
death, at 
w 
OSEPH was of the i 
in combination with techn 
cent example in the endowment o 
Scholarships, 
