THE GARDENERS’ 
The thanks of the тч гән due to Messrs. Surron 
& Sons, enr CARTER Мг. H. Devern, 
& Sons, and Mr. б FIDLER, for their 
Num umerous 5 have been made to ae мна 
Library duri e past year, and a dbook of 
rd P cei Тергеме ей at the late Colonial and 
ri ers i tion has been seecured. 
"Daria ng the year, twenty-nine Life Fellows and 
thirty-two EK Fellows di ed ; 200 Fellows retired 
from the Society, and seventy new Fellows were 
elected." 
The following is the auditors’ report :— 
“We have au lited the accounts of the Society for 
ave gone through e 
find th 
very ee EM te еса 
kept b Dic very 
зы 
SCA h regret that two great di EAE 
muc 
influences have had a serious and depressing effect o 
the finances of the aci in 1886 ; the first being the 
on and perfec 
mission, and makin ng th 
the resignation ofa 
and 
the loss from bscriptions, makes a tot. 
bere то heads of £1 inst which there is the 
r overdue subscription. e hav 
the ^ fe our to rema g oe y most 
obedient servants, * JOHN | 
* Jas. F. W. EST, Auditors, 
do$ RICHARDS, J 
“ January 26, 1887.” 
ne, the Rev, W. Н. D'Ombrain, Hon. Sec., &c. 
‚ The meeting derived се пуне from the 
hat а of t 
proposing prosperity Royal Hórtléultoral 
оча coupled with the name of the President, Sir 
r ce, traced the history of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, and said that al 
sent 
in i take the lety, and ke 
hopefully of its future; Һе quite agreed with the 
desirability of the Society having a home of its 
He thanked t 
Society having an independent footing. The tables 
were kindly decorated r. T. A. Dickson, of 
Covent Garden, and ME es eme supplied some 
beautiful fruits for 
[or е view especially 
giving a larger ER o to horticulturists in 
the provinces, 9, Т whether it would 
be possible to P duds a form of membership for 
c om guis valy, З. It is ены that it would be 
CHRONICLE. 
[Frnnvanv 5, 1887, 
very pepo to fetter the Society by any per- 
manent or binding contract with the Royal Albert 
meeti 
у М June) w 
Pe is else нагы зер the о of 
Fellow: 
E МЕ а" addition to those pre- 
esa eene subscriptions or promises have 
i received from Manis Goldring, P. Barr, A, 
FIG. 43.—4, МАІХ TUNIC OF CROCUS CANCELLATUS; 
» BASAL TUNIC. 
. Barron, James Richards, 2 Crowley, M. H. 
Fitch, W. Richards, G. Schneider, C. Hoade, Ch helsea 
anie Gardens, W. ^ Mein J. O'Brien; riis 
Justice Lindley. her subscriptions (2s. 6d. t 
£1 эмсе epa be sent to H. J. Veitch, nae 
атту 
Chelse o Dr. Masters, at the office of the Gar- 
кйш اا‎ 
Fla. 44. go G, H, THE N TUNIC, — TUNIC, 
ND CAP OF seame LÆVIGATUS, 
CINERARIAS.—Mr. B. S. Wi ILLIAMS sends us som 
large blossoms of Cinerar: arias, of fine rich varied tints, 
taken from plants of dwarf compact habit. 
UNIVERSITY a ION IN 5сотгА 
movemen 
ND.—A 
te 
П departments 
of SS and literature, similar in ran m to 
ich were initiated in Жаны: ero of 
twelve years ae by one of our best known 
educa- 
tionists,t Professor STUART T, ; an ich have 
been so dir carried on by the University of 
Cambridge, pa in the ining and 
facturing districts of the 
Midlands. The pe 
s 
from the 
nearest University, any desired Mural might be 
drawn rom a more distant one, a the ] 
aching, viidi d be 
established for three or five years by eubeeribi 
few hundred pounds to make up the deficit 
fria s or rendered 
ment. The p 
movements, 
JUBILEE PROPOSALS. — One of tbe proposals —— 
likely to be inaugurated in the Jubilee кн of the 
Queen is the formation in Aberdeenshire of a Gar 
Benevolent Society. 
tised, so s office-bearers may be elected to fid 
the movement. 
THE GREAT YORKSHIRE GALA A 
CULTURAL EXHIBITION.— The schedule of prizes for 
the twenty-ninth annual exhibition at York, on 
un just been issued, and 
n prizes, Orchids 
are merger invited this year, fici in addition to the 
Society’s prizes, and special iem offered by Messrs. 
Ba 8: Son, the sum of £52 10s, raised by 
iends, is offered for 
i 
very one—is always a remarkable feature at 
the York 4 June show, such a сеа pee of 
plants not being seen to the anywhere 
else, the large sum of £105 10s. being iced to Pelar- 
i i pss — in 
as a lst prize ^ six 
varieties of Y ma речеш class for eight varieties 
of fruit has £8 1st prize, with good Ps 3d, and 
4th prizes. The B A M Mayor of York is Е 
man of the committee—a position he ж held for 
[nes ; and Mr. Jouns Wirsox, who 
the | Secretary from the formation of the Society, is 
the кй grid still. 
SPECIAL PRIZES BY Messrs Woop & SON.— 
t may interest Chrysanthemum growers to learn 
that Messrs, W. D & Son, of Wood Green, are 
ffe 0 prizes, consisting f а 
ize 
ures, or stimulants used, ог any other con 
ditions, This contest should help to decide which is ; 
the best amongst the leading whites, and sh 
growers and exhibitors at a distance an incentive to 
visit the National Chrysanthemum Society's prin- 
cipal show with dose hope of rivalling some of the 
suburban growe 
LEE, BLACKHEATH, AND LEWISHAM HORTI 
CULTURAL Society.—An ere i ри d 
“Orchid Lore," by Mr. Lewis Casrrz, author before 
Orchids, their History and Culture, was read 
