FEBRUARY 12, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
215 
glad to second any proposition for the appoint- 
especially with reference to the delay in the 
V pesi of the l'rost Report. 
Mr. SMEE proposed as an 
amendment that a 
| temporary. home should be established at Chis- 
He would head any Ute ЖЫ list for 
the purpose with one hundred guin 
This amendment was withdrawn i in pm to 
the wish of the Chairman, whe said that the 
details must be left to the Coun 
ions. He suggested t 
th 
it be nat in May, when the Menden 
uld be grea 
2А long list on 7 ‘defaulting rats" was then read, 
in ME pera with which the President ex- 
pressed a abt i to where the rats went to, the 
inference e bóng that many of them would return 
when adequate store of provisions was 
supplied fo = Bugs 
Dr. s proposed a vote of thanks to the 
reda. Mea Council for their labours in the 
management of the Society, wich was second 
carried by acclamation, and duly acknowledged. ' 
MAXIMILIANA REGIA. — In our supplementary 
sheet we give an illustration тэң some young plants . 
of this noble Palm as growing. vag in з трт 
Guiana. The illustration was takes 
Ree жс чыл! furnished us чы "Mr. 
T which is a native of the Ama- 
zon -p w al zil and of British Guiana, attains 
height of a hundred feet or mor 
8. 
SON, in speaking of this Palm recently in our 
end — it requires stove treatment and plenty 
further particulars we refer our 
o ^d thst note (October 16, 1886, p. 491). 
EAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. — The next 
will be read: — 1. “Р 
rt ii.: Forms of HC tin and Le 
dron," Љу Sir Joux Lup 
by Dr. Gzo. Kawa, 
BIRMINGHAM GARDENERS’ MUTUAL IMPROVE- 
MENT SOCIETY 
f ninety-six sub- 
scribing members, with a valuable gold English lever 
watch, bearing an appropriate inscription. 
U ‚ in acknowledging the gift, alluded parti- 
he success att Eg his efforts 
establish a library in connection with the Society, 
e gener fts in aid that it had been 
happy lot to receive from gentlemen in the neigh- 
bourhood he good work which the Society was 
the cultivation of the Gra rape Vine, in нөн "эң Mr. 
з, is the chief item in the program 
"peces RETURNS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
returns 
is referred to as having shown itself to a greater 
€ the last year, and the rate of yield was below 
the ordinary average by about ‘51 a ton per acre 
for Bien, 13 for Wales, ‘17 for Scotland; Ire- 
land’s crop has also decreased. 
JUBILEE MEMORIAL.—One enterprising firm 
commemorates the occasion by circulating a treatise 
on gardening in general, and of some manures in 
particular, which are the object of special recom- 
mendation b 
js we should take wa as a personal favour from your- 
indly commend our book.” The “ con- 
tributor" very naturally brought the matter under 
the notice of the Editor. 
THE EMBANKMENT GARDENS. — There are 
some curious instances of the gardening art prac- 
tised in the T by Charing Cross railway 
station. If we may judge by the way in which the 
borders are Сине dug over 
detrimental to the well-being of 
Recently, some men with spades were to 
amongst the unlucky vegetation of 
the borders, driving the tool into the ground 
ood in them, and th th at 
a short oda of dry weather causes 
Much of the sree экш done there is on a par with 
this ignorant treatment of the roots, the knife and 
the saw being used with cheerful disregard of the 
rules of the art. 
diversity could have been obtained without formality. 
DRESDEN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—Our 
valued correspondent, Herr Professor Н. G. REICHEN- 
BACH, of the Botanic Garden, Hamburg, sends us the 
following a Mr. J. С. Server, Striesen, Dresden 
kindly informs me t that the German Government has 
given all facilities н the em pea ation of plants from 
ngland ich are destined for this Exhibition. 
There will - “ee an ered at the frontier in 
search of Vines or parts of Vines—no other 
formality. No demand at the * Reichsamt oe Innern,’ 
Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse, is necessary; hence any 
address should contain the indication, ‘ International 
Exhibition of Dresden 
SCOTTISH drea AND PRIMULA SOCIETY. 
—A meeting of Auri 
terested in the formation не а 
Pri 
consideration the desirability of holding an Auricula 
exhibition. 
TECOMA жо oa E. ure 
num 
very 
nate foliage, an 
tu owers, wal about 14 inch cna np а 
flattish 5-lobed limb of about the same diam 
ROSES.—M. Cn£rIN has — published a 
short treatise on those Roses like the R. arvensis 
from which our serai carin been en derive, mim in 
which the Н on 
solidated into one mass 5 projecting beyond о "és month 
of the lip. M. Свёріх lays great stress on the 
t. to take into _ 
е that is, the eiie and the arrange- 
of the flowers in umbels 
In his group of Synstyle 
multiflora (syn. polvantha), moschata а Brunonis, 
LiNDLEY), sempervirens, and arvensi 
MANIPUR.—Dr. Warr, writing in Nature, says 
that Manipur is а small 
mountain ranges, and in this valley the rainfall was 
found to be only about 39 inches; but seventeen miles 
off, in the mountains which ormed the nort 
ranges, the rainfall was as much as 120i 
towards the Naga country to the north it became 
Deni and greater in certain limited tracts. In the 
Khas ills 600 inches might fall in one place, and 
e miles off 50 inches. Nothing in Manipur 
struck Dr. Wa uch, as a botanist, as the 
remarkable Misirê of vegetation in that small 
Warr ere 
а Rhododendron was found growi 
MEN which was not mek with | in any ote 
part of A. 
SEED LIST rane Me received the memet 
lists issued b thorities of the Jardin d 
Plantes (27, Rue ‘Gane Paris), and by those of the 
Palermo Botanic Garden. Both are remarkably full 
lists, 
FRUIT SHOW AT CHESTER.—It is proposed to 
make it an occasion for hold- 
ing a Fruit Conference, when pa 
subjects relating to the question of fruit growing 
will be read, and opportunity for free discussion will 
iv 
tion upo a subject, че 
only of local interest, but of MM importance, 
Mr, E. J. Влплле is the Hon. Sec 
" ALBUM BENARY."—The last issued part con- 
i to the illus- 
arious 
ола Cabbages, and various herbs, su 
Ch аа and Sage 
es are warmer too large. 
eiecti; but there is no accompanying text. 
FORMATION OF DEW.—From a paper 
fore the American Association for the pe rode? 
c we 
descend towards the ground, until checked by the 
radiation of heat stored up there during the day. 
mi height of this critical stratum, where the two 
temperat counteract each other, varies under 
different conditions. On bare soil it is usually very 
near the surface, and even may be slightly below it. 
Grass or other thick growths of i 
heat in the air e led am ts foliage, so that 
its presence rains the cold stratum of air ata 
still greater height. . There is, therefore, on the 
ons i 
stratum 
close down to the Mob ot the ground, with its 
