Marca 12, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 355 
e journal i is to appear fortnightly, and is prs 
M. АмЁрЁк Picarp, Argenteuil, near Par 
Roots FROM THE PERISPERM OF CYCA 
Dvucuarrre has lately described, before d 
National dip ca Logo of France, the pro- 
duction of roots from the albumen of the seeds of a 
species of Cycas—a ea unusual circumstance, 
New YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTAL 
STATION.—The report for the year 1886 has reached 
us, containing the summary of the year’s proceedings, 
articles on meteorology , the relation between tem- 
s interesting reco mean- 
while we may congratulate the r on their happy 
blending of practice with science 
DUMFRIES HORTICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT 
ASSOCIATION.— The usual mont thly meeting of this 
Association was held in ги Hall on the 
evening of the 3d inst., Mr. REATH, President, 
in the chair. A paper on “ The 
Orchids,” by Мт. G 
was read, and listened to with great attention, 
“LINDENIA.”—The plants figured in the last 
number of this publication LI 
-~ Cypripedium е Rchb, f., t. 73.—The very 
beautiful Siam cies, figur ed in a recent issue 
of the бада Chronicle, The petals are repre- 
xed, but this character is not ке 
bium bracteosum, orae CAS yety 
remarkable species, from New Guinea; described in 
our columns by Professor > oie tsi is 
oblong tufts of rosy-pink flowers, each subtended by 
a lanceolate bract of the same colour аз the flowers, 
во that the whole inflorescence has something of the 
appearance of a large head of Clover 
i m grande, Lindl., t. 75. 
Brassia caudata, Lindl., var. hierogl, yphica, Rchb. f., 
t. 76.—This meh as the e name denotes, is remark- 
able for the numerous egular brown markings on 
the yellow ground of the; peris rait nts, 
EXHIBITION OF HARDY FRUIT AT CHESTER.— 
We regret to be obliged to defer our notice i pim 
interesting show and conference till our next issue 
CHISWICK HORTICULTURAL Society.—In the 
schedule of this Society, just to hand, we notice the 
ü "ewig special prize us offered by Mrs 
UA. La 
‚ and which should ensu y good 
ча ti nd make the Chiswick show even 
tter than it has been in former years p 
roh 7 rd just sania, and to which the 
4. The cup is to become the property 
of "d exhibitor who gains it three times, not neces- 
e у im succession. A smaller silver cup (value 
! guineas) is offered for a group of twenty-five plants 
pot 
in flower, in 
Royal театри Society, and is a silver medal. 
NARCISSUS Р 
OMMITTEE, ROYAL HORTICUL- 
TURAL SOCIETY.—Mr. Scnas 
Narciss 
carry 
seasons, Any objects of interest 
те nt addressed to me at South Kensing- 
ton, in time for one of these days, will be cared for 
and brought before the committee simui oie 
s, (1) to acquire inforniat atio 
wild and typical жое from 9 h n at © $o 
errors in'n nomen уре) dis 
and уа 
and, if considered worthy, 
to register them under rient n names 
LINNEAN SociETY OF LONDON. Pn ‘Thursday, 
March 17, at 8 р.м., paper ‘On 
Indo-Malayan and Chinese species,” by Dr. GEORGE 
Kine, к 
E GARDENERS' ORPHANAGE.— It is evident 
from = letters we m that this project, which 
does so much credit to Mr. Penny and Mr. CLAYTON, 
finds favour with i craft. Our space is so limited 
that we are ye c to "t meny. ere that have 
been received o subject. Sor rrespondents 
doubt whether Mit 2 w ill be Mas terii 
and most wisely deprecate the idea of expending 
money on bricks M mortar, at any rate at 
first; still, the higher and larger our aim the more 
good we are likely to effect. The matter must 
and will grow—evolve is' the fashionable term—if jit 
print, but which shall be at the service of that con- 
sultative committee which we hope will shortly - 
ене to — ри and initiate a schem 
espon t feel a aggrieved z 7 
sert 
Ф 
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о 
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n due course be submitted to Mr. 
committee that may “ss formed, With re 
ї Mr. НЕАгЕ, of King's Acre, Hereford, 
not the writer of the 
W. Н” as 
HEALE EALE desires us to say that he 
is quite = анса of Mr. Ркххү'з proposition, 
AUGUSTE VAN GEERT. 
We are glad to be able to lay p our — 
а к of this апсана (see 3), whose 
was announced in an нет issue. rs 
what fallow ws we are indebted to the Count de 
Ker 
van Geert, the father of Жары who was born in 
1790 and died in 1871, was one a the founders = 
Belgian horticulture. e of the first 
Europe to call public meger to "us plants of New 
Holland, and it ii "Ys ithout fear of being 
contradicted, that oli iat in бучук 
the айса of those plan i 
an 
plants. It is to bim t t catalogue 
made by а —— hortioulturist which forms an 
era in Belgian hort 
Auguste van Geert r {тош his father 
spirit of s and perseverance which enabled 
this veteran horticulturist to found in a fe 
establishment which strangers as well as Belgians 
his earliest youth Auguste van 
b 
egeran: and it was there that he attained his 
knowledge of gr horticulture and the culti- 
vation of rare remained there for some 
years, during which he ней the acquaintance of 
, Henderson, Rollisson, and other Fu 
— Van Geert learnt in England, at the 
same time that he learnt the art of horticulture, 
the pe ый тоге етае subject of horticul- 
tural sympathy. Return g to Belgium he see 
that he had a debt to E Having fou 
important horticultural establishment he aan 
it his duty to help younger men in the acquisi- 
tion of what he himself had learnt from his English 
friends by receiving үт his establishment youths 
who wished to be initiated into the practical 
workings of horticu re, a he had received advice 
a dut 
pirum yet younger. Thus did his establishment 
. become a re i school of practical horticulture. 
1841 a member of the Société 
“Каен P рери еб де "PW de Gand, 
Auguste van Geert took a considerable part in all 
the exhibitions so celebrated ^ тен horticultural 
world of the old Society of Ghent. Amid the con- 
gratulations of all his бойон it was in 1878 
that the King, Leopold II., who is himself one of the 
most eminent patrons of horticnlture, gave him the 
Cro Chevalier de l'Ordre National. 
Auguste van Geert was essentially a Flamand ; he 
as as severe with others as with himself when at 
work, while he was gay and cheerful in times of 
relaxation, While acting thus he adopted the 
ancient Flemish device of his father" М and 
pere bring prosperity." Fortune reserved 
m her richest me de e even utis than 
pu tention—honoured his 
e of his death. 
This public honour was well drm The name 
of He Geert has survived for many years ; it is still 
born E and worthily, by his son and by his 
son-in-law, Ed. Pynaert. The name will be vene- 
rated in gium, and especially i in bent; as that of 
one of the most popular in Belgian horticulture, as 
it calls to mind one of the three founders e horti- 
cultural enterprise in Ghent—V an Houtte, Verschaf- 
felt, and Van Geert. Of this t ims one 
TT 
member has gone, but the others have, by o 
those phenomena which hardly surprise бе 
turists, acquired iw strength by new growths from 
the old stock. 
FORESTRY. 
араа 
NOTES FOR PLANTERS. 
ND THIN PraxrING.— To spe 
omen ordi titude. Where 
mber i бае consideration, but which rarely 
ни їп pee country, then by all means, but par- 
ticularly so in Pine verme preserve an unbro- 
ken leaf canopy, for by so doing the tallest and 
uae err will be produced. here the question 
overt comes in then thin out well, by not 
sinc dii stan 
half of the — оа 
that light and re the o great necessaries in 
the successful саноа of аси ood, 
PLANTING NEAR Houses. 
takes are often made, not only in the selection 
i often, unfortunately, in our line of life, 
are we called на to remedy, if remedy we can, t 
€ errors that have been committed in this way, 
dit: even at the present day, do we see 
ede ‘thes will ultimately attain large dimensions 
о ves within а few feet of the side of a E 
walk, 
too frequently the case, planted 
thing to see a line of Sycamores and Ashes 
planted within а yard of its sides, the m 
s seeming never to take into consideration 
the size to which any tree will ultimately attain, 
If this were doge we would hear far less grumbling 
cify any limit | 
