THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
647 
May 14, 1887.] 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — The 
о of this Society has 6 not to hold 
1 Сотко 
the proposed Chrysanthemum Shov 
which had been fixed for November $i кна 9n 
OFESSOR REICHENBACH. — Professor Dr. 
RrrcueNBACH was awarded a special Diploma of 
d Medal for the Reichenbachia, 
at the cursim hey Horticultural Exhibition at 
Dresden 
. BOUSSINGAULT.—The death of this distin- 
pube physiologist and agricultural chemist is 
announced, 
Е FooD EXHIBITION. — Great 
preparations а re being made in Amsterdam for the 
n of articles of food and cookery, which 
is не я opened with considerable ceremony in 
that city in June next. The ica ofthe Exhibition 
is to extend the knowledge of the various Mio 
and ani kinds of nourishment provided by Natu 
for the benefit of ma 
hamper the general introductio of useful 
reason why there 
чыч so limited a hold on the 
hat almost all goods imported 
reach the retia. through the hands of т 
There is little doubt that English wares are 
not of themselves too dear for Holland. With a 
view to encouraging e presence of vie d Md 
not only has the c of space been reduced, but 
also been provided that 
А s shall be charged. Other con- 
siderable facilities are announced in addition. Part 
to over a score o 
series of competitions, T5 wh ich 
gold medals and prizes of 500 francs are to 
also а series of 
Applications for кы аге Ө е ved in imme- 
diately t s в, 53, Uni i and 
Birmingham 
ECONOMICAL VEGETABLE PRODUCTS.—At the 
Linnean Society's Rc ay il = Mr. E. M. 
Horwss exhibi 
of ej ring в uttapercha from the bark 
and ted out the 
importance of ini prae of the more ee 
D. o ifolia and rat е 
Miles. are rapidly destroying these trees vidis үм 
takes twenty years for them to arriv productive 
maturit e iei have already commenced their 
tearing in the colonies may 
ce take a Aris therefro 
в C. VON NAEGELI.— The seventieth | 
PROFESSO 
birthday of Profesor Ы vox Naxrceti was celebrated 
d arch 30 las which occasion were pre resent 
зы officials and weh of the -Botan e Gardens at 
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present was also 
emanating from Herrn Korm, of a basket filled with 
niddle- 
sere different fruits, ey with seventy 
de garla 
kinds of flowers, and surrounded by a garland с 
posed of seventy plants, e belonged to as dr 
different genera mg spec 
Fig, 121,—NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS VAR, 
same day, Professor NagaELI was made an honorary 
mber, 
е манер IN READING.— We le 
ILLARD, Royal Counties 
m ponendo Reading, er an exhibition, 
Fig. 125.—NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS VAR. 
during the week ending May 7, of Hyacinths, pro- 
bably one of the largest ever seen in the с 
The Hyacinths were grown in the tee of 
Haarlem. The collection, numbering no less than 
seventy distinct varieties, was tastefully arranged 
FIG. 126.—NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS VAR. 
on some 60 feet of мыр in Messrs. Олкотт & 
Мішавр'з front premises in Blagrave Stree 
DEVICES IN WIRE FOR SUSPENDING FLOWER- 
STALKS, &C.—Some ingenious little contrivances in 
brass and i iron wire. for the above purposes have been 
sent us by Messrs. Wittiams Bros. & Co., of Bir- 
These are of a esed bd раф earns for 
s, and will be fou seful in towns 
where sticks are not always eas or for use by 
s in stand ты their r plants in window or 
dinary 
conetrn 
Being of si 
Dade dier should a cheap 
PRESENTATION.—On Monday evening between 
baked and forty gardeners and tradesmen of Esher 
mbled at the * White Lion” inn in that village 
years was head d to the late Ro 
Esq., Wolse y Grange. Mr. Kin was а 
He was cg one of the founders of the Esher Horti- 
drin Society. To mark the gogamen in which 
he y ЕЙ it was resolved to t Mr, Kine 
with a testimonial in the a & barometer 
Gardeners iety, and of dsome 
purehase of which residents | in the village joined, 
The presentations were made by Mr. Crump, 
head gardener at Sandown House, and by Mr, 
ygate. Mr. Kine, who made a suitable 
ло goes to take charge of the prend 
the country seat of W, MCFARLANE, Esq. pro- 
sibi of the Sporting Life. 
TRADE NOTICE.—It is announced that Messrs. 
BER & CuLLEN, the well known seed por of 
вана, Essex, are about to join the firm т, 
Ковевт Coorzn, of 90, So бле aes Bk. Ф. 
уте он taking place on June 1 n 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
PLAYING AT E ed Phoebe Allen. (Lon- 
: Hatchards.) 
'This book is tan to mum children a few facts 
about the classification and formation of "n 
Тһе pera es twelve of th n 
rs, and y repetition and explanation, f^ 
induce eden. на remember some of the long com- 
Vries or heap There is a map al 
information compressed into a small volume and 
rr as a series of dialogues or There 
is only one indifferently Prairie Apres 
Ph as all children are fond of pictures, nd those 
o cannot get the flowers А would find xd 
gom much heightened could their lessons be 
lieved by some correct and tasteful diagrams The 
quotations at the heads of the chapters are well pre 
etty. It is ОГ doubtful, however, whethe 
arn h from this way of tea ша 
botanical lesson given first, and then a story told them 
bap any double meaning in it. It should also 
mte aim with a teacher to avoid, as far as 
is ойы, aching a vivam De which етт pupil will 
eventually Wie to unlearn. diffuse and vague 
method of communicating e Бойе, inevitably 
leads to inaecuracy and loose rr wise which it is 
me. We fear children will 
culties, we have ыны 
this class, whose 
e book 
nion coincides with o z 
that the book is a «акагы * mistake. 
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VILLA GARDENING. Ву E. Hobday. (London: 
Macmillan & Co.) 
This is a compilation sien T -— = Scere. 
of useful matter Sone y gardener, 
although from the modesty of its viile it ‘might be in 
ferred that it was адар to those who own, or mc 
