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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MEETINGS. 
Royal Horticultural Society : x 
and Scie nore Fruit, and Flora 
Commi 
Linnean Society Anniversary Meet- 
ing. 
May 21—Royal Rot Sn Gant, 
SHOWS. 
1 Botanic ond Horticultural So- 
ciety of Manchester: Whitsuntide 
Exhibition ree 
TUESDAY, May S 
FRIDAY, ty: Lecture. 
FRIDAY, Mav nis 
SALES. 
— in шемын, at Protheroe & 
Bedding ч Plant. at St. Mary's Grove 
` Nursery, Richmond, by еее: 
& Morris. 
MONDAY, May 
TUESDAY, 
Greenhouse ел Bedding Plants, at 
WEDNESDAY, May25 i Protheroe & Morris" Жой. 
THURSDAY, May 26 bea x- Rare Lec Pag rris Orchids з 
nct б Orchids, at bodie & 
May 21 Morris' Rooms. 
Max 24 {тароо Boon onde at Protheroe i 
FRIDAY, 
Tuts eminent and veteran French 
aad whose death we recorded 
ur last issue, has special claims 
on our memories, ot, without in any way for- 
or detracting from the merits of other 
workers in the same branch of inquiry, he fairly 
deserves the title of the father of chemical re- 
search in relation to the life and nutrition of 
plants under cultivation. His labours were 
practicall before the pem generation 
came into existence, for he was born in 1802 
and published his first кари to ооп 
knowledge i in 1821. Therefore, like most original 
investigators, he began work early in life, He 
was educated at the St. Etienne School of Mines, 
and subsequently went to South America, under 
the auspices of an English company, in order, it 
is stated, to discover the ancient mines, the 
existence of which was a notable tradition. 
He did not succeed in finding wealth for his 
company, but, like HUMBOLDT, who pr 
— him, he collected facts and materials sufficient 
. for a life's ‘study. In South America his explo- 
. rations mainly confined = апа 
ere was 
Jean Baptiste 
Boussingault. 
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ere he was associated with the Academy of 
Sciences, and held the Chair of Agriculture in 
the Conservatoire of Art and Industry. In 1848 
the deceased was elected to the Constituent 
Assembly by the Department of the Bas-Rhin, 
and became by election a member of the Council 
of State, upon which he sat until the eventful 
Second of December. Henceforward he renounced 
political life, and devoted himself to chemical 
research, his labours covering a very wide field, 
though he was more especially concerned in the 
investigation of the phenomena of animal and 
eta e medium 
publications were very 
numerous, and the interest they excited is patent 
from the fact that most of them appeared in 
several languages, Тһе first of them, -which 
more nearly concerns us, embodies the results of 
experiments undertaken urpose of 
mantienen, whether plants obtain their nitrogen 
om the atmosphere. This appeared in 1838, 
iid was followed the same year by a discussion, 
from a chemical standpoint, of the relative value 
1 
to determine the nutritive 
perties of various kinds of fodder, the 
sources of the various elements of the food 
of plants and animals, the quantity of am- 
monia in the atmosphere; the composition 
e 
of different kinds of soil, transpiration of plants, 
We have the highest possible testimony to 
the importance and value of BovssrNGAULT'S 
it is especially to the laborious (йен гуй оп 
agricultural chemistry of BovsstrNGAULT, and to 
the generalisations of LIEBIG to a great extent 
founded upon them, nearly a quarter of a century 
ago, that we must attribute much of the sti- 
mulus and direction that has been given to 
chemical inquiries in connection with agricul- 
ture in recent times," And they also state that 
ihe extensive series of experiments conducted 
at Rothamsted are, in the main, confirmatory 
of the conclusions of BovssrNGAULT, who, in 
1878, was the recipient of the CoPLEY Medal of 
the Royal Society. HUMBOLDT and BoNPLAND 
dedicated a Tropical American genus of Cheno- 
podiaceze to him; and Boussingaultia baselloides, 
though not a showy plant, is not unknown in 
gardens. There is a figure of it in the Botanical 
the llth inst. at Liebfrauenberg, Alsace, his 
residence and centre of his experiments, 
LIVISTONA (CORYPHA) AUSTRALIS (SEE SUP- · 
.PLEMENT).— This Palm is known to most gardeners 
as a sturdy, useful pot-plant, and it is largely grown 
in Continental for the decoration of rooms, 
&c. In this country it is only in such houses as the ` 
Palm-stove at Kew that this and similar Palms may 
' be seen in anything like full жае, but in the 
South of France man attain gigant ic dimen- 
sions out-of-doors, and in i accompanying illustra- 
tion we have a representation of one of the Australian 
Livistonas with a trunk about 12 feet high. In the 
Palm-stove at Kew there is à handsome example of 
this species just forming & stem, and near it are two 
specimens of the other Australian species, viz., L. 
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some in all stages of their growth, and L. australis ig 
no exception. In large stoves, or even houses where an 
intermediate temperature is kept, this and L, humilis 
and retain their lower leaves longer tlian when 
grown in pots or tubs. Out-of-doors we cannot of 
the Livistonas, but in 
way more ACE Pu than they Were whe 
Spring frosts by protection in winter. 
and, there is no doubt that the Palm in question 
becomes hardier with age. In Monte Carlo, Monaco, 
Nice, and all those delightful places along the south 
oast of France, it is possible to grow many Palms 
in the open, and one can easily imagine, with the 
aid of the picture taken in Lady Wirrow's garden, 
what grand effects may be obtained by the free use 
of these noble Palms in gardening out-of-doors. 
ORCHIDS AT THE “WILD WEST."—On the 
occasion of the Qurex’s visit to the American 
Exhibition the Royal box was most lavishly decorated 
with Orchids from the nursery of Mr SANDER 
Amidst the strange su поша of the place hy 
can compare with m g 
leyas, Lolias, Odontoglossums 
which composed this brilliant Ae All Orchids, 
in Indian а ы, language, come under the 
eneral term Butterfly blooms, and it was 
of Cattleya Mossiz, Leia purpurata, L. elegans, an 
some magnificent forms of Cattleya Mendel these, 
intermingled with Fern в, pr 
A superb ione composed 
entirely of Odontoglossum Alexandra and Maiden- 
hair, was also furnished by Mr. Ѕлхрев, for presenta- 
tion to the QUE 
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RATING.—Our readers will remember the report 
URSER v. Worthing Local Board, he ine in the 
Queen’ s Bench Division, March 19 last, an 
in our columns for March 26 Tun decision of € 
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this decision, against which the Board 
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fact that um reduction of the rate does not re er 
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