June 25, 1887.] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
837 
›у т жер a hope that Professor Gray might be 
mit the compl 
solongengaged. Meanwhile «ns Bie perge A was glad 
to crown with its garland of ho e who by his 
scientific labours had for half a goo been adorn- 
ing the fair science of flowers, the fore sacerdos 
venerabilis who had reached the seventy-sixth year o 
his age-- 
* Through all this tract of years 
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life." 
Oxford the venerable Professor was constituted a 
D.C.L., and his JI characteristics were thus 
st inimed up: — “ Moribus suavissimis veritatisque 
semper quam ый propri:e studiosior." 
E GARDENERS' ORPHAN FUND.— We pud 
stand es at Sir Jurrian Gorpswrp, Bart., M.P., 
accepted the office of President to this Fund. 
ROYAL — үн SociETY'S MM NS, 
CHISWICK.—A 5 rry Féte, with band and pro- 
menade, willbe кеа cally А їп July, the date а pepe 
ill ced, Admission wil 
dinary days to Fellows 
ticket holders, and s 
cultural Society, or bearers of their tickets. 
зе төө OXFORDSHIRE med rare So 
how the B gem oe 
of the 
grou of St. ohne College. 1t M 
fairl е dimensions, filling three large ten 
THE NATIONAL COLOURS IN FLOWERS.— The 
Jubilee celebrations have naturally given | rise to an 
urs — red, "e and blue. 
с When patriotism 
or poe alty rages rampant, 0 
much to d 
with — enthusiasm саса а i dnd: 
verses on the red, white, and adi whilst *the 
" w which has ie a tho usand years the battle 
the Se 3 of those неве rs, — 
se ter or in 
Ronit should be in اا‎ 
garden flowers 
can satisfy the public requirements. "Now ав Jubilee 
fell at à moment when white Pinks were plentiful. 
(8ЕЕ Р. £94.) 
Fig. 161.—FORDELL CASTLE. 
Probably of all garden flowers ione are more easily 
produced in greater abundance than are white Pinks, 
айа in spite of the fact that the тўн oor — 
Mrs. Sinkins is now cheap and c n, yet pre 
ference seems sti ill to be shown nay the old double 
i ж not o 
free, b iis because the oe are of & 
highly appreciated size, than those of Mrs. 'Sin- 
kins. Without doubt Aerei ый of flowers, 
s u ually within 
as & biennial by sowing seed in August, strong 
lants are obtained which stand through hard 
winters well, and flower profusely during the months 
May and June. If d obtain a blue Pink 
so much the better, but that is wildly improbable ; 
not find just the fit companion flower 
so ыбаа as we с € wish, and in due sermar in ceat 
this season. It ist 
form of Dianthus 
early as is its iiw 
Better in colour is he rosy 
which is very hardy, and blooms most profusely 
when well grown. If some of our = — could 
engraft the — of Lord Lyo Da 
upon a form so and so i as “the old double 
white, they den render cut-flower growers grea 
service. 
MASDEVALLIAS AT NE — а ed collection 
of these curious plants numbers large propor- 
tion of the cultivated: ien of which about twenty- 
five are in flower at the present 
TRING PARK.—We hear that the Cattleyas and 
Odontoglossums here are in splendid flower at the 
present time. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—A special 
general meeting of the Fellows of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society will be held at З р.м. on Tuesday, 
