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THE GARDENERS’ 
June 28, in the Conservatory; to consider the result? 
of the negotiations and inquiries which have been 
made by the Council as to the future maintenance 
‚ and housing of the Society. 
GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITU- 
consider ае 
entirety, and that on July 2 
nt to each of the pensioners, and to ea 
unsuccessful candidates at the last election, and they 
trust to the good feeling of the gardening fraternity, 
and to the es he horti- 
letter will be read with special interest as the annua] 
festival of the Society is to take place on Wednesday 
пехе 
* Е. К. CUTLER, 2 Я Secretary of Gardeners’ Royal 
Benevolent Society, London, May 12, 1887. 
Sir,—We have the pleasure to enclose 
you sight draft for the sum of seventeen guineas, 
being a small donation from some of the seed and 
e Society of which you 
urse 
are Secretary. The subscriptions makin 
amount ponse t 
res 
est of SON, 
who-had the pleasure of being present at your last 
annual dinner, and who noted the good work being 
done by your Society. If we are anything in Aus- 
Arg of the ciel 
in some 
ness pei other causes, isle á речте, from 
making provision for themselves, and who si 
active life were so closely connected (as Ne 
are D nursery t —With MY 
good wish for your ae we are, faithfully yours, 
“ Pitt Street, Sydney. “ ANDERSON & Co." 
Rose EARL DUFFERIN. — We eut чачы 
farther communications relating to this Rose, im 
pugning the competence of the jud thes on a pated 
lar occasion, and asserting the identity of the Rose 
in question with Prosper Lan gier. It is much too 
late, even if desirable, to raise a question as to the 
season will probably afford opportunity for further 
ар It is suggested by one correspondent 
are able to do so, in order that the 
plants may be the better rege Glasgow cor- 
respondents are warm in their praise of Mess 
Dickson hé the нче show they make nei 
after year in the City Hall. 
in ieu 
ORCHIDS AT FREELAND, PERTH.—The fine 
collection of Orchids at n the property of C. L. 
wW i r of beautiful species 
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county of Perthshire, and about which we shall 
have more to say on a future occasion. 
. IRIS BARBATA.—At the Horticultural — 
` Gardens, Chiswick, there is at the present time i 
| flower an interesting collection of this пы of which 
we shall have more to tell in our next issu 
ETON ог SIBERIAN PRODUCTS.— An 
T opened at Ekatherinburg 
ss К оп ә. A It is to be devoted 
 pressly to the productions, 
bitors. Railway and steamboat facilities will be 
given. "The best time to visit the exhibition will be 
the months of July and August, and, judging from the 
programme, the display will be of an extremely varied 
and interesting character. The strolling naturalist, 
horticulturist, or botanist will find numerous objects 
of special interest. Extended travel ss in great 
measure be rendered unnecessary for them, because 
the plants and other objects will be well represented 
at Ekatherinburg. Special 
for the display of ' Siberian plants only. 
wandering correspondent of this journal find himself 
Siberian frontier, T would be doing a service 
this unique exhibition. 
О. Crznc, the Secretary of the “Société Ouralienne 
d'Amateurs des Sciences Naturelles," at Ekatherin- 
burg, Russia. 
TROvES SHOW.—We are informed by M 
Barrzr, Président de la Société Horticole, Vigneronne 
et Forestiére de l'Aube, that an exhibition of Roses, 
Carnations, Pinks, &c., will be held at Troyes, on 
July 2 and 3, at which the horticulturists of England 
are invited to compete. 
HOYA IMPERIALIS.— The curious Pa вае Hoya 
has not seen it in bloom for twenty-eight years past. 
The plant has borne two large clusters of its curious 
—— The үч, is growing in a pot, and trained 
«р the DsoN, who must be complimented 
ies success, ‘stat es that it is a plant sedes. 
ski lful management, and it must not be overwatere 
GHENT ‘‘ CHAMBRE SYNDICALE.” —At a meet- 
а, d on the 15th inst. the following awards were 
ЛҮП Certificates.—To Mr. James Bray, for 
Cypripedium Schroders; to Messrs. Fr. Desbois & 
Co., for Begonia Mr. Hard ; to Mr. Jules Hye, for 
Cypripediam Sedeni candidulum and C. Schroderx 
to Messrs. F. Desbois & Co., for Coleus Monsieur 
Lemoinier and Spiræa astilboides; to Mr. L. De Smet- 
Duvivier, for Odontoglossum vexillarium album ; to 
Messrs. Vervaet & Co,, for Odontoglossum (Miltonia) 
vexillarium var. extra; to Messrs. , Co., for 
Odontoglossum crispum (var. táchetée), Cypripedium 
selligerum majus, and Oncidium macranthum hasti- 
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Cultural Commendations.—'To Mr. Aug. Van Geert, 
for Adiantum dolabriforme. Several “honourable 
mentions ” were also awarded. 
EXHIBITION OF ROSES AT MANCHESTER.—Mr. 
B. Fiyptay has just issued a very comprehensive and 
attractive schedule of prizes for the great Rose show 
in the Royal Jubilee Exhibition buildings, Old 
Trafford, on July 22. s for Roses 
grown within 20 miles of the Town Hall, Manches- 
ter, and there is also a class for the best collection of 
other than the usual exhibition Roses, such as the 
Mosses, Provence, &c., as well as one for bouquets of 
oses. 
MaTLOCK BATH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— 
The annual exhibition of this Society is announced 
for Au 13, and will take place as usual in the 
Pavilion, Matlock Bath. 
THE Post OFFICE.—The Times of June 18, re- 
ports the аыр of Mr. MARTIN J. Sorrow, опе 
0 he firm of Ѕсттох & So 
of the House 
ommons on 
that for four months of the year they rece received from 
1200 to 1500, and despatched about 2000 al a 
day, and Voie the rest c of the year from 500 to 
day. T 
CHRONICLE. 
` had Lone DRE t the 
. each a foot o 
[Jone 25, 1887, 
in letters as remittances £1948 worth of small postal 
orders and £520 wo 
s 
of their business, although 20 Кы thus caused 
m a eu His firm had 
on T Saturdays with the 
Все on Sun- 
es That was “a serious inconvenience to them in 
this respect—that it restricted them to about four 
days a week for posting their catalogues, because the 
as LE 
in batches of 20 to 30 ton 
be accepted by the Post Office without previous 
arrangemeht. If there were no Sunday delivery 
they could post on Friday and Saturday, as on other 
c 
of seed often made this premature posting < of cata- 
logues a serious 
loss Notwithstanding ч disadvantages, however, 
he was gla hav opportunity of giving 
was һан unnecessary for the management of а large 
busin 
CARNATION PINK MALMAISON. 
Ix the gardens of the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild, 
at Tring Park, a large span-roofed house full of а 
very beautiful Cenni differing only from the 
original C. Souvenir de la Malmaison in having 
flowers of a clear soft pink instead of cream colour, 
now presents a fine sight. e plants are all stout 
and bushy, their ано large flowers being 
borne on stout stalks well above them, literally 
filling the house with their grand blooms, which are 
all the more serviceable for cutting that with 
so em 
ho carries he culture 
highest point of excellence, has 
forms of rose-coloured Malmaison, but never before 
fo i one worthy to associate with the old cream- 
coloured kind; but in this case there is no objection . 
joining the house of “Pink Malm 
filled with the old kind equally well bloomed ; and 
beyond that are still other divisions full of pe 
blooming Carnations pelosi e which, when 
nvaluable ] seasons. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
Mer MANCHESTER BOTANICAL AND HORTICUL* 
TURAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS.— The transformation 
Mew d in these gardens since the 
priated fo for 
well wonder what en | 
this, and in a comparatively short space changed the 
quiet and repose of the 
and vae mi: and peopled it with th 
On the Trafford 
1 wondering eyes. ud c 
side, iren the exhibits of garden appliances 2 
hitherto been held, s ome dis Old Salford oe 
ter, with many associat of great h 
terest. exhibition 
e 
luxurious dining saloon. The annexe, wh 
itsun show — the F 
other features, is n overed with 
roof: it extends чеч м the entrance gates a 
were 
of the Manchester Mee 
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ousands who | 
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