|l 
— н 21, ни. 
z ys surplus flowers left over from their Fête to 
4 afalgar aera It was realised tha 
ought has had a serious effect upo: 
flowers, to the extent of rende ring "a su ply 
functions precarious. By rrang 
best Н арэн of tw ме eat 
. Ae efforts in recons Mili iod 
idi 
mdied and over- Happing avoided. 
Ke ce.—All wites will learn with 
terest and some measure ‘of regret that the old 
Mist office at Kew Green is likely to be closed 
ШИ fact a notice has been posted on the doo 
Fating that the office would be closed on June 14 
| ‘his step was due to the inability of the 
ies 1 e 
d over t tly 
e G.P.O. to temporarily contin nue, so it 
able that a successo s been found. 
Иреге Дер will be no Уб or public tele- 
m Tag e nearer than Kew Gardens station. 
I he ew Green office hag been in existence for 
i 
Fie. 153.—PHAIUS 
d 
paver 150 years, —-— has Аа controlled by tne 
lorrey family for 106 y 
je! Linnean Society. PP: the meeting of the 
phinnean Society “hel 1 cn the 5th inst., the cert 
bn rye exhibit кеј а medallion рог in 
ze of Car] né, hitherto 
я rg’s 
H 
Bere of Tin unknow wn, 
wanting in Professor i i 
The Ъ 
ache 
ч and becas 'ame Kee me of a Art Collections, 
grup. the 
hore. than -90 years od a] 
a deed-box the original seal. of th 
t the 
п the verte 
Aes e been 
Restaurant, at 7.30 in 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
ociety, which he 
os cde sent to 
ssible | 
the 
I 
; the only entry in the minutes was 1 
eh, SPUR that the ope 
be engraved." The seal itself w 
the granting of the Patent of Arms + 1802, for 
there was an Order in for 
immediate engraving of t 
t a the society. le ех 
ossible explanation as to way, 
eal sal was suffered to leave the cu 
of the jety, to ‚which it Е 
returned aller more than a century’s 
е 
stody 
grows Hor 
gives the" following 
plants are growing in 10-inch pots 
mixture of equal parts ordinary 
he 
filled with a 
garden soil, 
GRANDIFOLIUS IN THE BOTANIC 
Canton mud leaf-soil, and old stable manure. 
[ter 
Af the plants have finished Horeng the 
are divided and repotted. As soon d 
have become established in their Ww 
ots, a small quantity of ay’s fertiliser 
given them every w to the time they 
begin to open. their 3 wers. They grow t 
somewhat sha situation. Most of 
the 
д bulbs send uP i» о заре of flowers, and 
5 
ionally ther e thre 
occasi capes to a pseudo- 
bulb. In Чо Ше А ЖУ grow wild on 
the banks of stream t they are never such 
ne examples аз those shown in the photo- 
nes 
National Sweet Pea Society.—The annual ex 
hibition - of the National Sweet Pea Society w ill 
e held, in conjunction with the x io 
calur Society's М on July 1919, i 
e London Scottish Dr fall, Buckingham 
ate, Westminster. Tne Secretary, Mr. Henry y 
D. Tigw asks us to nirios 
on or before the 2 inst., at. Harrow View, 
Greenford, Middlesex. |The fpciety will hol 
a dinner and. conversazione at Holborn 
пе 
the evening ‘of the same 
307 
day. The m e cup and trophies won at 
the show will be presented at the conversazione. 
Cabbage Lettuces at Wisley.—Visitors to 
Wisley will find thé trial of . 284 Cabbage 
Lettuces, raised from seed sown or ril 7 
она” interesting. All types of the 
Cabbage Lettuce represented, from the 
| ge, lo non Metin Ec kinds to those of the 
small, Tom Thumb section. s is to be expected 
in ch a large collection, *many of the sorts 
are synonymous. There are two long rows of 
each variety, one of plants growing ere 
they were sown, and the other of those trans- 
pla nted. The differenc e between the two rows 
in every case is most marked, those growing 
where they were s being, on an average, 
almost double the size of the transplanted ones, 
and, moreover, the latter in many cases show 
indications of bolting, which are absent from 
the others. Members of the Fruit.and Vege- 
ape Committee of the ^s ins 
on Friday, the 13th. ir li & 
unanimous mom of those pru that was 
the finest trial of vegetables they had. seen. 
GXRDENS, HONGKONG. 
They congratulated the парусное", 
Т. Wright, and the Fruit and 
-H.S. me 
mittee pg e ita the Council to give Awards 
of Merit to 'al varieties and hi ghly com- 
ers. 
Registration un к» 
ural Сопол, 1 1eld in 
At the Hor 
Paris at the окула 
анге questions dis 
istration of poveltien 
and the protection ks iei rights of the raisers. 
o many, п seems’ insoluble, and 
there appears no means of securing the rights 
of a producer in a pis t the same way 
as they are secured: to the produce work 
of art or literature. he Congress recalled 
es had already been attempte M namely, the 
istration of novelties: in a list, national or 
international with the description’: of the 
plant, and the issue of ^a ‘certificate to the 
