June 28, 1919.] 
EDITORIAL NOTICE. 
two departments, 
Editorial, are distinct, and much 
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Publishing an 
relay and confusion arise when letters 
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l APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING 
Ж E 
UESDAY, ULY 
Royal ои Society’s Committee meeting ; 
E le 3 p.m. by Dr. E. J. Russell on “ Soil 
_ Sic and Soil Sterilisation." (Lantern slides.) 
. National Sweet Pea Society's Exhibition at the 
Еа. СБа Drill Hall, Westminst о be 
1 lowed in the evening by the Annual Dinner at th 
Holborn Restaurant, поа, д 
. Meeting to be held at the Oasis Hall, qe ge 
on: the Po of Cheap Transport, ^ at 8.30 pam 
VEDNESD. ees 
$ Exhibition. at - Chelios Hospital Gardens, on_behalf 
of St. Dunstan’s Institution for Blinded Soldiers 
(two days). 
National Rose Society’s Metropolian Exhibition, at 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, N.W. W 
Lye TEMPERATURE for the ensuing week 
К апоеа | observa 
E at. Eae E cms СЕИ сли 
AL TEMPERATURE :— 
à E Gard ‘deners’ Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
4 igi Ga таеп, рч Wednesday, June 25, 
Bar., mp., 63°, Weather—Dull 
At this moment the dé- 
aren [ые me world's 
is bein. 
|» Versailles. 
x Versailles Mee SOMME 
а ter chosen, for apart fro 
1sto ical . consideration, its gardens bees 
fit setting for P . For M 
and most ane 
wi th no oe no woods, n 
pt sa: r 
., and s XVI., the pere of 
res was чыч ed and developed 
t of upwards of o mi 
à hunting ion d part o 
mane 3 the Marble: court of the present 
in 1669 that Le Nótre, the great 
his work on the 
rdens, and from 1679 ah 1 
eeded apace under 
he aid of 36,000 
ting, trees were 
ts—Limes and Elms 
m the Dauphiné, 
the forests of Nor- 
an 25,000 trees of 
kinds were transported by road 
i ilst this 
* garden 
d h Elms 
years later—in 1775—many o 
e had become 
(9 
and the nd freshly 
was done the in- 
ted, 
nee of “the af r style then becoming 
Jardinage, May, 1919, 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 319 
fashionable Fra Bains valuable service to the Burnley Corporati in 
Ф Apollon, har bia ate this whose employ he has been for over twe ij live 
rio Ín its turn, this later planting yea He a wide and varied A sat in 
the latter part of the 18th centur the laying-out of parks, bowling greens, tennis 
ae ngeal mn оң 
i about 1755, 
Richard built at “Trianon hothouses, one 
n Fran 758 the 
the al 
Plantarum, е тот іп 1789. К Са 
Richar jnnaeus said that h was the 
ablest garden er in Europe. 
large part of m 
was destroyed by —— 
nie Garden 
iPines, . Larches, Golde ES ress 
Louisiana, Ameriean Oaks, dip trees 
and Gingko from China were all plaated 
at ao n. 
е е Revolution, when the ре 
ас 
Beare 
ns. after e 
eso „neglect fell hon Versailles. 
R 
Napoleon not love it, чк again the 
gardens dins and in io were 
restored and their атча cele- 
rated by a féte таце а by Her Majesty 
Queen Victoria. Iti to be hoped that 
pe ay come " ihe determination 
to restore the gardens of Versailles once 
again to their former state of beauty. 
hey have survived the vicissitudes of cen- 
turies, they are associate d with the 
grandeur and tr an r 
reaction of a great nation; they are, as 1t 
were, a mirror which not only 
present, but the ast also is reflect 
May ey become once in rivals of 
their own proudest epochs, “т s т 
е 
п 
triumph of peace over W 
p 
New Parks’ Superintendent at Buang- 
ы ommittee of the Burnley Corpo: 
have appointed Mr. E. d Paiton, as Darke 
Suj рат in success; te Mr 
Murra viously, Mr. Velas was s her eleven 
dues directi tions. 
National Rose Society's Metropolitan — 
tion. p summer show of the National Ros 
ai de m d P ages ‘the 
N ember bh а nd 6 
a long one, and i types of 
packing. There i MAS “class for 
the ditferent associations in the нт seis ties. 
ais class consists of 12 market packag 
ed of 6 varieties of pe ier EE is mnc do 
with the Show, 
chedules 
Chaek Wapi, 2, Huntingdon 
Allotm Lewisham 
оа! Mies are serious 
eld 
mi for но yours, for the 
est meeti ing, һе 
Де, o sp ^n was y tended by about 500 pl 
h e President, 
the Le 
Gar and the War.—We 
formed Sia ee "jourmeymen gardeners enlisted 
and that of this number 
demobilised. We are form at 
— i ons for journeyman gardenea 
with are 
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a slo sen Be eros 
distinct spec 
which were hee to have cost him — el 
thousand dollars 
