308 
Botanical Magazine.—This valuable botanical 
is still di in tri-monthly part ts. The 
publication o 
issue is still 
o 
e October-Novem "cem, 
delayed, owing to a diffic uly in 
same trouble 
LI 
phum, nifi uit 
Bulbophyllum 
оса m cine 
Pes-tigridis, var. longibracteata, Disporum 
llum, Kochia scoparia, forma 
trichophila, Odontoglossum cristatum, lia 
ware sembling those of 
pip! ne tubular, deep purple 
pea at the bases of the crenations; нк та 
similis, var. Delavayi, tab. 8 ardy 
evergreen эы эши Р клы Сау: їп August; vit long, 
narrow corolla is yellow; Lonicera е а, 
tab, 8804, a shrub 
of pinkish flowers; Delphinium "Pylzowii, tab. 
8815, gathered by Prze vue тал elevations of 
9,000—11,000 feet on border; the 
pla rdy amid e with showy, dark 
azure-violet ‘blossoms; Rhododendron dichroan- 
thum, tab. 8815, a purplish-red flowered species 
rom Western Yunnan, and Primula chionantha, 
tab. 8816, a noble pla with large i 
flowers developed in more than one whorl, 
Award of the Veitch Memorial Medals.—At 
ting of the Veitch Memorial Trustees, 
held recently at the Royal Horticultural Hall 
Vestminster, . the eitch ы 
Medal was awarded to ке W. 
., on his retiring m de Secretaryship 
of the Royal дато е и Society, i ecog- 
g which time 
by his mice skill Qi Айы: “knowledge in 
very branch of his profession, the gardens be- 
of plants by an amateur and the other to" the 
finest exhibit of fruit by an amateur 
Horticultural warum at University College, 
Reading.—Mr. . Cobb, whose appointment 
THE GARDENERS’ 
Superintendent of the parks pleasure 
peel жу of porrn Mime was iecit in the 
issue for August 16, 1919, a as been 
appointed to succeed Mr. E. R. Janes as 1 
a a m tor in practical dec at the 
Univer College, Reading. Mr. Cobb will 
brace. Y is new duties on Janu лагу 1, 1920. 
oyal Donation to А Gar rdening Charity.—The 
Royal Benevolent 
m 
as rec 
.M. Queen :Mary, à e fo 
as he mter on Men the pisc to the "ier of 
the Institut 
Supplies of Potash.—The 
absence of potash during the war showed how 
completely dependent we were on Germany for 
this fertiliser. Patriotic efforts to supply the 
almost complete 
44.—IRIS AFTERGLOW, YPICAL PALLIDA, 
F 
BUT WITH YELLOW THROUGH THE CENTRE OF THE 
FALLS AND STANDARDS. (See p. 309.) 
deficiency тааныт! in the formation e ine British 
tash ‚ which, under the is of the 
М а ашк тиш the quantity whic 
duce zu far short of the requirements of the 
om. It the to 
L 
the Kali-Syndikat, 
from Magdeburg wil be brought 
tion with Alsa otas! 
sources 
been im rivately, and e 
payment pe et shear ied by the British 3 overn- 
CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 20, 1919. 
ment in the spr ing of this year. The ard of 
"In 
£0 
by agriculture, the iculture for 
England an cotland and the tment of 
griculture for Ireland were at once cla 
le 
involved in the complicated ne 
the final arrangement, and uncertainty of the 
costs of freight ur mad more 
ifficult for the sc The 
epresentatives of the Governme ents 
e o ‘be 
t of distribution and have heen 
ton as from Dec 
committ n which officers of the Government 
partments concerned sit to exercise a general 
direction over the s 11 that the farmer 
as do is to place his order with his usual 
dealer or co-ope ty. Full particulars 
of the maximum pric е C yr of sale 
of potash are ona ied in Food Production 
Leaflet 501/ of es ch may фе 
obtained on application o the aj nese s e contes 
ture and Fisheries, 72, Victoria Street, S.W.1 
Silver Leaf Disease Order.—The Silver Leaf 
rder has now become law, to the great advan- 
tage of all fruit growers, and particularly to the 
growers of the “ Victoria’? Plum which is so 
very susceptible to the diseas ge acreages 
"ars variety have bee ready 
destroyed fruit-growing districts. Practical 
rowers “a find ман, new in mon үй вауе 
t it makes compulsory the and 
destruction of fro: бту tr cm which 
they have carried pen voluntarily ix paure past. 
alue of Orde who have 
bours, and i 
content tithes gue 
dead wood, to destroy 
e dea nt 
for the development of the spor: А 
diseas uld be ты. too, that it 
is ДО only i di ad wood of Plum trees that 
this aedi piment takes: place, but on the dead 
wood of many other kinds. This is w 
why Ord 
ae the covering obw unds left 
by pruning. point of fact, the dificslties 
administering te a regulation would be so gre 
that t be left to the good sense of growe ers 
to Merle In cutting away 
affected wood they > th 1 
well below the ‘ypu brown stain in the tissues, 
and a ко be follo 7 
ing of Stockholm tar. = 
n 
before April 1 in each year, ein e 
where a special notice is Ld Ta an inspecto 
