108 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 24, 1875. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS, 1875. 
AUGUST 
A ALT rough Flower 
Show F. G. Buckte 
т? а1 mg Society, Pase коштон. Meet- 
Co 
ing Lok Fruit and Е mmittees. 
` 6 and dem e ster pointer and Horticultural ar 
Exhibition of oa o" Picotees, New , &c. 
Bruce Fin 
6 NE mi d zadle Floral м Horticultural Society's Eighth 
al Show 
7 d наа F Floral and Horticultural Society's Exhibition, 
j ec., M. J. Lonsdale, Newch hurch. 
то.—( lay Cross Horticultaral Society's Eighteenth Annual 
12.—4 dimi канан Society’s Exhibition. бес., 
and W. ickshire seis cim aos s Show 
bb << Sec., Thomas Wig , Portland 
18, — Royal Horticul 1S outh Kensington. Meeting 
t and Floral Committ 
i Me tropohtan Floral РЕЯ Exhibition at the 
24 an 
dra Palace. 
25. Te hanet Floral and qud WS Association's Annual 
Exhibition. nm Sec., C. D. Smith, Esq., 8, Marine 
rr) RC Mar 
26. Los 1 Horticultural, Sager of Ireland. Autumn Exhi- 
ition. S A. B oy oe Row, Dublin. 
26. —Wantage enl : ос TIR Show. 
ell, Meg ori i^ 
won [s rticultural Society's on Floral 
З пасе elvie, 5t, Reform Street. 
27. — Bishop d “Floral and Horticultural Society's 
Annual f Exhibition. Sec., J. C. Hendy. 
28.—Wakefield d "Society's Annual Exhibition. 
Sec., A. Holm 
Sec., 
SEPTE 
х. —Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington. Meeting 
path ves and Floral Committee 
2, 3,4 —Manchester Botanical i nd Horticultural REA 
Exhibition of Fruits, Vegetables, and Autumn 
anager, Bruce Fi ndlay 
Gardeners Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, FULY 24, 1875. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR i ENSUING WE 
Preston 
NES! pares x | Pal Orchids, T 
ly 28 — ection of Palms, Orchids, Trce 
ENG qu fen 5, &c. oved from Melchet Court, 
sey, at Stevens’ Rooms. 
July 29 [x sale" i pee Orchids, at. Stevens' 
THURSDAY, 
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T glorious exhibition which took place 
the gardens of the ROYAL HORTICUL- 
TURAL SOCIETY at South Kensington on Wed- 
ay, proves iih 
ably that though the Society itself has been 
brought near to death's door by the unskilful 
treatment of the physicians to whose charge it 
was entrusted, there i is still abundant vitality (as 
Le PEE s 
amongst the horticulturists of Great Britain, 
We are glad to find, too, such overwhelming 
proof that they can make common cause when 
the occasion arises, and are really not so much 
divided by jealousy and cliquism as some per 
sons would have us believe. 
The Royal Horticultural Society has certainly 
never before had such an exhibition as that- 
which has now been furnished by the spon-. 
taneous efforts of the exhibitors themselves, 
tropolis or the provinces. "True, at this season 
we lack many of the more showy m 
plants—. дамаг. Pelargonium 
which brighten up the earlier gatherings of we 
season, but what was wanting in this ion 
was more than compensated by the grand dis- 
play of novelties made in such collections as 
those of | Messrs. VEITCH and Mr. BULL, and by 
the admirable grouping which such large mis- 
cellaneous collections as those just named, 
together, with those оош ед by Mr. WiL- 
ponent and other 
— Honea Беш 
| on a sound and enduring basis, 
| stater t 
as this; as they do, indeed, also at the minor 
1 41 с PT $.. 2 dion В SÉ ST 
Some of the very best of these latter have con- 
sisted mainly of miscellaneous groups from our 
leading nurserymen, and then, as now, the 
additional interest afforded by the variety of 
subjects staged becomes a most important 
element of success. Whether in the future such 
groups, if invited, would be best limited as to 
number or space, is a question requiring con- 
sideration ; but that they should be invited we 
element in all the leading classes of plants, for 
this competition forms the lever by which horti- 
cultural shows tell most strongly on the eleva- 
tion and advancement of horticultural skill and 
science ; but the miscellaneous groups might 
well be substituted oe some of the less im- 
portant classes, which are apt to find their way 
into a lengthened prize schedule. 
One of the noteworthy features of this grand 
show is that it was entirely gratuitous on the 
part of the nurserymen exhibitors, while in the 
case of amateurs it was understood that an 
award equivalent to their expenses would be 
made. We were glad to welcome din ne the 
Orchids from Lord LONDESBOROUGH'S garden 
which have been greatly missed of. late, as well 
as Mr. PEACOCE'S succulents, which are always 
telling. These and other gentlemen, and the nur- 
serymen who thus freely exhibited, deserve the 
hearty thanks of every well-wisher to the Society. 
We should have been gratified to have been able 
to add here the name of Mr. WIL 
e 
removed, but his fine plants were not forth- 
coming. The Pelargonium Society's prizes were 
fairly contested, and the exhibits formed a con- 
spicuous (еке of the show. Mr. CATLIN had 
one or two plants as near to perfection of 
growth as seems practicable, and we trust that 
the growers did not fail to notice them, as there 
has been a falling off in the quality of the 
specimens of these showy summer plants during 
the last year or two. 
The display of Fruit brought together by 
Messrs. VEITCH & SONS’ prizes formed the best 
fruit show of the season up to this date. The 
quality was even and good, the quantity satis- 
MAN was the champion, but he was run hard by 
Mr. MILES in the contest for the chief prize. 
The object for which this show was got up 
was, as we have previously announced, 
courage the Council, now that they have freed 
themselves from the non-horticultural element, in 
the difficult task they have before t right. 
ing the Royal Horticultural Society with the 
horticulturists of the United Kingdom, with the 
Royal Cony and wi th the Shows 
show the other pos that Косай ны аге а 
in th ys to be pooh-poohed and disre- 
garded in more that relate to the manage- 
ment of their representative Society. The 
object has been worthily and nobly accom- 
plished—* Let him that readeth understand." 
Let the past be blotted out, and for the future, 
as “union is strength," let there be united 
action to secure the one main 
dc E Tao fi Rov "lH 
THE doubt we expressed as tpe identey af 
the new phase of the POTATO DISEASE with 
the “curl” cip сойише4 Р у the conflicting 
made by those gs speak of the 
ing, point out unmistakably miscel- 
ions would a most im- 
t of all great shows such | 
- sively confined 
u 
and we have lately had the opportunity Бо boi а 
Scotland and in Englan seeing various 
patches of more or less diseased Potatos, Some 
of these have been pointed out to us a 
with “curl,” others as with “ the disease,” others 
as attacked with wireworm, and s 
misapprehensions of the few are of little relatiye 
consequence, In the case of the disease prin- 
cipally affecting the е of American origin 
ter is different, and it is very desirable 
that people Should not jump at conclusions 
before they really know whether the disease 
they are talking or writing about is really 
the same as that which was first observed 
in the Chiswick Garden. Fully half of the 
5 t we have had 
pointed in country, as affected 
with the “ new ” disease, were really the subjects ' 
of some disease ог morbid condition quite dif- 
ferent in outward aspect to that which we first 
England, and within the last few days in the 
south-west of Scotland. For our own parts we 
must still doubt the identity of the so-called 
new disease with “curl,” as the appearances | 
presented do not tally with the printed descrip- _ 
tions of that malady ; while, as we have stated, - 
the oral statements of those who were personally _ 
Бани ar with it are very conflicting. If these - 
of American extraction be really affected 
wk Fe n, ” then 
more interest, as it shows that it must have been 
in the country in the old “curl” days, long 
before the murrain was heard of. Meantime, ^ 
as some of our correspondents to whom scien- — 
tific terms are not familiar, and who are not - 
accustomed to the study of microscopic fungi, — 
are doubtful as to what Mr. SMITH really has 
done, we will endeavour to put the matter into - 
plainer language, though at the risk of sacri- — 
of the Potato fungus p 
and leaf іп the form of extremely fine whitish - 
threads. Through the pores of the leaves it — 
buds of two - 
the one 
little joints, which separate, fall 
grow, the other sort consisting of сс лаб 
саѕеѕ с minute spores, which, when 
they esca from the burst case, move 
about in the way once supposed to be excil- 
to the „апіша! kingdom—hence 
the name “ zoospore." These zoospores cease 
their vagrant habits in a little while, and they 
.too, grow. So far then we have the Potato 
fungus propagated by two sorts of buds, W 
become detached, and reproduce the fungus 
just as the bulbils of the Tiger Lily grow into à 
new plant. But in addition to these—which we 
liken to buds because, unlike seeds, they are 
not the result of reciprocal sexual agency 
organs were 
allied to the Potato fungus, but they 
been clearly seen in that icular 5 
the other day. 
BERKELEY had both been on the right trac 
but it was WORTHINGTON SMITH who success- í 
fully solved the myste: : 
ent om: personat recollection. It is. quite 
immediate. Man even the 3 
higher plants, exist in several stages, just as 20 4 
insect. gh 
