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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 31, 1875, 
uncertain and irregular intervals, and it was 
the bulk of the Fellows, a of 
pre of its existence ; or, if they 
red, if sible, le es. Wea ppend the 
letter of “ Fiat Justitia, » E show that the Council 
of the essais aie ue to do their utmost 
toincrease public eck As to the Com- 
missigners and de. responsibility to the public, 
hat is enter into. 
ta ur own indepen- 
cumstances will allow, work 
with them, and indeed we can but oad Gee 
that we are under obligations to them at 
it is an imperative condition to success ‘that the 
two bodies should work together. 
—— THE Prince of WALES € ра the 22d 
inst., = оона House, over a МЕЕ 
Ma 
S COMMISSIONERS FOR 
F 1 Mr. Edgar Bowring, Mr. 
Evans, Mr. Field Gibson, General Ponsonby, General 
ON and Major-General Sco ecretary, Sir 
ott, 
Seat attended the meeting at the request of 
the Padal h 
alely for de promotion nce a 
of the practice at horticulture, ood 
сы the efficient ava nce o ex ardens, 2. That 
e Commissioners should wai a iia jai 
Def of the lease for non- Pisis of rent for a suffi 
cient period to give the Society e core tunity of re- 
establishing itself The Commission = accepted 
this proposal as the basis of an iran 
—— The following letter appeared in es Times of 
аа last :— 
“The Zimes has аку: сарой an official 
io 
nouncement tbat th ners of the Exhibition 
of 1851 have accept d th e pores of the Royal 
cultural Society * to waive the imminent forfeiture of its 
lease’ (iri 1876, if the Society cannot pay its five years 
rental of £2500), Sai it will se its annual sub- 
scriptions fro 7C IO, llow me, sub- 
scriber to the EZVibition of 1851, who зерна to give the 
ommissioners a trust fund of about £180,000, to remind 
them that this money, and the pass. purchased out of 
it, are really public prope The lease the Horti- 
Is Xam ofa ublic 
trust? Fiat "Justitia, Misckester, July 2 5 
—— The annual meeting кее you E 
GONIUM SOCIETY w was held the 2 
which occasion the members prese nt dined together at 
the ‘‘ Criterion.” The treasure EN was 
able to report a m state of tho. RUN a aloes 
of £20 8s. 44. remaining after payi 
encourag 
mi sit b be extended to other classes of Pb co Soe 
nigh the Zonals, which was 
y 
ety was не Аы founded. It 
also the inducements offered by the 
iety might set hybridisers to work, and so be the 
of obtaining new types of this useful decorative 
irman с hon. secretary, and 
re-e the. latter body 
e addition of the names of Mr. 
NDREW HENDERSON, Mr. G. T. 
Mr 
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evening was spent, in 
interesting fci iik place as to the influence of 
the po in cross-breedi on o 2 
ith the 
eget | ae 
Bred fom the ordinary varieties af ht period oed 
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| LILIUM JAPONICUM,» 
with such sorts as Moore’s Victory, : = Helen, &c., 
Масса алй е being one of the se lings thus pro- 
Mr ‚ WILLIAMS urged that the ob bjects of the 
= ed: but this objection was met by the argu- 
ope o 
ment that to ext eel ie sc 
r 
oul 
of this Beet v ould always be asso- 
of m Royal Horticultural Society for 
uae as was the case this y 
. ANDERSON, of egi Bank, writing of 
ANDA svar, rem пайз that. 
Have you got su 
is you net All fir эё т d, he 
a distinctive name, and the additional 
appellation ‘should, if аныд lead the novice to 
understand in what the superiority consists. This 
лагат MIR alw н be done, but should never ы 
ost sight of. The following notes ier an example : 
"Pi the largest and, I 
ым the best in point of ашы of all the forms a 
a suavis whic come under my = се. 
segments are larger, the spottin d barring m 
гесе in theoriginaltype ; the labellum i is higher 
colou 
THOMSON in the ac pan ot ex eher to 
e wonde Mr, THOMSON writes o on July 
[121 Th la + te ibly 
ing spike of the variety of Vanda suavis. My other 
б 
varieties. of V. uavis, V. tricolor and V. insignis, that 
i f bloom for five 
гар the one of which T 
ek or two yet It 
has hardly any shade, and the sun ^s uring two days I was 
away almost finished it. I think it sufficiently — = 
eserve some distinctive addition to the name, su 
V. suavis apers, gigantea, or major. I think the ане 
best describes 
nda suavis, Heaton Park var.—'This differs from 
Mr. T HOMSON'S 1 major in its flower being less prominent 
both in si i The inferior segments are 
broader than major, but neither the spotting nor barring 
o decided. It is is a good variety, „differin drom 
weeks ; and if care had = 
iO 
oblong, mer the 
ar.—The ground 
altogether it has a much 
t, too, well up to the time the 
flowers pa y the wane, 
e forms differ i = Pes T eelam from the 
ed as 
recedet Van a suavis, w ways reckon 
VEITCH'S variety, and considerably from Pande: suavis 
Pescatorei. James Anderso 
— We are тее to the Rev. Harpur- 
Crewe for forwardin us flowers of AMARYLLIS 
ACKERMANNI VAR, есас ве oe is es 
as a hardy bulb rby. It i 
с" sho ud. be БУ in the midland 
counties 
—— Mr. LATOUCHE, in his interesting volume, 
tely published, entitled. dne n me n Р; has the 
pede description of Waterproof cloak used by 
the natives of the smes e Minho: 
tt There market going on somewh 
a fair or ere 
the road, Bey I overtook several parties of sturdy farmers 
on horseback. Many of them 
erp 
best macin- 
place, much lighter ; 
е it does not make the wearer 
hot, e give him LA headache nor smell of tar; 
the good o sts less than 
5 Я ме rather 
erg: , and earer looks exactly as he wer 
thatched with straw from he 
institutions in this province, w the R 
have left such numerous traces of their presence, 
pathos may, may be the be an inheritance from Roman 
i an ae ee of the аа vimi- 
nalis of the R enden os toga made of twigs. 
—— The е white-flowered form of unie 
еы, Мг. тт at South 
with the Meg lat 
It is кылымы dower a and we 
e somewhat surprised to find that no Notice 
bien of it at the meeting = esc to. P. ossibly 
our horticulturists es much excited u 
к events that t P hel сасу sobered down iy 
veryday уугун, e аы з 
——— We are requested to state that the CARNA. 
TION SHOW announ Me B to be held at the B че: s 
Gardens, at Old Т d, Manchester, on August t6 
and 7, vil take ш; a "August I3 and 14 instead, 
e Times correspondent at Calcutta, Writing. 
under une 29, states that a paper by Captain 
COUSSMAKER, published in the last es of the 
Gazette of India, contains some interesting information 
regarding the CULTIVATION AND Ma 
OF ILK in Bombay, and its value in the 
e 
otherwise, A: hold out hope t 
du. article, which it 
develope i 
о 
ao 
. 
et 
and oth 
roper attention pall 
reedin ng, and rearing of the silk- 
acr would, he thinks, prove a - 
fin ancial suc 
— It may be сога to record the fact that 
about the end of last month a a plant of EUCALYPTUS 
GLOBULUS flowered ei freely in the = =a R. We 
HALL DARE, ewtownbarry House, со. Мех. _ 
ford. The tree adry and льна о position ДЫ 
as been ейде ош about four years, and is 20 feet 
high, and very healthy. 
been left from the attacks of the so-called new disease. _ 
——- WHAT SOLDIERS ARE CAPABLE OF BE — 
COMING under certain favourable conditions, and - 
also what may be done with soldiers һу kind and 
— — 
r Portsm 
he additi 
which is greatly aei ees byt 
ae 
ost exclusive tained vie a 
. Most of the the married 
ich has very rarely to be en- 
rced. Indeed, the demand for gardens by the corp РА 
s so great that fr h enclosed and divid 
ears, 
the military “floral and horticultural exhil 
Pede ets drill bat bep 
tributed. by ie ELLIOT, the wife of Admiral G. 
ELLIOT, ie with Lad М“Ситоск, was present 
des were carried 
during th Ее arrangem 
out by mposed Fo Colonel nel Dion 
Ci B. “Lit Colon Co: Captain Moore, Quarter — 
master HEAL i on tore” Tarr reson, Stall | 
Sergeant ГЫРА and Sergeant M‘MANU 
cultivation of the 
profit to a — exercises а 
moral influence upon the corps. 
