174 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 7, 1875. 
should bring peace to the people, and the little hills 
righteousness 
informed that at a meeting of the 
committee of the HORTICULTURAL CLUB, held at the 
Club House, Adelphi T 
George Deal, Esq., was electe 
committee, in lieu of the late Mr. шы, апа dat 
s following gentleme elect 
e Rev. E. cce Edgware ; C. B 
. Glasgow p C. Wilki 
Norton ; W. B. "Lewis, Es sq., Weybridge ; 
E. C. Elli ison, Branbridge Vicarage, Lincoln ; Cap- 
tain iater and H FP orteus "Oaks, 
Esq., Newton Park, P» ‘St. Edm 
REGEL publishes two new species of 
‘three of Tulipa in the third "fasciculus of 
s yellow fl 
Tulipa tetraphylla 
ong to the 
sylvestris section ; they ar th ios w within, and 
reddish violet without. rolkowi l 
perianth segments with a small nearly black spot on 
he base of each. It isallied to T. Eichleri of REGE 
from which it sily distinguished by its dwarfish 
stature, Качи stem 1 and peduncles, and the 
shape of t ens ong new garden plants he 
Cal rtus glaucus, received from Mr. ELWES 
Cyclanthera. ccerulez ; Rubus Roezlii from Arathor 
America, allied to R. — Thibaudi 
a LI 
ENDERS., but not of 
Hook yee genus of Lisianthus 
pines 1 it ‘Schlimia . princeps. 
soni, € T m of е 
leasant to note what successful efforts are 
m ey in ihe V way of the FLORAL DECORA 
e of our LONDON RAILWAY STATIONS. Especially 
doce this hold good of some of the stations of the 
North London Railway ; one in partic 
Box, in front of which is the 
This 
Station — att forth ; and, in fact, 
it may be generally ке that th the railway officials 
seu ons on ke: pee pie railway oe 
a vege 
Station, ges its pretty flower garden, has it ts vegetable 
also. In carrying out the work of widening 
a 
e bet the 
immediatly in front i£ ol the British Orphan eun. 
able for оў ugliness and the utter absence of architec- 
ons. 
tural рес ensi 
agnificent ex s of LILIUM mae 
te eferred last year аз growing in 
of Janes  MCINTOSH, solder 
Oatlands ` се (see. "Gardeners yr ae 
1874, i li, Уу), are, if possible, excelled by t ro- 
ductions of the present season. The de. 
— M parts, and the deep 
wersadmirably. The 
bi has been ик! in other Mice of the same 
gen By the , how is it that this beautiful 
fpeciem so бөреп їп Scotland, is hardly ever seen 
in England ? 
e a requested to state that the autumn 
shave ё of the METROPOLITAN FL SOCIETY will 
be held at бар Alemi ra Palace, on the 24th and 25th 
chedule of pis has be ued, and i 
befor o the Honorary Secretary, the 
Rev Н. Howrwoon ГОМЕ, Westwell Vicarage, 
Ashford, Ken 
— = е NUNC d Agricul- 
ture ye for 1875, of which the t has recently 
been , gives some hs a а ней the 
рее “of cattle м genie plants, including the 
effects of. Andromeda cows, Rhodode — ru A 
goats, a pap ime onhorses. Happ g 
by judicious тб чеч e horse 
shortly — eating a iba qui 
n 
tity o 
of the strange to re late, although the 
u 
inflammation, the lungs were strongly congested, 
—— In our next issue we propose to DAP a 
deta tailed overt of the condition and pro:pects of the 
several FRuiT Crops in the various counties of Great 
Britain et: xe and. 
—— Some ENGLISH SEEDLING ROSES of con- 
bright carmine-rose 
not ny large and a but 
; the dé er petals are ain 
prettily recurved, ү би ng the compari, fll close- 
set centre, and it has the anions 
ably swe been id This 
certificates at the T Pal 
day, w 
Darwin is a deep crimson Hybrid Perpetual, with 
cup-shaped ving fine large 
outer petals, and seems € rather thinly. filled in in the 
centre. Emily Lax more promising, large- 
flowered Hybrid Терен, ol a deep rosy pink colour, 
but with the petals somewhat e md the outer ones 
bei shert 
ing , never- 
theless a flower чыда may turn a to be an ae 
uisition when better known. m d India, 
eep velvety США, in very excellent one 
dition, accompanied them. This latter i is "T seedling of 
ast year, when it was certificated. 
— А yb aeu хла. us from Scotland а 
h 
ariety o in which all the 
NAPIUM 
ас of dei involucel are т upwards instead 
of downwards, as usu 
mnie га that village, ‹ can now be seen several 
P 
their well-being, and they seem 
perfectly at hime in 
their somewhat close quarters. 
In the С. ipi wy de la Société d' Acclimatation 
it is stated the Soc 
y hasreceived a quantity of seeds 
of Теа DRAMA =ч ШАНЫ R кш ISON 
NEUVE, a. prass from. to be of great 
value as re plant. Жен to M. DURIEU DE 
MAISONNEUVE, a single tuft will go 
is for a day. 
orn, but are much 
arly cut, re cattle fed upon it 
енуге ех 
—— PAVIA MACROSTACHYA, a shrubby s species of 
great wat benity, is now flo 
Victoria Park. 
1 
slender racemes of yellowish e flowers, 
A edm. so late in the summer is á— valuable for 
th ord The bedding-out, too, 
shrubbery at 
Victoria Park is just now getting xm fine condition, 
cording to s recent report from Jamaica it 
cM that the Coco. being 
tivated in that land: 
lly S хе Y d 
urish es only in the 
and in such situation often 
Being on the shady side of c street no doubt hel ps 
түе e E 
driest spot in the West Indies, has been brought 
by the wholesale destruction of t B Paci 
Е lai 
ceding to ме е еа, 
pass ne. t (he а the 
ve 
owever, is not applied to di 
useful puras With this source of revenue spon- 
она produced in а "poer ne 
seaboard of the island, it i 
a pi ч that such valuable ы : 
; would bea 
0 
exportation, as the nuts could be obtained in quantities 
to meet any demand." 
—— Specimens ad some very dese. Apes 
e parts of 
ently been M, in "the 
sist е; ріе - Hemp stalk 
ches long t bag at each end wi 
a 
bundles a 
The sp i 
at Kew were brought from Eu, i in Normandy. 
THE.POTATO CROP. 
ENGLAND 
Beps.—The i ant rain that fell throughout 
July has done i ensem le damage to the Potato crops in 
this locality, some ofthe early kinds are so badly 
affected with disease that they are hardly worth the 
trouble of digging. It is now spreading with fearful 
rapidity amongst the late kinds, and should the 
thunderstorm which has prevailed here the last few 
days continue, we may expec d. io lose o" гея 
portion of the late crops. "The ‘‘ curl,” 
bad amongst one or two a sorts Ee ost " 
impede their €— №. Buda, rete, Hoo Park, 
August 4. 
The Potetós in this district are very much 
diseased. A. McKay, Woburn Abbey Gardens, 
August у 
—— чы large crop, but the disease is he 
ing nM m 
BER 
5 е 
curled-leave o get it ; those now 
least touche Model, 's Beauty, Red- 
skinned Flourball, Red Fluke, Excelsior, and Wood's 
Scarlet li The hau e к other 
sorts is almost ропе ; some 
sound zas lifted three weeks a 
go now rotti 
fast. other sorts of vegetables ae plentiful and 
AUI in qu . Charles Ross, Welford Park, 
Newbury, Au, 
otato gop b, n Es ^ 
more or less a sad failur the ru 
pe ea “Alexander Galt, атов Court, Read: 
ing, Aug e 
by affected, and now the 
Thomas Fones, Roy J Gardens, rg - 3M 
Bucks. —For the of ascertain а 
ма present condition of the crop of Potatas, I an 
each hich we are growing 
(namely, сте varieties) lifted. Amongst these 
re both kidne кн cam ie with but few — 
where slight dept 
rests on a chalk paktin, 
does not appear to yd 
haulm indicates its presence. Geo. Thos. 
—— ace Potato is much diseased 
