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-— HE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER її, 1875. 
D. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS, 1875. 
SEP 
23. "-— — Society. et гри Autumn Show. 
Sec., Ане 123%, Duden Seethi 
29 yd tu —— Pota Apos at the Alexandra Hon. Sec., 
ET McKinlay, 23, Upper Thames oes London. 
OCTOBER. 
Royal Horticultural Society, Sou 
E. Fruit and Floral Committees, 
hibition of Cones 
th Kensington. Meeting 
Fungus Show, and. Ex- 
to.—Roy Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, mmittees 
15 and 16. sa bn pma E IT santhemum and Fruit Show. 
Sec., William Pallett, 55, Baxter Gate, обого 
d гуаны eskar] po бча of Ireland. Private Winter 
Exhibition. Sec., E^ Balfe, 28, Westland Row, Dublin. 
al Horti ree Seer, ‘South Kensington, 
1. —Royal Horticultural | Society, South Ke Кайров Meeting 
an 
of Fruit, Floral 
Gardeners Chron de. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
pen rnation Show at the Botanical Garden, 
MONDAY, Sept. {ш Old tert. Manchester. 
ulbs, ek angen Room 
[T ad Cal be ociety : international 
w at Edinbur 
and Horticultural penis s 
я ruit and Flower 
wi Sept. 15 Себе ЧЕ 
I (two — 
Sale of various Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ 
AES 
of Stove and Greenhouse Plants, 
Orchids, Seeds, ec , at Stevens’ — 
Sept. 18 — Sale of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens' Room 
еф а 
HE report of the ROYAL GARDENS, KEW 
which we published in our last issue, may 
serve to give some idea of the labour and diffi- 
culty attending the management of so large an 
establishment, where so many things besides 
those which appear on the surface have to be 
attended to. Originally esabina purely as 
a garden for strictly ħorticu anical 
Hinc sene Sept. 16 darc 
TURDAY, 
of the foreign botanic gardens xd industrial or 
experimental plantations are supplied. How- 
ev muc a first glance we might 
feel disposed 5, grudge thé time, labour, and 
money expended on carpet-bedding or any other 
fashionable garden decoration of the day—and 
which has about as much to do with Бгу 
proper, so-called, an 
i 
thing for their money. The majority of visitors 
would be incapable of appreciating the higher 
branches of horticulture . more so of 
‹ іа the 
plant to the тей Foi these 
they w 
see something understand and 
enjoy, and they then willingly contribute their 
quota to the carrying out of other and more 
trary. But while we may have a dozen of orna- 
mental gardens and pleasure grounds—the more 
the better—we cannot expect to have more than 
one Kew, From this point. of view we should 
хате anything that would interfere with that 
f work i can be done at Kew better 
ne |» 
„fori се, with very great pleasure of the pro- 
vision made for the instruction. of young gar- 
deners. With th 'g sesses 
in its staff, and inits availabl wy 
чоп, 
ducing purposes nor yet b 
we have always felt that, failing any attempt 
to instruct young gardeners and others in the 
science and practice of horticulture,the resources 
of Kew were not fully utilised. Our readers will 
recall how frequently we have urged 
establishment of a беа of horticüftüre i in th 
country—little but a dream at present—but o 
surely, that ought not to be sodifficult of lisa: 
y shoul 
under the necessity of sending 
Ghent or to Paris to receive instruction which 
they could get here at least as 
Another point in the а ме ses to with 
pleasure, viz, that in which it is stated that a 
present building is will hail this announcement 
with pleasure. Yet another piece of good fortune 
is promised in the erection—through the liber- 
ality of T. P. JODRELL, Esq.—of a laboratory 
for the prosecution of researches in physiological 
botany. This is one of the most urgent wants 
of the day in this country, as we ha 
pointed out. Such an 
us hop e 
soon have the Jodrell Laboratory and the 
Jodrell Professor at its h 
versant with the needs of physiology, and able 
and willing. to direct the work of the place 
with special reference to the requirements of 
horticulture and agriculture 
With refererence to diss proposed new 
bu uildings we trust that there will not be a repe- 
tition of the blunder from which it happens that 
we have now three detached museums, and a 
no 
herbarium and library, instead of one suitable 
h in.direct.communi-.| 
cation one wil another. - 
LAND i in and around Testes is deemed t 
‘be of almost fabulous value, and yet. strangers 
visiting the for the first tim 
must surely be struck by the hundreds of 
acres lying waste, neither utilised for food pro- 
tury or two ago—like Chelsea—bid fair to tein 
more of the aspects of the country than the 
immediate outskirts of the town, which remain 
or years in a state of unsightly semi-occupa- 
tion. Speculators, shrewdly anticipating the 
requirements of the future, buy up land months, 
itu 
the supply of vc ў evel the fe 
> latter 
ould pay grudgingly, but let them 
th can 
boten. often years, before upon ; their first 
SEP rally ing t e res and 
la open the whilom plea- 
itfal cornfield t to a tangled 
Under these 
басы alltraces of beauty are soon lost, 
and the land lies perhaps for years waste and 
unprofitable, being in almost all cases convenient 
spots, not only for the gatherings of the juvenile 
waifs and strays of the Mad pe but also a re- 
ceptacle for allther y household 
in the neighbourhood. deas gain and Uy 
have to be taken into account, beauty is seldom 
considered. We would suggest that these idle 
commence operations until spring-time, there- 
fore land which is not excavated nor built upon 
Many a 
ing man would gl tls a x himself of 
such an opportunity of turning his leisure hours 
to good account, and although the short t 
would prevent the cultivation of perennial 
the most popular and easily cultivated ү 
tables require but the one season to bring t 
to maturity ; therefore, three months’ п notice - 
given at Christmas or Michaelmas would be 
ample to prevent the sowing or grow ing of. 
crops which would not have sufficient time to 
matu ure, 
enure 
etops, 
Vege. 
hem 
where the hard-working artisan often looks upon 
his garden plot, lying often a mile or more from 
his home, as the very apple of his eye ; here he 
spends many of the proudest and happiest he 
of his life, to it all his better thoughts t 
and to beautify and render it profitable manya 
willing sacrifice is made. ere such plots 
utilised only for the production of di otatos, it 
most re 
condition of the agricultural labourer, they are 
as necessary to the dwellers in vast suburbs of 
our large towns—indeed more necessary, for t 
rural oig. life is passed in physical labour 
in the open air,and he can obtain comm mon 
vegetables at first cost. 
toils in a close, unhealthy atmosphere, and buys, 
his vegetables after they have passed шоши 
several hands. 
To become the possessor of a garden is ойе. i 
the highest ambition of the industrious work 
man ; to make his plot return a hundred-fold | 
no investment of large capital is required, a few | 
shillings will Lait the necessary tools, a few | 
seeds : the great desidera- | 
tum is labor di tabon which he is so willing 
pea 
unerative rents can be no pleas 
small loaf is better than none: even a low 
centage on unoccupied building lands would be 
far preferable to n 
pendently of the great benefit tha 
webs upon an honest, hard-working d | 
fm 
Scu of Lyons has е 
according to the Прай ань. in а | 
race ias bet B.i and some 
y e 
E ting | espe ecial T P 
aria in other rese were not 
er parents. Eigh t varieties at | 
ers, 
The time is MDC ching 
qualities may be put to the test, 
REM VEITCH m | 
iu 
—— The —Á EOM Suow, to 
held in Ды ALEXANDRA PALACE, M 21:0 
Sieonesdag and Thur mista ‘September a И 2 | 
promises to be internatio roper sense of tht 
oh. i we understand noy sever foreign compel 
Len e expec part in The p 
tors о 
of the season doubt, же tee the interest 
the meeting ; for, owing to the prevalence of di 
there will, in many instances, no no doubt, be 10 
promoters; who M Mak 
labouring, to 
