SEPTEMBER II, 1875,] 
THE 
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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE 
dinner will Ре arranged Por on the first day of the 
show, and those who wish to join must give timely 
notice, Entries for the show close on the 20th. 
CALCEOLARIAS are a failure again this season 
in many «азан ; even where they live their flowers 
it?s wA ind the plants hav Aen v e of iic 
the last stru e for existence. e case 
Ti 
very opposite 
th “ey most ил able to their 
t 
othe sun алоо ut the 
awe: almost daily watering th 
plants would be scorched up. The soil is a poo 
5 o 
Tessrs; SUTTO 
tà 
N 
mber 20 
will rie — for. An 
grown under sewage farming o 
cording to the Revue 
i Ne aa Crassula Arbores, Fever califor- 
E. glauca, E. glauca metallica, E. metallica, 
Kleinia тере, аме егіа зр Sempe ervivum arboreum, 
urbicu S. tab 
S. 
Kalanchóe р grandiflora нелеу with Sedum corsicum, 
Sons’ ROYAL BERK- 
о чт мы we 
ou 
ovelty in “the e rau 
is the introduction of prizes for сазан sorts of Mangels 
nly, 
ve Z — 
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| рена by accident, As itis, we wish our co 
ary e 
mpor ery success, and hope he will not take it 
sasi: if we point out to him that the paragraph in 
the present number relating to **John " (sic) “Grew,” 
is something tha ty will be 
s " Vin other matters, 
hat the котан depart. I hae d expected to 
be sf a trustworthy chara. 
Fe e reporters of local seas ad sometimes 
e to 
co musing blunders when they co tran- 
nem their notes taken at flower shows. The other 
day on ne a show, gave the names 
н of the leading foliaged plants, mixing up in 
a remarkable fash e specific name ne 
ith the generic name of another; but the cl 
as reached when he came to Seaforthia elegans, 
| їсһ was literally translated ‘‘Set forth your 
i| elegance," The report in itself was by no means bad ; 
This points to disease more than soil | 
sandy loam. 
and situation as the cause of failure, 
Circular walks around a fine specimen of the Turkey 
ak, and in each of the corresponding on 
the opposite cide of the broad walk, is a circular bed 
ted with succulents. eds are raised 
€tadually towards the centre, which is occupied b 
& small specimen gave americana variegata, 
With the exception of a ring of an Echeveria midway 
between the circumference and centre, the arrange- 
ment of the plants is iriegitar, and the beds would 
have been still more effective had this ring vn 
broken The principal plants used are :—Aloe soc 
tina, A, albo. cincta, coo adunca, oce nnd 
FIG, 71.—NEW BATTLE, NEAR EDINBURGH, 
Lue wo Dirca palustris, four Rhodora араа 
x Boronia pinnata, four Passerina grandiflora, two 
леде calendula mmea, fou ou я agnolia macro- 
phyila ; and the price was 
Mr. буг- AYERS, for many years gardener at 
Dublin, the пе known residence of 
celebrated for its fine 
cessful exhibitor, 
— We четен s A ser of a new hort 
etal peri riodi ical, the of the гасу 
Gardeners Chronicle devoted specially! 5 пее 
the county fr 
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courteous on their parts 
of the fact, and not have allowed us to discover the | 
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r or nurseryman previous to appearing in the 
a these errors would have no doubt b rec- 
ше are much indebted to local "mpm сч н 
for the publicity the e to the B peepee s of horti 
cultur: E vci dtm 1 ould look with leniency upon 
errors that are ч теп € vitable, 
—— The best substitute for the YELLOW CALCEO- 
LARIA ЖТА which has been noticed this season is the new 
dwarf BEDDING MARIGOLD, aureo-floribunda. Mr. 
Joun Cox, of лн af Gardens, ibid 
now in fine 
be 
All the — rains have n 
nex s usual dwarf buy size of plant, and they 
have in no way affected its habitual profuseness of 
— Atthe recent meeting of the British Medical 
Association at Edinburgh, as we learn from the 
