THE: 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 25, 1875, 7 
E: 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS, 1875. 
OcTOBER. 
6.—Royal articolo Society, South Kensington. Meet 
of Fruit and Flo = Committees. Fungus Show, and Ex 
hibition of Cone 
NOVEMBER. 
zo.— Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington. Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, and Scientific Committees. 
15 and 16.—Lou ghboro ugh eg. s^ nihemum’ and Fruit Show. 
eG. William Pall er Gate, bongbboroug h. 
25.—Royal Horticultural SES of Sent Private W 
Exhibiti Sec., A. Balfe, 28, Westland Row, Dublin. 
ECEMBER. 
—Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, and S 
Gardeners’ tiene 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1875. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Monpay, Sept. ME of Рие Tube, a Stand Лона. 
TUESDAY,  Sept.2 sí ale AG. s mporte rchids, at Stevens’ 
Potato Show at the Alexandra Palace (two 
s gi Sept. 29 days). 
posed Duich id s Stevens! Rooma, hi 
& ection of Orchids, 
THURSDAY, Sept. a [UM тт (two days). 4 
eS age Oct. 3— Sale of D utch Bulbs, at Stevens Rooms. 
PETE 
Roni = ; the Edinburgh Fruit Show a 
^ thing of the past than another of great 
alls for notice. This time it is our 
Belgian neighbours in association with o 
s who made the display, 
The Exhibition, which dl this day, w: 
organised by the CERCLE DAI CUL TORY of 
op e: little band of коө 7 Коо 
iation with the Ром L So- 
EU oi CS NCE. The ig is Edid, as 
far as Apples and Pears are concerned. Peaches 
Plums are naturally not so well eee 
owing to the lateness of the season and t 
of the show. ·- Сгареѕ.аге well ыд 
by. Messrs. LANE, of Berkhamptead, who re- 
ceived an unanim puruan of a gold medal for 
ao collection of TORTEN in addition 
NGC r Econ the BNA ddoof the Chine! needs 
to be reminded of the excellence of Messrs, 
LANE'S Grapes, and we thank those gentleman 
for their spirit and patriotism in showing what 
British Grape growing is like. Nevertheless, 
we can but regret that some of the wonderful 
ich M. BALTET, of Troyes, and M. GRÉGOIRE, 
of Tuo took a most prominent part. 
Lil à re- 
fuller partici: 
necessary tb give wt If Edin 
had us * sensational ” Grapes, Ghent had its 
corresponding Apple, in the shape of Ména- 
gére, — I foot 74 inches in circum- 
ference, and weighing over 1 lb. 
For effect sake, it would have been far better 
if some of the foliage plants, of which there are 
such Ped — in the city, had been 
made use of to k the uniformity, cainied by 
rows of plates nu varaen not | 
primary object of this exhibition is instruction, 
Certain fruits and groups of fruit are set apart for 
special “study,” and will be reported on in due 
course. 
In addition there is a Congress, whose meet- 
ings have extended over four or five days. кешу; 
Same T entere 
which i is a never- 
of the Belgi It sees E NN. sui 
individually can never do enough for their 
The Burgomaster, Comte de 
каш. guests. 
KERCHOVE his son, M 
M. 
DE DENTERGHEM, 3 
Savio DE KERCHO RODIGAS, 
VAN HULLE, PYNAERT ‚ BURVENICH, and the 
members of the committee, have had the lion's 
share of the work, and they have added to their 
labours by the most bountiful and warm-hearted 
hospitality. We congratulate these gentlemen 
heartily on the success of their endeavours, and 
thank them de zou? соир for the great kindness 
shown to our атаа and the facilities 
that were offered them in ee of the 
report which appears inti 
ME. trust that the article of M. BALTET on 
BUDDING the PEACH with FRUIT BUDS will 
receive e m. attention it merits. It is, indeed, 
singular that so little advantage is taken of the 
process of grafting with flower or fruit buds. 
With the exception of some plants intended for 
forcing we scarcely ym meet with illustrations 
of the practice, and yet it is ne either new n 
difficult, while its GE iik are obvious. To 
remove a fruit-bud or a fruit-spur from one tree 
per transfer it to another is no more difficult 
hac ing or grafting with leaf-buds or 
scion 
m is only lately that M. BALTET, the eminent 
mologist and the able writer, has tried this 
process with the Peach, at the suggestion, as he 
says, of one of his employes, M. BALTET, in 
his most ‘praiseworthy desire to render credit 
, or even 
to his assistant, iwho, as he supposes, must have 
gain ned the idea from some one else, though he 
is not able to say from whom. That assistant 
has a name which suggests that ы is of British 
nationality or descent ; at any rate, it is certain 
that, so far from the practice not Belg noticed 
in horticultural works, it is mentioned in several 
of the leading: English works. M. BALTET, of 
course, had French works especially in mind, 
and he may thank us for telling him that 
THOMAS ANDREW KNIGH T has t the credit of 
; we tran 
lowing passage from LINDLEY'S Theory of 
Horticu ek i 
7 x IGHT ascertained that ie is possible 
another, so 
to obtai ers or fruit from them inion ately e 
us fixed o: wild Rose the flower-buds of garden 
Roses, * and buds being abundantly supplied kb 
utriment, much fi Roses ам they would 
have done had they retained their natural situation.’ “He 
pe 
ugust or beginning of September, the 
became branches, and not flowers." е LAT 
IN some ry pe ae on the INSECT- 
KILLING Pow F PINGUICULA, contained 
in a recent umber ‘of the ot the Belgique {огон 
EN, after. 
the structure rdum the — relies how be "^a 
tivated some specimens in pots in a spongy 
soil, “keting them always in the shade, and 
them under glass in winter. In the 
spring of this year they were рео. healthy, 
and flowered from the beginning of April. The 
plants were developed early in the spring, in 
protection, 
they were planted in 
but somewhat sheltered situation, when they 
immediately began entrap flies. Their 
favourite food, it seems, is a small black fly, two 
or three millimetres long, found in moist places; 
but this does not prevent their availing them- 
selves of - greenfly, which infest the peduncle 
of the plan 
M. ТОККЕН repeated the experiments made 
by poer relative to the action of the leaves of 
pieces, about 2 millimetres square, At the 
Eeuesessn o 
same time he placed other fragments upon the q 
leaves of a young Poplar close by. Hem Moist. - 
ened two of the last- coin leaves Mes the 1 
liquid which percolated from an Асһ nudi. - 
caulis, and placed some other Inn of bud y 
moistened, some with pure к others with 
water smditened with sugar, on a china plate, 
The pieces placed on the plate, hd those upon 
the Poplar leaves, which were not moistened, 
were unchanged in appearance, Allthe others | 
on the contrary, became more or less trans. i 
parent in the course of a day or two. They - 
were becoming dissolved then at the thinnes | 
edges, while others were covered with mildew, - 
On examining under the microscope an insect - 
which had been caught on the leaf, together with 
some of the mucus surrounding it ORREN | 
found numerous monads and Bacteria, together | 
with mycelial threads, Torula 
by the fact that it was always the same insect | 
that was FE WARDE by Pinguiculas. d applied | 
to M. PULS, of Ghent, one of the first Belgian - 
soe ae aio who recogtiised the nud asa 
Mycetophila, which he believed to be the | 
Exechia fungorum of GEER. The larvz of these || 
flies usually exist 
иы, muscarius. 
RF Aus depend [ 
the capture of insects, апа no relation canbe | 
pape’ between the nutrition of the plants and | 
the number of insects caught. M. MORREN | 
ра to many other instances wherein plants | 
erve as insect-catchers by reason of their viscid | 
secretions. On the whole, the author concludes | 
that ‘the Pinguicula has a structure (carefully | 
described by him) similar to that of the pitcher | 
of Nepenthes ; but he doubts the direct diges- - 
tion of animal matter by the T and ыл. 
only the evidence of putrefacti ; 
In another article in the same Wem M. 
MORREN gives his experience in the case of the 
tion of the products of digestion, 1 
M. MORREN does not seem to have made use. | 
of litmus paper to test the acidity of the secre | 
tion from the leaf after the capture of the insect, | 
nor does he seem to have observed the curious | 
aggregation in the ae of the hairs в 
described by Mr. DARW ; 
—— THE illustration which we give on p. 397 (ig. 3 
83) represents € interior of the WINTER GARDEN | 
AT COLOGNE, the scene of the re 
botona Horticult ural Exhibition. 
is of iron Dues i i 
um which om = p o to the > Crows q 
Prince j eh и | 
case, were certainly well-deserv 
—— An EXHIBITION t FuNGI and a Conference 
togamic ill be held at Perth т 
September 29 and 30 and decus I. The secretary 
Е. BUCHANAN WHITE, Rannoch, Perthshire. 
hear of a case which, if our і 
correct, illustrat: 
E km the | art o 
singularly enough that op 
