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OCTOBER 23, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
527 
brown and scaly, except size, we think that FRIES is 
е 
quite right in not adopting it as a species, Specim 
identical with this t of ller size, were 
Fon E b r. ENGLISH at the South Kensington 
dem ow on O We take this oppor- 
we x 
ureus at Perth, a 
species, h ways on and not on the 
ground) has been long confounded with it. We have re- 
ceived excellent specimens Mr N'TOSH, wh 
i 
ever met with, the flesh bei ing as tough as that of 
Polyporus squamosus, E ads РӨ "the same 
taste and smell. JZ F. Р, 
crop of HOLLY BERRIES this — will 
ruits me 
e co grow in 
= luxuriance than at Mr, WALTER'S fine estate, 
Bearw о I There, springing up in all 
directions. as a background, the Holly just now is 
really grand, huge tree-like bushes being almost a 
mass of bzilli colo Caterers for аы 
decorations nee in fear 
favourite material will be lacking, and wit ithout ie 
a ckin 
the cockney of all classes will pats admit wi 
that a finer crop of Holly fruit has seldom been seen. 
BLACKWOOD, late of Buscot Park, 
of Sir GEORGE MUSGROVE, Eden Hall, Cu land. 
—— We ted to state, with regard to the 
awards made at ees recent EXHIBITION AT COLOGNE, 
prizes of honour—the large gold 
russi an 
f vernmen 
have aw o M. LEMMONNIER, of Brussels, 
for-his MIS of Palais Orchids, &c. ; an 
F. J. C. JURGENS, of Hamburg, for his dicetis of 
( ri NCE IMPERIAL was 
Conifers. 
prizes of the ДА IAMS 
of Holloway, and o зд 
е ыз of the — gos committee, a silver 
flower plate, was giv. ES VAN GERT, 
o M. 
of Antwerp, for his ооа vy Conifers, 
— The T ow 5 prices, were 
alied at the SALE S SELECTION OF 
NEW Rooms on 
ааны т уттан 
E hormium Colensoi 
variegatum, us 5s.; Dzemonorops germ, 575. 6d. 3 
. plu mui epe — ý у ivis- 
tonia нра бы 285. ; us Can 705.; 
Phyllotzenium dinde 90 ; mde тать, 
885. to progs Эт аспа Baptistii, I mablis 
63: бага E D. пача, 
а, 705. ; D. Moorei, 84s. ; Сос Kits 1505. 
ето йаз а, d Paullinia. thalicrifolia, 
907. у Ant - um M an 1205. ; Croton undula- 
tum, Sos ; Cocos Weddelliana, 
1205, ; OR Eoin ‘ec, б Smithiif 755. 
чан. — has just been issued by 
—— The fo 
the ee comm f the AMSTERDAM INTER- 
NA S саран AL Won recsatens: EXHIBITION to be held 
I 
“The fo ormer bulletin announced that the Commission 
| view of similar informati op from London 
o be xL oer to p re esolu- 
and i =: this m 
rst bulletin i шщ Belgium, the 
from pe 
n Nether 
zale de Flore at Жей з, ЫНАНА the 
n 
. Société 
intention" of holding in 1876 a grand нала) 
reads in combination with a botanical congress ; it 
ing i ssible to EL this "onm either sooner 
or зь Mars for the following reasons :— Firstly, because this 
exhibition was to its hundredth exhibition, not held 
in 1875 „етн їп order to hold it in the succeeding 
year w ll t éclat secondly, which is 
indeed th ief reason, because the locality designed for 
he exhibition cannot be had before April, 1876, and will 
be demoli in the month of May of tyear. In 
addition this it is stated that, even should not the 
prm 
== 
of the tw exhibit tions at В and 
" "The Société Royale de t nodi toa comin 
cation sent May 15, 1873, to the Gener mission, 
in which it iven pa aa Í € P^ эту of 
celebrating its eer exhibition with great splendour, 
and of giving it an rnation aracter; that this 
ич ron "m: e place 8 1875, but that the ст 
depending on the t a good locality should be 
Но, might ез to undergo an bei change. 
Further information was promised as n as a deci- 
sion ves come to ; no further doris arrived. The 
organising comm was of opinion — сасар 
what had been "da at the Congress of Florence—that 
the — of holding an International Exhibiti ion at 
Brussels was deferred or relinquished, till they saw them- 
selves suddenly placed in the dilemma, either to advise the 
missi ion not to ссии th the aro 
hibiti ilar under- 
a at y* сч 'This latter alternative. was deemed 
the less advi 
i 
a 
арты till 1877, 
. Krelage, chairman, 
delegated two o 
with the 
elag 
man, member— toa conference 
m 
appoint ted as such M. De Cannaert d 
of the Fédération Horticole de CENE. кат MM, 
Doucet, member, and L. Lubbers, secretary of е 
Société Royale de Flore. Т his i interview, which t 
place on conte 3 last, resulte a resolu of th 
General Com s on May 13 last to hold the exhibi- 
tion at и Assétordasa 8 had previously ascer- 
ained from official ee hat there were good grounds 
pecting that the exhibition to be held at эз 
і n i- 
as dispose ed to postpone its projec 
tion til r 18; 
The considered itself the more justifie ed 
in taking such a resolution, as ed b 
exhibition in 1877 it epe the prospec 
give greater extension and i 
vegetable produc ctions, thait i 
adhered to. Itis their intention to employ the kopar 
time at their сы for the realisation of their idea: 
the most useful way for the promotion of the com 
foreign papers also, even of far distant countries, have 
no less contributed to give + тз тужы to the projected 
schemes which ma red as indispensable to 
render the enterprise 
“í Since phare зә ‚тё, the AE "m. have 
taken place in the Com . Kallen- 
berg Van den Bosch at "Teterin AE of the 
Society of Agriculture, Horticulture, an nd Cattle Breed- 
ing, in the arrondissem f Breda, has declined being 
member of the Сонан io aron Schimmel- 
penninck der Oije Tot velaken, delegate of the 
Guelderland Agricultural Society at Arnhem, being by 
his departure to West no longer in the гетаў of 
serving that society, n succeeded 1. D. 
invit ed 
inger 
at Amsterdam D. m, 
оте ly. member of the General Commission 
bave acceded :— , Mr. Н, Hoeu an Velsen, 
honorary President ӨГ" the —: section on of the 
Holland Agricultural Society, member of the direction of 
the International Horticultural “Exhibition 
msterdam ; an . Van of the 
Netherland Society for the Promotion of Industry, 
member of the Commission od the Exhibition of Vege- 
table Productions at t Haa Пет 
Tnt 
іп tic 
of the eld o 
M a resolution was passed to empow Com- 
mission Nor the di gg oe of the exhibition of vegetable 
productions the organising committee 
motion of dis latter, to form themselves into one 
Mi Iwan 
“Тһе co 
the names of the m 
mittee hope in ry next bulletin to state 
embers o 
va : sarsa 
comm suggestions in reference to the 
кшен set forth in this project, which w 
ose to print in full next week. 
THE dise UBL, FUNGUS 
IBITION 
“OF 
“ This . No. 2, acco mpanied bya project of 
pro pren pH ‘the exhibition = vegetable productions, 
р ота harged with this special 
aa ая following 
mans, F. W. 
rH F, R. Hubrecht, cn Piot: Dr. W. 
pres esent committee will gratefully receive any 
proposals or сас concerning their labours as 
their scheme, which will be the more 
ome as such an exhibition will be for the first time 
ith an International Horticultural Exhi 
welco 
combined w 
ition 
The dist betes to be awarded to сои жа will 
аы programme, to be iss ued hereafter. 
The riore perceives, with no small 
боп, that its ore ae received sere 
appro may already vcro; in many mari 
of goodwill and s iere co-operatio! 
** There is сечу prospect that Doveminent will yield a 
powerful sup idi Жыр moral influence e me ubstantial 
assistance, It bas lso promised to promote the affair 
by, ine concurrence of its 
m the Dutch Minister 
ides трна the information that, through the media- 
utch Embass Vienna, the Austrian 
grai ca- 
with sincere 
marks 
ion D 
Minister of the Interior n nce of the 
xhibition, and had brought it under the notice of the 
Ministries that it regarded nna and udapest 
ply from these quarters promised their co-operation 
for the attainment of the desired object. e Ministe 
of Agriculture ш. Vienna has directed the attention of 
those interested in the matter to this exhibition in she 
official Gazette, in 
shall have been in possession of farther 
details. 
A - 
* Further special mention may be made of His 
Majesty's Consuls or Vice-Consuls at Algiers, Ancona, 
Ted anchester, mem 
Paris Rouen, Saigon, Stockholm, and V: 
rom a great number of foreign horti 
and institutes, lekar of 
and € he rona 
plans of "s Comm swi á as muc 
mention ought to be gara here that the 
“ Especi 
callon the public Press has responded to in the 
mostliberal manner. Not only have the Dutch news- 
ith laudable readiness whatever 
papers published 
reports the committee thought fit to issue, but the 
Li 
"AND MEETIN 
THE crowded and enthusiastic meetings hen this 
year at Hereford and Perth have been in 
contrast with the flat and spiritless T meet- 
Exhi- 
visited the rooms 
Royal Horticultural Society might be made one. of 
year, a to attain qr certain alterations rs the 
the abelian’ 6 the pri: 
plants it is different; plant mer 
cannot be expect cted 
ould receive i им. wi 
the case is nott 
bition iem 
rel ds the reir of thos 
absurd one nc (unacquainted 
eref: ord meetings year after year, and 
шй; keep the study ян пн ма 
Kensingt a 
yg г so as to atom.) time for proper arrangement 
the Coun ll. Then 
il-room, which ice Аы woul 
sie competent Bon should be e asked to arrange 
the specimens, and, if no better man comes forward, 
