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686 HITE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 27, 1875, 
ence to the employer. at are specimen plants? 
Plants for exhibitio ou may, have done, fi 
t in urse of eig onths y e had forced 
pay for highly is valued one- 
se items, which occur in the ы ntiff's bill of 
the trial referred to, will explain the reaso apageria 
rosea, charged £23, valued £3 35.; Gleichenia flabellata, 
= ks 52 тоѕ., valued Z 15 ; Azalea Iveryana, charged 
d Хто тоз, Sohn Leslie, M.P., Florence, 
[We are tempted to ask s was the condition of 
the plants when supplied, what when valued ?] 
The following letter also ред in the Zimes of 
"Thursday :— 
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such agent they may vitiate their contract with the 
principal, S., Lincoln's Inn, November 24,’ 
— We have received a cop of the rules and 
fegulations of the Société ннан de Paris. 
This. весну. is open alike Frenchmen and 
5, I0 
paying a lump sum of £10. The main object of the 
oughits 
members of USEFUL ANIMALS AND PLANTS. This in- 
cludes the domestication of animals and the improve- 
of: i dissemina! 
ot the Det vri 
Facilities for | 
also animals - Ego are con 
arge sums are placed at ouncil 
of the Society to re vea the successful introduction of 
useful animals and plan 
£40, 420, and ‘smaller amounts are offered for various 
bjects. 
topi to the Secretary, 19, Rue de "iile, Paris, 
—— In the extensive class of hardy perennials 
most stri 
one of the striking among - con flowerin 
kinds is HIERACIUM AURANTIACU 
easin: 
and easily grown yos hat close 
growth, and a bearded flo -stem bearing a panicle 
of orange-red cnt ie flowers. Up tothe beginning 
of November i ined very a and effective, 
as it produces a мига of flow: 
—— The large group of charming CvcrA 
exhibited at the eie of the Vie Horticultural 
. by Messrs, H, B, 
—— The SPORTIVENESS OF THE CHRYSANTHE- 
MUM is well illustrated. in the case of that superb 
were obtained as sport Golden Beverley, 
— рг. ВгосК, Golden fin Saver r, Mr. Howe, 
orange-amber sport from John Salter, the colour 
of the latter being reddish cinnamon shading of to 
White Venus, and 
e Rundle 
sported first to am e blush 
Queen of England m to gold in the "s ире 
and then to amber, 
—— The following notes of a REMARKABLE OLD 
OAK TREE À DLOW are extracted from a magazine 
about а hundred years old, and re-printed lately in 
Eddowes Shrewsbury 1:—* Оа аѕ 
felled, September 20, Eu at Ludlow, in Shropshire, 
the гаа of which were x tons of timber, 43 | cords 
of wood, 200 park pales, and 5 cords of brackets. A 
bongh broke off before the tree was cut pem which 
weighed 74 tons, and three men were mploy ed a 
month i in stacking it, The whole tree em Nd 
at £140, 
—— At the сеа of the Ealing District Et 
santhemum Society on the 13th inst. Messrs 
SMITH & Co., of the Ealin D Nurseries, staged 
an example of LATANIA B - e of the 
wi nd the 
led to the — 
RD wo 
become general ov ep surface 
e of the 1 eaves. It is 
fih ^T 
SMITH to flower it p possible, eA beoe if the 
variegated са сап be perpe aa by seed. 
It must, however, be remembered th е Tateniss 
are dicecious. The plant had a ately: гонаи and 
vigorous habit of portis : 
—— М S SAWYER = MÀ ON 
CLIMATIC с Сад eB IN ILLI ше o the - t number 
of the 7: can of the Mie of Science of St. 
L He s that de ае of Illinois has 
been slowly ren ante chan ging i from wet to dry 
d has been paying е 
m an какын ral st = 
Һе regards this change as certain to prove а seri se 
obstacle culti vation of the soil. zi 
| one, eti that is Jette to produce greater c ES. to 
'This is what ms the 
ар. agent, t iT chemical and Deren [effects of 
which, he adds, are constantly at work, and the result 
is plainly visible in the дерс. of the әрле of 
all the small streams, In his rds 
“ [n the early history of our ids eem ile wild Е 
en little ponds had water basins fro 
much more slowly та at present, насенне ende 
when the he RE c me intense during summer there was 
= immense amount vapour in the atmosphere 
eady to be condensed in deluging showers upon th 
slightest change i in the temperature, nt time 
е; th 
pon nav and lakes have become so filled up tip th rat they е 
less {Кай half their former amount of water ; the st 
crust, and a change in the 
temperature d during the heated term brings, as a rule, a 
cool, dry atmosphere, p instead. of rain, as in former year: 
BÓ. 
fhe increase of 
ме готеноокыа: ` In this Staté, at the 
etn time, we have at least 3,000,000 horses, cattle, 
and sheep, and they will 
enty ж +. жены of water 
e" twenty-foun- quie Ai a lake of it 
The italics are his, Bii iem: oem each in 
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to illustrate the effects of the aqueous agent, ory the 
as Act by ‘himself, — 
d a centur Ys 
—— The county of Kent has long been associated 
with GARDENERS’ MUTUAL 
e, and is probably in e: tence n Mr. 
JoHN Конон, The Gardens, Linton Park, ne of the 
most renowned of Kenti 
gardening is then read, and ^ uA follows, 'This 
Society vov to be doing a good work in the 
istrict. ridge a sitar Society is in Opera. 
tion, and doi ing gen. according to the tenor of its 
reports, 
recent report of the Sociz 
= Agr trice dl d Horticulture we learn aa cena 
e years past o ра rincipal obje | 
босу reel been we "нел S the Р 
INJURIOUS ANIMAL 
protection of insectivorous = ds, 
several school college 
efforts i 
d amongst them they protected 
abs a du nests of useful birds, Sheltering Ba 
in five X ngales, 
This is x age nal аза reported, the num- 
bers of which are mostly much higher, It would 
appear that insectivorous eer vie © га ere 
terminated in some of Fra 
insects have LOMA. pii inen e Wes they: 
have become a formidable scourge. 
— Itis лар to read of the difficulties en 
countered | by garden ers at Uralsk, a Russian town " 
he аге east of Europe, in 
the same latitude as London. In many Continental 
places the greater SUMMER HEAT COMPENSATES ina 
measurefort D WINTERS; but at i 
accordi _ BURMEISTER in ы e Gartenflora, the 
climate is itigatedly se and uncertain, that 
all efforts to establish татай, of even such hardy 
nd Ash, have bee Kader, For 
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