690 THE 
*GARDENER«S 
CHRONICLE. 
[NovEMBER 27, 1875, 
apart, they па turally be egin by packing the largest 
— n and for a time stray dishes are entirely 
atthe m e officials are not in a 
form of an authority fro 
exhibits after the proper time, and if any person were 
detected in removing a dish of fruit, or anything else 
aced on the wn 
uthority for Min Thames Fa ey. 
Reports of the Royal ww ura сеу 8 
Shows.—I m agree wit Ei state- 
ment the reports of i: hort uiri exhi- 
Lec at South oe that are published in the 
I cannot 
try meetings, кчө ; they are all made the most of. 
articles are often written setting forth the 
in having 
inhabit nd display. е опе s Me pum 
articles of everyday life—i.e., fruit, that w enjoy, 
more — assed over in an insignificant para- 
graph that there was some di 
us 
give a good report of the meetings of the Royal 
Horticultural red at South Kensington. 2; 
The Relations between Master and Servant. 
—My authority for stating at p. 653 5, that Hood had 
had a sale, which you query, was the evidence of 
Leslie, who ue aid, ** An auctioneer's bill va sent in a 
mi 
е. sold plants which he had bought іп 
my name v without my e" Pis titi a. [On the other 
as stated that the plants pected 3 n the 
hand, it 
possession = 
Sunken Stokeholes.—Mr. F. R. Beckett, hot- 
water engineer, '&c,, Chelmsford, Essex, 15 m 
authority for the statements that x 
sil j ing M 2 
t from th 
that he is unable to -— the cost o 
hole water-tight ; may thi 
alludes to ? 
a very vague statement], 
-day giving prices about 
at the amount quoted would 
spring is strong 
to float a few tons of bricks.” He further -—— 
piri of his stokeholes the spring was so g 
of bric ded in cement, o set for 
several days, Notwithstanding an w vie 
the pump night and-day at Os — tied stokchole 
that held two of Ormson’s large tubular boilers was 
close to a spring, and no cement, peddle; &c., would 
prevent the water from co: 
the method emp! 
be ov Veget wheri 
obj Hardly anything is ible 
where sione? ij o object. E. Bennett, 1- Ralley, Herts. 
Plumbago rosea.—This fine old „plant is not 
nearly so well known cultivated as it deserves t 
be. It T one of | the finest things we have for 
ur stoves and intermediate houses with 
of the year. Its long 
will 
other day, “І don't think I ever saw such a pleasing 
sight produced by — yariety of plant at this time of 
e year, and w pity it is that it won't stand cool 
bo nt.” t ee from this, it is well worth 
wing. James "'Ollerhead, Wimbledon House. 
Royal Horticultural Society,—In allusion to 
the Royal ае Society, the жең А ques- 
tion is as esponden refer im- 
pression of your tine nib ^ Have we a Horticultural 
Society?" This question might appropriately be 
answered Quaker fashion. Could an individual who, 
placed in a —— country amongst дей inhabi- 
tants, broken n by debt and misfortune, and 
bound hand c. þa in chains too skilfully pota 
to admit of his breaking free, and thus dragge 
down to a state so low that he dared not say his soul 
was his all intents and purposes other- 
wise than 
grafted a scion, however choice, upon an unappropriate 
arren soil, unnur- 
individuals E s xe apply alike to С, І 
would sugges espondent, all who 
desire that a oce сау should: nied that he 
and they should ** put their shoulders to the wheel,” 
and try if they ои e pull the Royal Horticultural 
н ее рө its etters, and out of the —_ 
f despond i ic it as been so lon 
gra: re inki indes Remove it altogether from its аш: 
healthy surroundings : the very atmosphere of South 
Kensington blights every bud it ventures to put forth, 
until it stands a leafless and a cU example of 
roduce. But 
emove it into a pilk an 
surroundings, and in a little while your correspondent's 
question a be answered—not Quaker fashion, 
but with bold and —XÀ S e 
5 alec a question that occurs to m sak, 
s we were info re by a санаан in las t Friday 5 
Times, “that an Act would be applied for next 
session for е eum enforce an annual payment from 
bert 
| g 
oe so closely belong to each other, by ownership 
and in mp lend that they should dealt with as 
a whole. ciently compre- 
hensive to give the power of levying a rate upon the 
m ons say wit ер radius of a mile жм {һе 
hall, a small percent tals woul 
rental for rights they have already fully pai Phe 
te would also pa terest, and by Е" ing 
fund the capital of the garden’s de red S 
The Horticultural Society of the Past.— 
Horticulture in England i riae gena dates back to 
the time o an occupation ; nev ess, in 
ite of the respectable DT ‘and jndisputable 
utility of the science, no Society purporting to full 
develope or represent i existed, strange to say, until 
th Singuishea Due rally felt, 
opem 
кас неч у 
Ње Но 
то ў por 9 this, reni the introduc- 
hru been c 
ion 
rtichifaral Society of 
London. 
tion of foreign trees an bs had 
of interest and i npo although for 
horticultural progress in this direction was ex 
low. Itw 
nsidered 
mpo durin entury only h 
the number of iy nine, it у= evident that the 
deman r such novelties w t small, and that 
ornamental arboretums m en confined to 
the wealthiest citizens, or the few 
greatest nobles. e seventeenth century witnes 
considerable advance both in es кам. of 
new species in —131—and the 
ment of botanic gardens at Oxford aa “Chelsea, 
nurse Par 
—— 
а is clear then that at the PNE Of the present 
bot 
was for many years onn restrain 
us 
se productions, an 
Ye high and honourable position, and to: n 
be numbered among those institutions which : 
destined to be coexistent with the constitution of the _ 
esi itself. Thus, to give some the — 
mpetus which horticulture received the | 
fir thirty j years of this cenfury, mainly owing to the _ 
xe ociety, it will be "баай to state À 
China, 
Islands—but also extended i 
it 
the 
friend of man contemplates with pleasure 
entury ground was thoroughly prepared 
anical enthusiasm might healt ү Уан bene 
m the gent] 
e Roya КЕ Horticultural S T mide eee 
And why? песе their ` enthusiasm 
arned societies abroad, it unquestionably attained a 
Africa, 
E 
eners, 
e ad or the number | 
joint exertions of a few private in i 
ten 
flori 
by the tw 
millions (The Bot 
be mentioned 
founded 1 i 1622.) Whilst Mr. Loudon, w 
сое ot be imer! as preju € 5) candid 
avour, is nev: as (хорда in A 3 
nscier us poser А firm, ‘ 159) tahoe 
of the 1 i in the 
or twelve years with a small sum of shot ro. 
ins eerie racc es a asbeen performed 
arned bod 
reading a taste for 
not only in T but throughout the hod 
world." So then, ciety sce 
nsi lecided m 
tunate ve о 
іе airs ms to have 
1831, when a committee of enquiry г 
ociety was nearly £4000 in debt. 
Society at once 9 diture 
encumbrance off it might have been saved, 9 
fortunately, oth йы ; and in 
debt having reached the s эша of £10,0% 
in Regent Street, the peu s property, 
its meetings, had to be sold, Mogethet 
aluable herba 
most important lib 
in p of 
this year the 
died 
the 
Offering at the 
ei a i emn 
