tades and all the rest of it. 
DECEMBER II, 1875.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE, 
749 
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to maintain the Society. When called upon 
the interests of the Society the тоту ур 
combined to make a show which was consider- 
ably above the average. Then look at the 
committees—the Floral, Fruit, ind Scientific 
—sees the work they dó, ahd the men who 
compose them ; consider ‘also the useful work 
still done, though under heavy she чор at 
or hse 
t may be said 
they pay their subscriptions, so do the others ; | 
d then as to the use, fair or inordinate, of 
transferable tickets, who 
tickets? Not the horticulturists—as a class, 
decidedly, most of them never enter 
FIG. 155.—MALIGAWA TEMPLE АТ KANDY ; 
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Garden except оп business connected 
with the Society. There is, then, nothing 
enable in asking «the local Fellows 
? and which is only of the remotest pos- 
sib valis to horticulture. If they will not do 
this by all means let them take the garden = 
theif own hands, and let the Society go its o 
Way The таннин would gladly exhibit, 
would gladly c e proper work of the 
Society at South mb. or anywhere else, 
еа nid object to be saddled with the respon- 
es of an establishment which is not only 
c use to horticulture, but which brings dis- 
sa and discredit upon it. The local Fellows 
t skating rinks, fireworks, balls, prome- 
Well and good— 
the | 
Ў. 
| let them have them, but do not let them call 
themselves a Horticultural Society or divert re- 
sources more properly applicableto horticulture 
for these purposes. They talk loudly about the 
necessity of keeping the garden open as an 
additional lung to the Metropolis. By al 
means let it be so, but this is a curious cry from 
gentlemen who would exclude everybody from 
the enjoyment of it except themselves and the 
persons to whom they transfer their tickets ! 
We admit that curtailment of privileges is a 
very questionable policy, but what other can be 
suggested short of skating rinks and things un- 
objectionable in their way, but quite out of the 
business of a horticultural society to promote. 
To our thinking Lord ALFRED CHURCHILL hit 
Ee 
Se 
the mark nearest when he advocated the sever- 
ance of the horticultural element from a party 
who have neither knowledge of, interest in, or 
sympathy with, the objects for which the Society 
was founded. is Lordship pointed out what 
were the proper duties of a horticultural society, | 
advocated provincial shows, a federation of the 
local societies throughout the тту; the 
establishment of practical lecture the 
appointment of teachers of practical шеше 
in the provinces—the appointment of a Foreign 
Secretary to revive those relations with foreign | 
Societies which have been allowed to lapse. 
In all this he has our -o sympathy, indeed 
i i ry programme upon 
неа. But we 
quite agree: with him also, this 
cannot be done so long as we are weighted 
with an unprofitable garden and an unsym- 
pathetic body of Fellows. An independent 
Society might do all this, but there are tre- 
mendous obstacles in the way of a new Society ; 
and by founding a new one we should not 
escape from the responsibilities of the old one. 
Nevertheless, it is clearly merely a question of 
time, Either the local Fellows must do their 
duty, and not avail themselves of advantages at 
debenture debt round their necks, and Her 
Majesty's Commissioners taking toll for the 
rent while the horticulturists pursue their legiti- 
mate obiects elsewhere. 
SHRINE OF THE TOOTH RELIC. 
—— THE experiment of aig the RULES 
KDE QUA. in the unhealthy Campagna of Rome, 
wi object of reor de the influence of th the 
A ic exhalations from the ground, has, says the 
és, been tried for ly in the 
locality € of the Жом of St. Paul Trois Fontaines, 
named GILDAS has had the plants 
Meri caltivati n. In some communications 
to the Société уе 
es that the trees 
| valuable properties in cases of fever, and that many 
| persons have been cured of that di 
| the “elixir,” which is also a preventive of fever. A 
| s ilar preparation of the leaves in the f a 
powder is also which has the advantage of 
keeping nto ap = than the decoction, The merits 
of the discovery will be placed under the notice of the 
