16 Lif 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 4, 1874, 
those we are familiar with in Sir JosHUA’S por- 
‘opposite, would have been the painter to have 
handed down to posterity the lineaments of the 
lady humorously alluded to in Baron GRANT'S 
inaugural address, and who preferred the Square 
as it was before Baron GRANT and his aides- 
KNOWLES and Mr. GIBSON, 
NEWTON, with his 
whilom noisome 
ever. We must 
refer our readers to the daily prints for the ac- 
count of the opening ceremony, and the manly 
speech in which kaii GRANT detailed in fitting 
language the history of his connection with the 
Square, the difficulties that lay in his way, his 
well merited rebuke at those who attributed 
sordid motives to him, and his confidence that 
the people would not misuse what was intended 
for their benefit an The total 
od db ry 
- stan e that cannot represent the 
direct ina aria good which such a munifi- 
cent donation will be the means of effecting. 
—— Few men in the ben of horticulture have e 
deserved the r fell 
assurance i give 
regard, but woul at the same time help to meet 
manifold expenses which are incidental ty a prolonged 
A committee has for ing 
out this object, with Mr. G. F. WILSON, chairman ; 
Mr. T: and ) as e EAN 
secr tary, t may be sent, 
We understand.that Ge panes of holding an 
INTERNATIONAL HORTICUL and 
_ CONGRESS in London has b 
S — Next Tuesday, at t o'clock, the first of the 
ND COUNTIES GRAND me ~ Siete Pars 
the Lower Grounds 
actual facts. Such a horticultural display has never 
before, we believe, Los eo eld in the provinces ; and 
we sincerely hope S Uiit TER, the spirited 
caterer of this cubated may be ee S 
ported by t 
For the mere pleasure-seeker there will be abd nance 
of excellent music, in pee on ang the sensuous char 
of plants, fruits, and e gardener, 
and professional, there will be the choicest 
artment $ bic tioultural skill. 
w sapira utifully kept gardens, 
broad-sweeps of beautiful rive Š rnb flowers, trees, 
and horticultural building gs, 
implements, and etceter sh It may i 
our arek to know that entries have been r 
from twenty-nine counties, viz., Warwick, Stafford, 
WARES, Hereford, Gloucester, Salop, ‘Leicester, 
Derby, Notts, Northampton, Oxfor erts, Lincoln, 
ie ms Am shire, Westmore net Berks, Bucks, Wilis 
evon, Sussex, Middlese 
ory ramet Candies, ad Glamor rgan. 
4 
—— The unfortunate LIBOCEDRUS DECURRENS 
as suffered another change = name, eats this time 
is eats the t goes of a new As ell-know: 
to some of o readers this ‘random E handy er 
green tree was, an still, i <4 gardens élted 
Eia gigantea, the true T. gi gant a going under the 
of T. Lobbii. is er 
nated with Mi- CAR 
this journal that 
false names, e Libocedrus decur- 
rens was in the first instance spolek of re this name 
—the one originally given to it by TORREY in the 
Smitusonian Rates heed accompanied tei figure ; 
and the C al misnomer inted out as long 
a 18 se But GORDON and others in this country 
d CARRIÈRE’ i nomen crest Trn question, 
may have m the fact 
risen 
o cried an L at ed i 
American works, little known in England at that 
C make the Libo- 
fen tea, as described in 
mericana, which is the 
ate plant; and ee ve eri it Thuja gigantea 
a8 
UTTALL The complicate 
synonomy of the two eae “ as follows :—Zzdo- 
ges ag curr es ae rrey, Otherwise Thuja Craigana, 
; T. gigantea, Carrière, Gordon and other. 
ae pri Nuttall Day a gigantea; Nuttall, ope 
Te .Menziesii; = Do a w 
glas,- Gordon and 
T. Lobbii, of gardens ; 3 Thujopsis Standishii, Gorton’ 
nd T. japonica, Maximowicz, not of o 
which is a form of pio a ili 
getting a bit settled i 
names of these two 
“KotH, ai tell 
not be retai the genus, a 
it differs age ape other species of Libocedrus 
ving trobile e 
whereof the iwo iris ner are 
S 
wantin. 
sor KOCH (Dendrologie, 
p- 177) on these and other 
s, names 
it Heyde s, in hono f a German plant 
at note. Professor eT considers the 
habit and the character. s afforded he keari: also of 
goes We wu 
+ = . 
shortly expect to see in this 
eoem; count 
the scale’ D DOUBLE-FLOWERED POINSETT TIA, sal 
cerning which expectations have y raised 
om rs, and from the 
new-comer will be a very sp. 
r a mean- 
itions of ifferent 
is Poi trdo l 
i ivision of the 
tib Ue the lowest and oe aid 
e flower- a uli 
cation of the coloured leaves or bracts on Se mck the 
beauty of the plant depends. 
Se e floral decoration of RAILWAY are 
gardening that grow aws apace, 
can be improved upon is shown at the Harlow stati 
of the Great Eastern Railway at the present mome 
ng on the gravelly ban 
epth, are so forme d 
s can be made 
so forethought and judiciou 
Railway Service Gazette, the 
t 
the ae gan seem to be fully alive 
importance of s ing a knowledge of gardenir 
ong th ne aoa ave a column devoted 
gardening intelligence. In this w any 
patch of land becomes converted into a useful 
and ca gee respite from labour, that m 
aire e be up to idleness and somet 
worse, ate probtably utilised. 
Now that popular education is recei 
wih a attention at the Lag of statesmen, it ma 
well to record, as show in what w t 
an elementary school rhe pleasantly: sappien 
daily routine of instruction, that at the 
24, a 
Schools. 
on an ordinary stand used for 
bore their scientific and popu he 
written ould 
CHISW N are now we hy insp\ a 
as, ona the careful cultivation DEJAN du 
it is doubtful 
ae only. 
flo smal 
p crimson, mauve, magenta, yellow, 
white, diversely -ah 
Single blooms afford but an indifferent 
tion of the value of a Pansy or 
or massing ; y their merits in this respect can 
Phos 
pa 
an 
oO 
$$ 3 
a 
"3s 
that many kinds having indiffere 
perchance the most floriferous, “itt constant, 
productive of the greatest effects. ear 
notice ; but who spe eee: admire —s bedi 
plants should not fail to 
wick, an m their own opinions as to the be 
the various ich there ‘growing. 
— RUCKER, of Wandsworth, has now 
flower a plant of the grand ODONTOGLOSSOM V 
LARIUM, ee 
fifteen very ; 
plant in the same coifeetion iba appt 
which are deeper in colour, but not so large. 
—— In the Water Lily house, which is gen 
an attractive one to the visi ew, the 
Dai but not least, “the magnificent S Sacred 
India, Nelumbium speciosum, with its 
—— A medal for 
B. Brown Co, sano at the BREMEN 
NATIONAL EXHIBITION, for piriy in w 
ni arr ery emg production of their ga 
_—— About sixty of the rig oh of m Victo 
and Paradise.N 
annual holiday on 
oe 
at 
. 
down to a repast at 
B. Ss. Wits hi 
erann 
were sung 
“Mr, spree mn 
employés, spoke ent 
