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jury 18, 1874.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
77 
Ho: rticulturists and on Fete 
ULTURISTS and 
“GA NERS’ 
EK iste n to the = ble 
ig was EE. e. R.S. | ppe BATEMAN, F.R.S. 
WILSON r ikenien | BERTHOLD SEE puen Elati D. 
w, | ARCHIBALD F. ‘Bak 
ay M. J. BerxeLey, F. L.S. | Hon. MARSHALL P. “Gt ER. 
JOHN GIBSON. 
E | Professor Asa GRAY. 
‘Dr. Moore 
REIC. 
| Professor KARL A 
| Baron von MuUELL 
Joun SmitH (Kev). 
Professor Westwo' 
| Dr. THWAITES. 
| Professor PARLATOR 
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PINTMENTS sn THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Orchids, Tree Ferns, Bulbs, &c., at 
jg ee iF pat ooms. 
Š ajA p showy or orticultural Society’s (two days) 
ow, 
Erewash Valley Horticultural Society's 
Show, 
Elk ord Horticultural S Society's 
Sale of Camellias, Azaleas, fen &c., at 
Bedford Hill House, Balham. 
City of London Flower Show, in the Garden 
rs’ 
-Cambridge Horticultu iral Societ how. 
Liskeard oee Society’s Show. 
9 tural Society’s (two 
ys) S 
1 wy vasf 3 Tong ond “Dudley Hill Hortiéultural So- 
mrs 
ty’s Show. 
— em 
Y useful piben has just been 
under the auspices of the AMERICAN 
ICAL SOCI OCIETY, and to which we deem 
' call attention, because, although its 
‘will be especially experienced in America, 
tis by no means without value on this side 
s, indeed, its worth is as 
tly, for the suggestio: ns 
inform 
on 
) iy assemblage of 
from every part of the Union, and 
the gers oa the exhibition of fruits to 
the States of this vast regi 
duly 214 sate le of Orchids at Bedford Hill House, 
ation it conveys. 
* places on record 
place, but we selec 
Lorene oe 
with the vitality and promise n pomology and 
horticulture in the United Stat 
n this country the igw ho have 
marked tendency to become mere floral displays 
and nothing else. As such they are not with- 
out their value, but the good they do would be 
greatly enhancedif they were made more efficient 
means of instruction for gardeners or amateurs. 
Our meaning will be the better grasped by the 
comments we now proceed to make on the con- 
tents of the imposing brochure before us. We 
need not dilate on the speech-making and busi- 
ness formalities which occupy the early portions 
of the report. Americans seem to havea special 
facility for after-dinner speeches, and in this 
respect they more nearly assimilate to the Celtic 
than to the Teutonic stock. e have already 
alluded to the address of Colonel WILDER, 
which if it appealed to the ears of those who 
heard it as forcibly as it does to the attention of 
their correct nomenclature, the kinds siftable 
for different localities and varying cultural con- 
ditions and the like, each member giving his 
opinion viva voce. 
In all this there is, as if seems to us, a valu- 
able hint to ourselves in any fi spk horti- 
cultural Congress that may be organised. 
= 
@ 
fa) 
Oo 
Fruits Made for Man, or did Man Make the 
Fruits?” and which by the courtesy of the 
author was reproduced in our columns (p. 79, 
vol. i. 1874). Other memoirs of a more specially 
att character are those by Mr. 
on the Exhaustion of Fruit Trees arid its 
what the flavour of a spore! Grape will be 
words, “Repeated and unv iia teins ook 1d a 
similar character have so far convinced me 
of its entire correctness that I do not hesitate 
to announce that i in the taste or flavour = the 
em prermas 
cants 
United States ; ; Mr. Hoopes, who treats of the 
reciprocal influence of the Stock and the Scion. 
But probably the most valuable portion of the 
report re evised, catalogue of Fruits. 
the l n mea number 
bka descriptions dd an goes Son of th 
value as tested in the several States of Më 
Union, E latter being classed peed three 
divisions—northern, central 
hern— 
according to latitude. isks are silica to 
Asteri 
l indicate the State or district in which any par- 
sicular 
z. 
variety is recommended for cultivation, 
such recommendation being — on the col- 
lective evidence supplied by 
Congress and of the Rept as before ex- 
plained. Where the variety i is demid of very 
superior value two asterisks are made use of, 
a so on. 
witthow dex nterest. 
is too vast for us to pretend to ci 
how are 
re glance over these elaborate tables- 
value and i The subject | 
1 in this | 
has in the case of a thoroughly good variety. Let 
the reader bear in mind the vast range of terri- 
tory extending from 35° to 42° North latitude 
and from 70° to 130° West longitude, its different 
elevations and its enormously varied climatal 
conditions, and then let him note the fact promi- 
nently brought out in these tables, that, whereas 
certain varieties succeed best in some States and 
some in others, yet the varieties of such supe- 
rior quality as to be marked with a double 
asterisk are, as a rule, subject to few exceptions, 
andexcepting always local varieties not known 
out of particular districts, found to be s best 
throughout the whole Union~in the New Eng- 
land States as in the Southern States, in red 
chusetts as in California or Texas, just as it is 
found in colleges that the pupil who takes a 
adapt to his views as to the degeneracy of 
climate. 
A few illustrations of the general rule may 
advantageously be given. 
o 
us on this side of the Atlantic, and which, from 
their proved value in those States which have a 
climate approximating to our own, are likely to 
be of most interest. 
Among Apples we find the Baldwin specially 
recommended for the North-Eastern States, as 
Red Astrachan is a proved 
favourite, not only in the North, but in the cli- 
matally very different States of Ohio, Indiana, 
Tennessee and Missouri. 
Ninety-five selected sorts are catalogued, and 
among them we find marked as of special value 
the Bartlett (Williams’ Bon Chrétien), which is 
highly valued in almost te 2 district north 
much less so; Beurré d’Anjou is cartienaely 
useful in the North- Eastern States ; Duchesse 
d’Angouléme is marked with special approbation 
areca en the whole. iet, oe 
We might give many more ib any but 
we have probably said enough to indicate the 
great value of this report, and to furnish some 
hints how our flower and fruit shows might be 
turned to more profitable account than they 
- of cryptogamic botany in | 
writes tos to state that in ib op ion the 
which affects Ricz in India is the same as that known 
in Italy as the aco del Darts, tid andis s produced by 
onging ot the group Sphæria! 
oryze. Ina 
L 
dir 
i 
3 
of New Py 
—— We have already on one or 
noticed the v very promising bat 
