THE 
AUGUST 22, 1874-] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE: 
Noteworthy H rticulturists and Botanists. 
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1874. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEE 
Warkworth Horticultural Society’s oe 
Ty Aug. 24{ es ne bani Society’ s iie. 
Hort ae Society's Show. 
dere ge Horticultural Society's 
Serer 
iiey H o eerta AE Show. 
mA Auckland Hortic ral Society’s 
7 P Seat ra Se Sacre 8 
ey, Aug. at a <a (Lancashire) Horticultural So- 
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Ä j ITH all our vaunted progress in pee 
be 
increase of population. We are not speaking 
Grapes and forced fruits—the luxury of the 
* and well-to-do—but of fruits such as, with 
_ resources se at 
- poorer 
; conpiiested: inquiry to endeavour 
1 the cause of this. 
is- eae the retail Reet 
to their war 
: editions of the Fru 
i as m Dari the blam 
One reason, 
tically to limit their sale very materially. 
e have no reason to think that the ae 
get unreasonable prices. 
ma 
dirgenitly demands FRETET. and we should 
e gl uld be devised to 
gladly encourage all schem 
lighten up the homes of our toiling masses, and 
afford them means of recreation and a source 
of interest, but, withal, fruit for the poor is yet 
more desirable, and gladly would we welcome 
that several of the N newspapers are printed 
entirely upon i t them being the Vew 
ork Tribune, ab Gazelle, and Portland 
Advertiser. Another North American gras A 
in paper-making. belongs to 
busidece, and is a stiff-growing cae plant, attain 
ing a considerable a e It is abundant on the 
banks of creeks and rivers in Boi an Carolina and 
gia, the stems bng stif and yore so at 
r ery > A few years back a waer 
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any plan which should render available for their 
use a larger supply than at present. sub- 
jectis also one well worthy the attention of those 
otment gardens. 
index of what varieties are really the b 
cultivation. We shall publish other lists of a 
similar character from time to time.” 
With regard to nomenclature, the Horti- 
Society many years ago issued 
excellent catalogue, drawn up mainly by the 
THOMPSON, while the successive 
it Manual kee 
posted in the newer varieties, and in the 
synonymy of the old. This question of nomen- 
clature crops up in every department of horti- 
culture. It is not an easy matter to deal with, 
even when questions of pure re con- 
science are 
Proceedings e America 2 
ociety, to which we lately referred, and in 
which we find Mr. SYLVES' ER, of York, 
f 
narrating the following instructive story :— 
three years ago, about the time of an 
e 
and put on ‘ Bismarc ke 
dealer, and the next day he came back and got the rest, 
and for the next few days there was a brisk demand for 
Bismarcks.’ ” ; 
Whatever be the cause; ` we trust the arp 
may be discuss 
me for a gr 
and aoe climate is not the 
an oreover, we have no mono- 
ace adnie 
n 
an prammen 
only reaso 
poly of ia 
—— Ir may perhaps interest t f the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle who ‘* go ber > for PAPER AND | 
ee MATERIALS to know that specimens O of the 
ems, fibre, and “half s 
ca (referred to- 
of artillery. A battery a ten guns oO 
size, "ot hs et pes n inch 
yield o r 50t er day. No 
is apenes} nor skilled workmen.” 
as med 
aw 
for disintegrating t this 
sare 
Company,” hav 
and near St. Louis, 
large works in 
naking ya 
Disintegrating 
Broo Mis- 
clyn, Long tanh, 
souri. 
ITIER at a 
inadmissible accor acting Y the rules of 
has a very wide ran; distribyit ution, 
s E E m . capi a name 
that applies very aptly to the cxcetngly tne divi- 
ions of the leaves XBURGH called it elegans 
beget and 
e first, se t be 
KITA 
adopted, ae 
mens shoud 3 sto 
gardens it | grows sbo 4 fee 
; and its finely-cu 
the appearance of / 
— Me DUNN, of Dalkeith, has haskindly forv a 
ED OLIVE QUEEN” PINE- re 
rate into 
doo or a 
Right is ofa rick, glossy 
t foliage gives 
us a large FASCIA 
APPLE in which five bi 
one mass, like a Cock: Strawberry on a large 
ale: The appearance is probably aero wet circum- 
stance that what under ordinary circumstances are 
circu 
mere leaf shoots or “‘ gills” are here represented by 
sie which have become united together. The fruit 
as the produce of a plant twenty months old. 
— The recent rains have greatly i 
of THE FLOWER GARDENS 
others, to say the least, are are ugly. 
at either an =e the Pala honse 
Pelar; 
goniums. The c eh 
south end is from the centre po 
| erbena angle 
ntre. 
eof Viola cornuta, 
belia tak: Sete lac and oe 
ath Pelargonium Albion's 
Lol 
thrum Golden Feather that of 
Cliffs. 
by His is Majesty y7 KG 
of WALES, and 
Bt oo eal 
