302 TH E 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER $, 1894, 
strengthen the hands of the provisional com- 
mittee by sending in their names as members of 
the Society ; - and for those who become members 
to hand in their pemnrcons © to the Treasurer. 
WE have received sately, by the kindness 
of Signor (SARO VAG the report 0 
three years ek ng Ke LABORATORY, of 
CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY at ce ae of 
Pavia. The several a acca fee pen 
ect Rice. 
or sho: oe time since, when HALLIER was in- 
by re Pe 
min nute “superficial mould, which was 
an afte growth, a: nothing to do 
ured a number of after: 
ow ce Peer’ te has, however, i in- 
ira one eae which ; 
the Pear mi ji x ongs t 
genus ra, an the more strings He ANS 
ees under three distinct forms of fructi- 
cation. 
-Valua abl le, ret as the work done in 4 
laboratory during the ret time ry: has bee 
established is, it is no more than is done 
individual zeal in i 
be 
the example of this and of kindred lab 
ratories in Germany, where admirable mee 
as realised, makes u TOLPE tiat y e shall 
secured except in ue public institution where 
there is every aid to be derived from books an 
the most perfect. and expensive edie: The 
great red with 
n any future revi- 
trust that i 
nof the our univer- 
ily wor work gratis oe 
anther efficient heads, T at very low Fe at one time å 
_ hope that something of the kind might be 
: pted at Chiswick, but the project fell 
gh for wan want of the necessary funds, Both 
and Cambridge there would be no 
buildin 
have frequently received Roors of 
— WE 
MELONS saa CUCUMBERS DISTORTED with Nō- 
DULES somewhat resembling those 
common on Ca e 
€ ) We orig 
in them a species of Vibrio, but on ee ree we 
_ sion were we able to do so, though the 
peculiar appearance 
ig bad 
and te We 
ants would | 
remuneration 
wi E Me rie farot urope, and 
M. EA sur irk- Espččes du Sos Lis, | 
an accompli hor 
which are so 
iginally detected 
have how before ts a very similar affection in Gar- 
denia radicans (fig. 64), a vet in the very first peee i? 
da sw 
stages = development, 
could not distinguish fro: 
the instan 
prea ily P ce above Snan Se (fig. 65). 
Fié. 64.+800T GF MELON DISTORTED wmi NODULES: 
The přobability is 
effect on the MA is precis 
is: that it: is ahè tade species; ab the 
recisely similar. The. case is 
very instru gests caution in calling in 
question foret observátions. We know the 
pawe Cúcurbits have been examined ahe 
d fi 
ho c not "e 
the Vibrios, and were i 
quence inclined to believe that there had bess 
fallacy. e present case 
confirmatory of the correctness of our pre 
F. Jy 
is, however, completely 
vious yv 
Our correspondent, ‘ cannot too ‘ebitipletely 
Fic, 65:—0NE OF THE NODULES, CUT ACKOSS: 
destroy busting all affected together wih 
rope ells Bi poe 
crema ai a ho 
that an 
succeed 
ae it ree 
(from a Parana s point of view) so tte 
impossible to determine accuratel y 
now-a-days 
i? E 
plants under cultivation. He who attempts the task 
finds, as CHARLES LAMB said, when teaching a 
lady Latin, that ‘ =SteyPiEUS, his i Fe kiar as 
ing to it 1” Ve ee r: HANCE on his 
esting discovery, but hat, even from a 
botant al ihe point, the! inconvenieues udes to, 
and which are real, are, or might uni compen: — 
eared for by the increased k sowie: we obtain of the — 
life-history of the plants i in question. 
e learn from an Irish meer ys that the 
extent of land at present under 
ed in 1872, slightly 
creased ; it then stood at 1,325,675 acres, at 126,823 
for Wales, arid at 734,490 for Sco In the Iris 
bogs, which were formerly much more ‘extensive than 
o us Ireland, w; 
from time immemorial-was clothed with T e 
the forest, focal as treeless as ** Caledon 
wild.” 
aie “We have noticed with Amis for some 
tiši 
still, however, som: of the nobility and 
gen 
oliv aba ches of gardeners as cum 
yn Bai — anme benefit 
learn from the daily papers th that 
We 
ALBERT GRANT, to whose munificence 
owes the Leicester Square Garden, has se el 
out the ground in endow 1 
to ointe the 
pent to be free to the geal bor ever. 
Il be railed in and th laid out 
