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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 10, 1874, 
are e enabled to present our pong with ‘Ze menu du 
repas,” with the assurance that the fungic delicacies 
were received and partaken of i irked approval— 
DINER DU SEPTEMBRE 30. 
Potage à la jardinière ; Tortue claire. 
l _ Poissons i Shee et Soles. 
É ntrées : 
Salm e Lycoperdon gigan 
Cotelettes i Mouton a la Provençale. 
eades, 
Potée de lone 
Relevées : Boeuf oe 
Poulets 4 la Becharmel ; Langue, 
Entremets: Macédoine ‘de fruits. 
Créme å la — lly. 
udin 
ona de fr e 
Glacés : Citron pr Fraise. 
Apei ba pe ngoid and other dainties 
proper botanical sequence with 
such PP labelled i in a great letters 
lub day, an ys 
entou 
several seers a pave eer à mycological vete- 
were fain to stay at home, and study the plants 
G room 
wise, however, knew 
Olives before wine 
o 
drawn knife, heavy and under 
garment of leather ready prepared be the wettest aid 
muddiest places, and quite putting to shame the ol 
rag stopping at home at the “‘Green D 
y good species of fungi were so 
gt 
ee maia codai an uncertain Amanita (Ag. 
ad Lycoperdon echinatum, 
id Agaricus iod 
us p orus in 
in odour Bergamot. 
th its potent fragrance 
er with both Agaricus 
A. ophorus calyptrzeformi 
the well-gr Beeches on the 
ofusion of A, mucidus (fig. 98, p. 467) 
found ; and it this spot, ever in el ws 
be classic ground, that the fatal accident o dt 
the President’s ‘‘ Mus or on sitteipting the 
ascent ofa come fds bank, and depe nding too much upon 
the support of his umbre ella; the oa ne of the latter 
oke midway and pr rotruded in hideous manner, to 
e amusem 
On čt Green Dragon” tables man 
“fang of exceptional beauty and 1 interes laid out, 
notably an gee sone od | aa glo rious Peziza 
aurantia, 84 inch equally fine 
mens 
e years 
bat it “aid not 
icus 
d by Dr. Chapman : no 
ever been seen before by any 
Cuby th they stood T to mare te Heh, and 
y membe oF the 
were 
nearly 18 inch : the ya of a ies is 
very repulsive. The ‘Rev J: ey sent 
Leotia circinans | received. er Scotland, — Dh 
M‘Cullo 
gaven Radulum os agin was any upon the 
(it well deserves mention, as we belie 
eit has bags besa 
eli 
found once before), and arem vitellina , asome- 
what pla o r als, 
might erroneously be a (by sn: Wocthap ia] 
by pecific The Fortey sent a 
curious fresh-water sponge fr from the 
Wm. Phillips some gigantic Aiit of the Water 
Lily, which lay twisted about on the floor like the 
viscera of a dra 
The dinner, to which some ‘fifty guests sat down, 
was, like all the a Pdr oo dinners, a monis SS. 
us comatus—the “ Agaric of 
p’ 
tae 8 be lev une henag- all thought 3 it bet = Tet pass 
> tureen i egetable 
roe mar assed 
paai i appro We 
dreamy presina of certain otier delectable prae 
of the dinner, 
o 
in or English ; we can, however, t 
divine aroma, the luscious flavour, and the s appatising 
raps rance 
past (Dr. Bull will tell you the names es) x 
re made dizzy by the kind words which hi ye 
an gt falling poa ke marth ip oa cig ogg = 
ind a holly u cted that 
yes s helgieily rete d for five 
(Lycoperdon gigan- 
r to answer or to understand. O 
Lati 
ee steam 
found reei an Hiire 
es on 
venture, even now, to = 
the obligation ha has been on our ie and how much we 
have felt indebted to our her nee rd let our 
six years’ reportsin the Gardeners’ Chronicle say for us. 
o **the p re of the plains,” the woods, 
the hills, kindness unbounded, Jom ity id wel- 
e, one m e Wool 
Soon after di r. Edwi es orcester, 
nner 
pes a good paper on the ** Occas 
are Fungi,” a phenomenon with which every on 
oa I TTT TTP 
FIG. 93.-— MASONIC REBUS AT HEREFORD 
who has made r study of fungi must be more or less 
acquainted. . steele, sca ane tape Dr. Bull, 
s took part in the dis- 
“oe members 
re use r 
Thomas Cam, where, as earne a friendly conversa: 
zione was held, Mr. Sankey hs ng “Some Remarks 
on the Spheria Family,’ rand} Phillipe a paper 
on the ‘* Structure of cee Spe ecies of F ungi New 
Britain,” of which Desmazierella acicola was vias 
The writer of the present. lines brought fifty India 
proofs ee of Discomycetous fungi, recently 
prepared fro 
m Nature for the British Museum, and a 
mate pit landscapes and gardens 
ma 
PEN ij for this journal. 
Before leaving H ereford on October 2, some of the 
Woolhopians strolled to see the new free library so 
liberally presented to the town, ore endo by Mr. 
James ee , of Bryngwyn, an ich was opened 
on Thursday last, with a gene nnd holiday and high 
festivities, Mrs in being presented with a key of 
lid gold. At the termination he - 
common on ancient Buildings, and the ‘old oo ta of 
many of them is gs! Nome lost. The one we ete 
now engraved, and architype, will lon: 
remembered. 
sen was the last day of the foray, when 
war vane, invitation from M 
phar the MLE. fe for ews a of Hereford. tes, 
everywhere, ost h l e 
and the Club spent a mos s happy a ate Aea 
k da 
A good be sy ag le oe L M ‘Cul i 
jnumedttate y lighting apal a Lactar tetrad Naran s 
ing under Lombardy 
p 
t ever new, becaise s : rig Feit oo 
jubatus. seen, Agaricus 
Chavet rufa, Hygrophorus russo-coriaceus and H. 
so seldom 
Colemannianus were abundant on the e lawn, and ¢ t 
ser soon Co mate us EEE was gr { 
outhou Agaricus carbonariu 
plains, the trees, the rocks, hills, pasita hedge 
and rivers—they and their feae must be in 
we have no room for description. 
At last the coach drew up, and most of the g 
Meinaat to Hereford for the last time this year, y 
at Moor Court. 
In ” inning the happy task of this report, we 
pared t oolhope meeting to Beethoven’ $ 
ann sma and “delig oo habits to omen 
conclusion we reme at that 
last, si Be 
ak tions. May wë meet again! Worthington 
ke the following extracts from 
PALA of the Life of Henry Fo ~ Z mad 
Palmerston ; Right Selections go 
by the late Hon. apa 
or ating) edited by the tod Eve 
vel ive been busy reading books on rain mi 
horticulture, and trying to acquire some knowledge o 
have let all my farms at Broadlands that were 
lease, and ae ae Ah in ne of the badness 
das 
times. ki bad tenants, 
got rid of t be th , and “have brought 
with skill and capit u 
on b 
piit a stop tovhis eT 
* 
iai was not a Democrat 
i y the best government for a 
he w o maintain an aristocracy as ap 
But all his feelings and sympathies were 
popular I find instances, in looking 
correspondence when tary of War, 
he private soldier's comfort an 
A lan he ed a const 
management of the parks 
‘tog, Peen a 
“My Dear Hall,—I cannot agree wi 
ee of which the 
öü Seem to thin 
joyment arks are maintained ; 
hurdles Would tc rn the pai 
and entirely prevent that enjoyment. 
ridge a man is fined | 
walks over = grass plots, but chat i 
to be follow: ‘ Yours sl 
~ RG ton. Sir B. Hall.’ ” 
cut up the 
plantations would be materially 
