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N me insrumena in bringing about è pejer sate 
BOON ICLE.” “ine diowing ~ ieai a mace a md brains be forthcoming, the eee y p ay w 
rane ee e a uated peper, may be had |- Shillings a week to the gardeners’ wages will be 
Dr. HooKER, c B. % Janes Bateman, F.R.S. of little moment. The older race of gardeners 
ea nose | BERTHOLD SERMANS, P Ph.D. | raised themselves by continuous application, 
Rey. M. J, BERKELEY, F, L.S. | Hon. MARSHALL P. Wiper. | perseverance, and study ; their wages a and their 
BM PRHISE F.R.S. “| Joi Lor Res Gray material comforts were, as a We much less 
hota = rome a oh eng” pats aa , | than those now at the command f the oa oe 
Bev te Hour, M.A. Baron von Mugen. | race of young men. We know ve a they did 
PRATER Bs fous SMITH AGW). | and are doing, and the contrast with what 
konser K Hees, EL .D. Dr. THwarrss. | wes nd hear of the coming men gives us 
Bs Rz Profesape PARLAT some ny at for the future 
To some—nay to a hto extent—this is the 
| fault of our horticultural societies and other 
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ducation of the, gardeners. While Belgium 
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IN PET at the followin Hyer e SAIS Postage 10 any France, Germany, all have their schools of 
ingdom ~ 
Aa e A T Pix Mouths .: nay, Ha practical and scientific bortgultuts, en A 
Pirie Mias o. Le ys. 108, thorough training alike in the principles an 
PRIA AES the practice of nies may be a g we 
ae SUBSCRIPTION. haye nothing of the kind. 
2 months, including ene: to— As a nation we are just as much behind in 
if A D. MA 
Avera Hai Tanapa | a ZEALAND | gas aak SFA nA 5 provisions for nis on wh a pea 
Ap zos: 4d. for x2 months, including postage to— ~ | Scientific departments a which suc igri 
Aonik  HorLanD | PORTUGAL SPAIN » cultur e and kortin Hun pend. With the ex 
ij aii Pgyssia — rats a of cert m FE o a ted bj 
Ar t 145, 8d. a 12 — ee —-. the brilliant siete ra of DARWIN on the rat 
BEB ym C lisation of plants, and of LAWES and GILBERT 
at the King ee Ber} fice. ’ | on plant-nu trition, we have been for years 
Office, 43, Wellington Street, W.C, almost at a standstill in vegetable physiology. 
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German univ ary, to say not thin ng the 
very numerous agricultural stations in the latter 
country, we have cause for a feeling of shame. 
It was with such a feeling that we recently re- 
ceived the visit of three Aisncutiiied savans— 
one French, tw two German-=-all well-known as 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1874. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
“Sale of Trees (nine days), Shrubs, and 
Menpav, Get. 194 < Selected Avenue ‘Feet Rt Sunningdale vegetable physiologists, and one, åt least, as a 
Kom, ots of Dutch Bulbs, at stevens’ | practical horticulturist also, and who came to us 
ü; = pa a à a 1 = =k pgm i ‘ 
Juespay, Oct. 204 Soto fae one ol of Poultry and Pigeons, at 
to inquire what and where were our ẹsteblis! 
; i Sale of Camellias, A d Palms, i 
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21 krii ar Loo taleas, and Palms, from | for instruction in, and for the purpose of carry- 
e e Orchids, Pitcher-plants. 
iit’ Geer ere im end s, Pitcherplants, | ing out researches in vegetable physiology and 
EREN Hor war Clearance lants, &e., at Wolverton 
Garden: 
$aTuRPAY, Oct. 24— Sale oF Batch metas p Stevens’ Rooms. 
aprep What could we say? We have so 
ten lamented our deficiencies in this matter 
that we fear to weary our readers with a thrice- 
told tale, but that it is no imaginary want we 
call attention to, no unsatisfied hobby of our 
a een. fr f 
E do not wish to be considered alarmists, 
yet we Should fail in our duty if we did 
int Ont, so far.33. W ple, those 
creas is ood te are likely to fall | memoir on . 
eae Again and again we have a blished i if n the Trans actions actions of- -the R 
eye to what French, Belgians, German Tr Tsh Academy :—“ The chief difficulty I San 
d Americans are doing in the way of AEs to conte: end with,” writes Dr. MCNAB, 48 has 
a the coming race of gardeners, while we are | £ 1 the impossibility of obtaining in Dublin, 
doing nothing, save in a very desultory incom- in the same locality, the two essentials for 
plete manner. Some results of this we alluded experimenting, na amely, a laboratory an 
to recently in a leading article, where the. diffi- botanic garden.” What a confession for a Pro- 
culty of finding skilled hands to do the ordi- fessor of Botany in one of the foremost 
nary work of the garden was alluded to. The — towns of the nation to be obliged to 
Labourers’ Union Chronicle seized on this article make ! MeNap proceeds :—“ The appli- 
for its own purposes, and put a meaning to it | ances ae a p e laboratory must be within 
which we did not intend. Our Larp eget | easy reach of the plants to be experimented on ; 
of vi 
much time would necessarily elapse between 
procuring the plant for experiment and the 
t of the experi +% 
wing remarks 
if not, then errors are sure to be made ; and as 
etaie in Dublin the necessary llai ati- 
uces TH OF toa we ical gardeu 
italics are bo Eps Jt was pec pelled to sect 
for a age to experiment in where they could 
thus be obtained. I here take the liberty of 
suggesting that some steps might be taken to 
btain the necessary laboratory accommodation 
in the botanical garden of this city. A large 
number of most interesting and valuable expe- 
riments might be made, if on nly a few pieces of 
apparatus could be placed near the plaats to be 
experimented on, A balance, a water-oven, 
spectroscope, and the like are ' essential, while 
the few ‘Sailers and small pieces of apogee 
required could easily be had, There can be 
little doubt that the reason why so few physio- 
sary laboratory accommodation near our 
rden 
We concur with every word which Dr. 
McCNAB “ati makes public, but we go further 
when we insist on wis! Renee ef training 
observers.to m of the laboratory 
when they have it. he present P any ian | 
man have a taste for physiologi 
he is hampered by ficulty of finding fat 
able means, or, if t ist, of finding some 
apparatus, and to put him in the way of obsery- 
ing for himself. So far as vegetable physiology 
is concerned, our botanical lectures at mediea 
schools and elsewhere are too often worse than 
ance, and the sooner it is recogn ised as such 
and acted on, fs better for our Thc AI 
yet undeveloped se 
India and the colonies. 
specimens a atatime. Our sanctum just n now is turned 
receiving-office, which sate contain 
i i dby 
rs, cho 
pervades the establishment, The ti occupied 
the labour involved in this heanin is so great, that 
we cannot in justice to the great body of our readers 
undertake to name more than 
and this rule we shall sinew raii 
may not be altogether new, but the 
it of pie be well, vharelore it iş worthy of being 
generally applied. The seed issown bout Christmas, 
and by the first week i in Tai the koger: are ee 
out against the back wall of some of the lean-to 
na good compost, wit ae 
in a similar manner, but in pots, and never fails of a 
supply, p 
—— ADHATODA CYDONLEFOLIA 
Palm-house at Kew. 
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