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"GARDENERS CHRONICLE: 
[NOVEMBER 7, 1874, 
ie piian xt Broa outh Par sie ate A Ea Beet 
gardener to the Duke of pra URGH = more th 
thirty is successor is WILLIAM 
years, and hi 
McKELVIE, the indoor hai a at F on Gardens 
According to the ee Siete Belge the 
bleau, when 
famous trellis of Fontaine all 
s Grapes of that neig bodili piain 
pee formed in 1531 by FRANCIS ki with plants 
| from t wn of Cahors ere mer of 
the same town superintended the p 
—— VERONICA ANDERSONI (V. speciosa x V. 
of form fine shrubs, and are well worth 
a wall, w! ey will stand in a position 
The ae eai of a mat should be pauan during 
pae 
may be expected to perish 
iecteicnally, a t from gwe growth and fine floriferous 
habit are worth replanting. Sev 
are as for instance y. pinguifolia, 
usually but Se maar usly er V. buxifolia, and 
is certainly to be regretted that, when 
pablie i men find it desirable to refer to subjects con- 
nected with Sci IENCE OR NATURAL History, they do 
some trace of accuracy. Clergymen are the greatest 
offenders in this respect ; but we doubt w 
the s show made by MES 
M.P. for Taunton, at a meeting held in that town on 
-the 27th ul earned and 
at hh ws aes ey bavia n an assured belief 
i called Toa oadstools—(laughter) 
—which far exceed the lowest Mushroom in its nourish- 
lately of 
these gentlemen Sa geo ae a the oro: composi, rth nakee Bi of 
a 
q 
banquet as the he session, light of heart 
and — display of dyspeptic suffering.” (Laughter. j 
The old inquiry, ‘‘ Understandest thou og thou 
readest ?” might assuredly be addressed with much 
force to Sir HENRY James, It may “ng doar 
whether so much ignorance has ever is apia d 
so few words, 
YSANTHEMUMS, They are 
‘in’a high state 
on view in winter at M: 
Ayre their ees aida 
bed is now considerably towered; 
bs-have taken 
Bak of = jntelligent 
The Jers Rardin rae of the Globe states 
that at the present has b hay me prolific season in 
ersey for APPLES and P at has ever been 
The cultivation 3 the ai fruit pe 
orts o 
w 
5 
p 
ing s ai gio have been 
T iibtes, which for size aaa © have never been 
qualled. G. THOMAS, i, St. Helier, 
last week ex xhibited three Belle de Jersey Pears which 
weighed pr vely 3 lb. > b. 5-02; oh 
3 lb. 14 0: kkn? a total of ïo 1b. 7 oz. 
Jersey pou id báûr1 174 02. “spo this gives 
nied sancia a ag of s lb, 6 oz. English for ose 
It is further stated “that they are to be 
cea to Pisin oa exhibition next week. 
Oo 
JAMES CARTER & — offer a 
aiia t of prizes to be awarded for vegetables 
at reas meetings oi the e Horticultural Society 
next year, including the ‘‘ Carter” Cup, fifty 
guineas, fo ‘the best” phe i fone shes of regesben 
to be competed for at reat provincial show 
be he thy Tiea up will become 
ee Prok Popa of the mpra to whom Bia 
may be awarded, and ten guineas will be 
. On June 2 and Taly 7 the faibreats 
> to 0% ete are six dishes of Peas, and on 
November a collection Sis ig varieties) of 
vege ind ten dishes of Pota 
rn from the rish Farmers’ Gazette 
that, th Pete noni semi of the Earl of LIMERICK, 
ant 1 
ng felt is about being supplied, and a grea 
shang conferred on the i tL k, in th 
shape of a les e area of the pro- 
k i thereabout.. Th 
si is enient, and in the most elevated 
and best part of the city. The estimated cost is 
between £2000 an , the corporation providing 
for its maintenance by an annual e believe 
the d and laying-out are to be supervised by 
W. BARRINGTON, Esq., C: st that among 
. ts 
bitions shall not omitted. The Butter Market, 
bath Sei are at {genta held (though a fine and 
ommodious structu its immediate p 
neither i in situati ‘“ mosphere e, or surroundin 
right thi o 
having a 
park, with a 
menade, would Dive 
Limerick Society’s pon 
ticulture in that quar 
ON CHARLES seb in the Revue Hortic ole, 
commends ing plan for gage ee 
da new impulse to hor- 
against which we ci 
principle, it is obvots, might be adopted & lite 
plants. At the e of pruning the long wood 
de entimetres (2$ inches about) in 
depth, and the rods laid i —— 7 and covered over, taking 
p 
care that the two ost eyes are left out of the 
ground. com se into growth early if not 
ki and the protected buds will be pS or- 
lled by fros 
Rondtele ars Mes If ear | ensue the A tae 
buds will be killed 
When rom t is o un 
shoots are pruned away df frozen ; if not, they are 
pi of t 
in so as to eq e gro e | 
wood, which wu speedily Eisen Sark a 
covering up is done in covering at 
the end of May. 
the French plan is inappli- 
cable earthing-up may be practised. 
—— The first ordinary general meeting of the 
session of the stat ION OF SURVEYORS will be held 
on Monday, November 16, when the Preside ent, Mr, 
IOMAS i emai will open the session with an 
address, The chair to be taken at 8 o’clock. 
—— CUSCUTA REFLEXA, a species of cine 
very pretty in the sa ee at Kew, where it 
example ess ite, 
excellent exam a It mg the 
aes O of being SRI conser ed from year to year, 
ean Poe anything with which it comes | 
in neice co Mesem the: 
be 
for their bright leaf-coloration. 
a to exert a = in wegen in the production of — 
glowing tints of f d the village’ of Addle — 
rages maa the fact at the present 
men 
A light Beos 
SOUTH Essex CHRYSANTHEMUM _ 
Society aa hold its Pence annual exhibits 
the Town Hall, Stratford, on November 14 and 16; 
and on the two follo vee 
TON AND HACKNE Seen te NTHEMUM SOCIETY 
will hold an exhibition in p~ new Town ea 
Hackney. 
—— The pretty salmon-red ESCALLONIA ue ; 
is now blooming freely o and growing asa 
Vi 
of flowers are fading, 
Escallonia has a claim to notice on that 
n important product of Bahia Bia 
ntil a ia the Eur ba enjo; 
reputation f in the E 
it has 
to the prevalence of the 
-cane in Bahia, which oe dopi to ravage 
the plants, no scientific means 8 ted to stay — 
A the Sugar 
im, into 
the e country to supersede the “Caveat cane, and with — 
the hope also that it would prove | less liable pas 
of the disease, It is stated to be ‘* now 
able cro 
OURCROVA Stee is flowering in the 
I rare 
culent-house at Kew cies T 
quite e. The pan heats in n JAcoBr'S list, i 
ò description or figure has been published. 
aves are sp) aria I ver dark green, not plicate, in j 
this case 18 inches long by 2 inches in breadth; the 
spines ar i n, almost black, — 
laced, and in form like those o elloa, - OF t i 
specimen th spe pe a feet high, aree e 
ee of flowers very similar to those of ot ay 
Thr agho the Nesta they appear so 
alike, i as to be of little value for specific di ye 
Four kinds owered: in this house during the 
appearance of the puvii otis a 
Lower Austria has been- Formally noted, : 
posed to have been Boe with V 
, spite of t 
of the destructive spring 1 frosts, 
Foei is stated to have been unusually at 
good. 
ecent issue we had occasion to 
flowers on the under surface of the leaves. 
first ribed PLA ee and See 
under the above name, in the 4 es des 
Naturelles, ser. iii., t. 19, P- 75+ 
the name 
figured by REGEL under the 
thus Lindeni, the Ga 
ce rat 58 
Its handsome fo 
It 
under-surface of 
