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GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 21, 1874, 
Tt is a tree T aS oat ry front gardens, 
s limited, as the 
growi ing 
clayey gravel, and ape tre ar, it, espe- 
ciali 
ly on the west and south si 
—— We understand that our x creme a 
THOMAS Toui who for the last eight years 
gardener to H. C. WELLS 1 Ester x “roomeld 
“he rd anagem 
of. t 
BENNETT of Hatfield, and has many times sho 
proficiency as a skilful cultivator of fruits and flowers 
at pee Apn and Essex Horticultural Society’s 
—— EUPATORIUM AGERATOIDES is now ch 
ingle in flower in one of the plant-houses at the Rapi 
ieia cultural Gardens at Ep and blooming m 
ely i bs o 
of gre se decoration, being of ve 
in pots. Small plants in a pots binan alidai y, 
and being of a somewhat t growth can be worked 
in ad with other aan 
—— Mr. SMITH, late of Exton Park, is, we under- 
st _ leaving. Patshull. > seat of 
DARTMOUTH, where he has but lately taken charge 
of riae ensa will be open 
the beginning of February. 
—— The Rubiaceous genus s GLONERIA of ANDR 
i a asn See XViL, p.-76, t ete ran probably 
o be in Psychotria, with w it agree: 
ous ovules on a 
able to find o only one in se i ore Ree pac. Me 
may have mistaken, s difficult i 
cases to “distinguish a in ‘ine ‘lowering s ak Oe 
referring to the herbarium at Ke —_— a sketch 
by Dr. HOOKER oon: our aaa tio 
onmens. of the removal of the INDIA 
OFFICE MUSEUM e galleries of the late nae 
national Exhibition a ae Speer the Museu 
closed. The exact period when the new 
rhat uncertain, but it 
ige thus about to be 
im -Yeorgani- 
par marked divisions—one 
sisting of ent proper, and the othe 
of the Museum. Dr. FORRES WATSON continues as 
etected either nen 
Office i in Westminster or on the Vi 
wi 
plant from 
time. Only cimens o nd flower well ; it 
is however, worth TA ing ka aeia space will 
allo It is a native of Jena and Venezuela, 
—— Some illustration 
in Queen a Sp who obliged the footmen to put 
out the fambeaux, and afterwards robbed her of her 
Runghter of the Bishop of L 
another you ung lady, were secuivada 
ship's carriage, they were attacked by a highwayman 
in Upper Grosvenor pegs (!!), ae pre esented a pistol 
to the fence ty egard to him, the 
highwaym st hth but Tacky, did not hurt 
him, and the villain Nieran rode o 
e by what is known A beea Mary’s 
Village, ar Addle stone, there is markable Oak, 
which though now wos se Sok cb ide rable distance 
residences, is said to have 
indsor Fo 
At that height immense 
like ine Lan te trees ha horizontally, with their 
roots tow mon centre, ae stre ett for a 
considerable distances The ter 
ste 
thie grounds of Mr. HUDSON, an 
hang over the public — Its proportions, majestic in 
de 
ecay, are Bo nhappily crowded and obscured by several 
young trees, of per a quarter of age ay 
growth, which have heen allowed to grow rap straight 
among the branches on the south side, doing them 
irremediab Tei injury. TE wot an 
clear it all away, and leave the fine old tr 
view, and thus afford it every possible chance of pro- 
longing its year One mi i 
y ar, and round 
place, 
limbs, Maniy peas ations 
gone since the ‘Addlestone ‘Oak. first reared i 
head on the spot it occupies 
2 
= 
ao 
DDLEA_ Re re ie is flowering 
tra nst the side = 
he house n to si it is Gdapted from 
slender growth. The ves are ov vateinnceolate, 
glabrous above, and underneath are covered w 
white mg Be conspicuous in its general cr 
ance. owers are produc ka i n long terminal 
drooping mace with few rasoti nirp. branches. 
They are dark o! 
range, ae uriously have almost the 
exact “anal cies 
ivated, about ei y distributed over 
India, South Afri merica ; others mi b 
Miroda with advantage. a: Neemda i i said to be 
onë of the finest plants ndia, èg we 
enus was 
formerly placed in Serophene but is- now 
referred to the Loganiaceæ, 
—— The asco of CoTTON Be EGYPT during 
the past year r very high standard, as many 
as e mi 648 cm. or 398, 258 b Sii were "exported 
It is esti- 
ed years, E, eapi itisa a generally accepted rule 
h. 
that once in three years is quite often en 
og, 5 acm of ys on the sugar os of the Khedive 
rE, aie eae put t ander 
qu antity ‘the wed 
ea Island sort which could be ob- 
sora ae Charleston er imported by his ne 
and sown on the 
February, 
land in the Delta, ie crops Page great 
cess that the most ee ee ee in England 
the Cotton cellent. 
agreng at be no Ees eae vii nenti 
on of seed on the x a 
h Caroling, eee eae mpete 
American producer ol of the very 
“save oie market 
OSTA 2 
pare ne yy A ildi ing the Khedive 
for the prodee of Mr. oe his classifier of 
mple-rooms, and 
a premises show- 
| rooms for pn samples to Sipe offered by public auction. 
-Here twice the. merchants is 
sample forai every bale of 
sold, so that nothing can be fairer than the sede in 
“up a present state of b case 
k 
appropriated 
Cottons, 
; Bois rete plant, peer in some 
an apparent union 
| ful examination of this specimen, both ! wie 
= 
which the sales are effected. The sa 
ce sea a and register, oe 
stodia uce in a moment the sample 
pasticubare “Of sey ‘lot sold daring the last four years,” x 
YATHEA MEDULLARIS, one of t 
noble ble of Tree signin is represented i 
house at Kew by one of the finest s 
h 
article of food by the natives of New Zealand a 
Pacific Islands, 
— T 
the JER JERUSALEM Anti 
some of the American Byer 
an “ assigning the plant to Me? Se 
co Dr. ASA GRAY + 
pas 
e is no sone evidence that hin 
own t 
r 
find it in cultivation in any part o of Sou 
ie a native of Brazil, 
Valley; and one object of 
kadia there is any record of their having # 
recent meeting of the Phil 
3 
WHEAT WILL TURN TO CHESS (Brom 
world might well os piae for deriding an a 
for if so distinct 
o par 
i nme Ae e deride d by m 
W is agricultural friends 
oul 
i 
to year by the grad 
over a rock lected so that a si 
with another. 
friends, aided by powerfal pock tglass 
