676 THE: 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 28, 1874, 
aid. The troops were ordered down into the 
caverns. Drums were beaten, and guns were 
fired ; but it is arceri that, in those intricate 
recesses, the most po owerful sounds make but 
little way. Douaniers, or Cu stoms’ men, were 
sent for from the frontier, bringing with them 
their powerful, keen-scented, and well-trained 
dogs. But, instead of the dogs aadi M. Puy, 
they t themselves narrowly escaped being fost. 
that he must have perishe ed had he not been at 
last discovered. Parties tied one end of various 
balls of string to frequented portions of the 
cavern, and then went forward in opposite 
directions, unrolling them as they proceeded, in 
the hope that the lost man might stumble upon 
Others penetrated as far as they 
short intervals, with the head or ear pointing 
the way to go in order to escape from this den 
of horrors. No ives there that the wind, or an 
i n passenger, should disturb 
de E 
short, was done t 
could i iet for three days the benevolent 
hunt was 
After M. min ‘at disappeared for three whole 
bold young man 
in the place where he had determined to wait 
till sought for. The spot is just under a mill in 
the neighbouring village, and is a long, long 
way from the point of starting. His first 
inquiry was, How long had he been there? for 
he had no means of measuring the lapse of 
time, He was astonished to learn that three 
days h ad been passed in that lone concealment 
without either food or drink. It was well for 
him, perhaps, that he was obliged to remai 
i h 
might otherwise have fallen into a fatal despair ; 
as, in spite of every care, six months 
dapat eneke he recovered from the conse- 
it was ence! at least a 
he was oa himself 
e to Ghent the iyi trip con- 
Belgian produce surreptitiously into France. 
With all mn deference to their natural good 
re advised to attempt nothing of 
the kind. In the first place, the tobacco and 
cigars—the chief i nt with masculine 
a amongst the 
eee | secon ndly, the F French Customs’ officers 
are sélent tlessly inquisitive, and, when they find 
the slightest endeavour to defraud 
always disagreeable, often humiliating, and 
Post inconvenient, involving, according to the 
: of the offence, 
only urge this line of conduct on their fair 
companions will scrupulously observe 
it themselves. So shall they travel on, Te- 
joicing. Peo inclined to smuggle think 
are still older foxes, and if they sometimes seem 
harsh when fraud is found out, it should be 
remembered that they are only doing their duty, 
and obeying the law of their land, while the 
arties who think themselves aggrieved are 
breaking it. 
The station where this ordeal is passed in 
coming back, is Tourcoing, the third station 
from Lille in going to Belgium, when you bestow 
on it no more than a careless glance; for it is 
quite a common-place, | harmless-looking station, . 
showing no outward sign of the mantraps for 
evil-doers that lurk within. Leaving Tourcoing, 
you glide over the frontier unconscious of any 
boundary line. On the highway road, the exact 
Moreover, in driving through 
Belgium you are stopped by plenty of turnpike 
gates ryo of whose keepers, for the conveni- 
ence of money-taking, speak, or pretend to 
speak, F lemisli only), whereas in France there 
are none (except on a few private bridges), and 
you may ride from Calais to Marseilles without 
being once asked for toll on the road. In going 
from one country to the other no passpor 
insisted upon, with troublesome formalities if it 
were not forthcoming. Nevertheless, it is pru- 
dent to carry visiting cards or letters addressed 
to one’s self to establish personal identity if 
called upon to prove it. An old passport even 
may render service in case of need, and does 
not take up much room in one’s pocket-book. 
(To be continued.) `. i 
New Garden Plants. 
x ah N Ee Sate nov. zji 
The gener: sae poe 
insigne, W: 
ae see rA an of C.. Fairieanum. 
fiscation of their goods and the smiles of by- 
standers, who, perhaps, in the course of their 
fittings to and =) pen experienced the same 
:  cleaned-out sensati Gentlemen will not 
largest diameter of the upper sepal is ai in the 
The nervation is 
Fairieanum. 
superior margin, jus rar 
p persis 
not incurved as in ore peas The larn horns of 
irieanum, not long, as in 
C. insigne. The staminode is transverse, and though 
it not inate , maki f the 
mandibles of a Cicindela, 2 yet they are well-developed. 
I am sorry I cann: k a the colours, 
since the flower came seet my absence from hom 
I know as a dried he i t 
appears a very rk , the sad so as 
rH Veitch informs m: a pigmy, and yet 
M ei 
the flower is as large as that of C. Tape The leaf I 
ae, Bd largest of all, is 5 inches long by three 
quar 
This is a new erer, coming from the E Bopa 
[ursery, I feel very pleased 
dedicate iE it to Mr. Arthur Veitch, as a eee tohen 
ft 
H. G. Rehb, £ 
THE a MEDAL, 
gg orn zeme 
o; 
ta ovario pedi to rostrato ee 
supremo oblongo 
diametro se mig 
pres undulato, nervis validis, jee rage ai 
lo bene angustato ; tepalis eorsum versis, eae 
eae acutis, undula’ 
pts superne ae a oll Bg asmadd canon Po 
antice tridentato javectliben abieovietie. 
middle in C. insigne, an above the base in our plant. 
of 
the representation of Dr. Lindley’s T inpri of 
and surrounded by a wreath of laurel, the words— i 
“Dr. Jonn Linbvey, F.R. 
x Diz a Novena an sre PN 
And on the reverse the figure of Victory, holding in 
her hand a Laurel wreath, the figure surm 
the words 
“ RovaL HORTICULTURAL Society.” 
The Lindley Medal originated in a desire on the 
part of the late Council of the Royal Horticultural 
Society to provide some special mark of z 
for examples of highly meritorious cultivation, brought 
forward at the exhibitions and meetings ol 
T 
merit on the part of cultivators, and the perpetuation 
amongst gardeners of the memory of one of the best 
friends and teachers they ever had. 
A propos of the Lindley Medal, we tale 
may be interesting to lay before our 
portrait on the opposite page, from which, to 
Fic. 133.—OBVERSE AND REVERSE O 
large extent, the spune on the 2 
been made. The in 
N ber is sale 
And yet this is a ease in which We A 
sag aged ea 
