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= SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1874. 
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OMPARED with those eign pre- 
a ceding THE YEAR now ing to a close 
í been comparatively a quiet one, so far 
_as horticulture is concerned. No very startling 
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fas 21 Tb. 12 o7 wand ie EN 
_ Mr, HUNTER y well be p: 
The Royal "Horticultural Society, under the 
new régime, has been doing its work quietly, 
_and, it is asserted, satisfactorily, so far as the 
| paying off of liabilities is concerned. 
-= Sundry disquieting ike the “little 
cloud,” are indeed afloat, but it is to be hoped 
however, 
ibition is a distinct loss to horticul- 
re, which it is to be earnestly hoped will not 
be pehnane and it is also to be hoped that 
the difficulties caused by the necessity, or a 
posed necessity, for a guarantee fund may 
met, and that the next year may not be ae a 
to pass over without an attempt being 
revive so important and useful an echibition. 
It is also to be hoped that the work of the 
_ Society at Chiswick, and its endeavours to pro- 
mote the science of horticulture, as well as its 
practice, may be so extended as to remove the 
reproach that other countries, with far less 
_ Opportunities, are doing far more than we are 
Provincial exhibi- 
3 zA those at Birmingham, Belfast, Maaa, 
€ York, and others that might be men- 
The great . International Exhibition at 
Florence was in all ways of great interest, 
the Botanical Congress held in connection 
; It is full time that 
; and 
very doubtful whether circum 
ourable enough to induce the secagteratoa 
been the production and exhibition of a bunch " 
of another exhibition on a scale to equal that of 
1866, which—splendid success that it was—was 
yet attended with such risks that the horticul- 
turists may well be pardoned for exercising 
caution. It may, however, be quite practicable 
to organise something on a smaller scale—say 
something like the Ghent Quinquennial Exhibi- 
tion, which will answer the purpose without 
incurring so great a ri 
A new society has “pee established in the 
shape of a Pelargonium Society, and whic 
if managed on 
basis, may be of great ge: alike to practical 
and scientific horticultu 
An attempt is also Sci made to provide a 
centre of social intercourse for the general 
welfare of horticulture, by means of a wre 
tural Club, on a different plan any y 
attempted. The thing is in itself so Setisile, 
e 
we 
y be vigorously piangi to 
The crops of fruit and vegetables have, on the 
whole, been of fair average. The Potato disease, 
though not entirely absent, has often been much 
worse. ollyhock disease has, on the 
other hand, been all but universal, and there is 
a fear lest other Malvaceous plants may be 
affected, and especially Cotton. The Phylloxera 
has extended its ravages in France and other 
Continental ae but it does not appear to 
h uch in home vineries up to the 
M‘NaB has raised a most interesting 
inquiry as to whether a change of climate has 
occurred in Scotland, and answers it in the 
affirmative. His contio have, however, 
not been allowed to pass unchallenged, and the 
subject evidently requires fuller corroboration, 
especially from the meteorologists, than it has 
et had. 
an old statement, to tl ect that sc 
plants not only capture insects, but also dissolve, 
and, it is to be presumed, digest them. Many 
new facts have been brought to light in connec- 
The electrical pheno- 
Venus’ Fly-trap have also been studied by Dr. 
NDERSON, and compared to the similar 
phenomena in the animal kingdom 
The obituary list of the year, 2 as š inal, con- 
tains the names of many veterans and good 
servants of horticultural science, are whom 
N SALTER, 
B. Bo 
. T. MOGGRIDGE, acerca NES- 
FIELD, Mrs. HOOKER, and D. Nas Abroad 
horticulture has to lament the fads of Count 
JAUBERT and M. FÉr, and others less widely 
effect. We believe that on no aes occasion 
have so many illustrations of such permanent 
value been brought together in a like compass. 
which plants grow naturally, but also such as 
will be of permanent value to those interested 
in the geògraphical distribution of plants. 
r representations of newgarden plants have 
been selected with a view to furnish, so far as 
the limits of the wood engraver’s art will permit, 
accurate illustrations of plants of the greatest 
cultural or botanic interest. We may also allude 
to the copiously prohra Special Supplements 
of Hatfiel d Win , because they have 
been so favourably receiv ved by our subscribers. 
We allude to these matters merely to justify 
the course we took at the beginning of the year, 
and as an earnest to our subscribers that we 
shall do our best to consult their interests in 
the future as we have done. in th the past. 
= Specie meeting of the MoDEL Houses 
Assocation, w been form 
of the dwellings of the la 
>u de diffusion of sanitary 
contributed an ged Pine-apple P 
ursery Company. The presence the p 
afford oppor 
tunities for enforcing the necessi gese a 
ker that the 
did as 
action, 
attempt plant cultivation was 
invariably resulted in a mark 
condition of the 
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aroused 
ed improvement in the 
Surely such testimonies 
—— The beautiful turquoise-blue 1 MYOSOTIS | DISSI- — 
TIFLORA 
ing Forget -me-nots, is ‘already ariy developing its 
uds in pots under artificial heat. If 
protected from the rain and ont moderately dr pom 
seems to thrive as well as could be desired wi 
necessity for artificial heat. The application = pig a tate 
heat would get it into flower mas, or earlier. 
It can be grown from seed, eee i of the old 
plants, but the former mode is é best; the 
plants are certain to do well, Whertas divided —_— 
ea somewhat uncertain. e seed should be 
ripe, and the young seedlings pricked off off 
net tation boxes when la nough, finally potted 
into 48-sized pots in agrees isd plunged in ashes 
in the open ground tit : be begi nning of December, 
PS TAOTI m 
ent on the new w plants, “fruits, a 
ges of the year, but we may cursorily allude 
to the hybrid Sarracenias obtained by Dr. 
Moore and Mr. STEVENS. 
ers we may be pardoned for alluding to 
our o ncerns. Some of our oldest and most 
valued 4d friends shook their heads doubtfully at 
the elimination of the Agricultural Gazette, 
etitirel ly to matters more strictly horticuitiiral 
It may ; be pleasant to them, as it is to us, to 
know that the change has been ihorötýhiý suc- 
cessful, and has proved acceptable not only to 
the vast majority of our former friends but has 
been the means of largely adding to our sub- 
and greater variety of su bject-matter and a larger 
upes of illustrations have proved succ 
meget gat our readers. 
tions are concerned we have studied 
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diginality, 
interest, and value more than mere pictorial 
nd vege- 
| scribers. That our efforts to provide an increase 
on which we may fairly oae l 
plaints abier 
quality of much of the seed spptch, but ty i ae 
always accep : 
more so about the opening of the new 
few flowers of thi hue of | 
bl Fancy the hovers mld en ines and 
with the necessary ap 
ing as as i new spores oy DS eee genus Ach be 
Dendrobium would indeed be a 
reference to SOLDIERS’ CAiB we 
that our soldiers in 
thenumber thus engag' 
or more pan double the gare o of t he 
T corde eld to afford satisfacto 
to the 
sarite prs Bard mentee tar iar 
an agreeable lounge for the soldiers 
hoped, may hereafter 
