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-the pollen masses were four large and four 

 not quite so large, thus differing from both 

 l»lia and cattleya. Mr. Clark proposed the 

 name LaBlio-Cattleya x Cinnabal for it. 



PEIMULAS— Professor I. Biayttey Bal- 

 four, F.R.S. showed the following primulas: 

 p Faurei (Franch), from mountains of 

 Japan, a plant with rose-coloured flowers 

 freely produced, and leaves with golden 

 farina below. P. tibetica (Watt), a dwarf 

 plant with rose flowers, allied to P. involu- 

 ^rata and native in the Tibetan highlands, 

 ■p. Eeedi (Duthie) (''Botanical Magazine," 

 6,961), a fairly well-known and beautiful 

 pale violet species, not quite hardy, from 

 Kumaon, introduced in 1885. P. malvacea 

 (Franch), from Yunnan, allied to P. cortu- 

 soides, and having mauve flowers in two or 

 three superposed umbels. P. deflexa, with 

 bluish-lilac flowers, rather small, but in 

 -dense clusters, and very sweetly scented. P. 



tembranifolia (Franch), with violet flowers, 

 a native of Yunnan. P. uniflora (Klatt), 

 with very pale violet flowers (with a two- 

 flowered scape in this instance), from the Sik- 

 kim Himalaya. P. pulchelloides (Balfour), 

 with rather large, beautiful violet flowers, 

 similar in appearance to P. pulchella. but 

 nearly allied to P. nivalis, a native of China. 

 P. Beesiana x P. Bulleyana, a beautiful 

 hybrid with salmon - coloured flowers. 

 Botanical certificates were recommended to 

 the last five plants. 



National Rose Society. 



MAY 20. 



Taking advantage of the knowledge that a 

 large number of foreign rosarians would be in 



England for the purpose of visiting th-e In- 

 ternational Horticultural Exhibition, the 

 Council of the National Rose Society ar- 

 ranged to hold a Pose Conference and to 

 invite the leading rosarians of France, Ger- 

 many, and America. There was an excellent 

 response to the invitation, and the members 

 of the society had an opportunity for seeing 

 and hearing, many for the first time, a con- 

 siderable number of the leading rosarians 

 beyond the seas. 



The conference was held at the Holborn 

 Restaurant and proved a splendid success. 

 Several hundred members were present, and 

 among the foreign ro&arians present were 

 M. Fernet Ducher, of Lyons; M. iMaurice de 

 Yilmorin who has de^'-oted miich attention to 

 species; Herr Peter Lambert, of Trier, Ger- 

 many; Herr Ketten, of Luxemburg; Mr. 

 E. G. Hill^ of Eichmond, Indiana, the raiser 

 of the Richmond rose; Mr. J. L, Monk, Hol- 

 land; and M. Soupert. The conference was 

 opened by the Rev. J. H. Pemberton, 

 president of the society, tendering to the 

 foreign rosarians a hearty welcome, and ex- 

 pressing the pleasure he felt in meeting so 

 many brother rosarians, both from at home 

 and abroad. He then read an interesting 

 paper on the " Modern Development of the 

 Kose " which >yafi"followed by a brisk dis- 



cussion extending over -nearly two hours. 



e regret that space will not pe™it of our 

 reterrmg to the pix)ceedings other than thu 

 y^^^J^ <wd Ave liope to be able to refer 

 »oth to the paper and the discussion at some 

 luture date. 



s 



Horticultural Club. 



On Tuesday, the 14th instant, after the 

 "suai monthly dinner, at which Sir Frank 

 ^r.sp presided, and which a large number of 

 ml 1^- visitors attended, including 



on " TV an extremely interesting lecture 

 a lYails m the Canadian Rockies" was 



tSj^'^'l^^y Henshaw, the hon. secre- 



Sv ,*'^^^'^lpi^^ Club of Canada. This 

 ^fuAl r ^ devoted many years to the 

 rea?7 ¥^ fl^^^ and fauna of that 

 of fWA'*"^?'*^''^' ^^ttle explored region 

 Tnrl t ""'^'^^ Empire, illustrated her lec- 

 coUn.^j^,yf^y ^^^S^ number of beautifullv 

 inteilff ^^'"^f^ depicting many of ti e irost 

 of tlir V^^nU she had met with, aSs also 

 views'^f ' "^^"y.^^ tlie most strik- 

 which r 1 -^^1^^^^ region of the Rockies, 

 tainmio really a continuation of the n oun- 



range that stretches uninter- 



rujDtedly from Mexico northwards to the 

 Arctic regions. Many thousands of square 

 miles of this domain have never yet been 

 trodden by the foot of white men, and, de- 

 spite its opening out in comparatively recent 

 times by pioneers, followed by settlers, it 

 presents, therefore, still, for the most part, a 

 perfectly virgin field for the explorer, both 

 botanically and zoologically^ to say rothing 

 of the geological and other scientitic interests 

 which it embraces apart from its future value 

 commercially as a field of settlement for the 

 ever-increasing population of the British 

 Empire. 



The lecturer accompanied every slide with 



most graphic descriptions of the circum- 

 stances attending its production and prac- 

 tically carried her audience with her tbiough 

 the vast panorama oi snowy Alpine solitudes 

 and beautiful lakes fed by glacier-born 

 streams and clothed or surrounded by mag- 

 nificent vegetation. The great glaciers them- 

 selves were traversed, and the evidence 

 pointed out which indicated by the form of 

 the lakes and their surroundings of the 

 mighty work of denudation and erosion 

 which had been effected in the past by glacial 

 action in the great Ice Age, of which the 

 ever-diminishing present glaciers formed a 

 still extant remainder and reminder. 



Every now and again, as a contrast to the 

 forest scenes (one of which showed one of 

 those raging conflagrations which every now 

 and again occur, sometimes through light- 

 ning, but too often through the carelessness 

 of the rare travellers in the way of neglected 

 camp tires), her audience found themselves 

 confronted with densely flower-clad parterres 

 of brilliant blossom, rivalling the renowned 

 ones of our more familiar European Alps. 

 Here the botanical knowledge of the lecturer 

 came in, in proper botanical names of the 

 plants concerned, wliich the many peculiar 

 semi-descriptive ones locally adopted render 

 unrecognisable on this side. One striking 

 slide showed a brilliant scarlet aquilegia, un- 

 named, which would certainly be a great ac- 

 quisition if it has not already been intro- 

 duced, as a valuable hybridising factor in 

 that genus. Another slide, amongst many 

 showing the animal life of the domain, 

 depicted a group of the Canadian white bear, 

 specimens of Avhich have so far only l>een 

 obtained by the native Indians, who secured 

 a representative family group for the Vic- 

 toria Museum. niis animal is as purely 

 white as the Polar bear, from ■which, how- 

 ever, it has been pronounced quite di>tinct, 

 though very similar in appearance. Wol- 

 verines, porcupines, lynx, deer of many 

 species, including wapiti, caribou, and elks, 

 several kind of sheep and goats, as also other 



species of bear, including the dreaded 

 grizzly, were also shown in their native wilds. 



The lecture concluded, which was unani- 

 mously pronounced to have formed one of the 

 most interesting in the club records, some 

 remarks were contributed by Messrs. G. P. 

 Baker, Eeginald Farrer, C. Shea, W. Bilney, 

 and Professor Balfour, of the Edinburgh 

 Botanical Gardens, and a very hearty vote 

 of thanks to Mrs. Henshaw concluded the 



meeting. 



FORTHCOMING ENGAGEMENTS. 



MOND-\T. MAY 27.— Whit-Monday. Bank Huliilny.- 

 RoyaJ International Horticultural Kxhilvitiiui 

 opens at 9 -•i.ni. 



TUEjSOAY. may 28.— Koyal Inttrn-'itional Hortieul- 

 t u val i'>x Ix i b i t i 0 n oi^en s at 9 a.m. 

 Tiij^it of International Jury. -etc.. t^ the Uoyal 



Perpettial ('amotion Soc-iety s visit to Hampton 

 Court-; ^\r. R. Pa-e's Nur^ory. WimUor; Mr 

 DiittonV' Nur^^^ry at Ut^r; ami M*i-^sr^. I.<',w.^ sin.l 

 Kha^^rver't; Nursorit^s. at rsbriilire. 



Kew Guild Annual Meetinsr a-nd Annual Dinner :U 

 Holfcom U-f^staurant, 7.30 p.m. Luut.-Col. 1 rain 



■will preside. . 

 WKDNESDAY MAY 29.— Royal Int-t rnational Horti- 



' cultural Exhibition opens at 9 a.m. 

 lVri>etuai Carnation Society's visit to ^^'^^^ 

 Stuart Low and Co.> Nurs^ne^ at Bm.h Hill 

 Pa.rk. Enfield; Mr. Alfred Smith s >ur^ery. En- 

 field Highway; end Mr. A. Srevems a.n<l ^U^^T^• 

 Thomas Uochford and Sons' Nur.M'rus at ( hts- 



hunt. ^. 

 linval So( i,tv of \rt^ Meeting:. 

 THrHSDAY MAY :iO.~T^t day of the In- 

 ternationa.! Horticultural Exhibition; Exhibition 



opons at 9 a.m. 



ANSWERS TO 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



S«cretariefi of horticultural societies are invited to 

 send early notification of forthcoming exhibitions 

 and meetings, and are requestod to advise lis con- 

 cerning changes of dates. 



The Editor will be glad to receive photographfl of 

 gardens, plants, flowers, treee, fruits, etc., for 

 reproduction in the Gardeners' Magazine. He will 

 also be greatly obliged by correspondents sending 

 early intimation of interesting local events relating 

 to horticulture. In sending newspapers containing 

 matter to which they wish to draw attention cor- 

 respondents are requested to distinctly mark the 

 paragraph. 



VIOLAS AND AUBRIETIAS. — F. M., 



Ewell : Kindly Jet nie know how to propa- 

 gate violas so ^ to produce strong, sturdy 

 plants, like one sees in the markets during 

 the middle and end of Aprils ea^h with a 

 tiower or two. and a good ball of roots. If 

 you will also tell me how best to propagate 

 named varieties of aubrietias, I shall be 

 obliged. — Taking the la*st question first, au- 

 brietias have been dealt with soniewbat 

 freely in recent issues, but we may add 11 at 

 they may be propagated by cuttings i-cw, 

 these being inserted in sandy soil in a shady 

 place, and, preferably, in a frame or under 

 a hand-light. Violas for spring planting are 

 raised from cuttings inserted in early 

 autumn in frames where they are kept close 

 up to the light, and only given sufficient 

 shelter to keep exces'sive cold and wet from 

 them. For a private garden, where spring- 

 raised stock and autumn planting are out of 

 the question, these autumn-struck plants 

 should be transplanted in February or early 

 March, into rich soil, containing a good deal 

 of leaf-mould and grit. Here, still under 

 cold frame shelter, and with increasing light, 

 they grow apace. Whenever the weather is 

 fine the lio-hts are entirelv removed, and air 

 is always admitted, except when frost is 

 unusually severe. Under this treatment fine 

 plants that lift well are ])n>duccd, and if 

 planted out at the end of A])ril or rarly in 

 May they make a good display almost imme- 

 diately. A good mulching of old, decayed 

 manure should Ix* given soon after planting, 

 and faded flowers should be removed regu- 

 larly. 



DAMAGE TO BEECH BY SQUIRRELS.— 

 D. H., Hants: We are 



squiiTels in our woods, but we are not 

 allowed to shoot the little animals hecaupe 

 they "look so pretty." If you could estate 

 the kind of damage 'done by squirrels, and 

 give suggestions for at least the reduction 

 of that damage, it would be particularly 

 helpful in several ways, — For sentimental 



reasons this destructive little animal is often 



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