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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



June 1, 1912. 



IRISES 



I. variegata Ossian. — A fine variety, "with 

 deep purplish rose falls and golden-yellow 

 standards. The falls are veined and crested, 

 with yellow. A.M., R.H.S,, Int. Hort. Ex., 

 May 22. Messrs. Barr and Sons, Covent 

 Garden. 



I. squalens Nibelungen. — ^This has ^beautiful 

 rosy-purple falls, charmingly veined with 

 white, and the standards are soft yellow. 

 The flowers are large, and most effective. 

 A.M., H.H.S., Int. Hort. Ex.. May 22, 

 Messrs. Barr and Sons, 



EREMUEUS TUBERGENI. 



A fine form, probably derived from E. 

 Bungei. It grows 4ft. high, and has dense 

 spikes of soft sulphur-yellow flowers . A 

 fine garden plant. A.M., E.H.S., Int. Hort. 

 Ex., May 22. Messrs, R. Wallace and Co., 

 Colchester. 



OXALIS ENNEAPHYLLA ROSEA, 



A neat little rock garden plant that is 

 native of the Falkland Islands, is the white 

 O. enneaphylla, and it is already a favourite. 

 The newcomer is exactly like it save that it 



the chair, and amongst those who filled the 

 Great Hall were the staff members of most 

 of the educational establishments in the 

 country at which gardening is taught, and 

 a number of county horticultural instructors 

 who are doing &o much to carry, by itine- 

 rant and other methods, gardening know- 

 ledge into the remotest parts of rural 

 Britain. In his opening remarks the Chair- 

 man, who is also the chairma-n of the Science 

 and Education Committee, said that he 

 was much gratified to see so large and 

 influential a gathering of those who were 

 specially interested in horticultural educa- 

 tion, and he had no doubt that their de- 

 liberations would be of much assistance 

 in the solution of the various problems as- 

 sociated with horticultural education. The 

 Chairman further Observed that in other 

 countries the State had done much more 

 for horticultural education than was the 

 caee at home, and he welcomed the declara- 

 tion made the day before by Mr. Runciman 

 that the Board of Agriculture had at last 

 decided to set up a special branch devoted 

 to horticulture. Further, Mr. Runciman 

 had alluded to the question of giving a 



ture at Dahlem, was present, but as he was 

 suffering from some throat affection, it Tvas 

 read by the Chairman. As this paper con- 

 tains matter of very general interest to our 

 readers, we have pleasure in printing the 

 text of it below : — 



German horticulture is exceedingly old. 

 History shows lis that as far back as the 

 year 380 A.D. the Huns laid out many gar- 

 dens and orchards in Germany. Special 

 interest was taken in fruit culture, wliid 

 soon received, energetic support from tlie 

 German nobles. In the year 800 A.D. the 

 Emperor Charlemagne gave directions that 

 all kinds of fruit should be planted in his 

 domains, and at the same time he established 

 the first nursery garden. Interrupted dur- 

 ing times of war, but all the more energeti- 

 cally promoted during times of peace, horti- 

 culture in Germany advanced to a state of 

 great excellence. In proportion to the grow- 

 ing importance of horticulture, did the 

 necessity for the systematic theoretical 

 training of gardeners increase. In the year 

 1842 the first German institution for the 

 theoretical training of gardeners— the pre- 

 sent Royal Horticultural College at Dahlem, 



A MAGNIFICENT GROUP OF PLANTS, CHIEFLY 



TH FINE FOLIAGE. 



[ted 



Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Li 



Chelsea, who were awarded the Duke of Portland's Cup for 

 exhibit, exclusive of orchids. 



the most 



eritorious 



has flowers of a soft 

 R.H.S., Int. Hort. Ex., 

 ence Elliott, Stevenage. 



rosy 

 May 



shade 

 22. 



Lr 



A.M., 

 Clar- 



THE CONFERENCES, 



Amongst the various functions, social and 

 otherwise, associated with the International 

 Horticultural Exhibition, the conferences 

 arranged, for the occasion were by no means 

 the least important. The first, on horticul- 

 tural education, took place on Thursday, 

 May 23, and a large gathering of educa- 

 tionists who had been invited, assembled in 

 the Great Hall at the Royal Hospital, Chel- 

 sea, to hear and discuss the papers. We 

 venture to say that never before has the 

 gentle art of gardening been discussed in 

 that famous hall, round the walls of which 

 hang tattered flags captured in many cam- 

 paigns, and the portraits of Britain's mili- 

 tary heroes, who fought, yea, and in many 

 cases, died, in defence of the Lnion Jack. 

 Perhaps they were not gardeners, but never- 

 theless they, and the red-coated old veteran 

 pensioners who moved in and out, have done 

 their share in making our country a place 

 in which the peaceful art can be followed 

 undisturbed. 



The Right Hon. A. H. Dyke-Acland took 



diploma for gardeners, and the matter was 

 receiving attention. 



Horticultural Education in 



America. 



The company present were each presented 

 with printed copies of the papers, and the 

 one by Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, U.S.A., on Public Hor- 

 ticultural Education in the United States" 

 was, in the aJbsence of the Professor, read 

 by Mr. F. J. Chittenden. ITie paper took 

 the form of a general summary of what is 

 done on behalf of horticultural education in 

 the United States, and gave a good deal of 

 information as to the courses of instruction 

 given at the establishment mentioned above. 

 One pointed remark in the paper was that 

 in the colleges in the States horticulture is 

 resfarded as a phase of agriculture, but, in 

 our opinion, it should not be a phase of 

 anything, but the actual thing itself, and 

 Ix^cause it is looked upon as a phase of the 

 sister art educational facilities in horticul- 

 ture are not what they ought to be. 



Horticultural Education in 



Germany. 



The writer of this paper, Herr K. Wein- 

 hausen, of the Imperial School of Horticul- 



ture 



near Berlin— was established by the Koya 

 General Garden Director, T. F. L^nne, aiiu 

 this is therefore the oldest li^^^^^fS 

 training school in Germany. At that _ 

 landscape gardening was of greater P^^^^ 

 tance than general gardening, ^^^^,^33 

 was taken into account when the sciiooi ^ 

 established. Horticulture received a gr^^ 

 impetus after the year 1870. People recv, 

 nised the great national poUtico-econom^,; 

 hvffienic and social imiportance of fruit 



and for this reason endeavourea ^ 

 promote the training of fruit-growers 

 much as possible. At the present day _ 

 have in Germany a large number ot n 

 cultural schools differing widely from 

 another, and these I may divide mto 



groups. TT^^ti- 

 To the first group belong the R^>yf Vpisen- 

 cultural Institutions of Dahlem ot ^ 

 heira, of Proskau, and of ^^^^^^^'J^^^ 

 may be regarded as the most ^"^^.^^^^ these 

 of horticultural colleges. Hie aim oi ^' 

 institutions is the same, inasmuch as 

 endeavour to teach their students 

 branches of hot^ticulture. Owing Pf^^^^e 

 tradition and .partly to their 

 institutions at Dahlem and Geiseniieim 

 acquired special reputation in V 

 branches of horticulture- Thus, I'aJu^ 



