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COBgf HotTiCT ^ R A ' .^XtTuiAL Society. 



< lliri-KNHAM AND Cai.NS "°" c M nw November \. 



August 10 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



K. H. K relate and Son, Haarlem, Holland.— Novelties 

 Little and Bai.lantyne, Carlisle.— -Farm Seeds. 

 BalTW Freres, Trov, France --Fruits and Avenue Trees. 

 PoBBtB and Co., Rothesay, N.B.— Agncultural Seeds. 



Hardy 



Society 

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Thursday, July 14. 



WEATHER DUR.NO THE WEEK ENDINQ 



ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE 



Tuesday, March i —Meeting of Scottish Horticultural Association. 

 Thursday, March 3.— Meeting of the Linnean Society. 



ENSUING WEEK 



I A - ff - • 



AUCTIONS 



STATION!* 



or tri Air* 



Highest. 



Mean. 



Rainfall. 



Centi 



letres. 



Tuesday, Wednesday, and! Friday, .March i, 2 and , 4 .-Roses, Lilium aur^ 

 Brazilian and Mexican Orchids, at Protheroe and Morris's Rooms. aur *««*. 

 Wednesday, March a.-Enghsh and Foreign Roses, Shrubs, Plants, Fruit Tr^. 



Stevens's Rooms. ^ 11 J. C 



Thursday, March 3.— Border Plants, Lilies, Bulbs, Roses, &c.,at J. C Stevw. 



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Contents 



n reading of the Barometer daring the week at Greenwich was 29 9°. Incnes, ana that 

 ' * " . ,f. r latter being 3»*a above the week's average in the 50 years 

 T^Urection'o, the w"l wa? variable, the horizontal movement of the air being 



,6 perTent. above the week's average In the x6 years 1860-75. The 

 .uniliiaa i" the wr=Sc was 9*4 boon. The measured rainfall amount* 



the 

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Answers to Correspondents . 



Bitter-rot in Apples 



Exhibitions and Meetings :— 



Shirley Gardeners' Association .. 



Royal Gardener*' Orphan Fund .. 

 Engagements for the Ensuing Week 

 Hedges : Their Formation and M 



ment ... ... ••• ••• 



Leaves from a Rambler's Notebook 



Markets ... ... ..« 



Notes of the Week :— 

 Gardeners' Orphans ... 

 Ripening of Bulbs 

 Wall Copings... 

 Notes on Orchids 



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Primulas at Perry Hill 

 Ripening of Late Pears 

 The Biack Currant Mite 

 The Pruning of Roses... 



The Process of Denitrification 

 The Weather 



Vegetables for Exhibition 

 Water in the Rock Garden 

 Work for the Week ... 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



pp!e Infected with Gloeosporin* 

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r ater in a Devonshire Rock Garden 

 >ecimen of Epidendrum Medusae 



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}i ALF^SI A N D A R I) ROSES, leading H.P/ t ,as. doxen. 

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R. TUCKER & SONS. 



THi: NURSERIES, 1ARINGDON BERKS 

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THE NURSERIES, 



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 MINTAL TREES. SHRURS. ROSF.S GRAPE 

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