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triangularis. NottiDgham , t _ Asp ier.ium Belangeri ; 2, Nephrolepis rufescens Supplement to the Ninth Edition of the Rose Garden. By William Paul„ 



• •nnatifida' 3, Adiantum Luddemannianum. , — , r — , »..m MMU) aim \^u., i-u«™u/. — *nc ou^picmciu 10 uie 



UiP r p Fastleieh : I, Megasea Stracheyi ; 2, Muscari conicum ; 3 » Lhvia ninth edition of «The Rose Garden," which has been recently published, is of 

 •«nmi 4, Forsythia viridissima ; 5, Scilla siberica. — c " — »- - ■ • - - - - 



F.L.S., &c. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London).— The supplement to the 



D ' W.N. B.-C. S. H. 



The Rating of Greenhouses, &c. 



The Rating 01 urecin-uu 3ca , ^.—Although the law is, 

 7.! 2 -down as a " hass," yet it is not so much the law that is in fault when 



as is the interpretation put upon it 



^ JS g Xconst£te the legal luminaries of our courts. No doubt very much 

 of inconsistency of interpretation and of judgment is due also to the 

 nhrSogy of Acts of Parliament, which, being drafted by lawyers seem to be so 

 Ed wkh verbose verbiage that they seem rather to hide their meaning or the 

 ntStions of the framers than to exhibit them. Possibly, did laymen draft Acts of 

 Parliament on plain common-sense lines, the lawyers' occupation, like that of 

 Othello would be gone. If an Act states that market greenhouses are, like agricul- 

 tural land, partially exempt from rating, there ought not to be the least trouble in 

 understanding that such is the case. But when it is said in two lower courts that 

 greenhouses are so far exempt, and in a higher court that they are not exempt, 

 how is it possible to do other than exclaim M a plague on bothlyour houses ? The 

 High Court of Appeal is, after all, not the highest court, and that seems an 

 absurdity, because the House of Lords is the final determining factor ; and it is 

 t .J :r 4.1. « » A ~ A nf ,wic;rm r»f thf> Master nf tV»*» ftnlk is to be annealed against. 



special interest as a reminder of the fact that the first edition of this justly famous 

 work was published exactly half a century since, and showing the advance made 

 in the improvement of roses during the past decade. The original edition of this 

 work was published in 1848, and it is not surprising it should have created an 

 immense amount of interest far beyond rosarian circles, for it was considerably in 

 in rude advance of the bo °ks on the rose that had previously been published, and 



Such vary ing of 

 The sooner a final 



that it will be determined by the Law Lords very speedilj 

 judgments do not help to attract respect for the law. 

 judgment is given the better.— A. D. 



The Gipsy Moth {Porthetria dispar) is still proving a great pest in the State 

 of Massachusetts in spite of efforts made to exterminate it. According to Mr. L. 

 0. Howard, of the Division of Entomology of the U.S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, the gipsy moth was introduced in 1869 for silk-growing experiments. Some 

 examples escaped, and these settling amid the undergrowth and scrub multiplied 

 slowly but steadily until by 1889 *h e moth was recognised as a pest that must be 

 seriously battled with. Since that time it has done enormous damage by the 

 defoliation of deciduous trees over an area of 22,089 miles. Many methods have 

 been adopted for its extirpation, and the State has spent on these no less than 

 £\ 5 1,000, in addition to grants from Congress equal to .£8,333. Spraying with 

 arsenate of lead, the use of creosote to destroy deposited eggs, grease banding to 

 prevent ascent'of caterpillars, and trapping by means of bands of burlap canvas have 

 been the principal methods employed against the moth, with the result that about 

 nine- tenths of the colonies existing in 1 891 have been exterminated. Mr. Howard 

 considers that were it not for the difficulty of dealing with woodland undergrowth, 

 a continuance of the present measures would soon terminate in a complete extir- 

 pation of the pest, and one of the greatest experiments in economic-entomology in 

 the history of the world would have accomplished its aim and end. 



the author had not reached the age considered essential to the production of books 

 on technical matters that shall be regarded as the highest authorities on which they 

 treat. Since the issue of the first edition, which at once placed Mr. William Paul 

 in the front rankof rosarians, " The Rose Garden 99 has undergone many improve- 

 ments, and has been kept fully abreast of the progress made in rose culture ; but 

 the original plan has been modified rather than changed, and when we consider 

 the high degree of popularity it has enjoyed throughout the past fifty years, one 

 can hardly fail to be impressed by the remarkable judgment displayed by Mr. 

 Paul at this early period of life. The ninth edition, in which every phase of rose 

 culture is discussed with fulness and exceptional ability, was published in 188S, 

 and the chief object, we are told, in publishing this supplement is to bring the 

 information as to new roses up to date. The supplement, in fact, consists of a 

 selection of roses introduced from 1888 to 1898, and as it comprises those varieties 

 only which are considered most worthy of cultivation, it is of much value as a 

 guide to the roses introduced during the period. Altogether two hundred and 

 twenty-nine varieties are enumerated and described in the selection, and it is 

 interesting to observe that the greatest advances during the period covered by the 

 selection, in rose development, have been in the tea-scented varieties and their 

 hybrids, the polyanthas, and the sweet briars. " With regard to the novelties of 

 the last ten years," observes Mr. Paul in the interesting preface, "there are un- 

 questionably some splendid acquisitions both of sorts suited for the more perfect 

 adornment of the flower garden or for the tables of the exhibition," and no one 

 with a knowledge of what has been accomplished in the improvement of the 

 rose of recent years will be disposed to question the statement. Mr. Paul also 

 speaks of the trend of public taste for varieties that are remarkable more for their 

 freedom and continuity of flowering than for the large size and fine form of their 

 individual blooms, and while he evidently regards the increased popularity of 

 garden roses with considerable favour, he fully appreciates the superb form 

 characteristic of the flowers of varieties that find favour with those who aspire to 

 honours at the exhibitions. 



Willing 9 s British and Irish Press Guide for 1898. Price is. (James Willing, 

 jun. (Limited), 162, Piccadilly, W.) — When a book has reached its twenty-fifth 

 annual issue, it may be assumed with perfect safety that it has fulfilled its mission,, 

 and is appreciated by those who resort to it for information on matters relating to 

 the Press of the United Kingdom. The work has long occupied a place on our 

 bookshelves, and we are consequently in a position to speak from practical experi- 

 ence of the care with which the annual issues are compiled. 



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