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being pleased with the agreeable appearance of the foliage and novelty 

 of the form, he converted it to the purposes of architecture ; and having 

 made some columns of a more delicate proportion than had been used 

 before, he adopted the basket and leaves of the acanthus for the capital, 

 and thus established the symmetry and ornaments of the Corinthian 

 order. It is by no means impossible that architecture may have owed 



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ArRl L 16, 1896. 



bers of the party will visit the glass houses in the gardens of th. v . 

 Laeken. The members of the jury will have free admission to St ? « 

 Hotel de Ville, Belfry, the ruins of the Abbey of St Bavon 1a X Gard «. 

 city of Ghent. They will also have adnrnsi™ k, ^ Comtek SSJ ^ 



they will have *xm* 

 Socicte Royak do 



winter 



,he oiigin of i. arch, pointed and d««U,, .o the natural ou.Unes of i^^J^t"^^ * M - =. 



trees. 



wooded 



gnificent 



the contemplation 



pf which can never fail to interest and gratify the cultivated mind. 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE IMPORTS. 



The Board of Trade returns for March are better than were those 



for the first two months of the year, but they .again show a falling off in . ^z. - « 



fne «por«s.„« British and Irish produce and manufacture,, the aggregate ~£ „ .tSl SS ° . f J°! 2*^*- * »°P - 



the Ghent Exhibition will appear in our next issue. report of 



Boxes Of Flowers from the Riviera have, until the commence**,, a 

 the present month, been dispatched during the winter to friends at home at 

 cheap rate. Thousands of such boxes, not exceeding three-quarters of a 

 were sent weekly as " samples of no value " at the rate of about 3 y 2 & each"^ 

 to the pleasure of those who could not leave this country for the more fevo ed 

 health resort. On April 1, however, orders were issued from the G.P.O. thauU 

 such boxes were to be refused admission into England, and returned to the 



There is, on the other hand, a 



exercise 



material.! ncrease in the value of imports, and a small increase in that of the ~^ — ^ — ^ ^7 Unl^ Tl^l 



ex ports of foreign and colonial merchandise.: The increases and decreases of flowers costing ^ for hf)me win b future cost ^ ^ ^ ™j" 



the produce in which we are specially interested are about equally balanced, 

 and we have again to record a large drop in the import of apples, and a 

 material augmentation in the supplies of potatos. The imports of apples 



Open Spaces In London continue to receive the close attention of the 



Association 



association 



the Home Secretary had 'refused to sanction the Cross Bones Burial Gromd, 

 Southwark, being built upon. It was also reported that progress had been made 



There was also a considerable drop in the imports of grapes, for during j a t h e laying out of several grounds, and it was stated that Charles Square, Hoxton, 

 the month we only received 1,649 bushels as compared with 3,205 bushels had been commenced, and that trees had been planted in the new riverside ground 



,£3,445 and £$ 



respectively. Pears, on at Putney. 



agreed 



the other hand, show an increase, for 3,153 bushels were imported, coming, to lay out the churchyard of St. Mary, Plaistow, at a cost of about /30a 

 against 1,796 bushels last year and 124 bushels in 1896, but there was a Amongst many other matters which engaged the attention of the meeting may be 



Lammas 



material drop in relative values, more especially when compared with the 



imports in the year last named, when they were returned as worth twenty men ' s Park," Pymme's Park, Edmonton, and some vacant land at New Cr 



shillings per bushel. Plums were imported in much larger quantities 



The Sources of Commercial India Rubber will be fully explained by 



than in the corresponding month of any previous year, the aggregate Dr. D. Morris, C.M.G., Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in two 



mports amounting to 90 



Adclphi, 



of interest to observe that with the augmentation in quantity there has on A P ril ^ and 125. The lectures commence at 8 o'clock. 



been an enlargement in relative value, for while the six bushels are 



f£i8 9 or £3 

 ^408, or considerably over £4 



Unenumerated 



fruits continue to increase, and the quantities received aggregated 68,701 



~v~,r— *rww«~»*«. ^u«tt»/vi..v 0 « — b 7S. 6d. per basket of 



eighteen fruits in the leading West-end fruiterers' shops a few days ago. At the 

 same time, home-grown green peas and French beans were realising extremely 

 high prices, while large bunches of giant asparagus sold for a guinea each. Not t 



Immense quantities of potatos were 



glass 



again received, the total for the month being 635,872 cwt., against 

 45,203 cwt. received last year. Germany sent us 321,310 cwt, and 

 France 86,448 cwt., but from the Channel Islands we only received 782 

 cwt Onions were received in smaller quantities than in the correspond- 



season 



been a good one for those growers outside the metropolitan fog area. 



A New Cactus Society, to be known as the Bath and West of KngUaJ 

 Cactus Society, is being formed for the promotion of the cultivation of cacti and 

 other succulents. - ' ' " ! " ^ -*«-'^ ™* K*tianl Ctctm 



ing month of the two preceding years, but it is satisfactory to observe that ™? succulents. This new body will De ^ Ro|e 



there w« a material inr,en,e in Line. Rntter. bacon, cheese, eees. and ^ and « I*°P<«s to hold an exhibition in connection with the Bath 



there was a material increase in values. Butter, bacon, cheese, eggs, and 

 other minor products of the farm, continue to be received from abroad 

 in enormous quantities, as indicated by the fact that the value of the 

 latter, imported last month was of the value of £1. 5 10,589. 



Show on June 23 next. 



Memorial to the late M. Jean Linden.-Under the presidency d 



Comte Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem, a committee has been ^mta 

 consider in what manner a most fitting memorial can be raised to the late IL j 



Ghent Quinquennial Horticultural Exhibition.— As we are going 



to press our special correspondent cables that the preparations for the great 

 exhibition which opens at Ghent on Saturday are well advanced, and that there 

 can now be no doubt, as suggested in our issue of the 9th inst., that the gathering will 

 be the most important of the magnificent exhibitions that have been held under 

 the auspices of the Royal Agricultural and Botanical Society of Ghent. Already 



a considerable number of the members of the jury have assembled in the city and memorial may be of an international character 



science. The committee consists of such well-known gentlemen as I.. 

 Comte de Bousies, de Middeleer, Dutrieu de Terdonck, Ke g e 'j an ' ^ fc 

 Massange de Louvrex, Earon Osy de Zeegwart, and Warocque. M. eg J- 



d M. Lubbers, secretary of the Societe Royale de Flore de BrwUft 

 is secretary. The co-operation of all botanists and horticulturists, do 

 sional and amateur, both in Belgium and other countries, is desire so 



treasurer 



ti proto" 

 that tlx 



are to be found exploring the numerous commercial establishments in its vicinity, A Botanic Q ar( j e n at Nantes is to be established ' mm ^ ie } y ^^ iof j^ 



or inspecting the many objects of interest other than those relating to horticulture. 

 The jury consists of two hundred and eleven members, and comprises the most 

 distinguished horticulturists in Europe. According to our Belgian contemporary, 

 La Semaine Horficole, the members of the jury include thirty British, fifty-four 

 Belgian, sixty-seven French, twenty-five German, sixteen Dutch, six Italian, four 

 Russian, four Swiss, three Luxembourg, and two Sweedish horticulturists, with 

 delegates from Austria, Brazil, Spain, and Japan. The programme arranged for 

 the period over which the exhibition extends, is full and well devised. The mem- 

 bers of the jury will assemble at the Casino where the exhibition will be held, at 

 9 a.m. on Friday the 15th inst., and the judging will be proceeded with shortly 

 after that hour. At the luncheon to the jury, on the completion of the judging on 

 that day, the Veitch medals conferred upon Comte de Kerchove, M. Ed. Andre, 

 and M. Latour Marliac by the Veitch Memorial trustees, will be presented. On 

 Saturday His Majesty the King of the Belgians, will visit the Casino at 8 a.m. 

 for the purpose of a private view and meeting the jury, and at 10 a.m. he will 



opening of the exhibition. On the evening of the same 



on the lines of the Royal Gardens, Kew. A rich citizen ^^JJp-jg ^ 



plants 



of service in the French colonies. 



Edith Pwb 

 through 



writes : In spite of the untoward weather that prevailed more o ^ 

 the month of March, apricots have passed through the ordea ^ ^ 

 Although as much as 14 degrees of frost was registered on one oc 



sustained no harm, they being well sheltered by Frigi Domo bW 

 - - - - - ast winds which b - ^ 



during the past month. But little rain 



stor 



affected this distri^ 

 ! blossoms as the M** 

 . tVmQ keDt dry, * 



slight _ 



^r* v*i»wu au iviig Lib mc siuiu* \ . , t t ^ ein uninjured- ^ 



sharp frost which succeeded the storm the next morning iei ^ wood be* 



formally 



International 



Beiges at 8 p.m., at the Soctet 



was too cold for the bees to put in but an 



occasional appearan 



J 7 The«c*W 



the 



dress is prescribed. A concert will be given setting of the blooms ; all the same a heavy crop j 



at noon in the Place d'Armes on Sunday the 17th inst., and in the evening the jury to the pheno 



banquet in the salon of the Grand 

 the M inisters of State will be present It is anticipated that the King of the Belgians 

 will give a garden party at Laeken on the 17th inst., to which the diplomatic body 

 and the members of the jury willbe invited. Monday, the 18th inst., is an open day, 

 but on Tuesday, the 19th inst., there will be an excursion to Brussels, and the mem- 



has been *fj ^t td 

 ill accorded the "^"J, » 



quantity of • ^ % 

 wm uc mr some iew weeks longer, uu«- - . {s -j-^ e utttf •»» 



developed and become hardened enough to protect the 1 • ^ thinn jog 

 swelling apace, and in the course of a week or ten days tripfe**" 

 done, when all that are badly placed will be removed, an 

 clusters of fruits thinned down. 



