THE GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 



The Kew list, unlike the trade catalog 

 contains no prices — indeed, the seeds 

 Places of Historic In- free to certain folk. The lis 



social evening, and the prest 

 ome tokens of regard to their 



ago, the members agreed to endorse "The and Shrubs," all grown (with four excep- bronze figures renresentinJ n!^ 



appeal of the council of the National Trust, tions) in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1909. Horticultu?^ and Agrk^to^ ThT^n^' 



an appeal which has the support of his These seeds are available only for exchange mer, the larger and c?S pie^e mountP^ 



Majesty the King for funds to purchase with botanic gardens, as well as with rt on a marblf pede^tTl Tad^the' foCw 



the land now offered for building lying be- gular correspondents of Kew, and no ap- legend inscril^ on a^ attached wf 



i::"T^l^^^^W^7^^'^^^ ^"^^Pt f-oni remote Colonial pllte Presented to Mr. A J^ar^ 



SjeJsPdln^^^^^^ m-br-ry" ^''^ t^^^l^ I^^^:f^ 



of^-j;;^;'rs^-^;;SS5- tsrSZ 4 -Is.---- - 



Fand^ th f^"^"^ .t^^P-f - o feTr^"'u;t^lTm X X?:^ Chrysanthemum Show. 



'pSf'bSl^oran"^^^^^^ XIniversit? of Dublin. Th^ ToSr S well tTatd"?^^^^^^^^^ 



Z river, and aTs^ froT tt E'^n f-rved by Mr. P._ W. Mo.^-^ ^ '^^'^^ ^ ^^-^ -l'^--' the takings a 



jii mut:?, fprrinff it +Vio TTv.i^7/i,-i„-+TT 1, j ^'^^^ a^"i<^iiiii'«a to izoo is., as against £zo3 

 ' £3,000 S University has honoured 7, -^^ ^gog^ £249 W. Id. in l907 

 le land, ^^"..^ On the second and third days the cominit- 

 been opened. Children at Flower Shows.— tee invited the scholars from the Blue C'oat 

 This has been headed by the King with a At many of the northern flower shows it is School, Grey Coat School, Certified Indus- 

 donation of £500, and the Prince of Wales the practice of the committee to invite the trial School, St. Stephi-n's Orphanage 

 has subscribed £250. The Mayor and Cor- local school children to visit the exhibition York Union, and Yorkshire School for the 

 poration of Windsor have promised to sup- on the second day. This practice obtains Blind, and these invitations were all ac- 

 port the National Trust in the endeavour at Nottingham; Sheffield, and York, and cepted. 

 to raise the necessary funds. at the recent Leeds Show the Lady Mayor- 



Royal Gardeners' Orphan Tud"" al^'^Xfed '^17 f^^^^^^ 



Fund.-We are glad to learn that the Svs Stten by theTLlarl d^orih^f! near Birmingham, Mr. J. H. 



committee of the Bradford and District vS Thk .7rV^^^^^^^^ us that inW^.^^i.^ V,.. . 



^ love for flowers is .aJne^XlTd'stull S 



pples per 



Lim show, have been able to send a sub- ^yn^ ^..^^^ u xT^ ^^^^ planted in their gar 



l*Zla°f % yi scholars ' f^V "—go o! 1691b. w 



tigratulate them u])on tlieir successful apples per garden for the season. 



Perpetual Carnation Society, case the weight of apples this seai 



" xhibition of this society for nine trees planted 11 years ago was 5! 



»-10, to be held at the Royal the amount realised by their sale 1 



Hall on Wednesday next, £2 18s. lid., or at the rate of Is. Ud 



3 a very interesting one. The week throughout the year. There are 



eoornmg increasingly popular ''00 houses with gardens and fruit 



" The work of laying on1 



planting the gardei 

 lage Tri 



Liu^.m. n.u>.eK ,n iviu. ^ ,^ew Park for Harrow. 



The New Neill Prizeman. Th,^ .Mi.l(ll..M.x (<,untv ('num.! pvuuZ ' 



urTrS<.rtt^h I'"'" ^'*»'-t'<"l- <""^ of ^'->">"1 at H.uMm", 



iold NeiV"\uMi;,ri'o '^1'^'^"!^^ "'V'' \il'mm ' !m'u H<i ' ' h v ' rr^'i' Vn'"' u Vl| 'T 



'aton. of SnuKeat. C.imI.. Ke.nu.K u, wr,,,. ,>,il,l,; ,m,i/ ' 

 ecogiiitioii ot Iho u(uk is (h.in- in'tli(^ 



ybriilisation of t nK.M(Mis-r.>..r..d Mil uiM.,.. Presentation to Mr. A. j. h 



nd the cost is reckoned a> 

 annual nuH'tni^ a.ul <lin.,e>- will be held Part of the cost of the house. From the 

 t k; same evmiig (Dereniher 8) at theHotel Particulars given it will be seen what a 

 \\in.ls(,r 'rhose who propose to join the "s^fnl and remunerative investment fruit 

 stH H'ty shoiihl do so at once, so as to se- ^''ces may become. 



' ^''"''''"^ ^'^"^^^^ Reafforestation in France. - 



^ ■ In one of the recent Foreign Office reports. 



Transport of Flowers in Ice.-^ dealing with the trade of Lyons, the greiu 

 The native llowers of Western Australia value of the work carried on, chieflv under 

 that were sent to Mr. Chamberlain by Sir *he influence of the Touring Club ile 

 G< I a hi Strickland, Governor of the colony, France, is pointed out. Ttiis club has 

 reat hod London the other day in such ex- promoted juvenile foresters' societi<- 

 celhMit con<lition that they possessed much among the schools, and every member ot 

 of their original freshness and brightness ^hese societies is bound to plant one tree 

 colour As in the case of the chrysan- P^^ year in the commune. As a result, 

 t hem urn blooms sent to Australia by the ^^er than 222,515 trees were planted 



National Chrysanthemum Society, and the in the Department of the Jura, aiul 

 native flowers that were sent therefrom to 110,800 trees in the Doubs during 11)07. 



At Martignat, 

 careful plantii 



ys all local 

 ^ ^ _ ^ bonus of 25 frano. 



Tree Planting on a Large 



ting, the 



