rendered by the guide are 6d. each person in the morning, 3d. during 
the afternoon. Full particulars concerning the guide can be obtained 
on application to the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Bulbs at Hampton Court. 
It is stated that the number of bulbs which have been planted 
this season in the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court Palace exceeds 
one million, the weight being between two and three tons. There are 
140 beds, with an average of about 3000 bulbs to a bed; while the 
great ten- foot border, which extends from the river to the Hampton 
Court Road, takes more than all the beds. 
Streak Disease of Sweet Peas. 
The National Sweet Pea Society is offering a prize of ten guineas 
and the gold medal of the society to the first person who can prove to 
the satisfaction of the committee that he or she has a cure for streak 
disease. As arrangements are now being made for testing preventives 
or remedies, any one who has discovered a cure should communicate 
with the Secretary, Mr. H. D. Tigwell, Green ford, Middlesex. 
The Anglo-American Exposition which will be held at Shepherd's 
Bush, opening in May, has for its object the celebration in a fitting 
manner of the hundred years of peace and progress between the Eng- 
lish-speaking peoples since the Treaty in Ghent in 1814. As becomes 
an exhibition illustrative in the fullest possible sense of the activities of 
two great nations famous for the prominent part they have taken in the 
advancement of the gardening art in its varied aspects, demonstrations 
of both American and British horticulture are being organized on as 
comprehensive a scale as possible. 
France. 
France, following the example set long ago in Russia, America, 
Germany and England, has established an agricultural school for girls 
at Brie-Comte-Robert, in Seine et Marne Department. The problem 
of finding careers for girls in France is particularly difficult, as there 
are comparatively few avenues of activity open. 
