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at Old Trafbrd from May 30th to June Gth. The prizes are very liberal 
in seventy-nine classes, especial prominence being as usual accorded to 
Orchids, to which eight classes are devoted, the total amount of prize 
money in these being £156. Stove and greenhouse plants, Ferns, 
fine-foliage plants, Perlargoniums, hardy plants, Roses, Clematises, 
miscellaneous plants, and fruit being well provided for. 
- A Bristol correspondent writes:—“A few years ago there 
was in the gardens under my charge a good-sized bush of the female 
Garrya elliptica, most unfortunately placed, being much overgrown 
by other things. Finding that it was extremely rare, I cleared away 
round it. It grew very well for a couple of years, and fruited, but 
from some cause or other, which I never could quite understand, it 
suddenly died. Fortunately I had put in a few cuttings, and had, 
when the old specimen died, two good plants. These I planted out the 
year before I left. They should by this time be getting to a good 
size. I also raised a batch of seedlings. Mr. Wm. Garaway, of the 
firm of Messrs. Garaway Sc Co., told me that nearly all the seedlings 
came male. Perhaps ‘ J. S.’s ’ plant is from Messrs. Garaway’s stock. 
They have raised a large number from the plant above-named years 
before I knew the place. If ‘ J. S.’ desires to raise plants from his 
seed he must wait patiently for their appearance, they take a long 
time to germinate. I could send you a bunch of fruit (dry, but 
Eot pressed) if you wish.” We shall be obliged to our correspondent 
for the specimens offered. 
- “Visitor” writes:—“I observed at the last meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington a plant shown by Mr. B. S. 
Williams under the name of Jambosa acida, which appeared to me to 
bear an exceedingly close resemblance to Grias cauliflora, the Anchovy 
Pear, an effective, handsome, but little known tree from Jamaica.” 
- The National Auricula Society’s Southern Show is to be held 
at Kensington on April 22nd, and the National Carnation and Picotee 
Society’s Show on July 22nd. Veitch Memorial medals and prizes of 
£5 will be offered at the first named for twelve show distinct Auriculas 
(amateurs and gentlemen’s gardeners), and at the last for twelve Car- 
tions (excluding seifs) and six Picotees. The substantial balance of 
£26 15^. 2d. has been secured by the Carnation Society, the Auricula 
Society having £6 85 . lOd. in their favour. 
- Messrs. Barr & Son, King Street, Covent Garden, send us 
a specimen plant of May’s Northau Brussels Sprouts, a variety 
of very fine appearance, which has been frequently successfully exhi¬ 
bited by the raiser, Mr. May, The Gardens, Northau House, Barnet, 
and at the last Show of the Borough of Hackney Society at the 
Royal Aquarium his specimens of these Sprouts were much admired. 
The sample under notice is 2£ feet high, the stem for 1 foot 8 inches 
of its length being covered with closely packed firm sprouts from 1 inch 
to in diameter. It is evidently a useful form of this important 
vegetable, and is very tender and of good flavour when cooked. 
- A visitor to the National Agricultural and Horti¬ 
cultural Exhibition at Paris, which opened on the 11th inst., and 
continued until the 20 th inst., states that it included a very large 
quantity of field and garden produce, such as grain, vegetables, fresh 
and dried fruits. A pretty display of flowers was also provided, and 
added much to the beauty of an extensive exhibition, which filled many 
rooms in the Palais de l’lndustrie. 
- Mr. Charles Whitehead’s essay on profitable fruit 
farming, published by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., contains 
matter of great interest to cultivators of hardy fruits either on a large 
-or small scale, and it is commended to the attention of all who are 
interested in this important subject. That there is still a market for 
tome-grown fruit is evident from the statement of the author that 
“ only about 29,000 acres have been added to the acreage of fruit land 
in the United Kingdom during the last eleven years ; or 190,710 acres 
in 1883, as against 160,857 acres in 1872. The annual average amount 
of raw fruit imported into this country since 1875 is close upon 
4,000,000 bushels. The annual average produce of the English fruit 
land may be estimated at something like 9,000,000 bushels, making with 
the imported raw fruit a total of about 13,000,000 bushels of fruit 
available for the United Kingdom. From this amount at least 
3,000,000 bushels must be deducted in respect of the Apples and Pears 
grown upon the orchard land, which are supposed to be used for cider 
and perry making ; and this would leave only 10 , 000,000 bushels of raw 
fruit for the consumption of the 35,246,562 inhabitants of the United 
Kingdom, to make all the jam, and to supply all the fresh fruit for 
puddings and pies, and all the fruit that is eaten raw by the whole 
community, to say nothing about the large quantity of conserves and 
preserves, lozenges, extracts and essences for home use and for 
exportation.” 
- Mr. William Marriott writes :—“ The Council of the Royal 
Meteorological Society have arranged to hold at 25, Great George 
Street, S.W., by permission of the President and Council of the Insti¬ 
tution of Civil Engineers, on the evening of March 19th next, an 
Exhibition of Thermometers ; I am therefore instructed by the 
Exhibition Committee to invite co-operation, as they are anxious to 
obtain as large a collection as possible of such instruments. The 
Committee will also be glad to show any new meteorological apparatus 
invented or first constructed since last March, as well as photographs 
and drawings possessing meteorological interest. Should any persons 
be willing to co-operate in the proposed Exhibition, I should be obliged 
by their furnishing me (by March 1 st) with a list of the articles they 
will be able to contribute, and an estimate of the space they will 
require.” 
- “ M. S.” writes :—“ Surpassing in beauty the old and well- 
known Dentaria digitata, Dentaria polyphylla is a welcome visitor 
at this early season, and a great acquisition to our spring-flowering 
plants. Dwarf in habit, it is seldom more than from 4 to 6 inches 
in height. The flowers which terminate the branches are creamy white, 
and are borne in clusters, reminding us of the Arachis hypogrea, as 
they are formed underground, and unless the plants are strong, are 
often spoiled before they push through. A good loamy soil in a 
sheltered situation suits it admirably.” 
- The “Botanical Magazine” for February contains plates 
of the following plants :—Nymphaea alba \ar. rubra, an extremely 
pretty Water Lily, with bright rosy-red flowers, which Sir Joseph 
Hooker thinks will be greatly improved under cultivation. Tilia petio- 
laris, a species resembling the White Lime, and known under the names 
T. americana pendula, T. alba pendula, T. platyphylla pendula, and 
T. argentea pendula. It is quite hardy and produces its fragrant flowers 
in July. Pentstemon labrosus, a Californian species with small scarle 
flowers and very narrow leaves. It was found by Dr. Rothrock “ during 
Wheeler’s expedition in 1875 in Mount Pinos, south of Tejou, at an 
elevation of 7000 feet, and introduced to this country by Mr. W. 
Thompson of Ipswich, with whom it flowered in August last year.” 
Gladiolus Quartinianus, though this is described as having a claim “ to 
take rank amongst the finest species of the genus,” it is, judging by the 
plate, scarcely satisfactory in a horticultural point of view, the flowers 
being dull yellow streaked with red. The first specimens received in 
England were sent by Sir John Kirk a short time since, and flowered 
at Kew last October. Masdevallia Schlimii, a beautiful species, dis¬ 
covered in 1847 by Louis Schlim, half brother of M. Linden, but not 
introduced until recently by Messrs. Sander & Co. of St. Albans. The 
flowers are yellow, mottled and spotted with reddish brown, the tails 
yellow and 2 inches long. It is free-flowering, bearing scapes of four 
or six blooms. Notospartium Carmichaeliae, a very distinct member of 
the Leguminosse, known in New Zealand as “ Pink Broom.” It forms 
a leafless shrub or small tree 20 feet high, with slender drooping 
branches bearing short racemes of small purplish flowers. 
- International Health Exhibition. —Preparations for the 
holding of thi 3 Exhibition at South Kensington are proceeding rapidly. 
The Board of Trade have certified that the Exhibition is an Inter¬ 
national Exhibition, and exhibitors thereat will accordingly participate 
in the privileges accorded by the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks 
Act of 1883. The officers of Her Majesty’s Customs have also announced 
that the Lords of the Treasury have consented to the buildings being 
considered as a bonded warehouse during the continuance of the Exhi¬ 
bition, as was the case at the late Fisheries Exhibition. The General 
Committee now numbers nearly 400 members, and from these seventeen 
Sub-Committees have been formed. These have all been doing valuable 
work in advising the Executive Council as to the nature of objects 
which it is desirable should be fully illustrated, in obtaining the co¬ 
operation of many persons of eminence in the various branches on which 
the Exhibition will treat, and in supervising the applications for space. 
The allotment of space, which has been largely applied for, is being 
, rapidly proceeded with, and applicants will soon be informed of the 
