JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
February 23, 1882. ] 
not only on account of the neatness of its pretty white flowers, 
but also for their remarkable duration at this season of the year. 
We recently saw a plant which we were credibly informed had 
been in flower for the past five weeks, and it is still in admirable 
condition. It thrives well in a small basket; and suspended near 
the roof in the Cattleya house, a slightly cooler quarters, it grows 
and flowers freely, requiring little attention beyond the customary 
supply of water. 
- Another handsome member of the same genus, LuELIA 
ANCEPS DAWSONI, is similarly attractive now in many Orchid 
houses. The petals in this variety are broad, rounded, and pure 
white, as are also the slightly more narrow sepals. The lip is 
chiefly white, but is most delicately veined with rich crimson, the 
lines radiating from the centre to the margins. It is now generally 
known that this is one of the most beautiful forms of the variable 
species L. anceps. 
-We learn that the Dundee Horticultural Society 
will hold a grand Floral Fete in the High School grounds, Dundee, 
on August 31st and September the 1st and 2nd of the present year. 
Prizes will be offered in 199 classes—namely, GO for plants, 46 for 
cut flowers, 40 for fruit, and 53 for vegetables. Liberal prizes 
are offered in all the chief classes. On the same date the East of 
Scotland Bee-keepers’ Association will also hold an exhibition in 
connection with the above. 
- As an example of the enterprise of seedsmen and the 
efforts they make to render their wares attractive to the public, 
we may allude to a sample package of seeds that has been sent to 
us by Messrs. Coventry & Carstairs of Gray’s Inn Road, London. 
The package contains forty small packets of flower seeds, each 
not only containing printed instructions relative to the height, 
and time, and mode of sowing, but also a coloured representation 
of the flower in miniature. We have seen similar examples, but 
none better than these before us. 
- We have received two more parts of Messrs. Letts’ 
Popular Atlas. The work continues to maintain its good repu¬ 
tation for excellence of execution and correctness. The maps are 
really admirable, and are accompanied with useful statistical 
matter. Part 23, maps of Paris, Sweden, and the German Empire, 
and 24 of Russia, Berlin, Italy, and part of Norway. 
- Some growers have made the rather unpleasant discovery 
that what they had expected to be Chionodoxa Lucilije have in 
some cases proved to be their old friend Scilla bifolia, and it is 
not at all improbable that others will arrive at a similar con¬ 
clusion as the foliage and flowers develope. The Snow Glory 
has acquired so great a fame, and is apparently so much in 
demand, that several small traders in hardy flower roots, bulbs, 
&c., in Covent Garden Market display boxes containing bulbs 
supposed to be the Chionodoxa, and to which attention is directed 
by labels of formidable dimensions. 
- Referring to the Diamond Tuberose, concerning the 
original description of which there has been some doubt, the 
“ American Gardener’s Monthly ” gives the following explanation. 
—“ Nanz and Neuner say they were aware that an attempt was 
made to impose on two eastern firms a kind which was ‘ far from 
being the Diamond which we offer.’ They ‘ know it to be just 
as they represented it,’ except that it was an error to say as we 
did, ‘ 5 to 8 inches ; ’ it should be ‘15 to 18 inches.’ But, since 
the question has been raised they decided not to sell till they had 
exhibited plants this summer, so that all could see for themselves.” 
- In the same magazine it is stated that a double rose- 
coloured Bouvardia has been obtained by a grower in Louis¬ 
ville. It is said to be a sport from the double white Alfred 
Neuner, and is stated by the editor to be very beautiful and quite 
as desirable as that variety. 
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- The usual monthly meeting of the Meteorological 
Society was held on Wednesday, the 15th inst., at the Institute 
of Civil Engineers, 25, Great George Street, Mr. J. K. Laughton, 
M.A., F.R.A.S., President, in the chair. The following gentlemen 
were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of the Society—W. 
AroDsberg, J.P. ; W. G. Birchby ; J. Rand Capron, F.R.A.S. ; 
P. Crowley, F.Z.S.; W. W. Culcheth, M.Inst.C.E. ; D. Cunning¬ 
ham, M.Inst.C.E., F.S.S.; S. Cushing ; W. N. Greenwood ; E. 
Kitto; J. Mansergh, M.Inst.C.E. ; G. Oliver, M.D. ; H. S. H. 
Shaw, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E. ; G. W. Stevenson, M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S.; 
and W. H. Tyndall. The papers read were—1, “Notes of 
Experiments on the Distribution of Pressure upon Flat Surfaces 
Perpendicularly Exposed to the Wind,” by C. E. Burton, B.A., 
F.R.A.S., and R. H. Curtis, F.M.S. 2, “ The Principle of New 
Zealand Weather Forecasts,” by Commander R. A. Edwin, 
R.N., F.M.S. 3, “The High Atmospheric Pressure of the Middle 
of January, 1882,” by H. Sowerby Wallis, F.M.S. The electrical 
thermometer, lent by Messrs. Siemens Bros., for observing the 
temperature of the air at the summit of Boston church tower, was 
also exhibited. 
- Messrs. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin have sent us the 
following—parts 16,17, and 18 of “ Paxton’s Flower Garden,” 
the interest of which is well sustained. With the last part the 
first volume is completed. Parts 12, 13, and 14 of “The Illus¬ 
trated Book of Pigeons,” by Lewis Wright, are well illustrated 
with admirable coloured portraits of the various varieties. Parts 
11,12, and 13 of “The Illustrated Book of Ballads” contain 
some of the most beautiful as well as the most humorous in our 
language, and the illustrations are of a very high order. Parts 
49, 50, and 51 of “ SCIENCE FOR All,” a highly instructive popular 
work. Parts 57, 58, and 59 of “ Familiar Wild Flowers,” and 
parts 34, 35, and 36 of “ Familiar Garden Flowers,” are con¬ 
tinuations of two very useful and well-illustrated works, which 
we have frequently had occasion to commend. 
- “We hear,” says the “ Journal of Forestry,” “that a scheme 
has been submitted to the Government for the creation of a 
Forest School for England in the neighbourhood of London, 
and another for Scotland in Edinburgh. It is of great importance 
to the country that a forest school should be established with the 
least delay possible, but the exact locality of its head quarters is 
a matter of less consequence where the conveniences for travelling 
are so ample. To some London has many attractions as being 
the great centre of the empire ; but for educational facilities and 
easy access to the best examples of forest management in Great 
Britain, Edinburgh has undoubtedly greatly superior claims. 
From our own experience we know that forestry and forest 
management receive more than double the attention of those 
interested—landowners and foresters—in Scotland than it does 
in the whole of England. As a rule, woods on most estates in 
England are looked upon as of secondary importance in the 
annual return received from the land, while in Scotland the re¬ 
turns from woodlands are held to be of primary importance, and 
must come in as regularly as the rent from arable land. Excep¬ 
tions are easily enough found, but at the present time the differ¬ 
ence between the systems generally followed in each country is 
as we have stated, and there can be but one opinion about which 
is the best system in which to train young foresters.” 
LILIES OF THE VALLEY AT FULHAM. 
In one of the houses that has formerly been used as a propa¬ 
gating house at Messrs. Osborn Sc Sons’ nurseries are to be seen 
some remarkably fine examples of Lily of the Valley. The clumps 
are placed closely together on a bed composed of decayed tan 
about 2 feet in thickness without any bottom heat. The bed is 
about 12 feet long by about 3 feet 6 inches in width. Over the 
crowns of the Lilies is placed about an inch depth of the above 
