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which, though unsatisfactory, did not materially affect the general 
good results. The exhibitions to be held during the present year 
are the following :—The National Bose Society’s Provincial Show, 
June 28th; Summer Show and Gala, August 4th and Gth ; and 
the Chrysanthemum and Fruit Show, November 13th and 14th. 
The Society has entered into a provisional agreement to rent 
10 acres of land in Westwood Park on a lease of fourteen years, 
it being proposed to maintain it as a place of recreation as well as 
a site for the exhibitions. Four hundred pounds are, however, 
required for preliminary expenses, and it is intended to raise this 
by issuing tickets available for the whole term of the lease, and 
transferable on payment of a small fee. It is hoped that all 
necessary arrangements will be completed in time for the Eose 
Show to be held in the Society’s grounds. 
- In reference to the mildness of the season a corre¬ 
spondent writes :—“ Observing a paragraph in the Journal the 
week before last that Primroses had been selling at a penny a 
bunch in London, as something worth notice at this season, I 
may state that when out shooting in a wood in Worcestershire 
last autumn during October, November, and December Primroses 
were abundant. I also noticed Foxgloves during the same months> 
with Daisies and Buttercups in abundance in some fields. Prim¬ 
roses, no matter what the weather may be, usually make an 
unnatural growth in woods after a piece has been cleared of 
underwood for about two seasons, and also on hedgerow banks 
under the same condition of being cleared. I have had some on 
north banks where no sun reached all winter. It is a pity that 
people who could spare the time do not gather Primroses in the 
country and send to hospitals and other institutions, where they 
would no doubt be fully appreciated.” 
- A daily contemporary remarks that “ the great naturalist, 
the late Me. Darwin, seems to have had many admirers in 
Sweden. The subscription for the memorial to him has awakened 
so much interest in that country that the local committee there 
formed has received subscriptions from no fewer than 1400 per¬ 
sons, including ‘ all sorts of people,’ writes Professor Loven in a 
letter to the English Committee, ‘ from the bishop to the seam¬ 
stress ’—the sums varying from £5 to 2d. The English Com¬ 
mittee, which has its headquarters at the Eoyal Society, London, 
has now received (inclusive of subscriptions from abroad), £4000. 
The number of subscribers in the United Kingdom is only about 
six hundred.” 
-We regret to have to announce the death of Mr. William 
Ward, gardener to the Lady Emily Foley of Stoke Edith Park, 
Herefordshire. Mr. Ward died quite suddenly at the com¬ 
paratively early age of fifty-seven, and was able to continue his 
work until the day of his death. He began his profession by four 
years’ residence in a nursery garden at Jersey, took his first place 
in the garden of the late Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick, 
and after staying several years there he became manager of the 
kitchen garden at Hampton Court Palace for Messrs. Jackson and 
Son. From thence he came to Stoke Edith some sixteen years 
ago. Mr. Ward was an excellent practical gardener in all branches 
of the work, and a very steady intelligent man. For the last 
few years of his life, in accordance with Lady Emily Foley’s 
directions, he assisted the Woolhope Naturalist Field Club in the 
preparation of that very beautiful work “ The Herefordshire 
Pomona,” not only by supplying such typical specimens of fruits 
as might be required from the extensive gardens at Stoke Edith, 
but also by giving the results of his observations and experience 
in growing the several varieties. It was a real pleasure to him 
to afford practical information, and he spared no trouble to help 
the Committee in every way he could, always giving his opinions 
with equal freedom and modesty. Mr. Ward was a good type of 
an Englishman, a man of high principle, steady and persevering 
in the performance of his duty, truthful, plain-spoken, and pos¬ 
sessed of sound common sense—a man, in short, to be relied 
upon, and who gained, as he well deserved, the esteem and re¬ 
spect of all his employers through life. 
- A correspondent writes :—“ Will the raisers of new 
plants never ‘ see the error of their ways ’ in giving such 
barbarously long names to their productions as at present pre¬ 
vails ? The latest example of this practice that has come under 
my notice is Primula sinensis flore-pleno crispata nana, 
which is certainly long enough to do justice to a plant that is 
remarkable only for a slight crispness of foliage, and flowers 
smaller than the ordinary type of double Primula. A lady having 
desired to have the English name, it was given to her in this 
form—‘the dwarf crisped-leaved double-flowered Chinese Prim¬ 
rose,’ which was declared to be worse than the other, and the 
attempt to master the title was resigned in despair.” 
- It was stated at the last meeting of the Scientific Com¬ 
mittee, South Kensington, that the specimen of Magnolia 
Campbelli in the grounds of Wm. Crawford, Esq., Lake¬ 
lands, near Cork, is at length about to flower, there being over 
thirty flower buds on it at present. “ This,” says the Irish 
Farmer's Gazette , “ will be the first time of it promising flower 
in the British islands, and we trust the recent severe frost or other 
winter mishap may not interfere with the full development of 
its gorgeous flowers. We may venture to correct a mistake in 
the report of the scientific meeting in our London contemporaries, 
in which it is stated that the tree is growing in Mr. Crawford’s 
garden, from which it might be inferred that it was trained to or 
required the protection of a wall. Such, however, is not the case. 
It is growing a3 a standard in a low-lying portion of the ground 
at a considerable distance from the garden, and quite near the 
foreshore of that portion of the estuary of the Lee known as the 
Douglas channel. With reference to the foregoing, and the 
anxiety expressed with regard to the flowering of M. Campbelli, 
it may be stated that the evergreen Magnolias appear, at least 
about Dublin, to have suffered from the effects of the December 
frost to an extent that we never remember to have seen before. 
In fact, in some places many growing to walls seem completely 
browned.” 
- The report of the Epping Forest Committee of their 
proceedings under the Epping Forest Acts, from the date of their 
first appointment to the close of the year 1882, has been printed 
and circulated. The first Committee was appointed on the 3rd of 
October, and Mr. Bedford elected Chairman on the 11th. The 
first question taken into consideration was the extinction of the 
rights of fuel or wood within the manors of Waltham Holy Cross 
and Sewardstone, as they were utterly destructive to the appear¬ 
ance of the Forest. The total amount of compensation paid by 
the Conservators for the extinction of this right was £12,922, 13s., 
in addition to which they have paid costs, making a grand total 
of about £15,000. The question as to the waste lands unlaw¬ 
fully enclosed from the Forest, which are in the Act called 
“ pink lands,” was next dealt with by the Arbitrator. The con¬ 
dition of quieting the title to those lands it was decided should 
be by way of rent-charge, and that such rent-charge should be of 
a uniform rate of Is. a perch (equal to £8 per acre) per annum. 
The rights of lopping had also to be dealt with, and £7000 paid 
for the extinction of such rights claimed by the inhabitants of 
Loughton. The report speaks of the hearty appreciation of the 
Committee, and of the unwearying patience and careful attention 
which Sir Arthur Hobhouse, the Arbitrator, bestowed upon the 
many difficult and complicated questions which he had to decide 
The arbitration lasted nearly four years. The total sums paid 
under the Arbitrator’s orders for land and for costs was £77,505 
15s. 2d., the average cost being about £70 an acre. The entire 
