176 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [ March 1, 1883. 
weather during 1882, barometric temperature, proportion of cloud, 
humidity, rainfall, and, together with the increase or decrease of 
general mortality in London, zymotic diseases and diseases of the 
respiratory organs. The work contains much information useful 
to all interested in meteorology. It is published by Mr. E. 
Stanford, Charing Cross. 
-The schedule of the Glasgow and West of Scotland 
Hoeticultueal Society is issued, and announces the Spring 
Show for March 28th, and the Autumn Show for September 
the 5th. At the first prizes will be offered in sixty-three classes, 
chiefly for forced and spring-flowering plants, while at the other 
135 classes are provided for plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables, 
- Relative to Oechids at Deumlaneig, a correspondent 
informs us that the remarks on page 159 were not too com¬ 
mendatory, as since the visit of Mr. Wright a spike of Odonto- 
glossum Alexandra has flowered. “ The spike was 3 feet in 
height, and bore thirty-four flowers, ranging from 3^ to 3| inches 
in diameter, the variety being of great excellence. The next 
largest of the same form was the Trentham example with twenty- 
seven flowers.” We have learned that the splendid spike referred 
to was sent to Mr. Henry Stevens to be photographed. 
- The following circular, which we readily insert, will 
shortly be issued by Mr. E. S. Dodwell relative to holding a sup¬ 
plementary Caenation and Picotee Show at Slough during 
the ensuing summer :— 
“ Stanley Road, Oxford, Eeb. 24th, 1883. 
“ Dear Sir,—It has been suggested to me that as the Supplementary 
Exhibition of the National Carnation and Picotee Society, held in 
this city last year, was a mark of attention to myself, a similar Ex¬ 
hibition should this year be held on July 31st in the grounds of the 
Royal Nursery, Slough, as a recognition of the work and worth of 
Mr. Turner. The suggestion has been submitted to Mr. Turner, and 
I am happy to say accepted by him, and I have now therefore very 
respectfully to beg your aid and co-operation in making the meeting 
worthy of the place and the man. Thirty-four years since (1849) Mr. 
Turner commemorated his entrance into occupation of the Royal 
Nursery with the largest and finest display of Carnations and Picotees 
I had up to that time seen, besides providing funds for a competition 
in which he took no part. In the next year the first of the celebrated 
trial exhibitions (northern versus southern-raised flowers), instituted 
to dispel the vain notion then promulgated that there was a cardinal 
difference in the flowers of north and south respectively, took place in 
the same grounds ; and in the year thereafter (1851) the first exhi¬ 
bition of the National Carnation and Picotee Society itself. I aspire 
to make the proposed meeting worthy of its predecessors, and hope, 
though the competition be confined to Carnations and Picotees, the 
friends gathering together will not be limited to the growers and ad¬ 
mirers of those flowers only, but will include the much larger number 
who have known, admired, and sympathised with Mr. Turner’s work. 
A subscription list has been opened for the purpose of providing 
funds for the needful prizes, and any aid you may give will be grate¬ 
fully appreciated. Begging an early reply, I am, dear Sir, your 
faithful servant, E. S. Dodwell.” 
The following subscriptions have been already promised :—John 
T. D. Llewelyn, £5 5s. ; C. Turner, £5 5s. ; E.S. Dodwell, £5 5s. ; 
J. McIntosh, £3 3s.; J. Douglas, £1 Is.; Shirley Hibberd, £1 Is.; 
H. M. Hewitt, 10s. 6d. ; Samuel Brown, 10s. Gd. 
- The thirty-second annual Exhibition of the Oxfobd Rose 
Society will be held at Headington Hill Park, Oxford, on 
Tuesday, July 10th. 
days a list of the articles and an estimate of the space they will 
occupy to Mr. William Marriott, Assistant Secretary, 30, Great 
George Street, Westminster, S.W. 
- Among the smaller kinds of epiphytal Orchids the little 
Madagascar rarity, A ngb^ecum citeatum, is, indeed, a gem. 
Two plants of it are at present in flower in the College Botanic 
Gardens, Dublin. The little plant is of a very dwarf habit; the 
gracefully curving flower scape is from 12 to 15 inches long, which, 
for the greater portion of its length, is furnished with a sym¬ 
metrically arranged double row of pure white flowers, each with 
a proportionally long spur, the double row of spurs below corre¬ 
sponding with those of the flowers above, and enhancing the 
beauty of the flower scape. The plant is a native of Madagascar, 
from whence it was introduced by Messrs. Yeitch & Son. It is 
as yet rare in collections ; but no choice collection of these plants 
should be without it. Mr. Burbidge’s plants are growing and 
flowering in extremely small, shallow pans suspended from the 
roof.— ( Irish Farmers' Gazette.') 
- We have received from Messrs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin 
a packet of their serial publications—Part 10 of the Illustrated 
Booh of Canaries and Cage Birds; Part 30 of Paxton's Flower 
Garden , containing good plates of Cattleya pallida and Cantua 
buxifolia ; Part 48 of Familiar Garden Flowers ; and Part 71 
of Familiar Wild Flowers. 
— — The monthly meeting of the Meteobological Society, 
held on the 21st inst., Mr. J. K. Laughton, F.R.A.S., President, in 
the chair, Rev. W. R. C. Adamson, R. P. Coltman, W. F. Gwinnell, 
Capt. C. S. Hudson, T. Mann, F. G. Treharne, and W. Tyson were 
balloted for and elected Fellows, and the following papers were 
read :—1, “ Notice of a Remarkable Land Fog Bank, ‘ The Larry,’ 
that Occurred at Teignmouth on October 9th, 1882,” by G. W. 
Ormerod, M.A., F.M.S. The “ Larry ” is a dense mass of rolling 
white land fog, and is confined to the bottom of the Teign valley, 
differing therein from the sea fog, which rises above the tops of 
the hills. It appears about daybreak, and has an undulating but 
well-defined upper edge, which leaves the higher part of the hill 
sides perfectly clear. The author gives an account, illustrated by 
photographs, of the remarkable fog bank that occurred at Teign¬ 
mouth on the morning of October 9th. 2, “ Barometric Depres¬ 
sions between the Azores and the Continent of Europe,” by Capt. 
J. C. de Brito Capello, Hon. Mem. M.S. The author gives the 
tracks of several depressions from the Azores to Europe, and 
shows that if there had been a telegraphic cable nearly every one 
of them could have been foretold in England. 3, “Weather 
Forecasts and Storm Warnings on the Coast of South Africa,” by 
Capt. C. M. Hepworth, F.M.S. 4, “ Note on the Reduction of 
Barometric Readings to the Gravity of Latitude 45°, and its 
Effect on Secular Gradients and the Calculated Height of the 
Neutral Plane of Pressure in the Tropics,” by Prof. E. D. Archi¬ 
bald, M.A., F.M.S. 
- In supporting a resolution for the abolition of extbA- 
oedinaey tithes at a recent meeting at Greenhithe, Mr. Albert 
Bath described this tithe as an obnoxious burden which pressed 
severely on farmers, especially in Kent and Sussex, as the more 
capital they expended on fruit, hops, and market garden grounds, 
the more tithe they had to pay. The Anti-extraordinary Tithe 
Association proposed abolition of this tithe by three to seven 
years’ purchase, but he found some difficulty in that way. There 
was capital to raise, also value in different parishes to estimate. 
He would suggest that they go back to the settlement at the time 
of the commutation of 1836, ascertain the amount of extraor¬ 
dinary tithes charged in each parish at that time, and spread the 
total amount over the whole of the land in the parish, and in 
this manner get out the field apportionment of the ordinary tithe, 
- The Council of the Meteorological Society having de¬ 
termined upon holding at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 
25, Great George Street, S.W., on the evening of March 21st next, 
an Exhibition of Meteobological Insteuments which have 
been designed for or used by travellers and explorers, the Ex¬ 
hibition Committee invite co-operation, as they are anxious to 
obtain as large a collection as possible of such instruments. The 
Committee will be glad to show any new meteorological apparatus 
invented or first constructed since last March, as well as photo¬ 
graphs and drawings possessing meteorological interest. Anyone 
willing to forward exhibits are invited to submit within fourteen 
