February 1,1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
91 
from Sir Edmund Lechmere, the member for the Evesham Division of 
Worcestershire, asking the Company to assist in a great fruit exhibi¬ 
tion, which it was purposed to hold in that county during the present 
year, and the Master and Clerk of the Company had received many 
letters from different parts of the country in regard to the same subject. 
At the Court meeting earlier in the day it had been decided that at the 
Evesham Show they would give two medals for the cultivation of fruit. 
before the Company, providing that they were willing to avail them¬ 
selves of it. The announcement was received with loud cheers.— 
(“ City Press.”) 
PTYCHORAPHIS ANGUSTA. 
This exceedingly graceful Palm was exhibited at a meeting ofi the 
Royal Horticultural Society on October 10th, 1893, having been sent 
Fig. U.—PTYCHORAPHIS ANGUSTA. 
There was behind them a force which might make the Company a 
great power for good in advancing the interests of fruit culture in this 
country. He had a letter from the Agricultural Department, in which 
he was informed that if the Company would formulate a scheme 
of technical education in fruit culture to be applied to the various 
districts of the country where fruit might he properly cultivated, that 
Department was prepared to consider a propcsition for subsidizing 
it. That being so, he considered that there was a great future 
from the Royal Gardens, Kew, and a first class certificate was awarded 
for it. The accompanying illustration (fig. 11) pourtrays the elegance 
of the plant, which in some respects equals that of a Cocos, but has a 
more sturdy growth. The leaves are large and arch beautifully; those 
on the plant, from a sketch of which the engraving has been prepared, 
being nearly 2\ feet in length. For table decoration this Palm would 
be admirably adapted, and if in commerce it will doubtless be in demand 
for that purpose. 
