March 8,189<, 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
185 
- Dundee Horticultural Association. — The monthly 
meeting of this Association was held in the Y.M.C.A. Eooms on Friday 
evening, Mr. Robert Wilkie (the President) in the chair. A paper was 
read by Mr. E. Clark, Scotscraig, Fife, the subject chosen being “ Horti¬ 
cultural Language : What it Teaches and How to Know it.” Mr. 
Clark being a well-known authority on this subject, there was in con¬ 
sequence a large attendance of members. In the course of an instructive 
address Mr. Clark said horticultural language, as he understood it, must 
include the language of all literature of whatever description connected 
with the science in question. Proceeding, he said the articulation or 
pronunciation which he adopted differed from that they were usually 
accustomed to hear, which was that promulgated in “Nicholson’s 
of the best forms of that beautiful Orchid. He showed a fine specimen 
of Ccelogyne cristata, nearly a yard across, with between 200 and 
300 flowers on it. John Machar, Corona, Droughty Ferry, exhibited 
a fine plant of Cypripedium Rothschildianum. Both these exhibits 
were awarded a cultural certificate. Some huge blooms of Callas from 
Mr. Richard Cairns, Balruddery, a Tulip from Mr. Thos. Butchart, 
Elmslea, with several well developed flowers on one stem. An exhibi¬ 
tion stand for Leeks was shown by Mr. A. Cameron, Foggyley, Lochee, 
was considered a great improvement upon the old system of showing 
them, and will likely be adopted at the shows this autumn. A vote of 
thanks to the exhibitor and the chairman brought a very successful 
meeting to a close.—J. M. C. 
Fig, 31.—begonia GLOIRE DE LORRAINE. 
Dictionary of Gardening.” This system was sure to come fast into use, 
as it had been adopted in the Edinburgh University and other places of 
learning just at hand, and the sooner they educated themselves in it 
the better, if they were to keep pace with the advancement of education 
in our day. Mr. Clark went on to give the correct pronunciation of 
many well-known plants, with their Greek and Latin derivations 
and meanings, and impressed upon his audience the necessity of 
studying the distinct articulation of plant names and knowing 
their meanings. After discussion, he was awarded a hearty vote 
of thanks for his instructive lecture. The exhibits at the meeting 
were of great merit, and consisted of a group of Orchids and other 
plants from Mr. Robert Grossart, Binrock, Dundee ; it contained grand 
examples of Odontoglossum Alexandrae, with spikes nearly a yard 
in length, with flowers of great size and purity, representing some 
BEGONIA GLOIRE DE LORRAINE. 
At a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held in the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, S.W., on October 24th, 1893, 
Mr. Jennings, gardener to Leopold de Eothchild, Esq., Ascott, Leighton 
Buzzard, exhibited some exceptionally well-flowered plants of Begonia 
Gloire de Lorraine, and for which a first-class certificate was awarded. 
From a sketch of one of these the illustration (fig. 31) has been prepared. 
Mr. Jennings writes regarding this charming variety: “I purchased 
B. Gloire de Lorraine in February 1893, and in June propagated the 
plants exhibited, and grew them in a temperature 55° to 60°. The soil I 
used was one part loam, two parts peat and leaf mould, and sand. It is a 
fibrous rooted kind and one of the best winter blooming Begonias I have 
grown. It does not drop its blooms like other varieties.” 
