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are informed, is made, advertised, and supplied only by Messrs. C. P. 
Kinnell & Co., 31, Bankside, London, wlio are the sole proprietors. 
- Mr. J. Mallender, Hodsock Priory Gardens, Worksop, Notts, 
writes—“The minimum thermometer in my Weather Summary in last 
week’s Journal is made to read 5‘T* ; it ought to read -5-7, which makes 
10° difference, the actual lowest readings of the minimum on the grass 
were on the Bth 01, on the 7th -5 - 7°, on the 10th —1'5° ; so, had it not 
been for the snow, we must have suffered very much.” 
- At the ordinary meeting of the Royal Meteorological 
Society, to be held at 25, Great George Street, Westminster, on 
Wednesday, the 21st inst., at 7 r.M., the following papers will be real :— 
“ The Climate of Killarney,” by the Yen. Archdeacon Wynne, M.A., 
F.R.Met.Soc. “ Note on the Probability of Weather Sequence,” by 
Lieut.-Col. C. K. Brooke, F.R.Met.Soc. “ Account of the Cyclone of 
June 3rd, 1885, in the Arabian Sea,” by Capt. Maurice T. Moss- 
“ Results of Solar Radiation Observations in the Neighbourhood of Bir¬ 
mingham, 1875-1884,” by Rupert T. Smith, F.R.Met.Soc., M.Tnst.C.E_ 
“ Results of Meteorological Observations made at Kwala Lumpor, Malay 
States, 1884,” by A. W. Sinclair, L.R.C.P. 
- Mr. Robt. Owen, Maidenhead, sends us some blooms of 
Cinerarias of good size, bright and varied in colours, evidently a good 
strain. Sir. Owen states that the strain is the result of several years’ care, 
ful selection, the chief objects having been to obtain good substance with 
varied tints. 
-Royal Horticultural Society.—A mongst the privileges of 
the Fellows of this Society are the following :—“ Each Forty Guinea 
Life and Four Guinea Annual Fellow is entitled to purchase two tickets, 
and each Twenty Guinea Life and Two Guinea Annual Fellow one ticket 
of admission to the Exhibition Buildings through which the Royal Pro* 
cession will pass on the occasion of the opening of the Colonial and 
Indian Exhibition by Her Majesty the Queen on May 4th, at the price of 
10s. per ticket, instead of £1, the price charged to the public. Application 
for these, accompanied by a remittance, should be made as soon as pos¬ 
sible to the Secretary, Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington’ 
S.W., and no tickets can be issued after 3 P.M. on the day preceding the 
opening day. Only bona fide Fellows of the Society are entitled to pur. 
chase these tickets, and not their nominees. They will not admit to the 
Royal Albert Hall, where the opening ceremony will take place. Fellows 
are informed that each ordinary Fellow’s card ticket (green) should be 
signed by that person in whose name it has been issued, and that, in addi¬ 
tion to personal admission to the gardens and Exhibition at South Ken¬ 
sington, such ticket will admit the owner to the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s Provincial Show at Liverpool, from June 29th to July 5th, 
accompanied by one friend. The paper orders (pink) giving admission 
for fid. on Is. days require the signature of the Fellow of the Society to 
whom they have been issued.” The Orchid Conference Report, pub¬ 
lished by the Society, may now be had, free of charge, on application to 
the Secretary. 
- Mr. J. Leslie, the Lodge, Pilcullen House, Perth, sends us 
blooms of Chrysanthemum Fair Maid op Guernsey, from plants 
that have teen flowering since December, and asks if it is usual for this 
variety to bloom so long. It is certainly not usual for such fresh blooms 
to be sent to us on the 12th of April, and the plants that produced them 
must have had the best of attention. 
-The National Chrysanthemum Society’s Annual Report 
and Schedule op Prizes for 1886 is now to hand, from which it 
appears that three exhibitions are provided—one of early Chrysanthemums, 
Dahlias, and Gladioli, September 9th and 10th ; the Annual Chrysanthe¬ 
mum, Fruit, and Vegetable Show, November 10th and 11th, and a Mid¬ 
winter Show of Chrysanthemums, Cyclamens, and Primulas, January 
12th and 13tb, 1887. All these will beheld at the Royal Aquarium, West¬ 
minster, and the prizes are very liberal in the majority of classes. It is 
satisfactory to see the Society making such good progress, the number of 
members having greatly increased, and twenty other societies are now 
affiliated to it. Schedules can be had from the Hon. Sec,, Mr, William 
Holmes, Frampton Park Nursery, Hackney. 
- The Committee of the Preston and Fulwood Horticul¬ 
tural Society held their fortnightly meeting on April 10th, when 
Mr. W. Swan of The Gardens, Howick House, Preston, ead a most 
interesting paper, his subject being “ Orchid Culture.” The reading 
was full of valuable and practical information to those present, who 
numbered over fifty. The Committee very cordially invite all gardeners, 
under gardeners included, and there are on all occasions crowded meetings. 
Mr. Swan alluded to the importance of suitable structures for Orchids, 
giving many valuable hints upon the best means of heating, ventilating, 
and shading. He strongly condemned the use of white spar in Orchid 
houses, and in every case it should be discarded for common cinders or 
ordinary coke, the latter being preferable, as the spar becomes partially 
green and unsightly in a very few weeks, and thereby requiring to bs 
washed frequently. Plants never appear so green when staged upon it 
as they do when placed upon coke or cinders. These latter also absorb 
a great amount of water. Mr. Swan, being a most successful grower 
of Orchids for many years past, rendered the subject all the more 
interesting. A few questions were asked by several members, which 
were answered by Mr. Swan, after which a little discussion followed by 
Messrs. Atherton, Roberts, Clarke, and others. A hearty vote of thanks 
was accorded for his excellent paper, which brought a most pleasant 
evening’s proceedings to a close. 
- At a recent meeting of the Linnean Society Mr. J, G. Baker 
exhibited Scolopendrium Devalyi, a new species of Fern discovered by 
the Abbe Devalyi in the province of Yunnan. A paper was read, botanical 
observations made in a journey to the Naga Hills (between Assam and 
Munipore), by Mr. C. B. Clarke. Writing from Kohima, a station 
4750 feet altitude, he says the country above 5000 feet is nearly all jungle, 
and that the predominant plant groups, such as the Commelinaceae, Rubi, 
Senecio, and Ferns, besides others, are nearly all identical with those 
growing in Sikkim, while, on the contrary, many Khasi plants are con¬ 
spicuously absent. Various kinds of Oaks form forests around Kohima, 
and the Alder is abundant, the latter occasionally having an enormous 
trunk. The Nagas pollard the Alder at 6 feet from the ground, and cut 
the innumerable sprouts for firewood. Two rare species of Diospyros 
were observed. The flora is altogether rich and interesting, though there 
are few new species. Mr. Clarke gives an account of his ascent of 
Jakpho, a mountain peak 9980 feet high, and about 10 miles distant 
from Kohima. Lomaria glauca, a rare Fern in Khasia, is here plentiful, 
Rhododendrons are plentiful at 8500, and the ridge at the top is clothed 
with dwarf Bamboo. The levels 5000 to 7000 feet on Jakpho are mostly 
forests of shrubby Strobilanthes G to 12 feet hi^h, just as in Sikkim. 
There are several Laurels, and Ilex Aquifolium exists a3 a tree 30 to 
40 feet high. The Convolvulaceie are prominent up to 5000 feet. 
- At the same meeting the Secretary read a communication on the 
VEGETATION OP the Arctic REGIONS by M. Buysman. The author 
remarks that the flora of Greenland is decidedly Scandinavian in character. 
Almost all the plants are also found in Lapland, but, notwithstanding the 
proximity of America, few belong to that continent, while Asiatic Arctic 
types are rare. Some 378 species of phanerogams and cryptogams 
compose the Greenland flora. Of these over 200 are found on the eastern 
coast, only seven of them being absent on the western shore, while 170 
species are recorded from the west, these being absent on the east. 
Nova Zemlyn and the Island of Waigatz together possess 290 species, and 
Spitzbergen 117 species. The author enters into particulars regarding 
the special plants peculiar to the seaboard, and such are cultivated by the 
inhabitants both in the open air and under cover. He remarks that the 
long and continuous summer sunlight, and at times intense heat, have 
much influence on the vegetation, and counterbalance the dark severe 
winter season. 
- Commenting upon the forthcoming Indian and Colonial 
Exhibition at South Kensington, Nature remarks that “ The 
collection of woods from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, shown at 
the Forestry Exhibition at Edinburgh, has been greatly enlarged, espe¬ 
cially by specimens of timber of extraordinary size from the Andamans, 
and will be shown in the Indian section. One of these, the Diospyros 
Kurzii, a marble wood, resembles a combination of oak and ebony. 
There will be two timber trophies from the Indian Forest Department; 
one will be a triple arch 46 feet broad by 15 feet high, containing over 
300 kinds of wood, while the second will be formed wholly of bamboo, 
of which thirty species will be shown. The most original arrangement 
of woods, however, is that adopted in the Victorian Court. Each specimen 
is in the shape of an octavo volume, on the back being printed, as a title 
and place of publication, the scientific name of the wood and the locality 
when it came. The whole collection is enclosed in a handsome book-case, 
and so resembles a small library. Prof. McCoy and Baron von Muller 
have prepared a large natural history collection, and one of rare plants 
