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tion on the day originally appointed. The Executive Committee have, in consequence, re¬ 
solved that the Exhibition for the present year shall take place on Tuesday, June 5, at the 
Manchester Botanical Garden, under the conditions set forth in the schedules already 
published. 
- ^HE National Show of the Royal Manchester Botanical and Horticul¬ 
tural Society^ now in its jubilee year, has been a great success. The Eoses and 
many of the Ferns exhibited have never been surpassed at any country show ; 
and the Orchids were as usual a splendid display. For the champion prize for Pot Roses 
Mr. C. Tunier and Mr. G. Paul contended, and victory favoured the Slough plants, which were 
certainly magnificent. Mr. 0. 0. Wrigley had some of the best Ferns ever shown, and his 
Orchids, which took all the first prizes offered to amateurs, were superb, the Masdevallias in 
particular never having been seen in such profusion or so grandly bloomed. For stove and 
greenhouse plants, Mr. Pilgrim, of Cheltenham, was first; and for a group set up for effect, 
Messrs. Thyne, of Glasgow. The weather on the opening day was unfortunately most 
unfavourable, but 25,000 persons attended during the three first days of the Whitsun week. 
- are pleased to notice the reappearance of an old friend, the Flore 
des Serres^ which has not been published since the death of its lamented projector 
and editor, M. Louis Van Houtte. The three first parts of Vol. XXII. have now 
been published in one, and we gladly welcome M. Planchon to the post which he once again 
occupies as editor, being convinced that in his hands the work will abundantly sustain its 
reputation. 
- i^iss E. Watts’s Flowers and the Flower Garden (Warne and Co., 
Bedford Street) is a creditable little manual of flower-gardening. Most of the 
advice given may be accepted, which is more than can always be said for cheap 
books. It, however, needs a little revision in the botanical department in certain parts, as, 
for instance, at p. 36, where the Virginian Creeper and the Canary Creeper are hopelessly 
mixed up. In fact the whole would be the better for revision, with the view to a better modern 
selection of plants. A chapter on Stove Foliage plants seems altogether out of place. With 
these exceptions, the book offers a good shilling’s-worth of horticulture. 
- ®HE town of Hull is in a fair way to acquire a New Botanic Garden^ 
the old one being almost crowded out by bricks and mortar. A scheme for 
acquiring a more open and favourable site has been put forward, and at a recent 
meeting of the proprietors of the old garden, it was, we believe, determined to wind up the 
present concern, with the view to facilitate the bringing-out of the new scheme, which appeal’s 
to have every prospect of being adopted, as about £6,000 capital has been already promised, 
and there are numerous applications for the sites for villa residences, which form part of tho 
estate to be purchased. A prospectus of the new corporation will shortly be issued. 
- ®HE Exhibition of Clematises^ by Messrs. G. Jackman and Son, of 
Woking, in the Garden of the Eoyal Botanic Society, in the Eegent’s Park, has 
proved to be an improvement on that of last year, the plants being equally well 
grown and flowered, and the variety of colour being greater, owing to the acquisition of a 
large number of purples and of whites, which w’ont far to relieve the even tone of lavender- 
grey which predominated at the earlier shows. The Duchess of Teck and Countess of Love¬ 
lace, both recently figured in the Florist, were shown in admirable condition. 
- Newman (32, Botolph Lane, London), has recently printed and 
issued a pamphlet on Injurious Insects^ which we commend to the notice of our 
readers. Its object is to gain more exact information on certain points of agricultural 
entomology, and hence it is accompanied by ruled columned sheets for tho purpose of re¬ 
cording monthly observations on certain selected insects, remarkable for the injury they 
cause to our common crops. The sheets are accompanied by short but popular descriptions 
and clearly-drawn figures of the insect pests, which is hoped may guard against errors. By 
this means, it is hoped to obtain a general series of observations through tho country, 
