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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOOIST. 
[ JUNE, 
purposes, with space and light sufficient for the 
extremist requirements, with Rose-culture brought 
to its present state of perfection, and with the most 
liberal and varied Rose schedule over issued, they 
believe that the Rose Show to be held at the Crystal 
Palace on June 29 will be the grandest ever held. 
A second schedule is also issued, the claims of the 
North (in order to make the Society truly a National 
one) having been taken into consideration.” 
— 3£iie new white-edged Seedling Auricula 
shown by Mr. Douglas at the recent show at 
the Crystal Palace, and to which a First-class 
Certificate was awarded by the judges, has sub¬ 
sequently been named Silvia. Mr. Douglas had 
already an Alpine Auricula certificated last year, to 
which the same name was given. 
— fHESSRS. G. Jackman and Son’s exhibi¬ 
tion of early-flowering Clematises has takenplace 
during the past month, at the Crystal Palace. 
Though scarcely up to the high standard of excellence 
attained in previous exhibitions, the display was a 
striking one. The exhibition was held in the carriago 
department—not a very good position—and was 
composed of two large sloping banks of plants, 
the pale-coloured flowers of the Clematis being 
relieved by high-coloured Rhododendrons, and the 
front line effectively formed of Euonymus radicans 
variegata. The sorts which have been most 
attractive this year were Maiden’s Blush, Fair 
Rosamond, the Queen, Blue Gem, Mrs. S. C. Baker, 
Edith Jackman, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Aureliana, 
Vesta, Albert Victor, Standishii, Mrs. Bateman, 
Lady Londesborough, Robert Hanbury, Stella, and 
the two double forms, Lucy Lemoine and Countess 
of Lovelace. 
— &t the Paris Exhibition of 1878, 
London is worthily represented by Messrs. 
Carter and Co., in all that pertains to agricul¬ 
ture. Their display extends upwards of 100 ft. in 
length, and contains some thousands of glass cases, 
containing distinct varieties of the most popular 
kinds of seeds for farms and gardens. The classi¬ 
fication of these seeds is in accordance with the 
French system, and each glass case bears in con¬ 
spicuous type the name of the variety, also printed 
in French. A novel feature is a group of the most 
popular kinds of peas in use for the French and 
English market. The specimens have been care¬ 
fully dried and preserved, and show the height to 
which the variety grows, and the size attained by 
the pods ; there is also a row of the dried peas, by 
which a true variety may be identified. 
— £1 third edition of Henfrey’s Ele¬ 
mentary Course of Botany (Van Voorst) lias 
just been issued. It is edited by Dr. Masters, 
and in many parts has been so thoroughly revised, 
or in fact, rewritten, to keep pace with our rapidly 
advancing knowledge, that it virtually becomes a 
new book. This especially applies to the portions 
devoted to Vegetable Physiology, in which the 
writings of Sachs, Van Tieghem, Duchartre, De- 
he'rain, Boussingault, Darwin, Trecul, Pfeifer, Janc- 
zewski, Corenwinder, Lawes and Gilbert, McNab, 
Vesque, Rauwenhoff, Warming, and others have been 
consulted. The Morphological chapters have been 
also recast, and in the systematic portion the 
arrangement of Bentham and Hooker, so far as it 
extends, has been followed. The section relating 
fo Cryptogams has been entirely rewritten, by Mr, 
G. Murray, of the British Museum. In consequence 
of this advanced information, the present work 
must be regarded as the best of the modern text¬ 
books. 
— ®he Double-Flowered Cinerarias 
from Messrs. Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt, 
are exceedingly promising. The plants are of 
dwarf compact habit, vigorous and abundantly fiori- 
ferous, and the individual blossoms fully double, 
some of the larger flowers fully 1^ in. across. When 
they can be depended on to come true from seed, 
they will be most valuable for decoration, as well as 
for cutting. The colours take in all the ordinary 
tints met with amongst the single varieties. 
©bftttarg* 
— Du. T. Thomson, F.R.S., died on April 
18. He was born at Glasgow, in 1817, and 
after graduating there as Doctor of Medicine, 
entered the medical service of the East India Com- 
jrany. In 1847 he was appointed to accompany a 
mission which was dispatched across the Himalayas 
to Tibet; and in 1849 he joined Dr. Hooker at 
Darjeeling, whence in the following year they pro¬ 
ceeded to Khasia, and subsequently to Silhet and 
Cachar, descending the Bay of Bengal to Chittegong, 
the Sunderbunds and Calcutta, whence they em¬ 
barked for England. Dr. Thomson returned to 
India, to take charge of the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden, and remained there a few years, but came 
home in broken health, and of late years his labours 
connected -with publications on the Flora of India 
have been much relaxed. His amiability endeared 
him to those who knew him. 
— fftR. John Dobson, of tlie ‘Woodlands 
Nursery, Isleworth, died at Hounslow on May 
3, at tlie comparatively early age of 46, after a 
severe illness. He was senior partner of the firm 
of Dobson and Sons, and had been a florist from 
childhood, having been a helper with his father at a 
time when the name of Dobson stood high at exhi¬ 
bitions of Pelargoniums. He leaves a wife and 
rather numerous family to mourn his loss. 
— Professor Visiani died on May 4. He 
was born at Sebenico, in Dalmatia, in 1800, 
and bas for many years been the Professor of 
Botany and Director of tbe remarkable Botanic 
Garden of Padua. 
— PlR. William Hill, gardener at Keele 
Hall, Newcastle, Staffordshire, died May 9. 
Mr. Hill was well known amongst his contem¬ 
poraries as a most successful cultivator and exhibitor 
of Grapes, his training having been carried on in 
such schools as Caen Wood, Chiswick, Trentliam, 
and Nuneham. He was appointed to Keele Hall in 
1850, and his employer, Ralph Sneyd, Esq., being 
anxious to have good grapes, this fruit received his 
special attention, and for many years Keele was 
never without grapes all the year round. He was a 
very successful exhibitor, and won sixty-one first 
prizes at the various London shows during the ten 
years from 1853 to 1863. Mr. Hill was not only a 
good grape-grower, but a thoroughly good gardener, 
and will be much regretted by a wide circle of pro¬ 
fessional friends. 
