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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
April 23, 1898, 
shows. The ridge and furrow roof is sup¬ 
ported by iron pillars and girders, the 
ridges being of glass, and the furrows 
opaque. The effect from the staircase 
landing was altogether different from that 
of the Annexe Mobile. The stove and green¬ 
house plants, chiefly fine foliage plants, 
requiring stove heat were located here, so 
that there was a wealth of greenery in every 
direction, consisting of huge Palms and 
Cycads, towards the ends and sides of the 
building, as well as in the centres of the 
high banks or mounds into which the floor 
space was broken up. Ferns were also 
prominent, exhibiting a much lighter shade 
of green. All these were relieved by the 
variegation of such subjects as Crotons, 
Caladiums, Dieffenbachias, Dracaenas, 
Phrynium variegatum, Pandanus Veitchii, 
Alocasias, Phyllotaeniums, and a host of 
other subjects of that character. Some 
Orchids were noticeable, particularly large 
specimens of Oncidium ampliatum majus, 
O. sarcodes and Cymbidium lowianum. 
Two groups of them were also very 
effective. The Anthuriums, chiefly 
varieties of A. scherzerianum and allies 
were represented by several large groups 
which were particularly effective in the 
tout ensemble. A fountain played in the 
centre, where some rockwork formed a 
rustic bridge across the water leading from 
a small pond. At the junction of some 
walks a specimen of Rhapis humilis, about 
io ft. high and 8 ft. through, was the finest 
we have seen. 
The Salle Primitive, and other compart¬ 
ments, or galleries branching off from it, 
were filled with a most varied assemblage 
of plants. Amongst the new plants the 
most striking was Acalypha Sanderi, a new 
species from New Guinea, exhibited by 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co. They had a 
large number of plants of it in groups in 
their magnificent exhibit. It had large 
green leaves, from the axils of which dense 
rope-like spikes, i ft. to 2 ft. in length, of 
crimson-scarlet flowers hung down, for all 
the world resembling Love-lies bleeding. 
Young plants up to three feet in height 
consisted of a single stem furnished with 
flowers throughout. Old plants develop 
their branches candelabra fashion, but the 
rope-like spikes of flowers are still pendant. 
In another division of the upstair galleries 
were the exhibits of Hyacinths, Tulips, 
Daffodils, Polyanthus Narcissi and 
Gardenias, which were almost overpower¬ 
ing with their varied scents and perfumes 
in this confined space. Amaryllis were 
well represented, and in most cases in an 
advanced stage of evolution. Gloxinias 
were moderately numerous, but good at 
this early period of the year. Very fine 
were the two groups of the new crisped 
Cyclamen latifolium Papilio, with broad, 
frizzeled and goffered segments like Indian 
lace. They existed in a great variety of 
colours, and are sure to become popular 
in British gardens in a few years. 
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Canada supplies about one-fourteenth of the im¬ 
ported food of Great Britain. 
Mr. P. Barham, formerly foreman under his father 
at Croxteth, Liverpool, has been appointed gardener 
to Col. W. H. Walker, the Grange, Gateacre, Liver¬ 
pool. Mr. Barham entered upon his duties on the 
15th inst. 
Royal Horticultural Society.- The next fruit and 
floral meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
will be held on Tuesday, April 26th, in the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, 1—5 p m. In 
addition to the society’s ordinary meeting, the 
National Auricula and Primula Society will hold its 
annual show. At three o’clock a lecture on " Sweet 
Scented Leaves v. Fragrant Flowers," will be given 
by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, M.A., V.M H. 
The Crystal Palace and grounds cover 200 acres. 
A Noble Gift. -Miss Cruickshank, the sister of the 
late Dr. Cruickshank, has given £15,000 to Aberdeen 
University for the purpose of founding a botanic 
garden in memory of her brother. 
British Orchids. —Mr. A. D. Webster, of Green¬ 
wich Park, announces for immediate publication by 
J. S Virtue & Co., Ltd., a work on British Orchids. 
The book will contain an exhaustive description of 
each species of our native Orchids, and will be fully 
illustrated. 
The Dunlop News. —The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre 
Co., Ltd., 160, Clerkenwell Road, E.C., has issued 
No. 11 of the Dunlop News, a neatly got up magazine 
intended for cyclists. We are requested to state 
that the company will be pleased to send a copy 
gratis and post free to any cyclist upon receipt of 
name and address. Many gardeners cycle, and the 
Dunlop News will therefore be of interest to them. 
The Sovran Postcard.—We are in receipt of a 
number of samples of this postcard from the 
" Sovran Card Co.,” 29, King Street, Covent Garden, 
W.C. The "card” in question is an ingenious 
device—a multifold card which can be neatly folded 
up until it is of the size of an ordinary postcard, and 
subject to the same postal rates. For business 
people of all classes who have to send lengthy 
notices or reminders to existing or prospective 
clients through the post these cards will be invalu¬ 
able. Prices per 100 or 1,000, with special wording 
to suit the customer can be had on application to the 
company. 
The Science of Manuring.—This is the title of a 
small pamphlet issued and forwarded to us by the 
Sulphate of Ammonia Committee, 4, Fenchurch 
Avenue, London, E C. It contains a collection of 
practical facts connected with the application of 
manure to the soil according to scientific principles 
that cannot fail to be of service to the horticulturist 
and agriculturist. The value of sulphate of ammonia 
is especially set forth for Hops, Potatos, vegetables 
and fruits of all kinds. In a second and smaller 
pamphlet accompanying the first and larger one is a 
number of facts about the application of this value 
abie manure, and at the end appears a table, treat¬ 
ing on the quantities of various chemical manures to 
be applied to such crops as Potatos, Swedes, 
Cereals, Clover, and Grass. 
Shirley Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement Society.— 
The monthly meeting of the above society was held 
at the Parish Room, Shirley, Southampton, on 
Monday the 19th inst., Mr. B. Ladhams presiding 
over a fair number of the members. Mr. J. Jones t 
The Gardens, Terrace House, Polygon, Southamp¬ 
ton, gave a most inti resting and useful lecture on 
“ Table Plants, and Plants for House Decoration.” 
He exhibited a number of very good specimens, and 
later on he proceeded to cut them up for the purpose 
of illustrating his remarks on methods of propaga¬ 
tion. Quick propagation, he said, was necessary, so 
many decorative plants being annually lost owing to 
bad treatment, draughts, &c., while in use indoors. 
A number of questions was put, and answered satis¬ 
factorily, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded 
to Mr. Jones for his valued lecture. There was a 
good display of hardy Primulas by Mr. B. Ladhams, 
also Caladiums by Mr. E. J. Wilcox. 
New York Botanical Gardens is about to be enriched 
by the erection of a range of thirteen glass houses, 
which, it is estimated, will cover an area of 45,000 
sq. ft. The houses will enclose a large court, which 
is to be utilised for the cultivation of aquatic plants. 
The central feature of the southern front of the range 
will be the large circular Palm house, which will have 
a diameter of 100 ft., and a height of 90 ft. The 
wings running east and west from this will be 30 ft. 
wide, 116 ft. long, and 26 ft. high, measuring to the 
ridge, and they will be terminated by more roomy 
erections 46 ft. high and 84 ft. wide. The connect¬ 
ing houses which run south from these will be 
lower, measuring 30 ft. in width by 75 ft. in length, 
terminated by two domed, square houses 50 ft. in 
diameter, and 35 ft. in height. These are in their 
turn joined by two more low houses, each 38 ft. in 
width and 103 ft. in length. The heating apparatus 
will be sufficient to maintain an atmosphere of 70° 
Fahr. whatever the weather, and the houses are to 
be all well supplied with hot and cold water. 
The Sudden Climatic Changes in America are by 
some attributed to the fatal policy of cutting down 
the forests. 
Don’t be afraid to eat Onions.—They are very 
wholesome, and drinking sweet milk afterwards, it is 
said, will purify the breath, leaving no odour. 
For Small Capitalists.—Sir Harry Johnston sug¬ 
gests a new opening for small capitalists in the 
sunny South. He states that the culture of flowers 
and herbs for supplying material for the manufac¬ 
ture of perfumes is in Tunis a profitable under¬ 
taking. If this be true, the business would be 
almost an ideal one, for a pleasanter one cannot be 
imagined. 
The Cold Storage and Ice Trades' Review.—We are 
in receipt of the first issue of this publication, which 
has been published to supply information to all those 
connected with what is now a very important modern 
industry, viz., the preservation of all sorts of food by 
means of the cold chamber and refiigerator. The 
magazine, which is priced at 4d., should therefore 
supply a want, and we welcome its arrival, hoping 
that it has come to stay. The publisher is Mr. R. 
M. Leonard, 28, Great Ormond Street, London, W.C. 
Beddington, Carshaiton, and Wallington Horticul¬ 
tural Society. —This flourishing society has just issued 
in catalogue form its schedule for 1898, together with 
a list of officers and subscribers, the statements 
of receipts and expenditure, and the report of the 
committee for the past year. We notice in the list of 
officers the name of Mr. W. T. Toogood, of 21, 
Vicarage Road, Croydon, as secretary. The financial 
statement shows total receipts of £335 14s. gd., and 
an expenditure of £282 7s. 3d., thus leaving a balance 
in the hand of the treasurer of £53 7s. 6d., as against 
last year’s balance of £35 13s. 4d. From these 
figures it will be observed that there has been a profit 
on the year’s working of £17 14s. 2d. The balance 
sheet shows £124 4s. 7d. standing to the credit of 
the society, with the liabilities nil. The report of the 
committee naturally congratulates the society upon 
the satisfactory condition of affairs. The annual 
show is fixed for Monday, August 1st. 
Sweet Gale and Lungwort in the New Forest.—I 
find the narrow-leaved Lungwort (Pulmonaria 
angustifolia) very common here, at Brockenhurst, 
growing in the hedges, and now in full bloom, with 
flowers of ail shades, from dark purple to red and 
lilac. I have never met with it before. The Bog 
Myrtle (Myrica Gale) too,is very common, lighting up 
the bogs with the ruddy brightness of its buds. I 
am told that a beer is made of this, called Gale 
beer in Yorkshire, and is much relished by the men 
working in the hay and harvest fields. Of Sundews 
I have found but one, a very small one, and think, 
though the plant is perennial, that here, as in 
Devon, where I have found it just at this time of the 
year, it springs up annually from seed. The trees 
are covered with lichens, of which I dare not put 
down the names, though they have been kindly 
named for me by Mr. Massee and Mr. Marquand, of 
Kew, who are also staying here. One of them, 
Opegrapba taxicola, a species of the writing lichen, 
covers the old Yew tree in the churchyard, and 
looks for all the world as if some ancient Assyrian 
had been at work with pen and ink, choosing the 
trunk and the branches of the tree as a means of 
conveying in cuneiform characters a message to en¬ 
dure for at least a thousand years, for both tree and 
lichen must have been there for some such period. 
I heard the wryneck’s note to day (April 12th), 
showing that spring is come.—J. C. S. 
The Simplest Living Things. —The eleventh and 
last of the course of lectures upon the “ Simplest 
Living Things ” was given by Professor Ray 
Lankester on the 29th ult. The Professor began by 
discussing the Acinetaria They had a simple 
nucleated body, usually with several processes 
extending from it. These processes were either 
pointed or ended in suckers which enabled the 
organism to obtain its food. Besides propagating by 
fission and by conjugation the Acinetaria also 
developed buds which on being thrown off by the 
parent became possessed of cilia, thus establishing 
a connection between Acinetaria and Ciliata. It was 
probable, continued the lecturer, that the first living 
