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yal Horticultural Society. 
At the annual general meeting of the 
IS. -on the 14th ult., J. Gurney Fowler, 
q., showed that the giving up of the old 
garden at Chiswick resulted in a promise of 
£4,700, which would in a large degree pay 
the cost of the equipment of the new garden 
at AVisley. This should certainly be some 
satisfaction to those who were loath to give 
up the old gardens, seeing that it will serve 
to re-establish the society in its new habita¬ 
tion at AVisley. He also mentioned another 
important fact, that the deficit in the money 
received or promised for the building of the 
hall had been made up from the society’s 
invested funds to the extent of £9,000. The 
credit balances to the society for the last two 
years would have been larger if it had not 
been necessary to apply the money towards 
the payment .of the new hall building ac¬ 
counts. The society had, however, received 
donations amounting to over £25,000. 
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Crocus chrysanthus albidus. 
At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society on the 1,4th ult., a veiy beautiful 
Crocus was exhibited by Miss AA illmott, W ar- 
ley Place, Great AA r arley, Essex, for which she 
received an Award of Merit. The flowers 
were white with an orange throat, and a 
violet-blue central band passing into dusky 
yellow at the base on the back of the three 
outer segments. This variety is evidently 
the same or closely similar to that which was 
described by Geo. Maw as C. chrysanthus al¬ 
bidus. Boissier, quoting from this, describes 
the flowers as whitish with a saffron throat, 
and this must come very near to, if not the 
identical variety in question. Maw found it 
on the mountains around Smyrna, and in 
the Bithynian Olympus along with the type 
in Asia Minor. At the same time Maw 
described another variety C. c. caerulescens 
with pale blue flowers, spotted : or suffused 
with orange. Boissier describes both these 
varieties as exhibiting an unique example 
occurring in .a Crocus with orange flowers. 
He had seen no orange-flowered species which 
had verged towards white on the one hand 
and blue on the other. He quotes Maw as 
supposing them to be natural hybrids be¬ 
tween C. chrysanthus and C. aerius, both of 
which grow in the same locality. AVe cer¬ 
tainly think white, blue, and orange a 
very singular combination amongst Crocuses 
to come within the limits of one species. AA e 
have, however, evidence of blue and puiple 
in C. biflorus with a slightly yellowish or 
yellow-grey tint on the back of the outer 
segments. 
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Irish Central Bureau for the Employment 
of Women. 
During the past year an office termed the 
Irish Central Bureau for the Employment of 
AVomen has been opened, and the annual 
general meeting was held on February '25th 
at the head office, 4, Hume Street, Dublin. 
The object of this bureau is similar to that 
of a registry for finding employment for 
women in various brandies of work for which 
they may be fitted. Besides office a id 
domestic work, they also endeavour to pro¬ 
cure situations for them at Hardenin'', 
poult ly-keeping, and similar occupation-. 
The bureau is open to the whole of Ireland 
irrespective of creed or political opinions. 
Beside the central office, branches were es¬ 
tablished in Belfast, Killamey and Trait* , 
and it is the intention to extend the nmnb -r. 
International Horticultural Congress at 
Liege. 
A horticultural congress on a large scale 
is to take place at Liege, France, from 
May 8th to 10th next. At this congress, 
or conference as we should term it here, 
many papers will be read on a variety of 
subjects affecting the various branches of 
gardening. In the floricultural section 
papers will deal with the ornamentation of 
promenades, boulevards and public parks by 
means of flowers and shrubs. The most use¬ 
ful plants for forcing purposes will also be 
discussed, together with the best means of 
transport, tariffs or freight. An equally up- 
to-date feature will be a discussion on the 
application of heat, refrigeration, and ether¬ 
isation of plants to be forced. For market 
garden culture the best methods will be dis¬ 
cussed for open-air culture as xvell as under 
glass, manures, and the preservation of vege¬ 
tables ; fruit-tree culture, including the 
best varieties suitable for exportation, the 
industrial utilisation of fruits, protection of 
insectivorous birds and plant enemies. Hor¬ 
ticultural instruction in various schools will 
also engage their attention, including the 
best means of encouraging a taste for hor¬ 
ticulture amongst all classes of society. 
Amateurs are also to be encouraged by ex¬ 
hibitions with classes for their various re¬ 
quirements. Ahirious matters in connection 
with vegetable markets and the rules that 
govern them will also come under considera¬ 
tion. The exportation of horticultural pro¬ 
ducts and the most suitable kinds for differ¬ 
ent countries will also be dealt with, together 
with packing, shipping, rapid transport, 
tariffs, and so forth. The work of various 
horticultural associations, syndicates, co- 
operative societies, mutual improvement 
societies and others engaged in various 
branches of horticulture will also be brought 
before the congress. Each of the three days 
during which the conference will be held has 
its own particular amount of work to accom¬ 
plish, after which there may be an excursion 
in the evening, or social re-union, with a 
banquet on the evening of the thiid day. 
Eranthis cilicicus. 
This beautiful hardy plant is of vigorous, 
constitution and has come to stay. 
