. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. l appear-ance supported by the strength of the rosarians, hasfailed to pay its way. The meeting, which may besaid to have fairly represented the National RoseSociety, as yet strongly in favour of holding anindependent exhibition in London about the last weekin June, instead of accepting offers from the Alex-andra Palace, Royal Aquarium, or Crystal Palace,and the Agricultural Hall and the Floral Hall werenamed as oflering the necessary accommodations. Asub-committee was appointed to make enquiries as
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. l appear-ance supported by the strength of the rosarians, hasfailed to pay its way. The meeting, which may besaid to have fairly represented the National RoseSociety, as yet strongly in favour of holding anindependent exhibition in London about the last weekin June, instead of accepting offers from the Alex-andra Palace, Royal Aquarium, or Crystal Palace,and the Agricultural Hall and the Floral Hall werenamed as oflering the necessary accommodations. Asub-committee was appointed to make enquiries as tothe fitness of these places, and the terms on whichthey could be had for the purpose. It was felt by thecommittee that encouragement should be held out tothe Northern growers of Roses in the shape of aNorthern show, and a suggestion that it should beheld at Preston in connection with the provincialmeeting of the Royal Horticultural Society was favour-ably received. Mr. H. K. Mayor has ceased to beone of the hon. secretaries of the Society, and the THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE,—iiommz^ 1S77,. FiC. 112.—THE BOTANIC GARDEN, PISA, WITH THE LEANING TOWEE. 562 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [November 3, 1877. hon, secretaries are now the RevF. H. H. Dohbrain,J. B. M. Camm, and Mr. Edward Mawley, thelatter gentleman being a most active and valuablemember of the committee. In Covect Garden Market a few days since might have been seen dense clusters of some smallfruits which in the way exhibited might well puzzle abotanist j closer examination, however, showed thatthey were the fruits of the Wild Service, PVRasTORMTNALis, Strung together so densely as to resemblethe dense mass of fruit which some Palms bear. tells us that in some parts of Northamp-tonshire the tree is so abundant that the fruits arestrung together as we have described, and borne inprocession at the village feasts. The fruits should bebletted, like the Medlar. The wood of the tree ishard, and valuable for many orn
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