. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. id the averagenumber of seeds per capsule reach the normalnumber. Large Oranges.—We have received from Mr. James Wood, seedsman and flori>t, of Newport,Isle of Wighl, a couple of large Oranges, whichtogether weighed 2 lb. 8 02. The largest oneweighed I lb. 7 oz., and measured iS inches incircumference. Mr. Wood states that they weregrown with two others of about the same size on atree about 3 feet high, and 2 feet in diameter ofbranches, standing in a cool house from which frostand damp are exclud
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. id the averagenumber of seeds per capsule reach the normalnumber. Large Oranges.—We have received from Mr. James Wood, seedsman and flori>t, of Newport,Isle of Wighl, a couple of large Oranges, whichtogether weighed 2 lb. 8 02. The largest oneweighed I lb. 7 oz., and measured iS inches incircumference. Mr. Wood states that they weregrown with two others of about the same size on atree about 3 feet high, and 2 feet in diameter ofbranches, standing in a cool house from which frostand damp are excluded by the use of fire-heal. Theyare very handsome as decorative objects, but quiteuseless for dessert. The Late Severe Weather in France. —The Paris correspondent of the Times quotes from the Temps to the effect that the latefrost has done great damage to trees and shrubs,especially Pines, Cedars, Planes, &c. In the forestof Montmorency several hundred hectares of Chest-nuts have been killed. Laurels and other evergreenshave been greatly damaged, the leaves wherever not. The Gardeners Chronicle,] Fig. 10,—ravine in the grounds at blaize castle, (see p. [Jamiarj r?, 18 50 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [January io, 1880. covered by the snow having turned brown, and manyshrubs are not likely to recover. Game has alsosuffered. A gamekeeper in Sologny picked up in oneday twenty-three dead partridges ; in the north thepartridges have all been destroyed. In a forest inthe east four fine wild boars have been found deadfrom starvation, and in the forest of St. Germainroedeer quite exhausted have been killed with sticksby the peasants. Birds of prey have been unusuallyrapacious. At Ferritres a number of ravens pursueda hare which, when picked up half dead by a passer-by, had an eye phicked out and a large wound in theside. The Totato Exhidition. —With a desire to secure in the class for new varie-ties bond fide seedling sorts it is, we hear, purposed atthe n
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