. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. t for thememory of the late Madame van IIoutte, so re-cently removed from the scene of her labours. Theexhibition was visited by the KiNi; and the youngTrincess Clementine. His Majesty takes greatinterest in the development of market gardening, andthe exportation of market garden produce to England, thank the subscribers to the fund for the liberality andready kindness with which they have following subscriptions have not been acknow-ledged :—Earl of Latham, C^ is. ; Arthur Potts,Esq.


. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. t for thememory of the late Madame van IIoutte, so re-cently removed from the scene of her labours. Theexhibition was visited by the KiNi; and the youngTrincess Clementine. His Majesty takes greatinterest in the development of market gardening, andthe exportation of market garden produce to England, thank the subscribers to the fund for the liberality andready kindness with which they have following subscriptions have not been acknow-ledged :—Earl of Latham, C^ is. ; Arthur Potts,Esq., £z 2s.; General Horticultural Co. (JohnWills), Limited, /;5 ; James Mcintosh, Esq., £$ 5/.In the list of July 11, for A. Page, Esq., ^I A. George, Esq. Naturalists Field Club.— The last field meeting of the year will be held atHereford, on Thursday, October 6, for a forayamong the funguses. There will be an exhibition offunguses in the museum room at the Free Library,and an evening meeting will be held there on Wed-nesday evening, October 5, at S r,M,, to name and. Fig, 78.—burghley house uy Stamford town. (see p. 400.] their services in and to India and to Eastern Africarespectively, as well as for their devotion to scienceand art, is most fitting. That the gentlemen in ques-tion should receive the same honours as are bestowedon a successful contractor or merchant, and less thanthnse bestowed on a Lord Mayor, is not quite soappropriate. However, every one who knows whatthe two men have done honours them, and those thatdo not will at least know that Sir George Birdwoodand Sir John Kirk must at least have deserved re-cognition at the hands of the State. I — The Ghent Fruit Show. — In some? respects our Belgian neighbours are more practicalI than ourselves—their School of Horticulture is a de-partment of the University, their Botanic Garden isutuised on occasions to show the practical results of, ^^P^J science. We can hardly conceive such a The D


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