. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . cend to especial genera, one illustrating Dendro-biuin, Epidendrum, and Oncidium. What a boonwould such volumes be to our members. The schememoreover, with the aid which has been promised, mightbe carried out at a comparatively small expense, andwith a degree of speed and correctness which wouldbe quite out of the power of any individual. The Committee will of course be prepared to receivesuggestions as to any other plans or modes of actionwhich may be thought advisable, but it is absolutelynecessary that such suggestions should be submitte
. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . cend to especial genera, one illustrating Dendro-biuin, Epidendrum, and Oncidium. What a boonwould such volumes be to our members. The schememoreover, with the aid which has been promised, mightbe carried out at a comparatively small expense, andwith a degree of speed and correctness which wouldbe quite out of the power of any individual. The Committee will of course be prepared to receivesuggestions as to any other plans or modes of actionwhich may be thought advisable, but it is absolutelynecessary that such suggestions should be submitted inwriting, that the terms may be distinctly ultimate adoption will of course rest with theCouncil. SUBTEOPICAL SHRUBS AND remarks on subtropical gardening (see p. 264),and the reception of a letter from a friend, have sug-ge>ted some thoughts on the above subject. There aremany handsome trees and shrubs that are nearly butnot quite hardy, that would add immensely to therichness and variety of our landscapes. Take for. illustration Rhododendron arboreura. Magnolia grandi-flora, Brugmansia suaveolens, or any of the Fuchsias,Myrtles, or Oleanders, as standards in sheltered places,say 50 feet high and 20 feet through,—what a wealthof tropical beauty and overpowering aroma of tropicalodours they would diffuse among our quieter and lesssensuous products. And these are merely is scarcely a class of tropical plants, from theheight of the Cedar of Lebanon down to the tiniestXIoss, that would not enrich or sweeten our Englishlindscape, if there was any mode of renderingthem hardy enough for the purpose. Within therange of the two classes of plants that you speciallyadvert to. Ferns and Palms, we possess an inex-haustible abundance of tropical gems, of the grandestand most graceful forms, if they could only endureexpo-sure to our climate. I do not believe in what is cafiedacclimatisation. I commend the whole matter of thepretended art of ma
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