GARDENING NOTES.
Meconopsis cambrica (Welsh Poppy). Owing to the wide popularity of the energetic daughter of the PRIME MINISTER we understand that the authorities at Kew have decided to re-name this plant Meganopsis.
Digitalis.—The spelling of the homely name of this well-known plant is to be altered in the Kew List to Foch's-glove; the suggestion of an interned German botanist that Mailed Fist would be more suitable not having met with the approval of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society.
"SPAIN'S REPUBLICAN PARLIAMENT.
Lisbon, Wednesday.—It would seem that the Cabinet just formed by Senhor Tamagnini Barbosa will have in the next Parliament a moderate Republican majority."—Liverpool Daily Post.
No other journal seems to have noticed the re-annexation of Portugal by Spain.
"The task of fitting the square men created by the war into square holes is certainly going to be one of tremendous magnitude."—Lancashire Daily Post.
From some of the new Government appointments we gather that the PRIME MINISTER gave up the task in despair.
"Wanted to purchase elephants, sound and without vice, and to sell a variety of pigeons at reasonable prices."—Pioneer (Allahabad).
But we doubt if the advertiser will be able to get all the elephants, however free from vice, into the old pigeon-house.
