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at the same time having quicklime pretty freely sprinkled around 

 the bottom of the tree, so that those which fall may be destroyed 

 thereby. James M'Millan. 



{To he cmitinuecl.) 



P.S. — I notice in my last article (see p. 397) that I have very in- 

 advertently made a slight mistake, which I hasten to rectify. In 

 speaking of the receipt for destroying mealy bug, as given to me by 

 Mr Rose, I ought to have written, " To one part spirits of tar, one part 

 paraffin, must be added two parts of train-oil." In place of the word 

 " paraffin " I have written " turpentine ;" and in case it may lead to 

 any mistake, I have now rectified it at the earliest opportunity. 



J. M'M. 



THE HAMBURG INTEKNATIOITAIi HORTICULTURAIi 



EXHIBITION. 



For this event great preparations were made. £16,000 was spent in laying out 

 splendid grounds and making suitable erections for the occasion. Committees 

 were appointed in every nation in Europe, and exhibitions invited. Our own 

 Queen gave a Silver Cup to be competed for by Grape-growers. The terms on 

 which this was to be done were forwarded to us, along with others — i.e., three 

 bunches of distinct sorts of Grapes. I entered for this cup, and got a certificate 

 that I had entered properly, and sent, the Grapes accordingly, with what result 

 the following letter, which I addressed to the Council, will show ; my reason 

 for thus making the matter so public being to guard others from becoming the 

 dupes of such perfidy in the future. The sole object of the change from three 

 bunches to a collection was the determination to award the Cup if possible to one 

 of their own countrymen, entirely irrespective of merit ; but Mr Meredith was 

 able so to shift his ground — having a great many grapes with him — as to make 

 such a deed too glaringly ridiculous, and got the Cup, which, as the only individual 

 who complied strictly with their printed rules, ought to have been awarded to me, 

 as is pretty clearly indicated by the following extract from the leader on the sub- 

 ject in 'The Chronicle :' "There was an unfortunate misunderstanding about the 

 terms for the Queen's Cup, as it was supposed it was to be given to the best speci- 

 mens of Grapes " (it was no supposition at all, it was clearly in their schedule and 

 advertised in ' The Chronicle ' — in the one as three bunches, in the other as three 

 bunches distinct sorts) ; " but the terms were altered at the last moment to ' an 

 assortment.' There was nothing, however, to come the least near the British 

 Grapes with which Mr Meredith won the Cup, though in all probability Mr Thomson 

 would have been successful had not the terms been altered. His three bunches 

 were quite wonderful, and excited immense interest." 



Copy of Letter sent to De E. Gotze. 



The Gardens, Dalkeith Park, 

 Septemher 2d, 1869. 

 Sir, — I sent my son to your exhibition with the three bunches of Grapes I en- 

 tered for the Cup offered by the Queen of England, and I have just received the 



