IRISH GARDENING. 



Hardy Flowering Shrubs. 



No g-arden is complete without flowering- shrubs and 

 trees, and there are few more beautiful sig-hts in 

 spring time than a well-flowered tree of pink 

 almond, hybrid cherry or crab apple. X'ariety is, how- 

 ever, practically endless, and shrubs may be grown with 

 the greatest ease in any ordinary g-arden soil to flower 

 from earliest spring ; such as "the Forsythia, which 

 blooms freely in the harsh weather of March, to the 

 "Blue Spiraea" [Cnryopteiis inastacanthus), which 

 flowers in late autumn. Among-st evergreens the 

 barberry family is a useful group, "j5. Dai-.vinii and B. 

 stcnophylla being- the pick for general cultivation, both 

 yellow and extremely free bloomers. Euiybia gitutninna 

 is studded with white Michaelmas daisy-like flowers in 

 June ; and its fellow, Olearia haastii, also white, is a 

 g-ood subject under trees where few shrubs thrive. The 

 Buddleias are good also ; B. globosa, with its orange- 

 coloured balls, and B. vnrinbilis veitchii, which forms 

 massive pyramids of flowei-s often 22 inches long. Choisyn 

 ternata is a general favourite, producing- hawthorn- 

 scented, white flowers over its bright aromatic foliagfe, 

 and the writer took note of a beautiful specimen of 

 EscaUonia lans^leyensis studded with brig:ht rosy-carmine 

 flowers on evtM-y little branchlet in Mr. Walpole's 

 g-arden at Ashford in June. The latter is one of the 

 most g-raceful shrubs in cultivation. 



An exhaustive catalog-ue of flowering shrubs may 

 be obtained from Messrs. Watson & Sons, Clontarf 

 Nurseries, Dublin, where they make a speciality of 

 flowering- kinds. Their collection will be found to be 

 comprehensive, and at moderate rates. 



Sh 



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C'lare Horticultural Society. 



The above society held its annual g-eneral meeting- 

 on November 7th, when the past year's officials were re- 

 appointed and the committee considerably strengthened. 

 The balance sheet showed that £■] 19s. 7d. was due to 

 the treasurer on the past year's working, but as the 

 society possesses show fixtures to the value of over 

 ;£j20, the society is in a much stronger position than 

 would be assumed from a perusal of the balance sheet. 



The secretary was instructed to take steps for the 

 holding- of a spring- flower show on Easter Monday, 

 April 1 2th ; and July 28th was selected as the date for 

 holding the summer show, at which, among other 

 "special prizes," Sydenhams, Ltd., are offering valu- 

 able medals for sweet peas, and S. A. Jones, F. R.H.S., 

 a " challenge cup," value ^4 4s. (with money prizes), 

 open to the Counties Galway, Clare, Limerick, Kerry 

 and Tipperary (South Riding), for the best collection of 

 vegetables, the produce of seeds obtained from him 

 during the coming spring. 



Schedule of prizes will be published about January 1st, 

 and may be obtained by intending exhibitors upon 

 application to H. Bill, hon. sec, Liftc)rd, Ennis, Co. 

 Clare. 



Catalogues. 



Planters' Guide : Trees, &c. Little & Ballantyne. — ' 

 A comprehensive list of forest and fruit trees, shrubs, 

 herbaceous and greenhouse plants. The numerous 



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