June 13, 1867. J 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



407 



Ten Roses, in flower— 1st, Messrs. TT. Lane & Son, Great Berkhamp- 

 Ftead ; 2nd, Mr. K. Ashcroft, West Derby. 



Sixteen Itoses, in flower — Ist, Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshnnt ; 2nd, Mr. 

 J. Rhftw, Bowdon. 



Ten >how Pelnrsoniums. in flower — 1st, Mr. H. May, Redale. 



Ten Fancy Pelaj-goniuiu'?, in flower— 1st, Mr. H. May; lind, Mr. C. 

 Rylance. 



Twelve Exotic Orchids, in flower— let, Mr. B. Williams; 2nd, Mr. J. 

 Siiaw ; 3rd, Mr. s. StaflTord, Hvde. 



Eight Cape Heaths, in flowor— 1st, Mr. B. S. Williams; 2nd, Mrs. E. 

 Cole & Sons ; 3rd, Mr. J. <haw. 



Twelve Fine-folincfid Plants— 1st, Mr. B. S. Williams; 2nd, Mr. J. 

 Shaw : 3rd. Mr. S. Stafford. 



Twelve Amaryllis, in flower— Ifit, Mr. B. S, WillifiTns. 



Thirtv-six Hardy Ferns- 1st, Mr. J. !^haw ; 2nd, Mr. Asbcroft ; 3rd, Mr. 

 8. Stnfford. 



Twenty Hardy Rhododendrons, in flower — 1st, Messrs G. & W. Yates, 

 Manchester; 2ud. Mr. J. Shaw. 



Ten Hnrdv Rhododendrons, in flower — lat, Mr. J. Shaw ; 2nd, Messrs. 

 G. & W. Yates. 



Six Tree Ferns— 1st, Mr. B. S. Williams ; 2nd, Mr. J. Shaw ; Srd, Mr. S. 

 Stafford. 



Ten Zonal Polarponinmg, in flower— 1st, Messrs. G. & W.Yates ; 2nd, 

 Mr. R. Barnes, Macclesfield : 3rd. Mr. J. Shaw 



Ten Variegated Pelargoniums— 2od, Mr. R. Barnes ; Srd, Messr-s. G. 

 and W. Yates. 



Twelve Misoellaneons Plants— 1st, Mr. B. 8. WDliams ; 2nd, Mr. J. 

 Shaw ; Srd, Mr. S. Stafford. 



Fourteen Greenhouse Azaloas. in flower — 1st, Messrs. H. Lane & Son ; 

 2nd, Mr. B. S. Williams ; 3rd, Mrs. E. Cole & Sons. 



Fifty Hiirdv Rverfrreen Trees nnd Shrubs— 1st, Mr. J, Shaw, Bowdon ; 

 2nd. Mesprs. G. & W. Yates ; 3rd, Mr. S. '^taflord. 



Fifty Hardy Alpine and Herbaceons Plants — 1st. Messrs Dickson and 

 Brown, Manchester ; 2Dd. Mr. S. '^tiff'ord ; 3rd. Messrs, G A W. Yates. 



Twentv-five New and R-ire Plants— l«t, Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, 

 Chelsea; 2nd, Mr. B. -=. Williams; 3rd. Mr. J. Shaw. 



Three Pots of Lilinm auratum, in flower — 1st, Mr. B. S. Williams ; 2nd, 

 Mr. J. Shaw. 



Six Fancy Pelargoniums, in flower— 2nd, Mr. C. Rvlnnce. 



Eight Yuccas or Beaucarneas, Ist, Mr. B. S.Williams; 2nd, Mr. J. 

 Shaw. 



Six Stove and Greenhouse Plants — 1st, Mrs. E. Cole & Sons ; 2nd, Mr. 

 B. 8. Williams. 



Eiffht Dracienas and Cordy lines— 1st, Mr. B. S. Williams; 2nd, Mr. S. 

 Stafford. 



Ten Stove or Greenhouse Ferns— 1st, Mr. B, S. Williams; 2nd, Mr. J. 

 Shaw. 



Six Roses, in flower— 1st, Messrs. Paul & Son ; 2nd, Messrs. H. Lane 

 and b'on. 



FRUITS. 



Ten Orchard-house Trees, in fruit, in pots— 1st, Messrs. H. Lane and 

 Son. 



Two Vines, in pots— 1st, Messrs. H. Lane & Sons ; 2nd, Mr. T. Statter, 

 Stand. 



One Queen Pine Apple— 1st, Mr. T. N. Miller. 



One Providence Pine Apple — 1st, Capt. B. Gleirp. 



One Smooth C ivenne Pine Apple- 1st, Mrs. Holland, AUrincham. 



Two Bimches of Black Hamburgh Grapes— Ist, Mr. T. Dixon, St. Helens, 

 and Mr. J Meredith, Garston, equal; 2ud, Capt. B. Glegg; Srd, the 

 Bishop of Manchester. 



Two Bunches of any other Black sort— 1st, Mr. T. Dixon ; 2nd, Mr. H. 

 J. Hopwood ; 3rd. the Bishop of Manchester. 



Two Bunches of Muscat of Alexandria Grapes, Ist, Mr. W. Chittick, 

 Bowdon ; 2nd, Mr. T. Dixon ; Srd, Mr. E. Greaves. Barford. 



Two uncbes of any other White kind, 1st, Mr. T. Dixnn. 



Four kinds of Grapes — 1st, Mr. T. Dixon, and Mr. H. J. Hopwood equal ; 

 3rd, the Bishon of Manchester. 



One Green-fle^hed MMna— 2nd, Mr. J. Meredith ; 3rd, Mr. H. Littledale. 



One Scarlet-fleshed Melon— 3rd. Mr. W. Chittick. 



Six Peaches — 2nd, the Duke of Leinster; Srd, Mr. R. O. Leyceeter, 

 Knutsfnrd. 



Six Nectarines— 1st, Capt. B. Glegg ; 2nd, the Duke of Leinster ; Srd, 

 Mr. H. J. Hopwood. 



Six Dishes of Fruit — Ist, Mr. H. J. Hopwood. 



TOBACCO DUTY-FREE FOR GARDENING 

 PURPOSES. 



I HAVE noticed in your valuable paper one or two communi- 

 cations respecting ground tobacco and tobacco powder, and 

 your correspondent '* P. H. G." puts several questions, to 

 which you will, perhaps, kindly permit me to reply. I am the 

 more anxious to do this because I have been for some time in 

 correspondence with the Government on the subject of duty- 

 free tobacco, and the Company I have the honour to represent 

 has spared no trouble or expense to induce tbe Lords of the 

 Treasury to accede to the wishes of the gardening pubHc. 

 Indeed, if I mistake not, you noticed in your pages last year 

 the efforts made in this direction. 



Now, the boon spoken of by your correspondent " P. H. G." 

 is granted, but under such conditions that it may be useful it I 

 explain them as briefly as possible. 



The Honourable the Board of Customs will permit the 

 tobacco to be prepared only in a warehouse houded according 

 to the usual regulations imposed upon all bonded premises, 

 and the process of grinding and mixing must be carried on 

 under the direct superintendence of the crown officers. The 

 tobacco 60 prepared has to be mi>;ed with certain proportions 



of sulphur and assafoetida, and it can be issued to the gardener 

 for use. The drugs aro added by the Government to protect 

 the revenue against fraud, by rendering the tobacco nn&t lor 

 the purposes to which it is usually applied. 



Of the advantages conferred by the Government in this con- 

 cession I need say nothing, as the gardening public know the 

 great value of tobacco. 



On a former occasion the Government authorised our Com- 

 pany to prepare tobacco juice, and stipulated that the juico- 

 should be treated with logwood in order to protect the revenue, 

 and this preparation also has been widely used by Hop-growers. 

 — J. P. Ta-fe, Secretary, Richmond CavendUh Tobacco Com- 

 pamj-i LiverpooL 



HARDY PLANTS IN FLOWER durixg APRIL, 1867, 



AT BITTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



April 1. Vinca minor 

 minor alba 

 minor fl. pi. 

 „ 3. Auemono r.inuncnloides. 

 Narcissus aurantius plenus 

 Cypri 

 „ '1. Adoxa moschateUina 

 Fragaria vesca 

 Latlirsea squamaria 

 Oxiilis acetosella 

 Draba aizoou 

 „ 5. Almond 



Crocus obesus 

 „ 6. Plnm 



Bonble-flowered Peach 

 Kerrii japonica 

 Pulmonaria azurr^a 

 Narcissus, Double Jonqnil 

 Queen Anne's Jonquil 

 Maeleayi 

 White Polyanthus 

 propiaquus 

 Sibthorpii 

 lacticolor 

 Scilla italica 

 Tulipa sylvcstris 

 „ 9. Fritillaria imperialis 



Suiriea piunifolia fl. pi. 

 Wald-^teinia cc'Oides 

 Saxifrncra tridactylites 

 Blackthorn 

 „ 10. Cowslip 



Pear 

 „ 11. Niircissits montanus 

 inconiparabilis 

 iucomparabilis 11. pi. 

 semipavtitus 

 tenuior 

 Myosotis montana 

 Sasifraga crassifolia 

 Borago orieutalis 

 Litb ospermum fruticosnaa 

 „ 13. C:iltha palustris 



Primula cortusoides 

 Pacb> Sandra procumbens 

 Narcissus aurantius 

 Fritillaria meleagris 

 „ 15. Berberis nquifoliutn 

 „ 17. Daphne Fioniana 

 Ribes americannra 

 Dondia epipactis 

 Narcissus bulbocodiiiin 

 triandrus 

 oriental IS 

 „ 18. SciJla hyacinthoides 

 Melandrium Presley! 

 Jeffei'-ionia diphylla 

 Muscari moschatuoi 

 Scilla amoena 

 Pulmonaria virginica 

 Viola biflora 

 Soldanella crispa 

 Saxtfraga geranioidas 



virginica 

 Sibbaldia procumbens 

 Arcmonia ngrimonioides 

 „ 19. Geranium tuberosum 



-H. N. E. 



April 19, Apple 



Berberis dnlcis 



Darwinii 

 Daiibarda fragarioides 

 „ 22. Saxifraga irrigua 

 Skimmia japunica 

 Cliveden Hansiea 

 Myosotis arvensis 

 Carplamine pratensis 

 „ 23. Trillium grandiflornm 

 Tulipa cornuta 

 retr.'Qexa 

 „ 25. Doronieum pardalianches 



Lonicera Ledeboorii 

 „ 27. Fritillaria nigra 



Asarum europreum 

 Scilia nutans 



patens 

 Geranium phseniD 

 Anemone stellata S. p2>. 

 Allium subhirsutum 

 TroUius europieus 

 Senecio aureus 

 Scilla patula 

 Pulmonaria da\Tirica 

 Orobus vernus plenus 

 Valeriana dioica 

 Arabis turrita 

 35elUs perennis prolifera 

 Fritillaria melengris fl. pi. 

 Iberis corilolia 

 Adysetura orientale 

 Euphorbia epitbymoides 

 Rubus spectabilis 

 Saxifraga incurvifolia 



Stansfie'dii 



cordiif&lia 



Gmelini 

 Dielytra epectabilis 

 Staphylea piunata 

 Ai'um macnlatum 

 Lilac, purple and white 

 Lunaria biennis 

 „ 29. llagnolia purpurea 

 Pvrus spectabilis 

 Couvallaria poiygonatnm 



majalis 

 Prunus sinensis fl. pi. 

 Berberis empetrifolia 

 Ribcs niveum 

 Gcntiana acaulis 

 Daphne cueornm 

 Oruitbogfllum ombellatztst 

 Tinrella cordifoka 

 Phlox nivalis 

 Preonifl cretica 

 Irispamilalntca 

 Alysii'jm saxatile ccanpac» 



tum 

 I^itillarii persica 

 Saxifraga En;]dandi 

 Primula inv-ducrata 

 Rosa BauksiiB 

 „ 30. Jasminum rcvolutBin 

 Lychnis fios-cuculi 

 Bellevalia romana 

 Saxifraga granulaia fl* pL 



Mil. JOHN WATERETl'S KHODODEXDKON 



EXHIBITION. 



NoTTViTHSTA>rDiNG the excessive cold of the past winter and the frosts 

 of May, Mr. ^'aterer's display of Rhododendrons in the Royal Botanic 

 Society's Gardens, Regent's Park, is as extensive and beautiful as in 

 former ye.irs. It is just now in perfection ; how long it will continue 

 so we cannot venture to say, for it is to be feared that the present in- 

 tensely hot weather will somewhat abridge the duration of the bloom. 

 Conspicuons among the newest varieties is Michael Waterer. which 

 has been exhibited under the name of Anuihilator. This Mr. Waterer 

 cousiiers the best hardy late crimson variety known. Joseph Whit- 



