JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Jinaarj 4, 1877. 



distinguish by marks X prefixed to the name of the candidate 

 or object voted for the desire of tlie voter in marks he may be 

 entitled to. Number upon the voting paper will be sufficient 

 to prove the voter's right to vote, checks being kept by the So- 

 ciety. 



All etndents passing the examination of the School of Hor- 

 ticulture to be admitted Fellows free for three years, conferring 

 the privileges of a guinea-subscribing Fellow, but without right 

 to vote, except by contributing £1 Is. per annum. 



I have only to say a few words in respect of gardeners. 

 They ought to contribute of their own accord and not have 

 any inducements held out to them by their employers being 

 Fellows. — G. Abeey. 



VEITCH'S AUTUMN BROCCOLI. 



This variety of Broccoli sent out by the Messrs. Veitch 

 seems to me to be quite distinct from any other I know, and, 

 like the Autumn Giant Cauliflower, is a grand acquisition to 

 our list of autumn and early winter vegetables. 



Having been once or twice " smitten " with the glowing de- 

 Ecriptions of some newly-introduced vegetable, but found after 

 trial to have been "bitten" by them, I did not last spring order 

 this Broccoli; but my friend IMr. Louden, The Quinta Gardens, 

 kindly sent me a number of plants for trial, and these have 

 turned out all that has been said of this Broccoh. The stem 

 is short and stout, the heads well " protected," close, and com- 

 pact, and of excellent size for table use. I out the first early 

 in November, and am still cuttiLg as wanted now (December 

 2'2nd.) We had 10° frobt in November, and while numbers of 

 Autumn Giant Cauliflowers were destroyed, this Broccoli was 

 uninjured. 



By making an early and late sowing of this Broccoli the cut- 

 ting season might be much prolonged. To those who have not 

 grown it the past Beasou 1 would say, Do so the next, and you 

 will not be dijappoiLttd. I miyadt that Snow's Winter Broc- 

 coli 18 now (last week of Docembei) comiug in, and although 

 useful, cannot for a moment compare with Veitch's, the heads 

 of Snow's beicg rather open and yellowish in colour. — James 

 Adamson, Bnjnkinalt. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 

 We are informed that at a meeting recently held at Carlisle 

 it was decided to offer £1000 in piizes at the Inteiinatio.-jal 

 Snow to be held in September. We are glad to learn that 

 the Committee have met with much encouragement and many 

 supporters, and they confidently expect that the Carlisle Show 

 will be a great success. 



" J. N." states in reference to the habdiness of Lyco- 



PODIOM DENTiciLATOM Tcceutly alluded to by Mr. Luckhurtt, 

 that It does not succeed well in his garden in Cambridgeshire, 

 and asks if Mr. Luckhurst will state bow many degrees of frost 

 the plants he refers have endured without injury. 



At a recent meeting of the Scottish Seed .vnd Nubseey 



Tbade Association an important discussion was conducted as 

 to ihe best means for securing the sale of unadulterated seeds. 

 Mr. D. Cross, Glasgow, was elected Tresident of the Associa- 

 tion for the ensuing year; Mr. Muir Crawford, Leith, Vice- 

 president ; and Jlessrs. Syme, Mackintosh, J. Walsh, Laird, 

 Edinburgh ; Huuter and Sadler, Glasgow ; Ballantyne, Dal- 

 keith; Alex. Cross and Hope, Leith; and Palmer, Annan, were 

 appointed the Acting Committee. On the motion of Mr. Sadler, 

 Glasgow, it was remitted to the Acting Committee to consider 

 the propriety of drawing up, in conjunction with the law agent 

 of the Association, a non-guarantee clause for seed to be 

 adopted by the members of the Society. 



It is seldom that Aitles are atYorded the assistance of 



SOUTH WALLS to lipen them, yet some of them cannot be had 

 in perfection in the open garden, notably the Calville Blanche. 

 The plan of growing tbia distinct and desirable Apple as 

 adopted by Mr. Haycock at Barham Court, Maidstone, is 

 hignly wortby of notice. Good crops of it were growing on 

 horizontal cordons trained by the sides of the walks, but the 

 beat were on a wire trained about a foot from the ground and 

 the same distance from tho south wall of the garden. Thus 

 trained the heat reflected by the south wall was utilised by 

 the fruit without the trees encroaching on the wall's surface. 

 Neither does a strand of wire stretched in such a position 

 interfere with tho crops of the border, but it does enable Apples 

 of splendid quality being produced when they cannot be had 



of similar excellence by the usual mode of growing them in 

 exposed places. The plan is of course equally adaptable to 

 Pears, and it appears worthy of being more extensively adopted. 

 If it answers, as it undoubtedly does answer, so well in the 

 south, it may be supposed to be of still greater value in colder 

 localities. 



The cold we.atheb in London which suddenly set in 



immediately before Christmas, changed as suddenly after th& 

 " festive day." The temperature has been unusually high for 

 several days, higher indeed than the average for the same 

 period for a great number of years past. Autumn-sown crops,, 

 both of vegetables and flowers, are very forward, and fruit 

 buds are swelling freely. Cauliflower plants in frames and 

 under hand-lights are much larger than they should be, and it 

 is feared that many of the plants will " button." Those who 

 have plants in this state will do well to sow seed at once under 

 glass, and thus make timely provision, preventing as much a9 

 possible the prospective blank in the supply of an important 

 crop— early Cauliflowers. 



Mr. Mooeman writes to us as follows in reference to 



the scAECiTY OF HoLLT Beebies : — We have six large trees, 

 which are noted for their bearing propensities. During the 

 eight winters I have had them in my charge I have never 

 known them without a crop before this year. One of my 

 workmen says we ought to have dug around the trees and 

 watered them, for quantities of berries were swept up during 

 the past summer. Doubtless the drought had something to 

 do with the failure, but I also think the severe frosts occurring 

 during thjir blossoming period was the principal cause of the 

 scarcity. The trees in question, which cast their berries in a 

 green state, were growing under some large Oaks and may have 

 been sheltered. 



A coEEEsroNDENT Writes to us as follows: — "I think itt 



these days of elections of fruits and flowers that an election- 

 OP Grapes would be both interesting and useful, and would 

 prove a guide to many amateurs and others who contemplate 

 planting, but who are bewildered amongst such a number ot 

 varieties and likewise conflicting opinions. Perhaps some of 

 your readers will kindly enlarge on this subject." 



Mb. Christie, The Gardens, Orton Hall, Peterborough, 



communicates his success in CnccjiBEE-GBOwiNO. Last year 

 he cut nearly two thousand Cucumbers from one epan-roofed 

 house 30 feet long by 11 feet wide. The sort he grew was- 

 Dixon's Imperial Frame; fruit about 15 inches long, of supe- 

 rior flavour. He grew Telegraph in the same house from seed 

 sown ten days before the Imperial Frame, yet the latter was 

 much the earliest in use, and he recommends it both for 

 summer and winter culture. 



EOSES UNDER UNFAVOURABLE 

 CIRCUMSTANCES. 



Mccn valuable information has been elicited through your 

 Journal for the benefit of those Kose-growers who are favoured 

 with fairly good soil and situation ; but others also wish to 

 know how much can be done by skill and proper selection for- 

 such unfortunates as are on a barren sand and in a smoky 

 cold situation. 



I have with scant success tried numbers of Rosea recom- 

 mended for smoky situations, but my experience does not 

 accord with the lists sent out by nurserymen for such situ- 

 ations. The only Roses which will thrive and bloom satis- 

 factorily through plentiful manuring are Gloire de Dijon, 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, Baronne de Rothschild, Countess of 

 Oxford, GC'D^Tal Jacqueminot, Fisher Holmes, John Hopper, 

 Madame de Cambacores, Victor Verdier, Anna Alexieff, and 

 Duke of Edinburgh, all on the Manetti, and Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison on its own roots. 



My object in writing is to give and to draw forth experience' 

 from those in like localities and placed on dry barren sand. 

 Doubtless many other Roses besides those named may grow 

 equally well, and hoping to elicit information I sign myself — 

 Sand Hills. 



MRS. PINCE'S BL4.CK MUSCAT GRAPE. 

 I HAVE grown the above-named Grape for a great number of 

 years, both in an intermediate or mixed house and in a late 

 house, and, except on one occasion, the Grapes in the earlier 

 coloured better than those in tho late house. We have gene- 

 rally had fruit hanging in the late house until April, and tho 



