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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ MaicU 20, 187S. 



nnrserymen, Mr. Pestiidge, Greenway Nursery, Uxbridge, is 

 first with neat moderately-sized specimens, of ivhich Mrs. 

 Turner, Mrs. Headly, Salamander, Lady Cullum, and Peter 

 Grieve are -well coloured. Mr. H. B. Smith, EaUug Dean Nur- 

 sery, Ealing, is second. Achievement in ting collection is very 

 highly coloured. 



In the next class, for six Golden Tricolors, amateurs, Mr. G. 

 Goddard, gardener to H. Little, Esq., Twickenham, is first, and 

 deservedly so. Ealing Rival, Mrs. Turner, and Mr. Rutter are 

 very rich and beautiful. The second prize ivent to Mr. E. 

 Watson, gardener to T. H. Bryant, Esq., Airlie Lodge, Surbiton 

 Hill. 



For six Silver Tricolor Pelargoniums Mr. T. Pestridge is again 

 first "with neat specimens, but March is too early to see this 

 section in good colour. Lass o' Gowrie and Mrs. Eousby, how- 

 ever, are very pretty. Mr. H. B. Smith again came in second. 

 In the amateurs' class Mr. E. Watson is first, and Mr. G. God- 

 dard second. 



For Apples, both dessert and kitchen,' separate classes were 

 apportioned. Of the former the best three dishes come from 

 Mr. F. Eutland, gardener to the Duke of Eichmond, Goodwood 

 Park, who has excellent samples of Adams' Pearmain, Nonpareil 

 Eusset, and Cockle Pippin. Mr. S. E. Ford, gardener to W. E. 

 Hubbard, Esq., Leonardslee, Horsham, is second with Court- 

 pendu-Plat, beautifully coloured. Cockle Pippin, and London 

 Pippin. For kitchen kinds the same two exhibitors occupy the 

 same relative positions in the prize list, Mr. Eutland having 

 Blenheim Pippin, splendid, Lincolnshire Eeinette, and Royal 

 Eusset. Mr. Ford is second ; and Mr. Gardiner, Lower Eating- 

 ton Park Gardens, sends, among others, large ajid well-preserved 

 fruit of Hanwell Souring. 



For three heads of Broccoli Mr. Perkins, Regent Street, Leam- 

 ington, is first with Leamington EroccoU, with very close and 

 white heads. Mr. Farrow, gardener to G. Batters, Esq., Enfield, 

 took the second prize. 



Of exhibitions in the miscellaneous class foremost must be 

 mentioned the magnificent gi-oup of Hyacinths (about one hun- 

 dred), Tulips, and Narcissus from Messrs. Veitch. Of these it is 

 impossible to speak too highly. Had they been in competition 

 in classes with plants of their kind, there would have been a 

 first prize for each of the three subjects. Being, however, ex- 

 hibited as a group, all that could be done was to give them an 

 extra prize. Messrs. Standish it Co., of Ascot, have a like 

 award for a group of Azaleas, Lily of the Valley, Spirfea japonica, 

 and other plants, together with cut blooms of Eoses ; Messrs. 

 Lane & Son, Great Berkhampstead, for a fine group of Ca- 

 mellias ; Mr. William Paul, Waltham Cross, for a fine collection 

 of many varieties of the same flower, and cut blooms of Ca- 

 mellias and Eoses ; Messrs. Eolhsson, Tooting, for a group of 

 Orchids, Palms, and other plants ; Mr. Williams, for a group 

 of CameUias, Azaleas, Amaryllids, a fine plant of TrichopUia 

 Buavis, and a large pan of Todea superba ; Mr. Aldous, florist, 

 Gloucester Road, South Kensington, for a neat group of plants ; 

 Mr. Ware for a group of spring-flowering and ornamental- 

 foliaged plants ; and Mr. J. Cranston, King's Acre Nurseries, 

 Hereford, for two boxes of suberb blooms of Mart-chal Niel Rose. 

 Lastly, Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, had also an extra prize for a strik- 

 ing gi-onp of Cycads. Among these we particularly noticed 

 Encephalartos lanuginosus, brachypterus, and regalis, the last- 

 named receiving a first-cIass certificate ; Cycas lucida ; Macro- 

 zamia ebumea, pulchra, elegantissima, and amabiUs. Several 

 of these were very beautiful, and were remarkable for the great 

 size of their root-stocks. 



Fruit Committee.— Mr. G. F. Wilson, F.R.S., in the chair. 

 Mr. F. Perkins, of Leamington, sent specimens of his Leaming- 

 ton Broccoli, a variety exhibited at one of the meetings last 

 spring. It is a very late and apparently a very desirable variety ; 

 but as the winter has been so mild, and so many varieties being 

 at present in use, it was thought that the Leam"ington would be 

 in finer state in the end of April, and Mr. Perkins was requested 

 to send it again. Mr. H. Miles, gardener to James Johnstone, 

 Esq., Eanelagh House, Fulham, sent a plant of Loquat in fruit, 

 for which a letter of thanks was to be sent. Mr. Gardiner, gar- 

 dener, Lower Eatington Park, sent a large collection of dessert 

 and kitchnn Apples remarkably correctly named, and a letter 

 of thanks was awarded. Mr. llacfarlane, of Glasgow, sent his 

 patent Powder-distributor, which has been tried in the garden 

 at Chiswick. 



Flor-u. CoM>nTTEE. — Mr. J. Eraser in the chair. Mr. Denning, 

 gardener to Lord Londesborough, Norbiton, sent a beautiful 

 group of Orchids, which received a cultural certificate. A fine 

 variety of Odontoglossum Andersonianum had a first-class cer- 

 tificate, as also one of Odontoglossum hystrix. In the same 

 group were several handsome Cattleyas, Lycastes, fine speci- 

 mens of Odontoglossum crispum, Vanda gigantea, Odontoglos- 

 sum Hallii, and Cymbidium eburneum. Mr. Richards, gar- 

 dener to Baron Eothschild, Gunnersbury, had a similar award 

 for an extremely fine specimen of Odontoglossum Phalocnopsis, 

 with upwards of thirty flowers of large size. Mr. Coles, gar- 



dener to A. Smee, Esq., sent a large and handsome plant of 

 Dendrobium densiflorom, producing an abundance of its rich 

 orange drooping racemes. 



Mr. A. Waterer, nurseryman, Knap Hill, had a first-class cer- 

 tificate for Erica vulgaris cuprea, a variety of the common hardy 

 Heath, which was exhibited as suitable for winter bedding, for 

 it changes its colour in October, and it was stated it retains its 

 crimson-coppery hue for six months. As exhibited, the plant 

 had a charming appearance both as regards its colour and beauty 

 of .form. From Mr. WiUiams, HoUoway, came two Hippeas- 

 trums, one of which, named Burtonii, was of a fine bright red. 

 Mr. Douglas, gardener to F. Whitbourn, Esq., Loxford Hall, 

 sent Hyacinth Prince of Wales, single, of a beautiful violet blue, 

 much of the same shade of colour as General Lauriston, but 

 with a finer spike. This received and well deserved a first-class 

 certificate. Prince of Wales, a very good single red, rose, with 

 a deeper rose band along the centre of each segment, was also 

 shown by Mr. Douglas, and is good in spike and bells ; and 

 though the latter are not large, they make up for that by the 

 closeness with which they are packed. Messrs. Cutbush had 

 also a first-class certificate for Lord Melville, iudigo blue with 

 a white eye — a telling kind, which, though it is already in com- 

 merce, l^as not been certificated. 'To Messrs. Veitch a first-class 

 certificate was awarded for Hyacinth Massini, noticed in a pre- 

 vious part of our report. 



Mr. Miller, gardener to J. Johnstone, Esq., Fulham, sent a> 

 specimen of Aigrjecum eburneum ; and Mr. Moore, gardener to 

 C. Leach, Esq., Clapham Common, had a first-class certificate 

 for Epidendrum erubescens, with lilac flowers. Mr. Young,. 

 Milford Nurseries, Godalming, had a first-class certificate for 

 Aucuba Toungii in fruit, a handsome green-leaved kind. Mr. 

 Perkins, Leamington, sent a pretty white Clematis ; Mr. E. 

 Bland, gardener to Earl Kilmorey, Isleworfh, new Cinerarias; 

 Messrs. Carter & Co., AmorphophaUus Eivieri, a species 

 noticed in our last report as being shown with spathe and 

 spatlix by Mr. Bull ; also An^ectochilus Ortgiesii. Messrs- 

 Downie, Laird, & Laing sent several new Hyacinths ; G. F. 

 Wilson, Esq., Primula deuticulata, a hardy Himalayan Primrose, 

 and a charming plant for rockwork; and Mr. Lee. market gar- 

 dener, Clevedon, the large and fine sweet-scented Violet, called 

 Victoria Eegina, to the most striking qualities of which attention 

 is dii-ected at page 242. 



BUSSIAN VIOLETS. 



Now is the time to make fresh beds of Russian Violets, the 

 few young leaves which have already made their appearance 

 being certain signs of the rapid growth to follow as the days 

 lengthen. By immediately planting the oft'sets or side shoots 

 which are now to be found bristling with rootlets, and in large 

 quantities upon the plants just passing out of the flowering 

 stage, a considerable saving of labour is effected, hardly any 

 further attention being necessary till summer. But if the beds 

 are not made till late in April or May, when the young growtii 

 is in full actirity and the crowded foliage has become drawn 

 into a long and slender growth, much care will be necessary 

 in watering and shading to preserve them from the sun's rays, 

 which wUl then very quickly prostrate and destroy the young 

 and succulent foliage of plants under theii- influence that have 

 not a vigorous root action to sustain them. The advantages, 

 then, that are gained by now doing this very easy and simple 

 operation ai-e, that the young and sturdy oft'sets sustained by 

 the moisture of the soil and cloudy atmosphere so quickly 

 become established plants, that they are in the best possible 

 condition to profit by the frequent showers and brighter skies 

 of the following month ; and by being fully exposed on all 

 sides to the ail' before the spring growth has made much pro- 

 gress, the dwarf, spreading, sturdy tufts present a pleasing 

 contrast to the drawn attenuated appearance of those cuttings 

 which may be taken from the old beds at a later and less 

 suitable period. — Edwamj Luckhukst. 



OBTAINING HYACINTH FLOWERS A SECOND 

 SEASON. 

 After the Hyacinths have done their duty the first year in 

 hte greenhouse or conservatory I take them to that part of the 

 garden where the sun shines nearly all day, and plunge the 

 pots to the rim in prepared and weU-drained materials, mostly 

 coal ashes. I leave them undisturbed tUl September or 

 October, according to the time I want them to flower, and then 

 take them up, repotting them carefully in good sandy loam. 

 I have adopted this practice for the last two or three years, 

 and have found it answer well. The bulbs each throw up 

 two or three spikes quite equal to the freshly-imported bulbs ; 



