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JOUBNAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEB. 



[ February 12, 1871. 



selected for certificates. The report on these collections will be 

 found in the number of the Journal juBt issued. 



The collection of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials has been en- 

 riched during the season by the presentation of three hundred 

 species and varieties from the Boyal Gardens, Kew, and of 

 numerous species of Aster from the Floral Director. Of these 

 latter plants it was hoped that a large collection might be got 

 together with a view to their examination by the Professor of 

 Botany ; and contributions for this purpose will still be gladly 

 received by the Gardener-in-chief. 



A very handsome new Fern, which sprang up in one of the 

 propagating houses a year or two since, and which is now a well- 

 developed specimen, has been described and figured during the 

 past year in the Journal under the name of Pteris serrulato- 

 tremula. It is very remarkable that this plant, supposed from 

 its compound appearance to be a hybrid between P. tremula and 

 P. serrulata, though forming spores in abundance, cannot, so far 

 as yet experienced, be increased by this means, the typical 

 P. tremula only being produced from them. It is probably, 

 therefore, after all, only a spore-sport of this well-known plant. 



Of other matters which have come before them, the Directors 

 think it only right to mention that the Gardener-in-chief has 

 reported most favourably to them of the action of anew wrought- 

 iron boiler, erected by Messrs. T. Green & Son, which has done 

 its work most efiiciently and economically ; and they are in- 

 formed that a similar boiler is now most satisfactorOy heating 

 the Conservatory at Kensington. 



Professor Thiselton Dyer's lectures to the young gardeners at 

 Chiswick, on elementary matters of science bearing upon hor- 

 ticulture, and which were briefly referred to in the Report of 

 1873, were listened to with attention and advantage by the young 

 men to whom they were addressed. It is much to be desired 

 that instruction in the higher branches of horticulture should 

 also be given. 



Statement of Accochtb from Jannary Ist to December Slat, 1873. 



ElPJHDimEB. 



Balance brought forward from'Slst December, 



1872 



By Chiswick Garden Expenses : — 



Bent, Rates, and Taxes 



Labour 



ImplemeutB, Manure, &c 



Bepairs 



Trees, Plants, &c , 



Miscellaneous 



Sy Expenses of Management : — 



Salaries 



Horticultural Directors, Fruit and Floral 



Committee 



Foreign Importations 



Postages 



Beading Boom 



Gas 



Journal 



A\ ai;^es 



Printing, Stationary, and Almanacs 



MiRcolIaneoUB 



Dintribution of Plants 



Lindley Library 



£ s. d. £ s. d. 



876 19 9 



198 11 9 

 1202 18 S 

 285 14 10 

 150 19 6 

 24 1 4 

 67 2 7 



1919 3 3 



E2g 3 2 



459 7 11 



5 



122 16 10 



24 8 9 



25 17 10 

 1 15 



365 16 9 



649 



37 



116 



6 



2,241 15 6 



By Expenses of Exhibitions ; — 



Tents account, last instalment 



Advertising 



Prizes and Medals 



Bands 



Police 



Gardeners' and Judges' Breakfasts and Ex- 

 penses attending Shows 



Superintendent of Flower Shows 



Albert Hall 



234 16 9 



114 11 6 



550 4 



8 8 10 



391 14 2 



100 



18 4 



600 



By Kensington Garden Exptnsei: — 



Labour 912 10 5 



Rates, Taxes, and Insurance 1,271 12 



\Vater . , 85 15 



Repairs 248 17 6 



Implements, Manure, Ac 217 18 5 



Gravel 1 8 



Trees, Bulbs, and Shrubs 826 5 7 



Superintendent's Salary 100 



Miscellaneous 9 9 9 



Alterations 88 111 



Engineer for Waterworks 694 1 S 



Glaiaher's Tabids 



Rhododendron Exhibition 



Commission on Rent of Arcades 



Interest on Debentures 



1400 7 6 



Liabilities on Current Account, 1873 1763 3 



„ for Prizes, 1873 1833 



„ on Cturent Account, 1872 891 3 



3905 19 10 



125 19 



S3 12 7 



33 13 4 



1956 2 



12,493 12 9 

 

 

 1 



Total , 



3487 G 1 

 16,980 18 10 



Bbceipts. 



£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 



Life Compositions 857 



Admission Fees 348 12 



Annual Subscriptions 8194 



,, „ outstanding 122 lU 8 



Garden Produce Received 245 9 6 



„ „ outstanding .. 83 19 5 



329 8 11 



Daily Admissions and Promenades 442 4 11 



Exhibitions and Fetes 870 1 6 



Due by Provincial Shows for Hire of 



Tents 200 



1070 1 6 



Miscellaneous 19 15 10 



Interest on Davis's Bequest 59 15 8 



Balance of Provincial Show 



Account at Bankers 268 19 8 



Less owing to R. H. S. for Hire 



of Tents 200 



68 19 8 



Loaned to the B. H. S 1800 



1868 19 8 



Conversazione 10 9 11 



Advertisements 82 15 



Annual International Exhibitions 1110 



13,965 14 t 



Tents, subject to valuation, Account .... 500 0- 



Cash in hand at Bankers' 375 19 1 



„ Petty Cash 3 4 6 



379 3 1 



Balance 1136 1 2 



Total 15,980 18 10 



FACILITATING FERTILISATION. 



I REMAEK, in The Journal of Horticulture of Jannary 29th, 

 an article on the process indicated by my friend Mr. Daniel 

 Hooibreuk, of Vienna, for facilitating the fertilisation of plants 

 by touching the stigma with a pencil dipped in honey. 



Although Mr. Daniel Hooibrenk has done everything in his 

 power to make this process known, and has advocated it ener- 

 getically, it is but just to state that he is not the inventor of 

 the process, and that it was previously made known by the 

 late Mr. H. Lecoq in 18G2 in his work entitled "De la Feconda- 

 tion Naturelle et Artificielle des VCgetaux, ou de I'Hybridation." 



Mr. H. Lecoq was at that time and till his death the Director 

 of the Botanical Garden of Clermont-Ferrand. — Jean Sislet, 

 Lyons. 



CELEEIAC OE TURNIP-EOOTED CELEET 

 CULTUEE. 



Tni3 delicious vegetable is very seldom seen in perfection iii 

 our gardens, and yet it is one of the veiy easiest to grow, and 

 one of the most useful. It can be used as a second-course 

 vegetable, and also as a salad, boiled and sliced Uke Beetroot, 

 while for flavouring soups it is almost, if not quite, equal to 

 ordinary Celery ; besides, it can be had in good condition 

 when good Celery is not procurable. It is also very hardy ;. 

 it takes a great amount of frost to injure it, and it is not so 

 likely to suffer from insects and diseases as the ordinarj 

 Celery ; indeed, I have observed Celery grown close to it quite 

 ruined with a fungus similar to that which attacks the Holly- 

 hock, and Celeriao was perfectly free from it. 



To grow it well it should be sown thinly on a hotbed in the 

 last week of March or first week of April. As soon as the 

 seedlings are uj) the lights should be taken quite off on every 

 favourable day, and, when large enough to handle, the plants 

 should be pricked-out about 3 inches apart in equal parts of 

 rotten dung and loamy soil. If it has a little warmth under 

 it, it will do all the better. When it fairly is established in 

 this, before the leaves touch, it should be planted in its per- 

 manent quarters. 



The ground to receive it should be quite as liberally dressed 

 as for the other Celery — that is to say, it should have 3 or 

 4 inches of good manure spread over the top and forked-in, 

 keeping the ground level. Take the plants carefully up with 

 a trowel ; or cut into squares with a spade, and plant in rows 

 2 feet apart and 15 inches from plant to plant in the row. 

 Very little attention will be necessary alter this, unless the 

 ground is light and the weather dry, when the plants may rs- 

 quire water once or twice. They will be fit for use by the end 

 of September, and may be taken up as required till there is 

 danger of their commencing to grow a second time, when they 

 should be taken up and kept in a similar way to Beetroot. 



The treatment I give to this vegetable is exactly the same as 

 that given to the main crop of Celery up to the final trans- 

 planting. The first week in April is the best time in the 



