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JOURNAL OF HORTIC0LTURE AND COTIAGE GARDENKB. 



[ Angast 12, 1875. 



agreed upon by the Society and the CommisBioners, admit the 

 public to the South Kensington Gardens free, oral Buch charge 

 as may be fixed by the Commiasionera. 



CATERPILLAKS INFESTING GOOSEBERRY 



BUSHES. 



Unfoktonately some perplexity arises from bo many per- 

 sons well acquainted with horticulture, yet ignorant of ento- 

 mology, confounding the true caterpillar of the Gooseberry 

 moth with the false caterpillar of the Gooseberry Saw-fly. The 

 lime remedy might sometimes be very effective in the case of 

 the former, but is of small service, I think, with the latter 

 species. Then, again, the Gooseberry moth is so conspicuous 

 in its mature state that there is little difficulty in hunting them 

 up in an ordinary garden ; the pupa also are very recognisable 

 on the leaves and twigs, and as the larva; hybernate many may 

 be destroyed in the winter mouths. There is really no excuse 

 to be made for the gardener who suffers his bushes to be laid 

 waste by this caterpillar ; but the false caterpillar, or Goose- 

 berry grub, producing the fly is not so easily mastered. I fail 

 to see in any plausible theory the value of weeds in approxima- 

 tion to the bushes, though not questioning the apparent facts 

 of the case given by " Beta." — J. B, S. C. 



VERONICA CANDIDA. 

 Really good " edging" plants are not by any means plentiful, 

 more especially hardy ones. This Veronica must be included 

 in the most select list of such plants. It is perfectly hardy, 

 and besides having very pretty grey foliage, and being very 

 effective when not in bloom, it is, when in bloom and yielding 

 its dense pyramidal spikes of bluish-purple flowers, which 

 contrast so strikingly with its very light-grey foliage, a very 

 beautiful plant. It is a pity not to let it display its effective 

 blooms ; but if wanted for a grey edging only, it is best not to 

 let it bloom. But anyone who has a dense long line of it in 

 bloom once, will be very loth to denude it of its bloom for the 

 sake of its foliage alone. It grows about a foot high, including 

 the bloom-spikes, is rapidly increased by division, requires to 

 be lifted and replanted every third or fourth year, and thrives 

 in any ordinary garden soil. — D. T. — (TJie Gardener.) 



heath, more especially as he had no family for whose interests 

 he had need to work. What he has done there is known to 

 many; and although I have not seen it for years, yet he has 

 BO frequently sent up its productions to London that most 

 people know of it. 



I think that one of the happiest moments of his life, in a 

 horticultural point of view, was when he was enabled to exhibit 

 at South Kensington the first instalment of Mr. Fortune's 

 spoils in his second visit to China and .Japan. Much elated, 

 too, was he when he first exhibited Lilium auratum, and viBions 

 of grand results of hybridisation floated before his eyes, but as 

 yet nothing notable has been done with it. He leaves behind 

 him many friends who valued him for many excellent qualities, 

 and both at home and abroad he will be greatly missed. His 

 bonhomie made him a great favourite with the French nur- 

 serymen ; and in a trip which I once made with him as far as 

 Angers I was struck with the hearty manner in which he was 

 received, and also with the fact that at fifty he had set himself 

 so diligently to learn the language that he could make himself 

 understood wherever he went. Rose-growers owe to him the 

 introduction of Eng(";ne Appert, a Rose still grown for its bril- 

 liancy, and Celine Forestier ; while his own achievements as 

 a hybridiser have left their mark on many a flower. He would 

 have heartily rejoiced at the altered aspects of the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society, but it was not for him to see, and those of 

 us who are left may well learn a lesson from his energy, intel- 

 ligence, and kindness. — D., Deal. 



MR. JOHN STANDISH. 



Permit one who knew our friend for many years to drop a 

 pebble on the cairn to his memory, and to add a few remarks 

 to those very true ones which appeared on page 97. I do this 

 the more because it was through his introduction to those 

 awful personages who rule in Fleet Street that I became a 

 writer in the .Journal, and to whom I owe some of the plea- 

 santest hours and the heartiest friends that I have enjoyed or 

 possess. I had many opportunities of judging of his character, 

 and I am sure I echo the opinion of all who knew him when 

 I say that a more hospitable and kindhearted man it was im- 

 possible to meet. 



As a horticulturist, however, we have most to do with him. 

 In one way he was a successful one, but I fear pecuniarily not 

 so. He was a most thorough hybridist, and I can recollect 

 how heartily (besides the flowers you have already named) he 

 entered into the improvement of the Gladiolus ; but although 

 he raised some fine flowers, yet he was outstripped by Souchet 

 who had the start of him, aud later on by Kelway. But he 

 still clung to it ; and when Mr. Bull introduced Gladiolus 

 cruentus from Natal he thought he saw an opening for bring- 

 ing in fresh blood, and he set to work with his accustomed 

 energy. We differed as to the probable results, for I main- 

 tained, that if it were crossed with those already iu cultivation, 

 the fact of its only producing two or three blooms at a time 

 would militate against what we were all anxious to obtain — a 

 long spike of bloom opening at the same time. He thought 

 differently, but as yet no results have been obtained. He had 

 latterly gone into the hybridising of Peas, and had anticipated 

 great results, alas ! if achieved to be seen by others and not by 

 himself. He was an enthusiast in his calling, as everyone 

 must be more or less who wishes to succeed ; but I never met 

 a more thorough enthusiast than Mr. Standish. Everything 

 must succeed, he thought, which he took up. He saw no difti- 

 calties, and with his wonderful energy he oftentimes managed 

 to overcome them. It was a strong proof of his energy that 

 at his years he should have entered upon so arduous an under- 

 taking as that of the Ascot Narsery, reclaiming a wild barren 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS, 

 At a meeting of the Committee of the Hoeticcltueal Clue 

 held at the Club House, Adelphi Terrace, on Wednesday the 

 4th inst., George Deal, Esq., was unanimously elected a 

 member of the Committee in lieu of the late Mr. Standish, 

 and the following gentlemen were admitted members by ballot : 

 — The Rev. E. Norman, Edgware; C. R. Stewart, Esq., Glas- 

 gow; H. C. Wilkins, Esq., Chipping Norton; W. B. Lewis, 

 Esq., Weybridge ; the Rev. C. C. Ellison, Bracebridge Vicarage, 

 Lincoln; Capt. Christy, Buckhurst Lodge, Westerham; and 

 H. P. Cakes, Esq., Newton Park, Bury St. Edmunds. 



DuKiNG the month of July seventy-two hampers or parcels 



of flowers were received by the Paddinuton Flowee Mission. 

 The distribution has been : — 2315 bunches of flowers to St. 

 Mary's Hospital, Lock, Great Northern, London Temperance, 

 Samavitaa Free, Hip Disease, and Gough Home for Children 

 Hospitals ; the Workhouse Infirmary, Annuitants, Victoria, 

 Helvetia, Warrington, Mrs. Russell Gnrney's, Dudley Stuart, 

 Ladies', Aged Poor, Crippled Girls', Penitents', Deaconess', 

 and Gentlewomen's Homes ; Hyde Park, St. Matthew's, Miss 

 Boyd's, and Miss Cole's Orphanages ; St. Mary's Kitchen, 

 Cripples' Nursery ; to firemen, policemen, and postmen, and 

 many sick and iofirm at their own homes ; Servants' Training 

 School, Ragged School. St. Giles's Workhouse, East Street 

 Mission, and Christian Union Almshousea. The offices are at 

 3, Leinster Street, Cleveland Square, W. 



The pee-histoeic lake-villagees undoubtedly raised 



Barley, Wheat, and Millet, several kinds of each of these 

 cereals having been found in the lacustrine deposits. Some of 

 these species of grain were cultivated in Egypt, and therefore 

 are believed to have found their way from that country to 

 Switzerland. Rye was not known to the colonists, and Oats 

 not before bronze had come into use. Barley and Wheat 

 appear either iu grains, sometimes in considerable quantities, 

 or, more rarely still, retain the shape of ears ; and even car- 

 bonised Wheat bread, in which the bran and the imperfectly 

 crushed grains can be distinctly seen, has been found at Roben- 

 hausen and Wangen. This unleavened pre-historic bread, 

 which is very coarse and compact, occurs mostly in fragments, 

 but sometimes in the form of small roundish cakes about 1 or 

 lA inch thick, and was doubtless baked by placing the dough 

 on hot stones and covering it over with glowing ashes. Millet 

 was employed in a similar manner for making bread. It is 

 probable, however, that the lake people consumed their farina- 

 ceous food chiefly in the shape of porridge. Carbonised 

 Apples of small size, identical with those growing wild in the 

 woods of Switzerland, have been found abundantly, and in a 

 tolerable state of preservation. Mr. Messikommer discovered 

 on one occasion more than three hundred of them lying close 

 together. They are often cut in halves, more rarely in three 

 or four parts, and were evidently dried for consumption during 

 winter. Whether a larger kind of Apple found at Robeuhausen 



