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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



ruled which wem ptu into our liauda tar our guidance. 

 Mj feih>w Judges were Mr. Kemp and Mr. Parsons. 



It is not our business who arranged the schedule ; but 

 you, from your long-standing experience, will be the best 

 jud-e whether the schedule was " one of the worst ever 

 printed," or whether the prizes were "most ridiculous." 

 We, the censors, considered that the prizes were suf- 

 ficiently liberal to induce the attendance of some of the 

 first growers within 100 miles, at least (as I believe the 



ticularJy favourable to easy digestion, and as being 

 devoid of any medicinal quality. In Russia Buckwheat 

 is served at the best tables as well as at the most homely 

 ones ; in Holland the flour of it is preferred for many 

 kinds of cakes and delicate pastry ; wafeln, for instance, 

 it has been said, cannot be well made of any other kind 

 of flour. The immense quantity of Buckwheat con- 

 sumed in Russia is usually deprived of its husk in 



usually do, not ape 



Homenelatu 



scientific botany. Perhaps you w'iliT'?. * m $im w 

 botanical readers w hat the KLl fJ ?. d > '**? * 



No 



several instances, withheld the first prize. And if, in 

 doing so, we erred at all, it was in being still more liberal 

 thandie articles merited. I do not believe two dozen 

 plants could have been selected from the whole number 

 exhibited that would have been admitted at Chiswick 

 upon any terms. In fact, taking them altogether, I 

 never saw a more indifferent lot at any provincial exhi- 

 bition ; and I have often seen better plants where the 

 prizes did not exceed one-tenth of the value of those 

 offered at Cheltenham. Besides publishing the above 

 paragraph, the disappointed exhibitors have circulated a 

 report that the committee, or their officials, influenced 

 tlie judges in curtailing the prizes. This is another 

 insult both to our abilities and to ( 

 honourable judge would allow himself to be guided by 

 anything excepting the printed schedule and the 

 printed rules, and by those alone we decided ; it is 

 due therefore to the public, to the committee, the 

 exhibitors, and to ourselves, that we do declare we were 

 not nor would we have submitted to it had the attempt 

 been made — iuttuanced by anything sa,ve the schedule, 

 the rules, and our own judgment. The above is a plain 

 statement of the matter. William Davidson. 



Rougk Plate Okm (see p. 406).— The result of Mr. 

 Phillips's visit here (Foxhorough Hall) was, that he 

 appeared to be quite satisfied that the Strawberry plants 

 were scorched, and not baked,, as you supposed. I 

 think you could form no correct opinion from the leaves 

 which were sent to you, and which could only be 

 collected from the muck heap. By the specimen of 

 Hartley's patent plate glass, which Mr. Phillips pro- 

 duced, it was evident that mine was the common rough 

 plate, and not Hartley's patent ; this appears to me to 

 be the sole cause of the scorching. There is no flue in 

 my pit, and air was freely admitted all clay and night. 



Charles H 'ford, For borough Hall, Woodbridge. We 



are at present engaged in investigating several cases 

 where parties ordering from their tradesmen " Hartley's 

 patent rough plate/' have been supplied with quite a 

 diftrent article, preparatory to adopting some remedial 

 measure ; we consequently sent a gentleman to examine 

 the glass referred to by Mr. Wal rd, in his letter of the 

 2 J st June, and, as we anticipated, the glass was not 

 manufactured by us ; and, notwithstanding, the trades- 

 man employed by Mr. W. was instructed to obtain 

 "Hartley's patent rough plate," another description of 

 glass was substituted, as you will see by a square for- 

 warded herewith, taken out of the frame. Being desirous 

 of obtaining legal evidence of similar instances of decep- 

 tion, we shall be happy to receive communications from 

 parties suspecting anything of the kind, with a sample by 

 letter, when, it necessary, we will send a competent per- 

 son to inspect the grass. James Hartley and Co., Wear 

 Glass Works, Sunderland, July 2. [We have seen a 

 sample of the spurious article, which is an ingenious 



counterfeit.] ° 



Black Jamaica Pine- apples. 



is. C C. B. [We do not know 1 *">**« ^ 



Potato Disease.— I detected a few «„ . ~ 



a patch of Potatoes here, .bont lTig]***** 

 that time it has spread rapidly overVK Hp ' *■* 

 which is now nearly destroyed. DiseSe ?*!** 

 made its appearance in Spots over Si", 1 *** 



P -"*"~ -'•'^ T h -e%bont an tV h t?S 



. am now nsing are excSJt 4 * 

 mg to snot : if Ti, Q j:_. ellent »b« 





Potatoes, of which 

 leaved which I 



disease 



e more in quantity (to allow for evaporation) than . spread as rapidly as it has done diir?^ . coni * ,, »» fc 

 grain will absorb; the pot, with its contents, is then days, in three weeks the whole cron «» ! e *'«« i* 



■* spoiled. The soil is loam on a chalk J h I "*** 



Slindon, near Arundel, Sussex, June 30 l 'S 



Fellow Roses at the Chiswick Exhibition' -U, e 

 reply to our article on yellow Roses contains I 

 dates, and no portion of his letter areues Z 

 at issue. If Mr. Francis or the judges J! Si!! 

 rule for the future guidance of &££** 

 have been something satisfactory. * * ' 



kept for two or three hours in a gentle oven heat, by 



which time the water has been wholly absorbed, the 



grains of Buckwheat have become perfectly tender, 



and each one of them dry and distinct, like well-boiled rice 



for curry ; the greshna cassia is served in the pot in which 



it was cooked, a napkin being rolled round the vessel ; 



fresh butter and salt are stirred into the cassia, which is 



eaten generally with roast meat, but often alone. For 



the factory girls at Alexandrovsky the greshna cassia is 



cooked in large coppers, cold-drawn Hemp or linseed 



oil being used for them, as for the generality of the 



people, instead of butter. The nursery breakfast in 



English merchants' houses at St. Petersburgh is fre- 

 quently greshna cassia, eaten with milk instead of 



butter. A very favourite dish at all tables is a kind of 

 raised pie, with greshna cassia in its composition. An 

 ordinary raised pie crust being rolled out, there is 

 spread upon it a layer an inch or more thick of already 

 cooked greshna cassia ; along the middle of this foun- 

 dation is then laid a fish ; the cassia, with its supporting qualified with I «**-. rraucis wisnes your readeri a 

 crust, is doubled over and properly closed ; the pie thus believe that pale cream colours were inadmissible J! 

 made is baked in a gentle oven. The fish preferred at * n ^Aft Vlnf f ^ rc °™* •*****^ — ^- — ^ * . ™ 

 St. Petersburgh for this purpose is the belo'e riba, a 

 white species of salmon, which furnishes fat as well as 

 flavour ; were the fish of a dry sort it would have bits 

 of butter placed around it. Pies of this nature might 

 be made in England with other kinds of grain ; some 

 very recherche for a great table, others very economical, 



that we were awarded a 1st T prize % m°\ 84 o*'!? h * 

 qualified in 1850, the judges stating that o«?b 

 were not yellow, and allowing Mr t. Jt* 



1851, however, Mr. Francis is awarded^ prfjj^ ^ 



prize for six sorts which were said to be veil 

 1851, however, Mr. Francis is awarded a prize ,« 

 cut yellow Roses, which, on the agCTegate Ja 



_ ^ K r~\_ 



we feel aggrieved ; and we ask if it is fair that a «» 



were disqualified in 1850. 



whii » 



should be given for the same Roses (in a cut state b* 

 remembered) that we showed in pots and wwJ 1. 



r..-. n li*£,wl .„UU 1 At- T? • •,* P 







. „,. . . -. -- r«" — -If the Pities exhibited 



at Cniswck are to be taken as examples of the varieties 

 generally grown for dessert, it appears to me that gar- 

 deners have fallen into error in cultivating the Queen 

 and Prov.dence kinds more extensively than Black 



ot ma A Ca >' t J Wi l fe ^ Uch to be re g re tted, for it must be 

 admitted that the Black Jamaica yields to no variety in 



flavour. I am aware that it is more delicate and diffi- 

 cult to manage than the two above-named varieties or 

 any other sort with which I am acquainted ' 

 gardeners have surmounted great difficulties in br 

 many other plants and fruits to perfection, "and 

 why should the Black Jamaica Pine-apple, wh "e 

 fruit, as I have already stated, pos^ess'es su^h 

 SSS'U^™*' ^«o long neglected ! More assi 



Sfrlof tv J m / eed '. neede<] t0 P^uce a hand- 

 K T ♦£ * L kmd > wUh s —« erown, an 



But 



ingin 



grow 



and weigh- 



or 



« Who eve, .,;Vf t • a gardener exclaiming, 

 lar-e crown mT * t ® ack p J ^a,ca of ,„y 8ize without 



Potion ; 7 P roducLt4rcrots, l^^^ 

 abte ; but would not the gardener's skill if corrtt I 

 apphed, prevent this superabundant ff r ,wtM This 

 TO r.ety ,s esteemed either in the shape of a winter v 

 summer fnut, for which reason I consider i S ° f 

 especial attent.on j and 1 trust that, if Black Jamaica 

 Pines are exh.bited at the next Chiswick Shot the 

 Socety s judges will signify their approval of Spar 



that, if the Horticultural ScS -^e LSffcS best 1 

 flavoured P.nes, ' more attention would hi naid bv 

 growers to that important point. Ail *£ p!L P , I 

 I saw at the last show, to vvhicLe^a. ^Tw" J 

 appeared to me to. have been « coddled? ^T££bt 

 much if any of them possessed first ,. afo L™1 l „»*• 

 LlamWo. 



Buckwheat.— It seems to be implied in the Aariad 

 tural Gazette, p. 363, that the grain of £fff 

 not desirable « food for man ; ye't in countr^wh *e t 

 « largely use d it is considered as economical, 



our people. M. \ 



Song Birds. — Mr. Doubleday, in his comments on my 

 remarks on certain birds and their habits, at page 392, 

 has kindly endeavoured to set me right, on one or two 

 points in which he conceives I am in error ; but as he did 

 not, in the first instance, peruse the letters containing the 

 precise " questions " to which I replied, he is hardly in a 

 position to take the judge's chair. The bird, about which 

 he speaks so positively as being the redstart, was described 

 to me as resembling the sparrow in form and size, and as 

 haunting a running stream, &c., with other puzzling 

 points. Now, the sparrow (Passer domesticus) is far 

 larger,and of infinitely less symmetrical proportions, than 

 the redstart {Phcenicnra ruticilla), which is 5^ inches 

 long, and a most sleek and elegantly formed bird ; nor 

 would it live in cages so happily and contentedly (as 

 my informant told me these birds do in Wales), if it 

 were the bird Mr. Doubleday supposes it to be. Red- 

 starts are very sulky in confinement, and sing "very 

 small." I have at the present time in my possession 

 one of the handsomest I have ever seen. It was caught 

 the very day of its arrival in England, some 4 years 

 ago. Its white sprinkled throat, and snow-white cap, are 

 ■strikingly beautiful; indeed, its plumage is altogether 

 so. Their haunts, let me remark, are not usually 

 running streams,— but gardens, shrubberies, and forests, 

 for the most part, particularly at this season. As for 

 the stone-chat (Saxicola riilicola), I have always found 

 them very tender when immured in cages. In their 

 natural wdd state, they may be hardy enough, like the 

 redbreast and the wren (Troglodytes vulgaris) ; hut even 

 these two latter,— hardy to a proverb, must be kept in 

 an equable temperature if required for song, and to live 

 as "cage birds." Many migratory birds, impatient of 

 confinement, are yet well able to withstand the most 

 rigorous of our English winters, when they have the 

 tree use of their wings and live as rovers. As for the 

 monotonous trisyllabic call of the reed sparrow -I 

 turned a nest of them, when they were quite young/into 

 my ayiary; and they acquired in such « mixed com 

 pany a very lively, .sprightly note,_short indeed, but 

 pleasing withal I readily admit that Mr. Doubieday's 

 success m domesticating for so long a period the various 



and ^ In S lon S.* l " ce become utterly exhausted, 



wVk^jIi™** agam called into 8imi,ar exercise - 



Viola to.— It seems necessary to call the attention 

 of your readers to the confusion caused by florisVs an 

 ^rdeners who, either through ignorance o/careleLne" 

 give to their garden varieties names previously 

 empbyed for the designation of species. T he ^ term 

 placed at the head of this paragraph is a M „I!' fl 



In tea of advertisers, and even reports of horticultural 



"Sft » ^ th * «*ive speeies so called and 

 desenbed under that name in botanical work 



in 1850, but facts are stubborn things. Referrinffc 

 that part of the schedule of prizes which relate t 

 Roses, we find it worded the same in 1845,18ioy 

 1851 ; and yellows placed under the head % It 

 grown in pots." The exact words are these; "Nfcl 

 Yellow Roses, best six varieties. N.B. To be r*h 

 yellows, pale cream colours inadmissible." Mr. Fna« 

 will have some difficulty, therefore, in inducing « * 

 believe that Elise Sauvage and Smith's Yellov wen 

 pale cream-coloured in 1 850, and really yellow in 1351 f 

 If. Lane and Son, the Nurseries, Great BtrkhampMal 

 [This seems to us to be a mere question whether tit 

 judges have attended to the directions given in tb 

 schedule. If Mr. Francis or Mr. Lane, or any other 

 grower, has at any time produced cream-colours 

 yellows, they ought to have been disqualified.] 







Royal Botakic, Regent's Pabk, JttZ^ 2. — A large mmite 

 of Peiargrouiuirn, a good display ot Orchids, maDj wefi»N& 

 vated Stove aini Greenhouse Planrs, good eoUtcdoni ©f Caft 

 Heaths, and some tall Cacti, uere assembled t n tM* occulta, 

 and t'uere was an extensive exhibition of Fruit. 



In collectiona ot 30 Stove and Greenhouse FLANTi.tkeifc 

 prize was awarded to Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealiog Park, fcl 

 beautiful plants of Allamanda caibartica and graadiflew, 

 Clerodeudron paniculatum, Kaloeanthes uauiatn, km 

 coccinea, a white Heath, Rondeletia speciosa, doubfe m 

 single examples of TabernaemontanH coronaria, a rcr? fi HW li 

 Le.ocheuaultia, three varieties of Everlasting, th* ««»n*| 

 Dipladenia crassinoda, Erica tricolor rubra, the CavenOiA 

 Heath, SoJlya linearis, Pinielea mirabilis, tbe white-WowojlM 

 Ixora, the red and white Viocaf, the LoHg-flo«jred » 

 steuima, the lovelv Chinese Indi^ofera decora, and .™*J 

 hispida. — Mr, Cole's group, which was second, contaiseanw 

 fine plants of Dipladenia splendens, two ot AiJamani fli^aM 

 two of Crowea saltkna, together with the red w«JJ" 

 Vincas, Dipladenia crat&iaoda, the Scarlet Ixora, tiw» 







inbWoa, 

 haudsoa* 



bash of Fpacris mioiara, the scarle 



■■it. 

 svme weU.manaued Heaths, ana ^scDjuaD««--- ,, 



A third collection, con.ributed bv Mr. Sranlv, wajjM*" 

 Saftron.coJoured Ixora, Cyrtoceras ** fle * um » .£*!?■ 

 u iniata, the large-biossomed Epacris, the varieiy u ^ 

 tricolor called elegans, one or two Everlastings, nma , 

 Viiicas.-Messrs. Famplin's exhibition, wbtc ^ ^jJJS 

 consisted mos.ly of small plants, among which »«"** C|fe 

 oa.hartica, Euphorbia spiendens, Kalosan he*, "^ J 

 Heaths, and good specimens of Stephanom flonoaa 



Pimelea decussata. m Pt 4XTg Mfiftf* 



In collections of 20 Stove and Gbeenbouse " A ;| Q ; d fi^ 



Fraser, of Lea-bridge, were first. Their group cuntame^^^ 



to 



managed plants of Alfarxanda grandittor 



Pavetta caffra, Dipladenia crassiooda, the ^ can _ MUt g^ 



C0B>- 



Diosma-leavedFimeiea, the Sweet Sphenot^g^^^ 

 santhes coccinea and mnniara, JP* ^™ 1 ":, stepbanods 



N |Jt> i III 



ftv)ribO'__ .. 



_ UosarUr * 



Hi 



showy naiosanxnes uihj*«ii», « »-*j -- -■ hf „ 



small pink-flowered Erica pulverulent*, ^° £ ^lalsW 



mosa, the white Sphenotoroa gracilis, one or* ^ m 



and Azaleas -Mr Green sent a third group, . ^^*. 



Aliaaiau 



the Scar J 



erst- 



grafl^ 



floribuuda/Hiid Clerodeudron Kaempferi.-i»8^ , 

 munscated by Mr. Taylor, gr. to J. ^^^fe 

 Allamanda catbartica and Scbotiu, Stepha loti ^ 



-ipladenia crBS-inr-da. hi^hb-coloured ; bo }a ^ 



.owy Kalosanthes miniata, a vtrv fine Y^7 heDau itia *• 



i 



let Ixora, the bulliant Epac, i, *wM» ^ » 



letla speciosa. the 

 plant which ought to 



WZ3S bVnd«m. P«-S 

 , be ... every co iect,0D ; D'^; 



■tdit, 



it is not such, however, is well known ; but 

 really Is the present writer is not inforVnpH 



s. That 

 what 





florutn, Le h^naultia formosa, the ir rose -^ ano ti)inaK rr 

 Aphelexis macrantha, the sweet-smellmg Sphenot 



and Pohgalaopp ititblia. ^^oaroupofW 310 !? 



Air. Speed, oYSdmomuU, had a handsome grouP ^^ 



and Guiraoim Plants. They cod^^^^^^s- 



par 



it probably already p^es a ^T. ^1^5^ 



InZtl y ' " Sl,0, , ,ld be na,ned as s «ch, ami not 

 f » such a manner as to lead to the supposition of Us 



being a species. Let a florist n^e hiXwe^ Z2 



.^chot ii and cathartica, the white- rl owe, -" ;;r . Il0 ra«, «3 

 len^, Gien dendron fallax, the Java »» a .^ r * d p > v \*te* 

 ^uthen nuniata, a Ymca, BpacrL* niiuiat a a^ M i*gTri* 



crassinoda.-A coJlection from Mr. ^ l / l ^ t f * d CapeH^n 



wbitH.flowereu r ^ * 



liotHa 

 F nciscea, the Scurkt Ixora, ana iuc v> --' f ur .1 — At * 

 Tt*e next 10 were Um IV: Croxford, ot waui cUtO .<0&* 

 roduc a AiJamauda ^chottii, la»ge ^[^^ Kal^^T 

 fall x. the sweet smelling ^^^^^ *»£, 

 miniata, a Cape Heath or two, **. cn >° f. _.Ur. **rZ 



i tia formosa, Pirnelea ^0^,, 



, the Scarlet Ixora and U« pr ett,^ 



> & 11 iiii 



Plceuocom.t pfoliferuw. and Ixora J^^goa 

 gr. to Mrs. Tredwell, had Ailamand a cathartic , 







