te 
Jose 29, 1895. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 799 
ene of such local growers as abound in or INULA HOOKER! (?).—Max Leichtlin’s suggestion Cedar attributes want apace 
‘ this garrison- town ought to suffice to bring the on p. 776, that our exhibit of Inula H ooke Ti CP) was allotted to pr the indiscretion of 5 
Nation i Rose Society to Colchester next year, or at I. gland ulosa grandifiora, is Pog rect. The variety Frost, however, was not ble for this omission 
the earliest possible mo ent, ave been a be we exhibited may be you and the Kew of thinning ou i — 25 a — heard 
f the National Rose Society for many year d 1 * — suggest) a form of ? glandulosa, though bim state that this should have been — 1 
trust it will not refuse this first request, which, it is a for tnight earlier than our type variety of this, believe he intended to plant the trees at double their 
weather permitting, must prove a poaa ommercial 
R. S. 
and cultural success, D. T. Fish, M.N, 
8 OF ONCIDIUM JONESIANUM, 
ETC.—[In reply to aes: ee A 
the best position aa Oncidium 
condition, which is nee likely — happen if a 
great deal of 3 st is used. W. H. White 
As. —On . 776 Mr. Ward writes of 
hav ving gathere 5 Peas o „the variety being 
Carters First Crop, the t supply to June 11 being 8 
up by Lightning, William the Arkin and 8 
lants that had been forwarded in pots. I 
gathered on May 20 from a border about 7 
i È 
e not seen yet, its pro- 
ductiveness being all that one shir wish, Ihav Mt hir 
lways the same, I have 
ar position, but they 
seful ; the earliest t being Extra 
h 
sown in the open 
— Main Crop is just in, having been sown at 
the a me e r good Eea and is a 
cropper Coneiderin, e much more í 
locality ¢ and 
Dake of ANI might do away with the lber of 
filling and attending to many hundreds of pots of 
Peas, J. Hill, Babraham, Cambridge 
EARLY PRODUCE OF THE GIRTFORD GIANT 
a question whether this Bean 
a dish of Beans sent me „ Clark, gardener to 
Major Tracey, Pytte House, Clyst St. George, Devon, 
and they are fine pulpy pode, 8 inches i in length a 
1 inch in breadth, Two years ago i 
ee this variety was 3 about this time of 
year. hese were sown about the end of Mare 
in a well-sheltered spe: i 
gardening ski u. 4 
THE FLORA OF A RECLAIMED MREADOW. About 
a dozen years ago a piece of meadow-land about 
i my residence 
n 
were removed and the land left to 
plot was surrounded on three sides oy mesdow-land, 
rious to — what 
but those edom I 
immediately a adjacent few, if a any, Thistles are to be 
Dactylis Bro rare; AY 
Next year, under different seasonal con- 
ditions, no doubt the flora will be different, X. 
Inula grandiflora, and it well deserves the name 
given it. It is certainly the finest of all the Inulas, 
Paul § Son, The Old Nurseries, Cheshunt, 
BOOS AND THE PAST WINTER (p. — 
Mr. Siders account of the survival — the B 
at Kew is very interesting, and I= ould like. — say 
that it entirely agrees with m 
have lost none 
than Mr, Bean, and say t 
actually beneficial to the Bam Ba I cannot recol- 
lect a year in which the shoots were so strong and 
a 
healthy. Of se the wi narge had 
nothing to do with tbat; it may be a case only of 
post hoc, and not p but it is e 2 noting, 
er hoc, 
Henry N, Ellacombe, Bitton, — iN 
O8T8.,—During the nights of the 12th, 
1300, Tah. loth, and 16th inst., one or more degrees 
FIG. 12 . MOVEMENTS, INDICATED BY THE 
‘* SEISMOGRAPH ” aT THE OSSERVATORIO X{MENIANO, 
LO 0 (SEK ) 
f frost were registered here. On the 15th, 5° of 
frost at the Castle, which lies about 50 feet lower 
than the kitchen garden, which, 
feet above sea — Singularly enough, in the 
r 
spot are without sneer nipped, 
s on Picea nobilis have "4 
e garden are cut up, yet 
in egeta 300 yards distant, 
3 whatever bas been injured. B. rough, The 
Gardens, Duntreath Castle, Strathblane. 
EARLIEST STRAWBERRY. —It may be of interest 
to mention that. pg by lg ti pip 
in a south aed 
goin We picked a nice little dish of sg 
fruits of this variety on Jane 10. The other varieties 
wing alongside it are Keen’s ling, Vicomtesse 
—— d T ury, Laxton’s , President, and 
Noble is next stn of ripe- 
wed by Hericart du Thury. All the 
ee have —.— better crops of fruit than La 
rtd acréa; they were planted in 
£ mali pots, bein gthe remainder of * pre- 
2 foreing. wherries mise 
pared gen 
ee crops hereabouts this year. H. 4. Ou 
Grimston, Tadcaster, 
THE LATE PHILIP FROST, AND 
In the eee on Dropmore 
Chronicle of 
AND PLANTING — 
in the Gardeners’ 
e 8, the writer comments on 
lways attributed the Conifers 
Deess top-dressings of old garden soil, &c., he 
applied, and the result of this ty t speaks 
for itself a of planting 
ees with the tap-root intect, and placed in 
te natu the soil & planter, 
he was not only successful, but fortanate, for few 
planters live to see they plant attain 
a height of 120 fee was the case with 
lar * Fir which once . R. a as a soed in 
bis waiste ocket 
» sporting, 
ma celebrity in — 
— than that of — A, C. F 
CEREUS GRANDIFLORUS.—A few days ago I had 
sent to me two — of this plant, with the infor- 
mation that they would open that evening it I would 
vi 
or to have read of — — it mentioned anywhere ? 
[Well known]. V. T 
THE WEATHER IN SCOTLA ee = Stuart, 
writing from Chirnside, N.B., on np states :— 
this very unusual for so late in the year? R. Dean, 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
dyn Sien Eho amah usual fortnightly meeting wae held 
y last in the Dril) Hall, James Street, 
rn gedit chiefly remarkabie för the 
ge di her ia), bulbous, and 
other hardy plants and flowers, Mcst of col- 
lections were contri he trade, however, 
a e co in almost e 
represen entries only. In response 
to — invitation for collections of ee us plants 
fro 
— a 
C 
and representative group from 
Sons, Swanley, no other collection of these plants 
was exhibi 
Orchids and miscellaneous plants in season were 
1 an eo — but the work before the 
ruit Committee showed an increase is usual, 
1 is season, 
oral Committee. 
Present W. Marshall, ag 5 Bang chair; and 
Mesare, H. B. May, H. He erbst, R. 
* Stevens, 
H. Selfe- Leonard, J. A. Pawle, G. Gate J. T. Ben- 
nett-Pos, J. W. Barr, J. Walker, H. J. Jones, C. 
Blick, G. Paul, C. E. Shea, J. Laing, C. F. Draery, 
and II. Cannell, 
Collections of hardy flowers were numerous. Mr. T. 8, 
A boom loa 3 ries, near Tottenham, had a rich 
bank of th i 
à yir Lychnis vespertina pleni, a 
pretty double white variety; varieties of Alstræmeris 
Heuchera’ pa 
