Octosgr 5, 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
405 
U AT BANBURY 
Sepremper 19.—The Eom: Onion Show, estab- 
nag T3 ше late Mr. Henry Deverill а few years 
as usual i in — Seed Establishment, 
Cornhill, LN aa e date, the whole o 
poor shop and one of the 8 being filled with 
xhibits. Despite 
a very keen 
competition in several of the class 
The Champion prize for the six — and ome met 
specimens of any one of Deverill's Pedigree Onions, w. 
by Mr. J. Bowerman, gr. to T. HOARE, "ix Pa "n 
Basin, gstoke, who rat six of Se M au weighing 17} 1b., all 
very finely finished, h e, plum e largest 
of the six 42 3 lb. T. oz, and wie — from the open 
бог 
+ 
—— varieties—A ilsa Craig, ‚ Advan ncer, Cocoa Nut, and 
Excelsior, 
Jubiles, Mr. N. KNEL 
LYE, the Gardens, 8 
2nd; 
Mr, 
е Gardens, Coleshill, Bhrivenham, was ond, with 
In the class for twenty Onions Е any variety, offered by 
was 186 with 
Ailsa Craig. we eighing 33 1b.; o two ot 
The next class w: as for twelve Onions of rid variety, grown 
in Scotland and the Northern Counties; Mr. С. J. FISHER, 
Royal Jubilee ; — 
, 2nd, with Anglo-Spanish; and M 
ES, Lancaster 3rd, with I al Jubilee 
for eight dishes of ad 
~ distributed b: 
Dev st was won by Mr. R. LYE with. a 
c — Me. 2 J. WAITE € 9 was 
excellent competition in the class for eight dishes of 
vegetables, shown by cottagers and allotment holders, and a 
capital collections were staged. 
This exhibition is very popular in Banbury, the town 
— long been famous for its Onions; and free admission is 
itted to anyone desirous of witnessing it. 
GRAND YORKSHIRE GALA. 
SEPTEMBER 24.—A eting of the guarantors and 
life member 
Alderman Sir Joseph Terry, J.P. presided. 
The bilance- ыз эман showed а — t of £113 7s. 4d. 
h £348 d., on the age of „Жу 
tin Preah d be 
It recommendel that ries 
made, and they were ap ^ tpm 
ital, £5 nsary, ў 4 Grey Schoola, 
£40; Boys’ Industrial School, б Girls’ Industrial School, 
10; Bootham Asylum, £21 ; Friendless Girls, £10 ; 
e fo rees, £15; Blind 8 School, £5 5s,; Soldiers’ 
Institute, £5; itentiary, £10; Yorkshire Society's School, 
36 5s.; St. Stephen's Orphanage, EIO; C * on — 
£10; e e Care of Young Girls, £ gate 
Mission, £5; sters of St. Vincent ae a (Ocho), p^ 
Gratuities, £7 — It was decided to the qw 
at present in the bank, estion was * that 
remainder, or a part of it, might be devoted to the =й 
ment of the fixtures, 
bítuatp. 
РЕ GRIEVE.—By the sudden death of Mr. 
Peter Grieve on the early morning of September 26, 
1895, the borough of I St. Edmunds has lost a 
useful citizen, and horticulturista m-hear 
comrade and а tinguished practitioner. Though 
suffering for some years from , the 
deceased, with hie usual pluck and perseverance, has 
attended to his m 
reading- 
acts was the sending of a 
al to Mr, Barron, the receipt for which was 
is firat letter received pe his death this morning. 
Knowing him so ve done for nearly fifty 
years, T belieye he der bardly have had this other 
wise, Mr. Grieve was 83, and will be buried with his 
only cadens Lucy Grieve (her Pear is vv well 
this year, close to her dead father in Bury), at Culford, 
ve, а is well 
itality, survives her hu 
and will have the warm sympathy of many readers 
of this notice. The funeral took place in the church- 
yard at Calford on Tuesday, October 1. 
I should like to say something—much, in fact—of 
the worth aad work of my friend of nearly fifty 
years; but his bag is too recent, and too great. 
L associated with ха іп every 
possible way in мењана! matte r so long a 
period, his sudden removal leaves a velud place 
which is ты likely to be filled, 
ir nd, а companion, а neighbour ; 
, the ‘knife, and еты, ап 
wanting in any good 
As to his great doing asa Rau N in all depart- 
екан the read in all the back 
records of Culford — е: years, and in many а 
back number of the Gardeners’ Chronicle? His solid 
soundness as a juror; his practical experience as a 
writer, are also well 
double ag on mes prn was also duly 
known. His work among 
hronicled as red ; he art of raising 
Tricolore by Ам filler of pue or all of them, may, 
I believe, still be had. 
Neither has the change of fashion in furnishing 
flower- beds detracted from the value of Мг, Grieve's 
work in hybri g Pelar- 
were the products; the 
tricolors, bicolors, and bronzes had a | 
gu for у тта ЕЛ ар AA Ge E 
various purposes а renaissanc^, Be 
that as it may, Mr, —— did aa work at Calford 
and other places scape gardener, as well as 
a cultivator and бетон аф ios ТЕ geas 
Mee inclosing the vegetable 
i en gardens are of his "mir. — 
er-garden within the centre of the kitchen- 
ag in other directions; hie raised beds of 
beauty on the vine-borders, were sed years р 
of exquisite colouring and An w he 
reste under the — of the old y di and the. old 
beauty; and may his rest and his rising be alike 
blessed is the heart-felt wish of all M comrades 
who ры him best, and loved him most! D. T. Fish. 
т portrait is = 2 — Grieve in middle li‘e, and 
— appeare ur columns on 
мадыл їп illustration on wry a deta’ 
Mr, Gri 
correspondent, and we highly — эч m 
ent when, some years since, we 
мы: his sre yg Bat it is as a ake that t he will 
in the future be known. "Those who knew 
be called in their turn, but Grieve's dn in 
advancing horticulture will remain a valued heritage 
to posterity.] T 
RLES V. RILEY.—It is with great 
Mp td the following paragraph — to 
this distinguished entomologist from the columns of 
Garden and Forest, no other communication having 
up to the present reached us. CHARLES V. Кит, 
the we ll-known entomologist, died in Washington 
t 
and settled on a farm in Illinois, He served as a 
soldier in the last yeara of the war, and after some 
ten work in t tate 
much attention, and in 1878 he came to Washington, 
where, bes last year, when he resigned his position, 
he has i rvised all se e" 
work carried o on ed the “рле йз Mr. 
a tire er, with an mare for огой 
маа id p of his published papers are of 
He had a talent, too, for political 
а т many years he was recognised 
in the Departm of Agriculture as one of the 
Jorces in — * policy and selecting its agents. 
PLANT NOTES. 
: ашды MACROSTEGIUS, 
-€—€ ыг the above-named plant from 
Califoroia at at the mencement of this year, and 
informed by~ the. en. — like the Solanum 
мыл it was indigenous to the Island of Santa 
Cruz, and that it had yellow а and was now in 
all probability sent to Europe for the first time, I 
distributed seeds to several friends, and sowed some 
myself, 2 Mae four germinated, and were in May 
lan y gard 
P n en, where they hav 
"nam сам m — out ee ears shoots 
om 2 to 3 feet in . but b ed. 
loom: 
І fear the winter frosts will kill it even vt and 
should be glad of some абад about it. W. Е, 
r e 
SOLANUM XANTI VAR, WALLACEI, 
At the commencement of this year I received from 
the Director of the South Californian Acclimati- 
sation Society at Montecito, Santa Barbara, 
на of what he assured me was a most beautiful 
w Solanum, under the above name, and which 
came from the Island of Santa Croz, and was now 
sent to Europe for фә Ду. б, He said that the 
‘my friends, who are interested in 
nés justis T plante my five planta in а bed in my 
garden in the month of May, wh 
xr 
stem, the middle of Jaly bunches of buds 
but of a purplish-lilac, with five little green and ' 
